The Night-Side Of Nature - Crowe, Catherine
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The night-side of nature or ghosts and ghost-seers investigates the boundaries between the visible world and the unseen forces that surround it, encouraging deeper contemplation of spiritual experience. The narrative proposes that phenomena such as dreams, apparitions, and presentiments are not merely figments of imagination but glimpses into a more profound dimension of human experience. It challenges the reader to question accepted truths and to consider the existence of knowledge that lies beyond empirical understanding. The opening passages emphasize the need to confront what has been…mehr

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The night-side of nature or ghosts and ghost-seers investigates the boundaries between the visible world and the unseen forces that surround it, encouraging deeper contemplation of spiritual experience. The narrative proposes that phenomena such as dreams, apparitions, and presentiments are not merely figments of imagination but glimpses into a more profound dimension of human experience. It challenges the reader to question accepted truths and to consider the existence of knowledge that lies beyond empirical understanding. The opening passages emphasize the need to confront what has been dismissed or overlooked by traditional science, urging a broader awareness of psychological and spiritual realities. Through collected accounts and philosophical inquiry, the work suggests that belief in unseen forces may stem from a deeper, intuitive connection with something greater than the material world. The book frames these occurrences as part of a consistent pattern across time and culture, revealing a persistent tension between rational explanation and mystical experience. By refusing to offer conclusive answers, it leaves space for uncertainty, reinforcing the idea that the mysteries of existence require not only evidence but also imagination and openness to possibility.
Autorenporträt
Catherine Ann Crowe was born Catherine Ann Stevens on 20 September 1790 in Borough Green, Kent, England, to unknown parents. She was educated at home and spent her early years in Kent before marrying Major John Crowe, with whom she had a son, John William Crowe. The marriage proved unhappy, and by the late 1830s she had separated from her husband and moved to Edinburgh. There, she became acquainted with notable literary figures such as Thomas de Quincey, Harriet Martineau, and William Makepeace Thackeray. Encouraged in her literary pursuits by Sydney Smith and others, Crowe established herself as a novelist and playwright. Her fiction often addressed the struggles of women in restrictive social circumstances, and she gained popularity with works like The Adventures of Susan Hopley and The Story of Lily Dawson. She later shifted her focus to supernatural phenomena, producing her most renowned work, The Night-side of Nature, in 1848. Despite periods of mental illness and a decline in popularity in later years, she continued to write, including children s books and adaptations. Crowe spent her final years in Folkestone, where she died on 14 June 1872. Her father s and mother s names remain unrecorded.