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This episode is brought to you by The Mind of the Medium.

Tonight, as part of this month's spooky sleep story series, we'll read from mysterious psychic forces,

written by Camille Flamarian and published in 1907.

Nicholas Camille Flamarian was a French astronomer, mystic and prolific author,

including popular science works about astronomy, several notable early science fiction novels,

and works on psychical research.

He has been described as being obsessed by life after death, and also with life on other worlds.

Like that on Mars, and he's seemed to see no distinction between the two.

Let's get cozy. Close your eyes.

Relax your body into the softness of your bed.

Now, take a few deep breaths.

One day, in the month of November, 1861, under the gallery de Lodion, I spied a book,

the title of which struck me, The Book of Spirits, by Alon Kardec.

I bought it and read it with a validity.

Several chapters seeming to me to agree with the scientific basis of the book I was then writing,

the plurality of inhabited worlds.

I hunted up the author, who proposed that I should enter as a free, associated member,

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