Al Gabay

About The Author

Dr Al Gabay is Senior Lecturer in History and Religious Studies in the School of Arts and Education at La Trobe University (Bendigo campus). He has published numerous articles in scholarly journals on aspects of the spiritualist movement in Australia, and is the author of The Mystic Life of Alfred Deakin (CUP 1992) and Messages from Beyond (MUP 1997).

Books by Al Gabay

Messages From Beyond

Spiritualism and Spiritualists in Melbourne's Golden Age

By Al Gabay
The Spiritualist movement had its beginnings in the United States in the late 1840s and within a few years had spread to Australia. With its s�ances, mediums, trances, 'magnetisers', table-tilting and other mysterious psychic phenomena, it attracted media frenzy and public furore, but also many d...
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