Elwood Babbitt, born November 1921 in Orange, Massachusetts, was a
celebrated American medium, clairvoyant and author.
Clairvoyant from his youth, Elwood Babbitt developed his psychic abilities
at the Edgar Cayce Institute, and by the mid-1960s, was well known in Western
Massachusetts through his readings and lectures, often opening his home to
other seekers.
Charles Hapgood, a professor at Keene State College, worked closely with
Babbitt studying the physical effects of the medium’s trance lectures, and by
1967, he began to take on the painstaking process of transcribing and copying
them.
With communications purporting to come from Jesus, Albert Einstein, Mark
Twain, and the Hindu god Vishnu, among others, these lectures formed the basis
for several books by Hapgood and Babbitt, including Voices of Spirit (1975) and
Talks with Christ (1981). Babbitt ultimately established a non-profit,
alternative school, the Opie Mountain Citadel, which was essentially run out of
Babbitt’s home in Northfield.
The collection consists of proofs of
publications, lectures, some correspondence, film reels, and transcripts of
spiritual communications for which Babbitt was the medium.