Reverend John Bovee Dods (1795-1872) was an American Congregational minister, author and early practitioner of New Thought. In early 1824, he claimed that he was visited by a spirit, and his house in Levant, Maine, subsequently became the site of poltergeist activity. Perhaps a hundred curious people were said to have visited and witnessed these events. Dods became a Universalist in 1826, and moved to nearby Union, Maine, though he continued to preach in Levant. He later moved to Massachusetts and became pastor of the First Universalist Society, in Taunton, Massachusetts. He was an early psychologist, publishing The Philosophy of Electrical Psychology in 1850, and lecturing widely. In 1856 he converted to spiritualism, and became a leading figure in that religion in New York City. His other works include: Second Death Illustrated (1832), Twenty-Four Short Sermons on the Doctrine of Universal Salvation (1832), Six Lectures on the Philosophy of Mesmerism (1843), Immortality Triumphant (1852) and Spirit Manifestations Examined and Explained (1854). Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Twenty-Four Short Sermons on the Doctrine of Universal Salvation (Dodo Press) (John Bovee Dods)