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In 1857 Zygmunt Krasiński met the Scottish medium Daniel Dunglas Home. The meeting, which took place in Paris, left a lasting impression on the poet, who continued to report and interpret it in his letters. An analysis of his letters to jόzef Korzeniowski, Adam Sołtan, Bronisław Trentowski, Stanisław Egbert Koźmian, and Delfina Potocka (in the 1840s) indicates that Krasiński had a profound intellectual interest in the practice and doctrine of spiritualism in all its varieties (mystical, moral, medical and philosophical). The letters also demonstrate that spiritualism was not only a persistent fascination but also an integral element of the poet's worldview at a time when he was working on his concept of the Poetry of the Third Age. It also exercised a considerable in-fluence on his imagination and anthropology (eg. his understanding of the psychophysial parallelism, the unconscious and higher consciousness, clairvoyance, the I, the person, the spirit, and the nature of interpersonal relations). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
