Andrew Jackson Davis’s Poughkeepsie Clairvoyance
- Date of account
- 1840s
- Location
- Poughkeepsie, New York
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
Andrew Jackson Davis became known in the 1840s for trance lectures and clairvoyant claims made under the influence of William Levingston, a mesmerist. Davis’s publications, especially The Principles of Nature, Her Divine Revelations, and a Voice to Mankind (1847), presented a cosmology of spirits, progressive revelation, and visionary knowledge. This lead is useful for comparing mesmerism, reform religion, and Spiritualist doctrine before the movement’s consolidation. Scholars debate the extent of Davis’s authorship, education, borrowing, and the role of trance performance in producing his texts.
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