... of people: missionaries in colonial contexts, Protestants engaged in psychic exploration, and those who began to engage with the tools and techniques of psychology. It also discusses the healing missions of Protestant experimentalist, the spiritual frontiers of Frederick Du Vernet and Belle Oliver's...

...This chapter introduces Frederick Du Vernet and his daughter Alice, as they experiment with their Chevreul’s pendulum to prove the power of radio mind, or telepathic thought transmission. Working in British Columbia, Frederick and Alice participated in wider settler-colonial practices of telling...