Cesare Lombroso - Spiritualism

Spiritualism

Later in his life Lombroso began investigating psychic phenomena and spiritualism. Although originally sceptical, he later became a believer in spiritualism. As an atheist, Lombroso discusses his views on spiritualism and the paranormal in his book After Death – What? (1909) in the book he admitted that he was a materialist for most of his life until he had studied the mediumship of Eusapia Palladino which he believed was genuine, he later became convinced of the existence of spirits and wrote "I am ashamed and grieved at having opposed with so much tenacity the possibility of the so called spiritistic facts". Lombroso also believed spiritualism to be "a real, scientifically provable phenomenon".