Einer Nielsen (1894–1965) was a Danish physical

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and spiritualist.Kragh, Jesper Vaczy. ''Danish Spiritualism, 1853–2012''. In Christopher M. Moreman. ''The Spiritualist Movement: Speaking with the Dead in America and Around the World''. ''Volume 1: American Origins and Global Proliferation''. Praeger. pp. 77–78.

Life

Nielsen was born in

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. He travelled in

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giving

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s and claimed to be able to produce spirit materializations. He was originally investigated by the Danish Society for Psychical Research who produced a favourable report of his mediumship. However, the report was disputed by other researchers. Norwegian investigators suspected Nielsen to be a fraud and investigated him in 1922. The committee from the Kristiania University discovered that his ectoplasm was fake. Due to the new report by the Norwegians which was negative and covered strongly by the Danish

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, the original report by the Danish Society for Psychical Research was seen as an embarrassment and several members resigned from the society. The psychical researcher

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sat with Nielsen in

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with "unsatisfactory results." Nielsen was also caught hiding his ectoplasm in his rectum. In 1932, Johs Carstensen the leader of Nielsen's spiritualist circle wrote a pamphlet which exposed his tricks. Nielsen continued to work as a medium until his death but was never considered credible again by people outside his small circle of influence. He published the book ''Solid Proofs of Survival'' in 1950.Nielsen, Einer. (1950). ''Solid Proofs of Survival''. Translated by Helmi Krohn. London: Psychic Book Club.

References

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