Strange Frequencies

The Extraordinary Story of the Technological Quest for the Supernatural

By: Peter Bebergal

Narrated by: Will Damron

A journey through the attempts artists, scientists, and tinkerers have made to imagine and communicate with the otherworldly using various technologies, from cameras to radiowaves.

Strange Frequencies takes readers on an extraordinary narrative and historical journey to discover how people have used technology in an effort to search for our own immortality. Bebergal builds his own ghostly gadgets to reach the other side, too, and follows the path of famous inventors, engineers, seekers, and seers who attempted to answer life's ultimate mysteries. He finds that not only are technological innovations potent metaphors keeping our spiritual explorations alive, but literal tools through which to experiment the boundaries of the physical world and our own psyches.

Peter takes the reader alongside as he explores:

• the legend of the golem and the strange history of automata;
• a photographer who is trying to capture the physical manifestation of spirits;
• a homemaker who has recorded voicemails from the dead;
• a stage magician who combines magic and technology to alter his audience's consciousness;
• and more.

Very Compelling Read!

Very Compelling Read! A great mix of scepticism and wonder. It really opened me up. For me it was a blending and balacing of the dichotomy between Technology and Tradition. Highly Recommend even if it's just to gain perspective of what are modern tools can also be used for

Great overview.

I wish I had this book when I first started as it is an excellent overview of the more recent history of the spiritualist movement beginning in the early 1900's. It does cover some older tradition, John Dee for instance, but only really in passing. Terrence Mckenna offers better insight (and criticism on that.

He mentions Robert A. Monroe and even John A Keel, both of those authors offer better material with greater depth than you will find here, particularly within "the eighth tower" by Keel or "Far Journey " by Monroe.

It's a decent overview to new comers, and perhaps a bit of valid criticism to those taken in by the more new agey concepts who need a bit of grounding.

It's a good book. But it doesnt offer anything I didn't already know. It is a great suggested reading list if nothing else.

SOLID, Interesting, & Great Narration too!

This book is so well written that it's hard to put down.
The narration is perfect, the historical analysis is perfection,
also the subject matter is EXTREMELY interesting.
Amazing book, well written, and easy to fall into.
The best kind of Audiobook. : )

when magic meets maker

An interesting overview of the history of tech as it relates to the paranormal. Brief but thorough within the devices included.

Enjoyable for what it is

Tried to finish this book for a while and the audiobook helped a lot. I think it’s a good introduction to fringe spiritual and technological thinking, written in a very journalistic way.
If you already know about golems, automata, spirit boxes and the occult, there’s not a ton of new info here and you might be bored with it.
Still, I commend Mr. Bebergal on taking on what seems like a massive amount of research for this.