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Unknown publisher. Kodak photographic paper post-1950 vintage. #950.Besides performing readings and healings, the Rev. Robert Chaney was known for spirit photography. While the process can be easily faked, it has certainly had its believers. In My Life%u2019s Experiences in the Proof of Psychic Phenomenon, Mary Linn Clarke describes her mother being photographed by Chaney. After snapping a picture, Chaney told the mother and daughter to come back in an hour. The image he showed them appeared to depict at least 3 spirits surrounding the mother, one her deceased sister Laura. Chaney used several pages to describe the process in his 1946 book, Mediums and the Development of Mediumship. According to the book, %u201cPhotographic film is sensitive to light rays which the human eye cannot see. These rays are introduced to the film, either from a point within the camera or through the lens, and the result is a spirit picture. To be a spirit photographer you must be able to furnish the spiritual energy with which these light rays can be controlled and directed. Sometimes the light is reflected from the spirit person himself, and sometimes it is projected and directed by a spirit artist.%u201dThe image shown on this post card is Chaney%u2019s most famous, and was taken while he worked at Camp Chesterfield. There is copy in the Library of Congress with the title, %u201cThe spirit Indian appeared when the psychic photographer, Robert Chaney, took a picture of the stone Indian.%u201d Reproductions are still available on eBay and Amazon.