Hapgood, Charles H.

Charles Hutchins Hapgood (1904-1982) was the son of the journalists and authors Hutchins Hapgood (1869-1944) and Neith Boyce (1872-1951). He earned two degrees at Harvard University: an A.B. (1929) and M.A. (1932) and had a twenty-year teaching career in the humanities through faculty appointments at Keystone College (1945-1947), Springfield College (1947-1952), Keene State College (1956-1966), and New England College (1966-1967), where he lectured in world and American history, anthropology, economics, and the history of science. He was the author of several publications including The Earth's Shifting Crust: a Key to Some Basic Problems of Earth Science (1958, revised and reissued in 1970 as The Path of the Pole), Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings (1966, revised edition 1979), and Mystery in Acámbaro: an account of the ceramic collection of the late Waldemar Julsrud in Acámbaro, Gto., Mexico (1973). He also published one book for children, Great Mysteries of the Earth (1960). Concurrent with his investigations in the fields of earth science, ancient history, and archeology, Hapgood was actively interested in parapsychology and spirit communication. He spent a decade working with the New England medium Elwood Babbitt (1921-2001) in an effort to communicate with deceased religious and other historical figures. These sessions were taped and transcribed, and provided Hapgood with material for his final three books: Voices of Spirit, Through the Psychic Experience of Elwood Babbitt (1975), Talks with Christ and His Teachers Through the Psychic Gift of Elwood Babbitt (1981), and The God Within: a Testament of Vishnu, a Handbook for the Spiritual Renaissance (1982).

From the description of Charles H. Hapgood papers, 1898-1979 (bulk 1950-1979). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702184737

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