The Epworth Phenomena
Okay, here's one thing to investigate. The Epworth Phenomena by Dudley Wright.
This is the 1917 book I found digging through references to John Wesley's journals, about Wesley's documentation of various psychic phenomena, including the haunting of his childhood home. Wesley seems to lie somewhere at the core of this space, at the intersection between spiritualism, German Mysticism and the Evangelical Church.
I do not understand this, and am hardly prepared to say that I believe it; though in any ordinary matter I should accept the word of these two men without hesitation. But, as John Wesley says, "What is it which I do comprehend, even of the things which I see daily? Truly not
"'The smallest grain of sand nor spire of grass,"'
and incomprehensibility therefore is no logical ground for disbelief. Psychologically, it is; for we must know the modus, or, in other words, must link up the new facts with others already accepted. And this is now coming about, through the work of many investigators. Myers said that in Consequence, of the corroborations of psychical research, everyone a century hence will believe in the Resurrection of Christ; whereas, without those corroborations, a century hence no one would have believed it. It may be that something of the sort way be true with regard to many now only half-believed historical narratives of the kind presented in this volume.
