Catherine Elise Muller & Her Mission to Mars

Dark Histories

Ben Cutmore

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🗓️ 6 June 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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The belief of extraterrestrial life is one of the most exotic, exciting and long endearing throughout human history. Mars in particular has always proven to be of particular interest. One of our nearest planetary neighbours, the red planet has inspired thousands of works ranging from the earliest science fiction, all the way to contemporary fringe theology. In the late 19th Century, interest in the planet saw a boom, as astronomers battled with one another over their beliefs of the existence of a great Martian civilization, creating a scientific debate that crossed over into far more fringe elements. Spiritualism, with it’s equal boom, became far more interested in the interstellar than one might expect and one case in particular, of a young, Swiss medium named Catherine Elise muller, would charge out in front, presenting the world with not only surreal images of the hypercolour martian landscape, but with descriptions of an alien society and a working language to boot. SOURCES Flournoy, Theodore (1900) From India to the Planet Mars. Harper & Bros, London, UK Keep, Christopher (2020) Life on Mars?: Hélène Smith, Clairvoyance, and Occult Media. Journal of Victorian Culture , Volume 25 (4) – Nov 16, 2020. Leeds Trinity University, Oxford University Press, UK. Clerke, Agnes Mary (2011) A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge University Press, UK. Greg, Percy (1880) Across the Zodiac: The Story of a Wrecked Record. Ballantyne Press, London, UK. Crossley, Robert (2011) Imagining Mars: A Literary History. Wesleyan University Press, CT, USA. Tipler, F.J. (1981) A Brief History of the Extraterrestrial Intelligence Concept. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 22, P. 133, 1981. ---------- For almost anything, head over to the podcasts hub at darkhistories.com Support the show by using our link when you sign up to Audible: http://audibletrial.com/darkhistories or visit our Patreon for bonus episodes and Early Access: https://www.patreon.com/darkhistories The Dark Histories books are available to buy here: http://author.to/darkhistories Dark Histories merch is available here: https://bit.ly/3GChjk9 Connect with us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/darkhistoriespodcast Or find us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/darkhistories & Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dark_histories/ Or you can contact us directly via email at [email protected] or via voicemail on: (415) 286-5072 or join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/cmGcBFf The Dark Histories Butterfly was drawn by Courtney, who you can find on Instagram @bewildereye Music was recorded by me © Ben Cutmore 2017 Other Outro music was Paul Whiteman & his orchestra with Mildred Bailey - All of me (1931). It's out of copyright now, but if you're interested, that was that.

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0:00.0	The belief of extraterrestrial life is one of the most exotic, exciting, and long endearing
0:05.9	throughout human history. Mars, in particular, has always proven to be of particular interest.
0:12.1	One of our nearest planetary neighbours, the Red Planet has inspired thousands of works
0:16.8	ranging from the earliest science fiction all the way to contemporary fringe theology.
0:22.0	In the late 19th century, interest in the planet saw a boom as astronomers battled with
0:27.0	one another over their beliefs of the existence of a great Martian civilization, creating
0:31.6	a scientific debate that crossed over into far more fringe elements.
0:36.4	Spiritualism, with its equal boom, became far more interested in the interstellar than
0:41.4	one might expect, and one case in particular, of a young Swiss medium named Catherine
0:47.2	Elise Muller, would charge out in front, presenting the world with not only surreal images of
0:52.6	the hyper-coloured Martian landscape, but with descriptions of an alien society and a
0:57.8	work in language to boot. This is Dark History, where the facts are worse than fiction.
1:04.4	Hello and welcome to Dark History's Season 6 Episode 9. I'm Ben, host as always. I hope
1:14.0	this episode finds you very well. So, I've got a bit of a correction to make from
1:22.6	last week's episode, so before we get started, I think it's probably time to address
1:26.8	that. I believe in my intro last week, I use the phrase, I say, I was talking about
1:35.3	New Yorkers going over to New Jersey to stretch their legs, and that was what I meant to
1:41.8	say. What I actually said was spread their legs. A few people, quite a few people, emailed
1:50.1	me to tell me how they believed I'd probably miss spoken. Yes, you're completely right.
1:56.0	I absolutely meant stretch their legs. Most people seem to take it, found it quite humorous,
2:02.7	I think. A few people found it quite offensive, I think. So, you know, I want those people
2:09.6	that found it offensive. Apologies, it was just completely miss spoken. Weirdly, it was
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