Einer Nielsen (1894–1965) was a Danish physical mediumship and spiritualist.Paul Kurtz. (1985). A Skeptic's Handbook of Parapsychology. Prometheus Books. p. 475. Kragh, Jesper Vaczy. Danish Spiritualism, 1853–2012. In Christopher M. Moreman. The Spiritualist Movement: Speaking with the Dead in America and Around the World. Volume 1: American Origins and Global Proliferation. Praeger. pp. 77–78.
The psychical researcher Harry Price sat with Nielsen in Copenhagen with "unsatisfactory results."Chapter The Mechanics of Mediumship. In Harry Price. (1939). Fifty Years of Psychical Research. Longmans, Green & Co. Nielsen was also caught hiding his ectoplasm in his rectum.Brower, M. Brady. (2010). Unruly Spirits: The Science of Psychic Phenomena in Modern France. University of Illinois Press. p. 171. In 1932, Johs Carstensen the leader of Nielsen's spiritualist circle wrote a pamphlet which exposed his tricks.Carstensen, Johs. (1932). Spiritismens Princip og Fejlgreb. Specielt: Afsløring af Mediet Einer Nielsen. Brandmose's Forlag. Nielsen continued to work as a medium until his death but was never considered credible again by people outside his small circle of influence. He published the book Solid Proofs of Survival in 1950.Nielsen, Einer. (1950). Solid Proofs of Survival. Translated by Helmi Krohn. London: Psychic Book Club.
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