Editing Charles Hapgood (section)

==Elwood Babbitt==
Hapgood spent ten years working with [[New England]] [[mediumship|medium]] [[Elwood Babbitt]] (1921-2001), attempting to make contact with notable figures from the past. Babbitt, a retired carpenter and World War II veteran, had studied trance mediumship at [[Edgar Cayce]]'s [[Association for Research and Enlightenment]]. Hapgood audiotaped and transcribed a number of Babbitt's "trance lectures" which purported to come from [[Jesus]], [[Albert Einstein]], [[Mark Twain]], and the Hindu god [[Vishnu]],<ref name="UMass">{{cite web|url=http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/umarmot/?s=Babbitt%2C+Elwood%2C+1922-|title=Elwood Babbitt Papers|work=Special Collections & University Archives|publisher=[[University of Massachusetts]]|access-date=7 November 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101120221819/http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/umarmot/?s=Babbitt%2C+Elwood%2C+1922-|archive-date=20 November 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> using the material to publish 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).
<ref name="Yale">{{cite web|url=http://drs.library.yale.edu:8083/saxon/SaxonServlet?style=http://drs.library.yale.edu:8083/saxon/EAD/yul.ead2002.xhtml.xsl&source=http://drs.library.yale.edu:8083/fedora/get/beinecke:hapgoodch/EAD|title=Charles H. Hapgood Papers|publisher=[[Yale University Library]]|access-date=5 November 2010|location=[[Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library]]|archive-date=25 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130525014601/http://drs.library.yale.edu:8083/saxon/SaxonServlet?style=http%3A%2F%2Fdrs.library.yale.edu%3A8083%2Fsaxon%2FEAD%2Fyul.ead2002.xhtml.xsl&source=http%3A%2F%2Fdrs.library.yale.edu%3A8083%2Ffedora%2Fget%2Fbeinecke%3Ahapgoodch%2FEAD|url-status=dead}}</ref> During this time Babbitt and Hapgood's cousin, Beth Hapgood worked closely with the nearby [[Renaissance Community|Brotherhood of the Spirit]] New Age commune. After Charles Hapgood's death, Beth Hapgood assembled a final volume of Babbitt's trance lectures, ''Dare the Vision and Endure'' (1997).