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Carl Du Prel
1839–1899
A restless nineteenth-century thinker, he wrote about dreams, mysticism, and the hidden powers of the mind long before those subjects became mainstream. His books sit at the crossroads of philosophy, psychology, and the occult.
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Mistä tulen, mihin menen? : Johdantoa salaisiin tieteihin
by Carl Du Prel
About the author
Born in Landshut on April 3, 1839, Carl du Prel — also known as Karl, Freiherr von Prel — was a German philosopher and writer remembered for his work on mysticism and the occult. He became especially interested in dreams, hypnotism, spiritism, and what he saw as the deeper layers of human consciousness.
Du Prel was one of the notable late nineteenth-century writers who tried to connect philosophy with psychical research. Sources on his life describe him as an important theorist of the unconscious before Freud, and as a strong advocate for studying psychic phenomena and the possibility of survival after death.
He died in 1899, but his work continued to attract readers interested in the borderlands between science, religion, and the unseen. For modern listeners, he offers a glimpse into a period when questions about the soul, dreams, and the cosmos were being explored with unusual ambition.