The Victorian Occultist Who Earned a Medical Degree, Then Tried to Kill Scientists With Her Mind

She earned one of the first medical degrees ever granted to a woman in Britain. She led one of the most influential animal rights campaigns of the nineteenth century. She published major works of esoteric philosophy that influenced the Golden Dawn, the Theosophical Society, and George Bernard Shaw. And she believed with complete sincerity that she had killed three men using only the power of her concentrated will. Anna Bonus Kingsford (1846–1888) is one of Victorian history's most extraordinary and least-remembered figures: a trained scientist who refused to accept that science explained everything, a physician who practiced medicine almost not at all because she had bigger problems to solve, and a mystic who kept meticulous records of her visions with the precision of a researcher. This video is about what happens when genuine brilliance, righteous fury, and absolute metaphysical conviction occupy the same person. It's about the collision between Victorian scientific materialism and the esoteric movements that pushed back against it. And it's about a woman who looked at the most powerful scientists in Europe and said: you are wrong about what the world is. Her track record on the killing-by-willpower thing was... mixed. But the audacity? Unimpeachable. 0:00 - She Decided to Kill a Man 1:17 - The Making of an Extraordinary Person 2:56 - Medical School in Paris 4:19 - The Esoteric Turn to Theosophy 5:57 - Esoteric Christianity: The Perfect Way 6:51 - The Visions, Documented (Clothed With The Sun) 7:31 - Her War on Vivisection and the Men Behind It 8:37 - The First Target: Paul Bert 10:46 - The Second Target: Claude Bernard 11:13 - The Third Target: Louis Pasteur 12:21 - What Do We Do With This? #AnnaKingsford #VictorianHistory #Occult #WomenInHistory #Theosophy #AnimalRights #Vivisection #MedicalHistory #Mysticism #VictorianEngland #AnimalWelfare Music Credit: Light Awash by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. Source: http://incompetech .com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100175 Artist: http://incompetech .com/