who was Bridey Murphy and why was she so facinating to US culture?

Answer 1

In the 1950s, an American housewife revealed under hypnosis that she had lived a past life in Ireland as a woman named Bridey Murphy. She shared many details of her past life, which were revealed in a book by the hypnotist. This seemed to confirm reincarnation and caused a sensation in America and elsewhere. Her story was later debunked when the details she shared failed to stand up to scrutiny.

Answer 2

Bridey Murphy is the name of a woman that U.S. housewife Virginia Tighe (April 27, 1923 - July 12, 1995) claimed to have been in her previous life.
In 1952, Colorado businessman and amateur hypnotist Morey Bernstein put housewife Virginia Tighe of Pueblo, Colorado in a trance that sparked off startling revelations about Tighe's alleged past life as a 19th-century Irishwoman and her rebirth in the United States 59 years later.
Scientists today are satisfied that nothing Virginia Tighe said cannot be explained as a memory of her long-forgotten childhood.

Answer 3

Bridie Murphy was an Irish woman who manifested through hypnosis and age regression on someone (can't remember her name). There is a whole book out there about it. Read about it on the Internet Wickpedian. I read the book years ago, decided there was life after life. Don't know how she affected US culture except that the woman who claims to have been Bridie in a previous life was an American.

Answer 4

I think your question says more about the accuracy of your statement that "the US is dominated by Christians" than it does about the hypocrisy you're implying. In other words, the U.S. is NOT "dominated by Christians". I'm not sure why people continue to make that assumption here on YA. Perhaps it's just a localized perception: some people live in the Southern states where everyone belongs to a church. I live in California where Christians are largely reviled. Politicians invoke "God" from time to time to appeal to that demographic, but there is a tremendous amount of hypocrisy at that level. Many people seem to worship money as their deity, and it's too bad. God said "The LOVE of money is the root of all evil." and so many of our nation's leaders seem to think that the economy is more important than anything else. It's the culture that matters. The economy is just a loose indicator of an overall productivity. It's not the welfare of the people.

Answer 5

I don't think another spiritist medium or "past life regression" was all that fascinating in the 1950s, even in the US. Rather the death throes of Spiritism, or the first stirrings of New Age.