American Communal Societies Quarterly American Communal Societies Quarterly Volume 9 Number 3 Pages 180-199 July 2015 A Gold Blossom: Practice, Rhetorical Invention, and Spirit Control A Gold Blossom: Practice, Rhetorical Invention, and Spirit Control in Amanda Jones’s Psychic Autobiography in Amanda Jones’s Psychic Autobiography Elizabeth Lowry Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.hamilton.edu/acsq Part of the American Studies Commons This work is made available by Hamilton College for educational and research purposes under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. For more information, visit http://digitalcommons.hamilton.edu/about.html or contact digitalcommons@hamilton.edu.