Spiritualism

Spiritualism is a belief that the spirits of the dead have both the ability and the inclination to communicate with the living. Spiritualism developed and reached its peak growth in membership from the 1840s to the 1920s.

It should not be confused with spirituality.

Siddhartha
Tao Te Ching
Talking to the Dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism
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Be Here Now
The Alchemist
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Lily Dale: The True Story of the Town that Talks to the Dead
The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
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The artist’s artistic brush stroke of colour... Fractionally exists within the art canvas cover... Unaware of its existence in the art’s totality... Absolute devoid of the art’s true reality... Experiencing within the art is mere illusion… Truth of the art lies in the depth of the vision… For the visionary truth to become experience... Requires that certain conscious distance… Detaching from the perceived abode... Deviating from the miscode to decode... Maya illusio ...more
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Susan Sontag
A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of spirit over matter.
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