Blog categorized as Famous Spiritualists

I would say that this article is more about what John Edward is up to in South Africa, rather than whether he's real or not.  But anyhow, you will get a slice of his experience as a public figure medium, and what it is like to deal with TV producers .

October is the month that Spiritualism and related spirituality gets an up-tick, largely because of Halloween.  YNN is our local Rochester, New York news station on Time Warner Cable, and we watch it quite a bit.  This morning, I saw a spot on the Fox sisters, who are the folks credited w...

I've been aware of Spiritism for a long time, and had some vague ideas about the differences between it, Spiritualism, and Spiritualists.  Tonia Wind's article about the differences makes it clear. I'm not sure I like the term, as it sounds so scientific, but according to Allen Kardec's defini...

Here is an article about the Ouija board.  It adds some perspectives and ideas that I hadn't thought about before in the context of Ouija.  I also discovered that Bil Wilson, one of the founders of Alcohol Anonymous, was very involved in it and also received the now-famous 12-step program...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the famous Sherlock Holmes stories, was also quite the Spiritualist.  A number of his works are on display at the University of Michigan libraries. The exhibit is titled “Clues Beyond Sherlock Holmes: The Arthur Conan Doyle Collection at Michigan.” The exhibit...