spiritualism
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Research
33,180 papers- Psychological interventions in palliative care.Current opinion in psychiatry · 2018
- Why 'spiritism'?The International journal of psycho-analysis · 2016
- Spiritualism and Psychology in Argentina: The Inception of Parapsychology in the Scientific Mainstream (1948-1955).Journal of the history of the behavioral sciences · 2025
- Editorial.The journal of pastoral care & counseling : JPCC · 2015
- Spiritualism, trauma and the art of Madge Gill.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2017
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- new religious movement
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- mysticism
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- Category:Spiritualism
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Encyclopedic overview
By 1853, when the popular song "Spirit Rappings" was published, spiritualism was an object of intense curiosity.
Spiritualism is a social religious movement popular in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, according to which an individual's awareness persists after death and may be contacted by the living. The afterlife, or the "spirit world", is seen by spiritualists not as a static place, but as one in which spirits continue to interact and evolve. These two beliefs—that contact with spirits is possible, and that spirits are more advanced than humans—lead spiritualists to the belief that spirits are capable of advising the living on moral and ethical issues and the nature of God. Some spiritualists follow "spirit guides"—specific spirits relied upon for spiritual direction.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “spiritualism” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.