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Spiritualism
Also
called Spiritism. A system of
religious beliefs centered on the assumption that communication with the dead, or spirits,
is possible. It implies that the human personality, the spirit or soul,
survives death.
Spiritualism as a movement
began in the United States in 1848 with the activities of Margaret Fox and, to a lesser
extent, her two sisters, of Hydesville, New York. The Fox sisters were able to produce
spirit rappings in answer to questions put to them. After
moving to Rochester, New York, and receiving a wider audience through a series of
increasingly elaborate public seances, their fame spread to both sides of the
Atlantic. By the mid-1850s they had inspired a host of imitators, and Spiritualism claimed
two million followers. Margaret Fox admitted later in life that she had produced rapping
noises through manipulation of her joints.
The repertoire of the
early mediums included table levitations,
ESP, speaking in a spirit's voice during trances,
automatic
writing, and the
manifestation of
apparitions and
ectoplasm. All such phenomena were attributed by the
mediums to the agency of spirits.
Early supporters of
spiritualistic phenomena included American journalist Horace Greeley and British author
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Support for spiritualism diminished, however, as many 19th-century
mediums proved to be fakes. Spiritualism has had, since its inception, a large following.
Many churches and societies have been founded that profess some variety of spiritualistic
beliefs. It achieved particularly widespread popular appeal during the 1850s and '60s and
immediately following World War I.
Closely aligned with other
new
age beliefs, belief in
spiritualism again became popular during the 1980s, particularly in the United
States. One
new facet of spiritualism is that modern-day channelers or mediums are as apt to attempt
contact with extraterrestrials or spirits
from ancient mythical societies as they are to try to communicate with the recently
deceased. Today, Spiritism's popularity is once again on the rise.
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