THIS is an essay of 150 pages by a thoroughgoing “spiritualist,” according to the most “modern” signification of the term. As such it is not a book very easy to review in the pages of a periodical ...

Shannon Taggart started photographing the mediums of Lily Dale in 2001, and for 16 years after has documented the séances and practices of modern Spiritualism. Shannon Taggart, “Inspiration Stump, a ...

On the corner of West 118 th Street and Watertown Plank Road in Wauwatosa sits a two-story building labeled the Morris Pratt Institute. Angela Wagner drives by it a few times a week. "It seems to be ...

March 1848. Mysterious knocks are heard in a little house in rural New York, throwing the community into turmoil. Are the children who live there -- Kate and Maggie Fox, sisters aged eleven and ...

(The Conversation) — The word séance conjures images of darkened rooms, entranced mediums, strange occurrences and spirit voices. For many contemporary audiences, these visions might seem like ...

An answer to the arguments of Hume, Lecky, and others against miracles -- The science aspect of the supernatural. I. Introductory. 2. Miracles and modern science. 3. Modern miracles viewed as natural ...

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Margarita Guillory, a professor of religion at Boston University, lectures about African-American contributions to Boston’s spiritualist movement Thursday. RACHEL SHARPLES/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF ...

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