Spiritualism/Spiritism
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Image 1: Daniel Dunglas Home, the famous Scots-born medium of the nineteeth century, levitates himself in front of witnesses in the home of Ward Cheney in South Manchester, Connecticut on August 8, 1852. This illustration was first published in 1887 in the book Les Mystères de la science (The Mysteries of Science) by French psychical researcher Louis Figuier.
Image 2: A table levitates in front of witnesses during a séance with medium Eusapia Palladino at the home of astronomer Camille Flammarion in France on November 25, 1898.
Image 3: The medium Eva Carrière with a light manifestation between her hands and a materialization on her head. Carrière also performed under the names Eva C. and Marthe Béraud. Photograph taken in 1912 by German photographer Albert von Schrenck-Notzing (1862 – 1929).
Image left. French spirit photographer Édouard Isidore Buguet (1840-1901) demonstrates telekinesis in this hoaxed 1875 photograph titled Fluidic Effect. Buguet was arrested the same year for faking his ghost photographs and he served a year in prison.
Image right. A table levitates in front of witnesses during a séance with medium Eusapia Palladino at the home of astro- nomer Camille Flammarion in France on November 25, 1898.
Image 1:1906. Image of spiritualists, seven women gathered in a room in Chicago, Illinois.
Image 2:The Fox sisters - Kate (1838–92), Leah (1814–90) and Margaret (1836 –93). The three of them played an important role in the founding of spritualism. Kate and Margaret were well-known mediums. Communication with the spirits of the dead started with Kate when she and her sister were living in a haunted house in Hydesville near Rochester, New York. On the day of March 3, 1848 she made contact with this invisible entity in the house who claimed to be the spirit of a person called Charles B. Rosma. The word about this unusual happening was spread to others which startlet attention into spiritualism.
Spiritualism or Spiritism, it's protagonist, a religion, philosophy, or mode of thinking based on the believe that the spirits of the dead, communicate with living men. The spiritualistic movement began in the United States with the lectures of Andrew Jackson Davis ( 1826 - 1910 ).
The phenomena of spiritualism are those unusual happenings that believers consider spiritual manifestations of power. Such manifestations are usually performed through a medium,a person in the human world who has exceptional psychic or spiritual powers. The chief forms of manifestations consists of percussive sounds, the rising of heavy bodies in the air without contact by any one, the levitation of human beings, luminous appearances, hands which lift small bodies yet are not the hands of any one present, direct writing by a luminous hand or by the pencil alone, phantom forms and faces, performances on musical instruments by invisible agents, and so on.