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unusual facts about spiritualist



Andrew Peterson

Andrew Thomas Turton Peterson (1813–1906), Anglo-Indian barrister, spiritualist and amateur architect

Chronomancy

The best known historical figure that has been attributed the power of chronomancy is the Count of St. Germain, the eighteenth century philosopher, alchemist, and spiritualist.

Edmund Rogers

He began to attend séances in 1869 with various mediums, especially Mrs Thomas Everitt and William Eglinton, and became a spiritualist.

Etheric force

He was also interested in finding new forces as a means for providing scientific explanations for spiritualist, occult and other allegedly supernatural phenomena following his disenchantment with Helena Blavatsky's Theosophy.

G. H. Pember

Three particular religious movements were pinpointed as being examples of the spiritual deception that are characteristic of the biblical signs of the end times: the Spiritualist churches, the Theosophical Society, and Buddhism.

Jane Harris

Jane Elizabeth Harris (c. 1853–1942), New Zealand writer, lecturer and spiritualist

Janet Rock

It was photographed from the air by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946–47, was charted by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1952–53, and named by them for Paul Janet, a French spiritualist-philosopher of the 19th century.

Leigh Marble

The son of two Harvard, Massachusetts software engineers and nephew of science fiction novelist Piers Anthony, Leigh Marble is also the direct descendant of 19th century spiritualist Hiram Marble who spent years vainly searching for pirate's treasure that he believed lay buried within the abandoned cave of Dungeon Rock (now part of the Lynn Woods Reservation of eastern Massachusetts).

Mister X

The Amazing Mr. X, a.k.a. The Spiritualist, a 1948 thriller film

Seybert Commission

The Seybert Commission was a group of faculty at the University of Pennsylvania who in 1884-1887 investigated a number of respected spiritualist mediums, uncovering fraud or suspected fraud in every case that they examined.

Spirit animal

Spirit guide, a spiritualist entity that remains a spirit to act as a guide or protector to a living incarnated human being

Spirit photography

Hope still retained a noted following from spiritualists such as Charles Lakeman Tweedale author of Man's Survival After Death (1920) as well as the author and spiritualist Arthur Conan Doyle, who refused to accept any evidence that Hope was a fraud and went to great lengths to clear his name, including writing a book supporting spirit photography, The Case for Spirit Photography (1922).

Spiritualist church

Among the best-known of the Spiritualist camps are Lily Dale Assembly in Lily Dale, New York, Camp Cassadaga in Cassadaga, Florida, On-I-Set-Wigwam Spiritualist Camp in Massachusetts, Camp Chesterfield in Indiana, Sunset Spiritualist Camp in Kansas, and Wonewoc Spiritualist Camp in Wisconsin.

The Glorious Dead

Mrs Bridges then advises that Rose goes to see a spiritualist called Madame Francini, which she does, but when Waltzing Matilda plays during the séance, Rose breaks down and runs out of the house.

The Representative of Imam Mehdi

Younus AlGohar, a spiritualist believed by some to be the official representative of Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi

Thomas Welton Stanford

Thomas Welton Stanford (1832 - 1918), also known as Welton Stanford, was an American-born Australian businessman, spiritualist and philanthropist, most notably toward Stanford University, which was founded by his older brother Leland Stanford.


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