To my mind, the most important event in the history of spiritism is the entrance of Eusapia Paladino into the clinical laboratory of Cesare Lombroso.
Therefore, in the critical state of research, the scientific problem, it seems to me, is not whether spiritism be true or false, but whether metapsychical phenomena are real or imaginary.
In connection with these Algerian campaigns of the Duc d'Aumale, I had a story told to me by his brother, De Montpensier, which becomes particularly interesting nowadays, when spiritualism or spiritism is so much discussed.
The unsatisfied need for the supernatural was driving people, in default of something loftier, to spiritism and the occult.
You will find in Saint Augustine the proof, for he had to send a priest to put an end to noises and overturning of objects and furniture, in the diocese of Hippo, analogous to those which Spiritism points out.
It is because you scientists ignore the phenomena of spiritism that you remain ignorant of the messages which come from the other side.
So far as I can see, he examined the phenomena of spiritism quite as a scientist should.
Some form of spiritism is the coming religion--in my judgment.
But this will involve the worship of Satan, and to this end the effective agency of Spiritism has been long at work.
Both spiritism and theosophy, and similar forms of error, all of which are rapidly on the increase to-day, are paving the way for world-wide worship of the dragon.
In concluding, I wish to say that nothing in the preceding speculations can possibly encourage spiritism or other pseudo-science.
On the contrary, from the preceding it is obvious that the alleged manifestations of spiritism must be fake or self-deception, since they are manifestations of energy.
And strange, is it not, that a man NEED be brave in this twentieth century Domini to discuss spiritism and survival and telepathy?
A statement of their attitude is perhaps well summarized by Flournoy, in his Spiritism and Psychology (Chap.
Can anything be darker and more debasing in a so-called civilised time and country than this Spiritism has proved itself from the beginning until bow?
Flournoy, of Geneva, the author of From India to the Planet Mars, Spiritism and Psychology, and other works, well known to English readers.
And the only way to prove the contrary is to produce evidence that consciousness does so persist; and this is only possible by the methods adopted in spiritism and psychical research.
This is assuredly a side of psychic investigation which demands close study and prolonged investigation; and, in spite of the masterly analysis of some of these cases by Professor Flournoy in his Spiritism and Psychology (chap.
Spiritism consigns the so-called dead to a state resembling that of blighted buds, - to a wretched purgatory, where 77:30 the chances of the departed for improvement narrow into nothing and they return to their old standpoints of matter.
God is not in the medley where matter cares for matter, where spiritism makes many gods, and hypnotism and electricity are claimed 78:27 to be the agents of God's government.
I see no reason for any honest investigator of spiritism to be offended at such statements, for it does not take away from the wonder of the phenomena; and does not discredit the motives and power of the mediums.
There is too much wonderful phenomena in spiritism to begrudge the explanation that the occultist offers for certain of its phases.
Spiritism is therefore far from being a "primitive" religious development, as is so often supposed.
The doctrine of spiritism is associated in Shinto with the word Mitama, for which "spirit" is the nearest English equivalent.
Then the more peaceable minded of the group introduced other subjects, and art and spiritism were left out of it.
Douglas assumed that the whole subject of Spiritismwas thus referred to.
I didn't want you to get that interview in the interests of Spiritism at all, but to tell me of the condition, mentally and physically, of Mr. Crane.
I own up I'm quite as much absorbed in this Spiritism racket as I am in the murder case.
It was only by desperate effort that Zizi kept from laughing, for of all fads or whims, spiritismseemed to her the worst and most foolish.
There are many matters yet unknown and spiritism is one of them.
You know I do believe in psychics and in spiritism and in the return to earth of the souls of people who have died, but--I can't believe that any such spirit would kill an innocent child, or a fine old man.
Sir William's proposal was hailed with the greatest satisfaction by the critics of spiritism in general and of Home in particular.
Precisely thus was it with the doings at Mompesson House, where many of the salient phenomena of modern spiritism were anticipated nearly two hundred and fifty years ago.
Having concluded to stay here as long as possible, "Christians" are now flocking by thousands to the purchase of works which will show them how to usespiritism to take advantage of their fellow men.
It is to the constant occurrence of incidents like these that the vitality of spiritism is mainly due.
In his day Mr. Corliss was probably the most prominent medium in Brooklyn, a city where spiritism has always flourished.
But the main reason why spiritism has survived repeated exposes, and persists as a force to be reckoned with in the religious life of to-day, is the fact that it is by no means altogether synonymous with swindling.
Spiritism has even "followed the flag" into the Philippines, seances being held at Manila and elsewhere.
In fact, there is no other department of spiritism to which the taint of fraud has so thoroughly attached itself.
Another is the appeal spiritism makes to the most sacred emotions of humanity.
Scarcely a month passes without a story of some sensational expose; yet, disproving all predictions to the contrary, spiritismcontinues to expand, constantly welcoming new recruits to its ranks.
This proving profitable to the sisters Fox, the business of producing "spirit knockings" spread from town to town, and forthwith modern spiritism was born.
The bearing of all this on the physical phenomena of spiritismis surely self-evident.
An almost chance remark of his, towards the end of the meal, anent the mysticism, the spiritism of the East, and the growing cult of the same order in the West, appeared to suddenly wake her from her dreaminess.
The aversion to spiritism which Crookes met with in contemporary science was, from the standpoint of such a science, largely justified.
Just as Crookes had once sought to investigate spiritism scientifically, so in his subsequent scientific inquiries he was always something of a spiritist.
Spiritism is a religion, it is not a science; it is the systematic explanation of the ensemble of certain facts, so far very ill understood, but it is not the assertion of those facts.
I cannot blame them for recommending prudent abstention to the mass of the faithful; spiritism appears to me to be an adversary with which they will have to reckon very seriously some day.
Now spiritism lays claim to satisfying these longings; and it does satisfy them, when only simple souls are concerned, simple souls who do not dream of life's complexities.
From many points of view, spiritism appears to play a role in the civilised, sceptical, material society of to-day, analogous to the simple role which Christianity played in the second and third centuries of our era.
It is in that, and in that only, that spiritism or spiritualism consists.
Therefore, in the actual state of research, the scientific problem, it seems to me, is not whether spiritism be true or false, but whether metapsychical phenomena be real or imaginary.
The essential point of spiritism is indeed, we believe, the disaggregation of psychological phenomena, and the formation beyond the personal perception of a second series of thoughts detached from the first.
Meurice was ignorant of metapsychical phenomena, and averse to becoming acquainted with the practices of spiritismor anything of that nature.
My most convincing results have been obtained with persons unacquainted with spiritism and ignorant of its practices.
Occultism and theosophy draw their recruits more especially from intellectual centres; the circle of spiritism is much wider.
The occult sciences and spiritism never aroused my curiosity, and I was more than thirty years of age, when my attention was drawn towards psychical phenomena.
Therefore the clients ofspiritism are increasing in number with extraordinary rapidity.
As an illustration of epic spiritism the case of Ilvala may be taken.
Hypnotism and Mesmerism differ from Spiritism in this, that their disciples account for the phenomena naturally and lay no claim to supernatural intervention.
Some people claim that the spiritism of to-day is only a revival of old-time witchery and necromancy, that it is as prevalent now as it was then, perhaps more prevalent.
There are constant stories in the history of modern spiritism of people carried through the air often for considerable distances.
This light occurs again and again in modern spiritism as in old legends.
Here though maybe but in seeming, spiritism and folk-lore are at issue with one another.
Of course, I do not suppose that spiritism is mainly employed in such matters as would directly interest the physician.
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