Dictionary - Spiritualist Or Spiritist: New Age Dictionary On Spiritualist Or Spiritist
Spiritualist or Spiritist Person who believes in the ability to contact departed souls through a medium.   (See also: Spiritual...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spiritualist: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Spiritualist
Spiritualist One who believes that the continuity of life can be demonstrated and proven by the ability to communicate with departed s...   » Read the article

Dictionary - National Spiritualist Association Of Churches: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On National Spiritualist Association Of Churches
National Spiritualist Association of Churches A national spiritualist organization headquartered at Cassadaga, FL     (See...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Harry Houdini: Encyclopedia - Harry Houdini
Harry Houdini (March 24, 1874 – October 31, 1926) was the stage name of Ehrich Weiss, one of the most famous magicians, escapologists, ...   » Read the article

Article - Spiritism, Introduction Of The Spirits Book - Part I Of Vi
Spiritualism is the opposite of Materialism; every one is a Spiritualist who believes that there is in him something more than matter, bu...   » Read the article

Article - Life And Death: The Spiritual Type You Think You Are
An academic can be a spiritualist, if he realises the limitations of the intellectual realm. As Jiddu Krishnamurti says, mind and thou...   » Read the article

Article - Meditation Techniques: Techniques In Meditation
The world over, many have confused meditation with concentration and relaxation with meditation. Techniques using music, dance, other ...   » Read the article

Article - Osho: Zorba The Buddha - The Complete Man  
The traditional concept of man was that of a materialist or spiritualist, moral or immoral person, sinner or saint. A divided man is m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spiritual Possession: Encyclopedia - Spiritual Possession
Spiritual possession is a concept of many religions and tales, where it is believed that a demon, or disincarnate being, may take tempora...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spiritualism: Encyclopedia - Spiritualism
Spiritualism may refer to a variety of modern religious ideologies, primarily active in the United States and Europe. Central tenets of S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Theosophy: Encyclopedia - Theosophy
Theosophy is a body of ideas which holds that all religions are attempts by man to ascertain "the Divine," and as such each religion has ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Andrew Jackson Davis: Encyclopedia - Andrew Jackson Davis
Andrew Jackson Davis (11 August 1826 - 1910), American spiritualist, was born at Blooming Grove, New York. He had little education, thoug...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cassadaga Florida: Encyclopedia - Cassadaga Florida
Cassadaga (a Seneca Indian word meaning "Rocks beneath the water") is a small town located in Volusia County, Florida. It is well known f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dark Spirituality: Encyclopedia - Dark Spirituality
Dark Spirituality is a broad term used to describe the Left Hand Path religions, however small groups of people are beginning to define t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Séance: Encyclopedia - Séance
A séance (pronounced: [seɪɑ:ns]) is, on its most basic level, an attempt to communicate with the dead. The séance, or sitting, is led...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - C. Rajagopalachari: Encyclopedia - C. Rajagopalachari
Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari (சக்ரவர்தி ராஜகோபாலாச்சாரி) (December 1878 - December 25, 19...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alexandra David-néel: Encyclopedia - Alexandra David-néel
Alexandra David-Néel (October 24, 1868 - September 8, 1969) was a French explorer, anarchist, spiritualist, Buddhist and writer. She is ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alejandro Jodorowsky: Encyclopedia - Alejandro Jodorowsky
Alejandro Jodorowsky (born February 7, 1929, in Tocopilla, Chile to Ashkenazi Jewish parents) is an actor, director, producer, composer, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Daniel Dunglas Home: Encyclopedia - Daniel Dunglas Home
Daniel Dunglas Home (March 20, 1833 - June 21, 1886) was a Scottish spiritualist, famous during his lifetime for his claimed powers as a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spiritualism: Encyclopedia Ii - Spiritualism - Spiritualist Church
Spiritualist churches are places of worship for the practitioners of Spiritualism. The Spiritualist service is usually conducted by a med...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Harry Houdini: Encyclopedia Ii - Harry Houdini - Debunking Spiritualists
In the 1920s, after the death of his beloved mother, he turned his energies toward debunking self-proclaimed psychics and mediums, a purs...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Harry Houdini: Encyclopedia Ii - Harry Houdini - Early Life
Houdini was born as Erik Weisz on March 24, 1874 in Budapest, Hungary, to Jewish parents (his father was Rabbi Samuel Weisz, his mother w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Harry Houdini: Encyclopedia Ii - Harry Houdini - Career
In 1891, Ehrich became a professional magician, and began calling himself Harry Houdini as a tribute to the French magician Jean Eugène ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spiritual Possession: Encyclopedia Ii - Spiritual Possession - Books
Several notable books describe entering a trance state to allow a dead or other-dimensional being to speak through them. It's claimed tha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Harry Houdini: Encyclopedia Ii - Harry Houdini - Death
Houdini's last performance was at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit, Michigan on October 24, 1926. The next day he was hospitalized at Detro...   » Read the article

Dictionary - National Spiritualist Association Of Churches: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On National Spiritualist Association Of Churches
National Spiritualist Association of Churches A national spiritualist organization headquartered at Cassadaga, FL     (See...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spiritualism: Encyclopedia Ii - Spiritualism - Origins
Modern Spiritualism first appeared in the 1840s in the Burned-Over District of upstate New York where earlier religious movements such as...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spiritual Possession: Encyclopedia Ii - Spiritual Possession - Religious Views
Some religions — in particular, most Abrahamic religions — do not admit the existence of beneficial spiritual possessions; so, if the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spiritualism: Encyclopedia Ii - Spiritualism - Characteristic Beliefs
The central tenet of Spiritualism is the belief in and practice of mediumship which is believed to provide evidence of the continued exis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spiritual Possession: Encyclopedia Ii - Spiritual Possession - Scientific View
Science does recognize that "possession" exists, but only in the sense that some people occasionally behave in a way that fits the expect...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spiritualism: Encyclopedia Ii - Spiritualism - Background
Spiritualism in its modern incarnation started in the mid-19th century in the United States, a syncretic adjunct of largely Christian pop...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spiritualism: Encyclopedia Ii - Spiritualism - Meditation
Meditation is used to calm the "voices" of modern, hectic life so that the practitioner can better hear his or her guide. Meditation ofte...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Virgins: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Virgins - Religious And Mythological Figures
Many religions have long considered sexual abstinence a virtuous way of life, and so a large number of famous virgins throughout history,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Theosophy: Encyclopedia Ii - Theosophy - Basic Theosophical Beliefs
Theosophy - Consciousness is universal and individual. According to Theosophy, nature does not operate by chance. Every event, past or ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Theosophy: Encyclopedia Ii - Theosophy - A Brief History Of Theosophy
Theosophists trace the origin of Theosophy to the universal striving for divinity that existed in all ancient cultures. It is found in an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Parapsychology: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Parapsychology - Scientific Investigation Of Psychic Phenomena
The idea for a learned, scientific society to study psychic phenomena seems to have originated with the spiritualist E. Dawson Rogers, wh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Theosophy: Encyclopedia Ii - Theosophy - Basic Theosophical Beliefs
Theosophy - Consciousness is universal and individual. According to Theosophy, nature does not operate by chance. Every event, past or ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Theosophy: Encyclopedia Ii - Theosophy - A Brief History Of Theosophy
Theosophists trace the origin of Theosophy to the universal striving for divinity that existed in all ancient cultures. It is found in an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Candomblé: Encyclopedia Ii - Candomblé - Beliefs
Candomblé is a spiritualist religion and worships a number of gods or spirits, derived from African deities: the Orishas of Yoruba myth...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dark Spirituality: Encyclopedia Ii - Dark Spirituality - Defining Dark Spirituality
Defining dark spirituality in the western world is difficult, because of its reliance on the individual to define their own spirituality....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Predestination: Encyclopedia Ii - Predestination - Contrasted With Other Kinds Of Determinism
In Chinese Buddhism, predestination is a translation of yuanfen, which does not necessarily imply the existence or involvement of a deity...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Luck: Encyclopedia Ii - Luck - Rational Viewpoint
As related to the occurrences of actual events considered to be of low probability in a mathematical or statistical sense. A rationalist ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomson Jay Hudson: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomson Jay Hudson - Hudson's Theory
Thomson Jay Hudson began observing hypnotism shows and noticed similarities between hypnosis subjects and the trances of spiritualist med...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychic Surgery: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychic Surgery - Psychic Surgery In Brazil
The origins of the practice in Brazil are obscure; it may derive from Candomblé rituals, or it may have been inspired by reports from th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Kingdom Television: Encyclopedia Ii - The Kingdom Television - The Plot Of Riget
The show begins with the admission of a spiritualist patient, Sigrid Drusse, who hears the sound of a girl crying in the elevator shaft. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Thomas Stead: Encyclopedia Ii - William Thomas Stead - Further Career
On leaving the Pall Mall he founded the monthly Review of Reviews (1890), and his abundant energy and facile pen found scope in many othe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Most Haunted: Encyclopedia Ii - Most Haunted - Locations
A full list on locations can be found at Living TV's Website. Most Haunted - The Most Haunted crew includes:. Yvette Fielding - Presen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Edgar Cayce: Encyclopedia Ii - Edgar Cayce - Other Cayce-like Figures
Mesmer's patron the Marquis de Puysegur was able to "magnetize" an illiterate shepherd named Victor, who then spoke with a vastly greater...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spiritual Evolution: Encyclopedia Ii - Spiritual Evolution - Occult Concepts Of Spiritual Evolution
Theories of Spiritual Evolution are important in many Occult and Esoteric teachings, which emphasise the progression and development of t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Victoria Woodhull: Encyclopedia Ii - Victoria Woodhull - Early Life
Woodhull was born into a poor family in Homer, Ohio; the only person in her family she really felt close to was her sister Tennessee (a.k...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hugh Dowding 1st Baron Dowding: Encyclopedia Ii - Hugh Dowding 1st Baron Dowding - Death
Dowding died at his home in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, on February 15, 1970. At a memorial service at Westminster Abbey, his ashes were laid ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Joseph Zen: Encyclopedia Ii - Joseph Zen - Relationship With China
After the pope canonized some priests who died during the Boxer Rebellion, Zen (at the time as coadjuter bishop) said that the priests we...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Surrealist Techniques: Encyclopedia Ii - Surrealist Techniques - Automatism
See Surrealist automatism. Automatic drawing: See automatic drawing. Automatic painting: See automatic painting. Automatic writing: See a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Surrealist Techniques: Encyclopedia Ii - Surrealist Techniques - Automatism
See Surrealist automatism. Automatic drawing: See automatic drawing. Automatic painting: See automatic painting. Automatic writing: See a...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spook: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Spook
Spook. A ghost, a hobgoblin. Used of the various apparitions in the seance-rooms of the Spiritualists.   (See also: Spook , Th...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Seance: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Seance
Seance (French) A session; used of sittings of Spiritualists with a medium in order to obtain communications or other phenomena. &nb...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Séance: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Séance
Séance. A word which has come to mean with Theosophists and Spiritualists a sitting with a medium for phenomena, the materialis...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Summerland: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Summerland
Summerland Sometimes used by Spiritualists for what they hold to be the abode of departed spirits, which actually exist in astral regi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ro-lang, Ro-lans: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Ro-lang, Ro-lans
Ro-lang ro-lans (Tibetan) Bhuta. Ro-lang-pa Spiritualists. {BCW 6:102, 105-6, 109; FSO 577}   (See also: Ro-lang, ro-lans , My...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Continuity Of Life: New Age Spiritual Dictionary On Continuity Of Life
Continuity of Life A Spiritualist tenet stating that there is eternal life and that the discarnate world can and does communicate wit...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Kardecists: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Kardecists
Kardecists Followers of the French Spiritualist Allan Kardec (1803-69) -- pseudonym of Hippolyte-Leon-Denizard Rivail -- who, unlike A...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Manes, Manus: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Manes, Manus
Manes or Manus (Latin). Benevolent "gods", i.e., "spooks" of the lower world (Kamaloka); the deified shades of the...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Psychography: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Psychography
Psychography. A word first used by theosophists; it means writing under the dictation or the influence of one’s "soul-power...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Shells: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Shells
Shells. A Kabbalistic name for the phantoms of the dead, the "spirits" of the Spiritualists, figuring in physical phenomena;...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Perisprit: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Perisprit
Perisprit [from Greek peri around, surrounding + Latin spiritus spirit, vital atmosphere]   Used by the followers of Allan Kardec...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Planchette: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Planchette
Planchette An instrument designed for use in a seance. It is a sort of mounted pencil on castors, which permits the hand to rest, yet ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Planchette: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Planchette
Planchette An instrument designed for use in a seance. It is a sort of mounted pencil on castors, which permits the hand to rest, yet ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vidya-dhara: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Vidya-dhara
Vidya-dhara (Sanskrit). And Vidya-dhari, male and female deities. Lit., "possessors of knowledge".   They are also cal...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Guides: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Guides
Guides Spiritualistic term for supposed invisible helpers and instructors belonging to the Spirit-land communicating with people eithe...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Guhya-vidya: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Guhya-vidya
Guides Spiritualistic term for supposed invisible helpers and instructors belonging to the Spirit-land communicating with people eithe...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Kardecists: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Kardecists
Kardecists. The followers of the spiritistic system of Allan Kardec, the Frenchman who founded the modern movement of the Spiritist Sc...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spiritualism: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Spiritualism
Spiritualism. In philosophy, the state or condition of mind opposed to materialism or a material conception of things. Theosophy, a do...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Animal Magnetism: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Animal Magnetism
Animal Magnetism. While official science calls it a "supposed" agent, and utterly rejects its actuality, the teeming million...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vidya-dhara: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Vidya-dhara
Vidya-dhara (Sanskrit) A possessor of magical knowledge; a kind of ethereal being almost always of astral habitat,   "also c...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Pitris: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Pitris
Pitris (Sanskrit). The ancestors, or creators of mankind. They are of seven classes, three of which are incorporeal, arupa, and four c...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Theosophical Society: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Theosophical Society
Theosophical Society, or "Universal Brotherhood". Founded in 1875 at New York, by Colonel H. S. Olcott and H. P. Blavatsky, ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Repercussion: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Repercussion
Repercussion Striking back, as when a wave rebounds from a surface.   In theosophical literature, applied to the phenomenon in w...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Physical, Physicalization: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Physical, Physicalization
Physical, Physicalization The physical plane of matter is that one of the many planes in universal nature which is coordinated with ou...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Diakka: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Diakka
Diakka Coined by Andrew Jackson Davis (1826-1910), a prominent American Spiritualist, to denote kama-lokic elementaries and astral spo...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Summerland: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Summerland
Summerland. The name given by the American Spiritualists and Phenomenalists to the land or region inhabited after death by their "...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Diakka: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Diakka
Diakka. Called by Occultists and Theosophists "spooks" and "shells", i.e., phantoms from Kama Loka. A word invente...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Table-turning: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Table-turning
Table-turning The spiritualistic or astral phenomenon of motion produced in a table when the sitters at a seance hold their hands over...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Psychic Readings: Holistic Health Dictionary I On Psychic Reading
PSYCHIC READINGS Are given by someone (called a psychic) who is able to receive information through the development of expanded awaren...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mensambulism: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Mensambulism
Mensambulism [from Latin mensa table + ambule walk]   Table-walking, table-turning, a familiar spiritualistic phenomenon. To obta...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Automatic Writing: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Automatic Writing
Automatic Writing The practice in which a person takes pen and paper, makes his mind blank, and waits for his pen to write by some inv...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spirit: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Spirit
Spirit. The lack of any mutual agreement between writers in the use of this word has resulted in dire confusion.   It is commonl...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Invisible Worlds: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Invisible Worlds
Invisible Worlds Theosophy teaches that the universe is a living organism, composed of an infinite number of minor organisms of all-va...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spirit: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Spirit
Spirit Cosmically, the homogeneous emanation from the universal cosmic monad; in man, the direct emanation of his spiritual monad, the...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Materializations: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Materializations
Materializations The taking on of an objective form or body by something of a subjective nature; used in modern spiritualism for appea...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Medium: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Medium
Medium Anything that serves as an intermediate, especially applied by modern spiritualists to a person who, alleged to be under the &q...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Elemental, Elementals: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Elemental, Elementals
Elemental (Elementals) Used by medieval European mystics, such as the Fire-philosophers, Rosicrucians, and Qabbalists, to signify th...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Elemental, Elementals: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Elemental, Elementals
Elemental (Elementals) Used by medieval European mystics, such as the Fire-philosophers, Rosicrucians, and Qabbalists, to signify thos...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Materializations: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Materializations
Materializations The taking on of an objective form or body by something of a subjective nature; used in modern spiritualism for appea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Oahspe: Encyclopedia - Oahspe
Oahspe: A Kosmon Bible in the Words of Jehovih and his Angel Embassadors (sic) is a book announcing new revelations from God, which was p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Feng Shui: Encyclopedia - Feng Shui
Feng Shui or fengshui (Simplified: 风水; Traditional: 風水; Hanyu Pinyin: fēngshuǐ; IPA: /fɤŋ ʂueɪ/ ( listen) is the ancie...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Oahspe: Encyclopedia Ii - Oahspe - What The Revelation Says
The bulk of Oahspe contains cosmological revelations concerning the evolution of the human race and life on Earth. The text seems to sugg...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky: Encyclopedia Ii - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - Biography
She was born in Ekaterinoslav (now Dnipropetrovsk), Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire), the daughter of Col. Peter Alexeivich von ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky: Encyclopedia Ii - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - Works
Her books included Isis Unveiled, a master key to the mysteries of ancient and modern science and theology (1877)[1] The Secret Doctrine...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky: Encyclopedia Ii - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - Influences
Blavatsky was influenced by the following authors: William Blake Edward Bulwer-Lytton Blavatsky influenced the following authors, artis...   » Read the article

Article - Spiritual Sitemap I - N
This is a sitemap for Spiritual - N . Click on a link and you will find multiple definitions and articles related to the word.  ...   » Read the article