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Recent Examples of spiritualism
Learn about spiritualism, mesmerism and phrenology.
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Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 29 Sep. 2024
Instead of scientists, debunking spiritualism fell upon magicians.
—Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
Netflix’s skin-crawling creep-out profiles the Twin Flames Universe (TFU), a love cult pushing a bizarre combination of New Age spiritualism, Hinduism, and conservative Christianity.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 31 July 2024
But of course, in cultures all over the world, there’s a rich history rooted in spiritualism and mythmaking and healing.
—Quanta Magazine, 6 June 2024
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Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 29 Sep. 2024
Instead of scientists, debunking spiritualism fell upon magicians.
—Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
Netflix’s skin-crawling creep-out profiles the Twin Flames Universe (TFU), a love cult pushing a bizarre combination of New Age spiritualism, Hinduism, and conservative Christianity.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 31 July 2024
But of course, in cultures all over the world, there’s a rich history rooted in spiritualism and mythmaking and healing.
—Quanta Magazine, 6 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spiritualism
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That is to say that occultism is less concerned with faith or facts, but rather with fancy.Ed Simon, TIME, 31 Oct. 2024
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But Winthrop wasn’t the only figure in American history to see in occultism the possibility of imagining different ways of being, of human improvement.Ed Simon, TIME, 31 Oct. 2024
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The neo-Pagan and Satanist has been practicing Eclectic witchcraft, an omnivorous tradition that blends numerous magical and spiritual approaches, for over a decade.Emma Cieslik, Them, 1 Nov. 2024
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This silent faux-documentary chronicles the sociological phenomenon of witchcraft from the Middle Ages to the modern age.Clark Collis, EW.com, 18 Oct. 2024
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To up their sorcery skills, this kit contains activities that teach them tricks using chemical reactions, such as making ordinary powders mystically foam and change color, creating test tube crystal balls, and more.Cheryl Fenton, Parents, 5 Dec. 2024
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The respective casting of those roles — Ariana Grande as the minimally gifted sorcery student who will go on to become Glinda, Good Witch of the North, and Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba, future Wicked Witch of the West — is the movie’s winning hand.David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Nov. 2024
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After her death, Morgan even resorted to necromancy, reviving the People’s Princess (now embodied by Elizabeth Debicki) as an apparition who soothes a disconsolate Charles (Dominic West) and makes peace with a grieving but resentful Elizabeth (Imelda Staunton).Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2023
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Part of my aversion arises from my own hidebound premodern Calvinist outlook, in which death is no laughing matter and necromancy is forbidden by God (see Deuteronomy 18:9-13).Barton Swaim, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2023
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“Spiritualism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spiritualism. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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