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Recent Examples of spiritualism
Crookes became one of the leading advocates for spiritualism.
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Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
Learn about spiritualism, mesmerism and phrenology.
—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
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Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
Learn about spiritualism, mesmerism and phrenology.
—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
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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 leadership of folks like Book and the Trans Folk Witch is especially significant considering the long history of exclusion within witchcraft.Emma Cieslik, Them, 1 Nov. 2024
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At the time, left-handedness was associated with witchcraft, so crew members would have relied on their right hands and put more stress on their right sides during repetitive tasks on the ship, Shankland said.Ashley Strickland, CNN, 31 Oct. 2024
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Unknown Armies This idiosyncratic modern magic game from Atlas Games plays like a gritty reboot of other games about sorcery.Rob Wieland, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
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The fact that Desmond injures himself badly in pulling off this sorcery endears him to Corrino all the more, which of course puts Valya in a deeper fix.Scott Tobias, Vulture, 8 Dec. 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 18 Jan. 2025.
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