The belief that the spirits of dead people can communicate with people who are still alive (especially via a medium)

Usage examples of spiritualism.

Podmore concludes that the foundations of modern Spiritualism were laid by the German magnetists of the first half of the nineteenth century.

But the mere fact that the Misses Tripp have adopted with enthusiasm Christian Science, vegetarianism, theosophy and spiritualism does not really constitute a damning indictment of those subjects!

I formed the acquaintance of Madame Blavant, the renowned Professoress of Spiritualism and Theosophy.

On the other hand, if there should evidence an increasing and tested body of facts which can be explained only in terms of spiritistic communications, Spiritualism will naturally make headway.

Rome, towards sheer materialism, or towards an unchristian and unphilosophic spiritualism.

Spiritualism, with its very real and awful mysteries, is, to him, a vulgar thing because it brought consolation to common folk, but he loves to read papers on the Palladian Cultus, ancient and accepted Scottish rites, and Baphometic figures.

There is no danger of folks losin' their way to Heaven unless they want to, and they can go on their own favorite paths too, be they blue Presbyterian paths, or Methodist pasters, or by the Baptist boat, or the Episcopalian high way, or the Catholic covered way, or the Unitarian Broadway, or the Shadow road of Spiritualism.

Either he had a wife already and was vague about his ability to get rid of her, or he was drunk when he was brought to his proposal and repudiated it or forgot it the next day, or he was a bankrupt, or he was old and decrepit, or he was young and plainly idiotic, or he had diabetes or a bad heart, or his relatives were impossible, or he believed in spiritualism, or democracy, or the Baconian theory, or some other such nonsense.

Shelly had joined them under the impression they were some sort of poetry society, but she'd confided to me almost at once that they seemed more interested in what was known in the publishing trade as New Age topicsmysticism, astrology, spiritualism, and alternative medicine.

He was playing at helping Octave with the spiritualism confidence game.

If she'd been one of those gosh-awful creatures that take up spiritualism, it wouldn't have mattered.

It was one of these poltergeist cases, where noises and foolish tricks had gone on for some years, very much like the classical case of John Wesley's family at Epworth in 1726, or the case of the Fox family at Hydesville near Rochester in 1848, which was the starting-point of modern spiritualism.

The psychedelic drugs, the free love, the racial integration, the early New Age spiritualism, even the spectacularly colorful clothing, all speak the late Sixties with no possibility of error.

Cave art, spiritualism, proto-urbanization, social stratification.