What is "spiritistic"

Usage examples of "spiritistic".

For though the early and spiritistic interpretations of relativity and the quantum theory had by now accustomed men of science to pay their respects to the religions, many of them were still liable to a certain asphyxia when they were actually within the precincts of sanctity.

But in the increasingly spiritistic inclination of physics itself, Behaviorism and Fundamentalism had found a meeting place.

The real cleavage was between the truly spiritual view on the one hand, and the spiritistic and materialistic on the other.

In France to a degree and in Germany strongly Mesmerism lent itself to spiritistic interpretations.

It needed only unstable personalities, capable of self-induced trance states, so to widen all this as to supply the bases of spiritistic faith and the material for the immensely laborious investigation of the Society for Psychical Research.

Men whose names carried weight accepted the spiritistic explanation of phenomena ranging from broken flower pots to ghosts.

Richard Hodgson and Professor Hyslop were finally led to accept her trance utterances and writings as spiritistic revelations.

A representative group of its members, some of them men whose names carry weight in other regions, have been led by their investigations to adopt the spiritistic hypothesis.

Indian fakirs, to which no professedly spiritistic explanation is attached.

Here the psychologist is a better witness than the scientist and it is significant that psychologists have been slower to accept the spiritistic hypothesis than the scientist.

And indeed, the whole tendency of those who let themselves go strongly with the spiritistic tide is exactly in this direction.

It is difficult for one not predisposed toward the occult and even strongly prejudiced against it to deny in alleged spiritistic phenomena a challenging residuum which may in the end compel far-reaching modifications in the conclusions both of science and psychology.

She was for years under the constant observation of a capable group by no means unanimously sympathetic with the spiritistic hypothesis, and has never been detected in fraud.

As has been said before, those generally who have accepted the spiritistic explanation have been led to do so through communications in which they discovered some personal note or touch, to which they themselves would be hospitably susceptible and which would have far less weight with those whose affections and previous associations were not thus involved.

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.