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"The Princess and the Goblin" is a classic - at least in the sense that it's been re-published many times since 1871, with enough folks buying the reprints to justify yet another reprinting. The story can be, and has been, described as ...
Barron's book is an intelligent, informed look at Catholicism's first two millennia. "Catholicicsm" is "A Journey to the Heart of the Faith" in the sense that Barron touches on the core, the basics, of what the Catholic Church is and ha...
If you've seen the 1997 Derek Jacobi Central Independent Television/ITV screen adaptation of this Ellis Peters novel, you know the setting and general plot. The mystery is set in England's Shrewsbury region, during what folks started ca...
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Spiritualism, Attitudes
I’ve read that spiritualism and spiritism started in the 18th or 19th centuries. Folks who take one or both seriously seem to think spiritism isn’t spiritualism. How the ‘isms’ are different depends on who’s talking. Some say spiritualism is a … Continue reading
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Posted in discursive detours
Tagged America, folklore and myth, getting a grip, history, love, natural law, spiritism, spiritualism
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Mediums
“Séances date back to the 1800s…. Spirits were manifested, tambourines flew, ectoplasm impossibly erupted from entranced mediums. Then, after forty years of this, rather embarrassed by what they’d started, one of the sisters, Margaret Fox, confessed that they were frauds. … Continue reading
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Spirit Photographs
My wife asked me if I knew some of my ancestors were spiritualists. She’d seen an odd picture of my Campbell forebears while putting together a family photo album. This was in September, 2011. I had, and even knew a … Continue reading
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Tagged death, philosophy, physics, science, spiritualism
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Planet 9, Maybe; Nibiru, No
The world didn’t end last Saturday. That’s nothing new, and neither is another fizzled End Times prediction. I’ll be talking about how a current End Times prediction affected someone whose name is the same as the wannabe prophet’s; but is … Continue reading
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Tagged asteroids and comets, astronomy, Bible, Final Judgment, folklore and myth, getting a grip, history, Last Judgment, planets, science, Solar planets, spiritism, spiritualism
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