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Scheduled posts are ‘on hold’ while I work on ‘back burner’ projects, including a book that’s starting to take shape.
I’ll be writing new posts. They’ll come at irregular intervals.
I posted an excessively-long discussion of what happened and what I’m doing on Marcy 26, 2018: “In Conference, Out to Lunch, Gone Fishing, Whatever: I’m Taking a ‘Break’.”
Tag Archives: spiritualism
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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Posted in being a citizen, being Catholic, discursive detours
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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