Many people benefit from the belief of gaining assistance from the spirits of the dead.For some, directly communing with departed souls forms an important part of their life path.For others, spiritualism has indirectly provided hope, emotional relief, acceptance of life and death, and other profou...
Espiritismo is based on the traditional medicine of indigenous peoples from areas such as Puerto Rico. It also consists of more modern elements, however, such as those from Spiritualism, a single-god religion that developed in the 1840s. Spiritualism included the belief that people who died had...
The reason is that they behold the reality of this worldly life.No religion inhibits the acquisition of wealth and riches, nor does hold it up as an evil, but religion, by and large, infuse an attitude of indifference to worldly things at large. The point is that affluence of wealth ...
Materialism focuses on physical and tangible aspects of existence, valuing possessions and wealth, whereas spiritualism emphasizes the importance of the soul, spirit, and intangible aspects of life, seeking meaning beyond material success.
Spiritism, not to be confused with Spiritualism, believes in the unity of science, philosophy, and religion. Spiritism was founded in France in 1850, by Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail, also known as Allan Kardec. Approximately 15 million people worldwide practice Spiritism. ...
The relationship between psychiatry and spirituality, particularly in organised religion, has been a controversial one. However, in recent years, the association has slowly transformed into an increasingly positive bond. Yet, one of the world's newest independent religions—the Bahá'í Faith—is ...
the director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion at the University of Virginia, “The New Age [is] seen as a vision of a coming new era defined by the transformation of our broken society—characterized by poverty, war, racism, etc.—into a united community of abundance, ...
More to the point, our own refusal to genuinely forgive and love is the primary reason why we might end up there. Those who are not Christians cannot go to heaven. Not true. Everyone makes it to the same afterlife, no matter what religion they professed on earth or even if they ...
Life After Deathby Professor Gary Schwartz has now become a classic. "Science meets spiritualism in this extra-ordinary precise and detailed of experiments … it is one of the most important books written on this subject." James Van Praagh. "Dr Schwartz perfectly blends the academic principles ...
The Axiom of Choice is necessary to select a set from an infinite number of socks, but not an infinite number of shoes. —Bertrand Russell 3 My fundamental axiom of speculative philosophy is that materialism and spiritualism are opposite poles of the same absurdity-the absurdity of imagining tha...