Happy Birthday, Modern Spiritualism!

[Left Behind]

In late 1847, the Fox family, including daughters Margaretta and Kate, moved into a wooden house in Hydesville, New York, not far from the city of Rochester. From the time of their arrival, the family was plagued with strange and frightening rapping and tapping sounds in the walls. The Fox family attributed these nightly disturbances to spirits.

On the night of March 31, 1848, the daughters began to clap their hands in imitation of the sounds they were hearing. To their surprise, whatever was responsible for the sounds started producing them in imitation of the girls' clapping.

This evolved into an alphabetic code. The family learned that the raps and taps were being made by one Charles Rosa, an itinerant peddler who was lured into the house by a previous occupant, murdered for his money, and buried in the cellar. Decades later, a human skeleton was unearthed from the cellar.

Spiritualism generally regard the events of March 31 as being the first known systematic communications that occurred between this world and the next, in modern times.

It has also been reported that today, March 31, 2012, the 164th anniversary of Modern Spiritualism, the planets are aligned in exactly the same manner as they were on this date in 1848.

Jim

What a lovely thought,Jim.

May there be many more 'birthdays' as Spiritualism grows through the forth coming years.


Deepsea

[Left Behind]

Thank you, Deepsea, beautiful sentiments there.

Spiritualism WILL go on forever. It must, because spirit is eternal.

Those of us who are Spiritualists during our sojourn on earth learned that lesson sooner than the others.

They will learn it when they get to spirit.

Jim

One of these days,mark my words,there will be headlines in the papers,telling the world that Spiritualism has been proved.
That there is a life after death.

Deepsea

Originally Posted by deepsea

One of these days,mark my words,there will be headlines in the papers,telling the world that Spiritualism has been proved.
That there is a life after death.

Deepsea

Spiritualism has no need to be proven - it's there and has its adherents.

Perhaps you're meaning survival?

Spiritualism (Modern Spiritualism) is a current movement, a current religion and philosophy, which may, or may not, survive in its present form into the future.

The spirit is eternal and the message of survival is one of its most important ones. How that message survives into the future remains to be seen but the spirit can never be constrained and will be there just as it always has - recognised or unrecognised.

Maybe we'll be around to see what happens?

Originally Posted by mac

Spiritualism has no need to be proven - it's there and has its adherents.

Perhaps you're meaning survival?

Ok Mac,I will take the word 'Survival'.
Survival to me is a strong word.
As though we were running from danger.
Depends what kind of life we had last in the physical world.

Originally Posted by deepsea

Ok Mac,I will take the word 'Survival'.
Survival to me is a strong word.
As though we were running from danger.
Depends what kind of life we had last in the physical world.

And for me it simply means we don't disappear as individuals when the bodies we live in at present fail us or eventually wear out if we're that lucky.

We live on. That's 'survival' for me, no running from any danger or the outcome of any previous lives.

Good point,Mac.

[Left Behind]

Originally Posted by deepsea

One of these days,mark my words,there will be headlines in the papers,telling the world that Spiritualism has been proved.
That there is a life after death.

Deepsea

I hope so, Deepsea.

But the probtlem - if problem it be - is that most people are so caught up in the here-and-now, that even if they intellectually accepted this (I refrain from saying "believed", because that's a stronger word), I doubt that it would have much motivation for them.

Most people have problems today. And most people today greatly exaggerate the extent of their problems (it wasn't so long ago in the history of mankind that literally staying alive from one harvest to the next was something that a lot of people failed to accomplish, and it's still a problem for many in the world today).

But people in the Western world are so caught up in their distrations from their problems that what happens after they die is just not a big thing in their lives.

I think that belief in Spiritualism - or survivalism, or life afer death, whatever you prefer - is not going to be a big thing in the lives of most people.

Jim