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Originally Posted by BigJohn
I agree with you there.
Ask anybody about the Fox Sisters and they have no idea who you are talking about.....
My favorite was Andrew Jackson Davis.
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Maybe it's understandable that modern-day folk know nothing of the beginnings and development of Modern Spiritualism - even here on a website devoted to matters spiritual and in a forum called Spiritualism under the umbrella category of 'Religions & Faiths'. For many 'spiritualism' is no different than 'Modern Spiritualism' or 'Spiritualism'. (its short form)
Running the risk of getting accused of being provocative or controversial, I'm going to suggest that nowadays there's much confusion about what's spiritual and what's psychic. It's not helped when practitioners are just called 'mediums' when what's meant (in the US particularly) is either 'psychic medium' or 'spiritual medium'. Sadly those terms have, like so many others, traveled across the Atlantic and are also being used in the UK.
I often sense practitioners bristling and getting indignant when I ask more about their specialism, questions based around what they have told us in the context of a forum focusing on the religion and philosophy of Spiritualism!
So often their activities are psychic rather than spiritual. Again this may be controversial but too many can't clearly explain the nature of their specialties, what they say they can do. Some may get upset when they are questioned.