spiritualism

• concern with things of the spirit
• (theology) any doctrine that asserts the separate existence of God
• the belief that the spirits of dead people can communicate with people who are still alive (especially via a medium)
• The quality or state of being spiritual
• The doctrine, in opposition to the materialists, that all which exists is spirit, or soul -- that what is called the external world is either a succession of notions impressed on the mind by the Deity, as maintained by Berkeley, or else the mere educt of the mind itself, as taught by Fichte
• A belief that departed spirits hold intercourse with mortals by means of physical phenomena, as by rappng, or during abnormal mental states, as in trances, or the like, commonly manifested through a person of special susceptibility, called a medium

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