spiritism
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He was one of the first celebrities to do spiritism.
From Salon • Sep. 17, 2021
The five-mile crescent of Copacabana and the other Rio beaches blazed with the ritual candles of some 600,000 devotees of Brazil's fastest-growing cult: "spiritism."
From Time Magazine Archive
He put spiritism in a class with witchcraft, hysteria and paranoiac illusion, charging spiritualists, as distinct from psychic researchers, with "wishful thinking and logic-blindness."
From Time Magazine Archive
Brazilian spiritism has its European origins as well.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fraud, conscious or unconscious, seems ubiquitous throughout the range of physical phenomena of spiritism, and false pretence, prevarication and fishing for clues are ubiquitous in the mental manifestations of mediums.
From Memories and Studies by James, Henry
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