Spiritualist

A spiritualist is summoned to cleanse the place of its terrors, but with her arrival the complexities of motive and desire only multiply. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Germany and England, corresponded regularly with Madame Blavatsky and Olcot, wrote in spiritualist journals, and was always giving ad hoc séances. ❋ Unknown (1924)

Dominican "spiritualist" - from the description she's a Santería practitioner. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Already, in 1867, Ravaisson in his celebrated "Report" wrote these prophetic lines: "Many signs permit us to foresee in the near future a philosophical epoch of which the general character will be the predominance of what may be called spiritualist realism or positivism, having as generating principle the consciousness which the mind has in itself of an existence recognised as being the source and support of every other existence, being none other than its action." ❋ Edouard Louis Emmanuel Julien Le Roy (1912)

*Gnosticism, a kind of spiritualist and occult philosophy which encourages liberalism ❋ De Brantigny........................ (2008)

The novel depicts the rise of Stan Carlisle from a carnival mentalist to a successful "spiritualist," preying on the rich and gullible matrons of society, to his eventual fall and total disintegration. ❋ Ed Gorman (2008)

We aren't sure, but we suspect that the girlfriend, from who he stole some gold bracelets and knows that he would be running home to momma, sent a "spiritualist" to invoke some "kharma" upon him. ❋ Unknown (2002)

He wasn't the ghost-raisin 'kind of spiritualist, and them that went to see a show, come away dissap'inted, for all he did was to talk and take up a collection. ❋ Ellis Parker Butler (1903)

Himself the most convinced believer in spirit among the poets of his time, he regarded the bogus demonstrations of the "spiritualist" somewhat as the intellectual sceptic regards the shoddy logic by which the vulgar unbeliever proves there is no God. ❋ Unknown (1892)

I have not the smallest doubt that, if these were persecuting times, there is many a worthy "spiritualist" who would cheerfully go to the stake in support of his pneumatological faith; and furnish evidence, after ❋ Thomas Henry Huxley (1860)

I have not the smallest doubt that, if these were persecuting times, there is many a worthy "spiritualist" who would cheerfully go to the stake in support of his pneumatological faith; and furnish evidence, after Paley's own heart, in proof of the truth of his doctrines. ❋ Thomas Henry Huxley (1860)

A curious "spiritualist" book calls itself "Hafed, Prince of Persia," proving by the very title that the Spirits are equally ignorant of Arabic and Persian. ❋ Anonymous (1855)

If any of the "spiritualist" philosophers were to be asked what is the philosophy of these proceedings, he would probably reply with a mess of balderdash pretty much like the following: ❋ Unknown (1850)

Swayze is also consulting a "spiritualist" who claims to have found psychic powers in him that can "banish the tumor," the paper said. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Two of Seifert's siblings are also Facebook friends of mine - one, a musician, calls himself a "spiritualist," and the other, a professor, is "indifferent."

Swayze is also consulting with a "spiritualist" who claims to have found psychic powers in him that can "banish the tumor," the paper said. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"[What's the deal with] [Allison's] tats? Sanskrit, Buddha, the Flower of Life...didn't people used to make fun of her because she still believed in Jesus?" "Yeah, but a couple of months ago she took way too many mushrooms and went to a Gang Gang Dance show, got naked, and told everybody she was God. Now she's all American [Spiritualist]." ❋ The Electric Jelly (2012)

'A [spiritualist] believes that following just one religion or philosophy is [narrow-minded] and limits our knowledge, whereas spirituality (following our own moral conscience / many religions or [philosophies]) is open-minded and grows us in knowledge.' ❋ Diana_Lucius_De_Collis (2023)