Spiritualists

[T] here are two kinds of teachers of the Morality of Death: the mystics of spirit and the mystics of muscle, whom you call the spiritualists and the materialists, those who believe in consciousness without existence and those who believe in existence without consciousness. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Others have suggested he was poisoned perhaps by so-called spiritualists he considered frauds. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Others have suggested he was poisoned perhaps by some so-called spiritualists he considered frauds. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I have always been dubious of the so-called spiritualists or even the existence of the soul or spirit as an entity separate from the flesh; I certainly would not have considered it a valid subject for laboratory experimentation. ❋ Holly (2006)

To sum up, mediumship for the spiritualists was an instrument of prophetic critique of an entire way of life. ❋ Michael Grosso (2004)

For through only three of the bodily senses -- sight, hearing, and feeling -- have the boldest of so-called spiritualists dared to attempt the proof of their doctrine. ❋ Various (N/A)

For the benefit of those who are not aware of the fact, it may be as well to state that the class of people known as spiritualists, hold that when raps are heard, it is the best thing for the hearer to say aloud, "If you are intelligent, will you please to rap three times?" and if this is done, to ask the intelligence to rap three times for ❋ Various (1873)

There were in the city three gentlemen who had, for some time, been known as spiritualists; but they were, at the period of Paine's début as ❋ Unknown (1850)

"Read the Bible -- Believe in God," which is distressing because the spiritualists are a very innocuous bunch. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"spiritualists" -- and they are, perhaps, at present the greater part -- who profess, in some sense, to pay homage to the New Testament, they are at infinite variance as to how much -- whether 7 1/2, 30, or ❋ Henry Rogers (1841)

The unity of the ego, consequently, is not that of the one-entity of spiritualists which is dispersed into multiple phenomena, but the co-ordination of a certain number of incessantly renascent states, having for their support the vague sense of our bodies. ❋ Robert Ezra Park (1926)

England, when her health was failing, she was induced against her better judgment to have some dealings with certain so-called "spiritualists," who approached her under the plea of "communicating" with her husband, thus appealing to her at the least point of resistance. ❋ William Henry Burton Wilkins (1897)

In front of the fire was a large, well-worn couch, and by it a small stout table such as spiritualists use, on which gleamed a ball of glass or crystal. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)

She had a remarkably high, knobby brow, -- a brow with an unpleasantly bald appearance, owing to the uncompromising way in which her hair was brushed well off it -- he had seen such brows before in certain "spiritualists" who believed, or pretended to believe, in the suddenly willed dematerialization of matter, and THEY were mad, he knew, or else very foolishly feigning madness! ❋ Marie Corelli (1889)

Under these circumstances, it was to be expected, though it is none the less interesting to note the fact, that the arguments of the latest school of "spiritualists" present a wonderful family likeness to those which adorn the subtle disquisitions of the advocate of ecclesiastical miracles of forty years ago. ❋ Thomas Henry Huxley (1860)

"[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)