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Why Did So Many Victorians Try to Speak with the Dead?

By Casey Cep — 2021

Many explanations have been offered for Spiritualism, but the movement was more than a fad.

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‘I Believed That I Would See Her Again’

This month’s conversation in our series exploring religion and death is with Karen Teel, who has been a member of the department of theology and religious studies at the University of San Diego since 2007.

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George Yancy
2020
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Why the “You” in an Afterlife Wouldn’t Really Be You

Memories, points of view and the self.

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Michael Shermer
2017
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What Does Taoism Teach About Life After Death?

It’s always useful to learn about death in different cultures. And Taoist beliefs about death—both religious and philosophical—are interesting and complex. By learning about Taoist beliefs about death and life after death, you can better understand many philosophies around the world.

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Sarah Kessler
2020
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Dante and the Divine Comedy: He Took Us on a Tour of Hell

Dante’s vision of the Afterlife in The Divine Comedy influenced the Renaissance, the Reformation and helped give us the modern world.

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Christian Blauvelt
2018
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How to Tap into Your Own Psychic Abilities

No crystal ball or ouija board necessary.

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Aliza Kelly
2018
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I Went to a Medium for the First Time—and She Completely Changed the Way I Think About Psychics

For most of my life, I pictured psychics as mystical, mysterious women who stealthily read auras and kept all-knowing tarot cards handy, living in magical, faraway places, usually covered in beads and crystal balls.

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Louis Baragona
2018
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Mediums Don't Actually "Talk" to the Dead

Here's everything you need to know about the role of a psychic medium and clairvoyant, and what they say they do.

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Kimberly Zapata
2019
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How Spirit Mediums Blur Gender Lines in Southeast Asia

Having documented transgender communities for more than 30 years, photographer Mariette Pathy Allen is accustomed to working with those facing stigma and abuse. But the subjects of her latest book represented an altogether different experience.

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Oscar Holland
2020
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Can You Learn to Be a Medium?

I'm a massage therapist, healer, artist, medium, and author. No one asked me if I was a "born musician" when I started playing flute in the fourth grade.

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Chanda Parkinson
2019
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Dr. Brian Weiss on the Patient Who Convinced Him There Is an Afterlife

While undergoing hypnosis for anxiety and depression, Catherine began recalling inexplicable memories from another time and place, and also revealed startling personal details about Weiss that he says she had no way of knowing.

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Brian Weiss
2013
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