KnowraSpiritualismLinked fromLinked fromThe 38 pages that link to Spiritualism, each with the reason it gives.All 38Related 15Narrower topic 14Compared with 9New AgeRelated: Its séances and claims of hidden spiritual knowledge formed part of the modern occult background New Age drew on.TheosophyRelated: The movement emerged amid popular interest in occult phenomena and spirit communication.Alfred Russel WallaceCompared with: Wallace’s public defense of spiritualism contrasted with his scientific naturalism and affected his reputation.Arthur Conan DoyleNarrower topic: Doyle’s late-life public advocacy for spiritualism became a major part of his public identity.Cold readingNarrower topic: Cold reading became associated with séances that presented personal statements as messages from spirits.Harry HoudiniCompared with: Houdini's investigations directly challenged spiritualism's claims of physical communication with spirits.Stage magicCompared with: Stage effects can imitate phenomena that spiritualists present as evidence of spirit contact.ParapsychologyNarrower topic: Claims made by spiritualists supplied many early subjects for psychical investigation.Automatic writingNarrower topic: Automatic writing became one method Spiritualists used to seek messages from spirits.OccultismCompared with: Spiritualism overlaps with occultism but centers specifically on spirit communication and mediumship.Joseph SmithCompared with: Its claims of supernatural communication offer a contemporary comparison, not an equivalent to Smith’s prophetic authority.Theosophical SocietyRelated: Interest in spiritualism helped bring the Society’s founders together.Automatic drawingRelated: Mediumistic drawing offered an earlier model of marks made beyond conscious authorship.MediumshipNarrower topic: Modern mediumship became a defining practice of this movement.Supernatural fictionRelated: Nineteenth-century Spiritualism gave ghost fiction contemporary practices and beliefs to draw upon.William CrookesNarrower topic: Crookes’s investigations of mediums brought this movement into direct contact with laboratory science.MentalismRelated: Mentalist performance grew alongside public interest in séances and supernatural claims.Psychical researchNarrower topic: Its séances and claims prompted organized investigation of mediumship.Radical ReformationRelated: Spiritualist dissent broadened radical reform beyond communities organized around rebaptism.Jean-Eugène Robert-HoudinCompared with: Robert-Houdin’s theatrical deceptions belonged to stage entertainment, unlike spiritualists’ claims of supernatural contact.Society for Psychical ResearchCompared with: The society investigated claims central to spiritualism without adopting it as a creed.Oliver LodgeRelated: Lodge publicly defended the possibility of communication with the dead after his son’s death.TelepathyNarrower topic: Interest in spirit communication helped create the cultural setting for early telepathy claims.UFO religionRelated: Its practices of receiving messages from unseen beings have parallels in extraterrestrial channeling.Hermetic Order of the Golden DawnCompared with: Unlike séance-centered Spiritualism, the Golden Dawn emphasized structured ritual and graded study.William Lyon Mackenzie KingRelated: King’s private interest in séances and spirit communication became a striking part of his personal life.Helena BlavatskyRelated: The movement's popularity formed part of the setting for Blavatsky's early occult claims.Hilma af KlintNarrower topic: Séances and spirit communication shaped the circumstances in which af Klint began her abstract work.SéanceRelated: Its growth transformed séances from occasional experiments into organized religious and social events.Daniel Dunglas HomeNarrower topic: Home’s mediumship became famous within the movement that gave séances their spiritual meaning.Extrasensory perceptionNarrower topic: Nineteenth-century spiritualist claims helped spur organized investigations into purported paranormal information.Emanuel SwedenborgCompared with: Swedenborg reported spirit encounters, but his theology was not a séance-based movement.ParanormalRelated: It made séances and mediumship major settings for claims about paranormal contact.Victoria WoodhullRelated: Woodhull’s spiritualist practice shaped her public identity and helped attract clients and supporters.Edgar CayceNarrower topic: Cayce’s claimed trance access belonged to a broader American culture of mediumship.W. T. SteadRelated: Stead’s late-life interest in communicating with the dead shaped his writing and public reputation.Kardecist SpiritismNarrower topic: Kardecist Spiritism is one organized tradition within the wider spiritualist landscape.Sylvia BrowneNarrower topic: Browne’s claimed contact with the dead echoes spiritualism’s central belief, though her career was not identical to the movement.
KnowraSpiritualismLinked fromLinked fromThe 38 pages that link to Spiritualism, each with the reason it gives.All 38Related 15Narrower topic 14Compared with 9New AgeRelated: Its séances and claims of hidden spiritual knowledge formed part of the modern occult background New Age drew on.TheosophyRelated: The movement emerged amid popular interest in occult phenomena and spirit communication.Alfred Russel WallaceCompared with: Wallace’s public defense of spiritualism contrasted with his scientific naturalism and affected his reputation.Arthur Conan DoyleNarrower topic: Doyle’s late-life public advocacy for spiritualism became a major part of his public identity.Cold readingNarrower topic: Cold reading became associated with séances that presented personal statements as messages from spirits.Harry HoudiniCompared with: Houdini's investigations directly challenged spiritualism's claims of physical communication with spirits.Stage magicCompared with: Stage effects can imitate phenomena that spiritualists present as evidence of spirit contact.ParapsychologyNarrower topic: Claims made by spiritualists supplied many early subjects for psychical investigation.Automatic writingNarrower topic: Automatic writing became one method Spiritualists used to seek messages from spirits.OccultismCompared with: Spiritualism overlaps with occultism but centers specifically on spirit communication and mediumship.Joseph SmithCompared with: Its claims of supernatural communication offer a contemporary comparison, not an equivalent to Smith’s prophetic authority.Theosophical SocietyRelated: Interest in spiritualism helped bring the Society’s founders together.Automatic drawingRelated: Mediumistic drawing offered an earlier model of marks made beyond conscious authorship.MediumshipNarrower topic: Modern mediumship became a defining practice of this movement.Supernatural fictionRelated: Nineteenth-century Spiritualism gave ghost fiction contemporary practices and beliefs to draw upon.William CrookesNarrower topic: Crookes’s investigations of mediums brought this movement into direct contact with laboratory science.MentalismRelated: Mentalist performance grew alongside public interest in séances and supernatural claims.Psychical researchNarrower topic: Its séances and claims prompted organized investigation of mediumship.Radical ReformationRelated: Spiritualist dissent broadened radical reform beyond communities organized around rebaptism.Jean-Eugène Robert-HoudinCompared with: Robert-Houdin’s theatrical deceptions belonged to stage entertainment, unlike spiritualists’ claims of supernatural contact.Society for Psychical ResearchCompared with: The society investigated claims central to spiritualism without adopting it as a creed.Oliver LodgeRelated: Lodge publicly defended the possibility of communication with the dead after his son’s death.TelepathyNarrower topic: Interest in spirit communication helped create the cultural setting for early telepathy claims.UFO religionRelated: Its practices of receiving messages from unseen beings have parallels in extraterrestrial channeling.Hermetic Order of the Golden DawnCompared with: Unlike séance-centered Spiritualism, the Golden Dawn emphasized structured ritual and graded study.William Lyon Mackenzie KingRelated: King’s private interest in séances and spirit communication became a striking part of his personal life.Helena BlavatskyRelated: The movement's popularity formed part of the setting for Blavatsky's early occult claims.Hilma af KlintNarrower topic: Séances and spirit communication shaped the circumstances in which af Klint began her abstract work.SéanceRelated: Its growth transformed séances from occasional experiments into organized religious and social events.Daniel Dunglas HomeNarrower topic: Home’s mediumship became famous within the movement that gave séances their spiritual meaning.Extrasensory perceptionNarrower topic: Nineteenth-century spiritualist claims helped spur organized investigations into purported paranormal information.Emanuel SwedenborgCompared with: Swedenborg reported spirit encounters, but his theology was not a séance-based movement.ParanormalRelated: It made séances and mediumship major settings for claims about paranormal contact.Victoria WoodhullRelated: Woodhull’s spiritualist practice shaped her public identity and helped attract clients and supporters.Edgar CayceNarrower topic: Cayce’s claimed trance access belonged to a broader American culture of mediumship.W. T. SteadRelated: Stead’s late-life interest in communicating with the dead shaped his writing and public reputation.Kardecist SpiritismNarrower topic: Kardecist Spiritism is one organized tradition within the wider spiritualist landscape.Sylvia BrowneNarrower topic: Browne’s claimed contact with the dead echoes spiritualism’s central belief, though her career was not identical to the movement.