A dark, brooding spirit that disguised itself as a child and strangled people asleep in a mobile home in the woods changed my attitude about haunted houses forever. That was the last time I tried to remove a spirit for […]
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Spiritism in Brazil: A Vision of Change for the New Medical Paradigm
There was an article in a New Dawn Special Issue No. 5 (published in June 2008) which happened to mention the word ‘Spiritism’. I was unfamiliar with the term except that I’d heard it before in the context of a […]
Ouija: How the Spirit World Helped a Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet
Sois sage dear heart & set my teachings down If you do not your world will be undone & heaven itself turn to one grinning skull.1 These lines appear in the poem “The Will,” by James Merrill (1926-1995), arguably the […]