Spiritism in Popular Culture

Despite being little known by the population at large; many works or art contain allusions to facts, circumstances and concepts that resemble some spiritist beliefs:

 Films

    • Ghost, with Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze was perhaps one of the earliest depictions of an after-life moderately similar to Spiritist teaching. It was highly popular among Brazilian Spiritists too. Swayze plays the role of a man that is killed by a petty thief, leaving his wife (Moore). He...
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Dora Kunz, Therapeutic Touch, and Theosophy

Dora Kunz is the co-founder of Therapeutic Touch and president of the American Theosophical Society. She is also chief editor of the Theosophical Publishing House, Wheaton, Illinois. Kunz is a self-avowed psychic claiming clairvoyant abilities to see into the supernatural. She maintains that she is the fourteenth generation of her family to be able to do so.

Theosophy is a religious practice, founded by spiritist Helena Blavatsky in 1851. Theosophy pr...
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Alternative Medicine and Spiritual Roots

I have decided that I need to to include two additional chapters in my book in order to round it out. The first is a chapter on Alternative Medicine. Originally, I was going to include this in the section on nursing, but with research decided that this was a central issue to understanding the occult connection in health care and needed to have an entire chapter devoted to it. One of my goals is to select the top 10 alternative therapies, explain what th...
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Biblical View Point
   
The clearest way to show people how God feels about alternative medical practices is to show them from the Word of God. We must answer their questions by examining what the Bible say about pseudo-medical interventions that are nothing more than a veneer used to cover the use of the occult practices in healing . Lets take a look at what the Bible says:
   
1. Scripture declares that the only spirit that Christians are to have contact with is the Spirit of God.

2. The Bible...
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Benign vs. Malignant Therapies

When you discuss alternative and complimentary therapies, its important to distinguish between those that are practiced without reference to the occult and are perfectly safe and those that are spiritually dangerous and suck people into their indidious grasp. From my work as a chaplain, I have had the opportunity to observe both of these types of alternative therapies at work from a first-hand perspective.

Amongst others, there are three alternative therapies that...
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Alternative and Complimentary Therapies

Before I get too deep into Alternative Medicine, I need  to help people understand what it is. Alternative Medicine means, medical therapies that lie outside the domain of traditional surgical and drug treatments.

There are two types of alternative medicine: 1.) Alternative Therapies and 2.) Complimentary Therapies. Alternative Therapies are those used instead of traditional medical treatments. Complimentary therapies are those used in addition to medical...
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Buddhism, Spiritism, and Therapeutic Touch