* Please note that the following history is not intended to promote the religion of Spiritualism but is simply a historical overview explaining the historical roots of mediumship.

With the recent uprise and popularity in talking to the other side, one has to wonder, "Where did it all begin?" and "What's the meaning to all of this?"

Questions about life after death and talking to the other side had it's strongest rise in popularity in the past century and a half because of a religion called Spiritualism. So to answer the above questions we have to travel back in time to the 1800's and read the story of where it all began.

Definition: Medium - one who communicates with entities in the spirit world. One whose organism is sensitive to vibrations from the spirit world and through whose instrumentality, intelligences in that world are able to convey messages and produce the phenomena of Spiritualism.

Definition: Spiritualism - The science, philosophy and religion of continuous life, based upon the demonstrated fact of communication, by means of mediumship, with those who live in the spirit world.

Spiritualism was at it's peak in the 1800's and most of what we have learned today about life after death, what happenes after we die, reincarnation, spirit guides, guardian angels and the like, and guardian angels was information obtained and received through mediumship.

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