Even back in its colonial days, America developed a reputation as a safe harbor for people with unusual or radical religious beliefs.

Everybody has different stories about where I came from. Nobody really knows.

All the quantum physics experiments have occurred chiefly on the atomic scale and we are taught to believe that nature's laws are consistent.

Women had no clerical role anywhere in the Western world, period.

Science, as it reaches the public mind, has both served to discredit and unintentionally reaffirmed mystical ideas.

When spiritualism dawned, suddenly women who wanted to engage in the civic and religious and political culture were becoming transmediums.

Once the social and spiritual opening was created for women in the form of spiritualism, suddenly ambitious women who wanted to participate in the culture had a kind of a voice.