I think spiritualism, mesmerism, the mental healing movement, provided some people with the most meaningful experiences of their lives.

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.

America became a special source of attraction to people who were fleeing the aftereffects of the 30 Years War and the religious persecution that began to sweep through Europe in the period between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. And when people got here, very often they succeeded.

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

I think therapeutic spirituality has largely been a help in the modern world. So the fact that people can approach religion with practical needs.

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