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

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.

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

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

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

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.