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Preview: Resolved #11

Unresolved

Unresolved Productions

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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This is a brief preview for the eleventh episode in my new series, Resolved, which is available now on Patreon. To learn more about this series - and how you can listen - consider heading to https://www.patreon.com/unresolvedpod

This episode can be found at the following link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/40458519

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Spiritualism

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Sometimes referred to as the science, philosophy, and religion of continuous life is a religious

0:05.0

movement that first emerged in 19th century upstate New York.

0:11.6

Spiritualist thought has been linked to 18th century philosophers, like German doctor

0:16.4

Franz Mesmer and Swedish theologian Emanuel Swedenborg.

0:20.9

Mesmer for example, proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body,

0:25.1

was governed by a magnetic field that could become imbalanced.

0:29.9

Leading Mesmer to introduce the practice of Mesmerism, to induce a hypnotic state that

0:35.0

allegedly allowed him to manipulate the magnetic force that surrounds a person and heal them.

0:40.5

Some of those who were induced into a hypnotic trance, awakened a report of having experienced

0:46.2

visions of spirits lingering in another dimension, trying to reach out to them.

0:51.3

Swedenborg on the other hand, introduced the idea of the in between.

0:56.1

The world of spirits located between heaven and hell, where everyone went immediately upon

1:00.2

dying.

1:05.2

Swedenborg also claimed to have seen and spoken to all kinds of spirits stuck in the

1:06.2

in between.

1:10.5

And that is how spiritualism is principally defined by the belief that the spirits of

1:11.5

the dead persist beyond death, lingering in an invisible spirit world, where they can

1:16.4

communicate with the living through a medium, a gifted individual that can channel their

1:21.4

messages and present them to the living world.

1:26.2

Modern spiritualist point to ancient accounts of spirit contact in the bible as proof of

1:29.5

the existence of the spirit world, like the visit between King Saul and the witch of Endor,

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