Selects: How Spiritualism Works
Stuff You Should Know
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🗓️ 7 March 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Something spooky was born on the American frontier in the mid-19th century: the idea that people’s personalities survive death and that some gifted individuals can communicate with them. It developed into a religion that some still practice today.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.0 | Guaranteed Human |
| 0:04.0 | Hey guys, it's me, your old pal Josh, and for this week's select, I've chosen our 2020 episode on spiritualism, |
| 0:13.0 | which as you might be able to tell from the first couple minutes was recorded during the height of the COVID pandemic. |
| 0:20.0 | That's not why I chose this one. |
| 0:22.6 | I chose it because it's been coming up a lot lately for some reason in episode after episode, |
| 0:29.6 | which I've taken as a sign to choose this as a select. |
| 0:33.6 | But it's also kind of made me think about all of the back and forth I've gone through in my life. |
| 0:38.6 | Is there an afterlife? |
| 0:39.9 | Is there not an afterlife? |
| 0:41.6 | Who knows? |
| 0:42.6 | That's where I'm at right now. |
| 0:44.1 | Who knows? |
| 0:45.1 | So maybe listen to this episode about the spiritualism movement and see what you think about the whole thing. |
| 0:50.7 | Enjoy. |
| 0:55.4 | Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 1:05.0 | Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. |
| 1:07.9 | There's Charles W. Chuck Bryan over there somewhere in the heart of darkness. |
| 1:14.7 | I'm in the office, dude. I hear your voice, Chuck, but I can't see you. |
| 1:20.7 | Yeah. I mean, I don't know why people need to know the behind the scenes things, but home recording provides some challenges, |
| 1:30.0 | and I was getting pretty frustrated, |
| 1:32.4 | so I was like, you know what, I'm going to go to the studio. |
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