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Spiritism was a new religious movement spawned in the 1850s in part from technological developments like the telegraph and photography.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)Finally, I beg to direct attention to the discourse delivered by Dr. Carpenter at the Royal Institution on the 12th of March, 1852, entitled 'On the influence of Suggestion in modifying and directing Muscular Movement, independently of Volition':-which, especially in the latter part, should be considered in reference to table moving by all who are interested in the subject.
Among the Spiritists, who went from 1.3% of the population (2.3 million) in 2000 to 2.0% in 2010 (3.8 million)...
(...) followers of Spiritism have the highest proportions of people with completed higher education (31.5%) and literacy rate (98.6%), as well as the lowest percentages of individuals with no education (1.8%) and with incomplete elementary education (15.0%). Spiritism was also one of the religions that showed growth (65%) since the Census conducted in 2000: they went from 1.3% of the population (2.3 million) in 2000 to 2% in 2010 (3.8 million).(...) Also at the highest position when analyzing income, 19.7% of Spiritists declared themselves in the group of people with income above 5 minimum wages.
In his revolutionary approach to spirituality
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)Finally, I beg to direct attention to the discourse delivered by Dr. Carpenter at the Royal Institution on the 12th of March, 1852, entitled 'On the influence of Suggestion in modifying and directing Muscular Movement, independently of Volition':-which, especially in the latter part, should be considered in reference to table moving by all who are interested in the subject.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)In my eyes, Allan Kardec and Flammarion, Andrew Jackson Davis and Judge Edmonds, are but schoolboys just trying to spell their A B C and sorely blundering sometimes.
Finally, I beg to direct attention to the discourse delivered by Dr. Carpenter at the Royal Institution on the 12th of March, 1852, entitled 'On the influence of Suggestion in modifying and directing Muscular Movement, independently of Volition':-which, especially in the latter part, should be considered in reference to table moving by all who are interested in the subject.
In his revolutionary approach to spirituality
And Faraday devised some simple apparatus which conclusively demonstrated that the movements were due to unconscious muscular action