Spirituality for your everyday life.
There have been many discussions about spiritualism, many people think it to be science many think it is philosophy and many others feel it is pure religion. Many think Spiritualism is a concept which is indigenous to modern minds or has its roots buried within ancient mysteries. Man spiritualists think spiritualism is a deal with things that go bump in the night. Spiritualism is also related to many other religious beliefs. Many people feel that the there is a difference between Spiritualistic concepts and phenomena in the Bible.
These are all queries which any serious investigation of Spiritualism must address. The study of spiritualism and its implications is a lifelong pursuit. Knowledge must always be there since it helps us in understanding things perfectly. But only having knowledge is not enough one should keep learning and exploring new things. Once the objective facts of Spiritualism are mastered, the fascinating process of transformation must begin. Transformation is a process whereby knowledge becomes digested, synthesized, and assimilated, into wisdom.
Before understanding spiritualism one must try one should know that the First Spiritual Temple has never been part of the organized Spiritualist Church body; thus, our views and perceptions on Spiritualism may differ from those of more traditional Spiritualist Churches.
Some of the definitions of spiritualism are:
These are known to be the three fundamental aspects of spiritualism:
The new spiritualist movement is most widely accepted as having taken place on March 31, 1848, with the events surrounding the Fox family, in Hydesville, New York. In reality, though, Spiritualism has its existence since the birth of human beings. It has been there through different traditions and cultures. Though it differs from religion to religion and culture to culture, it is still the very old form of teaching. Spiritualism, in its pure essence, has its roots in ancient religion and spirituality. In effect, Spiritualism represents the alternative to Materialism. Furthermore, it is the basic essence from which all religious thought appeared and continue to appear on the great Earth. As such, Spiritualism really belongs to no group, nor to any religious movement or denomination. It is a gift from God, given to all people, of all faiths and denominations.
So a spiritualist church is found in different forms but almost all the preaching is same. So all churches, temples, synagogues, and mosques are spiritualist in nature, because all houses of worship are supposed to be places from which the message and inspiration of a higher Spirit can come forth.
Spiritualism, itself, is known to be a concept of communication between the human body and those in Spirit, has been a part of the human story for centuries. The Old and New Testaments are, in effect, a grand recording of ancient Spiritualism; they talk about spirit intervention and communication from approximately 1800 B.C. to around 200 A.D. Throughout their pages, one is warned to discriminate carefully between true and false prophets. Many were the people of Biblical times who were admonished to “test the spirits.”
The heralding in of Christianity involved several spirit visitations, and it is recorded that Jesus appeared eleven times after his death upon the cross. Jesus died in the flesh and resurrected in the Spirit; thus, demonstrating the reality of ancient Spiritualism.
Beliefs in Spiritualistic concepts were not confined to Biblical personalities alone. Boscawen, the famous anthropologist, states: “In dreams and visions the primitive Akkadians no doubt saw, as they declared, the shadowy forms of departed human beings.” He further adds, “Inscriptions as early as 3800 BC on tablets show their beliefs in ghosts and spirits.”
Spiritualism is basically a teaching which is done in all the religions around the world but the main aim is the same. All the spiritualists mainly talk about the connectivity between the human body and the spirit world. The precarious events which surround the modern world are precarious events which surrounded the birth of the movement known as Modern Spiritualism.
