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    What is Our Plan? Discovering Spiritism leads one to the feeling that you are on a roller coaster and are unable to get off. The more you read, the more questions you have, then you try and find where they could be answered, but at the end you have a larger set of questions than when you started. The numerous questions could be separated into major categories. One of the most significant set of inquiries concerns the matter of your personal destiny. The discussion of the plan for your life on earth

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    Spiritism Analysis

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    beliefs we have in life have a huge effect in how we face our adversities, and behave. I can use myself, and my personal religious beliefs as an example of it. My religious background from my family is based in Christian Catholic, but also form Spiritism. The Spiritism is not a official religion, it is a spiritualistic doctrine based on the studies of Allan Kardec, that is why is called Kardecist Spiritualism Doctrine. This is doctrine based in the studies of philosophy, and physics, which is inspired

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    the mid 1800’s. Flammarion was exposed to two significant movements, the concepts by Darwin and Lamarck, and was here during a time when spiritism was becoming extremely popular. He was believed to be “obsessed by life after death, and on other worlds, and [who] seemed to see no distinction between the two” (Herrick). Flammarion attempted to approach spiritism from a scientific viewpoint. Flammarion felt that psychic was a great term to describe the abilities present within clairvoyance as they

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    Batak and Chokwe

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    The Batak and the Chokwe Cultures Student’s Name University Affiliation The Batak and the Chokwe Cultures The Batak are among the nearly seventy indigenous peoples in the Philippines. Their location is the northeastern part of the Palawan, a fairly large island of the archipelago southwest. Their name “Batak” is derived from a Cuyunon word which means “The mountain people”. This is because their traditional habitat was around the mountains. There are only approximately 500 Batak remnants.

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    Lily Dale Research Paper

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    “In the psychic town of Lily Dale, New York the veil between life and death is especially thin,” according to Greg Newkirk in Week In Weird article. Lily Dale formally known as Lily Dale Assembly, is a small town located on a lake in New York, about an hour south of Buffalo. The ghost town was founded in 1879 as the Cassadaga Lake Free Association. It took its current in in 1906, named for the lilies covering Cassadaga Lake. Just like any other town, Lily Dale has a post office, volunteer fire department

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    Voodoo

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    Amanda Gutierrez Voodoo which means “spirit” in Fon, was born in the West African country of Benin and is practiced by more than 4 million believers. The origins are not well known but it is thought to have evolved from ancestor worship and animism. ‘While practitioners believe in only one true God they communicate with him through thousands of different spirits and shrines.” It is practiced in many different countries and although they all have for the most part the same beliefs some of their

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    By definition, a “psychic medium” is an individual who regularly experiences communication with the spirit world. This ability makes it possible for skilled mediums to give accurate and specific information about the person who has passed on. On a socially relevant front, there is a growing interest in mediumship. This want and need to learn about the sixth sense has brought healthy skepticism and a better understanding of the life and potential of an intuitive personality. True psychic mediums are

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    What do you need to do when you hear the voices of spirits that are very disturbing? I’ve had quite a few people telling me that they’ve heard spirits whispering in their ear evil messages or telling them to harm themselves. Are they really coming from spirits? What do you need to do when such disturbing events happen? Read here… There are people, unfortunately including some intuitive practitioners, who believe in evil spirits, spirit possessions, and sprit haunting. Please know that just

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    Conan Doyle's View Of War

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    interest in magical objects, perhaps spiritism. His interest in spiritualism grew stronger when his son passed away. Shortly after the Battle of the Somme, Conan’s two brother- in-laws and two nephews passed away. This tragedy had led him to want to dig deeper into what life was like beyond the depths of the grave. He favored Christian Spiritism and became a member of the renowned supernatural organization “The Ghost Club.” Conan happened to use his interest in Spiritism to write books on the subject.

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    Conan Doyle Conan Doyle's was born on May 22, 1859, in Edinburgh Scotland. He died on July 7, 1930 at age 71. He was one of them people who died a stabbing death because of his lack of listening to what the doctors had told him. He was supposedly diagnosed with Angina Pectoris. One day he returned home from a trip and he had chest pains. It was reported that he was found in the hall of his house holding on to his chest. He had a massive heart attack. Conan had a tough childhood. When he was 5 years

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