Pecka was a Czech writer, geologist, archaeologist, teacher — and Spiritualist — whose works were exhibited at the National Spiritualist Congress in Paris in 1927.
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Maren Hassinger's portrait "The Spiritualist" (2013) is perhaps my favorite.
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They organized solstice parties and sold spiritualist trinkets in their magazines.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a spokesman for the Spiritualist movement.
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"First of all I went to a spiritualist church," Valerie continues.
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The community was founded in 1879 by members of the Spiritualist movement.
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"I wonder why you're Democrats," said Marianne Williamson, the author and spiritualist.
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"I wonder why you're Democrats," said Marianne Williamson, the author and spiritualist.
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During the Spiritualist movement, Mary Todd Lincoln was holding séances in the White House.
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The Spiritualist Register of 1861 listed dozens of professional mediums in New York City.
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Spiritualist churches, people who claim that they can talk to the dead, they're frauds.
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It makes sense that Harry Houdini became the foremost debunker of the spiritualist con.
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According to the spiritualist, the spirits had taken the lives of her husband and daughter.
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Vasudeo S. Gaitonde, the spiritualist in the group, tended towards a more purely abstract language.
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A strident critic of spiritualist deception, the escape artist staged his own Lincoln "ghost" photograph.
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During their conversation, the Boston spiritualist told Sarah that there was a curse on her family.
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The exhibition, Visionary Drawings, tells the story of Emma Kunz (1892–1963), a Swiss healer and spiritualist.
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In Plymouth, the evening before the coal slide, a woman had a vision at a Spiritualist meeting.
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When Victoria met Colonel Blood, she was making a living as spiritualist—holding séances and telling fortunes.
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The organs suggest that the spiritualist practice will purify the blood and rid debtors of their debts.
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General Photographic Agency/Getty Images A sincere spiritualist movement arose in the second half of the 19th century.
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It was significant from the 1860s on, David Nartonis writes in his history of the spiritualist movement's growth.
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Hope quickly rose to prominence as a medium and formed a popular spiritualist group known as the Crewe Circle.
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The new film makes no nod to this grand Spiritualist tradition, but it's there all the same—lurking underground.
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Maren Hassinger ("The Spiritualist") appears as a dancing Orisha in the forest, echoing her themes of spirituality and nature.
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Luckily, there are plenty of apps for the on-the-go spiritualist, from rune casting apps to birth chart generators.
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Perhaps not surprisingly, the paranormal stories appear at the end of the 19th century, when the Spiritualist movement was strong.
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She's a spiritualist, popular author, and self-help figure with a longstanding interest in politics but no experience in government.
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One need not agree with Williamson's prescriptions, but to slur her politics as inherently "reactionary" is to misapprehend the Spiritualist tradition.
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"I was craving for the light of heaven," he wrote in a letter to the editor of a popular Spiritualist newspaper.
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Bespectacled, clad in monkish attire, and a follower of Mazdaznan, an esoteric spiritualist practice, Itten perhaps personified the pedagogical philosophy of Bauhaus.
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Then one day I was talking with a friend who mentioned her mother was a "spiritualist" and conducted online chat-based readings.
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Some estimates made in the 1860s put the number of Americans with Spiritualist sympathies over 10 million — a third of the population.
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They were infatuated, too, with unhinged emotion and mystical mumbo-jumbo, and the art that inspired that generation was, often, spiritualist schlock.
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She was a spiritualist who worked on a large group of canvases collectively titled The Paintings for the Temple between 1906 and 1915.
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Bond wasn't a spiritualist — he was a lawyer — but in the late 1800s, a craze for talking to the dead was sweeping America.
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The founder of The New-York Tribune, Horace Greeley, was rumored to be so taken by this idea that he sought Spiritualist correspondents.
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Calling herself a medium, a psychic and a spiritualist interchangeably, Linda (Randy Danson) knows all about that need: She basically lives off it.
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Spiritualist séances were entertaining but also spaces in which transgressions of the sexual, social, and gendered order were enabled by the presence of 'spirits.
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She had long studied occult and spiritualist writings, including Rosicrucianism and Buddhism, and in 2212 she joined the Swedish Lodge of the Theosophical Society.
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Yang and the New Age spiritualist Marianne Williamson on Tuesday night, in their respective ways, may have been the most entertaining of the candidates.
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For instance, the ectoplasm of the Ghostbusters films came about because co-writer Dan Aykroyd is a fourth-generation Spiritualist, and drew on its terms.
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Houghton began spirit drawing in 1861, a decade after Maria Hayden arrived in Britain to spread the spiritualist message from its roots in New York.
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In 1866 the Spiritualist periodical The Banner of Light proposed that it was precisely because women were physically weak that their nerves were sensitive and receptive.
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The British spiritualist society enthusiastically pronounced them real and began campaigning hard to convince people they were authentic as part of their belief in the paranormal.
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There's no way Eusapia Palladino, an Italian spiritualist medium, could have read the radical feminist Valerie Solanas's "SCUM Manifesto," which calls for the elimination of men.
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The entire moment arrives thanks to the Spiritualist wife of the penitentiary governor's house, who believes, along with her friends, in the more supernatural side of religion.
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Maybe she really was a gifted spiritualist, or she'd heard the information from one of the deceased's relatives, who had already quietly received letters of the tragedy.
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Despite their long history as hoax spiritualist devices turned hit toys turned tools of the devil, Ouija boards won't actually put you in contact with demons or spirits.
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Linus is the Peanuts gang's spiritualist, and nothing can shake his faith in the magic of his security blanket or that the Great Pumpkin will eventually make his appearance.
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He has built himself a spiritualist chamber called the psychomanteum, where he looks into a mirror, summons her spirit and allows her to draw using his hands, he explained.
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His victims included the Chicago spiritualist Ida Craddock, who killed herself after being sentenced to five years in prison for mailing "obscene" articles about reproductive health and tantric yoga.
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BuzzFeed News' Gabriel H. Sanchez explores the meaning of the afterlife by looking at the work of William Hope, a photographer and spiritualist at the turn of the 20th century.
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Often compared to the work of Hilma af Klint, dozens of rarely-seen drawings by the late Swiss healer and Spiritualist Emma Kunz are on view at the Serpentine Gallery.
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Drake seems to look at Mr. West as a model for emotional projection and for getting over in the business of culture; Chance sees him as a spiritualist in progress.
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MUSEUMS & GALLERIES This brilliantly tasteless exhibition, complete with carmine walls and velvet settees (and running through Wednesday), plunges viewers into a tawdry spiritualist Parisian collective of the late 19th century.
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The year of the ghostly knocks, as Mira Ptacin writes in her engaging if somewhat wide-eyed book, is considered by many to mark the beginning of the American spiritualist movement.
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In May that year, the contact name was changed to Guy G and the address updated to 22 Woodberry Grove – a two-storey house near a spiritualist church in north London.
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The community was founded in 1879 by members of the 19th-century Spiritualist movement, which holds that the spirits of the dead have the ability to communicate with living human beings.
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An amateur magician and successful editor, author and Hollywood screenplay writer, Fulton Oursler, as he was known, was a prominent debunker of the spiritualist-séance fad that arose in the 1920s.
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We can't know for sure whether Ouija was a genuine expression of spiritualist beliefs, an Egyptophilic piece of flimflam meant to capitalize on those beliefs, or a little bit of both.
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Because she was living off the gun company's fortune, the spiritualist told her to move to California and build a home that would appease and trap the ghosts who follow her.
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There was a vibrant spiritualist movement in pre-Civil War America, and during the war the first lady, Mary Todd Lincoln, is said to have held séances in the White House.
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The music is bleak and slow, and tends to follow a format codified on early Black Sabbath records: spiritualist-satanic homilies sung over pitched-down guitar riffs played at a trudge.
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I didn't want to connect with contemporary specialist acts; I wanted to be able to connect with something a bit rawer, cruder, like spiritualist photography at the end of the 19th century.
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The quest for extrasensory perception, an outgrowth of the nineteenth and early twentieth century Spiritualist movement, had begun in the 1930s, mainly with Duke University's parapsychology experiments, conducted by J. B. Rhine.
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This brilliantly tasteless exhibition, complete with carmine walls and blue velvet settees, plunges viewers into a spiritualist — and, let's say it, tawdry — Parisian collective of the last decade of the 19th century.
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Both his family and Spiritualist friends refused to wear mourning clothes to the funeral as a way of expressing their conviction that the author had simply moved on to exist in another dimension.
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As for my little Eighva, I know she's only nine, but Stephanie—the junior college consultant that my spiritualist, Sarah Jean, recommended—told me it's never too early to start looking at colleges!
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Elsewhere in the race, more unorthodox candidates such as entrepreneur Andrew Yang (and long-shot spiritualist Marianne Williamson) are running along with former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former Massachusetts Gov.
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Iyanla Vanzant — the life coach and New Thought spiritualist co-signed by Oprah herself — has also found a profitable niche for her show Iyanla: Fix My Life: scurrilous reality stars and other Black socialites.
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An adherent of a more spiritualist, mystical German scientific tradition, Ewald Hering, a scholarship kid from Saxony, had been fighting with Helmholtz since Hering got his MD from the University of Leipzig in 220.
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This should not be taken as a form of spiritualist consolation, however, but rather as an invitation to face up to the ways in which our immanent lives are actually never simply our own.
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Marianne Williamson, a self-help guru who has been more of a half-ironic meme than a serious candidate, is a unique figure who talks like a West Coast spiritualist rather than a wonk.
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In the early 20th century, an English spiritualist named William Hope claimed to have discovered a unique power between the realms of science and the paranormal — the ability to photograph actual spirits of the dead.
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The show will cover some seriously creepy material, ranging from the 19th-century Spiritualist movement, to a village mob who believed werewolves were prowling through their streets, and the not-so-distant past of lobotomies.
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In Bolivia, Doughty takes us to meet the 67 skulls, or ñatitas, that a spiritualist named Doña Ely collects and dresses in matching beanies; visitors come to ask for their help with living-people problems.
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Their cottage was moved here in 1915, and its site (it burned to the ground at midcentury) is now the Fox Memorial Garden, still a favorite spot for Spiritualist pilgrims and tourists of the paranormal.
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Genre mainstays like Basic Instinct, Cruel Intentions, and Unfaithful here meet lesser-known and tragically under-appreciated titles including de Palma's manic Body Double, Verhoeven's spiritualist The Fourth Man, and Alan Parker's profoundly unsettling Angel Heart.
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Coming off a shout-out from Kendrick Lamar at the Grammys, he's just released a new single, "Nobody Knows," on which he continues to play earthen spiritualist, a man forever grappling with the here and now.
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In 1863, the Spiritualist Religio-Philosophical Journal called for "the regenerative work of enlightening and spiritualizing the masses" for the express purpose of "heal[ing] the breach" caused by the war; today, Williamson is using comparable language.
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"He was a spiritualist and was in touch with his dead wife," Beckman reveals, before going on to recount summers spent at the professor's nudist camp just outside the city, where they grew weed in the backyard.
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When Jerome begins leading Grace into deep hypnosis, we expect to finally find out if she killed Nancy Montgomery (Anna Paquin) and Thomas Kinnear (Paul Gross), or if she's innocent, as her Spiritualist benefactors so pray she is.
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In "The Get Down," Grandmaster Flash (an adviser to the show and also a character played by Mamoudou Athie) is the Yoda figure, a spiritualist and font of knowledge who's training Shaolin Fantastic in the art of D.J.ing.
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While Cézanne and van Gogh were down in Provence analyzing mountains and apples, up in Paris artists allied with a strange writer/spiritualist/charlatan named Joséphin Péladan turned away from observation and toward over-the-top religious fantasy.
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There are many conspiracy theories surrounding the mansion, but the most popular lore is that Winchester went to a spiritualist and learned that she was being haunted by spirits who died at the hands of the Winchester gun company.
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The turn into the gravel lot was lodged between two mailboxes — one for a spiritualist and one for the Kingdom Restoration Church for All Nations — and narrow enough to almost miss, even after three straight years of Thursday nights.
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This story was one of my favorites: The Emerson brothers, Manhattan wine merchants who took over the winery from Jean Jacques' sons, represented a spiritualist, winemaking Utopian community in the Hudson Valley known as Brotherhood of the New Life.
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This small exhibition is centered on a 90-minute film in which episodes from the history of spiritualist frauds and hoaxes are re-enacted by people in fanciful costumes while mystic flames, smoke and ectoplasmic phenomena come and go.
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Victoria Woodhull, who in 1872 became the first woman to run for president of the United States, was a Spiritualist; and the suffragist Susan B. Anthony was a frequent guest at Lily Dale, which often hosted meetings to discuss social justice.
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Beyond these tees, other current clothing items available include "Prakash's Perfect Button-Up," designed by a "74-year-old spiritualist and chess enthusiast with classic, unassuming style," who's played chess for three decades across the street from Alonzo's L.A. abode.
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The spiritualist and self-help icon is polling around 0 percent, and her message—a crunchy mix of New Age pronouncements and denunciations of Donald Trump—don't seem likely to appeal to anyone without one foot in the astral plane.
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Tulsi Gabbard, whose qualifications and motivation remain unclear, and spiritual author Marianne Williamson, who, in her apparent quest to transmute news-cycle mentions into book sales, is channeling not so much her nineteenth-century spiritualist predecessor Woodhull as the great self-help goddess Oprah.
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For such shoppers, the striking overlap between U.F.O.s and fairy stories might eventually become an advertisement for an updated spiritualist cosmology, not a strike against it — especially if woven together with multiverse and universe-as-simulation hypotheses that imply a kind of metaphysics of caprice.
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They've purchased a ranch and are working on moving on when a pair of spiritualist sisters accidentally stir up an angry tommy-knocker — a magical creature that generally lives in the deep mines — which raises hell in town and drags Karen and Priya back into trouble.
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At the Museum of Modern Art, a similar but much larger projection system has been built for Mr. Oursler's 90-minute film, "Imponderable," in which episodes from the history of spiritualist frauds and hoaxes are re-enacted while mystic flames, smoke and ectoplasmic phenomena come and go.
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A need for a new kind of faith coupled with a skepticism of previously undebated scientific theories (medicine included) has opened up a renewed interest not only in the Spiritualist histories of the past, but in some cases, even created a kind of continuation of its practices.
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Joseph Laycock, associate professor of religious studies at Texas State University, writes in The Conversation that communing with those lost in the war was part of the popularity of the Spiritualist movement, an optimistic, progressive philosophy that promoted talking with the dead and which eventually spawned the talking boards.
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Written by the director, Rebecca Zlotowski, and Robin Campillo — of "The Class" and "BPM (Beats Per Minute)," a recent Cannes prizewinner — this film, mostly set in the 1930s, stars Natalie Portman and Lily-Rose Depp as Laura and Kate Barlow, a spiritualist sister act from the United States.
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But for teenage social outsiders like myself, it was a guiding light through many a troubled time—I have very fond memories of finding a new set of pals down atthe local spiritualist church and feeling like I'd discovered my life philosophy after reading Brian Bates' The Way of Wyrd.
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Her early oil abstractions draw on spiritualist modes of thought, à la Kandinsky, Mondrian, and Hilma af Klint, and have a sensory reception to music and sound; the interplay of hard and soft edges and geometric form such as in "Blue and Green Music" (1919/21) express movement and dynamism.
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Being a female artist in the second half of the 19th-century presented its own challenges, but Houghton's lack of recognition may have a good deal to do with her spiritualist convictions which lay at the core of her art practice, leading her to renounce personal authorship of her paintings.
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By 1906, well before Kandinsky wrote about the influence of color on the soul, or Malevich sought refuge from realism in the form of a square, the Swedish painter Hilma af Klint had invented an abstract visual language that reflected her intense involvement with mysticism (she also worked as a spiritualist medium).
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"I would like to be perceived as a real-ass bitch in a fake-ass world," says Chris Sapphire, a 30-year-old, openly gay, openly Christian Mexican American "hood spiritualist hustler" from Dallas when he sets foot into his apartment on The Circle, Netflix's reality competition series that's become an internet obsession.
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WOMEN WHO DARED TO BREAK ALL THE RULES By Jeremy Scott What do Mary Wollstonecraft, Coco Chanel, Victoria Woodhull (the spiritualist who ran for president of the United States in the 1870s) and Aimee Semple McPherson (the early-20th-century preacher whose Pentecostalist sect still commands hundreds of millions of followers today) have in common?
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" Expounding on freedom of religion in general, he declared, "the idea, that a man has less conscience because he is a Rationalist, or a Spiritualist, or even an Atheist, than the believer in any one of the accepted forms of faith, may be current, but it is not a constitutional idea, in the State of Ohio.
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The collection appears to be the result of regular bureaucratic collation: Someone sends something interesting to the agency (the magician, who someone claimed was a miracle-working healer), or someone writes an interesting academic paper (the spiritualist healers), and the result is files like these, summaries of work that the agency thought notable enough to file away.
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I have a small collection of mystical U.F.O. and spiritualist ephemera, such as a series of pamphlet interviews with the ghosts of famous dead people (Rembrandt, Einstein, etc.) and a record of a conversation between Jesus and "an Earth person" which took place "hundreds of miles from Earth in the purple magnificence of star-studded Space" in 1959.
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In Brooklyn you'll find some engrossing self-portraits, including MoMA's severe "Self-Portrait With Cropped Hair," but Kahlo also painted half-competent still lifes, gross Stalinist agitprop, and ghastly New Age kitsch — including this show's "The Love Embrace of the Universe ...," a world-spiritualist tableau featuring a lactating Mother Earth that would make Deepak Chopra blanch.
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Over the years, as she got more access and engaged with the Spiritualist community, she traveled to a center for physical mediumship in France, and learned how to use a medium's cabinet in the UK. While no longer quite the sensation it was in the 19th century, Spiritualism remains as a bridge between life and death, and as a way to emotionally engage with that divide.
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The project, which she calls "part documentary and part ghost story," comprises her own images of Lily Dale — the world's largest Spiritualist community, founded in the mid-19th century on the shore of Cassadaga Lake in New York — along with historical photographs, narratives about her subjects and illustrated essays by the artists Tony Oursler and Andreas Fischer about the movement's influence on art and culture.
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A lapsed Catholic, he now announced himself a Spiritualist, but did not begin proselytizing for his new creed until World War I. The deaths of his oldest son, Kingsley (in 1918), his brother (the following year) and two nephews (shortly after the war) led him to embrace Spiritualism with all his heart, convinced it was a "New Revelation" delivered by God to console the bereaved.
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