FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT SPIRITUALISM

 

Q:  What is Spiritualism?

A:  It is the Science, Philosophy, Religion of continuous life based upon the demonstrated fact of communication (by means of mediumship) with those in a non-physical state.

 

Q:  Who is a Spiritualist?

A:  One who understands the Science of communication

-who lives the philosophy received through such contact

-who moulds their character and conduct in accordance
with the highest teachings so received.

 

Q:  What is a medium?

A:  A person whose organism is capable of attunement to vibrations from a spiritual dimension and who acts as a channel of communication to obtain information and messages.

 

Q:  Do you consider Mediumship to be a gift?

A:  NO.  We consider it to be a cherished talent or ability to be continually developed and exercised.

 

Q: What value or need is there in spirit communication?

A: It serves to unite loved ones isolated in death.  It serves to expand the consciousness; the purpose of life; the philosophy of living.  Communication is humanity's basic need and desire.

 

Q:  What if all people know about "afterlife" and evidence?

A:  It would prove the futility of war, greed violence.  It could reduce crime, alcoholism, and drug addiction.

 

Q:  Why has no religion, up to now, accomplished this understanding?

A:  Religion, to this day, has dispersed its philosophy on a reward and penalty basis.  Religion's quarrel has been with Science.  It has declared there is an afterlife of isolation from this one-to make contact is considered impossible, evil, or dangerous.

 

Q:  What is ESP?

A:  Extra Sensory Perception (ESP) is the contact of a mind in the body with another mind in the body.  It is a mental faculty.

 

Q:  Do I have ESP?

A:  All beings have it to a greater or lesser degree.  It is the instinctive, protective faculty.

 

Q:  What is Reincarnation?

A:  It is a Theory of Belief that humanity is reborn to earth in a series of bodies.

 

Q:  Do you accept this theory?

A:  NO.  We have learned that humanity is an evolving soul.  That, at death, humanity continues to advance into other states and dimensions of existence.

Every birth is a new, unique creation, with the parental characteristics, but with their own individual soul or spiritual, animating principle.

 

Q:  Why should anyone believe that rebirth is necessary?

A:  It is a part of an Eastern philosophy that humanity must be reborn time and again to pay a Karmic debt to oneself and/or others.

It is an ancient belief born in superstition and perpetuated in an era of sensationalism and literary speculation.

This theory is the darling of those who have not explored deeply into an infant's sacred beginnings. It is cherished by those who have refused to consider a continuous and everlasting life in dimensions beyond the physical one.  It is an easy out for the mystic and the rank materialist.

 

Q:  Do you believe in God?

A:  We believe in an animating intelligence expressing through all life what some call God, others call it Universal Mind, Divine Wisdom, Cosmic Consciousness.  It is the eternal, creative principle residing in all things.

 

Q:  What good comes from Spiritualism?

A:  It brings the realization that man-in-the-body is, by his aspirations, often assisted, inspired by and led into new channels of truth by those from a finer dimension of life.

Spiritualism has no creed, no rituals, and no dogmatic belief.  It is ever open to new thought, new horizons, new alignment with growing knowledge in Science, searching to eliminate old myths and superstitions.