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A Brief History of The Spiritualist Church

• A PowerPoint Presentation
• By Rev. John Kohlenberger
• Www.MysticalSpiritualistChurch.Org

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What is Spiritualism?

• Founders of the movement
• 1700s
• Emanuel Swedenborg a philosopher of the Spirit
• 1800s
• Justine Kerner - supernormal and magnetic
  therapeutics
• Margareta Fox demonstrated Mediumship in N.Y.
• Spiritualist Medium, Mrs. Maria Hayden, in
  England
• N.Y. Supreme Court Judge. John W. Edmonds

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What is Spiritualism?

• Founders of the movement (Cont)
• Late 1800s
• Andrew Jackson Davis - 'Nature's Divine
  Revelations'
• 'John the Baptist' of Modern Spiritualism
• First Lyceum opened by Mr. J. Hitchcock
• in Nottingham England
• Dr. A. Russel Wallace
• co-discovered the Theory of Evolution
• Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
• founded the Theosophical Movement

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What is Spiritualism?

• Founders and Events in Spiritualism
• Late, late 1800s
• Daniel Dunglas Home discovered his Mediumship in
  US
• Developed his Mediumship in England
• James Martin Peebles - 'the spiritual pilgrim'
• Surrounded by what he called his 'band of
  angels'
• Alfred Russel Wallace
• Wrote to the N.Y. Times regarding Spiritualism
  and Science
• The Society for Psychical Research was started

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What is Spiritualism?

• Important events
• Early 1900s
• Professor William James, MD, taught physiology
  and philosophy
• Spiritualists National Union Limited formed
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle proclaimed his belief in
  the teachings and truth of Spiritualism.
• called the 'St. Paul' of Spiritualism
• International Spiritualists Federation formed

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What is Spiritualism?

• Recent events in Spiritualism
• 1900s (Cont.)
• Arthur Findlay's trilogy published
• "On the edge of the Etheric'
• "The Rock of Truth"
• "The Unfolding Universe"
• Ernest Oaten broadcast by BBC about Spiritualism
• Lord Dowding - in command of the RAF provided
  convincing evidence of survival of dead troops
  during WW II

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What is Spiritualism?

• More Recent events in Spiritualism
• Late 1900s
• Eileen J. Garrett - established the New
  York-based Parapsychology Foundation
• Ena Harry Twigg, sitting with canon John
  Pearce-Higgins
• A discarnate voice asked her to switch on a tape
  recorder The spirit voice belonged to the
  missing Bishop Pike who had been dead 24 hours
  September 4, 1969.
• 'According to the modern catechism the Church has
  decided not to forbid anymore to dialogue with
  the deceased ... this is as a sequel of new
  discoveries within the domain of the paranormal.'

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Mystical Spiritualist Church

• August 2001
• First meeting as a Non-profit Church in Costa
  Mesa, California
• August 2006
• First meeting as a Non-profit Church in Prescott
  Valley, Arizona

It is indeed a joy and a blessing when man and
spirit join together in search of the greater
truths and awarenesses! Dr. James Peebles
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The Mystical Spiritualist Church
Home of 21st Century Spiritualism

• Now meeting regularly in Prescott and Prescott
  Valley, AZ
• (Near Sedona)
• Also meets Quarterly in Costa Mesa California

GOD IS Alive and hiding in each one of us!
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Fin

• The End