The Subject of Spiritualism.

Assumpta wrote:I would hope the answer to your question Joan is no.  Although a lot of us go on fb to keep in touch with friends and I have to admit it to play some of the games there, I seriously doubt that this alone would stop a person who is serious about spiritualism in believing or declining to have anything to do with it.  Some people are believers but will openly not admit to it.

 

SpiritVoices wrote:Do you think the interest in the subject of Spiritualism is declining?
Or are we blaming FB for the lack or loss of the kind of sites like this one?
Normal forum sites where one can answer a topic several days later or immediately like on FB?

I miss these kind of sites a lot.    Where good discussions take place ever though those discussions can become rather heated.
Thank God for Spiritual Inspiration!    Long may you reign!

Mr.Whitmore wrote:

SpiritVoices wrote:Do you think the interest in the subject of Spiritualism is declining?
Or are we blaming FB for the lack or loss of the kind of sites like this one?
Normal forum sites where one can answer a topic several days later or immediately like on FB?

I miss these kind of sites a lot.    Where good discussions take place ever though those discussions can become rather heated.
Thank God for Spiritual Inspiration!    Long may you reign!

The new social sites like twitter and facebook are like an invasive species. The eventual losers are forums and blogs. They will cease to exist. Facebook is too politically correct and very much materialistic.

Crystal wrote:I wonder if it is because people don't think of a belief of life after death is just spiritualism? Many people just think of heaven and hell and don't think of life after death? My dad was so against any idea of religion, as a kid he was forced to attend church and just couldn't see the logic of worship and prayer, he was a fan of Dawkins and Darwin and not anything in the Bible. But now he is very old and regularly see people that have passed years ago and talks to them. Is it the mind breaking down or is spirit breaking through now his mental barriers are weaker?

SpiritVoices wrote:Do you think the interest in the subject of Spiritualism is declining?
Or are we blaming FB for the lack or loss of the kind of sites like this one?
Normal forum sites where one can answer a topic several days later or immediately like on FB?

I miss these kind of sites a lot.    Where good discussions take place ever though those discussions can become rather heated.
Thank God for Spiritual Inspiration!    Long may you reign!

Crystal wrote:
On FB we are all responsible for what we write. There also isn't the immediate response and people sit and brew or contemplate then reply and for a quick fix or an immediate answer FB comes up top :(

skye wrote:

Crystal wrote:
On FB we are all responsible for what we write. There also isn't the immediate response and people sit and brew or contemplate then reply and for a quick fix or an immediate answer FB comes up top :(

I disagree with the first statement because whether one is on Facebook or anywhere else, we are each personally responsibly for our own behaviour, be they words, thoughts or actions.

As for the 2nd one, I wonder if it's because the subject matter is generally more of a spiritual nature than one that is materialistic?

skye wrote:Crystal I totally understand what you're saying. Fortunately for them nothing goes unnoticed so although they may think they can hide, we know it won't be forever. Such people may act irresponsibly but one day they will come to realise there are consequences to pay for their past actions. 


Joanie, I think it can take a while for some people to accept there is actually something to Spiritualism. After experiencing this for themselves as you have done, there's little to entice them back to what they believed in before.

SpiritVoices wrote:
So true,Skye.    I don't often see spirit but hear them.   Used to think I was going round the twist,until I received a message from a medium which held information which no one else knew about.
That was it,I was a believer!

Crystal wrote:

SpiritVoices wrote:
So true,Skye.    I don't often see spirit but hear them.   Used to think I was going round the twist,until I received a message from a medium which held information which no one else knew about.
That was it,I was a believer!

I may look like I am playing Devil's Advocate here, but I wanted to discuss this point a bit more deeply. Being a reader I can give information which no-one else knows about but it does not mean that it was from spirit. There is a fine line between information gained psychically from the living sitter or seeker, to that which is given via the spirit world from the deceased. It is often very hard to distinguish the two unless the information is recorded and later pulled apart. This of course is not something that many people want to ever do because it shatters the illusion of a good reading.

I went through a phase of getting as many readings in person and online as I could. It changed my outloook and made me very sceptical of most mediums. Most were fake, in that yes they gave me a reading, but it was not clear evidence from any of my deceased loved ones. They fished and cold read and used blanket terms. The readings were about how I had reacted and touched their lives, how they passed, things that I knew and some things that I didn't but which later I realised I had known and had forgotten or dismissed as trivial.

One 'medium' wanted an item that had belonged to the person I wanted the reading about. I watched her work with others and get most things wrong. One lady of fortyish gave her an old watch. "your grandfather"  But no the lady wanted a message from her dearly departed husband, her grandfather was still alive, it was cold reading and assumptions all over.

Now with the internet things get really scarey. I have had my free readings that I have posted or pm'd copied and sold, I have seen other readers sign up to FB and forums as different people to befriend people and gain facts for their readings. It is a minefield.

I still think that true mediums are very very rare, it cannot be taught, but it can be enhanced by training but you either got it or you ain't, and it needs a very very high vibration and energy to attune to the spirit world, and they do the choosing.