Reconciled by the Light:

It seems to me that the highest form of mediumship is what Modern Spiritualism refers to as “direct prophecy.”

While the typical mediumistic prophecy might contain messages given from a spirit intelligence to the medium, the medium is simply serving as a transmitter of the message; in “direct prophecy,” the medium enters into what Andrew Jackson Davis called the "superior condition." It is a state where he or she achieves direct communion with Infinite Intelligen...

“Now at one point the Pharisees asked Jesus when the kingdom of God  was coming, so he answered, ‘The kingdom of God is not coming with signs  to be observed, nor will people say, “Here it is,” or “There it is,” because the kingdom of God is within you.’” Luke 17:20-21

Some Biblical scholars will say that what Jesus meant was that because He, Jesus, was among them, the Kingdom of God was “in t...

 I lost my faith in the Catholic Church when I was sixteen for two reasons – first, even though I was a devout member, there was an empty hole inside my soul that Catholicism had not filled; second, I came to the conclusion that if God was omnipotent and still allowed the tremendous suffering and evil in the world to continue, he either did not exist at all, or if he did, he was a mean uncaring Being that I wanted nothing to do with.

My attention turned towards t...

The following are excerpts from  a talk  I shared in a church on the Fourth of July:

From the Declaration of Independence…

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

If we search for the central point of the Declaration of Independence, we will find the Creator God ther...

It is most refreshing and inspiring to me to discover and experience that the basic attitude of Spiritualism as a religion is one of open-mindedness. In my experience, one of the biggest problems with many religious institutions is the concept of exclusivity. Religious exclusivism is the mindset that claims that one particular faith has a monopoly on the highest truth, and considers followers of other religions to hold invalid beliefs, considering them inferior, wrong, or deluded, or assessin...

My first experience with spontaneous healing came when I was perhaps ten or twelve years old. My sister Sabina was prone to get nosebleeds, and when this happened, my father would apply pressure to her nostril to get the bleeding to stop. One evening, Sabina’s nose started to bleed profusely, and my parents rushed to her bedroom to help. From my place in the living room, I began to become concerned as they had been in her room longer than usual and I could hear my father’s voice p...

Spiritualism teaches that a human is a “triune being,” composed of physical body, soul, and spirit. We are more than just a person walking around on Earth for maybe 80 years; we are eternal beings, and a new life awaits us in the Spirit World when the physical body dies.

The realization that we are eternal naturally raises the question of purpose and meaning in life.

The most direct way to find the purpose of something is to ask the person who ...

The Bible is full of examples of spirit communication and mediumship. From Jacob wrestling with an angel at the ford of Jabbok, to the materialized hand that wrote on the wall in the palace at Babylon, to the phenomenon of “speaking in tongues” practiced by the apostles and other Christians, the Bible holds examples of many of the phenomena that began to strongly reoccur with the birth of Modern Spiritualism in 1848.

In fact, many eminent scientists and thinkers...

Someone asked me today if spirit communication is against the Bible. Well, if it were, then we would have to say that prayer is against the Bible, too. Since God has no physical body, he is Spirit; praying to God is the most widely practiced form of spirit communication there is. As far as the Bible goes, it both condemns spirit communication, and endorses it! So the answer to whether or not the Bible opposes spirit communication is an emphatic YES! — and an emphatic NO!

In this ...

The Morris Pratt Institute has a correspondence course for those wanting to become certified mediums. This is my essay, which was required for Lesson Six on the Spirit World:

My first thought upon concluding this chapter is that if we all really knew the beauty and joy to be found in the Spirit World, we might all want to go there – today! However, we probably also intuitively know that terminating our physical life to get to the beauty of the Spirit World is not a very good idea....