What is Spiritualism?
Spiritualism is a religion, a science and a philosophy. We believe in the existence of God although our ideas about God are not fixed. We believe that all mankind should live in harmonious brotherhood and we believe that a part of man, his soul or spirit, exists for eternity. These concepts are common to most religions, however in Spiritualism we try to give people evidence that the soul exists and that after death it continues on into another realm, in the spirit-world.
Spiritualism doesn’t tell you what you should believe or how you should interpret religious philosophy. We have no books that must be followed, we have no preachers whose word must be obeyed. As a guideline to our religious thinking we have our Seven Principles, but exactly what these mean and how they can be applied to our lives is up to the individual.
The purpose for our lives and how we should live them is not dictated by Spiritualism. We have an individual flexible concept of God and beliefs among Spiritualists are often different. How we understand the world and spiritual matters depends upon our individual experience and Knowledge.
For all of history mankind has known of and experienced some form of communication with a spirit-world. Spiritual beings, or angels, have visited mankind on many occasional to give knowledge, wisdom and guidance. During sleep many people have experienced vivid dreams where spirit people have made their presence known, renewed their bonds of affection and given information.
