Sunday, April 11, 2010

Beliefs and Practices of Spiritism 
The Five Points of Spiritism

1. There is a God, defined as "The Supreme Intelligence and Primary Cause of everything";
  
2. There are Spirits, all of whom are created simple and ignorant, but owning the power to gradually perfect themselves;

3. The natural method of this perfection process is reincarnation, through which the Spirit faces countless different situations, problems and obstacles, and needs to learn how to deal with them;

4. As part of Nature, Spirits can naturally communicate with living people, as well as interfere in their lives;

5. Many planets in the universe are inhabited.

Many of the practices include:
 -Clairvoyance

The term Clairvoyance (from 17th century French with clair meaning "clear" and voyance meaning "vision") is used to refer to the ability to gain information about an object, person, location or physical event through means other than the known human senses,[1][2] a form of extra-sensory perception. A person said to have the ability of clairvoyance is referred to as a clairvoyant ("one who sees clearly"). Claims for the existence of paranormal and psychic abilities such as clairvoyance are highly controversial. Parapsychology explores this possibility, but the existence of the paranormal is not accepted by the scientific community.

- Clairsentience (touching)

In the field of parapsychology, clairsentience is a form of extra-sensory perception wherein a person acquires psychic knowledge primarily by means of touch. The word is from the Latin clarus, “clear,” and sentiens, derived from sentire, “to feel”.
In addition to parapsychology, the term also plays a role in some religions. For example: clairsentience is one of the six human special functions mentioned or recorded in Buddhism. It is an ability that can be obtained at advanced meditation level. Generally the term refers to a person who can feel the vibration of other people. There are many different degrees of clairsentience ranging from the perception of diseases of other people to the thoughts or emotions of other people.

- Clairaudience (hearing/listening)

In the field of parapsychology, clairaudience [from late 17th century French clair (clear) & audience (hearing)] is a form of extra-sensory perception wherein a person acquires information by paranormal auditory means. Clairaudience is essentially the ability to hear in a paranormal manner, as opposed to paranormal seeing (clairvoyance) and feeling (clairsentience).  Clairaudience may refer not to actual perception of sound, but may instead indicate impressions of the "inner mental ear" similar to the way many people think words without having auditory impressions. But it may also refer to actual perception of sounds such as voices, tones, or noises which are not apparent to other humans or to recording equipment. For instance, a clairaudient person might claim to hear the voices or thoughts of the spirits of persons who are deceased. Clairaudience may be positively distinguished from the voices heard by the mentally ill when it reveals information unavailable to the clairaudient person by normal means (including cold reading or other magic tricks), and thus may be termed "psychic" or paranormal

- Claircognizance (knowing)

In the field of parapsychology, claircognizance [presumably from late 17th century French clair (clear) & cognizance. It is a form of extra-sensory perception wherein a person acquires psychic knowledge primarily by means of intrinsic knowledge. It is the ability to know something without a physical explanation why you know it. like the concept of mediums.

- Astral projection (or astral travel)


Is an esoteric interpretation of a type of out-of-body experience that assumes the existence of an "astral body" separate from the physical body and capable of traveling outside it. Astral projection is experienced as being "out of the body". Unlike dreaming or near death experiences, astral projection may sometimes be practised deliberately as well as occurring spontaneously.

The idea of astral travel is rooted in common worldwide religious accounts of the afterlife  in which the soul's journey or "ascent" is described in such terms as "an...out-of body experience, wherein the spiritual traveller leaves the physical body and travels in his/her subtle body (or dreambody or astral body) into ‘higher’ realms."Though there is little evidence for astral projection beyond subjective personal accounts of the experience, belief  only on the existence of an "astral" body and plane.

- Psychokinesis


The term psychokinesis (from  "psyche", meaning mind, soul, heart, or breath; and , "kinesis", meaning motion; literally "movement from the mind"), also known as telekinesis  literally "distant-movement"), sometimes abbreviated PK and TK respectively, is a term coined by publisher Henry Holt  to refer to the direct influence of mind on a physical system that cannot be entirely accounted for by the mediation of any known physical energy. Examples of psychokinesis could include distorting or moving an object,and influencing the output of a random number generator.

- Telepathy

Telepathy meaning "distant" and "to be affected by", refers to the transfer of information on thoughts or feelings between individuals by means other than the five senses. The term was coined in 1882 by the classical scholar Fredric W. H. Myers, a founder of the Society for Psychical Research, specifically to replace the earlier expression thought-transference.  A person who is able to make use of telepathy is said to be able to read the thoughts and stored information in the brain of others. Telepathy, along with psychokinesis forms the main branches of parapsychological research, and many studies seeking to detect, understand, utilize telepathy have been done within the field.

This is not an exclusive list of Spirititist practices but it does give the reader an understanding of the practices which God has said in His Word that are an abomination to him because they connect to a spiritual realm outside of Christ. Learn to be aware how often you see these practices being portrayed on television and through films and popularized. The enemy wants us to become fascinated by the occult so that we will begin to tinker with darkness and walk away from God's marvelous light.

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