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What does spiritualism mean?

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Noun
  1. A philosophic doctrine, opposing materialism, that claims transcendency of the divine being, the altogether spiritual character of reality and the value of inwardness of consciousness.
  2. A belief that the dead communicate with the living, especially through a medium. Used in a broader sense than spiritism/Kardecism, in which followers specifically believe in Allan Kardec's Spiritist Codification, a series of books that contain additional moral and other teachings.
  3. The quality or state of being spiritual.
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Amongst the aspects of hypnotism and spiritualism he chose to focus upon was the psychological make-up of mediums.
I've been involved in the Gaia Foundation for the last 14 years, working in the area of deep ecology, spiritualism and environmental activism.
Thus, a basic spiritualism and an African-based religious foundation merged in creating and popularizing the use of American Indian imagery.
Does Brancusi come closer to the spiritualism of the Shaker society or to the witticism of Duchamp and Dada?
Darwin, however, was also a late arrival but disliked religiosity and spiritualism.
A somnambulatory spiritualism carries the merchant to the mart, who is inclining a dreamy ear to the preacher's inventory of the treasures above.

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