spiritualists
Dead communicate, they're certain
Spiritualists are people who believe the spirits of the dead can communicate with the living, typically through a medium.
The term usually refers to practitioners or adherents of spiritualism as a religious movement, which flourished in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: The spiritualists held séances every Thursday evening.
Some spiritualists claim to channel messages from the deceased; skeptics regard them as frauds or self-deluded.
Spirit communication ritual
- channelerOne who transmits spirits
- clairvoyantOne who perceives beyond senses
- mediumMiddle size or state
- psychicOne claiming supernatural perception
ectoplasm · planchette · table-tipping · apparition · trance · automatic writing · materialization · control
Apparition of the dead
- poltergeistDisruptive supernatural entity
- hauntingDisturbingly unforgettable
- apparitionVisible supernatural manifestation
- specterGhostly threatening presence
phantom · supernatural · levitation · telekinesis · manifestation · orb · cold spot · EVP
One who perceives beyond senses
- empathOne who absorbs emotions
- sensitiveEasily affected emotionally
- intuitiveKnown without reasoning
- visionaryImaginative planner of futures
psychic · premonition · sixth sense · telepathic · aura reading · precognition · remote viewing · second sight
Innermost animating essence
- heavenSky or bliss
- hellUnderworld of suffering
- purgatoryPlace of temporary suffering
- reincarnationSoul's rebirth after death
resurrection · immortality · paradise · damnation · judgment · ancestors · otherworld · crossing over
Mystical divine knowledge system
- mysticismPursuit of divine union
- esotericAccessible to few
- occultConcealed from view
- metaphysicalBeyond the material realm
transcendence · sacred · divinity · gnosis · pantheism · new age · camp meeting
séance
Spirit communication ritual
- channelerOne who transmits spirits
- clairvoyantOne who perceives beyond senses
- mediumMiddle size or state
psychic · ectoplasm · planchette · table-tipping · apparition · trance · automatic writing · materialization · control · sitter
ghost
Apparition of the dead
- poltergeistDisruptive supernatural entity
- hauntingDisturbingly unforgettable
- apparitionVisible supernatural manifestation
specter · phantom · supernatural · levitation · telekinesis · manifestation · orb · cold spot · EVP · ectoplasm
clairvoyant
One who perceives beyond senses
visionary · psychic · premonition · sixth sense · telepathic · aura reading · precognition · remote viewing · second sight · ESP
soul
Innermost animating essence
reincarnation · resurrection · immortality · paradise · damnation · judgment · ancestors · otherworld · crossing over · departed
theosophy
Mystical divine knowledge system
metaphysical · transcendence · sacred · divinity · gnosis · pantheism · new age · camp meeting
- psychicspsychic, psychics, fortune teller, clairvoyant, clairvoyants
- historical womenCleopatra, Joan of Arc, Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Victoria, Marie Curie
- believersbeliever, believers, adherent, devotee, theist
- nonbelieversatheist, atheists, agnostic, agnostics, nonbeliever
- occultistswitches, wizards, sorcerers, sorceresses, warlocks
- AnabaptistsMennonites, Amish, Hutterites, Mennonite, Menno Simons
spiritualistsmaterialists
Prioritizers of physical possessions
naturalists · mechanists · reductionists · atheists · secularists
spiritualistsempiricists
Philosophers favoring sensory knowledge
rationalists · skeptics · debunkers · freethinkers · scientists
spiritualistsskeptics
Those who doubt claims
debunkers · secularists · atheists · nonbelievers · disbelievers