Spirit world (Spiritualism)
The spirit world, according to spiritualism, is the world or realm inhabited by spirits, both good or evil of various spiritual manifestations. This spirit world is regarded as an external environment for spirits.[1] The Spiritualism religious movement in the nineteenth century espoused a belief in an afterlife where individual's awareness persists beyond death.[2] Although independent from one another, both the spirit world and the physical world are in constant interaction. Through séances, trances, and other forms of mediumship these worlds can consciously communicate with each other.[3][4]
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According to the book Laws of Spirit World, the spirit world consists of seven realms, the lowest being Hell and the highest being Heaven. Each soul progresses from the lowest to higher realms based on what they learned from their karmic lessons.
History
By the mid-19th century most Spiritualist writers concurred that the spirit world was of "tangible substance" and a place consisting of "spheres" or "zones".[5][6] Although specific details differed, the construct suggested organization and centralization.[7] An 18th-century writer, Emanuel Swedenborg, influenced Spiritualist views of the spirit world. He described a series of concentric spheres each including a hierarchical organization of spirits in a setting more earth-like than theocentric.[8] The spheres become gradually more illuminated and celestial. Spiritualists added a concept of limitlessness, or infinity to these spheres.[9] Furthermore, it was defined that Laws initiated by God apply to earth as well as the spirit world.[10]
Another common Spiritualist conception was that the spirit world is inherently good and is related to
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See also
- Afterlife
- Astral plane
- Celtic Otherworld
- Exorcism
- Ghost
- Hell
- Heaven
- List of death deities
- Paradise
- Shamanism
- Soul flight
- Spirit possession
- Spirit photography
- The Dreaming
- Underworld/Netherworld
References
- ISBN 1-4067-0162-9.
- ISBN 0810394898.
- ^ Hill, p.44
- ISBN 0-7661-9100-1.
- ^ Edmonds, John W; Dexter, George T (1853). Spiritualism. New York: Partridge & Brittan Publishers. p. 262.
- ^ Hill, p.36
- ISBN 0-253-33315-6.
- ^ Carrol, p.17
- ^ Edmonds, p.123
- ^ Edmonds, p.136
- ^ Hill, p.168
- ^ Edmonds, p.143
- ^ Hill, p.208
- ^ Colville, pp.268–270
- ^ Edmonds, p.104
- ^ Edmonds, p.345