Religion is going through a silent crisis, likely a transformative one. The word “religion” has been derived from the latin verb “re-ligare”, which means to “re-connect” or “re-bind”. The term originally implied reconnecting or rebinding with “God”.

Sigmund Freud told Carl Jung it was important to keep sexuality at the center of the human psyche, rather than anything spiritualist. By Livia Gershon.

Huxley’s notion of ‘supernaturalism’ as the anti-figure to his agnostic ‘scientific naturalism’ was a mix of certain theological and popular notions of revelation as infallible divine inspiration on the one hand, and miracles as phenomena that constituted violations of natural law by gods and other ‘supernatural’ beings on the other. By Andreas Sommer.

A new buzzkilling study suggests that the Ouija board is probably not summoning dead people. Slumber parties are ruined. Your gateway to the spiritual realm has closed. Your powers of divination are pure delusion. You are a muggle. By Whitney Kimball.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Spiritualism. By John Rabon.

Georgiana Houghton claimed her artistic talent came from the dead. By Paul Gallagher.

How spiritualists of the 19th century forged a lasting association between higher dimensions and the occult world. By Paul Halpern.

At the end of the 19th century, inspired by radical advances in technology, physicists asserted the reality of invisible worlds — an idea through which they sought to address not only psychic phenomena such as telepathy, but also spiritual questions around the soul and immortality. Philip Ball explores this fascinating history, and how in this turn to the unseen in the face of mystery there exists a parallel to quantum physics today.

Dr. Joseph Rhine believed that psychic powers could be studied—and that he had the tools to do it. By Linda Rodriguez McRobbie,

In 1872, Victoria Woodhull was the first woman candidate for president of the United States. She was a former prostitute with a former slave—Frederick Douglass—as her running mate. Oh, and Woodhull was also a clairvoyant, By Jessa Crispin.

Tech and Silicon Valley Turn to Mystics for Advice. By Jeremy Lybarger.

Santa Muerte is a rapidly growing figure in the Southwest. A spiritual icon that is a combination of Catholicism, Santeria & Voodoo, her followers are strongly superstitious. Now gaining in popularity, it seems everyone will have heard of her in short order. Check out this dynamic character with my informational article first published last Halloween.