The word "spiritualism" has Latin roots and comes from the Latin spiritus, which means "soul, spirit". Engaging in spiritualism is communicating with deceased people and inhabitants of the other world. The fashion for seances goes away and then returns again. According to the well-known Russian researcher of anomalous phenomena, Yuri Alexandrovich Fomin, mass practice of spiritualism in Russia is beginning to take on a threatening character.
Common misconceptions
Many fans of communication with unknown forces argue that there is nothing wrong with spiritualism. They believe that it is the souls of those whom they summon that come to them. They think they are getting reliable answers to their questions about the future, but they are not. Spiritualism is very dangerous, and it is still not recommended to practice it.
It is known that there are many ways to establish communication with the spirit world. This can be a special board for seance sessions or a porcelain saucer that moves along a piece of paper with numbers and letters. You can communicate with the departed through a medium or a special round table. There are actually enough ways.
In some inexplicable way, the saucer begins to move, the table rises into the air, and the medium begins to speak in a strange voice. Some are skeptical about these rituals, while others sincerely believe that they are communicating with the dead.
At first glance, practicing spiritualism looks very harmless, but not everything is as simple as it seems to an inexperienced layman.
Not the ones who are called
Pushkin is our everything, therefore, almost 100% of all those who at least once took part in spiritualistic seances evoked the spirit of this great Russian poet. For some reason, they love to summon poets in Russia: Yesenin, Akhmatova, Lermontov and Vysotsky. These are the real leaders of this kind of hit parade.
People sincerely believe that they are talking with the geniuses of Russian poetry, but this is not so. During spiritualistic seances, usually not the souls of dead people come to people, but some dark entities that live in the lower astral layers. These spirits cannot predict the future. They come and go as they please, and not at the behest of the people participating in the seance.
There is a danger that the summoned entity will remain in the room at the end of the session. There are cases when, after a seance, a poltergeist settled in the house in which the seance took place. It turns out that later in the room where the seance was held, it will be necessary to call the priest so that he consecrated the room and expelled the annoying guest.
False predictions
Many official religions deny and prohibit practicing spiritualism, equating it with witchcraft and sorcery. At the same time, the church agrees that dead people can be alive. The difference is that spiritists invoke the spirit on their own, without permission, performing a witchcraft rite, and when the souls of the departed come by themselves, then it is the will of God.
Often, predictions received during communication with the world of the dead are false, and sometimes even absurd. Those spirits who come to the call of ordinary people do not know our future. Session participants get exactly the answers they want to hear. Of course, sometimes surprising coincidences happen, but these are only isolated cases. Basically, the summoned entities begin to swear and insult the participants in the session, sometimes predicting their imminent death.
Danger to life and health
At the beginning of the XX century, the chief editor and publisher of the popular journal "Spiritualist" V. P. Bykov, who later became disillusioned with spiritualism, cites many cases when the passion for communication with otherworldly forces was pumped extremely deplorably.
For example, in 1910 V. E. Yakunichev, who was a member of many spiritualistic circles. He poisoned himself with potassium cyanide. At one time, this young man was even a novice of the Moscow Chudov Monastery.
In 1911, a student at Moscow University, who had been practicing spiritualism for many years, tried to poison himself. In the same year, one of the most famous Moscow spiritualists died, a certain V., who persistently refused treatment. She seemed to deliberately try to die as soon as possible.
Bykov cites many cases when lovers of spiritualism died prematurely.
On the Internet, you can also find many scary stories about how misfortunes literally fell upon people after spiritualistic séances.
So is it worth risking your health, well-being and even your life for the sake of some dubious entertainment? Everyone decides for himself. Someone draws conclusions based on experience, some like to check everything for themselves.
