The foundation of Spiritualism is derived from all religions. Spiritualism centralized around the belief that the personality of a person, after death, is continued on into a new spiritual body. Spiritualists communicate with the deceased by the means of mediumship. There is no hell, eternal damnation, last judgment, or resurrection of the physical body in Spiritualism. Spiritualists identify with some forms of primitive Christian beliefs. They believe that Jesus was a master medium and a healer (Lewis, 1995; www.anomalyinfo.com).

Margarett and Catharine Fox started spiritualism in 1848. Their house, in Hydesville New York, was plagued by strange noises, which was attributed to a ghost. The Fox sisters noticed that if they clapped the ghost would respond with rapping noises. Pretty soon the rapping system developed raps for yes, no, and the alphabet. The spirit then identified itself as a man murdered by a former resident of the house...