Spiritualism (and Mysticism)

Related keyterms: the absolute, the afterlife, apparitions, automatic writing, awakening, comparative religion, eastern philosophy, esotericism, the Fourth Way (The Work), Gurdjieff movements, guru, higher consciousness (heightened spiritual awareness), higher self, illumination, inner attention, insight, karma, mesmerism, the New Age, the occult, purification (purgation), Society for Psychical Research (SPR), the occult, paranormal phenomena, radical unity, reincarnation, séance, self-awareness, self-development, spirit mediums, spiritual evolution, telepathy, Theosophical Society, theosophy, trances, transcendence, unselfing, the way (path)

Related figures: Annie Besant (1847-1933), Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891), G. I. Gurdjieff (1866-1949), Harry Houdini (aka Ehrich Weiss: 1874-1926), Frederic Meyers (1843-1901), A. R. Orage (1873-1934), P. D. Ouspensky (1878-1947), Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925)