Spiritualist History

Knockoff

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I was reading how early spiritualist performers preceded and evolved about the same time the modern media did. Spiritualist promoted, advertised, and published in the new print forms attracting audiences and participants. Events were open to whatever response people had; whether pious, humored, skeptical or anything else. The doubts of authenticity of seances was part of what worked to attract people and all were welcome. Modern media, i.e. entertainment, news etc developed using the same promotional methods & both to put forward a spectacular attraction involving performances of some kind. Although many Spiritualist were debunked there isn't anything phony about altered states of mind which are interesting in itself. I haven't at this time produced any of my own art inspired by any of this. Maybe some to follow.
 
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