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How many of us calling ourselves Spiritualists, and criticising the quality of many of today’s mediums, really think about the true meaning of Spiritualism and being a Spiritualist? Have we stopped to ask ourselves why, after over 150 years, relatively few people take us seriously or have any respect for the movement? Is it perhaps that so many calling themselves Spiritualists have their attention focused on the theatrical aspect of Spiritualism?

Mediums, physical or mental, are not Spiritualism and are not necessarily Spiritualists. For Spiritualism to take a step forward in this world of fast-failing religions, we must take the subject more seriously. We must not just accept our Seven Principles and recite them by rote as we do the Lord’s Prayer, more to confirm that we remember than to heed them. We must adopt them and live by them. Because they apparently mean so little to most of us, and for that reason have little influence on our conduct in life, we are not recognised as Spiritualists.