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 Psychic Readings by Kathleen

 February 2, 2010

“Spiritualism has inaugurated the era of woman,” Mary Davis proclaimed in the 1860’s.  She recalled the common birth date of the new spiritual message and call for women’s rights in 1848.  Spiritualist conventions pronounced the, “Emancipation of women from all legal and social disabilities.” Consistently those who assumed the most radical positions on women’s rights became Spiritualists.  Not all feminists were Spiritualists but all Spiritualists advocated strenuously for women’s equal rights.  Women were equal to men within Spiritualist practice, polity and ideology by adhering to a form of spiritual practice in which truth revealed itself to individuals without recourse to external authority.  In the mid 19th century US, there were eleven million spiritualists in a population of twenty five million!

In manner of dress, the right to speak in public forums, to own their own money, to be spiritual leaders, Spiritualism was at the helm.  In Spiritualism the place of worship was relocated to the home from the church or temple whereby spirit circles gathered around parlour and kitchen tables.  When it was taboo and in some cases illegal for a woman to speak out in church or in any public arena, trance mediums were mounting platforms and speaking to crowds of thousands.

Spiritualism taught women to exercise the self-healing properties of her own nature and develop more egalitarian relationships with her medical care provider.  Spiritualist groups were creating underground railways to protect women from asylum commitments designed to stop a woman from leaving abusive marriages.  Medicine and clergy alike were duplicitous in forcing vulnerable mediums into asylums and prisons.  Gifted mediums were murdered continuing the witch-burning tradition well into the early twentieth century.  The famous Comstock book burnings of the early 20th century destroyed thousands of books, articles, and reports proving spirit return.

Spiritualists declared, as one advocate put it, that, “woman’s freedom is the world’s redemption.”  The seeds of modernism, psychoanalysis, communications, human rights, longevity were all planted and nurtured from the unseen to the seen world from the mid-1800’s onward.  All spiritual evolutions have had their heralds who point the way in re-membering and call the flock home to the true message.  One that is dynamic, in a temple that is our heart, and to its expression in the actions we chose to take.  Whenever you embrace the opportunity to speak out loud what is in your heart, you are honouring those who risked everything more than a century ago to clear the path for equality of expression, of access to knowledge and the right to personal agency in your every day lives.  Be confident that this world has had as many enlightened spiritual guides and teachers who were female and re-member them in your meditations and your prayers over this coming month when everywhere you look you will be encouraged to celebrate the presence of love in your life.

February Events

February 13th & 14th The Total Woman Show.  Bingeman Park, Kitchener.  I will be doing short readings at a booth again this year.  This is a delicious show for women!  I hope to see you there.

Quote:

“Woman’s Era is here; her right to half the knowledge of the universe, as well as half of the opportunities of living, is daily receiving more and more evidence, because of her ability to demonstrate that she is that other half of the intelligence that man has failed to reveal.”

Psychosophy by Mrs. Cora Richmond 1888.

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