Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The soul that rises with us, our life's Star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar:
Not in entire forgetfulness,
and not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home:
Heaven lies about us in our infancy!

Wordsworth. From Ode to the Intimations of Immortality

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I find the Philosophy part of Spiritualism has been neglected in the past. Perhaps it seems to be a 'high-brow' subject?

Anyway, these questions are the ones I get asked most on the subject, and they are usually from strangers when they find out that I am a Spiritualist.

The difficulty in starting a conversation about the philosophy of spiritualism is often anticipating argument, or seeing the subject as trying to convert the non believer - this is not our job!

We are only to act as witness to what we do know and perhaps have seen, all else is the function of the inward spirit of that person, [and all our guides and helpers.]