spirits & spiritualism

In the early to mid 1990s I had my first (and so far only) visit to a spiritualist church. I’d called with a friend to see one of his elderly friends and she said she was going to the church that evening as there was a guest medium appearing who she wanted to see. Somehow we got persuaded to...

My maternal family used to amuse themselves at times by table tapping (or table raising, actually). That is, they would sit at a card table, place their hands on it, and command the table to rise. Story goes that once they got the table nearly to the ceiling! However, I didn't see that, and...