spiritualism

  1. Noun.  A philosophic doctrine, opposing materialism, that claims transcendency of the divine being, the altogether spiritual character of reality and the value of inwardness of consciousness.
  2. Noun.  A belief that the dead communicate with the living through a medium having special powers.

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