There are some people in occult history who warned against using the Ouija Board, who said: "This is a dangerous door to the unconscious. Don't approach this thing."

Everybody has different stories about where I came from. Nobody really knows.

All the quantum physics experiments have occurred chiefly on the atomic scale and we are taught to believe that nature's laws are consistent.

I think spiritualism, mesmerism, the mental healing movement, provided some people with the most meaningful experiences of their lives.

People need doorways to explore universal religious and ethical ideas.

Once the social and spiritual opening was created for women in the form of spiritualism, suddenly ambitious women who wanted to participate in the culture had a kind of a voice.

Even back in its colonial days, America developed a reputation as a safe harbor for people with unusual or radical religious beliefs.

Science, as it reaches the public mind, has both served to discredit and unintentionally reaffirmed mystical ideas.

I think therapeutic spirituality has largely been a help in the modern world. So the fact that people can approach religion with practical needs.

When spiritualism dawned, suddenly women who wanted to engage in the civic and religious and political culture were becoming transmediums.

Women had no clerical role anywhere in the Western world, period.

The day she was born, her grandfather made her a ring of silver and a polished stone, because he loved her already.

Be a person that radiates happiness with her every movement and enlightens every place she goes with her smile.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won.

I spent the first 18 years of my life in the pastoral town of Vernal, Utah, in the shadows of the Book Cliffs and the Uinta Mountains.

We need to go inward instead of outward, and learn to trust our own inner guide, preserving our identity and finding the answers from within.

Sage advice? If you're drunk, stay away from the phone. You can't get the answering machine message back.

Towns change; they grow or diminish, but hometowns remain as we left them.

Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.

I always tend to favor the newer idea.