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

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.

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."

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.

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

If I let myself love you, I won't throw myself in front of her. I'll throw myself in front of you.

It is not enough to speak but to speak truth

I daresay one good concert justifies a week of satisfaction at home.

This ship is built to fight. You had better know how.

I have never been disabled in my dreams.

What advertising dum-dum signed up Ilie Nastase to sell a resort?! Who'd want to go where he's at?

Direct religious experience is threatening to organized religion, which often mediates it with a rabbi or priest.

Tales of heroes end in bliss.

Jesse has a new dog. You may have noticed that his former pets have been peculiarly unfortunate. When this dog dies every employee in the White House will be at once discharged.

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.