The Spiritualist Movement in its spread had touched many lives, including the lives of many famous people.

Queen Victoria had a hand servant named John Brown who was reportedly a medium. They say he enabled the widow queen to communicate with her beloved Albert.

At the same time, Robert James Lees was said to be receiving spirit messages from Prince Albert. This was when President Abraham Lincoln started taking an interest into spiritualism.

Colonel Simon F. Kase writes of his encounters in séance with Lincoln in a book entitled, “The Emancipation Proclamation, How, and By Whom It was Given to President Lincoln in 1861”. When Kase arrived at the séance, he reports seeing President Lincoln and his lady there. A young teenage girl approached the president with her eyes closed in trance. She argued with the president that the Civil War would not end till slavery was abolished because God destined that all men be free. As soon as the girl came out of trance, she ran off frightened to think that she had been talking to the president.

Mrs. Miller, the daughter of the hostess Mrs. Laurie commenced playing the piano with her eyes closed. As she played, the piano raised off the floor as it was said to have done whenever the girl played it. Kase asked if he might sit on the piano to verify it leaving the ground. The medium said, “yes, you and as many more as see proper may get on it.” Kase, Judge Wattels and two soldiers accompanying the president did so, as the piano still raised at least four inches off the ground. They all got off due to it not being an easy ride for them.

Through the years, the spiritualist movement influenced many other famous people with the concept of talking with lost loved ones. Many television shows are influenced today by this phenomenon. People are opening more to the concept of spiritualism, and we as spiritualist need to grow with the times. It is in our hands now to explore the consciousness of Spiritualism, and how we can revive the movement of spirit.

Our beliefs are a beautiful thing that can be more splendid if we only work to make it happen…