The transmission
The Teachers
1,020 who carried the discovery — across Hermetic, Vedic, Sufi, mystic, scientific, and modern streams. Start with the essential few, or browse by family and tradition.
1,020 teachers · 42 traditions
13 teachers
Spiritualism & Spiritism
Allan Kardec
Reincarnation and moral progress through lives
1804-1869
Spiritualism & Spiritism
Emma Hardinge Britten
The Seven Principles of Spiritualism
1823-1899
Spiritualism & Spiritism
Andrew Jackson Davis
Harmonial cosmos revealed in trance
1826-1910
Spiritualism & Spiritism
Daniel Dunglas Home
Physical mediumship as demonstration
1833-1886
Spiritualism & Spiritism
The Fox Sisters
Two teenage sisters whose mysterious rappings in a Hydesville farmhouse lit the fuse of modern Spiritualism.
1833–1893
Spiritualism & Spiritism
Sir Oliver Lodge
Survival as a scientific question
1851-1940
Spiritualism & Spiritism
Leonora Piper
The trance medium as a research subject
1857-1950
Spiritualism & Spiritism
Arthur Conan Doyle
Spiritualism as a new revelation for a grieving age
1859-1930
Spiritualism & Spiritism
Eileen Garrett
The skeptical medium who funded its own testing
c. 1893-1970
Spiritualism & Spiritism
Arthur Ford
Trance mediumship and contact with the surviving dead
1896-1971
Spiritualism & Spiritism
Michael Tamura
A Japan-born clairvoyant who taught that the answers people seek already live inside their own soul.
c. 1953–2023
Spiritualism & Spiritism
James Van Praagh
A television medium who made talking to the dead feel like prime-time conversation for millions of grieving vi…
1958–present
Spiritualism & Spiritism
Matt Fraser
A young New England medium who turned reading the dead for the living into bestselling books and a televised f…
1991–present