"What religious system of what philosophy could so conclusively bring comfort to the mourner or hope to the distressed, as... Spiritualism]...and what better purpose could any journal serve than to extend the knowledge-not merely belief -that there is a persistence of human personality beyond Death's portals?" These were the words of the British spiritualist newspaper, "Light" in 1919 after five devastating years of WWI's death and destruction. The peculiar religious movement of spiritualism in England from the 1880s to the mid 1930s sought to give evidence to the existence of life after...