Using language borrowed from today's more money-centric New Age spiritualists, as well as the get-rich-quick books of the early 1900s "New Thought Movement" on which these pyramid schemes are based (such as Elizabeth Towne's The Science of Getting Rich or Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich), they encouraged their mostly black audience to get on the ladder to success by purchasing educational DVDs and wealth-building "systems."— Renegade Futurist
[T] here are two kinds of teachers of the Morality of Death: the mystics of spirit and the mystics of muscle, whom you call the spiritualists and the materialists, those who believe in consciousness without existence and those who believe in existence without consciousness.— The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
The book also portrayed the master escape artist and magician as a debunker of con artists who pretended to be spiritualists, leading to the controversial theory that Houdini's death was caused by the spiritual movement as payback.
Those spiritualists are always seeing things ENOCH ARDEN Yes, it was the eternal triangle, Only they didn't call it that then.— The Book of Humorous Verse

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