Thomas, a renowned rationalist, confessed a fascination with spiritualism.

托马斯是一位著名的理主义者，却也承认自己对主义很着迷。

He had a very strong emotional belief in spiritualism and often visited fraudulent mediums.

他对论有着非常强烈的情感信仰，经常拜访诈骗灵媒。

A heavy tax on words over four syllables, as heterodoxy, spontaneity, spiritualism, spuriosity, etc.

对超过四个音节的词征收重税，如异端、自发、主义、虚假等。

Spiritualism was very popular after World War I, in the 1920s.

招魂术在第一次世界大战后的 1920 年代非常流行。

Jencken, however, believed in spiritualism and in Catherine's powers.

然而，詹肯相信招魂术凯瑟琳的力量。

Including high-profile people, like Mary Todd Lincoln who turned to spiritualism to help process the death of her son Willie, in 1862.

包括一些知名人士，比如玛丽·托德·肯，她在1862年求助于灵媒来帮助她面对自己的儿子威利之死。

That's how much she believed in Spiritualism and in her own connection to the spirit world.

这就是她对招魂术以及她自己与精神世界的联系的信仰程度。

When Houdini and Conan Doyle met, Sir Arthur had recently become interested in a new movement called " Spiritualism."

当胡迪尼道尔相遇时， 亚瑟爵士最近对一种叫做“招魂术” 的新运动产生了兴趣。

Many of you are probably familiar with the general idea of " spiritualism."

你们中的许多人可能都熟悉“招魂术” 的一般概念。

And so it went on, until I found myself meditating on cheese, or spiritualism, or the Rocky Mountains—but no sleep!

如此继续下去，直到我发现自己沉浸在奶酪、招魂术落基山脉的遐想之中——但仍没有睡意！

Including one about how photography's rise in the mid-1800s coincided with a new religious movement gaining ground in the US and Europe: Spiritualism.

灵论。

Identified with, but he had a really hard time believing in spiritualism in the same way and for very, very good reason.

认同，但他真的很难以同样的方式并且有非常非常充分的理由相信招魂术。

I am as indifferent to the facts or fancies of spiritualism as I am, for instance, to the latest mechanical application of electricity.

我对招魂术的事实或幻想漠不关，例如，对最新的机械电力应用漠不关。

Usually there is a leader of the cult, and the sisters were in a sense a leader of this spiritualism cult.

通常邪教都有一个领袖，姐妹俩在某种意义上就是这个招魂术的领袖。

Even though Margaret said the whole thing was fake, people continued to believe in spiritualism, and many continue to believe it to this day.

尽管玛格丽特说整件事都是假的， 但人们仍然相信招魂术，许多人至今仍相信它。

It's not something unique to the United States, but today I want to talk about the spiritualism movement here in the U.S., particularly during the nineteenth century.

这不是美国独有的东西， 但今天我想谈谈美国这里的招魂术运动，特别是在十九世纪。

Spiritualism in the United States began in the late 1840s with two sisters in New York, Margaret and Catherine Fox – no relation to Megan Fox, the actress.

美国的招魂术始于 1840 年代末，纽约的两姐妹玛格丽特凯瑟琳·福克斯——与女演员梅根·福克斯无关。

" Spiritualism" is the belief that people who have died can talk to people who are still alive using a person with special powers, or through a person with special powers.

“招魂术”是这样一种信念，即死者可以使用具有特殊能力的人或通过具有特殊能力的人与还活着的人交谈。

Members of the spiritualism cult, of course, became very angry with Margaret and said that she was lying now because she needed the money, or perhaps because she was drinking too much.

当然，招魂术的成员对玛格丽特非常生气，说她现在撒谎是因为她需要钱， 或者可能是因为她喝多了。