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Santa was a Shaman

Allow me to add this as a historical footnote to my end of class essay on Defining Spirituality.

Also, allow me to add three corrections to my essay; para 4 line 3 'moments' should have single quotes on both sides; para 4 line 4 should
be 'sprung up' not 'up sprung'; para 4 line 8 should be 'In' not 'I'.

Finally, I know that the class referred to Spiritualism and I, instead, referred to Spirituality.  Because, it is my understanding that
Spiritualism refers to that group that holds "seances' for contacting the dead.  Last century both Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini
spent years trying to find a genuine 'medium' only to discover that every one that they contacted was a fraud.

Houdini was  especially motivated to find someone genuine.  He and his mother were extraordinarily close and after she  

passed he was distraught and desperately wished to contact her.  It never happened.

Before Houdini passed he made a pact with his wife, that if it were at all possible, he would attempt to contact her every Halloween night.
 

She tried for many years without success.

On the other hand, there are many accounts of soldiers appearing to
loved ones at the moment of their death (their local time) and then
disappearing.  These occurrences have been reported during every one of
our wars right up to current time.

I am convinced that we continue after our passing. Never the less, the
methods of "Spiritualism" are highly questionable, and there was no
reference to those types of activities in the class.

Blessings on this most Ancient of Holy Solstice Celebrations.

Rev. Ken Thompson

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