What is a spiritual séance?
Q: What is a spiritual séance?
A: A spiritual séance is a meeting at which people, including a medium, attempt to contact a ghost and communicate with it.
Q: Do participants in a séance need to be seated?
A: No, participants in a séance need not be seated.
Q: Who wrote one of the earliest books on spiritual séances and when was it published?
A: The book is called "Communitation With the Other Side" by George, First Baron Lyttelton, and it was published in England in 1760.
Q: Have any notable people attended spiritual séances and believed in them?
A: Yes, some notable people who attended spiritual séances and believed in them include United States President Abraham Lincoln and his wife Mary Todd Lincoln, the social reformer Robert Owen, and the journalist and pacifist William Thomas Stead.
Q: Have any scientists conducted a search for real séances and believed in them?
A: Yes, some scientists who have conducted a search for real séances and believed in them include the evolutionary biologist Alfred Russel Wallace, the inventor of telephone Alexander Graham Bell, and the inventor of television technology John Logie Baird.
Q: Who did John Logie Baird claim to have contacted through a séance?
A: John Logie Baird claimed to have contacted the spirit of the inventor Thomas Edison through a séance.
Q: What is the purpose of a spiritual séance?
A: The purpose of a spiritual séance is to attempt to contact a ghost and communicate with it.
