Neospiritism

An adaptation of Kardecist spiritism (communication with spirits, reincarnation, mediumship) to current scientific knowledge. It seeks to ground mediumistic phenomena in terms of speculative quantum physics, transpersonal psychology, neuroscience, and experimental parapsychology. Neospiritism discards classical supernatural elements and proposes that “spirits” would be patterns of quantum information, consciousness fields, or mnemonic residues in the environment. It uses concepts such as non‑local consciousness (drawn from certain interpretations of quantum mechanics) and statistical correlations in mediumship experiments. The mainstream scientific community rejects most of these claims as pseudoscience, but the movement has grown in secular spirituality and consciousness studies circles.

Neospiritism Example: “A neospiritist argued that Chico Xavier’s mediumship accessed information stored in brain morphic fields. The skeptic replied: ‘Where’s the experimental replication? That’s spiritism in a lab coat – you’re just renaming wishful thinking.’ The neospiritist counter‑replies: ‘The same dismissal was once aimed at hypnosis and non‑local entanglement. Replication requires looking; your refusal is dogma, not science.’”

Neospiritism by Abzu Land May 27, 2026