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Heart and Soul: Spiritualism and the soul

Spiritualism and the Soul

23/09/2022 GMT

Spiritualism and the soul

BBC World Service - Heart and Soul, Spiritualism and the soul

Saskia Masaun talks to mediums as she delves deeper into her spiritualist faith

Saskia Masaun talks to mediums and healers as she delves deeper into the teachings of her spiritualist faith.

Twenty-one-year-old journalism graduate, Saskia Masaun has been attending meditation, mediumship and healing classes at the Spiritualists National Union (SNU) Church in Wolverhampton, UK, since she was 16, alongside her spiritualist mother.  

Saskia explains how her faith, which includes connecting with the spirit world through mediums and a seven principle philosophy described as a ‘guideline for life’, is helping her navigate her journey as she sets out on her career. She speaks to Spiritualist leaders and attends the medium’s training college, where recruits are taught the art of communicating with the dead.  

She talks to Karin Huber, a full time medium in Germany, and Asha, a healer who was brought up as a Hindu in the British multicultural city where they live.  From its beginnings, founded in the 1840s in the US, spiritualism has established itself in the UK through its teachings on mediumship, healing and a philosophy which centres the soul through developing self-awareness.  

Presenter: Saskia Masaun
Producer: Dylan Hayward and Nina Robinson

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