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Religious seance Credit: by Photocapy/Flickr

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said in her memoir “My Beloved World” that her grandmother used to conduct séances and wanted her to become a mystic. She told Time magazine in the Feb. 11 issue that she has no regrets that her mother ruled out such a career option. “I don’t meddle with what I don’t understand and I don’t question other people’s beliefs,” Sotomayor told Time.

Do you believe that it’s possible to contact people who have died through seances? If so, do you think it’s spiritually OK to do so? Why or why not?

We asked our panelists.

Is it OK to try to contact the dead?

Topics: Ethics, Death & Dying
Beliefs: Interfaith
Tags: contacting the dead, contacting the dead and ethics, my beloved world, religious seance, seance, supreme court justice sonia sotomayor, supreme court justice sonia sotomayor and contacting the dead

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No, it’s not OK to contact the dead

God's word is clear that we are not to engage in "necromancy."
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I would never tell someone they couldn’t try to contact the dead

I have always found restrictive all the “rules” that are imposed by different religions.It would be interesting to combine all of the rules of all of the religions and see what action the individual is able to make on their own.
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When one dies, a connection can remain

I tend to think most people who hold seances and channel famous people are quacks. However, I believe that there is much that we do not (yet) understand about our body — soul connection.
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God forbids necromancy

The Christian bible forbids necromancy, astrology and various forms of occult divination as practices that cultivate trust in dark and adversarial powers.
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Comments

  1. I’m with you Eric.  The Bible warns against this practice, it is another one of those pesky “rules” that are there for our own good and protection.  Satan’s forte is deception and those relatives that are supposedly speaking, I believe, are rather demons, fallen angels, hoping to draw those who want spirituality without Christ away from Him.

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