National Spiritualist, The.
Official Publication of the National Spiritualist Association [of America / of Churches, U.S.A.].
The Best in Spiritualism
1919
Monthly, bimonthly
Chicago, IL; from 1938 in Cassadaga, FL; then Indianapolis, IN, Phoenix, AZ, Mount Dora, FL.
Language: English.
Editor: George Warne, founder and editor; James Abbott; Mary Ridpath Mann, Joseph P. Whitwell.
Publisher: National Spiritualists' Association of the U.S.A.; Stow Memorial Foundation; Summit Publications.
Succeeded by: Summit of Spiritual Understanding (1963-1974)-->The National Spiritualist (1974-1978)-->NSAC Summit of Spiritual Understanding (1979-1981 )-->The National Spiritualist Summit (1981-present)
1/1, January 1919-current.
16 pp. (varies), $1.00 a year.

From 1963 to 1974 this was called the Summit of Spiritual Understanding; from 1974 to 1978 the National Spiritualist; from 1979 to 1981 the National Spiritualist Summit of Spiritual Understanding; and from 1981 to the present the National Spiritualist Summit. This the organ of the dominant American spiritualist organization, the National Spiritualists Association [of Churches]. Beginning in 1938 this was published in Cassadaga, Florida, then after 1979 in Indianapolis, Indiana, and currently in Phoenix, Arizona. The journal mirrors the fortunes of spiritualism as a movement over almost a century. The journal's content reflects the progression of the movement, already well under way when the journal began, from the vehicle for making known to the world the wonderful reality of communications from beyond the grave, to an inner-directed house-organ for a declining, minor American sect. The journal's lists of lecturers, mediums, churches and associations provide an invaluable resource for the study of spiritualism in the period. The NSAC also publishes the Spotlight (1945-) and NSAC News.