What is Spiritual séance?
[[File:John Beattie Eugene Rochas seance.jpg|thumb|Séance conducted by John Beattie, Bristol, [[England]], 1872]] '''Spiritual séance''' or, simply, '''Séance''' is a [[meeting]] at which a [[group]] of people often including a [[Medium (spirituality)|medium]] attempts to contact a [[ghost]] and communicate with it. <ref>{{cite web|url=https://asrare.net/|title=Spirituality is a way of gaining perspective |publisher=Asrare.net|accessdate=18 August 2009}}</ref> Participants of such meeting need not be seated while engaged in a séance. One of the earliest books on the subject is ''Communitation With the Other Side'' by George, First Baron Lyttelton, published in England in 1760.<ref>Lyttleton, George (First Baron) and Montegue, Mrs. Eizabeth, ''Dialogues with the Dead, W. Sandby, London, 1760.</ref> Some notable people who attended séances and believed in all that include the United States President [[Abraham Lincoln]], and his wife [[Mary Todd Lincoln]]; the social reformer Robert Owen; the journalist and pacifist William Thomas Stead,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.attackingthedevil.co.uk/spiritualism/index.php|title='&#39;Stead on Spiritualism'&#39; at The William T. Stead Resource Site |publisher=Attackingthedevil.co.uk|accessdate=22 July 2009}}</ref> and more. Scientists who have conducted a search for real séances and believed that contact with the dead is a reality include the [[evolutionary biologist]] [[Alfred Russel Wallace#Religious views, and application of the theory to mankind|Alfred Russel Wallace]],<ref>{{cite web |author= |url=http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/wallace/S118A.htm |title='&#39;The Scientific Aspect of the Supernatural'&#39;, Alfred Russel Wallace, 1866 |publisher=Wku.edu |accessdate=22 July 2009 |archive-date=12 September 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090912224229/http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/wallace/S118A.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> the inventor of [[telephone]] [[Alexander Graham Bell]], and the inventor of [[television]] technology [[John Logie Baird]], who claimed t