The International Spiritualist Federation is a society dedicated to supporting
spiritualist churches around the globe, with particular emphasis on those based in countries which do not support spiritualism as a religion.
The federation was first proposed at an 1888 conference held in
Barcelona
Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ci ...
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but was officially established in 1923. Every year since then they have run courses and held lectures for one week which attempt to raise awareness of spiritualism. Particularly notable was the 1925 conference attended by then head of the organisation,
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for '' A Study in Scarlet'', the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Ho ...
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who blamed
ectoplasm for his faulty slides during his presentation.
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Spiritualist organizations