The theme of this book reflects on Spiritualism's need for a reality check. Every organization or business must periodically take stock of things, do a reality check, move with the times, or lag behind and become covered in the dust. From the humble begnning in the Fox Cottage, on March 31, 1848, in Hydesville, N.Y., communication was made with the spirit of a peddlar murdered in the cottage and buried in the cellar. From this beginning great strides were made and culminated in the formation of the National Spiritualist Association being formed in 1893 and in that same year Spirtualism recorded in the District of Columbia as a bona fide religion. But times change. Entering a new century requires change to stay up with the times. This reality check brings about a revival of Spiritualism around the world in this new century (2012)