Editing Affirmative prayer (section)

== Spiritualism==
The well-known [[Theosophist]], [[Spiritualism (movement)|Spiritualist]], and New Thought poet [[Ella Wheeler Wilcox]] popularized the power of affirmative prayer. After the death of her husband Robert Wilcox, she wrote that she had tried in vain to communicate with his spirit, but only after she composed and recited the affirmative prayer, "I am the living witness: The dead live: And they speak through us and to us: And I am the voice that gives this glorious truth to the suffering world: I am ready, God: I am ready, Christ: I am ready, Robert"{{Citation needed|date=July 2011}} was she able to contact him by means of a [[Ouija board]], an event she described in her 1918 autobiography, ''The Worlds and I.''<ref name=Wilcox>{{cite book |title= The Worlds and I |url= https://archive.org/details/worldsandi00wilcgoog |first=Ella Wheeler |last=Wilcox|publisher=George H. Doran Company, New York | year=1918}}</ref>