 The Sufi sect of Dervishes are referred to as "Eastern Spiritualists".Likewise, the Zār cult of North Africa (Sudan, Egypt) and the Middle East (Iran).The phenomena of Spiritualism consist of; prophecy, clairvoyance, clairaudience, gift of tongues, laying on of hands, healing, visions, trance, apports, revelations, raps, levitation, automatic and independent writing and painting, photography, materialization, psychometry, direct and independent voice, and any other manifestation lending support to the continuity of life after death.