William Mackenzie King, Prime Minister and Spiritualist

We've read the story that former First Lady Nancy Reagan regularly consulted an astrologer, and that Cherie Blair, wife of former British PM Tony Blair, used to follow some New Age practices (it's not entirely clear which ones, or how factual the stories were). But how many people knew at the time, or know now that William Lyon Mackenzie King, the Prime Minister of Canada during some of its most difficult years (especially during the Second World War), took spiritualism seriously, attended seances in order to communicate with dead members of his families, and confided his spiritualist beliefs to his diary, apparently he thought that if the public, or his political adversaries, found out that he was a Spiritualist, his political career would be over? He was probably right about that. More here from Libraries and Archives Canada.