Certain rights were not given by the government but that men were born with them is stated in the

I think it's the constitution, but one thing i know for sure is that those rights are called human rights. Hope it helped.

Communicating with the dead was common, it wasn’t seen as bizarre or weird,” explains murch. “it’s hard to imagine that now, we look at that and think, ‘why are you opening the gates of hell? ’