(The Conversation) — The word séance conjures images of darkened rooms, entranced mediums, strange occurrences and spirit voices. For many contemporary audiences, these visions might seem like ...
Lily Dale is home to about 40 mediums who connect thousands of spiritual seekers with their deceased loved ones Erin Donaghue Visitors participate in a Forest Temple service in the spiritualist ...
The Fox sisters, often credited as the founders of the Spiritualism movement, became famous after hearing knocking sounds in their house and eventually claiming the sounds were spirits communicating ...
Picture this: It is Nov. 17, 1899, a chilly Friday evening in Hagerstown. You are seated in the Academy of Music’s narrow theater in the Baldwin House Hotel on West Washington Street. Bright gas-lit ...
Gail Jarrow often writes nonfiction that pushes her readers to dig deeper and ask the hard questions, and this is especially ...
From humble beginnings as Cincinnati spirit mediums, the Claflin sisters took New York, and eventually British society, by storm, exploiting the infatuation of wealthy paramours. Cincinnati was known ...
NEW YORK — While the tradition of consulting seers and oracles for insights into what happens after death is as old as the ancient Greeks and the Hebrew scriptures (in 1 Samuel 28, King Saul seeks out ...
As I enter through the gates of Lily Dale, beneath a sign that reads “World’s Largest Center for the Religion of Spiritualism,” life’s pace seems to slow. People rest and chat on the wide porches of ...
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