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Spirit World” – Those Who When Sitting on Your Porch in the Are Physically Dead Psychic “channeling” did not begin S P I R I T W O R L D in America with James Van Praagh, and Jonathon Edwards, and the A visit to two villages that still New Age movement we know today is really only the most recent share the nineteenth century’s iteration of a feature of America’s conviction that we can religious and spiritual landscape that traces back to our colonial communicate with the dead past. Nor did the country’s fascination with communes and “intentional” small communities By Stephan A. Schwartz start with the 60s. By the end of the 19th Century there were villages -- sometimes We walk down a street that seems called “camps” or “colonies” -- lifted from a Victorian era dotted across the nation devoted children’s book and there, on the to the practice of the same white clapboard cottage’s wall, is metaphysical disciplines in vogue the small sign we have been told to today. Some were permanent from look for: “Mrs. Hanson, Medium”. the beginning, others were Reverend Hanson, as she is inhabited only during “seasons”, properly known, answers the door and most have disappeared or, like and there, behind her, is Mr. the Chataugua circuit, are only Hanson. in what can only be called remnants of a larger past. We a front parlor, sitting in an open know of utopians such as the necked short-sleeve white shirt Shakers because their lovingly reading his paper. We are invited preserved buildings and their in, but only my wife Hayden can furniture which touches us with its enter the reading room, lest “your beautiful, economical, style. But vibrations” disturb the clarity of we have only a removed sense of Mrs. Hanson’s focus. On the left of the communities as living centers. the entrance to her Reading Room, In contrast, their less well-known pinned to the wall, is her cousins, the villages of the Certificate of Ordination from the American Spiritualist Movement, International General Assembly of are still to be found, as I Spiritualists, and her Florida State discovered, tucked away here and business license, entitling her to there across the land. Two of them, give readings from her home. Lilly Dale, New York and Cassadaga, Florida are remarkably © copyright 2004 by Stephan A. Schwartz. AMERICAN HERITAGE APRIL/MAY 2005 66 well-preserved examples of American camp style. Susan Glasier, office manager for the assembly, who answered my Lilly Dale – formally, The Lilly many questions, tells me that the Dale Assembly – founded in 1879, town is still seasonal, “although we is located on 175 acres in Chatagua have a permanent population of County in upstate New York not about 275 people. Our season runs far from the shores of Lake Erie. from June 25th to September 5th Built along the banks of a small and, during that time, the lake one mile from the town of population doubles. “Visitors are Cassadaga and Highway 60, it is always welcome,” she adds, and the mother of all Spiritualist about 20,000 a year do stop by. communities in America, and There seem to be less than a dozen describes itself as “the world’s the day we are there at the height largest center for Spiritualism.” In of the season. parallel with its cousin, Chatagua Village, which is about a half hour The nostalgic architecture though away in the town of Mayville, Lilly is not the first thing that catches Dale began as an assembly my attention. It is the small signs building around which tents on hanging in cottage gardens that platforms were erected for the say things such as “Kitty Osborne - summer season, when families Medium.” gathered to hear speakers and ministers. By the 1880s, these had This is a religious village; its become permanent structures residents are practitioners of their notable for their small scale, faith’s principal sacrament, “the gingerbread scrollwork, and d e m o n s t r a t e d f a c t o f encircling screened-porches; communication, by the means of homes built in a time before mediumship with those who live television and air conditioning, in the Spirit World” – those who when sitting on your porch in the are physically dead. Spiritualists dark talking with friends was an are a branch of one of America’s appreciated pleasure. The streets founding religious impulses, are narrow and tree shaded but, as Transcendentalism. In these I go through the gates, it is obvious solidly American theological that the New York weather over a woods, are found Emerson, century has taken its toll and, Thoreau, Mark Twain and, some while some cottages are pristine, say based on eye-witness accounts, others are in what realtors Abraham Lincoln. euphemistically call a “fixer upper” state. AMERICAN HERITAGE APRIL/MAY 2005 67 Lilly Dale is a company town, the technique similar to those taught land owned by the Lilly Dale today has been practiced for more Spiritualist Church, the houses on than a century. Next to it is a 99 year leases. It practices a school. Like most middle-class cottage industry whose products people of the 19th Century the are readings, New Age treatments, residents of Lilly Dale had great and energetic healings. There are respect for education, and the between 10 to 15 mediums -- Andrew Jackson Davis Lyceum, individuals “sensitive to vibrations one of the town’s largest buildings, from the spirit world.” -- in attests to this conviction. Largely permanent residence, with the forgotten today, Andrew Jackson number growing to 40 during the Davis in his time was a major season. Many more in Lilly Dale celebrity, author, lecturer, at 60 are healers. Most carry the title awarded an M.D.. He was also the Reverend, and are ministers in one founder of the Lyceum School branch or another of the system which began here in Lilly Spiritualist Church, a community Dale and became a big part of of believers, as old as the these cooperative communities. Mormons. But, most of all, the newspapers of the age describe Davis as an In the middle of the town, there is impressive clairvoyant and an auditorium, an unusual wood medium. When he spoke he drew frame structure with wooden walls great crowds. -- panels really -- that allow it to be opened to the outdoors. At the The tree-shaded narrow streets back is a green and white stained invite walking. The Spiritualists, glass window reading “Memory of with their explicit belief in the my Mother.” Below the window is kinship of all life, had been a small mirror with black writing abolitionists, and would be over its silvery surface. It says, supporters of women’s suffrage. “This temple erected by B.F. Barlett But it is their passionate and dedicated in remembrance of environmentalism that is reflected his mother Obera Bartlett.” There in their town planning. is no one there, as I walk around, but a woman passing by tells me to After a short walk there is a clearly come back at 2:30 for the open special little grove of trees, distinct public service, when there will be a from the rest. Sacred Groves are talk, and someone will channel. one of humanity’s most ancient places of worship and instruction. Nearby is a “Healing Temple,” By Roman times, the sacred groves where a laying-on-of-hands of the Etruscans -- almost always AMERICAN HERITAGE APRIL/MAY 2005 68 oaks -- were already legendary. In There are two places for food in this one, in the middle, there is a Lilly Dale, the “Good Vibrations” large old tree stump with stairs cafeteria, and a small coffee shop, built up on one side. When a “Monika’s Delites” which visitor to Lilly Dale was invited for specializes in Viennese coffees. By a stump speech, it was meant quite the end of lunch it is almost 2:30, literally. Visiting spiritualist and there is just enough time to get ministers and speakers declaimed back for the Spiritualist service that here, so many, and so vigorously, is held every day at the same time that the stump bears the wear of during the 10 week season. their boots. A little further on, Everyone is welcome. there is the only brick building I have seen in the village. It turns The service begins promptly with a out to be the Marian Skidmore hymn, then an older woman comes Memorial Library. A look at its out on the stage and gives us a shelves reveals it must be one of trance sermon speaking in a kind the largest collections of of theatrical scotch brogue. It is Spiritualist literature in the designed to be uplifting, but the country. thing that affects me the most is that the idea of a woman lecturing Winding along, the little lane leads in a trance seems quite to the lake, and a small white unexceptional to the audience of 75 frame hotel, The Maplewood. It or so. Then there is some organ has 42 rooms costing between $21 music and an older man introduces and $44 a night. The only other another woman in a floor-length place to stay within Lilly Dale is lime green high necked gown with the Leolyn, just outside the gated lace. There are mostly woman in grounds, but owned by Lillydale. the congregation, but with a good It has 11 rooms for $33 a night. sprinkling of men, and one of them leans over and explains to me that Two American flags fly from the this lady is the “Message Maplewood’s porch, and entering Minister.” the lobby, even more than the town, is a trip back into time.
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