spiritualism
Summertime spirits: Village of Lily Dale reopens for believers and doubters alike
By Fiona André — July 3, 2023
(RNS) — The 140-year-old village, a mecca for spiritualism and mediumship, will draw regulars and curious first-timers to cross paths after a hiatus of three years.
The most recognizable work at the Whitney Museum’s new modernism exhibit may be a tarot deck
By Heather Greene — September 8, 2022
(RNS) — Artist Pamela Colman-Smith dismissed it as ‘a big job for very little cash.’ Now the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck is her legacy — and has brought her renewed recognition.
As spiritualism’s popularity grows, photographer Shannon Taggart takes viewers inside the world of séances, mediums and orbs
By Beth Saunders — January 27, 2022
(The Conversation) — Alternative beliefs like spiritualism seem to experience resurgences in times of crisis. Taggart has spent the past 20 years exploring the oft-misunderstood religion.
Caroline Calloway and the cost of creating the ‘best self’
By Tara Isabella Burton — September 11, 2019
(RNS) — The second that your 'best self' becomes too obviously an illusion, its moral authority collapses. It’s simply, well, a lie.
John of God’s sexual assault arrest tarnishes Brazil’s spiritist movement
By Eduardo Campos Lima — January 30, 2019
SAO PAOLO, Brazil (RNS) — More than 600 women — varying in age from 8 to 67 — have accused the medium of sexual assault, adding a distressing chapter to the long history of spiritist mediums in Brazil.
Ghostbusters and why we like to laugh at things that go bump in the night
By Jerome Socolovsky — July 16, 2016
The ghosts of the Ghostbusters franchise are the truest descendants of spirits summoned in Victorian seances.
Eight titles for summer ‘soulstice’ reading
By Kimberly Winston — June 14, 2016
(RNS) Here are eight books that add a little soul food to the usual light summer reading list.
Lily Dale, N.Y.: A gated community for spiritualists
By Kathleen Poliquin — August 27, 2012
(RNS) Like many villages, Lily Dale has a post office, volunteer fire department, library and a playground. But for 133 years, Lily Dale has also been home to the Lily Dale Assembly, a religious organization of mediums and healers who claim to communicate messages from those who have passed on to those still living on the Earthly plane. By Kathleen Poliquin.
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