Here is LILY DALE, founded in 1879 as an adult spiritualist summer camp.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/lily-dale-spiritualist-community Summer spiritualist camps were very popular at the end of the 19th century, because death was prominent (Civil War, WW I). Overwhelming grief in many families. This current, rural community in upstate New York has about 250 residents, of whom 36 are registered mediums. They offer daily and weekly services during the summer only. However, the registered mediums are able to give readings all over the world using Zoom. In my book, I tell you that John E. Fetzer’s first encounter (in early 1900s) with the paranormal was via spiritualism. His Christian mother “confessed” that she had “yielded to temptation” and gotten a reading, during which she “talked” to her deceased husband. Fetzer and his wife then visited Camp Chesterfield, a spiritualist summer community like Lily Dale, and they were hooked. Fetzer went on to create the John E. Fetzer Foundation/Institute to research the science of spirituality and to seek to reconcile science and religion. His biographer says: “Fetzer’s intellectual trajectory hit nearly every mark on the road to the New Age.” (The book is very cheap, supplemented by the Foundation. 2018)
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Paul Brunton took a trip to India in 1930 and then wrote: A Search In Secret India. The popular book introduced Yogis, Yoga, Meditation, and Gurus to the West in a way they could digest—through an adventure story. It followed on the adventure stories of David-Neel, on Tibetan Buddhism. Brunton later worked on a “perennial philosophy” that integrated East and West. |
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