Lily Dale Is Added to National Register of Historic Places  - Buffalo News

This week the National Park Service added the historic spiritualist community in Chautauqua County, New York, to the National Register of Historic Places. Founded in 1879, Lily Dale "is the first and largest spiritualist center in the United States." Today the community is home to about 275 people and the world’s largest collection of practicing mediums—52. And that's not the only newfound recognition of spiritualism lately. Across the U.S., Museums Are Exploring Spiritualism and the Occult as Powerful, Unsung Forces in Art History "Two exhibitions currently on view take spiritualism and the occult seriously, examining not only works made by artists in touch with other realities, but also the way that such explorations are woven into the fabric of American art and culture," reports Eleanor Heartney. One exhibition is “Another World,� which opened in October at the Philbrook Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and features a Southwest-based collective that emerged in 1930s New Mexico, which drew heavily on the occult philosophy of Theosophy and explored such phenomena as synesthesia, vibration, sacred geometry, and cosmic images. The other is “Supernatural America: the Paranormal in American Art,� which is opening at the Minneapolis Institute of Art and is curated by the Institute's Robert Cozzolino, who reports having personally has had otherworldly experiences. (PH)

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