Established in 1879, Lily Dale is now the world’s largest center for Spiritualist development and the practice of Spiritualist religion. You have to be a Spiritualist to buy a house there. Most but not all of the Spiritualists are mediums, people who can contact the dead.



My grandmother, Louise Arisman, was a Spiritualist minister and a medium. She lived in Lily dale. This is our story.



In this dazzling kaleidoscope of reflections the artist Marshall Arisman encounters automatic writing, seeing auras, paintings by precipitation and spirit guide portraits. Arisman offers a rich, wry history of his life shared by his grandmother, a noted psychic and resident Spiritualist minister in Lily Dale, New York.