ISBN 006008667X] Generally Spiritualist "message services" or "demonstrations of the continuity of life" are open to the public. "Lily Dale: The True Story of the Town that Talks to the Dead" by Christine Wicker. The term "séance" is not often used to describe this, except by outsiders a preferred term is "receiving messages." In these sessions, which generally take place in well lit Spiritualist churches or outdoors at Spiritualist camps (such as Lily Dale in upstate New York or Camp Cassadaga in Florida), an ordained minister or gifted contact medium will relate messages from the dead to the living. In the religion of Spiritualism, it is generally a part of religious services to communicate with the dead. The term séance is used in several ways, and can refer any of four different activities, each with its own social norms and conventions, its own favoured tools, and its own range of expected outcomes. Contemporary séances continue to be a part of the religious services of Spiritualist, Spiritist, and Espiritismo churches today, where a greater emphasis is placed on spiritual values versus showmanship. The 1887 Seybert Commission report marred the credibility of Spiritualism at the height of its popularity by publishing exposures of fraud and showmanship among secular séance leaders. Perhaps the best-known series of séances conducted at that time were those of Mary Todd Lincoln who, grieving the loss of her son, organized Spiritualist séances in the White House, which were attended by her husband, President Abraham Lincoln, and other prominent members of society. The popularity of séances grew dramatically with the founding of the religion of Spiritualism in the mid-nineteenth century. Among the notable spirits quoted in this volume are Peter the Great, Pericles, a "North-American Savage," William Penn, and Christina Queen of Sweden. One of the earliest books on the subject of communication amongst deceased persons was "Dialogues with the Dead" by George, First Baron Lyttleton, published in England in 1760. In English, however, the word came to be used specifically for a meeting of people who are gathered to receive messages from ghosts or spirits or to listen to a spirit medium discourse with or relay messages from spirits in modern English usage, participants need not be seated while engaged in a séance. The word "séance" comes from the French word for "seat," "session" or "sitting," from the Old French "seoir"," "to sit." In French, the word's meaning is quite general: one may, for example, speak of "une séance de cinéma" ("a movie session"). A séance ( pronEng|ˈsay-ons) is an attempt to communicate with spirits.
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