If you ever visit the Spiritualist Community of Cassadaga, Florida, be sure to first stop by the bookstore at the center of town. It contains a wide variety of books on spirituality, the paranormal, meditation, yoga, healing, and self-help.
Looking for gifts? They’ve got ‘em and quite a variety too–crystals, jewelry,candles, incense, Native American crafts, salt lamps and Tibetan singing bowls, just to name a few.
Housed in the Andrew Jackson Davis Building, the book and gift store also serves as the Spiritualist Camp’s official welcome center. Turn left as you enter and you’ll find all kinds of information on tours, mediums, classes and special events.
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In our investigations into the paranormal, my wife Barbara and have come to the conclusion that no events are truly coincidental. Having that belief is one thing but seeing it demonstrated in a highly dramatic way tends to really grab your attention. This is the recent story about such a happening.
The book Barb and I wrote about the paranormal was originally published by an imprint of Prentice Hall back in 1984. When we brought An Explosion of Being back to life through Old St. Augustine Publications in the fall of 2011, I began to wonder about the people who read that first edition. Did the book have any lasting effect on them? Did anyone actually keep a copy or did they just give it away? Questions like that.
Two days later, the phone rang. The caller ID said, “Cassadaga Camp.” Cassadaga? Barb and I hadn’t had any actual connection with that Spiritualist town just north of us since we went there for a psychic reading in 1979. In our book, we wrote about our visit to Cassadaga and the medium, Mae Graves Ward, but I couldn’t see how this phone call could relate to that in any way. Much to my amazement, I soon discovered how wrong I was.
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