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You can let go of grief: No One Dies in Lily Dale

You can let go of grief: No One Dies in Lily Dale

Last updated on: August 26, 2016 at 10:00 am by Bridgitte Jackson-Buckley

You can let go of grief: No One Dies in Lily Dale 2016-08-25T20:46:53-04:00 Bridgitte Jackson-Buckley

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**“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” ~**Teilhard de Chardin

A psychic can be defined as a person who professes an ability to perceive information hidden from the normal senses through extrasensory perception (ESP) such as: telepathy, clairvoyance and precognition. Whether you call it a sixth sense, intuition or gut instinct, some experts say that we all have some psychic ability. What has been concluded is that most psychics are somehow sensitized to energy emanating from electrical or magnetic fields, while other psychics are able to tap into emotional or physical aspects of those energy fields.

Unfortunately, there are no definitive guidelines that can be followed to prove whether someone is psychic or not, or maybe this depends on who you ask. In many cases, people will go into a reading with a very definite expectation of what they want to happen. They want to hear what they expect to hear, and if they don’t, it can negate the validity of the whole reading.

For many individuals, specifically those who have visited a psychic medium, the question of whether or not the information being relayed is legitimate can be dependent on the extent to which the person is capable of receiving the message. In the case of visitors to Lily Dale there is grief when the visitors come for help, and this grief can block the process and make it difficult to not only give a reading, but to receive the information at hand.

“Death is not an easy subject to deal with, or to document, and it’s difficult to even know what to say to someone who is grieving a catastrophic loss.”

For the small town of Lily Dale, housing a population of 275 people, and located in southwestern New York, 25,000 annual visitors believe this is the place to go in hope of finding the bridge to emotional closure, that can only be delivered through some form of communication from those who have passed on.

According to Steven Cantor, “Lily Dale is this quaint little town in upstate New York whose Spiritualist residents include about 40 psychic mediums. I had taken a research trip there with my business partner, Daniel Laikind, as we were curious, though skeptical. There were one or two mediums that gave us messages that were specific and accurate and really made us think twice. But even more striking was the palpable grief that many of the visitors wore on their sleeves and the subsequent relief or at least diminishment of that sadness through the psychic messages that were conveyed to them. The emotional journeys that the visitors experienced made me realize there was a film there.”

Presented by HBO Documentaries, No One Dies in Lily Dale, directed and produced by Steven Cantor, is a documentary film that captures the journeys of a diverse set of visitors making a pilgrimage to an off-the-beaten-path town, with hopes to connect, heal, find answers, and get closure with deceased loved ones.

The documentary shows these visitors, and others, attending Lily Dale’s daily message services and sitting with mediums for private reading sessions in their attempt to bridge the gap between the physical and the spiritual worlds.

Registered through rigorous testing by the town’s boards of directors, the 5 featured spiritualists of Lily Dale, who practice “mystical mediumship,” include:

Michelle Whitedove: An eccentric personality, with interesting shoes, raises her vibration to connect with the high frequencies of spirit. Although not a registered medium at Lily Dale, a visitor was able to feel closure and healing after a reading with Ms. Whitedove.
Greta Lestock, PhD: States, “People are seeking and we are providing, and I’ve seen a lot of closures, a lot of healing.”
Anne Gehman: The spirits communicate, Gehman explains, because “They’re not dead. There is no death and there is no dead. That’s an illusion.”
Gregory Kehn: As a result of the knowledge he gained from Spirit through his Near-Death Experiences, Reverend Kehn knows and understands his purpose in life: “To help humanity and guide people to heal thorough messages from their Spirit Guides, Loved Ones, Teachers and Masters.”
Sherry Lee Calkins: Believes, “We are spirits who are occupying a body for a while to teach us more.”

The three visitors followed are:

Ronald Holt: A guilt-ridden Chicago Police Officer, whose son Blair was tragically gunned down in a random act of gang violence. Mr. Holt is trying to make peace with the guilt of not protecting his son, Blair, from a random act of violence that took his life.
Rebecca Fabricius: After several meetings with different mediums, Ms. Fabricius comes to town in search of answers following the unexplained 2007 loss of her fiancé, who was found dead in the field where he was working.
Debbie and Rom Hamernick: Hope to understand why Debbie’s recently deceased mother cut her out of her will.

No One Dies in Lily Dale does not make an attempt to tell you what you should, or should not believe about mediumship or psychics. It presents the situation, the life, the seeking and what comes up between trying to fill the void of loss and the spiritual community of Lily Dale. As with any discerning viewer, it is always best to make up your own mind.

Why not take a trip to Lily Dale and decide for yourself?

The visit could prove to be quite interesting.

Let me know what happens.

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