{"id":8092,"date":"2016-05-31T09:40:05","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T15:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8092"},"modified":"2016-05-31T09:41:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T15:41:44","slug":"spirits-photography-and-the-burned-over-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8092","title":{"rendered":"Spirits, Photography, and the Burned-Over District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7-JzY_kY2Xw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Why was the<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kodak\"> Eastman Kodak Company<\/a> founded in Rochester, New York, not far from the town of Hydesville (now part of Arcadia Township), where the Fox sisters birthed the American Spiritualist movement? Is there a connection between photography and spirits?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rikgarrett.com\/\">Esoteric photographer Rik Garret tof Chicago says yes,<\/a> and he has launched a YouTube video series, of which this is the first episode.<\/p>\n<p>He briefly mentions the Burned-Over District, which is a religion-scholar&#8217;s term for the part of northern New York (and in adjacent Vermont), where numerous new religious movements and personages started or flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andrew_Jackson_Davis\">Andrew Jackson Davis<\/a>, the &#8220;Poughkeepsie Seer,&#8221; was just one \u2014 Shakers, Mormons, and other movements either started or began to grow there. &#8220;Burned over&#8221; refers to the &#8220;fires&#8221; of revival movements that swept the area in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Second_Great_Awakening\">Second Great Awakening,<\/a> which &#8220;reflected Romanticism characterized by enthusiasm, emotion, and an appeal to the super-natural. It rejected the skeptical rationalism and deism of the Enlightenment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You could say that we are still feeling it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why was the Eastman Kodak Company founded in Rochester, New York, not far from the town of Hydesville (now part of Arcadia Township), where the Fox sisters birthed the American Spiritualist movement? Is there a connection between photography and spirits? Esoteric photographer Rik Garret tof Chicago says yes, and he has launched a YouTube video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,78,73],"class_list":["post-8092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-american-religion","tag-photography","tag-spiritualism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-26w","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12407,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12407","url_meta":{"origin":8092,"position":0},"title":"Polyamory, Silverware, and the &#8220;Second Generation&#8221; Problem","author":"Chas S. 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