Qualla: Cassadaga, Florida https://qualla.com/cassadaga-florida en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/j/n/h/cassadaga-florida-wp/cassadaga-road-river-of-lakes0.jpg Qualla: Cassadaga, Florida https://qualla.com/cassadaga-florida Cassadaga, Florida: Introduction https://qualla.com/cassadaga-florida/ Photo credit Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0. The name is a Seneca word meaning "water beneath the rocks," which seems fitting for a place where residents claim to reach what lies beneath the surface of things. Cassadaga, Florida, a small unincorporated community in Volusia County just north of Deltona, has been home to practicing psychics and mediums for more than a century. The Southern Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp Meeting Association has operated here since 1894, making it the oldest active Spiritualist community in the southeastern United States. Visitors arrive expecting crystal balls and dark parlors. What they find instead is a quiet neighborhood of modest homes, a historic hotel, a bookstore, and hand-lettered signs advertising readings from certified mediums.

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]]> Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/j/n/h/cassadaga-florida-wp/djnh-cassadaga-florida-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Cassadaga, Florida: A Spirit Guide Named Seneca https://qualla.com/cassadaga-florida/ Photo credit Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0. George P. Colby was born in 1848 in Pike, New York, and grew up to become a trance medium who traveled the country giving readings and seances. Among his spirit guides was a Native American he called Seneca, who Colby said directed him to establish a Spiritualist community in Flo...

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]]> Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/j/n/h/cassadaga-florida-wp/djnh-cassadaga-florida-a-spirit-guide-named-seneca.mp3 0:06 2 full Cassadaga, Florida: The Principles, Not the Parlor Tricks https://qualla.com/cassadaga-florida/ Photo credit Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0. Cassadaga's residents are quick to distinguish their practice from fortune-telling or entertainment. Spiritualism, as taught here, follows nine guiding principles and holds no dogma or creed. Mediums in the camp must be certified through the association, a process that involves d...

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]]> Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/j/n/h/cassadaga-florida-wp/djnh-cassadaga-florida-the-principles-not-the-parlor-tricks.mp3 0:06 3 full Cassadaga, Florida: The Psychic Capital in Popular Culture https://qualla.com/cassadaga-florida/ Photo credit Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0. Cassadaga's reputation has seeped into American storytelling in ways the camp's founders could not have predicted. Carl Hiaasen used it as inspiration for the town of Grange in his novel Lucky You. Cherie Priest set much of her novel Brimstone in 1920s Cassadaga. Michael Connelly...

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]]> Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/j/n/h/cassadaga-florida-wp/djnh-cassadaga-florida-the-psychic-capital-in-popular-culture.mp3 0:06 4 full Cassadaga, Florida: Water Beneath the Rocks https://qualla.com/cassadaga-florida/ Photo credit Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0. Cassadaga today remains remarkably small, a cluster of modest structures nestled among live oaks draped in Spanish moss. There are no chain restaurants, no strip malls, no traffic lights. The camp grounds cover roughly the same acreage Colby deeded in 1895, and the community's po...

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