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The article reports on Nana Kwaku Bonsam, a fetish priest from Ghana, and his visit in New York. It mentions that Bonsam is considered a major figure in his country who is loved and despised for his spiritual powers. It also notes his interest towards the state as well as the efforts in modernizing the indigenous West African religion.

Focuses on the village of Lily Dale, New York, a center of spiritual mediumship in the U.S. Background on Lily Dale, which has been populated and run by Spiritualists, members of a religious group that believes the living can communicate with the dead; Atmosphere of the town, where 40 registered mediums practice; Comments of medium Sherry Lee Calkins and Ron Nagy, a Lily Dale historian and researcher; Author's experience consulting the spirits; Skepticism of some visitors; Description of the village; Discussion of the tests that aspiring Lily Dale mediums must pass. INSET: The Other Side, Near Buffalo.

Reviews the new exhibition "3 x Abstraction: New Methods of Drawing," at the Drawing Center, New York City. Focus on the relationship between abstraction and spirituality in modern art; Overview of artists Swedish Hilma af Klint, Swiss Emma Kunz, both spiritualists, and American Modernist painter Agnes Martin; Affinities between the works of af Klint and Kunz; Backgrounds on the women artists and their philosophies; Suggestion that what has preserved the credibility of visionary spiritualism for many today is psychology; Highlights of the exhibition.

Bill Charlap waited until almost the last possible moment in ''The Gerry Mulligan Songbook,'' a tribute at the 92nd Street Y on Monday night, before divulging a sentimental piece of trivia. It was in that room, he said, where he played his first concert with Mulligan's quartet, in 1988. The evidence suggests that it was a fine debut: a review in The New York Times singled out Mr. Charlap as ''a particularly enlivening element in the group,'' adding that ''broad gestures, even incipient levitation, helped him milk emotions from the piano.'' Mr. Charlap didn't levitate this time, but there was plenty of emotion in his solo reading of ''Noblesse,'' an impressionistic ballad from the late shift of Mulligan's career. And in many ways Mr. Charlap's bandstand experience informed the entire program, part of Jazz in July, a concert series he has produced for the last five years. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article offers several aspects related to the Transfiguration church in Chinatown, New York City. It is a 2 century-old church of the transfiguration in Chinatown and it celebrates masses in three different languages. Every Sunday the church draws around 900 people for attending Sunday mass and every year on Easter the church baptizes several children including mostly Chinese.

From October 16 through January 9, the College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, New York is hosting an exhibition entitled "Migrations, Translations and Journeys" at the Gordon Parks Gallery at its School of New Resources John Cardinal O'Connor Campus. The exhibition showcases artist Gilberto Wilson's use of shape and form as a vehicle to explore spiritual truth in works that encompass mixed media, collage, paintings and works on paper. Admission is free and open to the public, but is by appointment only.

The internal beauty of being at peace with one's self and with the Creator seems to drive the outward manifestations of 42-year-old Willberene Miller. While she is currently employed as a legal secretary at a law firm in New York City, she is also an aspiring reggae entertainer and cofounder of HalleluYah Time. While Miller inspires a spiritual awakening, further south in Waldorf, Maryland, realtor Glenda Harrison takes great pride in educating people in owning real estate, a surefire way she says will enhance one's lifestyle and a great way to invest for the future.