Koreshan Unity, Florida
Koresha Unity was founded by those that came to this land for religious freedom. In the late 1800s, a group of believers established a place that they felt could be the “New Jerusalem.” Koreshan Unity was a religion that incorporated a communal utopia ideology. Founded in New York City by Cyrus Teed in the 1870s, the religion consisted of a belief in immortality, reincarnation, alchemy, and celibacy.
More unsettling was that this group was a cult with beliefs such as Cellular Cosmogony. This system of beliefs stats that the sun is operated by batteries, that humans live inside a hollow Earth, not outside, and that the sun revolves around our planet.