The spiritualist's Lyceum movement was founded by American medium Andrew Jackson Davies in 1863.

Davis "saw" clairvoyantly, the method by which children were educated in the spirit world and reasoned that "what is good for angels surely must be good for man" and so established a Lyceum for the children of earth.

The Spiritualist's Lyceum union is a branch of the Spiritualist National Union, with special responsibility for training the young. This training is not designed for young people exclusively, it also embraces those who could be said to be young in Spiritualism and the Lyceum movement now comfortably includes anyone, of any age, who wants to learn more about there own spiritual nature and the spiritual nature of the universe.

Today there is no such thing as a "standard" Lyceum. Each Lyceum is unique in character and is governed only by the wants and needs of It's members and is limited in scope only by the facilities available to it. It is however , still the aim of any well run Lyceum to cater for the needs of It's members, of whatever age or level of understanding. In matters mental and moral, social and physical and spiritual.