Psychic News Mag 49 - May 2014

ISSUE NO 4115

£3.80 | MAY 2014

PSYCHIC

NEWS

DEVELOPING YOUR MIND, BODY AND SPIRIT

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Consulting

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Uri Geller on the fate of fliGht Mh370

University lectUrer’s extraordinary

fairy photos

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Colin fry

answers yoUr qUestions

Win exClusive

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a psyChiC tarot oraCle deCk

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5 news in brief 23 Behind the scenes with 37 sudoku Paul Jacobs 9 Jarrow psychic’s medical prophecy comes true in the 10 a lancashire fairy story 27 healer gave me back 39 Mindfulness classroom my life 40 ten years of pioneering

your chance to win the Psychic Tarot Oracle Deck by John holland

the popular medium on his life and work

samantha Melvin’s heart-warming tale of freedom from pain

28 ask a medium 30 consulting the oracle 10

unique publication

colin fry answers your questions

42 take a chance. . .

everything you need to know about the cards

46 the funny side of the

david hopkins asks how much of our life is pre-planned

séance

a tale of jelly babies and a good medium gone bad

12 derek acorah guilty 13 dr sam Parnia – resurrection man 14 tea at the death café 15 Giraffe’s last kiss for dying keeper 30 17 Using science to inspire 33 Jargon-buster 20 Understanding your dreams 34 nic whitham’s guide to our exclusive interview with hay house author dr david hamilton

craig hamilton-Parker interprets your night-time revelations

47 your letters 50 My ‘dead’ husband spoke you tell us what’s on your mind

to me

compelling evidence of survival beyond the grave

51 laboratory tests show

patients receive ‘energy’ from healer

this month’s feature from the Pn archives

we demystify more weird and wonderful words

54 spiritualist church,

Bach flower remedies

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helping yourself nature’s way

centre and community news round-up

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editor susan farrow assistant editor, advertisinG, circUlation & MarKetinG Paul Brett pnadverts@gmail.com chief rePorter Kay hunter technical assistant Magnus smith

From the Editor For those of us on the UK side of the pond, it’s spring – at last!

desiGn and layoUt louise lynch

“as I sit at my desk writing to you, I’m looking out of the window at a spectacular tree.

The gardeners among you will spot that it’s a Pieris Japonica, multi-coloured and fabulous. Just looking at it makes me smile.”

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the long, dark days of British winter have daffodils, bluebells and sunshine. time to move those coats and sweaters to the back of the wardrobe. t-shirt weather is here! as i sit at my desk writing to you, i’m looking out of the window at a spectacular tree. the gardeners among you will spot that it’s a Pieris Japonica, multi-coloured and fabulous. Just looking at it makes me smile. for me, spring always feels like a new beginning. it’s an opportunity to clear away the accumulated deadwood and debris we all have in our lives and start afresh with renewed optimism and sense of purpose. this month’s issue is literally packed with positivity! our exclusive interview with world-renowned inspirational speaker, author and scientist dr david hamilton is all about kindness, bonding, healing and happy hormones. you can also take advantage of our very special offer on his amazing quantum healing Meditation.

natural remedies, though never a substitute for medical advice, allow us to help our bodies in gentle, nurturing ways. to mark the arrival of spring, nic whitham looks at the legendary Bach flower remedies and explains how each one of those bottles, now widely available in mainstream pharmacies, can enhance a different aspect of your wellbeing. last but not least, we have some deeply touching personal experiences in this issue. you can read all about the spiritual healing that removed agonising pain for keeps, and the joy of a woman whose ‘dead’ husband spoke to her from beyond the grave.

Keep safe, well and positive, and above all, be happy!

SUe Farrow

Psychic News: the voice of Spiritualism Two of Spiritualism’s leading exponents helped create and launch Psychic News in 1932. Hannen Swaffer, one of the UK’s most famous journalists, and Maurice Barbanell, a businessman who was also a trance medium, recognised the need for a publication that would satisfy the public’s desire for up-todate and independent information about Spiritualism and mediumship.

They regularly addressed audiences of thousands in theatres around the country as families came

Today, eight decades later, Psychic News continues to be the independent voice of Spiritualism in a very different world. what has not changed is the desire to have an answer to The Big Question: what happens after death? Psychic News makes a unique contribution to that debate every month with news, features and opinion pieces that explore the evidence for an afterlife and spirit communication. above all, Spiritualism and Psychic News readers can enrich their lives spiritually and make the right choices. why not let us be your travelling companion, offering words of wisdom and support, as you continue on your soul’s journey through this lifetime?

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NEWS IN BRIEF

NEWS IN BRIEF

ESSEX TO HOST SUMMER MIND, BODY, SPIRIT FESTIVAL NOT DEAD – JUST MEDITATING IN THE FREEZER six weeks after being declared dead, an indian guru was put into a freezer by his followers, who believe he is meditating and sending them messages. the disciples of ashutosh Maharaj, leader of the divine light awakening Mission, believe he is in a state of samadhi – the deepest form of meditation. followers await the end of his meditation when he will step out of the freezer, in the town of nurmahai, Punjab, and resume normal life. they will have a long wait.

Maharaj, believed to be in 29th January as the result of a heart attack.

await “Followers the end of his meditation when he will step out of the freezer, in the town of Nurmahai, Punjab, and resume normal life.”

the decision to keep him in the freezer was legally challenged by a man claiming to be his driver, who said followers were not releasing the body as they were seeking a share of his properties. the court rejected this plea.

chelMsford will host a big Mind, Body and spirit festival during the weekend of 7th and 8th June. life arts, in conjunction with the Buddhist-hanmi association have assembled a diverse selection of natural health experts, workshops and shows to attract a wide spectrum of interest. spiritual guidance will be available from medium Melayne stone, astrologer demian allan, and inspirational speaker and author ian tucker. the festival, a charitable event, takes place in the Marconi sports and social Club from 10 to 5 each day. for a full programme of events, visit www.lifearts.co.uk

OPEN DAY AT STAFFORD the arthUr findlay centre in stafford enabled the spiritualists’ national Union to establish a permanent base in the UK Midlands. the centre will hold two important open days on 14th and 15th June, when activities and private sittings will be on offer, together with demonstrations and tutorials. among those taking part will be such well-known names as Gerard smith, Jackie wright, eamonn downey, alan stuttle, lynn Parker and Myrrha hibbert. admission is £5. the centre is at 96a, stone road, stafford.

Phone 01785 615513 for more details.

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NEWS IN BRIEF

NEWS IN BRIEF NEW THOUGHTS ON SHROUD the shroUd of tUrin – genuinely the shroud of Jesus or a 14th century fake? carbon dating suggests the shroud is a mediaeval forgery. a new analysis, according to blood patterns, apparently depicts the image of a man who

Borrini says that the hands being above the head in a ‘y’ position would cause breathing

being nailed above the head.

from asphyxiation. he was addressing a meeting of the american academy of forensic sciences in seattle.

Matteo Borrini, of liverpool John Moore’s University says, “if it’s a fake, then it’s a very interesting piece of art and human ingenuity.”

Gilbert lavoie, a Massachusetts doctor who describes his studies in Unlocking the Secrets of the Shroud.

“If it’s a fake, then it’s a very interesting piece of art and human ingenuity.”

PSYCHIC SHOWS CANCELLED scottish MediUM June field, winner of last year’s International Battle of the Psychics, was due to take part in ‘an evening of Mediumship’ at darwen library theatre, lancashire, on 3rd april, and another show in aberdeen on 9th april.

Both events were cancelled “due to unforeseen circumstances” announced the Lancashire Telegraph gleefully.

PN can only groan. how many times have we heard that joke before?

ALIEN VISIT WOULDN’T WORRY BILL

forMer Us President Bill clinton is prepared for alien visits, and approves. appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live recently, he said: “we live in an ever-expanding universe. we know there are billions of stars and planets out there, and the universe is getting bigger. “we know from our fancy telescopes that in the last two years more than 20 planets our solar system that might be

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able to support some form of life. so it makes it increasingly less likely that we’re alone.”

he said that while he had no evidence of aliens, their existence could have

clinton told Kimmel that as president he instructed aides to research the nevada military facility to make sure there were no aliens there. he also had the roswell papers which reported Ufo sightings in 1947.

“it may be the only way to unite this increasingly divided world of ours. all the differences among people of earth would seem small if we feel threatened by a space invader.”

NEWS IN BRIEF

FROM CHURCH TO E-CIGARETTE SHOP the former heywood christian spiritualist church, lancashire, could be converted into the base for an electronic cigarette business.

Jason lang has applied for planning permission for this purpose, and a report is due to go before heywood township Planning committee recommending approval. it states that the “majority of the building would be dedicated to retail the church building in Bridge street was put on the market after the passing of Minister

sheila hill in June 2013. a proposal to convert the

after an experiment with 196 volunteers, canadian researchers recommend Mindfulness meditation. the volunteers all wanted to kill their cravings for chocolate.

heywood christian spiritualist church now meets at sandown house, taylor street.

researcher Patrick williams explained: “the goal is to create mental distance between oneself and one’s cravings, re-wiring the brain into a state when negative habits are broken down and replaced with positive thinking.”

the unlikely sound of humming and the plucking of ukuleles can be heard coming from the cancer resource centre in Munster, indiana. the centre offers beginner and intermediate Ukulele classes to cancer patients and their carers.

encouragement they need in order to cope and heal, emotionally and spiritually.

instructor rima Krutulis says: “i truly believe the ukulele is a happy instrument. once you get the hang of it, it will make you smile.”

ukulele group sessions in chicago, and then decided to pass on her knowledge.

the centre aims to help patients and their families affected by cancer to receive the support, education and

create a sense of detachment from those fattening treats you crave through a form of meditation with its roots in Buddhism.

warehouse was refused recently due to lack of offroad parking facilities and the impact the business would have on the surrounding area.

CANCER, HUMMING AND THE HAPPY SOUND OF MUSIC

she wants to give something positive back to the community, and thought she might start up a beginners’ ukulele class.

MEDITATION CAN CUT THE CALORIES

“it’s one of the best things in my life,” she says, “i wanted to share it with others. it’s fun and exhilarating. you’re learning something new. Between songs we chat, tell funny stories and laugh. as they say, laughter is a good medicine. i think everyone leaves class in a better mood.”

in a hurry for results? williams added that the real brainchanging results come from thousands of hours of practice. so forget that and pass the box of thorntons!

“The goal

is to create mental distance between oneself and one’s cravings.”

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NEWS IN BRIEF WORLDFAMOUS PSYCHIC SPEAKS OUT ON FATE OF MISSING PLANE

a sPiritUal healer from hampstead, london, is to stand trial at Blackfriars crown court.

Uri Geller, the world’s most

for the missing Malaysia airlines ‘plane.

Uri has been using the technique of remote viewing to try to establish the fate of the aircraft. speaking from his Berkshire, UK, home, he said: “remote viewing has been used by the cia for decades. it works by people sending their minds through space and time. i have been asked by feelings are about the situation. “it is my opinion that something happened to the pilot. he was either pushed into a situation to divert the plane by another force, or he did it of his own accord.” flight Mh370 took off from Kuala lumpur international airport en route to Beijing on 8th March and disappeared. the search continues, amid increasingly desperate pleas from relatives and friends of the 239 missing passengers and crew on board.

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Malaysia what my feelings are about the situation.”

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HAMPSTEAD HEALER IN COURT

Juliette d’souza, 59, is charged with 20 counts of obtaining property by deception and three counts of fraud. it is alleged that she fraudulently took money from people to send to a shaman healer in the surinami jungle, part of the amazon rain forest. once there, she allegedly claimed the money would be hung from, or buried under a sacred tree. the people she is said to have taken money from over a number of years had a variety of problems. d’souza claimed she could heal them by working with spirits. she has pleaded not guilty to all charges.

“It is alleged that she fraudulently took money from people to send to a Shaman healer in the Surinami jungle.”

UK NEWS

Jarrow psychic’s medical prophecy

comes true

MarY DarLING, a psychic from Jarrow, Tyne-and-wear, wrote a book in 1999, predicting events for the new Millennium. She later passed to spirit at the age of 90.

Known as Jona Jay, Mary was noted for her prophesies, and recorded them in her book. she helped police during the hunt for the yorkshire ripper, giving an accurate description of him. she also foretold the unlikely event of Muhammad ali’s visit to Jarrow, and the aberfan mine disaster.

are a “lotThere of phonies

out there, and I don’t believe the horoscopes you read in the paper.

But Jona was something quite different.

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her nephew, retired shipyard worker norman Black, 67, recently read her book, in which she predicted “a great event in medicine” when an electric cable would enable paralysed patients to walk again.

from her gift.” norman Black, who also has some psychic ability, said: “she accepted that people were sceptical, including my Uncle norman. he used to say that the only spirit was the one that came out of a bottle! “there are a lot of phonies out there, and i don’t believe the horoscopes you read in the paper. But Jona was something quite different.”

years after electrical stimulation of the spine.

not all Jona’s prophesies have come true. in 1979 she said the missing lord lucan would be arrested, and that capital punishment would be restored. also, that singer Kate Bush would be stranded up a mountain “but would not die”.

“Jona predicted that,” norman told the Shields Gazette. “she faced a lot of scepticism about her psychic powers, even from her husband Billy. But many of the events she predicted came to pass.

in an interview some years ago, Jona said: “i very rarely make a mistake because i won’t say a thing ® unless i am positive. it has never bothered me one iota if people don’t believe me.”

watching tv news recently, norman was amazed to see an american report telling how

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UK NEWS

a Lancashire

fairy story do you believe in fairies? a special photographic exhibition aims to prove that they are alive and well, and living in the rossendale valley, lancashire, writes Kay Hunter.

“It was a bit of a shock when I blew them up. I did a double take.”

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University lecturer John hyatt, 53, says he has taken a series of fairy photographs during the last two years. he insists the images have not been tampered with in any way, and are absolutely genuine.

suggesting they have special powers.

Mr hyatt is director of Manchester institute for research and innovation in art and design (Miriad) at Manchester Metropolitan University. he says of the photographs: “it was a bit of a shock when i blew them up. i did a double take.”

don’t look the same. People should approach the photographs with an open mind.

so did others who have seen the photographs. “there are stranger things in life than fairies,” says Mr hyatt. “i don’t believe they are just smaller versions of us and go home and have a cup of tea at the end of the day, and no one is

“from my experience they were just enjoying themselves and there was a little dance in sunlight going on. i went out afterwards and

“a lot of people who have seen them say they brought a little bit of magic into their lives, and there’s not enough of that around.” according to the MailOnline Mr hyatt’s posting of his photographs on social media has attracted much debate. he said, “i think it’s one of those situations where you need to believe to see.”

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Photo © MEN Syndication

One of the famous Cottingley fairy photographs

(Or did he mean “see to believe”?)

The arguments at the Mad Hatter’s Tea-Party in Alice in Wonderland spring to mind, when the March Hare said, “You might just as well say that ‘I like what I get’ is the same thing as ‘I get what I like.’”

In 2009, Phyllis Bacon, 55, photographed what she believed to be a fairy in her garden in New Addington, near Croydon, Surrey.

The fake fairies of Cottingley, Yorkshire, appeared in 1917, created and photographed by two young girls, Elsie Wright and

and the girls were interviewed about the fairies who lived at the bottom of the garden. They convinced some highly intelligent people, including Spiritualist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Invited to contribute an article to a Christmas edition of The Strand Magazine, he used the Cottingley Fairies as evidence for spiritual good in the modern world.

He ended his article: “The recognition of their existence will jolt the material 20th century world out of its heavy ruts in the mud, and will make it admit that there is a glamour and mystery to life. accept that spiritual message supported by physical facts, which has already been put before it.”

confessed to the Cottingley hoax.

“I’m fed up with all these stories,” she said. “I cringe every time I see those photographs. I don’t want to die and leave my grandchildren with a loony grandmother to remember.”

“The joke was only meant for two hours”, said Elsie Wright towards the end of her life. “It lasted 70 years.”

John Hyatt is not joking (as far as we know!). His exhibition will be ® staged at the Whittaker Museum, Rossendale, throughout the spring.

YET again the famous Cottingley fairy photographs are the centre of controversy.

At the time, the photographs created a sensation. And the row continues.

“They examined the plates carefully,” he wrote. “Neither could

According to the Daily Mail a few days ago, Elsie Wright has admitted “a number of the photographs were faked”.

A few years ago Brian Coe of the Kodak museum re-examined the photographs.

However, I see from our cuttings that when the women were interviewed in a TV programme in 1973 they were adamant in declaring no cheating was involved.

Among those who championed the photos was pioneer Spiritualist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. His out-of-print book, The Coming of the Fairies, reproduced the entire series of photographs.

In his book Sir Arthur tells how he took the original negatives

“I can’t say exactly how they were done,” Mr Coe said on TV. “I don’t see how the girls would be capable of doing them.”

What I found interesting about the Daily Mail quote was that Elsie Wright said a number of the photographs were faked.

Does this suggest to you, as it does to me, that even if some were fraudulently obtained, not all of them were?

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UK NEWS

Acorah driving ban MERSEYSIDE TV psychic Derek Acorah, best known for his appearances on the TV programme Most Haunted, has been banned from driving for more than two years as a result of an accident on 7th December last year. who appeared at Bootle Magistrates Court under his real name of Derek Johnson, was

Thankfully, the “ driver of the other

car escaped without serious harm, but did suffer several injuries and now has a fear of driving.

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He pleaded guilty to driving without due care and attention and failing to provide a breath test. The Crown Prosecution Service said he failed a test at the scene of the accident, but refused to give a further breath test at the police station.

The accident happened when Acorah was seen taking a roundabout at high speed on Scarisbrick New Road, Southport. His Nissan GT sports car then veered off the carriageway and into a Ford Ka. The 52-year-old female driver suffered whiplash injury, cuts and bruises.

Her car was written off, and she has been left with anxiety about driving.

Senior District Crown Prosecutor Philippa Kennedy, head of the CPS magistrates’ unit on Merseyside, said: “Derek Johnson’s driving that day could have caused serious injuries.

“Thankfully, the driver of the other car escaped without serious harm, but did suffer several injuries and now has a fear of driving.

“Failing to give a breath sample is also a serious offence. No one is above the law. Johnson has ban which should send a strong message to all those who fail to drive without the required care, and put others at risk.”

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The Resurrection Man SAM PARNIA, MD is a very special doctor. Not only is he a leading researcher into near-death and out-of-body experiences, he can bring patients back to life after they have been dead for several hours. They can then go on living, sometimes for decades.

Although he now works in America, Parnia is British. He trained in London at Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospitals, and took a PhD in cell biology at the University of Southampton. He left for the States in 2005, and is now Head of Intensive Care at Stony Brook University Hospital, New York.

Parnia has specialised knowledge of a resuscitation technique which can restore life to patients who have died.

He believes the comparatively cheap and straightforward methods he uses year and maybe 10,000 British.

He is so frustrated at the medical establishment’s slowness and reluctance book in the hope of spreading the word.

His book, The Lazarus Effect, is an attempt to persuade us to reconsider our understanding of death. His resuscitation work has led him to wider questions of what constitutes being and not being.

He told Observer journalist Tim Adams: “I believe that anyone who dies of a cause that is reversible should not really die. Not every heart attack victim should die. I have to be careful when I say that because people will say, ‘My husband died recently and you are saying that need not have happened.’

“But the fact is that heart attacks themselves are quite easily managed. If you manage the process of death properly, the heart will function in most cases. It’s

the same with infections – pneumonia or whatever. People who don’t respond to antibiotics in time could be kept for a while longer (after death) until they did respond.

“It’s certain that we will all eventually experience cardiac arrest, and our hearts will stop beating. But in those crucial moments that follow we are back in the medical environment

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Japanese girl, “AFarnia, whom

“The kind of CPR (cardio-pulmonary resuscitation) we are familiar with from medical dramas, the frenzied pumping of the chest, remains rooted. Most doctors will stop after 20 minutes. If the level of

I mention in the book, had been dead for more than three hours,“ said Parnia. “She was resuscitated for six hours. Afterwards she returned to life

of normal, the heart will not re-start.

“In Japan it is standard practice to keep up the level of oxygen in the blood. It is siphoned out of the body, oxygenated and pumped round again. This buys the

recently had a baby.

This technique, known as extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, (ECMO) has been used largely for severe lung failure in babies.

“A Japanese girl, Farnia, whom I mention in the book, had been dead for more than three hours,“ said Parnia. “She was resuscitated for six hours. Afterwards

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and has recently had a baby.”

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UK NEWS

Tea at the Death Café

THE DEATH CAFÉ movement is said to be “sweeping the country” according to the UK’s

He stressed the two-hour gathering is not intended as a counselling session, but he believes down over a cup of tea and a cake and chat about death.

Numbers were restricted and the free tickets were quickly snapped up.

it will be very therapeutic.

“It’s just a group discussion with no set agenda,” he said. “Questions asked

The “ objective is

could be, ‘Do you believe in life after death?’ or ‘Do you want to be buried or

to increase awareness of death to help people make the most of their lives.

cremated?’ or even ‘Are you was initiated by 30-yearold Gavin Whyte, parttime postman, and writer on Spiritualism and personal development.

afraid of death?’

“The objective is to increase awareness of death to help people make the most of their lives,” said Gavin. “You simply meet up for a couple of hours and discuss death.”

“Death is a taboo subject, but

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“I reckon the age group will be 30-plus and all female, but there’s no age limit.

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it is clear that people want to talk about it openly without being judged as macabre. Talking about death is healthy.”

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Giraffe’s for his dying keeper

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A 54-YEAR-OLD former Rotterdam Zoo worker who has terminal cancer asked to be able to say goodbye to the giraffes he had cared for.

touching moment “Awas recorded on

video when one of the giraffes approached Mario’s bed and apparently kissed him goodbye.

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Known only as Mario, the worker at Diergaarde Blijdorp Zoo asked for his hospital bed to be wheeled to the giraffe enclosure. His wish was granted by the Ambulance Wish Foundation, a charity that

moment to say goodbye to his colleagues at the zoo, where he spent the vast majority of his adult life.

A touching moment was recorded on video when one of the giraffes approached Mario’s bed and apparently kissed him goodbye.

their dying wishes. The ambulances are specially designed with long windows so that patients can see the world outside as they are being transported.

“These animals recognised him, and felt things weren’t going well with him,” said Kees Veldboer, founder of the Ambulance Wish Foundation. “It was a very special moment. You saw him beaming. It was very nice that we were able to work on the last wish of this man.”

Mario, who is disabled, also asked for a

The Ambulance Wish Foundation volunteers specialise in taking non-

man back to his farm in Oss, Holland, to say goodbye to his ponies.

The sensitivity of animals, and their affection for those humans they love and trust, is something that never fails to touch the hearts of those fortunate to witness it.

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INTERVIEW

USING SCIENCE TO INSPIRE Scientist, best-selling spiritual author and inspirational speaker Dr David Hamilton tells editor Sue Farrow about what prompted his unique fusion of science and spirituality, why his mum is his role-model for kindness, and the ‘stolen’ library book that changed his life.

David Hamilton is a one-off. chemistry and a PhD in organic chemistry.

He worked for several years in the pharmaceutical industry, developing drugs for cardiovascular disease and cancer.

But here’s the one-off bit: he’s also a bestselling author for the world’s most respected spiritual and metaphysical publisher, Hay House, and an inspirational speaker in huge demand for talks and workshops that, in his own words, “use science to inspire”.

So how did this unique fusion of science and spirituality, subjects so often seen as polar opposites and mutually exclusive, come about?

“I worked for a big company called AstraZeneca, and basically my career was sticking atoms together to make molecules,” David explains. “But what interested me more than making the medicines was what happened when we tested them.

“You get a hundred patients with a drug and a hundred with a fake drug – a placebo.

What amazed me is when you might get 75 per cent of people improving on the drug, improving on a placebo. And that for me was compelling.

PhD, but I kind of shelved it when I put my brain into academic mode for a few years.

But once I started seeing those placebo results, it reignited things I was really passionate about, so in my spare time I was researching mind over science.”

amazed “meWhat is when you

might get 75 per cent of people improving on the drug, it’s not uncommon to get 50 to 74 per cent improving on a placebo. And that for me was compelling.

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So we could say that the placebo experience drew the two major aspects of David’s life together very neatly?

“It pretty much did. I think it was my catalyst. It’s ok reading stuff, but when you’re working with drugs and spending a quarter of a billion dollars and seven years of research to dilate a blood vessel, for example, getting a drug and it’s made of sugar, gets the same result? So, quarter of a billion dollars or nothing other than a thought? Hmm. . .

I wonder which you’d go for?”

Sounds like a no-brainer when you put it that way.

After four years David decided to leave the world of pharmaceuticals because he wanted “to write and speak about the mind and help people to believe in themselves more.”

“I was fascinated by this placebo effect, how people improve through believing they are receiving a drug. Working in drug development exposed me to that effect so I began to study mind-body interactions in my spare time.

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INTERVIEW

Oxytocin makes “ you feel connected

with a person, – warm and bonded,” he explains. “You feel affection towards them. It also reduces blood pressure and cleans out your arteries of dangerous chemicals.

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He also wanted to write and speak about kindness and spread the idea that a small group of people with compassion and kindness in their hearts can change the world.

David’s book, Why Kindness is Good for You, published in 2010, has proved hugely successful. It made me wonder if the seeds of his passion for human kindness were planted long before his light-bulb moment over the placebo effect.

“My mum was my hero when I was growing up, and she still is. She was a model of kindness. She didn’t say things like ‘this is how you should behave’, but children learn just from being in the presence of people, copying their behaviour, learning right from wrong.

My mum is naturally highly compassionate and kind. She’d gladly give you the shirt off her back if she knew you needed it, and I just grew up in that environment.

“I went to a Catholic school, but my mum and dad didn’t really encourage us to go to mass – it was very much my own choice,” he says. “But I developed an interest in spirituality, I suppose, because I was interested in the mind, something my mum, who was suffering with post-natal depression after the birth of my younger sister, kindled in me unintentionally.

“As daft as this might sound, I was about eleven years old and I was on a tour of the public library with my English teacher.

Suddenly a book fell off the shelf. It was called The Magic Power of your Mind, and I took it. Well, I didn’t know you were supposed to hand in a library card!”

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I laugh with delight at the thought of an international spiritual career being launched on the back of a nicked library book, and ask David if he ever returned it.

“No,” he answers unashamedly. “My mum still has it. It’s 32 years overdue!”

And does he see that falling book as one of those ‘meant-to-be’ kind of events?

“I do,” he says. “I absolutely believe it was meant to happen, because when I gave the book to my mum, she devoured it, even though she wasn’t really a person to be reading books. It didn’t cure her in a day, but it gave her a sense that our ways of thinking can change things.

“I would often hear her excitedly and passionately saying: ‘It’s all in the mind. It’s mind over matter. I can do it, and you can do it’. It was a drip-feed into my consciousness that the mind is more than just something you think with. It can really shape your health and your life.”

While emphasising that I don’t have a scraped a pass in biology O-Level) I hazard a guess that all sorts of chemical things happen in the body, depending on what we’re doing at the time. Tentatively I ask if the feel-good factor that sometimes washes over us when we’ve helped someone, might be down to some kind of chemical ‘afterglow’.

“Absolutely,” David concedes. “There’s an elevation of dopamine in the brain, in the little pleasure centres that make you feel good. There’s also a production of the

brain’s natural versions of morphine and heroin.”

This leads us neatly to my next question – the role of the hormone oxytocin (otherwise known as the ‘bonding hormone’ or the ‘love hormone’), about which David has written extensively.

“Oxytocin makes you feel connected with a person – warm and bonded,” he explains.

“You feel affection towards them. It also reduces blood pressure and cleans out your arteries of dangerous chemicals.” that should be bottled! Can its production be switched on automatically without a triggering mood change? How does it work?

“We produce oxytocin when we make a warm contact with someone,” he says. “If we hold someone’s hand affectionately, or show compassion. But you could produce it when you feel inspired. A woman who has a young baby only has to think of her baby and she’ll start to produce breast milk. The breast milk needs oxytocin for production, and the thought of the baby is enough.

“The human body is genetically wired to connect, to experience positive emotion when we connect with each other. It’s part of the legacy of evolution that’s caused the human species to thrive through millions of years.

“We are a social species, so when we connect with each other the human psyche naturally increases in positivity. We don’t even have to try, it’s natural.”

It’s clear there’s a whole hidden world

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“Just be yourself and the right people will love the real you. Once in a physical body where the consciousness was loving itself completely, Anita knew that the cancer could not survive. It didn’t mean it was the same for every person with cancer, but in her particular case, what she knew 100 per cent was that in the chemistry of the body produced by a consciousness that loves itself entirely, cancer cannot survive, and that’s exactly what happened to her.”

and it would be about 2km away! That’s the reality inside the atoms in your body. In

Interestingly he adds that the birth of social media has provided an unexpected bonus for social scientists to study human connection in new and exciting ways they never have before.

Speaking of healing, I tell David that my assistant editor Paul Brett attended one of his seminars and has several times told me he was staggered by the power of the

they do the same strategy of illness into wellness. They imagine the waves of illness, they just imagine intuitively what those

”Social scientists and psychologists can

David on that day.

of inter-connectedness between our spiritual and biological selves – a massive opportunity for ongoing research. what science is really doing is providing credibility and support for a lot of the things that people with an interest in spirituality and the healing arts have been saying for hundreds and thousands of years. Science is kind of validating it – not that it needs to be validated – but that’s what it’s doing.”

what evolution projected, that we are at our healthiest and happiest when we’re connected, when we’re interacting warmly with people.”

Perhaps incongruously, the subject of near-death experiences comes to my mind.

We read powerful testimony from people who have had an NDE and returned to life suffused with a longing to do good to their fellow man and woman. I ask if any research has been conducted into body chemistry prior to and after a NDE. “No general investigation,” says David. “But you’ve probably heard of Anita Moorjani’s case. She wrote the book Dying to be me. I met her about eighteen months ago when we spoke at the same conference, and I was profoundly moved by her story. She recovered from her type of cancer at that stage before.

“After her NDE it dissolved completely within one month. I think the analogy given was ‘like snowballs melting on a hot stove’.

So, that kind of case is a demonstration of chemistry before and afterwards. It’s been corroborated by oncologists who were “Anita told me that the most profound thing impressed upon her as she was returning to her body, the single most important thing human beings have to learn, is how to love themselves. She knew by what was impressed upon her that the choice was to love herself without reservation, in other words be completely authentic, completely herself.

“Basically, I created it because I was looking for a way of taking people out of the normal way of thinking about illness. When we’re thinking of an illness, we think of it physiologically, at the level of cells, maybe.

atoms; if we look inside an atom there’s almost nothing there – it’s 99.9 per cent empty space.

“If a proton was the size of a tennis ball, the closest electron would be a grain of sand

through biology into the cells, into the DNA, into the atoms, to the particles, to the and visualising and illness disappearing, because classically we do visualisation, where we imagine a tumour getting smaller and smaller and smaller – illness into wellness.

be like, and we convert them into waves of wellness. Then we come back out of the body by the same route we took in; back out through the particles, the atoms, the DNA, the cells, back to the body.”

And what of the future for David? He’s now working hard on a new book about the science of self-love, for which he says Anita Moorjani was the inspiration. it comes out next January. It’s going well at the moment. It feels like my strongest book so far, so I’m very excited about it.”

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DREAMS

dreams Understanding your

Craig Hamilton-Parker

Craig Hamilton-Parker, Spiritualist medium, TV host and author of seven books on dreams, is an expert on the rich world of dreaming. Each month he’s here to interpret your dreams. Details of where to send them are given at the end of this article.

NIGHTMARE ABOUT FLATTENED KITTENS DREAM: I dreamt I saw three differentcoloured kittens (tabby, black and white,

Dreams are more “real than reality itself, they’re closer to the self.

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I thought they must surely be dead.

However, as I drew closer to them, I could detect faint breathing. I knew they were very close to death, but that if I could get them inside my house, I might be able to save them. It was with a great sense of urgency that I approached my front door and started to turn the key in the lock in order to open it. To my dismay, before I could get the door open, the key broke in half as I turned it in the lock. The emotional impact of this actually woke me from the dream.

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CRAIG’S INTERPRETATION: This dream is about a series of troubles you have had to confront in waking life. Cats are associated with femininity and independence. In a woman’s dream they can be a symbol of how you view yourself. Kittens suggest vulnerability and the symbolism may point to your own youth and childhood.

The dream suggests that at some time in your life you were faced with a number of soul-crushing problems stacked one on assorted colours in the dream. At the time, you felt that you were emotionally dying.

Think about what are the three most similar, upsetting issues you have encountered in the past: for example three dead kittens could represent three deaths, three illnesses or three serious life problems.

The locked door represents the fact that you have repressed these emotions – you feel that these past problems have given you a feeling of being locked out from inner peace and happiness. The dream is trying to resolve these powerful emotions.

You think that the key to resolution is to address the issues urgently but you continue to feel helpless and emotionally locked out.

My suggestion is that these personal issues are best approached with gentleness. You cannot force this door or – just like the key – you will snap. You have to gently and gradually resolve the emotional upsets and take some of the pressure off yourself.

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is in our idleness, “inItour dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

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VIRGINIA WOOLF CRAIG’S INTERPRETATION: This dream

THE WHITE DREAM DREAM: Several nights ago I dreamt that a friend of mine was the adjudicator in a competition for a music prize. A string of young musicians were arriving, each wheeling tall white plastic folding screens behind which each one was to perform.

There seemed to be a lot of white around – the corridor where the competitors were and they had to enter the competition hall through white double doors, opening off the white corridor. I couldn’t see my friend, because she was already in the competition hall, and the competition was in progress. I had the impression that it was an “open” competition for any class of instrument. One competitor was carrying a violin as well as pushing his folding screens. The atmosphere was light-hearted, and busy. There was a lot of movement from all these young adults and their wheelie-screens.

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times, when we painted the dead with ochre or red chalk to symbolise blood and resurrection, colours have been powerful symbols in all cultures. In western civilisations white represents reverence, purity, birth, simplicity, cleanliness, peace, humility, precision, marriage and innocence. In your dream it symbolises purity, clarity and the truth.

The dream shows that there is a competition. This represents a situation in your real life in which you have to make a judgement or decision. This decision has to be unbiased and not coloured by your opinions or friendships. Each competitor is judged against the same white backdrop.

In the dream they are judged by their musical skill – this symbolises the fact that you may need to listen, perhaps to listen to your heart.

In real life you have a decision to make.

Perhaps this is about people’s character or an issue. The dream tells you to make this decision without pre-judgement. It is ® open to all and only the person with true skill should win.

Send Craig your dreams Email your dreams to: pneditorials@gmail.com putting ‘Dream’ in the subject line.

Alternatively, mark your envelope ‘Dream’ and post to: , Suite 6, Thremhall Park, Start Hill, Bishops Stortford, Herts.

CM22 7WE To obtain Craig’s books or read more about his work with dreams, mediumship and the paranormal, visit: www.psychics.co.uk Craig is also available for mediumistic readings by phone.

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Behind the scenes with...

Paul Jacobs

The popular medium and teacher talks to editor Sue Farrow.

How old were you when you had

Although I didn’t understand them at the time, I have had spiritual experiences since I was a young boy, but I was told by my parents that it was my imagination, or that I was just dreaming.

I watched Jesus come “ alive on the cross, and he

came off the cross and stood behind me, and, in a way, he became part of me and began to speak.

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At the age of 13 I had an objective mystical experience in a Catholic church: I was kneeling at the pew listening to the priest, who was giving a prayer, and I could see myself standing at the altar. As I was aware of this, I watched Jesus come alive on the cross, and he came off the cross and stood behind me, and in a way, he became part of me and began to speak. that it was God’s way of telling me I was going to become a priest, or that I had a weird and wonderful imagination.

However, the experience has never left me, and, since becoming a medium and obtaining a better understanding of communicating with the spirit world, I now realise it was the spirit world’s way of telling me that one day I would speak with the voice of the spirit.

I would just like to make it clear that I do not think Jesus was communicating with me, or that Jesus is able to speak through me. Instead, the spirit world used the imagery of Jesus and what he stood for, as that was what I could relate to due to my Catholic upbringing.

I had another experience in my early twenties when I moved into the upstairs began to have objective experiences. I saw lights and comets shooting across the room, and would hear my name called.

On the one hand these experiences scared the living daylights out of me to such a degree that I would sometimes book myself into a hotel during the middle of the night because I thought the place, rather than me, was causing the phenomena to occur.

On the other hand I wanted to understand the causing, and it was that spirit of enquiry that led me to Spiritualism. It was the beginning of my personal journey in understanding the philosophy of Spiritualism, and the uncovering of my latent mediumistic abilities.

My main mentor and teacher was Gordon Higginson, to whom I was introduced by my great aunt. She was a working medium and a personal friend of Gordon’s, or involved with Spiritualism until I had found Spiritualism myself.

Initially, Gordon placed me in the hands of Martyn Young, who at the age of 19 was already teaching at the Arthur Findlay College (AFC). Even so, I would still attend Gordon’s courses and also his church at Longton, Staffordshire.

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It was only when I “ was working with my

mediumship that I felt and I knew it was the way in which my soul needed to express itself – that being a medium was my vocation in life.

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Gordon would only get directly involved with a medium’s training once they had reached a certain stage in their development Once I had reached that stage, Gordon then took over the reins and became my mentor in the truest sense of the word.

mediumship, rather than the mechanics and rigidity that is sometimes taught, that has to be central to our mediumship, and to the training of mediumship in others.

Working as a medium just happened evening, in the introductary session, he invited me to stand on the platform and make a spirit contact for somebody in the audience, even though I’d never received any training, had no idea of how mediumship worked, or even if I was a medium!

I informed him that I couldn’t do it – didn’t know how to do it – but he simply told me to ask who was there. I replied that it was “a father”, at which he asked, “Who in the audience does he want to speak to?” He instructed me: “Allow the father to move you, by the power, to the person he wants to speak to.”

At this, I pointed out a young woman who was sitting in the audience, who agreed that her father was in the spirit world. Gordon then asked what the father wished to say to his daughter, and again I said I didn’t know. “Well, just ask,” said Gordon. At that moment something inspired me to tell the young woman that her father had only recently passed to the spirit world and had left her £500,000

primary focus of my life, as I was also running my own business. It became from churches, and people requesting my services. While running the business, so I knew I had a decision to make: full-time medium, or full-time business life? I kept asking the spirit world what they wanted me to do, but I received no answers.

To help me make that decision I decided to have a private sitting with Glyn Edwards – a medium I respected greatly. I hoped the spirit world would give me the answer through his mediumship, though I said nothing of this to Glyn. He informed me that the decision to become a full-time medium was mine to make, but that if I did so, the spirit world would always ensure that there was enough work to provide for my physical needs.

This has always been the case, and even though I’d had much success as a businessman, it never gave me real was only when I was working with my

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Recently, the spirit world has wanted to work more with my clairaudience, but they have problems, as I trust my clairvoyance a little more! Even so, I have now given both the spirit world and myself permission and opportunity to manifest clairaudience more prominently in my work. It’s one of the reasons why this year I’ve accepted more invitations to demonstrate in Spiritualist churches, to give the spirit world the opportunity to strengthen this faculty.

If I look back over the survival evidence I have given, there are a number of pieces of evidence that stand out to me, but for different reasons. This is because we have to understand that what is considered to be outstanding survival evidence will differ according to each communicator and recipient.

One of my strongest pieces of evidence

correct. taught me, and what I have held on to ever since, is that it is the naturalness of

I have always used a mixture of clairvoyance, clairaudience and clairsentience. However, it’s the clairvoyance that has been the predominant faculty of my mediumship.

By this I don’t mean actually seeing spirit people, but receiving clairvoyant pictures that can give me practical information about the communicator’s life.

which my soul needed to express itself – that being a medium was my vocation in life.

the AFC, which I mentioned earlier. As I said, I’d received no training at that time.

We were sitting in the Large Lounge as a

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group of 16 students, and Gordon had a lady sitting next to him, who had visited different mediums for a number of years, hoping for a particular piece of evidence from her husband that nobody had yet given her.

Gordon went to each of us and asked us to become aware of the lady’s husband to see if this particular piece of information would be communicated. Each student expressed what they were aware of, and when Gordon came to me I said I was not aware of anything. He informed me that I would have to stand there until I got the correct piece of information from the spirit world, and that nobody would leave the room until I had, even if that meant they would have to miss lunch!

I stood there, shaking in my shoes, and silently cried out to God for help. Even though I knew I was still standing in the Large Lounge, I was actually standing in the middle of a TV studio. I could feel the cables under my feet, the heat of the lights, and I simply came out and said that her husband was a lighting technician in a TV studio. This was the piece of evidence the woman had been waiting all those years for, and needless to say everybody managed to have their lunch!

Another piece that stands out to me was during a sitting I gave to a gentleman from his daughter who had been killed in a motorbike accident. As the sitting moved along I thought I was giving him quite strong evidence of his daughter, including her correct nickname, ‘Betty Boo’, but I was receiving no real response from him.

As we came towards the close of the sitting, I told him his daughter wanted to say a few words to him, but that I couldn’t prove those words as they were not factual evidence. She wanted to say: “You’re the best dad in the world and I wouldn’t change you for anything.”

He immediately broke down, and I asked what I’d done or said. His wife explained: “Paul, you don’t realise this, but the week

before she was killed we told her that he was not her real father, and her response was, “You’re the best dad in the world and I wouldn’t change you for anything.” This was the last conversation the two of them had before she passed to spirit.

its own Spiritualist education centre. At the Zwanenhof I have freedom from the directors to be able to manifest that which I want in the training and the teachings of the spirit.

When choosing my team of tutors, I look These experiences taught me that we for a high quality of mediumship, as a good cannot judge teacher should what constitutes always be aware of important or what the student poignant evidence. is experiencing Mediumship is not Those things we mediumistically. may think of as about becoming a psychic Unfortunately, being incidental or not many teachers superstar, or making a unimportant can can do this. career change. It has to be sometimes be the The standard, most profound and the natural expression of type and style moving pieces of of mediumship your soul. information. the teacher has developed is what the student will basically develop and reach, and this is why it’s crucial that students are taught by tutors of the highest calibre. I use not only British mediums, but also Dutch mediums of a high standard.

This helps to continue to strengthen standards of mediumship internationally.

A very important part of my work has been helping to establish and set up centres in different countries. I’ve never really

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I don’t believe you can express a single quality that a medium should have. There has to be a combination of qualities present. That said, God has to be in your mediumship, but to be in your mediumship God must also be a reality in your life. There also has to be an honest understanding of your own spirit, in all its colours and shades. It’s not just being honest with others that’s important, but being honest with yourself. worked for established organisations abroad; instead, I’ve always helped to develop mediums and teachers who can then build their own centres to continue the work.

I’ve always remembered Gordon Higginson saying that one day that there will centres of light across the world. The Zwanenhof is probably my last and biggest project in this regard. Until now, the only large residential centre has been the AFC, but I feel there’s a need for each country to have

Finally, your motive and intention for wanting to be a medium has to be correct. Mediumship is not about becoming a psychic superstar, or making a career change. It has to be the natural expression of your soul.

This may sound like I’m a very boring person, but I have no time for hobbies!

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HEALING EXPERIENCE I want to tell you about my amazing treatment with Paul, the spirit surgeon who works through the trance mediumship of Ray Brown. After 22 months of severe pain, I am back to my old self again, no longer riddled with pain and feeling loads happier.

The healer who gave me back my life Reader Samantha Melvin shares her moving journey from agonising physical incapacity to restored health, through the power of spiritual healing.

On 18th December 2011 I gave birth to my Son Ollie and was kept in hospital for a couple of days. The night I got home, I pushed my reclining sofa towards the door.

This caused a very sharp pain in the left side of my groin.

The next day I was in agony and couldn’t walk. I phoned the emergency doctors and they said it sounded like Symphysis Pubis Dysfunction, a condition in which the ligaments that normally keep the pelvic bone aligned during pregnancy become too relaxed and stretchy, making it unstable and painful.

The doctors prescribed some tablets but over the next couple of days I still could not walk and putting my left foot on

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Then in May 2013 the doctors sent me back for physiotherapy, and that made my pain worse. I had a much-needed holiday booked for August and was worried my pain was going to ruin it.

I heard about Ray Brown through a friend who had seen his advert inPsychic News. I was very sceptical, but so desperate that I would have tried anything to make me feel better. So my dad arranged a meeting with Ray.

I cannot thank Ray and Paul “enough.

They have given me back my life. I feel so much happier in myself, and my friends and family have said I am like my old self again.

horrendous pain. I had to sleep on the sofa and be carried to the toilet.

Once the tablets kicked in I could walk again but I was still in agony. After a couple more days I went to my own doctor as the pain was not improving. I was sent to hospital and subsequently admitted to Intensive Care with septicaemia (blood poisoning), whereupon I collapsed.

When I came round, the pain was still there and I asked if I could have an X-ray to identify the cause, but that never happened.

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sit and cry, thinking I would be like that forever. When I stayed with my parents they had to carry me up and down the stairs, as I could not even climb them.

I continued to live in agony, looking after my two children and some days struggling to do anything at all. After a few more medical appointments I was sent for physiotherapy, which just made me even worse. Eventually I went for a CT scan but the results were normal.

I continued suffering, having good days and bad days. If I overdid it one day I would really pay for it the next. I couldn’t walk very far, or sit or stand for long, and I could not sleep.

Some days the pain was so bad that I wouldn’t even get dressed. I would just

We went to Lutterworth in Leicestershire to see him – about an hour’s drive for us. I was in so much pain with my lower back, that I could not even feel my leg, which was completely numb. I also had a dreadful stabbing pain in my groin.

When Paul, the doctor who works through Ray, called my name I was so nervous. However, he sat me down for a little chat about what had been going on in the last 21 months, and straightaway said he knew what my problem was.

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Paul asked me to lie down on the couch and proceeded to work on the Symphysis Pubis Dysfunction through my groin area with the help of his assistant, Gillian. He then turned his attention to my lower back, which he said had trapped nerves.

After a while he asked me to sit up and slowly get off the bed. I could not believe it – I actually had no pain or numbness! I was amazed and cried with happiness. I felt as if a massive weight had been lifted off my shoulders. Paul said the nerves were very swollen and gave me a pot of cream to rub on my back and groin.

I cannot thank Ray and Paul enough. They have given me back my life. I feel so much happier in myself, and my friends and family have said I am like my old self again. needed. I have lost all faith in doctors. ®

Thanks again, Paul, Ray and Gillian for everything you have done for me.

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YOUR QUESTIONS

WHY THE EMBARRASSING ADDRESSES?

ASK A MEDIUM

Dear Colin I have been a Spiritualist for just over ten years and have visited about 20 different churches in that time. I guess all of them have different things to offer but I am really struck by how bad the philosophical addresses are in most of them. I know it is all supposed to be about inspirational speaking but so much of what they say seems to be speakers.

Can you explain why it has to be the medium who does the talk? Even if the medium is a good one, it doesn’t mean they are necessarily a good public speaker. In fairness I have seen a small handful who can do both jobs well, but wouldn’t it be better if people did the job they were best at, rather than attempting to be jacks of all trades? Was it always the job of a medium to do the demonstration and the address?

Linda via email

COLIN FRY ANSWERS YOUR QUESTIONS

BECOMING A HEALER Dear Colin I have read you are a healer as well as a medium, so please can you advise me? I have been told by three separate mediums that I have a healing ability and should develop it but I am not sure what to do. There seem to be lots of courses going on but most of them are quite expensive and I am wondering if you could suggest somewhere I could go because I do not have a lot of money?

Marion Braintree, Essex

World renowned Spiritualist medium, minister and healer the Rev Colin Fry answers your questions.

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Colin Fry ALL ABOUT THE CIRCLE Dear Colin In PN and other publications I have noticed frequent references to development circles, awareness circles, home circles, etc. Please would you explain the difference between these and say what actually happens in each kind of circle? Also, why are they called ‘circles’?

Philip

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DIVINATION

We’ve all heard of Oracle Cards – they’re big sellers these days. But how are the decks put together, what are the cards intended to do, and how exactly do they do it? Wendy Stokes explains. . .

Consulting the

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Perhaps the most well-known oracle was the Pythia at Delphi, in Greece. She was considered to be an essential guide not only to personal success but also for important changes in society.

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Oracle An ‘oracle’ is ‘spirit inspired advice’ and the word comes from the Latin ‘orare’, meaning ‘to beg, pray or beseech’. It describes the person who delivers the message, or the message itself.

of the Aztec peoples, predicted the Spanish invasion and the terrible disasters that ensued.

In India, oracles appear in religious books, as they do also in the religious books of the Middle East.

Over the past 3,000 years, in cultures across the world, oracles have been delivered from the spirit world by the shaman, priestess, soothsayer, prophet and many other types of channelling medium. In the ancient world, people would travel vast distances to seek out oracular wisdom. This advice was not free and seekers would donate expensive and rare gifts.

Many readers will be familiar with the 78-card tarot card deck which dates back to the 15th century and provides a wide insight into life circumstances and personality types. These cards provide both upright and inverted meanings which extend their scope and depth.

Other divinatory cards from the past are the 200-year-old Lenormand cards and the 100 year old Kipper cards, from France and Germany respectively.

Perhaps the most well-known oracle was the Pythia at Delphi, in Greece. She was considered to be an essential guide not only to personal success but also for important changes in society. This oracle said there was no wiser man than the great philosopher, Socrates, because he knew his own ignorance and limitations.

In China, bones and sticks were thrown, and a book of linear symbols with explanations developed, called the I Ching. This book philosophy.

It is said the Vikings sailed their boats by the casting of the runes. In Norse mythology, it is of his eyes in order to be able to read the runic oracles – a warning that this ability requires great dedication and also has its costs.

The ‘mouthpieces of the deity’, i.e. the oracles,

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Into this card arena has come the more recent ‘oracle’ card speciality decks which are extremely popular and offer a modern day easy-to-read card for guidance and

entertainment. Decks can be from 20 cards to over 100 and come in a very wide variety of topics. There are many hundreds of subjects to choose from – ascended masters, goddesses, angels, fairies, they cover issues of healing, life purpose, astrology, general awareness and many other special interests. as Native American, Celtic, Mexican or Egyptian and there is a deck to suit all requirements, tastes and costs. The artwork is often exceptionally good; it adds

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to the overall enjoyment of using the cards and can provide deeper understanding about your personal situation or predicament.

Visit a mind, body and spirit fair, a spiritual bookshop or look online for information and ensure the deck you choose to buy is applicable for your needs. The cards should provide insightful and uplifting advice for yourself and, if you wish to share readings, your friends too. If you, or they, are seeking an answer to an everyday question, you are instructed to

guidance about life circumstances and is unlikely ever to do any harm.

However, cards should not be used to predict the future. They can only suggest possibilities and open the mind to choices to consider. Our future is not decided in advance but is open to change. Many oracle decks offer advice on wellbeing but should not be used for health advice. If anyone is concerned about a health matter, The same applies to legal advice if it is must be sought.

that might provide additional meaning.

If there is an accompanying booklet, you Place the chosen card in a prominent position to be reminded of its advice throughout the day.

Oracle card guidance is relevant because our spirit guide will help us to choose a particular card. However, some people think the card is applicable to our circumstances due to the principle of synchronicity (meaningful coincidence).

Some believe the cards work through the Law of Attraction, where positive thinking attracts positive outcomes. Each card features general, common and useful

Two examples of oracle decks: From Wisdom of the Hidden Realms by Colette Baron-Reid with artwork by Jena Della Grottaglia (published by Hay House), I have chosen the card numbered 2, titled ‘The High Lord of Gratitude and Service.’ It and conscious action’. The guidebook provides the following meaning for the card, which was drawn upright. This card your purpose today and you will have thankfulness for each moment, to love what is and what has been. you upon your highest spiritual path and PSYCHIC NEWS | MAY 2014

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DIVINATION of service to others and an attitude of gratitude will yield riches beyond your wildest dreams, but only if you don’t have acquisition as a goal. Giving no thought for any reward is suggested today. You are encouraged to write a list of all the people and events that you are grateful for. There are no friends and no enemies in life, only teachers. Be grateful for laughter and for tears. Gratitude is a magnet for love in all forms.

From Isis Oracle by Alana Fairchild, with artwork by Jimmy Manton (published by Blue Angel), I have chosen the card titled ‘The Divine Guardian’ with a subtitle ‘Protection of the Winged Mother’. From the booklet, this card reveals you are going through a time of spiritual growth and healing. Growth sets its own challenges, many of which can be confronting.

There are many changes taking place internally and externally in your life. You are protected by the love and strength of the Lady Isis with her wings outstretched in love and power.

These changes are a test, and you may need to take some calculated risks but stay true to your beliefs even if your nearest and dearest do not support you because they might fear losing your support as you venture into a new life. The changes are spiritual opportunities which are presented now you are ready for them. It is imagine a sea of golden light. A wave arises within the ocean to reveal a beautiful golden winged goddess emerging from the water. She rises until she is above you and wraps her wings around you until you feel safe, loved and protected. As she breathes, her wings open a little and close softly around you. All is well. A sword is emitting a wonderful light and is emblazoned with scarabs. She waves this magical sword

in the air and all around you a sphere of protection is created.

Creating your own personalised deck It’s possible to create a deck of oracle cards for your own private use or to provide readings for others. Titles and messages might be channelled from spirit or they can be favourite sayings or spiritual ideas that are important to you personally.

However, the artwork you use must be in the public domain (and out of copyright) or you must get permission from the artist to reproduce their artwork. Then create a number of cards to include a title and message. Many oracle card decks are made into an app for iPhone or iPod to provide a quick card reading for downloads. If you wish to self-publish your deck, there are a number of card deck manufacturers who will print them for you but you will need to be involved in distribution and advertising in order to recoup the costs.

Alternatively, if you have good original artwork and a new angle, US Games Inc., Llewellyn Worldwide, AGM Urania, Schiffer and Hay House (the big names in card publishing who have excellent distribution and advertising outlets) might be interested in publishing your deck but look carefully at their submission guidelines before applying.

possible to create “aIt’s deck of oracle cards

for your own private use or to provide readings for others. Titles and messages might be channelled from spirit or they can be favourite sayings or spiritual ideas that are important to you personally.

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Wendy Stokes is a Londonbased journalist and spiritual worker. She is the author of The Lightworkers Circle Guide.

Wendy Stokes has designed her own deck, The Lightworkers Journey Oracle Cards with artwork by Pam Raworth. This card example is titled ‘Contentment – inner peace, serenity, satisfaction’. It has a biblical quote: It also has a storyline: Sally asked her mother for a black kitten with a black cat with one white paw. Its colour was unimportant, as Sally’s happiness for her pet could not have been greater.

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JARGON-BUSTER

What does it all mean?

The PN jargon-buster

Every special interest group has its own quirky language – jargon – often unintelligible to anyone else. Just look at the medical profession – or the game of cricket!

Sadly, Spiritualists are no exception, with a plethora of weird and wonderful words relating to mediumship and spiritual matters, most of which would never arise in ‘normal’ conversation.

So, by popular request, each month we’ll attempt to demystify some.

The Ba:

In Ancient Egypt, believed to be the essence of an entity, whether animate or inanimate. In a human context, there is a very rough similarity to the present-day concept of personality. The Ba of a human being was whatever made that person an individual, and it lived on after the death of the physical body. The Ba of a human being was represented in tomb paintings as a bird with a human head: it day, but had to return to the tomb to rejoin its body at night. It was thought to be able to travel between the worlds of the living and the dead, and to link with the Ka of the dead person (see next entry).

The Ka: ‘Breathed’ into every human being in Ancient Egypt at birth. It was a vital force, the factor by which the life of every person was made possible. The physical body died when the Ka left it. It was deemed essential for food and other necessities of everyday life to be present in the tomb, together with the carefully preserved body of the deceased, so that the Ka could recognise its former ‘home’,

make use of its ‘home comforts’, and rejoin the Ba of the dead person.

ChaKras: In Hinduism and several other major religions in Asia, there are believed to be numbers of chakras or energy points in various parts of the human body, though they have not been detected by present-day Western anatomical studies. Seven major chakras appear to be associated with the central nervous system: these are located at the crown of the head, and the brow,

the vertebral column between the approximate position of the throat and the base of the spine. ‘Chakra’ is a Sanskrit word, meaning ‘wheel’: the sites denoted by this term are regarded as ‘whirlpools’ of energy.

The pineal gland: A small

pine-cone-shaped endocrine gland located between the two halves of the brain. It produces several hormones, including melatonin, which regulates sleep and circadian rhythms. It is thought that in

ZeNer cards

The Ka

The pineal gland

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The Ba If you’ve got a word you’d pneditorials@gmail.com or write to us at the address on page 4 and we’ll do our best to include it in next month’s jargon-buster. some primitive vertebrate species (i.e. animals with backbones) it is responsive to light. Traditionally in Asia and for several centuries in Europe it has been regarded as a ‘third eye’, and is linked with the brow chakra (see previous entry) and thought to be associated with clairvoyant ability.

Zener Cards:

simple symbols printed on cards for use in parapsychology experiments in which subjects could be tested for ESP (extra-sensory perception). The symbols consist of an equal-armed cross, 3 vertical wavy lines, an outline square, an outline circle, and an outline 5-pointed star. The complete ‘suit’ of cards contains 5 of each symbol.

Dr Karl Zener devised the symbols in the 1930s for use in Dr J B Rhine’s parapsychology laboratory at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. It satisfaction of sceptical researchers from the sight of experimental subjects; sceptics suspected that when facing across a table an experimenter holding a card, a subject could perceive (because of ‘see-through’) a dim image through the back of the card of the symbol on the front. Even with a screen set up to conceal the experimenter’s hands and the cards from the subject, it was still thought to be possible for the subject to see the image of the symbol on the card – ® eyes or spectacles!

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WELLBEING

niC WhiTham’s guide To . . .

Bach FlowerRemedies dr edward Bach was a spiritual writer, physician, bacteriologist, pathologist and homeopath, best known for developing the thirty-eight remedies now known collectively as Bach Flower remedies.

We’ll take a closer look at the remedies a us take a look at Dr Edward Bach himself, at his life and achievements. in Birmingham and then at University College Hospital in London, where he became House Surgeon. He also practised privately from his Harley Street consulting rooms. As a bacteriologist he conducted his own laboratory research into vaccines.

In his early thirties he was taking care of injured soldiers who had returned from France. One day he was rushed to the operating theatre himself after collapsing as a result of a severe haemorrhage.

Surgeons removed a malignant tumour from his spleen and it was predicted that he had only three months to live.

Fortunately that prognosis was incorrect

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and as soon as he was able to get out of bed he set to work in his laboratory in an attempt to make as much progress as was humanly possible in the short time he thought he had left.

As the days and weeks passed, he became stronger and stronger, and was convinced that his drive and sense of purpose were what kept him alive.

He felt a great sense of dissatisfaction with the way doctors were taught to focus on the disease or condition, rather than paying attention to the whole person.

Bach’s research into vaccines went well and in 1919 he started to work at the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital, where he aspired to a more holistic approach to treating people.

During his time there, he began to notice the parallels between homeopathy and

WELLBEING his work with vaccines. He developed a series of seven homeopathic nosodes (alternatives to conventional vaccines) which attracted much publicity and gained him a name in homeopathic circles. The use

practice and its reliance on laboratories.

Working with his natural gift as a healer, and allowing his intuitive nature to guide him to the right plants, his goal was to certain could be found in nature.

to British homeopaths.

In 1930, just a few years before he passed to the world of the spirit, he decided to start work searching for a new healing technique, and stepped away from his thriving Harley Street practice.

Throughout the spring and summer months he discovered and prepared new of the plant. Instead they contained only In a similar manner to the way in which he had walked away from his medical practice,

Testing literally thousands of plants and preparing as many remedies, he eventually found he could change his patient’s feelings and emotions with the remedies he had formulated. He connected psychically with the plants to feel their emotions and understand how he might best use them.

Unhappiness, he discovered, could be alleviated by the use of his remedies to unblock the natural healing potential of the person’s own body. Each of his remedies is associated with one of the human emotions.

He settled on a total of thirty-eight remedies. Here is a little information about how each can be used: Agrimony – mental torment behind a brave face

Clematis – living in a dream world instead of working in the present

Aspen – fears and worries of unknown things Crab Apple – the cleansing remedy, and your own self image

“The real primary

diseases of man are such defects as pride, cruelty, hate, self-love, ignorance, instability and greed; and each of these, if considered, will be found to be adverse to Unity.

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Beech – intolerance and lack of compassion towards people Centaury – for those who can’t say ‘no’ and get imposed upon Cerato – when you lack trust in in your own judgment

Cherry Plum – when in deep despair and fear you are ‘losing it’

Elm – overwhelmed by responsibility and feeling depressed because you feel you can’t cope with it all

Gentian – discouragement after a setback or feeling discouraged when

Gorse – when you have feelings of hopelessness and despair

Chestnut Bud – keep making the same mistakes Heather – when you are preoccupied with own ailments and problems Chicory controlling your loved ones

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holly – when you need to overcome feelings of hatred, envy or jealousy

Red Chestnut - overconcern for the welfare of loved ones

honeysuckle – attachment to past memories, living in the past or homesickness hornbeam – tiredness at the thought of doing something, or ‘Monday morning‘ feeling

Rock Rose – when you feel terror or after a nightmare

impatiens – impatience and for those who think and speak quickly but are also tense

Rock Water – self-denial, rigidity and selfrepression Scleranthus – when you suffer from indecision, especially when you have to make choices

Sweet Chestnut – extreme mental anguish, hopeless despair and intense sorrow Vervain – for those who are overenthusiastic, hyperactive or highly strung

Oak – for the plodder who keeps going when exhausted

Vine – for those who like to dominate others and feel they know better than others Walnut – protection from outside Water Violet – for those who feel proud and antisocial

Olive – exhaustion following mental or physical effort (overworked)

pine – when you feel guilt and self-reproach, not based on wrongdoing

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Most of Bach’s work was completed in his new Oxfordshire home, with assistance from Nora Weeks (a radiographer he had worked with previously). This new home was an ideal location to continue his work, in the surrounding countryside.

Star of Bethlehem – shock, trauma, posttraumatic stress Mustard – when you feel gloomy for no reason

remedies, Bach passed to the spirit world, leaving behind the most wonderful natural healing remedies for all to use.

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larch – lack of self-

Mimulus – fear of known things (spiders, being alone, darkness), and also shyness

one year after “completing his

White Chestnut – when you have unwanted thoughts and mental arguments Wild Oat – when you feel uncertainty over your direction in life Wild Rose – when you feel resigned to an unpleasant situation Willow – when you feel self-pity, bitterness or resentment

One year after completing his remedies, Bach passed to the spirit world, leaving behind the most wonderful natural healing remedies for all to use.

If you intend to use these remedies without consulting a practitioner, it’s recommended that you take no more than six or seven at the same time. Research has shown that taking too many remedies at once can reduce their effect.

It is worth noting that pets also respond extremely well to these remedies.

Nic Whitham has been a spiritual healer for the past 40 years and anatomy and physiology, head massage. He also practices Thai massage, is a reiki master of electro-crystal therapy and polycontrast interference photography.

He teaches spiritual and reiki healing British Alliance of Healing Associations.

He is co-owner and director of Banyan Retreat, a spiritual development sanctuary and natural healing centre in Ashford, Kent.

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Mindfulness in the classroom heads of high-performing uK schools are becoming increasingly concerned about the psychological challenges experienced by their pupils, and about the alarming rise in

In a speech to a conference on ‘Building Resilience’, Andrew Halls, Headmaster of King’s College School, south-west London, warned that exam system, body-image pressures and family breakdowns were all taking their toll.

“The frenetic dash from home to school, often after too little sleep, a day of ceaseless activity, and then the evening trying to juggle homework with chatter from electronic devices, proves too much for many.

“As a head teacher I have seen the pressures grow steadily from schools, parents and, above all, from the children,” said Andrew Halls.

Schools are increasingly turning to Mindfulness, an ancient practice of meditation with its origins in Buddhism, but equally accessible to those of all faiths or none. It involves training the attention to be aware, in the present moment, of thoughts, feelings and body sensations that arise,

without judgement or aversion.

Mindfulness works by reducing random thinking or rumination and replacing it with connectedness in the present to the senses, to the immediate surroundings and to other people.

mindfulness “ works by reducing

random thinking or rumination and replacing it with connectedness in the present to the senses, to the immediate surroundings and to other people.

From September, Wellington College and Wellington Academy will commit to Mindfulness, with teachers being offered an eight-week course.

Whichever political party wins power in the 2015 general election, Mindfulness is likely to receive enthusiastic endorsement from government.

Anthony Seldon, Master of Wellington College, commented, “The wacky has become the epitome of respectability and sanity.”

Footnote: on 14th april it was announced that there had been a 30 per cent rise in teachers’ mental health problems.

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PIONEERS OF SPIRITUALISM

10 years of pioneering The project to make the pioneers of Spiritualism better known began with what can only be described as a disturbing dream.

The dream was alarming, but unlikely. In it, I was told that Psychic News was being shut down. It was 1999 and the newspaper (as it was then) had moved in 1995 from London to Stansted, where it appeared settled. But to set in motion a long-simmering project.

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Price

The journal Psypioneer is highly respected for its intellectually rigorous approach to the history of Spiritualism. This month, as it celebrates a decade in print, its founding editor Leslie Price reveals that the publications genesis was rather less intellectual . . .

In 1968, I was about to leave university and had seen advertised in PN the job of Receptionist/Clerk at the College of Psychic Science at a salary of £750 per annum. I applied and was appointed, and was given day to-day admin of the library and its attached archives. Ruby Yeatman, the principal, had once been librarian and had lovingly preserved them.

Here were the original notebooks in which Stainton Moses received spirit teachings; the séance attendance books of early Helen Duncan physical séances upstairs in the College; and hundreds of books by and about pioneers, nearly all of which were out of print. The original works of Lyceum founder Andrew Jackson Davis, thoughtful books by the Rev William Stainton Moses – a powerful physical and mental medium known as ‘M.A. Oxon’ – and most works

by Emma Hardinge Britten, were hard to obtain elsewhere.

PN editor Maurice Barbanell had tried to preserve knowledge of the pioneers by reprinting what he could, not least in the Psychic Book Club. PN managing director Percy Wilson often drew attention to the importance of Victorian investigations. In 1974, PN printed my lament – Why do we neglect our pioneers?

Our friends the Theosophists, who were formed in 1875 two years after the British National Association of Spiritualists,

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faced a similar problem, but from 1985 they had a journal titled Theosophical History, and regular historical conferences.

Could something like that be done for Spiritualism?

It was actually an Australian Theosophist, Gladney Oakley, who advised me to start something online about psychic pioneers.

My old friend Tony Hern, once the vicechairman of the Psychic Youth Group, was well versed in computers. He built a website.

The Spiritual Truth Foundation (STF), a Spiritualist charity, made two generous grants. The Psychic Pioneer became a dot com! Its website carried news items about the pioneers, plus book reviews and editorials. Several slender pamphlets were also produced, and were given a friendly welcome in PN. But in 2001 the project ground to a halt. I had been knocked back by realising how much one of my personal heroes among the pioneers – Dr Raynor Johnson – had been involved with an Australian cult. I had been further worried by the case of an Indian guru, once much publicised in PN, who had been accused by the successors of Two Worlds columnist Peggy Mason of serious offences. (He is now deceased.)

And I used to become anxious: was enough new content being posted on the website?

In 2004 I tried again with a new approach, already popular among specialist audiences – the online newsletter.

Psypioneer began in May 2004. It had no special structure – just a simple Word Paul Gaunt, a student on the Spiritualists’ National Union courses, who had become very interested in the pioneers. He was Psypioneer and soon took on its distribution by email.

Paul also began to scan material for

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republishing in Psypioneer. Sometimes working from poorly preserved originals, he made available such indispensable sources as the ‘on the spot’ report from Hydesville of the Fox family disturbances, compiled by the attorney E.E. Lewis in April 1848, lectures of Andrew Jackson Davis, given at a time when Davis was still a Christian.

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than they were! that anyone can subscribe free of charge.

This means that students anywhere in the world can join our community. We in turn have been helped not only by private donors, but by encouragement from psychic institutions, and grants from charities such as the STF and the J.V. Trust.

We normally reprint as closely as possible to the original, apart from breaking up In 2006 Paul took over the editorship and long Victorian paragraphs. We do not ownership of Psypioneer, and its gradual go out of our way to dig up scandal, but expansion from 100 to 600 subscribers neither do we present a sanitised view of began. (I continued as sub-editor). He is the past. Not long ago we devoted an issue the ‘Elephant’s Child’ of the Spiritualist to William Roy, the notorious fraudulent Movement who, like Kipling’s hero, has an medium once exposed by Two Worlds. insatiable curiosity. He looks at an incident in the Movement’s story and asks: “How do we Psypioneer is unashamedly to historical detail had know that this is what few supporters in the happened? What do the Movement. But we sources say? And from accounts of the struggles were helped greatly where are they in turn

by Duncan Gascoyne of workers from long quoting?” who, as curator of ago moving. the Britten Museum The result can be at Stansted, had himself rescued many rare artefacts. When Duncan retired, Paul the Seven Principles of Spiritualism which, succeeded him as museum curator. when they began life, were not seven, and were not principles! Even more important, We make our share of mistakes, but he examined the story of the Fox sisters believe accuracy is important in promoting and found there was no coherent account. the psychic cause. Ten years ago, for The names, their ages, even the identity in example, there were three differing dates of birth for Helen Duncan being quoted. communications, were confused. Paul set There was confusion about the names of to work to untangle this.

Emma Hardinge Britten; indeed there’s still a Spiritualist church whose website names There was a third person involved in the Newsletter – Garth Willey of the Hardinge, rather than Ebenezer Floyd, a Woodlands Sanctuary Foundation in Bethnal Green school teacher in London’s Melbourne, Australia. The Sanctuary East End. (Her baptismal record was found offered its website as a repository for back in the early days of the Psypioneer project.) issues of Psypioneer, and there are now nearly 120 of them! They can be searched, We have been greatly helped lately by so that if you are interested in a particular genealogist Lis Warwood in Australia. pioneer, you can track down what we have Embarrassingly we have found that published about them. some female mediums, like Madame D’Esperance, claimed to be rather younger There are certain guidelines we have

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Psypioneer is unashamedly biographical. workers from long ago moving. We are glad to recall not only their service to the movement, but to the wider community.

A female national SNU president, who was a magistrate as well as a trance medium, is one notable example. Though we are not evidentially orientated, we have revived some remarkable cases, such as the ‘Great Shark Case’ in Australia, and more recently the spirit return of Raymond, the son of Sir Oliver Lodge.

During the past year, two spin-offs from Psypioneer have emerged. Paul Gaunt himself has been invited to edit a revamped SNU quarterly Pioneer journal, devoted to the Union’s own pioneers. This offers fascinating reading on, for example, the early days of the Arthur Findlay College, the links between Mrs Britten and Ernest Oaten, and most recently the part played by the SNU in helping casualties of the Great War. Psypioneer, is a ‘Friends of Theosophical Archives’ (FOTA). The object here is to save Theosophical archives at risk, such as those in Adyar, India.

Some Spiritualists, even senior ones, are not interested in history. But for a movement that teaches continuity, respect for the past is vital. To understand where we are today, knowledge of the pioneers is indispensable. Why not start reading and re-reading Psypioneer archived at www.wodlandway.org

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SPIRITUALISM

By David Hopkins

Take a chance,

chance, chance. . . connected with that area. We all know of wines from parts of France, of Jersey royals, Cornish pasties, Devon cream and more. Some even have ‘protected’ status to prevent forgeries or clones or look-alikes.

I must have heard it said many times by knowledgeable Spiritualists that there are no ‘coincidences’ and I think lots of us would agree. However, of late I’ve been pondering, taking it perhaps a step forward.

A pre-planned life?

In the past, when Sweden was mentioned, Volvo and Saab came to mind (both are now owned by outsiders). Sweden was thought of by some as a country where anything goes – when in fact it was and still is a country whose people are somewhat conservative, careful and reserved.

a dream’ or to ‘believe in angels’ and many more gems of wisdom. It might even be possible to get lots of the songs and put them together to create a story about life, love and real people, then call it after one of those songs. I wonder why no one has done it before!

connections. Even before I had the lovely Swedish bride, I was a fan of that second big ‘export’- the wonderful Abba (my keyboard doesn’t do letters reversed!).

We often hear that after initial success there was a period when it became ‘uncool’ to state an admiration and liking of Abba music but that never affected my enjoyment. extremely well constructed and the words to have a great deal of meaning, in a and feelings that touch us. It wouldn’t be

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scene near the end where the actress Julie Walters jumps onto the table and urges someone to “take a chance” on her.

I wonder what your personal response to that word might be, and what the views of Spiritualists would be: is there such a thing as chance? Can we have ‘coincidences’ in our lives? Do we have ‘accidents’ occasionally? There is a Chinese saying that everything, even an accident, starts in the head – in other words that we are capable of preventing ‘misadventure’ by being in balance. How far would you go along with that concept?

If there isn’t chance or coincidence or luck (good or bad), does that imply that all that happens to us in this life has already been ‘arranged’ to a fairly major degree? Who would have done the arranging? Who made the decisions? Were they imposed?

Did we have any part in the planning? Did our ‘higher self,’ in conjunction (or not) with our ‘lower self’, organise and plan the course or actions and reactions we would go through?

To what extent are happenings in this life dependent on our existence prior to this life – be that here on earth or elsewhere, in an independent form or as part of a group or greater whole?

If we are inclined to accept that there is a blueprint, a plan, an architect’s drawing with quantities, materials, measurements all laid out before construction begins, where does the concept behind ‘Personal Responsibility’ do we have?

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Did we perhaps exercise that responsibility before we embarked on this leg of the journey? Will our lives play themselves out because or in spite of us, and what we feel, do, say, think, or how we react, on a daily basis?

Can we equate ‘personal responsibility’ with free will to any major extent? Have the cards been dealt and we must simply play the hand given? Have the dice been thrown, the die cast? Is change possible, likely, inevitable, impossible, thinkable, unthinkable? Is there someone who does know better (even if us in a different form or time)?

Why bother to be good? Why strive, out in a preordained plan, lodged in a vault somewhere up beyond the clouds? What has God got planned for us? Do we know, want to know, care?

Is God still learning?

Let me put another theory to you – well, more of a ‘what if’ situation. What if, instead of there being no coincidences, chance, random events, we have a board on which our life is set out? We have a beginning, an end, certain points we must pass, certain situations that may be encountered or skipped over, equipment that will help us get through all the obstacles, that we may or may not need to use, cards to draw, dice to throw. What if God is not living our lives for us but living them with us?

Could it be that God has created all we need, given us all we require to get to the end of the game, but is leaving it to us and chance to see what numbers we roll, what cards we draw, what problems we face, what decisions we make? And while we are making those decisions is he with us?

And while we are learning from the results of our decisions is he also learning from those same results?

What if the Almighty is not just the gamesetter, referee, judge or arbiter but actually part of the game itself? Is there the remote possibility that God doesn’t know it all… yet, but is actually progressing, growing?

Becoming better at his role by allowing the cards to fall as they will, and seeing how we respond? Seeing what actions we take, what reactions are produced – getting ‘onthe-job’ training, in fact?

To what extent are our lives intertwined with the life of God? To what extent are we totally dependent upon his actions, decisions and predetermined view of existence? Or could there be a far greater role for us?

Partners or cogs?

and the roll of the dice, I have to think of events in my own life which indicate that perhaps some issues are pre-planned.

Are we just learning from God or are we in some way teaching Him as well, or Twenty-plus years ago my parents died at least allowing Him to learn from and within a nine-month period. They’d been through us? Are we all partners with Him living with me and on the journey of life, we were very close. co-explorers in the great adventure of became ill very soon Could it be that God existence, brothers after and then went. has created all we need, and sisters not just I was devastated. children, co-operators given us all we require No matter how in the planning and to get to the end of the great our belief and execution, not just game, but is leaving it to understanding of servants, cogs in the ‘death’, when someone us and chance to see what same wheel of which very close leaves, we numbers we roll, what he is the hub? feel emptiness and loss. cards we draw, what The idea that every When the immediate problems we face, what person has such value shock passed there decisions we make? was, deep within me, progression may an absolute and total seem something of recognition that somehow I had to get an outrage in a society where individual myself through until a certain event that worth is played down, where adherence was to take place eighteen months later. to God’s laws and acceptance of his will, I had no idea what was going to happen; I with punishment and damnation for simply accepted that something was going transgression, are the accepted norms. to happen.

What I am postulating is that God has Some things are created us because of his realisation that

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just meant to be

us he cannot reach his full potential; that we are the agents of his wishes, desires, hopes and ambitions – his dreams!

Can’t we allow that God does have dreams, goals, ambitions? Is it possible wants to be more than he is today, needs to be better than he is today, yearns to be greater and wiser and more loving than even he is today?

Blasphemous suggestions?

Does this seem to you like blasphemy? To All-Knowing might also be on that path of eternal progression that our Seven Principles tell us about, is an acceptance of the greatness and power, the possibilities contained within this Living Being. As a living being, God too can be bigger, better, stronger, more compassionate, more caring, wiser than the point in eternity at which we all now are.

Maybe life isn’t all planned, or a random series of events. Perhaps the truth lies somewhere in between. Could it be that we have points in life we are destined to pass through but the journey between those points can be subject to an readjustments? How much control does God want, I wonder?

That ‘something’ was that I met my wife, years earlier we could have met when I was in Sweden, but for a relationship to develop the timing would have been wrong. We didn’t meet, though I was actually staying in her village! This ‘second time’ we met. . . well, the rest is, as they say, history.

I’m absolutely certain that in some ‘greater plan’ we were, and are, meant to be together. So does that throw my earlier musings out of the window? Have I scuppered my own theory? Who knows? I don’t have all or many of the answers, but that won’t stop me posing the questions.

It’s more likely to encourage me to ask them! Spiritualism is about answers but even more about questions. ®

say is that if life is a song, then “Thank you for the music, for giving it to us.”

David Hopkins is a Spiritualists’ National Union minister, author and broadcaster.

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THE FUNNY (and sad) SIDE

OF A SÉANCE Billy Roberts tells the tale of a secret drawer, a packet of jelly babies and a good medium turned bad. . .

Veteran Liverpool medium Eddy Emmery, now deceased, was instrumental in launching me as a medium onto the Spiritualist circuit. He was a good friend of my Aunty Louise (also a medium), and they would spend many a cosy hour putting Spiritualism to rights over a cup of tea.

Eddy was from the old school and an excellent evidential medium. Although

every week apports would fall through the darkness onto each of the sitter’s laps.

Although the small artefacts possessed no monetary value, they were always unusual and consistent, as though thrown onto hand. eventually aroused Eddy Emmery’s

Spiritualism was his life. Like many mediums, Eddy would travel in his old service at a church, often many miles away from his home in Liverpool.

was determined to investigate further.

The séance room was at the top of a

“With a mischievous

showed great potential.

grin, he emptied the sweets into the hidden drawer, made sure it was securely closed, then left the room, closing the door quietly behind him.”

asked with interest, Eddy’s face.

Eddy explained that the circle was

phenomena from the séance trumpet it was never quite enough for the very frustrated sitters who were certain that more was to come.

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Overcome with a mixture of anger and mischief, and realising that speed was of the essence, Eddy quickly retrieved the collection of ‘apports’ from the drawer and shoved them into his pocked. Thinking quietly to the door. Stopping suddenly, he

kept locked all through the week, and

Apart from his excellent mediumship, Eddy also occasionally worked in trance under the control of ‘Laurence of the Lavender’ who, like Eddy, enjoyed a good sense of humour.

After dinner at our home one weekend, Eddy told me that he had in fact sat for over ten years in a physical circle, and that he had

easily slid open to reveal a stash of small

a mischievous grin, he emptied the sweets into the hidden drawer, made sure it was securely closed, then left the room, closing him. usual with a prayer, himself, and waited for the ‘apports’ to fall through the darkness.

After everyone had received their jelly

that, everyone sat downstairs enjoying the

expressing his displeasure, as he turned on the light.

Once Eddy was certain that the medium’s wife had unlocked the door to the séance room, he seized the opportunity to pay

Even then, the medium protested, saying that his guides had a sense of humour, Eddy walked out shaking his head in disgust.

scrutinising the medium’s chair. This was a heavy, ornately designed Victorian chair, whose seat was well worn with years of use.

Eddy was playing against time and felt

Although feeling completely let down, he concluded the tale. “That was surely the a once good and honest medium

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Readers’ Letters This £10 issue’s le winn tter er In

We must look at the Spiritualist movement ‘objectively and non-defensively’ the Spiritualist movement.

Stewart, of course, is not alone in his fears and same rights as each other. no death. Those fears and disappointments are, alas, shared

Unfortunately, this very necessary recognition of equal rights has led to a situation in which we are all encouraged my view, is the most serious issue numerous other groups) at the

defensively. Sadly, some very negative reactions to Stewart’s courageous comments have indicated that some elements in Spiritualism are rife with insecurity.

that even the most unquestioning and optimistic Spiritualist could hardly

I would like to “ compliment Stewart

Alexander on his excellent series of articles expressing his concerns about the future of the Spiritualist movement.”

led to mediocrity.

honest, we would surely concede that we cannot all do everything.

mathematics, no one could make a mathematician out of me. And that’s

thousands of people out there who

have other, equally worthy, yet entirely different, gifts.

lowering of its average standard. or more on a Sunday.

So it is with mediumship, and recognising that fact is long overdue.

would suggest that contemporary Spiritualism is suffering

Robert Bartrum

namely, a willingness to accept mediocrity.

Totnes, Devon

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Readers’ Letters Risking mockery takes courage

I was left feeling a little bemused after reading Ewan Irvine’s piece on conspiracy theories (April 2014). in a derogatory way. Every person on this earth has a right to position on any of them.

not have the courage of his convictions. So why choose such Saying that conspiracy theories are a way of satisfying people’s

explanation, particularly in these three examples. To me, that

amount of smoke and mirrors.

Jan Gardiner Hampshire

Mum in spirit takes care of the cats!

I was lying in bed awake one evening, sadly missing my two cats. They were identical black cats from the same litter, rescued by the RSPCA from abandonment at about one year old.

euthanised at the same time.

top of the doorway. this was not too surprising, as the two cats were identical in

it or leave it. Clearly they retain their individual characteristics in spirit, just like humans!

of having them on her lap when she came to visit. light. However, it was a still summer’s night, with a clear sky.

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PERSONAL EXPERIENCE

the Reach for the Stars course.

My ‘dead’ husband spoke to me

Reader Jacqueline Neath shares an experience she will never forget.

Careful controls were put in place to ensure the integrity of the proceedings.

Two independent people checked the equipment (musical instruments, toys, Everyone was searched as they entered the room. The medium himself was searched and checked, as was the chair in which he would sit. He was then secured to that chair

Graham’s voice to come through.

Scott’s Spirit team whose function is to speak.

The feeling inside the room was electric and very happy, with lots of spirit energy and lots of singing! The room was in darkness and all participants held hands.

The spirit child Daniel and the small spirit talked too much!) hands touch me many times, on my legs and my head.

He then said that he watched me sleep and touched my hair, adding, “Everything

a spirit person through for someone.

The name George was given, along with information that the man could crack

for the illness which affected two parts of Daniel asked if anyone could accept this

me a kiss. Daniel told me to put the kiss in made him laugh.

“The séance was a

special experience for everyone, but especially for me. This was the been to, but in my heart I know it all to be true.”

drawer at home which sticks, and that there was something special in that drawer.

The séance was a special experience for

tutor, approached me and said that the clearest one ever delivered through Scott’s mediumship.

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from the archives LABORATORY TESTS SHOW PATIENTS RECEIVE ‘ENERGY’ FROM HEALER Positive results proved by pictures

BY PN REPORTER

PICTORIAL evidence that a healer under laboratory conditions transmits a vital force to patients came from America last week.

Yehuda Isk, a Polish-born typewriter mechanic living in Greycoat Gardens, SW London, was rigorously tested by famous US researcher Dr Thelma Moss. She obtained remarkable results at California University’s Neuropsychiatric Institute, as the accompanying composite photograph shows.

A volunteer, feeling unwell, photographed using the Kirlian method which registers auric emanations.

Compared to Isk’s it was a sickly haze.

After the healer began treatment a new set of pictures were taken. These showed the corona roles were dramatically reversed; the patient’s were bright auric circles, Isk’s pale and shrunken.

increased in intensity.

“I strongly believe we are making visible something which radiates from the body of a person with healing power.”

“While you treat a subject, the corona gets weaker and smaller. By the time treatment has almost disappeared.”

Of this experiment Dr Moss said, “We know that some energy transfer occurred.”

To demonstrate that healers possess “something” those not similarly gifted lack, Dr Moss experimented. She found everyone had a corona, but healers were quantitatively different.

Isk, who has lived in Israel, asked Dr Barbara Rotenberg, of Nordau Street, Hadera, to comment.

As PN told (January 5), this doctor has seen Isk at work.

Isk wanted this medico to say how his gift compared with acupuncture. Here, it is believed, the energy charge for healthy tissue is transmitted through needles to sick areas until the levels balance.

disappeared.

Dr Rotenberg said: “Your activity is identical, except in your case the electro-magnetic force is passing from the outside. You have this force in great surplus while your patient lacks it.”

The subjects generally have a small aura at the start. At the end the corona has greatly

In her testimony Dr Rotenberg said she witnessed “great improvement” in patients

She told Isk: “While you treat a subject, the corona gets weaker and smaller. By

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from the archives

suffering from locked joints, “which afterwards were freely movable.” This was also seen in cases of rheumatism, migraine and high blood pressure.

how he carried out an experiment after a healing session.

Up to twenty patients at once

“One of his psychic specialties is mass-contact treatment. If a group of patients suffer similar ailments they group round and all touch him. This way, he said, he can heal up to 20 people at once.”

One of his psychic specialties is masscontact treatment. If a group of patients suffer similar ailments they group round and all touch him. This way, he said, he can heal up to 20 people at once.

It must not be for more than ten minutes because the rate of electricity in my body changes after this time.”

His test is simple. A patient puts both arms in canisters of water. This enables his bodily electricity rate to be measured. “It varies with different illnesses,” he said. “For some ailments it rises, for others [it] falls.”

The healer, known as ‘The Man With Electric Hands,’ believes all sickness is caused when the body’s electrical circuit becomes faulty.

He thinks this causes a chemical change for which a medical antidote can be found.

As he told me of his photographic tests l recalled interviewing US healer Ethel De Loach, who practises ‘psychic acupuncture.’

During London‘s international psychic festival (PN on his healing August 18, l973) astronaut Edgar Mitchell was the narrator in seen healing.

blue. As she began healing, the corona was ‘energy’ results were seen at 1972’s Russian conference on parapsychology.

Isk showed me a dossier containing 70 Israeli

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doctors’ letters asking him to treat their patients. Dr J. Alkalay, of Haroeh Street, Ramat-Gan, sent a man suffering from arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries).

This had “affected all the blood vessels, especially those of the brain, during the deterioration in memory and high blood pressure.

healing after hearing of his successes that he sent his patient. He had been under his care for many years. Improvement came.

Most of the healer’s medical tributes were written in Hebrew. During his US stay they were translated. Isk, in his dapper style, told me of one problem. There were so many that the translators began to have headaches!

This arTicle was firsT published in January 1974.

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Isk demonstrates in Israel his technique of simultaneously treating 11 patients who all touch him during treatment.

This carefully-labelled composite Kirlian photograph gives pictorial evidence that the emanations from a healer’s

YEHUDA ISK – Doctors testify to his successes.

column one for the healer and two for the patient. Within minutes Isk’s emanations diminish, sometimes to the point of almost vanishing. After the energy transfer the patient’s new fully-formed corona increases dramatically.

Those of the sufferer are in column three and of the healer in four. These pictures are the result of stringent tests done by famous US researcher Dr Thelma Moss.

Technique reveals the aura KIRLIAN photography, seen in our illustration, is a technique invented over 30 years ago by a Russian husband and wife team. They are Semyon and Valentina Kirlian, from Krasnador, near the Black Sea. A specially-constructed high-frequency spark or lamp generator is used.

This method reveals the play of high-frequency currents on humans, plants and animals, as well as inanimate matter.

From the maze of varicoloured energy around us, scientists have made some striking discoveries about man’s normally invisible nature.

Russian researchers took Kirlian photographs of healer Alexei Krivorotov. His hands were taken at rest and during healing. The results were strikingly different.

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SPIRITUALIST CHURCH, CENTRE & COMMUNITY

Ventnor Spiritualist Church celebrates 75 years VENTNOR Spiritualist Church, Isle of Wight, recently celebrated 75 years of Spiritualism in its present building in North Street with a service of rededication.

The greatly anticipated anniversary weekend of 15th/16th March was launched with what organisers described as “an excellent demonstration” on the Saturday evening in the beautiful setting of the Lakeside Park Hotel.

Three mediums took part, beginning with Julie Grist CSNU, president of Cowes church and an Arthur Findlay College tutor. She was followed by Debbie Morley of Ventnor church, a recipient of the Gordon Higginson Memorial Scholarship 2013. The third medium, also a recipient of the Gordon Higginson Memorial Scholarship, was Darren Orlowski of Eastleigh church.

The mediumship of all three was well received by a capacity audience of 125.

The rededication service took place on Sunday, attended by church members and their guests, plus Southern District Council guests and friends of the church. SNU president, Minister David Bruton, conducted the much-enjoyed service, notable for a recorded address by Minister Eric Hatton, who was unable to be present in person owing to poor health.

After the recording ended, the congregation was invited to share a minute’s silence,

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dedicated to sending love and healing thoughts to Eric, honorary president of Stourbridge National Spiritualist Church, who has a very personal affection for the church in Ventnor.

and its followers had to tread carefully. The Helen Duncan case came later, when she was arrested under the Witchcraft Act.

His father-in-law, Mr W. Jermy, was the founding president, and Eric recalled some interesting memories of Ventnor church shared with his late wife Heather.

of the ancient Act.

Spiritualism is believed to have begun in Ventnor as recorded date of meetings, held in a house in Upper Ventnor, was in 1921.

Ernest Oaten, then editor of Two Worlds, dedicated the present church on 30th November 1938.

Ventnor had many problems during World War II. Apart from a bomb which destroyed part of the church, there was the persistent rumour that the Spiritualist church knew when and where the bombs would drop!

Mr Jermy had to involve the police to put a stop to the trouble caused. At that time Spiritualism was not legally recognised,

In 1945 Ventnor Church members joined the

Over the years the list of prominent speakers invited to Ventnor reads like a Spiritualist hall of fame.

Among them were Helen Duncan, Helen Hughes, Nan McKenzie, Harry Edwards, Harold Sharpe, Ernest Oaten, Bertha Harris, Russell Harwood and William Olsen.

Sometimes, after a major event has taken place there is a sense of anti-climax, but Ventnor has been left feeling invigorated, ready to work for spirit for another 75 years.

Current president Sonia Bewick says: “Enjoy looking at our website and see what we offer in our services, groups, circles and special events. Please come and visit us. You will be greeted with love and enthusiasm as ® someone who shares a similar quest for truth.”

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NEWS ROUND-UP Marjorie Osborn The sad news has just reached us of the passing of Marjorie Osborn in January this year, at the age of 85.

Marjorie was for many years noted for her regular Devotional Services at the London Spiritual Mission, and was the last surviving member of Hannen Swaffer’s circle.

Her inspirational talks were acclaimed across the south of England, and always attracted large congregations.

“Marjorie, described

Marjorie, described as “one of the prettiest mediums to grace our platforms”, did not recognise her psychic gifts until she left her Lincolnshire home for

as ‘one of the prettiest mediums to grace our platforms’, did not recognise her psychic gifts until she left her Lincolnshire home for a London flat after the passing of a dear friend.

passing of a dear friend.

Her new landlord took her to a Spiritualist church, after which she said, “Spiritualism was all planned for me.”

”

She then realised the of the clairvoyance and clairaudience she had experienced since childhood, and which she had thought was “just talking to Jesus”.

Soon after her mother ‘s passing Marjorie had an experience in which the air suddenly became “psychically dark”. Then a bright spot of light appeared in a corner of the room. It grew to saucer size, and her mother’s voice Brown eyes, why are you blue?

“My mother always cheered me up with that old song,” she said.

On another occasion there was a loud

knocking on her bedroom door. When she opened it, there stood the spirit form of a and who had passed with lung cancer.

Peter Geekie, president of the London Spiritual Mission, expressed his sadness at Marjorie’s passing, and told PN: “We will be holding a memorial service for Marjorie on Tuesday 20th at 2pm at Pembridge Place.

Anyone who wishes to come will be made most welcome.”

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SPIRITUALIST CHURCH, CENTRE & COMMUNITY

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Vivienne McIntosh gave a talk on the history of the church, and the development of the Spiritualist movement in Loughborough, dating back to its earliest years in the 1880s.

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Loughborough Strikes Gold LOUGHBOROUGH’S Spiritualist Church celebrated its 50th anniversary with a special ceremony on Saturday 29th March.

A service of blessing was held in its purpose built Steeple Row premises. The service was conducted by Minister David Bruton, president of the Spiritualist’ National Union. In the chair was church president Vivienne McIntosh.

Loughborough, dating back to its earliest years in the 1880s.

The church’s long-serving mediums and members were in attendance on this special occasion.

Spiritualist churches. mediums and members expressed appreciation at the warm welcome and peaceful atmosphere of the church, which is run entirely by volunteers.

Vivienne McIntosh gave a talk on the history of the church, and the development of the Spiritualist movement in

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During the service a reading was given by Charles Coulston, a former president of the church, and now general secretary of the SNU.

The service was followed by a buffet.

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Southport supports cancer centre SOUTHPORT’S Portland Street Spiritualist Church held a highly successful fund-raising evening on 12th April, with all proceeds going to Clatterbridge Cancer Centre in Fazakerley, Liverpool.

The evening was brought about by Stuart Wilson, whose mother Margaret had undergone extensive treatment at Clatterbridge. Sadly, Margaret passed away on 6th April, before the special evening held in her honour.

It was a double blow for Stuart, whose father also passed away during preparations for this event, so organisation was taken over by Julie Quinn. prizes came in from all over North-West England, including a signed photograph of Everton footballer Ross Barclay, paintings, glassware and other wide-ranging contributions.

Mediums/demonstrators for the event were Tracy Harding-Court, Julie Quinn, Karen James, Stephen Cavis, Billy Lister, Dawn Gibson, Patricia Hesketh, Mary Sandison donated their services free of charge.

Tickets were £5, and the very impressive sum of £2,152.20 was raised for Clatterbridge. The event was a sell-out, with many having their names down for cancellations. All at Portland Street Spiritualist Church, including organiser Julie Quinn, wish to thank everyone who contributed in any way to this wonderful evening.

Stuart Wilson and his wife Carley were overwhelmed by the evening’s success, and wish to thank everyone for their efforts on behalf of their family.

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Visiting mediums who would like to serve Bude Free Spirits please contact Carol on 01840 770057 CALLInGTon ChRIsTIAn spIRITuAL CEnTRE Above social Club, well street, Callington, Cornwall pL17 7Au Tel: 01579 382114

pEnzAnCE ChRIsTIAn spIRITuALIsT ChuRCh Bread street, penzance, Cornwall Tel: 01736 368431 * Sunday 6.00pm Service Followed by Healing Thursday 7.00pm Service Followed by Healing Saturday 10am - 12.30pm Private Readings All are welcome

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honITon spIRITuALIsT GRoup Masonic hall, northcote Lane, honiton, devon Ex14 1np

BouRnEMouTh spIRITuALIsT ChuRCh * 16 Bath Road, Bournemouth, dorset Bh1 2pE Tel: 01202 551751 www.bsnuc.co.uk

KInson spIRITuALIsT GRoup * Kinson Community Centre, pelhams park, Kinson, Bournemouth Bh10 7Lh Tel: 01202 715754 www.lightawareness.com/kinson/

ESSEX CUMBRIA dALKEITh sTREET snu spIRITuALIsT ChuRCh dalkeith street, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria LA14 1sp Tel: 07884 481961 Email: phd2003@sky.com

DEVON ExETER spIRITuALIsT ChuRCh York Road, Exeter, devon Ex4 6pF Tel: 01884 861012 * www.exeterspiritualistchurch.co.uk Sunday 6.30pm Service Wednesday 3.00pm Mediumship See website for details of special events and development group

EppInG spIRITuALIsT ChuRCh Thornwood village hall, weald hall Lane, Thornwood, Epping, Essex CM16 6nd * Enquiries: Ruth 01992 576677 or Teresa 01992 812650 (Registered Charity 284561) Tuesday Healing: 1pm to 2.20pm Tuesday Service: 2.45pm Last Friday of every month at 8pm Evening of Clairvoyance £5 ThE sILvER RAY spIRITuAL And hEALInG GRoup Castle Green Community Centre, Gale street, dagenham, Essex RM9 4un Follow us on Facebook

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wInChEsTER ChRIsTIAn spIRITuALIsT ChuRCh stanmore Community Centre (Bottom of somers Close) off wavell Road, stanmore, winchester, hampshire so22 4EJ Tel: 0771 750 7579 Find us on Facebook

vEnTnoR spIRITuALIsT ChuRCh 8 victoria street, ventnor, Isle of wight po38 1ET * Email: groving69@live.co.uk website: www.ventnor spiritualistchurch.webs.com Contact: 07800 986288

BoLTon spIRITuALIsT ChuRCh 21 Bradford street, Bolton, Lancashire BL2 1hT phone: 01204 430053 www.boltonspiritualists.co.uk Email: bolton.committee@mail.com

hEndon IndEpEndEnT spIRITuALIsT ChuRCh Cheshir hall, Foster street (off Brent street), hendon, London nw4 2AA * Enquiries: Lorraine on 020 8346 0289 www.hendonspiritualist church.co.uk Every Monday at 7.30pm (except Bank Holidays) Address and Clairvoyance Entrance: £3 inc refreshments & raffle 5

HERTFORDSHIRE CARpEndERs pARK ChRIsTIAn spIRITuALIsTs * Bushford scout hall, st Georges drive, Carpenders park, watford, hertfordshire wd19 5hd (Hall cannot be seen from road – go up drive between numbers 37 and 39 St Georges Drive) Contact Chris palmer: 01923 221918 Sundays 10.30am Divine Service Healing available All are welcome An activity table is provided for children hITChIn spIRITuALIsT ChuRCh whinbush Road, hitchin, hertfordshire sG5 1pz * Tel: 07581 492507 www.hitchinspiritualist church.co.uk Sunday Service 6.30pm Healing Tuesdays 2.00pm & 7.30pm Demonstrations and workshops as advertised on website All welcome LETChwoRTh spIRITuALIsT CEnTRE vasanta hall, 6 Gernon walk, Letchworth, hertfordshire sG6 3hw Tel: 07825 685029 www.letchworthspiritualist centre.org.uk A

KENT ALdER hEALInG sAnCTuARY Rear of 23 Chilton Lane, Ramsgate, Kent CT11 0LQ Tel: 01843 449983

ThE sAnCTuARY oF hEALInG ChRIsTIAn spIRITuALIsT ChuRCh Mills Terrace, Chatham, Kent ME4 5nz Tel: 01634-880039 Email: george.mcqueen@yahoo.co.uk website: www.sanctuaryofhealing.co.uk

TEnTERdEn spIRITuALIsT CEnTRE highbury hall, highbury Lane Tenterden, Kent Tn30 6LE Email : sandiehawkins21@yahoo.com Tel: 07976 739130

Follow us on Facebook and Twitter dEARnLEY spIRITuALIsT ChuRCh 14-16 new Road, dearnley, Littleborough, Lancashire oL15 8Lx Tel: 01706 377 122

LINCOLNSHIRE sTARLIGhT AwAREnEss GRoup * The pavilion, Road, skegness, Lincolnshire pE25 2EL Contact pat and Elsie: 01754 810680 website: starlightgroup.info

LEwIshAM spIRITuALIsT ChuRCh 65 Boone street, Lewisham, London sE13 5sA * website: Lewishamspiritualistchurch.com Tel: 020 8852 7823 Mediums’ secretary: 078 2672 3575

wALThAMsTow nATIonAL spIRITuALIsT ChuRCh vestry Road E17 9nh * Tel: 020 8503 6942 www.vestryrdspiritualistchurch.org

wEsT CRoYdon spIRITuALIsT ChuRCh 1A York Road west Croydon CR0 3QT TEL: 020 8681 3847

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LONDON (Cont.) woodFoRd spIRITuALIsT ChuRCh 9 Grove Crescent, south woodford, London E18 2JR * Enquiries: 020 8989 6149 www.woodfordchurch.com

wood GREEn spIRITuALIsT ChuRCh (Cnr of Maryland Road) high Road, wood Green, London n22 5AR * Minister in Spirit: Mrs Ida Stenning Enquiries: 020 8888 1992 website: www.woodgreen spiritualistchurch.co.uk Sunday 6.30pm Service Wednesday 7.30pm Service Tuesday 7.00pm - 8.30pm Healing Thursday 2.00pm - 4.30pm Healing

hAMpTon hILL spIRITuALIsT ChuRCh Angel Close, windmill Road, hampton hill Tw12 1RG * Enquiries: 020 8941 5177 www.hamptonhillspiritualists. webeden.co.uk

MERSEYSIDE poRTLAnd sTREET spIRITuALIsT ChuRCh portland Chambers, 55 portland street, southport, Merseyside pR8 1hn website: www.pathways05.com Email: pssc53@gmail.com Tel: 01704 541001

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MIDDLESEX ThE LIGhT on ThE hILL hARRow spIRITuALIsT ChuRCh 1 vaughan Road, harrow, Middlesex, London hA1 1dp * www.lightonthehill.moonfruit.com Email: lightonthehill@live.co.uk Tel: 07528 348 432

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KEnTon spIRITuALIsT ChuRCh And hEALInG CEnTRE 35 Churchill Avenue, Kenton, nr. harrow, Middlesex hA3 0Ax Enquiries: 020 8621 3103 *

ThE sAnCTuARY oF ThE sILvER CRoss Friends’ Meeting house, York Road (opp. sainsbury’s), uxbridge, Middlesex uB8 1Qw Founder: FRAnK MEChELLE president: LIndA ChAnT Telephone: 07792 900194 www. sanctuarysilvercross.co.uk

NORFOLK NORTH WALSHAM SPIRITUAL CENTRE st Johns Ambulance Hall, preference Place, Bacton Road, north Walsham, norfolk NR28 9DR Contact: Rachel Finbow Tel: 01263 588016 Service at 6.30pm

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wITnEY spIRITuALIsT ChuRCh Burwell hall, Thorney Leys, witney, oxfordshire ox28 5np Tel: 01993 200558 Mob: 07813 847955 www.witneyspiritualistchurch.com

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MANCHESTER dEnTon spIRITuALIsT ChuRCh Annan street, denton, Manchester M34 3Fx Email: dennism.jackson@tiscali.co.uk Tel: 0161 303 9080

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NOTTS. MAnsFIELd spIRITuALIsT CEnTRE dallas nottinghamshire nG18 5sz website: Email: snu-emdc.org.uk Tel: president - 01623 842 143

ALCOMBE AND MINEHEAD CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALIST CHURCH * Grove Place, Manor Rd, Alcombe, Minehead, Somerset TA24 6EH Tel: 0783 110 4896 Summer Sunday Service 6.30pm (March to end of October) Winter Sunday Service 3.00pm (November to end of February) Healing groups, a monthly healing day, healing evenings, open circles, evenings of clairvoyance all available on various days during each month.

See our website for the full day-by-day itinerary of what our church can offer you. www.mineheadspiritualist church.co.uk BRIdGwATER ChRIsTIAn spIRITuALIsT ChuRCh Queen street, Bridgwater, somerset TA6 3dA president: norman scott Contact Telephone number: 01278 444450 Email: annewillmetts@btinternet.com website: www.bridgwater christianspiritualistchurch.co.uk

service development Circle healing Clinics The opportunity to receive healing for body, mind and spirit in a peaceful environment healing day Drop in for healing and upliftment in a relaxed, friendly atmosphere Also, guided visualisation for meditation at 11am and 1.10pm YEovIL psYChIC soCIETY Monmouth hall, Monmouth Road, Yeovil, somerset BA21 5np Tel: 0196 322 0306

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SURREY CRoYdon spIRITuALIsT ChuRCh Chatsworth Road, Croydon, surrey CR0 1hE president: Mrs Mollie McManus osnu, Lssnu Contact telephone numbers: 020 8688 1827 & 07990 535942 E-mail: alanpseymour@btinternet.com For special events see our website: www.croydon spiritualistchurch.org.uk

NEW CENTRE JUST OPENED RYE ChRIsTIAn spIRITuALIsT CEnTRE The Rye Club, Market Road, Rye, East sussex Tn31 7JA

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BRoAdGATE spIRITuALIsT ChuRCh 73-83 Eagle street, Coventry, west Midlands Cv1 4Gp Tel: 024 7646 2412 website: coventrybroadgatesnuchurch.co.uk Email: dJJEAGLEA7@aol.com Monday 7.00 - 9.00pm Thursday 1.30pm Thursday 7.30pm Friday 5.30 - 6.30pm

Open Platform third Monday of each month at 7.30pm KInGsTon nATIonAL spIRITuALIsT ChuRCh villiers Road, Kingston upon Thames KT1 3AR website: www.kingstonsc.org General secretary: Mrs Gerrie Chaney Tel: 020 8401 6967

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SPIRITUAL WORKSHOP AND NURTURING SANCTUARY (S.W.A.N.S.) Southwick Community Centre 24 Southwick Street, Southwick West Sussex BN42 4TE S.W.A.N.S. hold Clairvoyant

dudLEY spIRITuALIsT CEnTRE * Inc. dudley & Great Bridge spiritualist Church, Buffery Centre, paradise, dudley, west Midlands dY2 8nB Associated to the Spiritualists’ National Union Enquiries: Ms s. whittle pAs Tel: 01384 75192 Charity Registration 261898 Tuesday

Thursday Please visit our website to see all our events!

SUSSEX - EAST BRIGhTon nATIonAL spIRITuALIsT ChuRCh Edward street, Brighton Bn2 0JR website: www.brightonnational spiritualistchurch.com Enquiries: 01273 571168 or 01273 683088

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WARWICKSHIRE RuGBY IndEpEndEnT spIRITuALIsT ChuRCh pennington Mews (off Lawford Road), Rugby, warwickshire Cv21 2RG Tel: 07854 833119 Email: rugbyspiritualistchurch @gmail.com websites: www.rugbyspiritualistchurch.com and www.facebook.com/Rugby. spiritualist.Church

SUSSEX - WEST EAsT GRInsTEAd spIRITuAL ChuRCh old Court house, College Lane, East Grinstead, west sussex Rh19 3Ls website: www.egsc.info

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WEST MIDLANDS BILsTon ChRIsTIAn spIRITuALIsT ChuRCh And hEALInG CEnTRE (Greater Broad street, Bilston, west Midlands wv14 0Bp 01902 457173 or 07870 408279

BARNSLEY SPIRITUALIST CHURCH * Pitt Street West, Barnsley, South Yorkshire S70 1BB Tel: 0114 283 1238 or 07787 407667 www.barnsleyspiritualistchurch.org Sunday 6.15pm - 7.30pm Divine Service Wednesday 7pm - 8pm Mediumship Thurs 1pm - 2.30pm Healing Clinic Saturday 6.30pm - 7.15pm Healing Service Saturday 7.30pm - 8.30pm Open Circle Other events as advertised in the church or on our website MIddLEsBRouGh spIRITuALIsT (snu) ChuRCh 115 Borough Road, Middlesbrough, north Yorkshire Ts1 3An Tel: 01642 299042 website: marskebythesea.co.uk/ spiritualist-church.html

noRMAnTon spIRITuALIsT ChuRCh hopetown and Loscoe Centre, Back of oxford street, normanton, west Yorkshire wF6 1QE Email: normantonsnucentre@ hotmail.co.uk Enquiries: 07722 370086

A warm welcome to all sTouRBRIdGE NATIONAL SPIRITUALIST ChuRCh union Street, stourbridge, west Midlands dY8 1PJ * Website: www.stourbridge spiritualistchurch.co.uk Tel: 01384 825060 or 01384 352082 Service 2.30pm Service Saturdays 7.30pm 1 - 2pm Healing 7.30 - 9pm Healing All welcome suTTon CoLdFIELd spIRITuALIsT ChuRCh Kenelm Road, off Manor hill, sutton west Midlands B73 6hd website: www.scsconline.co.uk Tel: 0121 354 3266

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WALES BARRY nATIonAL spIRITuALIsT ChuRCh & CEnTRE Buttrills Road, Barry, south Glamorgan CF62 8EF Tel: 01446 420629 website: spiritualbarry.weebly.com

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For information on course costs and breaks please telephone Julie: 01407459402 or e-mail: Thesanctuaryhealing@ hotmail.com hAFAn Y CoEd spIRITuAL CEnTRE / RETREAT Tel: 01639 730985 www.hafanycoed.com See our main advert in this issue TYwYn spIRITuALIsT ChuRCh & CEnTRE station Road, Tywyn, Gwynedd LL36 9Ah website: www. tywyn-spiritualist-church.co.uk Email: admin@tywynspiritualist-church.co.uk Find us on Facebook at: facebook.com/ tywynspiritualistchurch

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ThE LITTLE RosE ChRIsTIAn spIRITuALIsT ChuRCh Barmulloch Community Centre, 46 wallacewell Quadrant, Barmulloch, Glasgow G21 3px president: Gary B. Gray Tel: 0141 347 0455 Mob: 07812 40 40 43 Email: gagr215@aol.com www.thelittlerosechurch.co.uk

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