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by Angela Redditch “In a fully scientific view of the world, only material things are real.” This was the political philosopher John Gray in his ten-minute talk The Limits of Materialism in the Radio 4 series A Point of View on 5th May. Such scientific materialism is not John Gray’s own world view, it seems. His ten-minute talk gently and courteously pointed out to those of a strictly materialist turn of mind that their “creed...is actually a contradiction, for science isn’t a fixed view of things, still less a dogmatic faith.”

For John Gray, the “distinction between what’s natural and what’s not isn’t as straightforward as it seems...Many religions don’t distinguish between nature and the supernatural. For animists and polytheists, the natural world is full of spirits.” For Christians of various denominations, as for adherents of several other major world faiths, it’s important to honour the spirits of the dead. At Eastertime in Georgia, families gather to hold feasts at gravesides. At Hallowe’en in Mexico, the Day of the Dead is celebrated similarly with picnics in graveyards, but also with parades, participants dressed up as skeletons in extravagantly colourful costumes.

John Gray doesn’t mention Spiritualist beliefs, but Spiritualists would heartily agree about that unclear distinction between “what’s natural and what’s not” – and more, they would not draw a line to limit the universe to what human senses or scientific instruments can detect.

He draws on a story from the writings of the author Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) to convey to his twenty-first century listeners an uneasy suspicion that it may not be wise to hold as unquestionable truth that there is nothing to this world beyond what can be perceived by the five senses.

In de la Mare’s story, Winter, published in 1924, a traveller walking under a blue sky through a bright snow-covered and silent landscape breaks his journey to visit an isolated church and graveyard. While reading the epitaphs, he realises he is not alone. A colourfully-dressed figure is gazing at him intently, as though finding it difficult to see him despite the clear daylight. The figure’s

face is honey-coloured, beautiful and wearing an expression of “astonishment and distaste”.

It asks for directions, and the traveller points out the way to “the human road”. The figure’s reaction is to recoil “in horror”. It vanishes, as though “the human world was too dim and murky a place for the mysterious figure to want to stay”. The traveller, aware that this being, “in human likeness, was not of my kind, nor of my reality”, feels “diminished and bereft”, spurned in this way by the exotic entity.

The story, of course, is fiction. It recalled to me, though, a frequent feature mentioned by those who have had a near-death experience – a heightened awareness of the everyday world they seem to be leaving, an ability to see all round, over, under and behind the everyday objects around them. More than that, an overwhelming desire to remain in the new brilliant world they may encounter at the end of that tunnel of light so many of them describe. Also a great reluctance to leave again the nearest and dearest whose deaths they had mourned, but have delightedly met again, more full of life than ever during their earthly journeys.

John Gray’s use of de la Mare’s unsettling story prompted another train of thought. The confident arrogance of the strict scientific materialist, if it could ever be punctured, might – one hopes – receive such a jolt from experiencing a NDE that a return to our everyday, sense-limited world might leave him or her feeling, like de la Mare’s traveller, “diminished and bereft”.

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Contents...

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The man who saw God

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William Roache arrested

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A man with a plan We report on Paul Jacobs’ new initiative

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COVER STORY: Open Week 2013

Near-death experience in Oklahoma

Coronation Street star charged with rape

Sue Farrow on an action-packed week at Stansted

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The price of life

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Spiritualism in the Republic of Ireland

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Divine resolution – or all in the mind?

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Investigators a world apart

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A spiritual story to tell?

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Readers’ letters

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The man who Faith can help depression saw God An American whose heart stopped beating while he slept awoke in hospital, claiming to have witnessed angels and spoken to God. Don Houston, 62, of Oklahoma City, had a history of heart problems. His wife, Rita, woke one night around Christmas last year, to find he had stopped breathing. She immediately phoned 911 and was given lifesaving CPR instructions until the paramedics, Frankie Burch and Carey Crump, arrived.

After defibrillation Mr Houston was rushed to hospital in a critical condition. Doctors could not guarantee that he would regain consciousness, but against all odds, he woke up in the Intensive Care Unit.

He said that while he was unconscious he entered a white room before seeing a parade of angels. An angel showed him two doors, and he was escorted through ‘the door of second chances.’

“Everything was so peaceful. It wasn’t a dream, it was real. Angels were there. God spoke to me.

“The angel said, ‘Don, come with me.’ As soon as we went through that door I started hearing, ‘Don. Mr Houston.’ It was doctors and nurses.

I never suspected I’d go through that door and die, but I did,” Mr Houston told KFOR. “I never suspected I’d go to bed and die, but I did.”

Mr Houston, a Christian, said he is now inspired to tell people that there is a life after death.

“I do know for a fact that there is something out there and you’re not alone,” he said.

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New research in America has found that belief in God or a higher being significantly improves the condition of patients suffering from depression.

The research was carried out at McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, to investigate the relationship between a patient’s level of belief in God, their expectations of treatment outcome, and the actual outcome.

Announcing the results of the study in the Journal of Affective Disorders, the researchers explained that they had followed 159 patients over the course of a year. Each patient was asked to gauge their belief in God, and their expectations for treatment outcome on a five-point scale.

It was found that patients with either no belief, or only slight belief in God were twice as likely not to respond to treatment as those with higher levels of belief.

More than 30 per cent of patients

claiming no specific religious affiliation, but with a moderate or very high belief in God, still saw the same treatment benefits.

Researchers concluded that a belief in God is associated with improved outcome of psychiatric treatment.

They said, “Our work suggests that people with a moderate to high level of belief in a higher power, do significantly better in short-term psychiatric treatment than those without belief, regardless of their religious affiliation.”

David Rosmarin, McClean Hospital clinician and instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical, said belief was not only associated with improved psychological wellbeing, but there was a decrease in depression and intention to self-harm.

He added, “I hope this work will lead to larger studies and increased funding in order to help as many people as possible.”

Previous studies have also highlighted the power of prayer on a person’s health.

Research at San Francisco General Hospital monitored the effects of prayer on 393 patients.

Participation was voluntary, but patients were not told whether or not they would be the subjects of prayers. Half were prayed for by a group of strangers who only had the patients’ names.

Those who were prayed for had fewer complications, fewer cases of pneumonia and needed less drug treatment. They also improved quicker and were able to leave hospital earlier.

A separate study at New York’s Columbia University asked people in Australia, USA and Canada to pray for named people undergoing IVF treatment in Korea.

Half the Korean patients had prayers said for them by the foreign strangers.

Among this half, the success rate for embryo implantation rose from 8 per cent to 16 per cent. Successful conception, resulting in a developing foetus, rose from 25 to 50 per cent.

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William Roache charged with rape Actor William Roache, 81, who has often appeared in the pages of Psychic News because of his interest in spiritual matters, was arrested at his Cheshire home on 1st May. He is charged with raping a 15-yearold girl 46 years ago, a charge he strenuously denies.

Through his lawyers he said: “I am astounded and deeply horrified by the extraordinary events of the last 24 hours.

“I would like to extend my sincere thanks to all those people who have offered their support and good wishes at this difficult time.”

Chief Crown Prosecutor for the North-West, Nazir Afzal, told BBC News: “Having completed our review, we have concluded that there is sufficient evidence, and it is in the

public interest for Mr Roache to be charged with two offences of rape relating to a girl aged 15 in 1967.”

Bill Roache has played the part of

Coronation Street’s Ken Barlow since the programme’s beginning in 1960, and is the world’s longest-serving ‘soap’ actor.

He will not appear in any episodes until legal proceedings are concluded.

This rule also applies to Mr Roache’s fellow actor Michael Le Vell, who plays Kevin Webster in the famous series.

He has been charged with 19 sexual offences against a child, and also denies the charges. The two cases are not linked.

Mr Roache appeared before Preston magistrates on 14th May, and faced a huge media presence outside the court.

His case was adjourned until 10th June, when the world’s longest-serving ‘soap’ actor will appear at Preston Crown Court. In the meantime he has been granted bail, with conditions attached.

Healer wins appeal against prison sentence After receiving an immediate custodial prison sentence of four months for a sexual offence, a Norfolk healer has successfully appealed against it.

William Workman, aged 77, of Sprowston, who attended Norwich Crown Court with the aid of a walking frame, admitted sexually assaulting a

woman who visited him for treatment.

After sentence was passed by Judge Nicholas Coleman, Mr Ian James, acting for Workman, lodged an appeal, saying prison would have a devastating effect upon his client, given his age and physical difficulties.

Judge Coleman said Workman was in a position of trust, which he had breached, and despite taking account of his plea, age and physical difficulties, “the least possible” sentence he could pass was one of four months’ imprisonment.

Reporting the case, the Norwich Evening News said Mr James then requested a grant certificate, which would allow him to go to the Court of Appeal, and that his client would be granted bail during that process.

Judge Coleman initially refused the request, but later returned to court to grant the certificate, giving access to the Court of Appeal. Workman, who was put on the sex offenders’ register for seven years, was granted bail pending the outcome of the appeal.

The court heard that Workman’s victim visited him for healing about 30 times over a period of years. She trusted him and regarded him as a friend. During 2011 she became slightly concerned about the way he was touching her for treatment.

In July 2011 he put his hand below her navel, which “made her jump”, at which

point the defendant stopped. The patient later confided in a friend at her church, who advised her to go to the police.

After inquiries, it was confirmed that the healer had been a member of the Spiritualists’ National Union at the time of the offence, but his registration lapsed in 2011.

The eventual outcome of the case was that Judge Coleman, having “reflected upon Workman’s circumstances”, acceded to Mr James’s submission and sentenced Workman to four months’ imprisonment, suspended for two years.

In addition to being placed on the sex offenders’ register, he was also made the subject of a prohibited activity requirement for two years, preventing him from practising any form of healing during that time.

Mr James said his client had shown “significant remorse” and felt regretful and ashamed.

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Celebrating two decades of service A West Sussex church has celebrated 20 years of service to spirit and the local community.

East Grinstead Christian Spiritual Church of Love was founded on 11th April 1993 by Sigrid Humerston and her late husband Eric, along with Rose Dixon.

Eric was a lifelong Spiritualist and Sigrid had sixteen years’ experience of chairing and committee work with Tunbridge Wells Christian Spiritual Church. Rose Dixon was a medium who joined the couple to support their new venture.

Sigrid told Psychic News: “I remember that founding church service vividly. The hall at the Acorn Centre in East Grinstead was packed and our medium Alan Bowley gave us a very special dedication service.”

The church spent nearly four years at the Acorn Centre before moving to East Court for the next fifteen years.

Twenty years on from its founding, the church continues to thrive. These days its services are held in the Old Court House, a venue surrounded by beautiful grounds with views towards the Ashdown Forest.

Members and friends celebrated its special anniversary on 7th April this year.

“I can hardly believe we’ve maintained it for so long,” said Sigrid. “So much has happened in my own life during this period, but the privilege of keeping it going with our many wonderful helpers over the years has uplifted me during my own difficult times. It has been my strength and sanctuary, and I hope we have brought the same to others coping with bereavement, illness and many other troubles.”

The church holds a fortnightly Sunday service, plus a monthly demonstration of mediumship. Coffee mornings, talks and seminars are also held from time to time. A newsletter, produced by a church member named Michael, keeps people up-to-date with information. Development circles are held for those seeking to develop their psychic abilities.

“Hands-on healing has always been an integral part of our Sunday service,” says Sigrid, along with a short meditation to send out absent healing prayers for those in need, whose names are written in our healing book. A demonstration by a visiting medium is always the main part of our service,following their inspired address. Suitable hymns and spiritual

songs are sung to raise the heavenly vibrations!”

Church members have enjoyed numerous outings over the years, including visits to the White Eagle Lodge Temple at Liss in Hampshire, and the Arthur Findlay College at Stansted Hall.

A number of well-known mediums have visited, including Ursula Roberts.

“This was a special 80th birthday surprise for Eric,” said Sigrid. “It was a wonderful service, followed by a buffet. At a later date Ursula returned to our church to give a day’s seminar on healing.”

Sigrid says that over the years she has enjoyed meeting many new like-minded friends, “not to mention all the lovely visiting mediums offering spirit messages and inspiration to guide our earthly paths.

We are also blessed with our unseen helpers and thank them with all our hearts.

“White Eagle said that where there is love, there is no separation. Although we may grieve over dear ones passing into spirit, we have the comfort of knowing they are still with us in deep, loving thought, and we may sometimes even feel their presence. They are only a thought away.”

Happy 103rd birthday Edith!

Late news has reached us of a very special birthday celebrated in April, writes Kay Hunter.

Mrs Edith Morgan (pictured right), described by Coventry Minister Lynette Coulston as “one of Spiritualism’s most senior stalwarts”, reached the age of 103 on 29th April.

Born in April 1910, the month before the passing of King Edward VII, and the accession of King George V and Queen Mary, does Edith Morgan hold the honour of being our oldest Spiritualist?

Edith is an honorary member of Leamington Spiritualist Church and also of Coventry Broadgate Spiritualist Church. She and her late husband John

were instrumental in the development of the church over the years.

“This support continued until recent years when it became difficult for Edie to attend,” said Lynette. “In the past she and John served both Leamington and Coventry Broadgate Spiritualist Cchurches at every level of church management.”

Lynette suggested that Edie would be delighted to hear from Spiritualist friends, whether or not she knows them personally.

“She is still as lucid as ever,” says Lynette. “Her sight and hearing are failing, but she is still very chatty and we wish her well.”

And so do all of us at Psychic News.

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Paul Jacobs – a man with a plan One of Spiritualism’s most popular evidential mediums is to launch a new initiative to help UK churches and student mediums.

Paul Jacobs (pictured), a professional medium of many years’ experience, has been a long-time tutor at the Arthur Findlay College and as a young medium was mentored by the legendary Gordon Higginson.

“I never became a full-time professional by intent,” he told Psychic News. “Without going into lengthy detail, I seemed to just fall into it. I’ve never been quite sure that any of us were really meant to make mediumship a profession, having to earn a living by it, even though I’ve done so myself.

“If you look at Gordon Higginson, he worked for a shoe company and then had his own shop until retirement age.

To earn a living from mediumship is not easy, and to do so I had to take work and go to places I didn’t want to go, in order to survive. I believe this takes something away – we lose something and it stops us fulfilling our mediumship to the full.”

Now Paul is planning to change the pattern of his work and in 2014 will offer Spiritualist churches a service or demonstration of mediumship free of charge.

“This offer is for one evening each for 30 churches within a two-hour driving distance of Wolverhampton. I will not be charging any fee but would need petrol expenses. As most people know, I live

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in Germany, so will pay my own flight costs to England. The evenings I would be available are Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays.”

Paul will also be offering special help to students, again without charge.

He plans to take a maximum of twelve students in platform mediumship for ten Saturdays during 2014. The classes will take place in Wolverhampton.

“On Sunday 18th August this year I will be holding interviews for those who would like to be part of this training,” says Paul. “Applicants must be Spiritualists and attend a church. They have to want to serve the churches and not just to set up work outside.

Interested applicants must be comfortable giving an evidential contact in demonstration-style in circle, already

working as a novice medium on the platform, or those who have not long started out doing demonstrations on their own.”

Paul acknowledges that people may wonder why he’s decided to make these offers.

“There are a number of reasons,” he explains. “Just recently I heard a recording of Gordon Higginson, in which he said that as mediums we need to be careful of the materialistic aspect, as it’s like a magnet that pulls you in without your realising it.

Saying that, though, he always wanted to make sure mediums were paid fairly.

“For the last 15 years most of my work has been abroad and at the Arthur Findlay College. In my early years I worked constantly in our churches from one end of the country to the other, which I must admit I miss.

“From 2014 I will only be at AFC for three weeks instead of thirteen, giving me ten long weekends which I can now give freely to churches and student mediums.

Without wishing to sound egotistical, my mediumship is of a decent standard but has not reached its full potential. By making this offer free of charge (even though I have to earn from my other work), demonstrating more often in my own native language rather than with translators, and difficulties with language exchange, I can perhaps fulfil a greater potential within my own mediumship, help our churches, and those who wish to be good exponents and of service to those in spirit.”

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Open Week 2013 at the Arthur Findlay College Sue Farrow reports on five days of sunshine and showers, well-attended lectures and an outstanding demonstration of mediumship.

I’ve always enjoyed reporting on AFC’s Open Week and it was a particular pleasure to be back there between 4th and 8th May this year. I’m told that an estimated 2000 people passed through the College doors during this 2013 event.

The programme was certainly varied. Not only were the traditional demonstrations of mediumship available in abundance, but other arts, not specific to Spiritualism, were on the menu, among them dream interpretation, numerology and colour.

Numerous tutors were on parade to demonstrate and lecture, including (in alphabetical order) Tim Abbott, Sandie Baker, Sally Barnes, Colin Bates, Leah Bond, Lynn Cottrell, Eamon Downey, Chris Drew, Margaret Falconer, Julie Grist, Sandy Haggar, Sharon Harvey, Penny Hayward, John Johnson, Simone Key, Jan Marshall, Angie Morris, Maureen Murnan, Lynn Parker, Judith Seaman, Matthew Smith, Bill Thomson, Stella Upton, Steven Upton, Val Williams, Su Wood and Kitty Woud.

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particularly pleased to see increased attendance at lectures, as opposed to the ever-popular demonstrations of mediumship.

Alas, time did not allow me to witness anything like all the many demonstrations of various kinds of mediumship on offer during the week, but one of those I attended was so outstanding as to warrant detailed coverage. It was given

by British medium Jackie Wright, widely respected for the evidential detail she’s able to convey, and New Zealand-born but Switzerlandbased Lillian Steiner-Iten, a breath of fresh air in the Stansted team.

Time and again I sit through demonstrations and wonder exactly why (and what) the demonstrators are demonstrating. That sounds harsh, I know, but it’s honest. When are mediums going to realise that “I love you”, “I’m proud of you” or “I’m always with you” are not evidence of survival?

They mean well, undoubtedly, and do their best, but at the end of the day they lack that essential spark of talent that distinguishes a natural-born medium from the rest. Not everyone can be a concert pianist. Not everyone can be an athlete. Not everyone can be a medium.

Lillian, as they say, has “got it”.

The gift. The inborn ability. Honed through practice and dedication no doubt, but clearly within her.

She and Jackie (who has also undoubtedly “got it”) delivered their respective communications in very different styles, Jackie cajoling with gentle humour and refusing at one point to accept a recipient’s “I’m not sure”; Lillian equally confident with her information but more inclined to await and accept her recipient’s response before proceeding with the next item of evidence.

Lillian was first to demonstrate, having been introduced by the

Lillian Steiner-Iten chairman, Minister Kathryn Grundy, who was shortly to receive a surprise...

Lillian’s first two contacts contained specific information – names, dates, places, causes of passing, horses, jockeys, grooms, a family problem with the ears, a ship in a bottle, a passionate knitter, a daughter-in-law who was a care-giver, five in a family, a new baby, loss of eyesight, problems with a brother on the earth.

Then came the third communication.

It was about a lady. A big personality, knew what she liked, could be quite sharp at times. Either worked with books in some way, or in a library. A mother, or a grandmother on the mother’s side of the family. Surprisingly, given the accuracy of the previous messages, there were no takers for this information.

Lillian continued: Four in the family.

A long-term condition, not a sudden passing. She was a very difficult patient.

She went into hospital but came back home again to pass. Still no takers.

Lillian again: Very much aware of sewing with this lady. She would have sewn her own clothes. A very, very particular lady, wanted everything absolutely clear-cut, wouldn’t have

news Feature any nonsense. In younger years had a connection to a department store. Passing very close to her birthday... And still the message remained homeless.

At which point, a rather embarrassed voice was heard from behind the medium on the platform: “I’m very sorry...”

Kathryn Grundy, who, I noticed, had been paying close attention to the message, finally spoke up, apologising profusely. “It isn’t supposed to work this way!” joked Lillian, drawing laughter from the audience. Generously, Kathryn invited Lillian to cut the message, but the spirit visitor was having none of it!

Lillian stepped off the platform to face Kathryn and proceeded to give her very detailed additional information, which she appeared to accept readily.

Her demonstration at an end, Lillian sat down and Kathryn invited Jackie Wright to work.

Those who know her have learned to expect a high degree of evidential accuracy through Jackie’s mediumship.

She’s also explicit about the way she’s receiving information. For example: I’m seeing, I’m hearing, I’m sensing. I like this, because it allows the recipient a little more scope to assess whether things are being delivered ‘straight’ or may perhaps have been subject to interpretation.

I will highlight brief extracts from an exceptional communication, in which the information was so plentiful that it took almost 20 minutes to convey to the recipient, for whom it appeared to have great meaning.

“A gentleman tells me he’s dad. I hear ‘dad’ very clearly so don’t expect me to change it to the man next door!” she began.

He knew he was going to die and could not be made better. His death in some way divided the family. In life he was at times a bit of a selfish man.

Looked after his own needs before his children’s. Had connections to welding or some kind of machinery.

Recipient has mum’s tin of buttons and was going through them in November.

Looking for a particular button – gold and circular. A passionate love between mum and dad. The start of his funeral was delayed by an accident or traffic congestion. He was a smoker, but stopped. Had a gold lighter. Was one of three brothers.

A young man was stabbed. Died outside in the street (name given). Wasn’t a bad lad. In the wrong place at the wrong time. Became embroiled in something that wasn’t his fault. Was known to the police but only in a small way. Didn’t die instantly. Knew family and friends were

all willing him to live. Had a tattoo on his neck. Recipient not a relative but knows his family.

These two mediums complemented each other well – equally able, but bringing different approaches to their work. Both served the spirit admirably, offering a level of evidential detail that was a pleasure to witness, and is sadly all too rare.

No less than Stansted Hall itself, its beautiful grounds were put to good use during the week, despite the typically unpredictable British weather.

The head gardener presided over a sale of plants that saw a number of visitors purchasing items for their own gardens.

A barbecue was in full swing at lunchtimes, a new initiative introduced for Open Week Freddie Mercury, also known as Miguel Olivares-Alvarez. back in 2012. Many visitors seemed to take advantage of this, while Union organised a Secretaries’ Day others chose to bring picnics which they and invitations went out to every SNU spread out on cloths on the College lawns. church. Over 100 people attended, which On the Monday evening the two gave the Union the opportunity to share worlds met in a very different way as the with many church committee members celebrated Elvis and Freddie Mercury some of our plans for the coming year. impersonator Miguel Olivares-Alvarez “Our general secretary Charles entertained a large crowd in the College Coulston also provided an insight into sanctuary. Though I wasn’t present, I the changes to our Rules for Churches understand a good time was had by all and 2013 which will be published in June, £1,117 was raised for the SNU’s designated following Charity Commission approval. charity, WaterAid. Additional funds for The day concluded with a guided tour this life-saving charity were raised via of the Hall and estate, conducted by collection boxes throughout the week.

College general manager Tanya Smith Speaking with SNU president Minister and myself.”

David Bruton, chairman of the Arthur Despite the excellent demonstration Findlay College, I asked him how he felt given by Lillian Steiner-Iten and the week had gone.

Jackie Wright, and a number of “Open Week always provides the interesting and well-delivered lectures College with an opportunity to showcase and demonstrations, I was sorry from its courses to the home market and for a personal point of view to note the people to share the unique ‘Stansted absence of some of the SNU’s finest experience’, many for the first time,” he exponents. Gerard Smith, Eileen Davies, told me.

Mavis Pittilla, Paul Jacobs and Glynn “This year at each daily welcome Edwards, all protégées of the late, great meeting I asked who was visiting the Gordon Higginson, and all of whom College for the first time. On average have demonstrated their considerable between thirty and forty per cent of gifts in Open Weeks gone by, were people indicated they were making nowhere to be seen. There’s no doubt their their first visit. The overall standard of presence would have been a great asset mediumship and teaching was excellent to those visiting the College, and perhaps and I would like to thank the tutors and enquiring into Spiritualism, for the first course organisers for their hard work. time.

The staff, volunteers and Stansted healers That said, visitors with whom I spoke all worked together to make Open Week during the week had thoroughly enjoyed 2013 a great success. their experience of the College and R “On Wednesday 8th May, the last day told me they hoped very much to of Open Week, the Spiritualists’ National return in the future.

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about because we saw monopoly-money figures being paid to force properties beyond the reach of ‘ordinary’ folks?

Live in areas here in the south-west and see the number of ‘second homes’ that are occupied for a few months or a few weeks each year. That’s not what I call any sort of ‘home’.

The price of life David Hopkins sets out some home truths about genetic modification of food, patenting age-old medicinal plants for profit, and calls for Spiritualism to return to its radical campaigning roots.

There are so many things we take for granted and it’s often only when there is some threat that we begin to take a close look at the things which are important in our lives.

Did you exercise your right to vote?

For example, in the UK we expect to be able to vote in elections. We’ve all seen the pictures from other countries of people lining up for hours to cast their vote and express their wishes for the future of their homeland. We in this country saw centuries of struggle before all adults had that right; have we forgotten the sacrifice made by so many to achieve and maintain this basic freedom? Many of you live in areas where there have recently been some elections; what percentage voted in your town or county? Did you?

Fleecing Joe Public

So then... to heat and light. Thousands, even millions, struggle to pay the vastly inflated charges made by power companies. Countless numbers had a desperate winter (and spring) as temperatures stayed low and bills climbed higher and higher, with profits (shared by a few) taking the same upward route. And that’s not to mention the bonuses the ‘top’ people receive for getting as much as they can from Joe Public (us!).

How can a private company own water?

What about water, then? Do we fare any better here?

Certainly not in my part of the world. We have long stretches of coastline and enormous sums have been spent to upgrade our beaches, enjoyed by millions who go back to their own areas and pay much lower water bills. The question is – how can private companies, perhaps not even based in the UK, own our water and charge so much for distributing it? Usually we have to take into account the cost of raw materials but not so with water!

Huge bonuses but increasing homelessness What else falls into that take-forgranted category? Well, don’t we have a right to shelter, warmth, light, food and water, basic elements in the life of any ‘civilised’ nation? Of course we do. But at what cost? The numbers of those living on the streets is increasing. More and more families and individuals are struggling to afford to keep a roof over their heads.

It seems odd to me that one mark of ‘good economics’ is when house prices rise far more rapidly than salaries and pensions. Increases in house prices are seen as good. But didn’t so many of our problems come

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An act of charity: two women give food parcels to a homeless man. Photograph taken at 79th/80th Street, Broadway east side, Manhattan, New York City.

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Privatising a plant!

ability to sue anyone using nigella sativa without their permission! In 2011, it tried to claim credit for using cows’ milk as a laxative, despite the fact that this knowledge has been in Indian medical texts for centuries.

Let’s consider food. You might have thought it was ‘Mother Nature’ that developed the foods we eat, over millions of years. Look around and smell the genetically-modified coffee. Plants, whether used for Create the problem nutritional or medical purposes, are then sell the solution being bought up by multi-national companies. Did you know that a wellknown company (you have probably Then there is the company with indulged in their chocolate!) is trying patent rights to 96 per cent of to patent one of the traditional uses genetically-modified (GM) seeds of nigella sativa. This plant is also planted in the United States. This known as fennel flower, black cumin company also gave us Agent Orange and other names. The company has and DDT. It develops pesticides, and claimed that it ‘invented’ the use of GM seeds designed to resist them. this as a treatment. Having had three It patents the seeds and prohibits patent applications turned down by farmers from replanting their seeds India’s patent office, the company is year-on-year, sending out agents to now claiming that it’s not patenting sue farmers who don’t comply.

Currently unpatented: a non-GM the plant, just how the plant is used! pea seed germinates (image courtesty Mind-boggling, isn’t it? of Vinayaraj on Wikimedia). $45m to keep This approach could lead to shoppers guessing companies privatising what are natural organisms and turning traditional cures into costly and highly profitable drugs. In its natural state, this plant has been used as a Last year, this huge company and other bio-tech giants cure-all remedy for hundreds of years, to treat anything spent $45m to kill a ballot initiative that would have from vomiting to fevers to skin diseases, and has been labelled GM products just in California, despite 82 per widely available to impoverished peoples across the cent of Americans wanting to know if they are buying Middle East and Asia. This company is filing patent GM. Recently, the company helped force through a claims, currently pending, around the world, to take ‘Protection Act’ that used its name, legislation that control and use the natural properties of this plant for blocks courts from stopping the sale of products even commercial gain as a costly private drug. if they’ve been wrongly approved by the government.

Last year, the company’s scientists claimed to Some farmers and activists are resisting and beginning ‘discover’ what much of the world has known for to win. Some countries are starting to ban or restrict hundreds of years: that nigella sativa could be used for the company’s products. In Brazil, five million farmers “nutritional interventions in humans with food allergy”. sued this company for unfair collection of royalties and It is attempting to create a monopoly and obtain the won a $2 billion payout.

Suicide among farmers

A farmer and his oxen plough a paddy field in Umaria district, Madhya Pradesh, India.

We are seeing small farmers and small businesses being overpowered as huge ‘monoculture’ farms of single crops leech the land of nutrients, diminish genetic diversity and create total reliance on fertilisers, pesticides and other chemicals. There is little evidence of booms in crop yields.

The patents allow the company to prevent any farmers or scientists from testing their seeds. Farmers take up multi-year contracts, seed prices rise, and they have to buy new seed each year and use more herbicides to deal with ‘super weeds’ that develop immunity. In India, one area has been called the continued on page 12

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news feature Continued from page 11... ‘suicide belt’ because so many farmers have taken their lives because of crippling debt. Now this company seeks to patent varieties of everyday vegetables and fruits like cucumber, broccoli and melons, making growers pay them for seed and risk being sued if they don’t.

Spiritualism should concern itself with this world If this all seems very ‘political’ then I make no apology. You may wonder what place such an article has in Psychic News, a Spiritualist magazine. May I suggest that if Spiritualism does not concern itself with the basics of existence then it serves little useful purpose?

Giving evidence of ‘life after death’ pales when set against giving value to life in the here-and-now.

What is clear is that when it came to handing out business acumen, God clearly wasn’t at the front of the queue! Had he/she been, just think of the returns he/ she could have made for self and his/her board members, shareholders, backers and lobbyists! If God had really been planning ahead he/ she could have thwarted the greedy and avaricious who seem to be taking over our lives and our futures.

Fantasy or reality?

Check it for yourself Is all this stuff just me going off on some wild flights of fantasy? Well, I’ve speculated in the later paragraphs but have simply laid out information in the earlier sections, information that can easily be checked and verified by the wonder of Google. There are more and more groups of people coming together to stop commerce, big business, the corporate world, from having things their own way.

Websites spring up all the time to chivvy us first into thinking and then into acting to guard and protect what we hold most dear.

Heeding the warnings while there’s still time

Fail to heed the warnings and we face a world where we are pumped full of chemicals, be they medications or pesticides, our food becoming as unnatural as are these concoctions, our bodies dependent on drugs to prevent this, that and every disease about which rumours are spread.

In a hundred years, will humanity look back The great Victorian journalist and Spiritualist at us and wonder how we W. T. Stead was prepared to go to prison to could have been so stupid oppose child prostitution and slavery. as to have been carried along by the advertising, the hype, the self-interest, What next? the desire for profit, stuffing ourselves with statins and anti-this, pro-that, vaccinations against even the Patenting the soul? mildest conditions that humanity has coped with very successfully for generations?

What might be next on the list, this list of things we all take (or perhaps I should say took) to be what is part of our natural heritage, our birthright as we call (or called) Spiritualism it? For instance – we’re all made up of cells. Which company is going to get the patent on cell creation and a campaigning force the contract for cell maintenance? If plants can be seen as the stuff of commerce, patents and trade marks, is Well done, campaigning websites like Avaaz, 38 Degrees, anything safe? Experiments have shown that at death Change.org and many others. Once, Spiritualism was something leaves that can actually be measured by a a campaigning, championing, reforming force that saw reduction in the weight of the body. When will we read its place alongside the pioneers of social justice and the that someone has secured the rights to what has gone improvement of life for all.

– the spirit or soul?

Life can, could, should, be wonderfully exciting, And after our individual lives have been taken, challenging and rewarding yet in our generation we parcelled, labelled, measured and marketed, where face the wiping out of so much that lies at the core of next? If you are really going to do this properly there’s existence. When I told my wife the title of this piece, only one final aim – to patent God. Then you have it all she suggested that the price of life may be life – the earth and all it contains, sun and planets, indeed itself. If it is, then is that cost too great? the entire universe, plus the rights to the past and the • David Hopkins is an SNU minister, option to control the future. author and broadcaster.

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Spiritualism in the Republic of Ireland London-based writer and spiritual worker Wendy Stokes introduces medium Tom Colton, president of the Spiritualist Union of Ireland.

As a child, Tom communicated and interacted with spirit. He was very close to his great grandmother, who was psychic, but adds that “this wasn’t talked about in Catholic Ireland in those days.

“When my uncle Richard died in 2001, I reconnected with spirit and spent nine years studying a wide variety of disciplines, both in Ireland and the UK. I became a reiki master and completed the National Federation of Spiritual Healers’ qualification and then advanced my mediumship by studying at the Arthur Findlay College, Stansted.”

Tom now facilitates development circles and offers private and public sittings in Ireland. He is the founder member and the president of the Spiritualist Union of Ireland (SUI).

“As a Spiritualist,” says Tom, “I believe that when the physical body dies, the spirit lives on, and we can communicate with, and deliver messages from spirit which provide proof of spirit survival. Mainly, I work clairaudiently and clairsentiently, and sometimes clairvoyantly. I love to receive and deliver intricate details about enquirers’ loved ones in spirit, especially when that information comes as a surprise.”

Tom has now written his first book, entitled Are We Ever Going to Meet? – A Bridge Between This World and the Next, and published by the Irish firm Poolbeg.

“I decided to write this book to explain that I personally believe everyone can be a medium by Tom Colton, president of the developing Spiritualist Union of Ireland

communication with spirit, and the book provides many Wendy Stokes examples of this.”

In May 2009, the Republic of Ireland opened its first Spiritualist church, called the Spiritualist Union of Ireland, and Tom was the first Irish medium to tour the country demonstrating mediumship.

“We sometimes face critics and we want to spread awareness that spirit wish to be in contact openly, unlike in days gone by, when mediumship took place strictly in private,” Tom explains.

“Ireland has begun to embrace modernity in the past ten years and many people now have open minds and are willing to investigate ideas that are new to them, such as spiritual healing.

Ireland still has a long way to go in terms of recognition, but awareness and interest are growing.

Keen to spread the word about future plans for Spiritualism in the Republic of Ireland, Tom adds: “We are setting up a Spiritualist sanctuary in Kilcarbery to promote mediumship and healing. We are also inviting mediums and healers to join us on our community forum, for classes and courses. As a minister of SUI, I am now authorised to carry out weddings, and these celebrations can be personally scripted by those involved. I also perform civil partnership and naming ceremonies, and funeral services.”

Among other accomplishments, Tom has produced a meditation CD and raises funds for the Children’s Medical and Research Foundation, a charity dedicated to providing specialist cancer and cardiac facilities for sick children.

Readers who would like to receive Tom’s newsletter, or to learn more about Spiritualism in the Republic of R Ireland, can do so by visiting: spiritualistunion.com Tom’s own website is at: www.tomcolton.com

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by Billy Roberts Our parents are no doubt unwittingly the architects of our destinies, and from the earliest moments of our life on this planet our future is essentially in their hands.

In fact, from a very early age our parents programme us and chastise us by imposing upon us their likes and dislikes, effectively creating us psychologically, emotionally and sometimes spiritually in their own image, in very much the same way their parents did to them.

However, if we’re fortunate enough to have wellgrounded, intelligent and far-seeing parents, it’s a fairly safe bet that we will do well in life, circumstances permitting. Even so, there are other psychological factors to be considered, such as the impressions made on us by our peers, and how much we are influenced by the people we mix with.

Insecurities in a competitive world We live to all intents and purposes in an extremely competitive world, a world in which our human frailties are constantly being put to the test, often beyond our endurance. Little wonder, then, that many of us are insecure and lack confidence. We can’t really help but admire those who have done well in life, occasionally to the extent of feeling somewhat jealous, and in some cases, resentful. Good luck to them! you may well say, but if you’re honest with yourself there is always a part of you that says, “I could have done better than that! If only...”

There are ‘if onlys’ in every life, and there is always a little jealousy when we see others achieve something that inwardly we know we could have done ten times better given the opportunity. But that’s just it, isn’t it?

The opportunity is never presented to those who don’t expect it! Why do some people who appear to have no real talent get on in life and others with exceptional skills fail in everything they do? Or could it be that those who succeed in life resonate with some sort of universal magnetism that sets everything in motion for them, affording them success, good health, wealth and happiness?

Or is success passed down to us from our forebears, through some sort of genetic electrical impulse system?

I would say there is far more to success than luck or good business acumen, and there is always something quite special about those who succeed – something that makes them stand out from the crowd. It’s said that if you desperately want to succeed in any chosen profession, to the extent that it preoccupies every aspect of your being, then nature will always conspire to lead you into a position whereby your dreams and

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aspirations may be fulfilled.

The architects of our own destinies?

Looking at it this way, we are the architects of our own destinies, as long as we don’t allow our parents’ control of our minds to last forever, or to interfere with our dreams when we are young. However, as we don’t have any say in the matter when we’re children, we have to do what we are told. But in the majority of people there is the potential of a genius that lies dormant, waiting for that moment of arousal. For many that moment never arrives, simply because their dream never really seems to become strong enough. And no matter how talented a person is, a negative attitude will always prevent him or her from realising their full potential and becoming successful.

You don’t need a book to tell you how difficult it is to pull yourself together when one problem seems to follow another, very often making you feel as though some invisible force is exerting its power over you, and delighting in the misery it’s causing. And then someone makes the inane suggestion that you should really have faith, or just pull yourself together! Well, if you could you most certainly would, wouldn’t you?

The effect of low self-esteem Is faith enough? Or for that matter, belief in a monotheistic God? The mind is the common denominator where our lives are concerned and, depending on what frame it is in when we are faced with a decision, once that decision has been made there is no turning back. It’s difficult to cultivate a positive attitude when everything in life has gone wrong. Stress is insidious and has a way of slowly wearing us down. In fact, the effects of stress are holistic and affect every part of our being.

When we have low self-esteem everything affects us.

A stranger’s odd glance, a pointing finger, an unfriendly voice, will bring us down more, even though the perpetrators of the things responsible for bringing us down most probably never intended them in that way.

More often than not it’s all in the mind. It’s said that we are what we eat, and this is true to a large extent. But it’s now widely accepted that we are what we think.

The power of thought The way we think exerts a far greater power over our lives than we realise. I’m not talking about thinking fleeting, ill-defined thoughts, but rather thoughts that are one-pointed, focused and persistent. The Biblical

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proverb “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he,” is so comprehensive as to reach out to every situation and circumstance of our lives. It makes sense then, that if, as the old saying goes, we can think ourselves into an early grave, then we can surely increase our longevity through the same mental process.

An individual who thinks that no good will ever come out of anything he or she does, is constantly defeating his or her own purpose. Negative thoughts always produce negative actions, and negative actions more often than not create corresponding circumstances. A person who has become accustomed to thinking in this way takes a grim delight in being right about their own persistent failures. Little does this person realise that his or her failure in life originates in their own mind.

Half full or half empty?

In fact, we are all the architects of our own destinies by the way we think, and we are constantly peopling our own private portion of space with the thoughts we produce. That portion of space can either be filled with the radiating power of success, happiness and good health, or cluttered with misery, failure and the fear of poor health. The longer we dwell in the gloom of negative thinking, the more difficult it will be to transform that gloom into the radiance of a positive and dynamically successful life.

To a negative person half a glass of water will always be half empty, never half full. Positive thoughts possess the same power as negative thoughts and work in the opposite way. The power of the mind is in itself neither negative nor positive – it just is. When we have spent a lifetime thinking negative thoughts, cultivating the process of positive thinking obviously becomes all the more difficult. Although initially we may not be able to stop negative thoughts from passing occasionally through our minds, we do have the power to prevent them from being expressed orally.

Voicing fears and apprehensions not only quickens their resonance with the universe, but also makes others privy to our weaknesses. Once this has been done, the horizons of success seem to us to disappear altogether, and it is as though we are sitting in a brown study, staring through the window at others who are successful and happy.

Where does God fit in?

So, where is God in all this? Does he/she even exist?

After all, there are no end of books about cosmic ordering – how to obtain the things we want by sending our request to the universe, and so on.

Einstein posed the question “Does the moon exist only when there is someone there to observe it?” Or as the philosopher Bertrand Russell put it: “Does the cracking of a branch of a tree in a forest really occur when there is nobody there to witness it?”

Maybe these philosophical ponderings do not answer the questions: Why are some people successful and others not? Why do some people enjoy long and healthy lives, and others struggle to get through each day? But I’m certain you get the gist of what they were suggesting, that there is no such thing as an objective reality.

If that’s the case, then it dismisses the existence of a God, don’t you think? So, what powerful force decides whether or not we are to be successful?

We’ve already established that it’s not God. I’m quite certain that we humans have long since outgrown any conceptions our prehistoric forebears had of a monotheistic God. So is it, as the Buddhists believe, all Maya, a great illusion? Or, as nineteenth-century dramatist and mystic Maurice Maeterlinck suggested: “Human experience is really all in the mind.”

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• Billy Roberts is available for lectures, workshops and demonstrations of clairvoyance.

Visit: www.billyroberts.co.uk

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Investigators a world

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Lou Gentile – compassionate investigator

Hostile entities – or neurological problem?

Lou Gentile was a name I’d never heard until a recent repeat of a TV programme. He was an investigator into the paranormal in the USA, based in Philadelphia. A broadcaster with his own radio show, he (and a number of assistant researchers) spent many years trying to help and support people who felt they were being in one way or another persecuted by malicious discarnate entities.

Some four years ago Lou and his work as a “demonologist” were the subjects of an investigation by Derren Brown, who spent several days in and around Philadelphia accompanying Lou as he visited people in their homes, and other locations, where seemingly paranormal – and certainly frightening and unpleasant – events appeared to be taking place.

Lou Gentile alleged that there were violent ghosts, and that they could kill. Lou felt that he had to coerce entities into violent behaviour, so that they could be “dealt with”.

A filmed sequence was shown in which a victim, allegedly “oppressed” according to Gentile, by a hostile invading spirit, was lying on his back on a bed, shaking violently from head to feet, his back repeatedly arching.

A small group of people around him, Lou Gentile and his researchers, together recited the Lord’s Prayer.

Eventually, the victim uttered a loud scream, and as the shaking subsided, he was reassured by those around him that the entity had departed. Lou Gentile commented that he had known of cases in which the victims had been levitated in front of his researchers, though there was no filmed record of this.

An interview was shown later with the neurologist Professor Michael Spurling, who described the symptoms of the ‘psychogenic seizure’ (a pseudo-seizure, not epileptic in nature). This medical condition can be a patient’s response to major stress. Video footage was shown of a patient in the throes of just such an episode: the all-over violent shaking and the arching of the back looked closely similar to those suffered by the person in Lou Gentile’s film. Lou made the point that this person’s medical record included no history of stressful predisposing factors.

Derren Brown – sceptical investigator Derren Brown’s is a household name as a hypnotist and an extraordinarily talented stage magician.

He maintains that the ‘mind-reading’ and feats of precognition which form part of his performances owe nothing to any psychic abilities, but can all be explained by ingenious stagecraft and observation of people and their body language. He is also a very determined sceptic about claimed psychic experiences, mediumistic ability, and indeed anything ‘paranormal’.

Recently, I watched a YouTube video of a discussion between himself and Richard Dawkins, perhaps the UK’s most well-known advocate of atheistic materialism, and repudiator of all claimed experiences or abilities that seem to transcend the five known physical senses.

Brown and Dawkins seemed to be wholly in agreement that there was no “paranormal’, there were no discarnate entities; that the mediums through whom the deceased might try to communicate with their earthly nearest and dearest were fraudulent or deluded, and the bereaved who hoped for communication were gullible, easy prey for some ‘parasitic’ mediums and their information-hunting coconspirators.

Given that background, I expected Derren Brown’s style of investigation to be derisive, patronising, and dismissive. My assumptions were most unfair. Derren Brown said nothing condescending, hostile or even faintly mocking to or about Lou Gentile, though in the footage shown, he rarely mentioned his own views. In the several days of his visit to the Philadelphia area, Derren Brown was filmed interviewing not only victims of what seemed to be very unpleasant and frightening paranormal events, even possession by discarnate entities, and Lou with his researchers, who claimed to be able to help them.

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Trying to make contacts In his 20 years of working to relieve people suffering from what they felt were alarming paranormal phenomena, Lou amassed an armoury of photographic and sound recording equipment to try to capture evidence, and if possible to make contact with any discarnate entities present.

Judy, the owner of a suburban

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house, was greatly distressed by what she thought was paranormal activity in her basement, where figures had allegedly been seen moving about. Lou Gentile had installed a time-lapse camera to try to record what might be happening. He also tried to capture Electronic Voice Phenomena in the hopes of contacting the supposed discarnate entities and trying to find out the reasons for their presence.

Lou and Derren were shown listening to recordings made in Judy’s basement. Lou could be heard asking questions, and leaving pauses for responses. Amid the recorded static ‘white noise’ of a radio tuned between stations there were indeed during the pauses some anomalous sounds which I thought did resemble a gruff male human voice, grunting. Lou thought he could detect words, one or two not very polite, but – to me, anyway – the sounds seemed inarticulate.

An exorcist was called in from the Christian and Missionary Church. I had not heard of this denomination, and was rather puzzled: the minister concerned was described as a “pastor”, but was addressed as “Father Joe”. He wore a clerical collar, but also a purple stole. He brought incense, and a reliquary (receptacle for relics) containing, we were told, a fragment of Jesus’ cross. This denomination seemed to have adopted some traditions from both the Evangelical and the Roman Catholic ‘ends’ of the Christian spectrum. There was no doubting the sincerity of Father Joe’s intentions, however. “Peace be to this house and all that live here,” he said on entering. He gave a blessing, using the incense, and in the name of the cross, claimed to quell the disturbances.

Ghosts on camera?

Unexplained knocking and banging had been heard in a Connecticut basement. Lou Gentile claimed to be able to photograph ghosts, and maintained that spirits were able to manipulate ‘magnetic energies’ to make themselves visible. One of his photographs was shown. It looked like a lightcoloured haze, in which Lou said he could see a face in profile. A graphic outline was superimposed which did show what seemed a welldefined human head. However, in

Lou Gentile one of his few overt criticisms during the film, Derren Brown said that he could see a couple more faces in the same hazy image (graphic outlines were shown, but to my eye these ‘faces’ were not as clear as Lou’s profile) but Derren attributed what he could see to the natural tendency of the brain to notice shapes which it will try to interpret as face-like.

Questions and answers – or just recording anomalies?

Roger Boyle was called in by the programme makers as an expert witness in the analysis of voice recording.

He believed that the recorded sounds which Lou Gentile interpreted as words were the result of interference. A recording device could pick up snatches of conversation – it could amplify radio waves.

During the recording session in Judy’s basement, Derren Brown addressed the alleged discarnate occupant, asking it to remain completely silent after he had spoken. On replay, a whooshing sound immediately followed Derren’s request. What to make of that?

Ghostly attacks – or sleep paralysis?

Lou Gentile’s wife Antoinette believed that some of the entities he encountered followed him home. On one occasion she felt she was being held down in bed. She screamed for help, but nobody heard her. continued on page 18

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Medical opinion is that an instance such as that – a feeling of weight on the chest – is the result of sleep paralysis, a known medical phenomenon. It is not uncommon for the sufferer to sense the presence of a figure in the room.

Was the presentation slanted?

Although Derren Brown himself made no derisive remarks at all, there was a certain amount of implicit comment by the programme makers in the form of some visual ‘sending-up’. There were several eerily green-tinted sequences filmed in a graveyard at night, where, alas, no ghosts obliged by turning up for photoshoots. The serious-seeming narrative footage as Lou and Derren visited one troubled site after another was punctuated by repeated shots (without comment) of what looked extravagantly elaborate Hallowe’en decorations in Philadelphia homes and gardens. These owed a lot, I thought, to the mock-macabre jollity of Mexico’s Day of the Dead – although there was no reference to that cheerful annual festival. So British viewers were left to assume that the decor was just a part of the general ‘way-outness’ of Lou Gentile’s work.

And Derren Brown’s conclusions?

Disbelief, as you might expect, in the psychic aspects of all the phenomena to which Lou Gentile introduced

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‘Possession’ by hostile spirits, haunting of houses, a ghostly profile in a photograph, sounds that might have been word responses on played-back recordings – all, he reckoned, could be explained in everyday terms by reference to specialist medical or sound-engineering opinion.

And yet...

Derren Brown made a point of saying that Lou Gentile made no charge for his services. Lou had been visiting troubled households for twenty years, going to great lengths in trying to contact what seemed to him disruptive entities, with the aim of restoring peace of mind to the very anxious people whom he and his researchers tried to help.

After three days of accompanying Lou Gentile on his ‘rounds’, day and night, Derren Brown said that he was pretty tired (admittedly he had had to contend with jet lag as well). He may not have shared any of Lou Gentile’s beliefs, but his respect for Lou as a committed and hard-working person was clear.

I wished Derren Brown had shared the interviewing of Lou and the people he tried to help with someone a little more willing to concede even the possibility of the paranormal.

Alas, Lou Gentile’s work on this side of life ended in 2009. This most compassionate and diligent man was widely mourned.

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Do you have a story to tell?

PN reader Nicky Rayment thinks you should pluck up your courage and share it. Read on to find out how...

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veryone has a story to tell. Every life lived becomes a story to be passed on and shared with others, because there are untold treasures in each and every one. There should be some kind of law that states everyone must pass on the knowledge they’ve acquired!

I realise we share what we have learned with the people around us, but in today’s world of internet, blogs and self-publishing it’s so easy to get your story out there to anyone with an interest in what you have to say.

Each life story is unique, and when you are writing you can see patterns emerge within the intricate design of your life. All the different aspects interlink and sometimes you don’t even see the real story until you get some way through a manuscript.

I always loved reading and writing so getting words on to a page was a natural transition for me, but I’d never actually intended to write a book.

It just happened. I’ve worked for many years in education, alongside a rather private double-life as a medium. I was often asked to interpret dreams for people, and I used the same technique for dream interpretation that I used when translating symbols I received doing spiritual readings.

I was also translating people’s dreams via Twitter, Facebook and email, and in the end decided to start a blog. I thought it would be easier for people to use my blog to look up individual entries, though they could also email me for personal interpretations as well. That way, other people could share their dreams and see how universal dreams actually are.

After about six months the blog was doing well.

It was by accident that I discovered Amazon Kindle self-publishing tools. I hadn’t even thought about publishing my work but was always being asked for a copy of my dream dictionary, so I had a look to see how I could go about providing it for my readers.

I couldn’t believe how easy it was to self-publish.

My blog content was saved to a template provided

by Amazon and then I started editing it all. I have to say at this point that actually writing a book or blog is the easy part, editing is not quite so straightforward. I’d never done it before and didn’t realise how illiterate I was, despite having worked in education for over ten years.

Joking aside, it’s difficult to edit your own work because you don’t see your own mistakes. If you did, you wouldn’t have made them! So after bribing my daughter to help with the editing process I started an experiment to see if you really could publish your

own book. It turns out that you can, and apart from some teething problems with layout and trim-sizes I managed to do this at no cost at all.

The Kindle and paperback versions both have links to my blog, so any readers are able to get a personal interpretation if they can’t find an entry in the book.

Another really good thing about Amazon self-publishing is that I can add to my manuscript at any time and upload a new version daily if I want to.

As a Spiritualist medium the most important thing to me is that we share what we know, and the way to get your knowledge out there for everyone to share is to write it down. I promise you it isn’t a difficult thing to do, because I’ve just done it and I had no experience in writing, editing or publishing beforehand.

I’ll finish by telling you about a dream I had recently, which sums it all up.

I was on a stage in front of a large audience. I looked around and saw that I shared the stage with dancers, who were twisting, turning, jumping and pirouetting.

I looked at them and thought I’d look a right idiot just standing there so I’d better follow their lead. I started performing, watching the other dancers and trying to dance as they were, but it wasn’t pretty!

The audience clapped when we finished, but I felt like a fake and woke up.

I knew immediately the dream was to do with my book. I panicked, and thought my audience were going to laugh at my silly attempt to be a writer.

I told a close friend about the dream and she said that if people were interested in what I was saying, they would read my book, and if not, they wouldn’t.

So I went for it. For all the people interested in seeing my silly dance, the book is available on Amazon in both Kindle and paperback. (In dreams dancing symbolises creativity and what you create for others to see.)

I’m now working on my next manuscript – a question-and-answer book about all things R spiritual. Why don’t you have a go yourself?

I would love to read it!

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International Spiritualist Federation Returns to Finland Mind, Body, Spirit Event 5th-10th August 2013 Hotel Kulttuurikeskus-Sofia Kallvikintie 28, 00980 Helsinki Tel: 00358 10 277 9102

Tuesday 21 May

Hotel Kulttuurikeskus-Sofia

Spiritualists from around the world return to Finland 5th - 10th August 2013.

The event will focus on well-being, sharing, spiritual growth and understanding.

Afternoons include a series of lectures and workshops.

Evenings – various demonstrations of mediumship.

WIMBLEDON SPIRITUALIST CHURCH

Accepting the leadership of Jesus Christ 136 Hartfield Road, London SW19 3TJ President: Rev Ray Robinson Enquiries: 020 8542 2394 www.wimbledonspiritualistchurch.co.uk Sunday 19th 11am rose anderson Sunday 19th 7.30pm £3.50 ivan lee Tuesday 21st 7pm Healing Tuesday 21st 7.30pm Jackie Robinson Wednesday 22nd 2.30pm SUE BAILEY Wednesday 22nd 7pm Healing Wednesday 22nd 7.30pm rose anderson Thursday 23rd 10am - 12noon Healing Sunday 26th 11am JILL HAY Tuesday 29th 7pm Healing Tuesday 28th 7.30pm JENNIFER BARNETT Wednesday 29th 7pm Healing Wednesday 29th 7.30pm GLADYS WILLIAMS Thursday 30th 10am - 12noon Healing Sunday 2nd 11am Holy Communion and Flower Service Tuesday 4th June 7pm Healing Tuesday 4th 7.30pm Service Private Readings available at the Church See a video of our church at: Church founder, www.psychicnews.org.uk Richard Arthur Bush

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Day visitors and non-members are welcome.

Many who come as strangers leave as friends.

With international mediums and tutors for all levels of ability: Proposed training programme includes daily groupwork for: Trance, Mental/Spiritual Mediumship, Psychic Art, Healing Tutors, lecturers, workshops and lectures to be announced.

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August 12th - 16th PSYCHIC DETECTIVE with T. J. Higgs August 23rd - 25th MEDIUMSHIP FOR ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS with Rita King August 30th - Sept 1st DEEP TRANCE PART 3 with Shirley Mear September 6th - 10th THE PARANORMAL with Dennis Binks September 13th - 15th techniques of public mediumship with Susan Leybourne September 20th - 22nd THE MEDICINE WHEEL with Geoff Hutchison Please contact us, or see our website for 2013 courses

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Apply with spiritual background and reasons for request to: Grants Secretary, STF, c/o Box No 010, Psychic Press Ltd, Suite 6, Thremhall Park, Start Hill, Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire CM22 7WE (Google STF)

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YOUR LETTERS

Readers’ Letters

In each issue we will give £10 to the author of the letter we find most interesting.

Send your letters to: Psychic News, Suite 6, Thremhall Park, Start Hill, Bishops Stortford, Herts CM22 7WE or email them to: pneditorials@gmail.com This i s £10 lesue’s winnetter r

Reader ‘sad’ to see vegetarianism raised in PN I was a little sad to see Sue, on her editor’s page, requesting debate on the Vegetarianism issue (Issue 4101). We had this a few years ago when Tony Ortzen was editor and of course, like the previous times, it ended in tears. The debate got very heated and ended in a lot of harsh words and loss of readers.

There are a lot of strong views on both sides; the vegetarians wanting to change the world to their view and the non-vegetarians insisting that they have free will and do not want to be preached at all the time.

It normally follows on with the vegetarians insisting that you cannot be a Spiritualist if you eat meat and the non-vegetarians insisting that comment is rubbish and

Editor’s reply:

Mike, thank you for your comments. First, as any editor of a publication should be, I am well aware that vegetarianism has been discussed in the pages of PN in years gone by. So also have been mediumship, healing, ESP, psychical research, fraudulent practitioners, remote viewing, philosophy, crop circles, UFOs and a myriad other topics on numerous occasions.

If we took the view that, for example, a political or religious situation should not be discussed more than once in the press, national newspapers would have ceased to exist long since. Thus I make no apology

unworkable. After that it normally deteriorates into a slanging match and the discussion has to be quickly ended, after a few issues, by the editor.

I guess some things are best left alone. It may initially appear to be good press but if it results in loss of subscribers then that’s obviously a bad move.

Sue has obviously not brought this subject up for discussion before and seen the ill-feeling it can produce amongst readers. We are surely in the job of promoting harmony amongst Spiritualists, are we not?

Mike Goodall, via email

for writing on the issue of vegetarianism in my recent editorial.

Second, no issue of importance to many is “best left alone”. I preside over a frank and open publication and will always welcome courteously expressed views, whether or not they accord with my own. As for your remark about “good press”, I do not write to impress or sensationalise. I aim to raise issues of concern and general interest and to offer a forum for their discussion, whether or not I or anyone else might find them controversial or unpalatable. SF

Struggling to change the habit of a lifetime Sue Farrow’s editorial on vegetarianism was thoughtprovoking (Issue 4101). I may be criticised for stating my own position frankly but I can only explain how it is for me.

I have dogs and cats and love them dearly. I also firmly believe that animals have souls. Because of this belief I have tried hard in recent years to give up eating meat but only ever managed to succeed for short periods. I really don’t know why I have found it so difficult to do but I guess that, as Sue says, it may be because it has been the

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habit of a lifetime (I am now 68 years old).

I know this is an illogical position to take, because I could never contemplate eating a dog or cat, so why can’t I extend that to cows and sheep, especially when I do believe they have souls?

I confess it troubles me and causes me to feel hypocritical. I would be very interested to know if anyone else out there is facing a similar struggle.

Mary J. Bowyer, via email

YOUR LETTERS

Becky Walsh article was ‘interesting and inspiring’ I write with reference to Issue 4099, the first copy of Psychic News I have read.

A number of articles really ‘spoke to me’. I have only recently started attending a Spiritualist church – mainly to receive healing but also as I want guidance on how to learn to trust my intuitive skills (but my views on mediumship, guides, and reincarnation probably differ from the majority of the congregation’s!).

Therefore the interview with Becky Walsh was very interesting and inspiring. I completely agree with her point about mediumship – that rather than communicating with one particular spirit, communication is with a big consciousness soup and loved ones are no longer existing in the forms we knew.

It links well with June Godfrey’s comment that “if people were born again in new bodies they could not be communicating with loved ones in spirit”. I agree with the comment about religious organisations purporting to explain all the answers about life and death – but then just ending up becoming dogmatic. This is why I have tended to stay away from religious organisations. I believe religion is really quite personal – follow your own truth,

rather than trying to fit in with a particular religion/sect.

Answers to many of our questions will only be given once we leave our life here on earth – we don’t need to have all the answers now.

I thought David Hopkins’ article about celebrating the now (remembering what caused conflicts, rather than just those who died in them, so we can make sure nothing like them happens again); and knowing the love of ‘God’ (or whatever you chose to call It) very accurate and uplifting.

Recently I encountered what I now can accept was my second near to near-death experience. I wasn’t really that close to death but was seriously ill and in desperate need of medical attention. During this second occurrence I understood completely that whilst we are in human form we cannot possibly comprehend the meaning of life, and what happens when we die, but that we aren’t meant to know yet, and one day we will. I was totally reassured that we are each an amazing being, all linked with each other, and we have nothing at all to fear from death. I now know that we are never separated from those we love.

Dian Van Eyck, via email

Does psychical research influence belief in the afterlife?

I very much enjoyed Leslie Price’s article on the researcher J.B. Rhine (Issue 4101). It certainly seems that a fascinating opportunity was missed by his failure to attend a sitting with the Harrison home circle.

Nevertheless I do question the overall impact on the Spiritualist movement of any psychical research. Admittedly such research can occasionally offer additional insights into the processes of mediumship, but does it actually play any role in drawing otherwise closed-minded people into Spiritualism?

I would be very interested to know if any PN readers were brought to a belief in life after death because of the work of a psychical researcher.

Giles Dawson, via email

Leslie Price responds:

Your reader raises an important question – are people ever brought to belief in survival because of the work of a psychical researcher?

I would argue at the least that such work can cause people to investigate. Sir Oliver Lodge’s book, ‘Raymond’, for example, caused many people to look into Spiritualism.

R

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YOUR LETTERS

Disjointed life transposed to a better existence?

As Sue says in her editorial on killing animals for food (Issue 4101), it raises more questions than answers.

I suppose it could be said that I am hypocritical in that I feel uncomfortable about killing but enjoy meat meals. Because of my Spiritualist understanding I feel that the act of killing any life-form (I don’t know whether you consider the possibility of plant life having a soul) would make the use of those life elements inexcusable, offensive.

My own feeling is that killing does not terminate life, it only separates life-energy from material occupation.

I’ve never been clear about the precise nature of the soul but am currently mindful of believing it to be life/

spirit energy intelligence. If that is right I would suggest that, providing execution of the live entity is minimally painful, the victim is losing very little. There is very little apparent intelligent activity in most life-forms, so one could diffuse one’s guilt feelings with the thought that the disjointed life may be transposed to a better existence.

Thoughts are living things, and no doubt with the passage of time my current views may alter. Time, whatever that may be, will tell.

F. Kenward, via email

How can the physical body form our spirit?

Regarding the debate between June Godfrey and Roy Stemman (Issue 4100), with all due respect, where does the lady get her ideas from? How can the physical body form our soul/spirit? Those who have studied or been informed of our spiritual origin know that we were originally formed, probably many thousands of years ago, from a God/Creator/ Divine-explosion as group souls.

Until such time as we have reached spiritual perfection and sufficiently learnt lessons and paid our Karmic

debts, we will continue to return ‘home’ to the appropriate vibrational plane which matches the vibration we have achieved when our present life is over. So we, while still continuing to reincarnate, come over from ‘Heaven’ to the earth plane and then return again, till the next new life lesson.

May I suggest Ms Godfrey reads the late Amanda Valiant’s book, A Course in Spiritual Philosophy? It explains much about these subjects.

Helen Gandoff, London

Woman communicated through medium while in coma I read with interest Barbara Clayton’s letter on dementia sufferers (Issue 4101).

A few years back I had a private sitting with a medium, during which he told me he had a lady named Irene, but known as Reenie. I have a friend (still with us) by the name of Irene, but she is not a Reenie.

At the time, I was aware of an Irene known as Reenie, whom I had never met, but who was on my absent healing list, and had been in some form of coma for quite a

long time. She was the sister-in-law of a friend, and lived somewhere south of London. I told the medium this, and he said she was thanking me for the help I had given her.

Three days later I met the friend, who told me that Reenie had passed away two days earlier – the day after my sitting. So presumably she had been able to make contact while still ‘alive’ several miles away.

J. D. Kenward, via email

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BERKSHIRE Burghfield PIOneer Centre James Lane, Burghfield, Reading, Berkshire Rg30 3Rs * Monday Evenings 7.30pm Divine Service Contact: Sharon Spence 0118 9456283

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE

Amersham Spiritualist Centre Amersham Common Village Hall, White Lion Road (A404), Amersham, Bucks. HP7 9JD * President: Jean Sabatini Tel: 01494 866159 Website: www.amersham spiritualistcentre.org.uk Friday 17th 7.15pm graham woodroffe Friday 24th 7.15pm jane meakin Fri 31st 7.15pm winnie taylor There are healing sessions held after the meeting

Cheshire

STOCKPORT CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALIST CHURCH 46 Old Road, Stockport SK4 1TD President: Mr A. PARKER Tel: 0161 427 6279 www.stockportchristian spiritualistchurch.com * Sunday 3.00pm Divine Service Monday 7.00pm Healing Tuesday 7.30pm Clairvoyance Wed 7.30pm Music & Meditation Friday 11am - 3pm Private Readings Saturday 11am - 3pm Private Readings 7.00pm Clairvoyance & Open Circle

CORNWALL

BUDE FREE SPIRITS SPIRITUALIST CHURCH The Parkhouse Centre, Ergue-Gaberic Way, Bude, Cornwall EX23 8LG * www.budefreespirits.co.uk Every Thursday 7.30pm - 9.00pm bude healing clinic: Every Wednesday 7.00pm - 9.00pm Visiting mediums who would like to serve Bude Free Spirits please contact Carol on 01840 770057 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 Sat 10am - 12.30pm Private Readings All are welcome

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CUMBRIA Dalkeith Street SNU Spiritualist Church Dalkeith Street, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria LA141SP Tel: 07884481961 Email: phd2003@sky.com Divine Service each Tuesday at 7pm Contact us for details of our Open Circle and Awareness Group

DEVON

DAWLISH GUIDING LIGHT Hedley Way Centre, Manor Gardens, Dawlish, Devon EX7 9AJ * Clairvoyance Evenings Alternate Tuesdays at 7.30pm Details on Facebook: ‘Dawlish Guiding Light’ £3 at the door - followed by Healing Details: 01626 866192 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 HONITON SPIRITUALIST GROUP Masonic Hall, Northcote Lane, Honiton, Devon EX14 1NP Mondays 7pm - 8.30pm Healing 8pm Clairvoyance (£3.50 admission) Tel: 01404 548420 Email: enquiries@ honitonspiritgroup.co.uk http://honitonspiritgroup.co.uk/

DORSET

BOURNEMOUTH SPIRITUALIST SNU CHURCH * 16 Bath Road, Bournemouth, Dorset BH1 2PE Tel: 01202 551751 www.bsnuc.co.uk Sunday 19th 10.45am & 6.30pm SUE AND RICHARD HAYES Mon 20th 7.30pm ELAINE ASTIN Wed 22nd 7.30pm Seekers’ Group Thurs 23rd 3pm GEOFFREY HAYWARD Sunday 26th 10.45am and 6.30pm DARREN ORLOWSKI & JANET EMILYMAE Monday 27th 7.30pm DARREN ORLOWSKI & JANET EMILYMAE Wed 29th 7.30pm Open Platform Thurs 28th 3pm ANGIE FREELAND Saturday 1st June 2pm - 5pm Workshop with SHIRLEY CHUBB Sunday 2nd 10.45am & 6.30pm SHIRLEY CHUBB Continued top of next column

BOURNEMOUTH continued Spiritual Healing: Monday 2pm - 4pm Tuesday 10.30am - 12.30pm Wednesday 10.30am - 12.30pm Thursday 7pm - 8pm Friday 10.30am - 12.30pm & 2pm - 4pm KINSON SPIRITUALIST GROUP * Kinson Community Centre, Pelhams Park, Kinson, Bournemouth BH10 7LH Tel: 01202 715754 www.lightawareness.com/kinson/ Sunday 6.30pm Divine Service 2nd Monday in month at 8.00pm Clairvoyance Demonstration

ESSEX

Candle of Light Spiritualist Church Fanshawe Community Centre, * Barnmead Road, Heathway, Dagenham, Essex RM9 5DX Enquiries: 020 8593 6417 Wednesday Service: 7pm to 9pm Wednesday Healing: 9pm to 10.15pm 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 SPIRITUAL HEARTS HEALING CENTRE In loving memory of Fred Dartnall Corringham Village Hall, Springhouse Road, Corringham, Essex SS17 7LE * Tel: 01375 676585 or 07889 288875 Join us for a friendly evening Friends old and new welcome Each Monday from 6.30pm - 10pm Private 1:1 Readings Spiritual Healing with Registered Essex Healers An evening of Clairvoyance with Guest Medium weekly New Age jewellery and crystals Open Spiritual Discussion from 7pm Raffle, free tea, coffee, cake & biscuits Entrance fee £3.00 ALL proceeds go to charities Follow us on Facebook

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HertfordSHIRE 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 CARPENDERS PARK CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALISTS * Bushford Scout Hall, St Georges Drive, Carpenders Park, Watford, Herts 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

ISLE OF WIGHT

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 Sunday 6.30pm Divine Service Thursday 12 noon - 2pm Healing Tuesday/Thursday 7pm Various Groups and Circles (Ring for details) Special Events: See website and local press

KENT

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 Sunday Services: 6.30pm Healing: Wednesdays 10am - 1pm and Fridays 4pm to 6pm Clairvoyance: Friday Evenings at 8pm We also offer various workshops and special evenings of clairvoyance.

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KENT (cont) WEST WICKHAM SPIRITUALIST CHURCH Surrey Road, West Wickham, Kent BR4 0JU * Mediums’ Secretary: 01959 573049 www.westwickhamspiritualist church.co.uk Sunday 19th 6.30pm JUDITH FREEMAN Sun 26th 6.30pm SYLVIA WOOLOFF Sun 2nd 6.30pm MAGGIE JONES Wed 5th 8pm Evening of Mediumship with DAVID HARRIS Sat 8th 7.30pm Psychic Supper Sun 9th 6.30pm PHIL TOWLER Healing on Tuesdays at 2.00pm

LANCASHIRE Dearnley Spiritualist Church 14-16 New Road, Dearnley, Littleborough, Lancashire OL15 8LX Tel: 01706 377 122 Sunday 10.20am Lyceum Sunday 6.15pm Divine Service Last Sunday in the month 7.45pm Spiritual Healing Tuesday 1.30pm - 2.45pm Development Group Thursday 7.30pm Evening of Mediumship Thursday 8.45pm Spiritual Healing Other events as advertised in the church and in local press Heywood Christian Spiritualist Church The Holistic Pathways Centre 49 Bridge Street, (A58) Heywood, Lancashire OL10 1JF (opposite Lidl) Tel: 01706 629857 Services: Wednesday 1.30pm (Open Circle) 7.30pm Divine Worship Saturday 7.30pm Healing Clinics: Tues and Wed 10.30am - 12.00 noon and Wednesday 3.30pm - 5.00pm

LINCOLNSHIRE

Starlight Awareness Group * The Pavilion, Wainfleet Road, Skegness, Lincolnshire PE25 2EL Contact Pat and Elsie: 01754 810680 Website: starlightgroup.info Sunday Services 1st and 3rd Sunday of every month 6.30pm - 8pm Also: Developing self-empowerment through meditation for elimination of past hurts creating a balance within self. Working with spirit and universal energies. Spirit healing training and qualification (Lincolnshire Association of Healers). Spiritual mediumship within its many forms. Spiritual philosophy. Trance communication.

LONDON ForGet-Me-Not Sanctuary Of Spiritual Friends * Anstridge Road Community Hall, Anstridge Road, Eltham SE9 2LL Enquiries: 020 8300 0870 Mondays 7pm for 7.30pm start Development Circle ~ All welcome Wednesdays 7.30pm for 7.45pm start Wed 22nd SAM BAXTER Wed 29th PSYCHIC SUPPER Wed 5th LUKE CUNNINGHAM We also run Counselling Courses (Certificated) and 2-Year Healing Courses (Certificated)

Hendon Independent Spiritualist Church Cheshir Hall, Foster Street (off Brent Street), Hendon, London NW4 2AA * Enquiries: Lorraine 020 8346 0289 www.hendonspiritualist church.co.uk Every Monday at 7.30pm (except Bank Holidays) Address and Clairvoyance Entrance: £3 inc refreshments & raffle 20th May HENRY CUMMING 27th May Closed - Bank Holiday 3rd June les & denise pilgrim LEWISHAM SPIRITUALIST CHURCH 65 Boone Street, Lewisham, London SE13 5SA * Lewishamspiritualistchurch.com Tel: 020 8852 7823 Mediums’ Secretary: 078 2672 3575 Sunday 6.30pm - 8pm Service Tuesday 12.30pm - 2.30pm Private Readings (Bookable with Mediums’ Secretary) Tuesday 1pm - 2.30pm Healing Thursday 7.15pm - 8.30pm Healing 7.15pm - 9pm Group Readings All welcome THE LONDON SPIRITUAL MISSION * Spiritualist Church, 13 Pembridge Place W2 President: Jean Alexander Tel: 020 7229 2024 www.spiritualmission.co.uk Sun 19th 11am avril price 6.30pm Joan dempsey Wednesday 22nd 7.30pm MARIE LANG Sun 26th 11am EDDIE MORGAN 6.30pm CHRIS DREW Wed 29th 7.30pm CHRISTIAN VIBORG Sun 2nd 11am Devotional Service with MARJORIE OSBORN 6.30pm ANTHONY KESNER Wednesday 5th 7.30pm BETTY HARRISON Sun 9th 11am ANGELA WATKINS 6.30pm STEPHANIE BARROWS Wed 12th 7.30pm EDDIE MORGAN Saturday 15th (see website for details) Animal Healing workshop Spiritual Healing: Monday 11.00am - 1.00pm, 2pm - 3pm & 5.15pm - 7.30pm Thursday 5.00pm - 7.30pm INDUCTION LOOP provided for the benefit of hearing aid users

Manor Park Spiritualist Church 145 Shrewsbury Road, Forest Gate, Manor Park, London E7 8QA Tel: 020 8520 4091 * Sunday 5.30 - 6pm Healing Service Sunday 6.30 - 8pm Divine Service Rochester Square Spiritualist Temple Rochester Square, London NW1 9RY * Contact: 0791 378 8390 Tuesday 6.30 - 8.30pm Spiritual Healing Wednesday 7.30pm Demonstration of Mediumship Saturday 7.30pm Demonstration of Mediumship Sunday 11.00am Divine Service We have Private Readings usually on the first Saturday of every month Also, Open Platform (7pm, £2) last Friday of every month Please see our website: http://rsst. vpweb.co.uk/About-us.html Or we can be found on Facebook WALTHAMSTOW NATIONAL SPIRITUALIST CHURCH Vestry Road E17 9NH * Tel: 020 8503 6942 www.vestryrdspiritualistchurch.org Sundays 6.30pm Service Mondays 7 - 9pm Healing Service Tuesdays 2.00pm Mediumship Thursdays 7.30pm Awareness Circle WOODFORD SPIRITUALIST CHURCH 9 Grove Crescent, South Woodford, London E18 2JR * Enquiries: 020 8989 6149 www.woodfordchurch.com Sun 19th 11am - 4pm ~ £20 Workshop with Christine King and Heather Andrews-Dobbs Sun 19th 6.30pm EDDIE MORGAN Mon 20th 2pm VAL BICKERSTAFF Sun 26th 11am to 4pm ~ £10 at door Shamanic Workshop Sun 26th 6.30pm JOHN ROONEY Mon 27th 2pm REG GOLDING Sat 1st 12noon - 3pm ~ £6 (£5 membs) Workshop with Pat MacNally and Daniel Naughnane Sat 1st 7.30pm ~ £3 VAL BICKERSTAFF Sun 2nd 6.30pm gwen & mike miles Mon 3rd 2pm margery geary Weekly: Tuesdays 7.30 - 9pm £3 Open Circle Weds 2 - 4pm & 7.30 - 9pm Healing Fridays 7.30 - 9pm £3 Open Circle First Friday of the month at 7.30pm Open Circle for Platform Mediums 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

MIDDLESEX HAMPTON HILL SPIRITUALIST CHURCH Angel Close, Windmill Road, Hampton Hill TW12 1RG * Enquiries: 020 8941 5177 www.hamptonhillspiritualists. webeden.co.uk Sunday 6.30pm Divine Service Wednesday 7.30pm Healing Thursday 7.30pm Midweek Service Monthly classes at 7.30pm: 1st Monday Open Platform 2nd and last Monday Open Awareness Circle 2nd Tues Mediumship Theory Class 3rd Monday Mediumship Practice Circle 3rd Tuesday Open Healing Circle 4th Tuesday Speakers and Philosophy Class KENTON SPIRITUALIST CHURCH AND HEALING CENTRE 35 Churchill Avenue, Kenton, Nr. Harrow, Middlesex HA3 0AX Enquiries: 020 8621 3103 * Sunday 6.30pm Service Wednesday 7.30pm - 9pm Healing Thursday 7.45pm Service 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 Service Times: Sunday 7.30pm - 9pm Wednesday 7.45pm - 9pm Healing Services: Monday 10am - 12pm Wednesday 9.15pm - 9.45pm Sunday 7.30pm at start of Service

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NORTH WALSHAM SPIRITUAL CENTRE St Johns Ambulance Hall, Preference Place, Bacton Road, North Walsham, Norfolk NR28 9DR Contact: Rachel Finbow Tel: 01263 588016 Sunday Service at 6.30pm

SOMERSET

GLASTONBURY CENTRE OF LIGHT SPIRITUALIST CHURCH Camino Centre, King Street, Glastonbury BA6 9JX * Meetings held fortnightly: Fridays 7.30pm - 9pm Demonstrations of Mediumship, Trance and Healing plus invited speakers A warm welcome guaranteed Full details: www.jennyann.co.uk Tel: Jenny Ann 07811 764272

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SOMERSET

Alcombe and Minehead Christian Spiritualist Church * Grove Place, Manor Road, 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 YEOVIL PSYCHIC SOCIETY Monmouth Hall, Monmouth Road, Yeovil, Somerset BA21 5NP Tel 0196 322 0306 Meetings on Wednesdays at 7.30pm For Clairvoyant Evenings and Special Evenings please see our website at: www.yeovilpsychics.org.uk

SUSSEX - EAST

Brighton & Hove Central Spiritualist Church 9/10 Boundary Passage, Brighton BN1 3BJ Website: www.brightonandhove spiritualistchurch.org President: Deborah Knowles Tel: 01273 731329 Sunday Service 11am Monday Mediumship 3pm Tuesday Spiritual Healing 1pm-3pm Thursday Awareness group 7pm Monday 27th May, 3pm ~ £5 on door Cream Tea Special with Open Platform. Support from Dorothy Young and featuring ‘Colour Magic’ with Fiona Verity.

SUSSEX - WEST East Grinstead Spiritual Church Old Court House, College Lane, East Grinstead, West Sussex RH19 3LS www.egspiritualist.co.uk Sunday Services are held on the first and third Sunday of every month, starting from 11.00am and finishing at 1.00pm Evening Demonstrations of Mediumship take place on the fourth Friday of every month From 7.30pm until 9.30pm Entry is £4.00 per person

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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 www.facebook.com/Rugby.

Spiritualist.Church Sunday Services 6.30pm Clairvoyant Evenings twice monthly £4 Open Circle (Mondays 8pm) twice monthly £2 Private Readings (Saturday mornings)

WEST MIDLANDS

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 Healing 6.30pm - 7.15pm Members’ Circles 7.30pm - 9.00pm Development Group Thursday 1st, 3rd & 5th weeks in the month Demonstration starting at 7.30pm Thursday Divine Service: 2nd & 4th week in month Starting at 7.30pm (Doors open 7pm) Home Visits Private Sittings arranged by request Special events/services as advertised 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 Sunday 6.30pm Service Monday 2.30pm Service Occasional Saturdays 7.30pm Monday 1 - 2pm Healing Thursday 7.30 - 9pm Healing All welcome

YORKSHIRE

Barnsley Spiritualist Church * Pitt Street West, Barnsley, South Yorkshire S70 1BB Tel: 0114 283 1238 or 07787 407667 www.barnsleyspiritualist church.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 Sat 7.30pm - 8.30pm Open Circle Other events as advertised in the church or on our website

WALES

Spiritual Centre Cardigan Studio 4, Theatre Mwldan, Cardigan SA43 1JY Divine Service Sundays 6.30pm - 8.30pm except the first Sunday of the month when we hold a Psychic Supper Visiting mediums from throughout the country.

Special events held throughout the year – development circles and workshops, children’s workshops, psychic fayres For further information contact Jacqui on: 01239 842024 Email: Charisma@ CharismaCentreCardigan.co.uk Website: www.charismaspiritualcentre.co.uk 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 Services on Fridays at 7.30pm Find us on Facebook at: facebook. com/tywynspiritualistchurch

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SCOTLAND Glasgow Central Association of Spiritualists 64 Berkeley Street, Glasgow G3 7DS Tel: 0141 221 6201 Sunday 5pm to 6pm Healing Sunday 6.30pm to 7.30pm Divine Service Monday 7.30pm to 8.30pm Evening of Mediumship Tuesday 2pm to 3pm Afternoon of Mediumship Thursday 7.30pm Meditation Group Milngavie & Bearsden Spiritualist Sanctuary * Fraser Centre, 11 Douglas Street, Milngavie, Scotland G62 6PA Elizabeth Halliday Email: elizabethhalliday313@ btinternet.com 0141 944 6550 or 0770 333 7022 Every Sunday 1.45pm Divine Service (Doors open 1.15pm)

GUERNSEY

The Greeting Place Foundation Spiritualist Centre * Douzaine Room, St Peters, Guernsey, Channel Islands Enquiries to: Margaret Phillips Tel: 01481 256629 E-mail: greetingplace@cwgsy.net Website: www.healingand spiritualcentre.com Our regular services are: Sunday 11.00am Address and communication Wednesday 7.30pm Healing group Saturday 10.30am Healing clinic Other services as announced Everyone welcome

U.S.A.

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