THE SIGN LANGUAGE OF
THE SPIRIT WORLD
£3.99 | APRIL 2023 ESTABLISHED IN 1932
incorporating Two Worlds
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RUSSELL GRANT
SHARES HIS CANCER
RECOVERY NEWS
THE MIRACLE OF WHAT
CLAIRVOYANCE CAN OFFER
UNDERSTANDING THE
POWER OF POSITIVE
THOUGHT WAVES
THE WORK OF A GLOBAL
HOUSE HEALER
FAMOUS SPIRIT GUIDE
CONDEMNS VIVISECTION
HOW TO CHOOSE
A MEDIUM
PSYCHICS PREDICTED
TALENT SHOW ROLE
FOR PAULA ABDUL
MEDIUM DISCOVERED
BODY OF MISSING
MUM NICOLA BULLEY
HOW TO MAKE
SPIRITUAL CONTACT
THE OGHAM TREE
LANGUAGE
WHAT I LEARNT WHEN
I DECIDED TO TRUST
THE UNIVERSE
CLEANSING, GROUNDING
AND PROTECTING
STAR TREK’S
MR SULU SHARES
STORIES OF PARANORMAL
ENCOUNTERS
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Contents
04 Newlywed mother spots
“dead” baby daughter in
marriage photo
A mother is convinced a spirit extra is
her drowned child
05 Russell Grant shares his
cancer recovery news
Famous medium and astrologer tells
how the removal of a tumour saved
his eyesight
06 Medium discovered
missing mum Nicola Bulley
Spiritualist Jason Rothwell was
compelled to join in the search to find
mother of two daughters
07 Victim of racism is now a
psychic to the stars
Scottish psychic survived vile attacks
and now helps transform lives
08 Comedian has uncanny
knack for paranormal
investigation
Former stand up comic’s supernatural
podcast has been commissioned by
the BBC for TV
09 Psychics predicted talent
show role for Paula Abdul
Award-winning singer and
choreographer puts her faith in
spiritual readings
10 “Magical” musician’s new
album was inspired by
Spiritualist retreat
Jill Tracy’s latest music represents
a “sonic souvenir” of her time at Lily
Dale
11 How to choose a medium –
and not get hooked
Theresa Cheung gives good advice for
those seeking spiritual services
12 Uri Geller lifts ban and
apologises to Pokémon
fans
A twenty-year legal battle ends as Uri
changes his mind and apologises
12 Spiritual teacher runs
for US Presidency
Marianne Williamson is challenging
Joe Biden for the position of President
13 Star Trek’s Mr Sulu shares
stories of paranormal
encounters
George Takei promotes stories of the
unexplained
14 Netflix partners with
paranormal research team
to offer free home checks
Popular streaming platform pairs up
with London-based investigation team
16 Geomancing the stones:
the work of a global house
healer
Chief Reporter Ann Green speaks to
one of the world’s most experienced
geomancers
18 The Ogham Tree Language
Jo Dunbar and Adrian Rooke take
a look at the ancient symbols and
language inspired by trees
22 Paranormal researcher
regressed to haunted
chapel’s past
TV presenter Barry Ghai is
transported back to 1825 by clinical
hypnotist Paul Goddard
24 How to make spiritual
contact
Medium Mark Anthony shares some
top tips on how to communicate with
the spirit world
26 What I learnt when I
decided to trust the
Universe
Roberta Mussato tells of her spiritual
transformation during a trip to Sri
Lanka, India and Nepal
30 Cleansing, grounding and
protecting
Medium and author MaryAnn DiMarco
explains how to carry out these
respectful practices
33 COVER STORY
The sign language of
the spirit world
Medium Steven Smith delves into the
world of Spirit-led signs
38 New breed of Lightworker
on a mission to save
humanity
Graham Jennings answers your
questions on Lightworkers, blind
medium Cecil Husk, and the Spanish
poem “Dark night of the soul”
42 The ghosts of Salisbury Hall
John West reveals the fascinating
history of this great building whose
most famous ghost is Nell Gwyn
46 Spiritual Art
This month we take a look at the art of
Marty Reynolds from the US
50 The miracle of what
clairvoyance can offer
Medium and author Robert Mason
shares some experiences of how a
reading can change a person’s life
52 Understanding the power
of positive thought waves
Lionel Owen on how changing our
thought patterns could benefit the
entire planet
54 Spirit guide condemns
vivisection
Our founding editor’s guide, Silver
Birch, answers questions on the animal
kingdom
57 Sudoku competition
Your chance to win a copy of Peg
Couch’s book Creating Smudge Sticks
58 A good read
A round up of some recent book and
oracle deck releases
62 What’s on at Spiritualist
churches and centres
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Thanks again to all of you who have sent healing and kept him in
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We think the eclectic mix of Spiritualist, spiritual and paranormal
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Newlywed mother spots “dead” baby
daughter in marriage photo
IN AUSTRALIA, a newlywed mother of four is convinced the spirit of her
daughter attended her recent marriage. When looking at their wedding
photos, Tahlia Murphy spotted a faint image of the little girl, peeking out
from behind a tree.
Posting the picture on TikTok Tahlia, 33,
wrote, “I don’t believe in many things, but I
believe she was there to watch myself and
her dad get married in honour of her.”
Last September, Tahlia told how her
seventeen months old daughter Taidyn
Murphy, nicknamed Totty, fell and drowned
in the inflatable spa at their Queensland
home.
In her viral post, which has
attracted more than 1.4 million views
and nearly 87,000 likes, Tahlia shared
a photo of herself and groom Cecil
kissing after their outdoor wedding
ceremony, in December 2022. In the
background, a hazy figure, which
looks like a small child, appears to be
watching from a distance.
“The recent loss of our daughter
had me thinking that she wasn’t there,
sharing our special day with us,” wrote
Tahlia, “This proves otherwise.”
Compassionate viewers agreed. “My
jaw dropped, then the tears came. That’s
definitely her,” wrote one TikTok user.
“My tears instantly started falling once
I’d seen her. She was making sure you
would know she is always there with you,”
said another.
“She looks like she’s wearing a lovely,
light, summery dress. She’s with you,”
another commented.
Tahlia wrote in the caption of her video,
“I’m forever missing you, my little shadow.”
TAIDYN MURPHY (left) passed in a tragic accident at
the age of seventeen months. Her parents are convinced
she was at their wedding three months later when they
spotted a figure in the background of one of the photos
taken on the day. (Photo left: TikTok/leah29murphy – Photo
right: Second Chapter Photography/Laken Howden)
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NEWS
RUSSELL GRANT, a long-time friend of Psychic News, has shared an
update on his battle with brain cancer. The astrologer, medium and TV
personality, 72, had a tumour on his pituitary gland removed in December,
which saved his eyesight.
Russell (pictured right) is now recovering
following the five-hour operation and went
on Twitter to thank the “A-team” of medical
staff who completed the procedure.
The much-loved celebrity wrote:
“Before Christmas I had a brain
tumour removed by the A-Team: Prof
Pathmanaban, Dr Bhalla, Dr Kearney, the
caring nurses, and Vicky Walsh of Alex
Hospital Manchester, also Dr Wilton of YG
(Ysbyty Gwynedd), Bangor.
“I’m now into recovery on
@BrainTumourOrg Day. Thank you all.”
Russell posted a cheerful picture of
himself wearing his beloved Wealdstone
FC polo shirt. The post also included links
to The Pituitary Foundation and Rare
Disease Day, which was held on February
28.
Russell underwent the delicate
operation to remove the lump after
doctors said it threatened to “blank out”
his optic nerve. He was instructed not to
sneeze or blow his nose for the next six
months to prevent complications.
In December, Russell told Emmeline
Saunders of the Mirror that he had
foreseen health problems for himself three
years earlier, but kept his premonition
quiet. “I saw something pretty major
coming when giving my lecture in
Blackpool on December 1, 2019, so I was
prepared,” he explained.
He had been speaking at the Northern
Lights Astrological Society. Within a week,
his mother suffered a stroke, and his brain
tumour started to develop. Soon after,
Covid-19 began to spread, bringing chaos
to the health system.
“I didn’t shout about the growth, as I’d
been waiting for a knee operation which
was due Easter 2020, so many of you
would have presumed I was going in for
that,” Russell said.
“Covid ruined that. So, it’s next on my
list of things to do.”
He added that he had consulted two
astrologer friends to find the best day for
his operation, and said he was “eternally
grateful” to them for “helping me to help
myself”.
Russell also tweeted that he had
received thousands of messages from fans,
saying: “Thank you for your incredible
words and messages of love and support.
On the health front, it’s one of those
days of fatigue/exhaustion: it’s a post op
symptom. Sending reams of gratitude.”
Psychic News has followed the career of
Russell Grant closely, starting in the 1960s.
The then teenage lad caught the attention
of the paper when he was demonstrating
his mediumship gift at the Sanctuary of
the Silver Cross, a Spiritualist church in
Uxbridge, Middlesex.
Talking to former PN editor Roy
Stemman in 2016 he recalled, “It was
a message I gave to a woman in the
congregation that got me mentioned in
Psychic News. I said to her, ‘I’ve got a lot of
birds around your head and I think they’re
sparrows,’ and she looked at me and said,
‘My name’s Mrs Sparrow.’
“I then went to another lady and asked,
‘Why have I got a burning building? Oh
no, hold on, it’s not a building, it’s like a
caravan.’ She said, ‘Because my caravan
was set alight four weeks ago in Clacton’.”
Psychic News described the lad as a
“young prodigy.” Roy commented, “It
seemed that young Russell Grant was
heading for psychic stardom, but he had
an even greater ambition to be in show
business.”
The wish came true; he would become
friends with some of the biggest names
in showbiz, including world-renowned
psychic, Doris Stokes.
He had also been studying astrology,
the former editor said. Russell told him, “It
was just a hobby, but I found it fascinating.
I didn’t believe all the signs of the zodiac
could fit the whole of humanity and, of
course, when I went into it in depth I
realised it didn’t. Every chart is different,
depending on an individual’s date, time
and place of birth.
“I also exploded other myths. For
example, you don’t predict the future. It’s
all about freewill and choice.”
It was at a meeting of the Astrological
Lodge of Great Britain that fellow
astrologer Rita Szymanski saw Russell
and his chart. She offered to teach him
everything she knew, predicting that
he would become the most well-known
astrologer of the century.
Roy Stemman continued, “In time,
Russell was asked to write an astrological
column for the Daily Mail, which proved
Russell Grant shares his
cancer recovery news
to be life changing.” For a while, he also
contributed a horoscope to the pages of
Psychic News.
In March 1978, the Queen Mother
accepted a chart from Russell and he was
soon being described as “the Astrologer
Royal.” He was the first person in 300 years
to publicly give an astrological consultation
to the British Royal Family.
He said that was when his hobby “blew
up into something quite incredible, really.”
Soon he was the king of Breakfast TV,
instantly recognisable in his trademark,
colourful sweaters.
However, in private Russell found
himself caring for his two grandmothers
Alice and Lily, both of whom suffered from
Alzheimer’s. Russell said he found little
support. He vowed to devote a third of his
working life to helping find a cure for the
disease and other forms of dementia.
Roy Stemman wrote, “Their passings left
a void in his life and he suffered from severe
depression, became suicidal and ballooned
to 27 stone through comfort eating. Slowly,
he took control of his life, shed weight at
the gym and then returned to the spotlight
on Strictly Come Dancing, proving to be a
popular contestant.
“His spectacular departure from the
2011 show, when he was fired from
a cannon, watched by sixteen million
viewers, is regarded as one of Strictly’s most
memorable moments,” Roy added.
In January 2021 Russell told of his
heartbreak at the passing of his mother Jo
due to Covid-19. He wrote on social media,
“It is with a deep and heartfelt sadness
that my brother Garry and I have to tell
you that our beloved mother, Jo, passed
over to a better world yesterday.” Again,
he thanked the “selfless dedication” of the
“hardworking NHS stars” who had cared
for the 93-year-old in her final days.
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NEWS
Medium discovered missing mum Nicola Bulley
THE heartbreaking search for missing mother Nicola Bulley was
brought to an end when a Spiritualist located her body.
Manchester medium Jason Rothwell
admitted he had used his gift to find her,
after his identity was revealed in the
media. He had been seen pointing to an
area of reeds in the River Wyre, showing
officers where he had seen a body, ending
23 days of speculation and concern.
Nicola was located less than a mile from
where she disappeared while walking her
dog beside the river at St Michael’s-onWyre, Lancashire. A huge search by police,
dogs and the community had brought no
clue to her whereabouts. The pressure of
press and social media interest had been
immense.
In 2018 Jason Rothwell had helped to
locate missing person Michael Brooks,
19, who was found in the River Ribble
in Penwortham, Lancashire, following
a two-week search. Knowing how
distraught Nicola’s friends and family
were, Jason decided to try and assist.
He explained on Facebook and
Instagram, “Having previously assisted in
the recovery of Michael Brooks, I decided
to use whatever ‘gift’ it is we mediums
possess, to try and locate Nicola Bulley.”
He wrote: “As has obviously become
apparent, yes, it is myself in the images in
the media currently circulating relating to
the case of Nicola Bulley and yes, yesterday
morning it was myself and a friend who
reported and assisted the police in the
recovery of a body from the River Wyre.”
He thanked Lancashire Police for
their “help, support, and the open
mindedness with which they dealt with
us, following our call. Spiritualists or
mediums are obviously not something
the police come across every day, and I
appreciate the respect given to us both.”
Jason said the family had not
asked him to help with the search,
but he felt compelled to act due to
the “wild speculation and hurtful
commentary” that had been circulating
about the disappearance.
He released the statement after
his identity was discovered by users
of YouTube and TikTok. Some sceptics
suggested that finding two bodies in
five years could imply that he had been
involved in the disappearances.
As the spotlight turned on him,
Jason announced he would not be
taking requests for readings. He is still
serving at his local churches such as
Hythe Christian Spiritualist Church and
Congleton SNU Spiritualist Church.
He also hosts charity events.
The whole episode has brought
widescale criticism about the unhelpful
conspiracy theories and “amateur
detectives” who conducted private
investigations to fuel their own
popularity on the internet. Nicola’s
family had expressed anger and dismay
at the “vile theories” and “appalling
rumours,” while they were trying to
remain positive about the outcome.
Jason, 33, travelled from Manchester
to use his intuition, and he was led to the
body. Before it had been confirmed as
Nicola, he said, “My thoughts and prayers
are with her family, friends and loved ones
at this time and I do hope, that if it is indeed
Nicola, they can find some peace with
this. If it is not, I would send my prayers
to the family of whomsoever it may be.”
He added, “As a final note, I will not
be giving any further information or
commentary at this time regarding
the work involved in finding this
person nor is it my place to engage
in any discussion on how that body
came to originally be in the water.”
At a press conference, Lancashire
Police announced that the body was
that of Nicola Bulley. Her disappearance
is still being treated as unexplained
while enquiries continue.
JASON ROTHWELL used his intuition to find the
body of Nicola. (Photo: Facebook)
NICOLA BULLEY disappeared whilst walking her dog
on January 27, 2023. (Photo: Lancashire Constabulary)
NEWS
Victim of racism is now a
psychic to the stars
A SCOTTISH psychic has told how racist bullying at school led her
to uncover her roots and her clairvoyant gift.
Laura Tuach, known as Madre Palmistry,
is in great demand for her insights, with
clients travelling from far afield to her
apartment in Dumbarton. She has even
helped reality TV stars and Premiership
footballers with predictions for the future.
Daily Record reporter Fraser Clarke
wrote: “Now she welcomes clients
looking for guidance and miracles to her
Wallace Street flat. She is the author
of one of Kindle’s most popular books
on empowerment and self-healing. The
book charts Laura’s life from finding out
about her mixed Irish and Indian heritage,
embracing her roots, and learning more
about what she believes is her ancestral
gift.”
Laura, a single mum with three children,
believes her gift is hereditary and that
her children are intuitive too. She was in
a foster home as a small child, then was
adopted by Alistair and Liz Tuach, who she
calls her “earth parents.” It was a loving
home, but at primary school Laura was the
victim of bullying and racist abuse.
She told the reporter, “I’d been wrapped
in cotton wool my whole life until I started
school. Growing up as someone who was
mixed race and quite tall in Dumbarton
was tough.”
On her first day at St Patrick’s Primary
School she was called a racist name and
didn’t know what it meant. “But the energy
that it came from was hate, even at that
young age I knew that.
“The person who was saying it was
angry. At five years old, I went home and
asked my mum what it meant. That was
when my parents explained to me that
I was adopted. I was mixed race.” Laura
added, “I was always a target of bullying.”
In an interview for the podcast Glasgow
Girls’ Club, the psychic said: “Later on, I
did a DNA test and I found I’m 52 per cent
Indian and the other part is Irish.
“All my life I’ve had powerful intuition
and dreams of the Hindu gods; I found out
that’s my biological ancestors’ religion. I’m
vegetarian too, I’ve always had respect for
animals as well as people.”
Reporting on the remarkable way that
Laura has changed her life, the Daily Record
said: “Laura believes that being the victim
of vile attacks has helped make her the
person she is today. She said she is in such
demand that her phone is ringing almost
constantly. Despite the workload and toll it
can take on her, she feels blessed to be able
to help people, often during their darkest
hours.”
“It’s a miracle job I’m doing. I’m
tapping into people’s power and
transforming lives,” she said.
“People come to me at their darkest
hour, and I help them. Two young
men came to me because they were
struggling with a heroin addiction. I got
them off it. These men are now going
into counselling to help others.”
Her skills have also led to her
attracting a number of celebrity
clients, including reality TV stars who
visited her council flat for guidance.
“It’s hilarious,” Laura commented.
“Some people from Love Island came,
they contacted me from Manchester
and said they were driving to see
me, and asked if that was okay.
“Some of the celebrities, especially
footballers, have to come in covering
their identity. It’s cool to have
someone like a soap star in your house,
but I treat everyone as equal.
“When a lot of people come to see me, I
do transformational healings. It’s amazing
the miracles these rituals do.
“Some celebrities say they are
going for cosmetic surgery. They are
on Instagram all the time and have
millions of people watching them;
they ask me why they feel dreadful.
“Afterwards I’m told they’re relieved
they didn’t get surgery, because they
feel great, they just needed to tap
into their divine feminine power.”
“Beyond My Birth: An Empowering & SelfHealing Story and Guide” by Madre Palmistry
is available to read on Amazon Kindle.
LAURA TUACH: “All my life I’ve had powerful
intuition and dreams of the Hindu gods; I found
out that’s my biological ancestors’ religion.”
(Photo: Facebook)
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NEWS
Comedian has uncanny knack for paranormal investigation
A FORMER stand-up comedian has created a surge of interest
in the field of paranormal investigation. Danny Robins (pictured
above), dubbed the “UK’s go-to ghost guy,” has created three smashhit radio series for the BBC, a West End play, and soon he will be
taking his show on the road and on to our TV screens.
Now, wherever he goes, people want to
tell him their own stories of unexplained
activity. “We all want to know what
happens to us when we die,” he explained.
“It’s the biggest question in the history of
human existence.”
Danny’s most well-known series for
BBC Radio 4 is The Battersea Poltergeist
which re-examined the facts of this famous
case. The story of extreme paranormal
activity started in a South London family
home in 1956 and continued for twelve
years.
The nine-part BBC series created by
Bafflegab Productions included dramatised
segments. Actor Toby Jones (Detectorists)
played Harold Chibbett, the paranormal
investigator and Dafne Keen (His Dark
Materials) was Shirley Hitchings, the
teenager at the centre of the disturbances.
The show added eyewitness
interviews and discussions by experts in
parapsychology. An invitation to listeners
to send in their own theories brought a
huge global response. To date, the show
has attracted over four million downloads,
sparking a bidding war for the TV rights.
The second paranormal cold case, The
Witch Farm, about an apparently haunted
Welsh farmhouse, gained an impressive
following and created intense debate.
For Uncanny, a fifteen-part podcast
available on BBC Sounds, Danny collected
stories of unexplained encounters and
subjected them to the scrutiny of experts
and the audience. The panel included
paranormal psychology specialists Chris
French, Ciaran O’Keefe and Evelyn Hollow.
The format was so popular that it will
return this month. Danny told Psychic
News: “The next series will be a mixture
of brand-new cases and updates on some
of our most intriguing cases from the
first series. We’ll also have a live episode
recorded at UncannyCon, the first ever
Uncanny Fan Convention.”
The show has also been commissioned
for TV. BBC publicity says: “Played almost
five million times on BBC Sounds and
with three million downloads on other
platforms globally, the Uncanny podcast
has proven a hit with both sceptics and
believers alike. Now the TV version is
about to ignite the debate in living rooms
across the land.”
Danny Robins said: “I’ve been blown
away by the response to Uncanny. We’ve
built an incredible community around the
show, many of whom never realised how
interested in the paranormal they were.
“I’m incredibly excited to get the chance
to both continue the podcast and adapt
it for TV, as we explore that biggest of all
questions: ‘Do ghosts exist?’ I promise
it will be scary and fascinating in equal
measure.”
Danny, 47, was born in Newcastle and
grew up in an atheist household. He was
interested in the afterlife from an early age,
but his first stage shows were in comedy,
with friends in the business such as Ross
Noble and Marcus Brigstocke. In 2003 he
performed at the Edinburgh Fringe with
the show Live Ghost Hunt, which was a
spoof of the TV programme Most Haunted,
in which investigators film themselves
looking for paranormal phenomena.
That led him to think about how people
react when someone tells them they have
seen a ghost. He wrote the play 2:22 – A
Ghost Story which features two couples
whose fractious dinner party turns into a
vigil for a ghost which seems to appear at
the same time each morning, at 2.22 am.
The drama premiered in the West End
in 2021 and received a Laurence Olivier
Award nomination for Best New Play the
following year.
Danny had found his niche. When The
Battersea Poltergeist brought a flood of
new paranormal accounts, he knew there
was a need to explore a selection of them.
He said: “Uncanny gives me a chance to
tell these stories and many others I have
received, talking directly to the people who
had the experiences and investigating with
them to see if we can find answers.
“This is the show I have always wanted
to make. It lets me be a supernatural
Sherlock Holmes, trying to solve real-life
paranormal mysteries, and I’ll be wanting
the listeners to be my Dr Watson.”
In the first series a model talked about
(Photo: Robert Shiret)
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Psychics predicted talent
show role for Paula Abdul
MULTI award winning singer and choreographer Paula Abdul
(pictured below) has put her name to an online service for those
seeking spiritual advice. Announcing her partnership with Psychics
1 on 1, Paula, 60, talked to the Daily Mail, revealing that psychic
predictions about her career came true.
“I had been told by two different
spiritual advisors that I was going to end
up doing a show,” she said. They predicted
the TV series would be “a global success
around the world.”
Three years later, she started working
as a judge on the singing contest American
Idol. Her appearances ran from 2002 to
2009. One of the readers had correctly
foretold that she would be sitting between
fellow panellists Randy Jackson and
British music industry superstar Simon
Cowell.
Paula said she was told during her
psychic readings the show would turn out
to be a “juggernaut” that would “transcend
generations” of viewers, a forecast that
also came to pass. At its peak in 2006, the
programme attracted 30 million viewers.
The singer also told the Daily Mail that
she had consulted psychics throughout
her showbiz career. “It’s served me
very well. I am just really all about
spiritual guidance and these amazing
people have helped me,” Paula said.
“Sometimes you just need a little
bit of guidance and advice. It’s helped
me look out for things that I may
have not even considered and, you
know, I pay attention to signs.”
In her new role with www.
Psychics1on1.com, Paula will promote the
brand’s goal to offer the services of more
than 3,300 spiritual advisors by messaging,
video call or by phone. She will also share
her positive experiences from personal
readings with some of the platform’s
mediums, healers and astrologers.
She said, “What makes me so excited
about this venture is the fact that I’ve
been helped through spiritual advisors,
incredible psychics who have been spoton, who have helped me navigate my way
throughout my career and my love life.
“I have found spiritual advice
offers wonderful lessons that are
yours for the taking if you allow
yourself to be open minded enough
to seek that spiritual guidance.”
Psychics1on1.com is a digital
marketplace that allows psychics to
advertise their businesses and engage
directly with their clients online.
Its co-founder Robert Earl said: “Paula
and I have been friends for many years.
Her talent knows no bounds and her love
for spirituality is completely authentic,
making her a natural fit for Psychics1on1.”
Paula Abdul started dancing as
a cheerleader for the LA Lakers
basketball team. She went on to
choreograph shows for pop stars Janet
Jackson, Michael Jackson and a host
of others. She has also worked on
numerous feature films and TV shows.
The star has sold 60 million records and
earned numerous awards and recognitions
including five MTV Video Music Awards,
two Grammy Awards, three American
Music Awards and two Emmy Awards
for Outstanding Choreography.
being terrorised by an unseen stalker
in her Brooklyn apartment and a
policeman said he had encountered a
UFO in the midst of a murder inquiry.
A young nurse told of paranormal
forces that saved a patient, and teenage
hikers recalled spending the night
in an abandoned house with chilling
consequences.
Talking to the Evening Standard’s Tom
Nicholson in 2022, Danny said that all
the stories “occupy a real world with real
people – literally, in Battersea Poltergeist
and Uncanny. And as an audience
member you feel this could be you.”
Asked why the tales are so popular
he replied, “They are detective stories
where one of your suspects might
be a ghost. If you’re a sceptic, it’s a
‘howdunnit’ – was it environmental
factors or psychological factors? If
you’re a believer, it’s a ‘whodunnit’ –
who’s the ghost?
“We need ghosts as a buffer zone
between us and death, this kind of
comfort blanket,” he said. “It’s that
paradox that ghosts are simultaneously
frightening and comforting, because
however scary a story is, if ghosts exist
that means that we might get that
amazing chance to live on.”
Danny is wary of sceptics who flatly
refuse to believe any evidence, and also
those who are quick to claim that the
slightest creak of a floorboard must be
paranormal in origin. He reckons that
neither of these extremes is helpful.
“I’m interested in what ghosts are
– whether they are the product of our
human minds, our environment, or
actually something otherworldly – the
dead rising again, or some type of energy
we don’t yet understand,” he said.
“If my research has taught me
anything, it’s that there’s a surprising
amount of people out there who don’t
really believe in ghosts but do believe
they have seen one. Those are the
stories that set my pulse racing.”
“I’m a sceptic who wants to believe,”
Danny added. “I would love it to be real,
but at the same time I feel a strong sense
of ‘be careful what you wish for’, because
when I hear some of these stories
and see the impact on people…I am a
coward.”
The new twelve-part series of
Uncanny begins on BBC Radio 4 on
April 5, and will also be available via
the internet on BBC Sounds. A live tour
is being put together, with venues and
dates to be announced soon.
(Photo: Alyssa Kristine)
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“Magical” musician’s new album
was inspired by Spiritualist retreat
SAN FRANCISO-based musician Jill Tracy has produced a new
album that represents a “sonic souvenir” of her time spent on
retreat at a Spiritualist community.
Ms Tracy stayed at the award-winning
Lily Dale Historic District in Western New
York, which was featured in the March
edition of Psychic News. She said she was
“blown away” by the graciousness and
interest shown to her by the community
that includes hundreds of Spiritualists and
dozens of mediums.
Liz Ohanesian wrote in the Orange
County Register, “Ms Tracy was invited to
Lily Dale for a residency; she made several
trips between 2017 and 2019, the results
of which comprise her new album and
book, The Secret Music of Lily Dale.
“The seventeen-track album focuses
on piano music Ms Tracy spontaneously
composed while playing in Lily Dale’s
nineteenth century auditorium; the music
later augmented by field recordings she
made during her stay. The accompanying
book documents her stay and includes her
own photography from the trip.”
“I just wanted people to know about
this magical place that exists. I decided
that it had to be part of the product,” said
Ms Tracy. “It couldn’t just be that I post
some things on Instagram about it.”
On jilltracy.com it says, “As a youngster,
Jill Tracy was drawn to classic suspense,
film noir and horror movie scores,
which she cites today as some of her
strongest influences. These passions
are evident in her unusual piano style.
Self-taught, her singular blend of
mystical flourishes, hypnotic grooves and
dark-alley classical conjures up chiaroscuro
shades of another era, but at the same
time, the sound is shockingly new.”
She likens music to a ghost “because
once it is played, it disappears
into thin air. It vanishes.”
Ms Tracy uses music to connect with
the histories of unusual places. She said
this work explores “what happens when
I immerse myself into the location and
tap into that energy and just record
spontaneous music with no preparation,
so that I’m just tuned-in to that moment
in time.” She records what she calls
a “sonic souvenir” of the location.
She also hosts “sonic séance” events,
where she creates music with the
audience that exists for one night
only, in venues that have ranged
from old mansions to outdoors
amongst mighty redwood trees.
Lily Dale is a select community of 275
residents who all follow a Spiritualist
path. There are summer tourists, but Ms
Tracy visited during the closed season
and was instructed to travel alone,
so she took only her laptop and three
microphones to make the recordings.
In Lily Dale, the musician would set up
her equipment in the auditorium at dusk
and play the piano, sometimes until the
early morning. She also explored the town
and countryside around the community,
recording the sounds of nature. “It’s so
important to have that element of marvel
and wonder in our lives,” she said.
According to her website, Ms Tracy’s
music aims to “transport you into a
seductive and magical realm far beyond
the Everyday. The place where we wished
we lived. A dark, elegant netherworld
full of hidden passageways, wonder
cabinets and shadows. Of monsters,
marvels and mystery. You know it’s not
safe here; but with Jill Tracy as your
guide, you’ll be in no hurry to leave.”
Announcing the new album, the website
says: “The Secret Music of Lily Dale is a
sonic excavation of mysterious Lily Dale,
the famed private town of mediums and
Spiritualists in upstate New York.
“She recorded on an antique grand
piano alone at night inside the 1883
auditorium, site of séances and spirit
communication services for over a century.
“She captured field recordings, from the
mystical Leolyn Woods to chilling nighttime rainstorms, to create a never-beforeheard aural journey into this strange little
town that talks to the dead.”
Ms Tracy explained: “I’m fascinated
with the energy and impressions that
remain within environments, buildings
and objects — and their amassed emotional
history.
“For me, uncovering hidden
compositions inside these spaces is the
closest thing to time travel or channelling.
A bridge between this world, and what lies
beyond human comprehension.
“My work honours the mystery.”
The album and 50-page book are available
to download via Jill Tracy’s website:
www.jilltracy.com
THE museum is just one of the many buildings in
the Spiritualist community of Lily Dale Assembly,
New York State. (Photo: Plazak)
JILL TRACY: “I’m fascinated with
the energy and impressions that
remain within environments,
buildings and objects.”
(Photo: Audrey Penven)
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How to choose a medium
– and not get hooked
AN astrologer and spirituality expert has given advice on how to
choose a good medium, and how to avoid becoming addicted to
seeking guidance.
In January, Prince Harry caused a stir
by revealing in his memoir Spare that he
had consulted a “woman with powers.” His
visit to a psychic is not unusual: in the UK,
a 2011 poll from YouGov found a quarter
of British people have done the same, and
well over half of these people believed in
the results.
Bestselling author, spirituality expert
and regular on ITV’s This Morning, Theresa
Cheung (pictured above) agrees. She
told OK! Magazine: “Visiting a medium
can comfort those who are grieving,
when traditional grief counselling just
doesn’t resonate. The psychic helps them
cultivate a relationship that transcends
death, offers them hope that death isn’t
the end and helps them explore the
mystery of human consciousness.”
She gave examples of people who told
her how they had been helped by hearing
messages from loved ones who had
passed, especially when they were given
details that nobody else could have known.
Such evidence can help the bereaved
to find the strength to move through their
grief, but Theresa warned that there’s
a danger of becoming addicted to the
reassurance a visit to a medium can bring.
She cautioned: “The genuine ones won’t
encourage repeat visits. Only a potential
fraudster will do this. It’s a major red flag.”
A good medium will offer one
reading, said the expert. “If no proof or
healing comes through in that session,
they’ll be honest, and ideally refund
you if you’ve already paid them.”
Theresa explained the difference
between a psychic and a medium: “The
former can sense invisible things about
a person. Mediums are communicating
with spirit beings; they are always psychic
– but not all psychics are mediums.”
She gave the following checklist
for anyone considering using the
services of a psychic or medium:
• Avoid going in the first year
following the loss of a loved one
– you need time to adjust.
• Look for credentials and a code of
ethics. Ideally choose a certified
medium with training from a
recognised teacher or institution.
• Do not be drawn in by celebrity
endorsement, or if the person
has a cult-like following.
• Be wary if they encourage repeat visits,
unless they are teaching you a specific
spiritual technique, such as meditation.
• Check their fee, which Theresa
suggests should be no higher than
the price of a good haircut.
• Avoid anyone with a lot of marketing.
This is more about creating a celebrity
rather than helping people.
• Do not accept being told what to
do or believe; most psychics are not
trained counsellors or therapists.
• You should feel empowered and
uplifted, not nervous or inferior.
A psychic ought to have a joyful,
optimistic energy about them.
• Avoid if they will only conduct inperson readings. However, psychic
phone lines may simply be moneymaking if they seem to keep you
talking as long as possible.
• Do not allow yourself to be bombarded
with advertising and be wary if asked
for your credit card before a reading.
• Watch for leading questions.
Do not give too much away;
stick to yes or no answers.
• Avoid if they appear to have done
research on you before a reading.
Be aware of what is publicly
available on your social media.
Theresea Cheung has written several books,
covering a variety of mystical topics.
Her new title is “Empower Your Inner
Psychic” (Harper Thorsons, £14.99).
A PSYCHIC “can sense invisible things about a person. Mediums are communicating with spirit beings;
they are always psychic – but not all psychics are mediums.”
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NEWS NEWS
Uri Geller lifts ban and apologises to Pokémon fans
TRADING card fans around the world are cheering the return of a
cartoon character that has been at the centre of a legal battle for more
than twenty years. The celebration was made possible when world
famous mentalist Uri Geller backed down from his claim that the magical
Pokémon creature named Kadabra was an offensive caricature of him.
Pokémon – short for pocket monsters
– was devised in 1996 by a Japanese video
game designer and launched on the market
by Nintendo Co Ltd. The characters are
taken on adventures by players and get
into battles.
Each monster has specific strengths and
weaknesses. Players, acting as trainers,
aim to become the best. The theme song
and slogan “Gotta catch ‘em all” were
composed to encourage an ambition of
acquiring as many creatures as possible.
The trading card games soon followed,
and in the English sets there are now over
9,000 variations. Collectors will pay huge
sums for rare, early examples: the record
being around £5 million for one card.
New creatures were created over the
years, each with their own attributes;
some appear to be based on real people.
On a trip to Tokyo in 2000, Uri Geller
found himself surrounded by children who
recognised him as the inspiration for the
character named Kadabra, featured in a
newly released set of cards. In Japan, the
magical creature’s name is Yungeller; it is
depicted clutching a spoon.
Uri was outraged by the apparent
infringement of his rights and took
immediate legal action. The production of
the Kadabra cards came to a halt.
The BBC reported that Uri said:
“Nintendo turned me into an evil, occult
Pokémon character. They stole my identity
by using my name and my signature image.”
Uri Geller is famed for his ability
to bend spoons with his mind. The Israeliborn psychic came to prominence in
the 1970s when he demonstrated the
phenomenon on primetime TV. He now has
a museum in Tel Aviv that charts his career
and displays a collection of objects bent
with his mind-power.
Although the original lawsuit was
dismissed, Uri has continued to put
pressure on Nintendo with continued
threats of legal action. Now he has had a
change of heart over his objection to the
Kadabra card.
Speaking to PokéBeach, a website
dedicated to fans of the genre, Uri said:
“I’m pleased Pokémon fans are excited
to see Kadabra return to the card game.
I want to thank the Pokémon fans who
reached out to me over the years, including
the ones from PokéBeach, who kept
contacting me.
“It was you and my granddaughters that
got me to change my mind. Now we can
all see Kadabra reunited with the original
Pokémon this summer.
“I admit, totally open and honest, I was a
fool. It was a devastating mistake for me to
sue Pokémon. Kadabra was basically a tribute
to Uri Geller. But it’s back now. Forgive me. I
love you all. Much love and energy.”
The new card set featuring Kadabra
(similar to the fan art below) is expected to
be released in June.
Spiritual teacher runs for US Presidency
AN AMERICAN author, spiritual leader and political activist has become
the first major Democrat to declare herself in the running for the 2024
US Presidency. Marianne Williamson is challenging Joe Biden for the
position of the world’s most powerful political leader.
Ms Williamson, 70, is an ardent
promoter of the self-help book A Course in
Miracles, which was dictated psychically to
Helen Schucman in 1976.
She is also a bestselling
author and spiritual
teacher in her own right.
On her website she
announced: “We are not
living in easy times, but the
times will change when we
are willing to change them.
“I feel my forty years
being up close and
personal with the trauma
of so many thousands
of individuals gives me
a unique perspective
on what is needed to
help repair America… It’s time for a new
beginning, and this will only happen if
we’re willing to look at the world in a
different way.”
Claiming that she is “best qualified
to disrupt” the present system of
government, Ms Williamson acknowledged
that people might not take
her seriously, but said, “I’m
not putting myself through
this again just to add to the
conversation.”
She is seen as “the
longest of long shots,” as
Democrats appear to be
firm in their support of
President Biden to win
another term in office.
In 1992, Marianne
Williamson was a guest on
the Oprah Winfrey Show.
She told the iconic
chat show host about her
book, A Return to Love, which went on to
sell 1.5 million copies in America. In it, Ms
Williamson wrote that “our deepest fear is
not that we are inadequate; it’s that we are
powerful beyond measure.” Oprah declared
it to be one of her favourite quotes.
The author has since made several
appearances on Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday
segments on the Oprah Winfrey Network
and has been referred to as the host’s
spiritual friend and counsellor.
In politics, one of Ms Williamson’s
signature proposals is a plan to create
a US Department of Peace. She also
campaigned for the government to
pay massive financial reparations to
descendants of American slaves.
Her policies for “moral repair” include
increased welfare, a reversal of climate
change and a health system that would
challenge the causes of illness, including
industrial toxins and poor diet.
Her 2014 attempt to gain office as an
independent candidate to fill a seat in
California’s 33rd Congressional District
failed, despite large financial and celebrity
backing. In 2020 she abandoned her own
presidential campaign and supported
Bernie Saunders, who lost out to Joe Biden
in the nominations for the Democrats’
presidential candidate.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON: “Our
deepest fear is not that we are
inadequate; it’s that we are
powerful beyond measure.”
(Photo: Gage Skidmore)
(Pic: TsaoShin on deviantart.com)
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NEWS
Star Trek’s Mr Sulu shares stories
of paranormal encounters
GEORGE TAKEI is a social justice activist, social media star and
bestselling author. However, he will forever be best known as Mr
Sulu, helm officer on the spaceship USS Enterprise in the original
hit sci-fi series Star Trek.
Always interested in stories of the
unexplained, the actor hosted a series
titled True Terror in 2019. Recently, he
shared on his website a social media
thread from the platform Reddit, in which
a user had asked for first-hand ghost
stories from people who had been with
those at the end of their earthly life.
One person commented that in hospice
and long-term care, staff often mention
glimpsing “the man in the corner,” a figure
seen near the bedside when someone is
close to passing.
A user named justhappy2bhereig had
a similar story to tell. They said on the day
their grandfather passed, “He looked at
my mother and said, ‘the angel is back.’ My
mother was stunned. She asked what he
meant, and he said ‘the angel is back, and
this time he wants me to come with him.’
“My mother looked at the corner of the
room where he was gazing, turned back to
him, and said ‘Dad, there’s nobody there.’
He didn’t respond. He died that night.”
The writer said they also lost their sister
at the age of seven. “On the days leading
up to her death, she kept speaking about
this butterfly who would visit her. We just
thought she’d developed this imaginary
friend to help her through what she was
struggling with.
“One day, she told us ‘the butterfly is
back, and he wants me to follow him.’
“I saw my mother’s face drop. She’d
made the decision not to tell my sister she
was dying. But my sister said, in the next
second, ‘I’m going to die, aren’t I? That’s
what the butterfly said. He told me I’m
going to die.’”
Her mother admitted the truth to the
little girl, who passed peacefully.
In another story, a user said he worked
in a hospital. One day he was walking
through an area of the mortuary. He said,
“I almost had a heart attack as I turned the
corner and there was this guy standing
there examining files in the filing cabinet.”
“He looked just like you or me. Dressed
modernly, but out of place for what people
normally wear back there.” He spoke to the
man but had no reply.
“I should mention this was about 1am,
and I’d never seen anyone at the place this
late. So I said, ‘Well, sorry if I startled you.’”
The hospital worker carried on with his
job, assuming the man hadn’t heard him. “I
went to the bathroom, and came back and
the guy was gone, but the filing cabinet
was still open,” he continued.
“I didn’t know where he went, and
I hadn’t heard anyone walk down the
hallway past the bathroom.
“I checked and made sure everything I
was responsible for was still locked, and it
was. So I just announced that I was going to
be leaving and locking up to set the alarm.”
Again there was no answer, so he left.
“I’m not sure who he was, or is, or
what happened. But it was definitely an
odd experience and one I still remember
perfectly.”
On the thread, a user calling themself
addictedpunk wrote: “I used to be a
security guard at a hospital. One night,
while doing my rounds, I went into the
surgery wing and was walking down a
hallway when I saw a doctor looking at
the whiteboard where all the scheduled
surgeries are written. I said ‘Hello doctor’
and kept going.”
He received no reply.
“When I got back to the security office,
I was telling one of the guys that’s been
there for years about how I greeted this
doctor, and he didn’t say anything back. I
was asked where I saw him and I said ‘The
surgery ward,’ and he gave me a smirk.
“He explained that the surgery ward
closes at 9pm and all patients are moved
into the monitoring wards; there should be
no one there.
“He then asked me if this doctor was
studying the schedule board. I said yes. He
told me that I just met Dr Luisitti.”
Staff believe the silent figure to be the
spirit of a former surgeon, who tragically
took his own life at the hospital.
GEORGE TAKEI has
always been interested
in stories of the
unexplained.
(Photo: Super
festivals/Flickr)
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STREAMING platform Netflix
has paired up with a Londonbased paranormal investigation
team to offer their services for
free. A select number of alleged
hauntings will be checked
by Spectrum Paranormal
Investigations Ltd of Camden
Town.
The announcement coincided with the
launching of the new series Lockwood & Co.
The show is the latest in what Netflix calls
its “supernatural soaps.”
The offer accompanied news that
research showed one in five British people
claim their home has spiritual activity, with
London considered to be the most haunted
city, followed by Glasgow, Liverpool,
Birmingham and Nottingham.
Dean Williams from Spectrum
Paranormal Investigations said: “Lockwood
& Co tells the story of young people
fighting off ghosts in an imaginary
version of London, but we know – and the
research from Netflix has shown – that
sensing spirits is a very real and everyday
occurrence for Brits.
“So, we’re bringing the Lockwood & Co
experience into real life and offering a few
lucky households the chance to experience
an investigation for themselves and learn
the techniques from the show and more.”
Dean added that “As one of the UK’s
leading research teams with over twenty
years of experience, we are offering a
‘hard evidence’ approach to paranormal
phenomena, using traditional methods
mixed with cutting-edge technology to
Netflix partners with paranormal research team
to offer free home checks
NETFLIX’s “Lockwood & Co” tells the story of young people fighting off ghosts in an imaginary
version of London. (Photo: Netflix)
THE increased use of technology has caused a
growth of interest in paranormal investigations.
(Photo: LuckyLouie)
identify and communicate with spirits. As
well as offering you expert advice on how
to deal with hauntings in your home.”
Team member Hazel Williams told
the Guardian in 2022, that interest in the
paranormal has been growing, partly due
to the increased use of technology, and
people posting their own content on social
media.
“I’ve never known a time when there’s
been this abundance of paranormal
content everywhere,” she said.
Home security cameras and baby
monitoring, along with the proliferation
of camera phones has given rise to a boom
in footage, but Hazel insisted that most
phenomena can be easily explained. “It’s
actually quite normal for cameras to pick
up dust particles,” she said, “which can look
like glowing orbs on recordings.
“Because of the way the media portrays
orbs on TV as spirit energies and ghosts,
people tend to jump the gun.”
In 2021, the team were called in to the
Fox and Pheasant pub in Chelsea, owned
by the top singer-songwriter James Blunt.
He was convinced the Victorian local
was haunted by a former customer, who
knocked over items including a specific
tankard. The staff were reportedly “totally
freaked out” by the events.
James took to Instagram to share
security camera footage of a beer glass
inexplicably falling from a shelf behind the
bar. The clip shows the pint glass being
caught by a stunned barman. A colleague is
seen looking up at the shelf with wide eyes,
unable to fathom how the glass fell.
“Spooky goings on down the F&P…looks
like we had a ghost lurking behind the bar
yesterday,” James wrote in the caption. The
investigation team were called upon to try
to calm the situation.
If any readers feel they have
unexplained activity in their home, they
can apply to have it checked by Spectrum
Paranormal Investigations (SPI).
Their website says: “We are looking for
genuine cases substantiated by supporting
video, photographic or audio evidence
to help build a picture of the paranormal
activity in your home. If you don’t have
any media to support your account, please
submit a diary-like log of the phenomena
along with times, dates and locations in
which it took place, in as much detail as
possible.
“All cases will be considered and vetted
based on the information provided, with
the team electing to take on cases that
meet the SPI criteria and warrant further
investigation. Terms and conditions apply.”
Send an email to: lockwoodandco@
spectrumparanormal.co.uk
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FEATURE
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When a successful estate agent altered course to become a hands-on healer, he
couldn’t have known that his work would come full circle. The revelation that some
homes were “Divorce Houses” – places where happy couples would move in and then
split up soon after – led Adrian Incledon-Webber to look for the cause. He discovered
the amazing world of earth energies, elementals and the emotional remnants left by
predecessors that can affect current residents.
Now recognised as one of the world’s most experienced geomancers, Adrian works
with home and business owners to clear their properties of unwanted spirits and
energies, bringing balance and harmony to the occupants. He runs courses on the
subject and has produced three books to help others heal their homes.
“Psychic News’” Chief Reporter Ann Green talked to Adrian about his awakening
to the spirit world and his life-changing decision to work with those beings he terms
as “Upstairs.” Ann started by asking Adrian about his early life.
MY father was in the Royal Air Force, so
we moved a lot, we lived in West Suffolk
for a few years then when Dad changed
to flying civil aircraft we moved down to
Sussex.
The first job I had was working in Bond
Street, London, for an antique dealer. I then
thought estate agency work looked easy
and there would be a company car, but
when I made the switch, I found I’d never
worked so hard in my life.
With a business partner I set up my own
estate agency; over 25 years we grew to
having six offices in West Surrey. We were
perhaps unusual in the aftercare of our
clients, a bit like agony aunts. I’ve taken
that aspect with me through my healing
work.
Were any of your family interested in
spirituality?
Mum was quite a psychic lady, her
mother was very much that way too,
although I never met her, she passed quite
young. If Dad had a problem when he
was flying an aircraft, she always knew
intuitively.
I had an invisible friend called Bankinks
and Mum was very understanding, she
would even lay a place for him at the
table, even though she assumed he was
imaginary.
Of course, school and adult life takes all
that out of you. Only in recent years did I
reconnect with Bankinks, it turned out that
he was and still is my guardian, or my soul
brother as I call him.
You were living the sort of life many aspire to
– a large house, luxury cars, foreign holidays
– what made you give it all up?
In 1988 a change in the mortgage
market gave us major problems in the
estate agency business and I needed
guidance. A friend suggested I go to see
John Benedict; I didn’t realise he was
probably one of the best palmists in the
world.
He gave me the confidence to keep
going. He also said I had two big protection
triangles showing in my hands. I believed
him, because he told me some personal
details that were spot on, about a
traumatic time in my early life.
Eventually my business partner and I
wanted to go in different directions. I went
to see Andy Roberts, a reiki master, for
treatment. He said, “You’ll be doing this
soon.”
The palmist had said I would become
a healer too – but nobody could specify
when. I trained rapidly with Andy and soon
became a hands-on healer.
Giving up the trappings of wealth and
security, you became a very different person.
How did that affect your relationships?
All my friends and acquaintances knew
me as a businessman. The change I went
through was mind-boggling for me, but
others couldn’t understand. Most of the
people in the estate agency world thought
I was having a break down, but I knew it
was what I had to do. I had to let so much
go.
Sadly, the partner I was living with
was one of those who couldn’t adapt, and
we split up. At first my sons Alistair and
Charles were pretty embarrassed by the
“new me” but they are fine with it now.
Tell me about the “Divorce House” revelation.
I was doing a lot of hands-on healing
with people, including aristocrats, film
stars and top business people. I suddenly
realised that it didn’t matter how much
healing I was bringing, if they were
going back to a place where there were
detrimental influences, they weren’t
going to improve permanently. When I
understood this, it felt as if those in the
spirit world were applauding, saying, “At
last, he’s got it.”
I started working on friends’ and
family’s houses, and they reported an
enormous difference. I had noticed that
over the 25 years of estate agency work,
there was one house in particular that
came on the market regularly. A happy
couple would move in, then three years
later I’d get a call to say they were getting
divorced and putting the house back on the
market.
Once I realised what was going on, I
contacted the people who were then in the
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house and did healing on it. They’re still
there, over twenty years later.
We’d also had properties where
successive occupants had alcohol issues or
mental health problems. I realised I had to
start healing houses from geopathic stress
and other influences. That was about
sixteen years ago.
Is this more than the normal ambience of a
house, which so many people say influences
their decision when buying a property? Can
you explain what geopathic stress means?
As an estate agent, I’d get people saying
a house ticked every box on their wish list
but “something didn’t feel right.” I now
know that’s down to the energy patterns in
the land or the fabric of the building. If you
get them right, it gives you a better chance
of selling.
Geopathic stress literally means
sickness coming from the Earth. That’s
energy lines, ley lines and underground
water, but I’ve always asked what else
there might be.
In my full surveys I now ask 55
questions of my guides, including checks
for emotional energy left by human
traumas.
No matter how old or new a house is,
there will be residual energy from builders,
tradespeople, visitors and families that
have lived there over the years. The land
itself may contain remnants from the past.
Some of it does dissipate over time,
but some can persist for centuries. There
is new input from technology such as the
mobile phone network and the internet.
About a third of people in the world
are not in the least sensitive to all this and
won’t be affected by it. Another third may
feel some slight sensitivity, but the rest
could be quite strongly influenced. They
might feel headaches, mood swings and
even be susceptible to illness if they remain
in a place that is detrimental for them. It’s
about the individual’s vibrational energy.
You heal houses globally – do you have to
visit them in person?
No, I work from my home in Yorkshire
mostly. I always make sure I have my
psychic protection in place before I start.
Using a floorplan, I first check for spirits
that need to be moved on, because if you
start changing energy fields they will
notice, and they may become unsettled.
House healers need to be able to do soul
rescue, to move on any spirit being that
needs help to progress to the light.
I then check the family for any
attachments, perhaps from past trauma
or people they’ve associated with. Those
who deal closely with the public, such as
hairdressers, can have attachments, like
blobs of emotional energy, clinging to them
from their clients.
I go through my list and when I find
issues, I ask those Upstairs to clear them
with light and love. I also teach my clients
how to avoid getting new attachments by
protecting themselves.
Who are you addressing when you say
“Upstairs?” What do you believe exists in the
other realms?
It’s the “Powers That Be.” I see it as a
universal library that we can all tap into. I
can get messages psychically these days,
but initially I employed dowsing rods or a
pendulum. I don’t use the term God, but
there has to be somebody there to allow
me to do what I’m doing. I’m not powerful
enough to do it by myself.
Years ago, I didn’t believe in any
otherworldly beings, so I started from
basics and asked through dowsing, “Do
archangels exist?” The answer was a
definite yes and I trusted it. I found the
same for chakras, healing crystals and the
existence of elemental spirits of nature. I
got to know my spirit guides too.
I totally believe our planet is alive, and
there is a power in the universe. When I do
my healing work, I connect with Upstairs
but I also connect to the energy of Mother
Earth, the Moon and the Sun.
Who are your clients nowadays?
I get many calls from people who are
having a problem selling their house or just
feeling very unsettled or unhappy, and I
can adjust the energies to help. I tend to
work for a lot of mums who are concerned
about their family.
Teenagers can attract negative energies
as we know from stories of poltergeist
activity, but things like violent video games
can leave their impression. We open a
psychic portal when we watch emotive
films or play those games.
Sometimes a wife might not want her
husband to know that I’m doing healing
on their house and family, on the dog, cat
and the kids, but he’ll notice the change as
things become calmer.
Your books contain a comprehensive guide to
healing our houses, but can you give us a few
simple tips?
Protection is essential. You can place
an imaginary bubble of white light around
you before doing any work. You can use a
pendulum or dowsing rods and once you
have established the reactions for “yes”
and “no” you can get answers to simple
questions.
If you do find an energy that you want
to clear, then either in your head or out
loud, ask the Powers that Be to flood that
site with light and love, to take away as
much of the detrimental energy as they
can. Then they will disperse it safely into
the universe.
Ask them to leave the area in peace,
balance, and harmony for all the people
that it affects. Afterwards, ask that your
energies return to normal levels, closing
all doorways/portals that you may have
opened. Always thank the spirits for their
assistance.
What advice would you give to anyone
moving into a new home?
When I bought my current house, I
came in and introduced myself. I asked that
the energies be balanced, that I accept
them and they accept me. Some people
suggest clapping their hands to clear
energy or using crystals or burning a sage
stick – it’s all down to intent. Whatever you
use, if your intent is to clear the house, it
will work.
As a general rule, try to clear any
energies that might be left by visitors to
the house, and also try to keep your own
energy positive. We all have disagreements,
and some might leave simmering resentments.
Hug, forgive, and ask for help from your
spirit guides and guardians.
Finally, do you think that people are
becoming more or less attuned to the spirit
world and its energies?
I think there’s a lot more people who
are spiritually aware, although during
lockdown some progress stalled. I’m sure
the veils between our worlds are thinning,
there is more power available. Healing is
speeding up: I can now do in minutes the
things that took me hours before.
The techniques in my book give
everyone the chance to develop their gifts
and bring peace and health to their own
families and those of others.
Adrian Incledon-Webber’s books “Heal
your Home,” “Heal your Home 2” and “Spirit
& Earth,” co-written with fellow house healer
Tim Walter, are available from Amazon
or Adrian’s website www.dowsingspirits.
co.uk which also has information about the
services he offers and contact details.
On June 3 and 4, Adrian will be hosting
a weekend workshop in Marlborough,
Wiltshire with guest speakers including Tim
Walter, titled Earth Energies Reconnected.
Subjects will include flower essences,
Earth healing, animal communication,
and holy sites. Details are available on the
Dowsing Spirits website.
ADRIAN INCLEDON-WEBBER: “No matter how
old or new a house is, there will be residual energy
from builders, tradespeople, visitors and families
that have lived there over the years.”
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Never before has our care for the trees of this planet, and our
relationship with them, been more important. Long before any climate
emergency, our ancestors understood the vital role that trees and other
plants play in the health of natural life, including human society. The
characteristics of each kind of tree were embodied in symbols that in
turn became a language, described here by author and herbalist Jo
Dunbar and Druid celebrant Adrian Rooke.
THE Celtic Ogham is superficially similar
to, but far lesser known than, the Nordic
Runes, and is an ancient collection of
symbols dating from around 2,000 years
ago. Because of the nature of the straight
and diagonal slash lines associated with the
Ogham, it has been suggested that it might
have been both a verbal and a written
language, or even a secret sign language to
be used with the fingers and the hands.
There are those who believe that the
Druids might have used these hand signals
as a secret method of communication
between themselves while in the presence
of kings and lords.
However, Ogham has also been
inscribed on stones for more practical
reasons, such as for boundary markers or
graves. There are ancient examples carved
onto standing stones in Devon, Cornwall,
Wales, the Isle of Man, Scotland and
Shetland, with the richest source of such
ancient inscriptions found in Ireland.
Our current understanding is that
the names of the twenty main letters
correspond with the symbolic meanings
of the twenty trees most sacred to the
Druids.
Each tree has a specific meaning and so,
by default, does the Ogham glyph.
Sometimes called the Celtic tree
alphabet, people do still write messages to
each other in Ogham, although today it is
mainly used as a method of divination, for
tapping into the guidance and wisdom of
the tree kingdom, or to wear as a talisman.
In today’s world, the Druids’ perspective
is fundamentally connected to nature,
believing that all sentient beings have
intelligence. Thus, each tree has different
qualities and gifts to offer us if we are
prepared to slow down, ask, and take the
time to listen.
On the other hand, clearly, many people
have anthropomorphised certain trees to
have associated qualities. For instance,
who doesn’t see the Oak as a symbol of
strength or associate the Willow with
romance?
In the Druid community, different
trees are honoured, visited and their
wood worn as talismans to enable us to
navigate the usual challenges of life. As an
example, Silver Birch is first in the Ogham
By Jo Dunbar & Adrian Rooke
THE OGHAM
TREE LANGUAGE
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tree calendar, and seen as a pioneer tree
because it is known to be the first tree to
colonise the Earth after the glaciers had
cleared the ground of natural growth. So,
it is easy to see why it represents a new
beginning.
The twigs are also traditionally used as
a besom, both symbolically and in practice,
sweeping out the old and making space for
new beginnings.
Blackthorn, whose Celtic name is Straif
(from which our modern word “strife”
is derived), is a fiercely prickly tree with
a ferocious poison. It is an immensely
powerful tree, so if you believe that an
unavoidable strife is coming your way,
you can take refuge in the Blackthorn tree
energy.
In the past, Blackthorn blasting wands
have been used to attack or counterattack, but today its energy is favoured as
a very powerful protecting force.
Certain trees are associated with
different times of the year and specific
Celtic festivals, probably the most famous
pairing being Hawthorn and Beltane,
the Celtic ceremony of love and fertility
celebrated in early May. Hawthorn itself is
often called May, or Bride, both of which
reflect the festival of Beltane. It is a tree of
the heart.
The most famous tree of the Druids
– although it is actually a bush that lives
high up in a tree – is the Mistletoe, and it
is the most highly venerated of them all.
The pale luminescent berries ripen at the
Winter Solstice, their colour and sticky
consistency earning them the name “sperm
of the gods!”
When the Mistletoe is ritualistically cut
from the tree bower, a Druid is careful to
catch it so that it doesn’t touch the ground.
Later, in a Winter Solstice ritual, the
sperm of the gods is reverentially brought
down to touch the Earth, the Goddess, and
thus the sacred conception occurs and the
Sun God is reborn on Solstice day.
Mistletoe is said to be so sacred that it
doesn’t have an Ogham glyph. It has only
one day of the year as its own, although the
Winter Solstice is and certainly has always
been the most sacred day of the year.
Today, many Druids and Pagan folk
choose to wear the Oghams as talismans
to help us through challenging times, for
divination, or simply to keep a physical
connection with the tree and the natural
world on our person at all times.
These are some other major trees
associated with the Ogham, along with
their Celtic names and the energies
associated with each one. This can only
be a very brief introduction to them, and
there are many books available with more
in-depth descriptions.
But perhaps the best way of all to get to
know the Ogham is to spend time with one
HERE are some talismans displaying the Ogham Tree Language symbols
(Photo: Kieron Sibley @paganphotographer.com)
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or two trees that we feel “call” to us.
Birch (Beith)
Sweep away the old and allow space for a
fresh new start.
Rowan (Luis)
The tree of the faery race. It is protective
and offers a psychic doorway to the Other
World.
Alder (Fearn)
It balances the masculine and feminine
within us, giving strength to do the
right thing. A shield and protection,
it encourages inner confidence and
endurance.
Ash (Nuinn)
This tree is like a spirit horse, carrying
us between the worlds, connecting us to
the Upper Worlds and the Under Worlds,
and linking past, present and future. It
embodies the universal understanding of
“as above, so below.”
Willow (Saille)
The Willow has always been associated
with water and creativity, perhaps also
tears and sorrow. Yet it allows us to let
go, to go with the flow, whilst inspiring
imagination, creativity and intuition.
Hawthorn (Huathe)
This is the tree of the heart, of love on all
levels, and of the union of the God and
the Goddess, of man and woman. It is
protective and another faery tree.
Oak (Duir)
Forever representing strength, stability,
security and endurance, Oak also offers
a doorway to another level of being,
deepening our spiritual wisdom.
Holly (Tinne)
Here we feel the light in the dark of winter,
giving protection and a willingness to fight
for what is right. It helps us take personal
responsibility for our actions and restore
direction in our lives.
Ivy (Gort)
See how Ivy grows, turning this way and
that as it climbs. It supports us in emerging
from the suppressive darkness of the
metaphorical forest in search of the light.
We are encouraged to shine our light out
into the world and fully express who we
are, unwinding those restrictive bonds.
Blackthorn (Straif)
Sometimes we face an unavoidable
fate and feel we cannot escape these
harsh times, but Blackthorn forms an
impenetrable hedge, protecting us from
the worst.
Elder (Ruis)
Associated with the Cailleach, the wise
THE Brandsbutt Stone is a class 1 Pictish symbol stone with Ogham writing in Inverurie,
Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
woman who knows everything, Elder is
associated with the wheel of time, with
death and renewal.
Fir or Pine (Ailm)
This tree stands for clarity and purity,
allowing us to rise high above the
landscape of our lives and see the full
perspective.
Poplar, Aspen (Eadha)
This is the whispering tree, facilitating our
ability to hear the inner voice and take
note of the subtle messages in our lives.
Yew (Ioho)
The Yew is commonly associated with death
and the ancestors, therefore often found in
graveyards. But our ancestors are not dead,
they are just in another dimension, and this
tree is a portal that allows us to access that
ancestral world. It is a doorway to connect
with the deep past and to learn from those
who have gone before.
Most Pagans, and even those who do
not call themselves Druids or Pagans,
feel that they have a deep relationship
with trees. Of course, we have no idea
how trees feel about us, yet we can often
sense a welcome, a curiosity or a “go away”
feeling emanating from a tree! We need to
get to know them better.
For instance, we may walk past a very
beautiful Oak and admire its outline,
wonder at its age and what it might have
witnessed. Then we may find out that its
botanical name is Quercus Robur, and its
bark has been used for millennia as an
astringent because it is rich in tannins and
is thus helpful for diarrhoea, haemorrhoids
and sore throats.
It is also home to lichens called Usnea,
which are powerful antibacterial agents
used to treat respiratory tract infections
and to expectorate sticky phlegm.
The inner wood of the Oak has even
been discovered to help with chronic
fatigue syndrome. With this information,
our respect for the venerable tree deepens.
The Druids used Oak as a temple in
their groves, its Celtic name being Duir,
meaning a doorway into another realm of
life.
One interpretation of this could be that
meditation on the Oak can open our
consciousness to the wisdom of a tree that
has long been associated with understanding,
good judgment, steadfastness and strength.
We may perceive a psychic doorway
that opens us to a more spiritual aspect of
ourselves and a new understanding and
wisdom derived from the higher plane of
tree consciousness.
If we wish to have a closer relationship
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with certain trees, we should approach
them as beings of wisdom and power, with
a lifespan greatly exceeding our own and
thus with an oversight more far-reaching
than ours.
First, we must try to quieten the mind
and connect with the slow and deep
rhythm of the tree. For a while, we just
forget our problems or questions, and
simply “be with the tree” in reverence for
its own life and for its own tribe of treebeings.
Simply by doing this, our human lives
will probably easily fall into a better
rhythm, but we can also enter into a
meditation with the tree and ask for its
guidance or protection.
Adrian Rooke is a modern-day Druid
who describes the profound relationship
he had with Hawthorn trees as a small
child.
“I did not come easily to this human
experience,” he says, “struggling with
health issues and a sense of being
disconnected from my peers. So, I was
bullied by older boys and, as a result,
sought solace in a small valley full of trees
and a stream called the Malago.
“This was an oasis within the expanding
human encroachment surrounding Bristol.
I felt a peace and a joy in those wooded
slopes that I could never find in everyday
life, and remember many happy hours
catching sticklebacks, chasing butterflies
and becoming aware of the ‘tree beings’
that lived in the woods, some of which
became my friends.
“In particular there was an old
Hawthorn tree that had grown into a
strange bell shape with a hollowed-out
interior.
“When I discovered a small gap,
big enough for a small boy to crawl
through, this became a sanctuary where
all the problems of the outside world
disappeared. The Hawthorn became my
go-to place where I would lie with my ear
to the ground, listening to the heartbeat of
Mother Earth.
“Little did I know then that many years
and many adventures later I would suffer
from chronic heart failure, with a very
slight chance of survival. Yet I’m sure that
the Hawthorn herb medicine I take daily
has helped to reconstruct and strengthen
my damaged heart, so I continue to live a
very full life whilst amazing my doctors.
“I remain forever grateful for all the
blessings that Hawthorn has bestowed on
me from childhood until today.”
Once we have found a special
connection with a certain tree, like Adrian,
we can deepen that relationship by
wearing a talisman carved with its Ogham
glyph so that we always feel its guidance
and protection. Adrian has himself been
carving Ogham talismans for many years.
Each stave is harvested with reverence
from the tree and, if possible, from sacred
sites such as holy wells, burial mounds or
stone circles.
He believes that each talisman holds
the energy of the dryad (spirit) of the tree
within it, and describes feeling a profound
sense of peace and connection with each
tree that he carves. Indeed, they are much
valued by those who know about them and
are worn by people around the world.
We all have so much to learn from the
trees around us every day and the Ogham
is the language that we can use to connect
with them.
JO DUNBAR is a medical herbalist and Druid, and the author of the bestselling “The Spirit of the Hedgerow,” published
in full colour by Local Legend and available worldwide for £14.00 from: www.local-legend.co.uk
Jo’s website is: www.botanicamedica.co.uk
ADRIAN ROOKE is a Druid, ritualist, celebrant and counsellor. His beautiful work may be found at: www.rooketherapy.
co.uk (in the pages menu you will find “sacred oghams” and “hand carved sacred oghams wands and necklaces”)
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A CLINICAL hypnotherapist from Gloucester has helped
paranormal investigators explore a haunted former church.
Paul Goddard, 41, was enlisted by the
team behind the TV series Help! My House
Is Haunted to transport presenter Barry
Ghai back to 1825 on location. It was
hoped he could engage with spirit beings
from the early days of the church, which
was constructed in that year.
The converted Methodist chapel at
Lower Broadheath, Worcestershire has
been the site of paranormal activity. Helen,
the new owner, called in the experts just
three months after moving in.
Usually, Paul Goddard offers regression
under hypnosis as a way to investigate
previous lives which may be having an
impact on the present. However, he was
delighted to meet the new challenge.
He said: “We were at the house of a lady
in an old, converted Methodist church. She
had encountered spiritual activity. One
experience she had was the hymn All Things
Bright and Beautiful suddenly came on
through her speaker system.”
The music was being played via Helen’s
electronic virtual assistant – a device
similar to Alexa. She had also felt someone
tap her on the shoulder when no-one else
was there.
Paul said, “The lady thought, due to the
conversion of the building, the spirits were
trying to convey they were not happy with
what she was doing to it.”
Helen agreed, saying, “I would really
love the team to find out who it is that’s
here, it would help me settle in more.”
The show’s medium, Ian Lawman, took
an initial walk around the building and
commented, “There’s so much spiritual
energy here, I’m not surprised Helen has
called us in.”
The Grade II listed building on Martley
Road was linked to a denomination of
Methodism created by Lady Selina Shirley,
the Countess of Huntingdon. It closed in
the 1960s and is now a three bedroomed
house.
Paul said: “I was able to hypnotise Barri
through layers of time in a spiritual way.
He wanted to go back to 1825 to see the
chapel.
“It was very successful. Barri had his
eyes closed throughout the process. What
was remarkable is that he did not bump
into any walls as he made his way through
the building. He was able to describe to me
what he was seeing.
“He was interacting with people from
1825. In particular, he was speaking to, and
asking questions of, a man called Arthur,
who was part of the Methodist movement.”
After Paul had brought Barri round
from the trance, the team carried out their
further investigation overnight.
The hypnotherapist said: “I have seen
some strange things during hypnosis and
regression, but I would love to be able to
do something like this again. This whole
experience really blew me away.”
Paul Goddard made the headlines
last year when he hypnotised another
paranormal investigator, with surprising
results.
In the session, which was broadcast live
on YouTube, the client was recounting her
experience in trance when viewers were
sure they heard an unknown voice saying:
“Tell her.”
The video showing Kate Ray and the
unseen interloper went viral, with many
claiming this to be an instance of Electronic
Voice Phenomena (EVP) – the recording of
sounds from unseen sources.
Neither Paul nor Kate were aware of
the extra voice at the time, it was only
picked up by the microphone. When
viewers alerted them, they listened back
and agreed it appeared to be an instance
of EVP.
Kate sent the clip to Barry Ghai from
Help! my House is Haunted, as he is an
expert at removing background noise on
recordings so any potential EVP can be
heard more clearly.
When she heard the enhanced clip, Kate
said: “I still hear ‘Tell Her.’ I wonder what it
is I need to be told.”
Help! My House is Haunted episode
number fifteen of series four is called The
Chapel of Unrest and is available on the
streaming channel Discovery +.
Paranormal researcher regressed to haunted chapel’s past
PAUL GODDARD (right) hypnotises Barri Ghai back to 1825. (Photo: back2back productions)
THE owner of this converted church encountered
spiritual activity. (Photo: Google)
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Medium Mark Anthony, JD, (aka the Psychic Lawyer) is author of “The
Afterlife Frequency,” “Never Letting Go” and “Evidence of Eternity.” All were
critically acclaimed spiritual bestsellers.
He is an Oxford-educated trial attorney, world-renowned psychic,
nationally recognised legal analyst, headline speaker at international
conferences and universities, and a favourite guest on TV and radio shows.
He co-hosts “The Psychic & The Doc” on Transformation Network and is a
regular columnist for “Best Holistic Life” magazine.
He studied mediumship at the prestigious Arthur Findlay College for the
Advancement of Psychic Science in Stansted, England.
Here, he shares some top tips on how to receive and recognise messages
from the spirit world.
NOT everyone is a medium, but everyone
is capable of perceiving spirits and intuitive
messages.
The key is learning to recognise the
presence of spirits and the signs they
present, accepting the reality of the
contact, feeling the importance and
emotional significance of the message, and
trusting your feelings as well as the truth
and guidance provided by the message.
This is the RAFT technique. Let’s examine
each step.
RECOGNISE
Recognise means learning to identify when
a spirit or collective of spirits is making
his/her/their presence known. It is all
the result of a human’s electromagnetic
field interfacing with the electromagnetic
energy of a spirit.
Sensing the contact can manifest in
different forms, such as a sensation of
tingling or cold chills, a glimpse in one’s
peripheral vision, hearing a familiar
person’s voice in your mind’s ear or simply
knowing.
You can also have your attention
directed to do something, like turning
on a radio and immediately hearing the
song that makes you think of a loved one
in spirit. You can also be directed to see
a specific number combination or even a
living being, like a particular type of bird or
insect, such as a dragonfly or a butterfly.
How to Make Spiritual Contact
By Mark Anthony
MARK ANTHONY: “Spirits are part of the
collective consciousness, and they can and do
communicate with us.” (Photo: Roshi Jones)
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ACCEPT
Accept the reality of the contact. This will
happen when you let down your barriers
and give yourself permission to have the
contact. This may sound elementary, but
people tend to negate or even fear spirit
contact, which leads them to dismiss the
experience and create an energetic block
to it.
The Other Side is a dimension that
exists parallel to our material world
dimension. Spirits are part of the collective
consciousness, and they can and do
communicate with us.
They don’t speak a human language –
they speak “frequency.” They will transmit
signs, images, sound and scents, and direct
our attention to particular things via
frequency beacons.
This is not hocus-pocus or fantasy.
Once you accept the reality of spirit
communication and let the spirits (as
well as yourself) know that it’s okay, they
will begin transmitting guidance and
information to you.
FEEL
Feel first; think later! This is where many
people hit a dead end with spirit contact
(pun intended). Your immediate feeling
when you recognise the sign is crucial. It’s
the first emotional sensation you feel, no
matter how outlandish.
Spirit communication is an intuitive and
emotional process, and it is easy to overanalyse a sensation and rationalise it away.
One of the most common mistakes
people make during spirit contact is to
overthink or over-analyse the initial
imagery or message conveyed.
Drawing upon my background as a
trial lawyer, I call this “cross-examining
the experience.” As soon as the imagery
or signs from spirits appear, your mind’s
ego begins the cross-examination to
tear the messages apart with questions
like, “How can this be true? Isn’t this just
my imagination? Couldn’t this just be a
coincidence? Don’t you think I’m reading
into this? Who would believe me?”
By hyper-analysing the initial contact,
you counteract the positive energy of
a spirit with a negative energy barrier,
and the spirit will back off. This also
happens during a reading when someone
immediately shoots down and negates
the imagery or message presented by the
medium. In short, negative energy blocks
the messages transmitted by spirits.
To obtain the maximum benefit from
spirit contact, go with your first feeling
about the sign. Then, after the experience,
analyse why you felt that way and what it
meant to you…
There is a period after the contact
that I describe as the “unfolding.” At this
point, the full impact of the contact will
begin to make sense to you. The unfolding
can take minutes, hours, days, weeks
and even longer for the full impact of the
interdimensional communication to be
revealed.
More often than not, you will discover
it contains multiple meaning messages.
I use the term multiple meaning messages
to describe information received during
interdimensional communication that has
significance in several ways and on several
different levels.
TRUST
Trust ties everything together. This is
learning to trust the truth and guidance
provided by the spirit contact. It is also
about trusting your own feelings.
During lectures and public mediumship
demonstrations, I often discuss the
importance of trusting one’s feelings. Then
I will ask the audience, “Whenever you
have overruled your woman’s intuition or
man’s gut instinct, are you happy you did,
or did you regret it?” Practically everyone
expresses regret for not trusting their
feelings.
Spirit communication is transferred
to us at lightning speed. It resonates with
our body, yet our ego, that pesky creature
manufactured in the human brain, wants
the last word. This is why fear, rejection
or hyper-analysis can get in the way,
thwarting the power of the message.
Spirits know that not everyone is a
medium, but they also know that everyone
is capable of a mediumistic experience,
because everyone possesses the sixth
sense to some degree.
You can find out more about
Mark Anthony’s work at:
www.AfterlifeFrequency.com
Abridged extract from the book “The
Afterlife Frequency: The Scientific Proof of
Spiritual Contact and How That Awareness
Will Change Your Life.”
Copyright ©2021 by Mark Anthony.
Printed with permission from New World
Library — www.newworldlibrary.com
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Roberta Mussato was a freelance linguist in 2018, when she decided to go
away backpacking in Asia alone for three months to escape a generalised
crisis she had been having for rather too long. Reasoning that most of the
pain and sorrow she was feeling in her life came from unmet expectations, she
decided to experiment — and not plan a single thing for her trip! What might
life be like if you didn’t have any expectations and just embrace whatever
shows up?
It turned out for Roberta that when you go with the flow, you really go
with the soul. Those three months around Sri Lanka, India and Nepal became
a spiritual experience packed with life lessons and epiphanies, so much so
that she felt called to share them in her book, “Universe, I Trust You – One
month in Sri Lanka,” recently featured on BBC Radio London. Following a
vision she had while in Nepal, she now works as a Master Life Coach and NLP
Practitioner, helping people become unstuck, more aligned and ultimately
better versions of themselves.
HOW many emotions can get stirred-up
simply by looking at a photograph? I have
a photo I took on Monday February 12,
2018, just as I was setting off for my three
months’ trip backpacking alone in Asia.
I can still distinctly feel the excitement
and the aliveness finally flooding my body
after months of low vibrations. I also smile
at that version of me who had no idea how
her life would change once back from that
trip.
On that Monday in February, I only
knew that I was done with feeling sad,
lonely and stuck. My emotional batteries
had been running on empty for too long
and I did not like the person I had become,
who felt a victim of circumstances, not
understood by her friends and focused
on looking only at the things she had not
achieved. So much of my energy was spent
in functioning daily in a life where a lot was
going wrong.
My life was far removed from what had
been my expectations of getting married to
an amazing man and having three children.
Instead, I had been single for eight years,
and I had tried an egg freezing procedure
WHAT I LEARNT WHEN I DECIDED
TO TRUST THE UNIVERSE
By Roberta Mussato
ROBERTA MUSSATO: “I learnt that synchronicities
are the Universe’s way to wink at you and tell you
what to do next.”
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abroad, alone. The deep pain connected
to its failure was exacerbated by my deadend dates, as I kept meeting men who
were commitment phobic, emotionally
unavailable or with a criminal record.
On the friends front I didn’t feel
understood, and the whole world came
crumbling down on me when I discovered
that my best friend had kept a painful
secret from me, which completely changed
the dynamic of our friendship. I ended
up drained trying to save him from his
addiction, only to be told that all my efforts
were only worsening things for him.
And workwise, much as I enjoyed my
jobs as interpreter, subtitler and voice-over
artist, deep down I felt that I was meant to
do something else, to help people, though I
had no idea in what capacity.
I was so tired from holding things up,
from pushing forward, from swimming in
uncertainty, from having to act so
dis-aligned with my values in order to
protect my best friend.
Back then I had already been taking a
few steps in my spiritual journey, which
I liked to refer to as my “walk into hippyland.”
It all started with a biodynamic
craniosacral therapy session when, for
the first time in my life, I really felt energy
flowing strongly inside me.
Then came Qigong (chi kung), where,
with slow and repetitive movements,
I could see for the first time what was
happening inside my body.
Then followed mindfulness, and Eckhart
Tolle’s The Power of Now, and I learnt how
much richer and more intense life can be
when we devote our full attention to each
precious moment.
I also tried sound baths and went on
a shamanic journey with ayahuasca. A
constant message that emerged loud and
clear from all those experiences was the
importance to let go. I just had no idea how
to do it. How can you have no attachments
and no expectations?
I figured that I could use my three
months away as a sort of spiritual gym for
this: having no pre-set ideas on how things
should happen, so that everything is dealt
with and welcome exactly as it shows up.
Deciding not to plan a single thing was
both a bit scary and so liberating. For so
long I had used a lot of energy trying to
keep my life steady and making sure that
my friend wouldn’t fall off the wagon with
his addiction. I was not used to leaving
everything to the Universe but was eager
to experiment.
“Universe, I Trust You” became my
mantra on those hot days, and when
you relate to life with this attitude you
start looking closely for suggestions of
what the Universe may want for you and
your highest benefit. I already felt that
coincidences per se don’t exist, but I learnt
that synchronicities are the Universe’s way
to wink at you and tell you what to do next.
For example, when I was debating on
whether to accept a guy’s invitation for
a drink, I saw “Choose love” on a t-shirt. I
accepted the drink, and that guy ended up
playing an important role in my Sri Lankan
month.
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ROBERTA receives a blessing from a resident at the Millennium Elephant Foundation in Sri Lanka.
When I was unsure on whether to leave
or stay at a party, the DJ put on the Rocky
movie theme song, Eye of the Tiger, which
has always been my song, but which was
completely out of place with the music
played until then. It was clear I had to stay,
and I discovered afterwards why.
When the conversation with the other
backpackers in my hostel’s garden turned
organically to silent meditation retreats,
and I discovered ten minutes later that
the new guy sleeping on the bunk bed
above me had just come out of a Vipassana
meditation silent retreat in Nepal. I knew
then that I had to have that experience
too.
The signs are not always there to show
you what to do next. Sometimes, it’s the
Universe’s way to let you know that you
are loved and cared for, or that you are on
the right path.
For example, when my flip-flops got
broken in my discovery walk around
Colombo, it happened just in front of a
cobbler, working on the pavement a few
metres from me.
When the boss of a paper producing
company wanted to thank me for my help,
out of more than 500 items they sold he
gave me a set of journals, right when mine
was about to finish, and I had to buy a new
one. And out of all the messages that could
have been written on the cover, there was
a yellow balloon floating in the air with the
words “Let it go.”
The world became like a huge book to
read, with signs and synchronicities on
every page. Some were just so huge, that
I had to take my hat off to the Universe,
feeling inundated with its love and magic.
I also learnt that taking life as it comes,
without forcing it and controlling the
outcome, not only is so much better in
the moment, but always brings something
positive, as if the Universe’s default
direction is towards goodness. And that
when you make a wish to the Universe,
without attachment to the outcome, things
can get delivered so quickly.
One evening I was wishing to have
someone to enjoy the starry sky at the
beach with, and there I was the very next
day living that exact moment with a person
I had just met – because I had decided to
change my plans and follow my soul.
Another lesson learnt while journalling
and backpacking my way around Asia is
that when the mind and spirit are free
from all those ego-based and fear-induced
thoughts that clog them, we are more able
to connect with our intuition.
A ten-day silent Vipassana meditation
retreat in Nepal (following the meeting
mentioned earlier with the guy I had met
in the hostel) turned out to be one of
the hardest and the most mind-blowing
experiences of my life.
On day eight I had what I can only call
a vision. In my mind I saw a wall with the
letters NLP graffitied onto it. I had to wait
for the end of the retreat to be given my
mobile phone back so I could search what
NLP meant – I had no idea.
When I discovered that it stands for
Neuro Linguistic Programming and read
further, I saw how much sense it made
for me as my next career move, having
always studied communication and being
interested in psychology.
I could name many other examples and
life lessons learnt, but I don’t want to take
away the joy of discovery from readers.
I came back with the unshakeable belief
that the Universe loves us and that we
are always guided, and that letting go and
living in trust is so empowering.
May you all be able to experience this.
You can find out more about
Roberta, her book and travels at:
www.robertamussato.com
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MaryAnn DiMarco (pictured above) is the author of “Medium
Mentor: 10 Powerful Techniques to Awaken Divine Guidance for
Yourself and Others.” An internationally recognised psychic, medium,
healer and spiritual teacher, her work has been featured in media outlets
like “The New York Times,” “The Dr Oz Show,” “Women’s Health,” “Elle”
and “Redbook.”
TO HELP us stay connected to the positive,
I recommend a pair of foundational
practices to cleanse and ground. Many
cultures have a ritualistic cleansing
practice, often done with smoke or water,
to help remove negative or stagnant
energy.
There are also numerous practices that
point to the idea of grounding: connecting
oneself to the body and the Earth while
calling upon divine energy for support.
These rituals involve regularly removing
what does not serve us and recommitting
our entire being — and, specifically, our
body — to the pure channelling of love and
light.
Without these practices, things don’t
flow the way they should. This creates a
breeding ground for doubt. At best, we
feel discomfort, which makes it hard to
keep doing the work we need to do. At
worst, stagnant energy hangs around us.
We feel like we’re losing touch with reality;
our doubt goes off the charts. This is an
unfortunate state to be in and entirely
unnecessary. We’re better off if we prevent
it altogether.
Choose a way to clean your space, your
body and any sacred objects you hold dear.
I encourage this level of freedom, this DIYstyle spirituality, with everything.
That means if you want to cleanse with
incense, go for it. If you want to burn sage
or palo santo or some other raw plant,
that’s fantastic. If you’re into holy water, or
tap water with essential oils, or even water
you’ve collected from your favourite forest
stream, dot a little on your heart or your
third eye (the seat of your intuition, located
on your forehead between your brows), or
perhaps pour a bit on your head or hands.
You can say a prayer while you do so, sing
a song, recite a mantra, or empty your mind
of all thoughts. Pay special attention to the
parts of your physical or spiritual body that
feel energetically significant — your heart,
your hands, your third eye, and so on.
What matters most is that you’re putting
intention toward releasing what doesn’t
serve you.
The same principle applies to grounding.
Grounding is about protection. It’s about
staying present enough to guard our own
house, and to ask our guides to join us in
that.
In most cases, we physically get low
to the ground — think praying, sitting in
meditation, and so forth — or at least bring
attention to the lower parts of the body.
Then we ask for help from something
outside us. By reconnecting with the light,
we remind ourselves of what our spirit is
here to do — inhabit this body, for a time,
and use that time wisely. We then allow
divine energy to come through us, filling
us up with positivity and replenishing our
resources.
As with cleansing, there are many
ways to go about grounding. If you feel
connected to a cultural tradition, practise
that. If you’re called to make up your own
thing or to adapt a version of someone
else’s teaching, that’s fine, too. How you
protect yourself is your business; my only
goal is to convince you to do so.
When I use words like cleanse, ground
and protect, I don’t want to give the
impression that there’s something dirty
or unsafe about spiritual lightwork,
because I don’t believe that to be the case.
Instead, we owe these rituals to
ourselves and our Team as a sign of
respect. We don’t allow anything to build
up, any outside energies to cling to us. We
hold ourselves accountable by affirming,
over and over again, what we’re here to do:
to work with light while in a human body.
Repeating these practices over and over
is a necessary part of turning toward a
spiritual life.
In summary: find your thing, pick your
Cleansing, Grounding
and Protecting
By MaryAnn DiMarco
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way, and do it regularly. I’m a stickler about
that last part. As you practice cleansing
and grounding, you will start to know when
you need them. These rituals will become
comforting; they will become your spiritual
home base.
PRACTICE
Smudging and ‘Bringing In the Light’
You may have already identified the
cleansing and grounding practices that
are going to work best for you. If you
are still curious, I offer my own. My
cleansing practice is smudging with sage,
and my grounding practice is an adapted
visualisation meditation that I call Bringing
In the Light.
Smudging
We’ll start with smudging. This is a
technique developed in numerous Native
American traditions that uses smoke to
cleanse the air, which in turn can clear any
energetic nastiness hanging on to people,
animals, places and the like.
While the act largely mirrors similar
incense and smoke-cleansing methods
from Europe, East Asia and the Middle
East, using white sage (my preferred plant
for cleansing) is unique to the indigenous
communities from the North American
continent. White sage has a powerful and
immediate effect.
To smudge, light the tip of a single dried
leaf or the end of a smudge stick, putting
your intention into the flame before
blowing it out and allowing the plant to
smoulder.
I love the smell; it immediately opens
me up to Spirit. Then, using a small bowl or
other sacred item (I like using an abalone
shell) to catch any burning pieces that
might fall, wave a feather to direct the
smoke around your space, clearing out
everything that isn’t for your own highest
good and that of others.
Move the smoke over your whole body,
being sure to cleanse your hands, heart
and third eye. When you’re finished, you
can allow the sage to burn out on its own
in the bowl, or if it’s very well lit, consider
putting it out in a little bit of sand or fresh
soil.
Bringing In the Light
Bringing In the Light is a mini-meditation
based on one I learned from my teacher
Pat Longo. This grounding ritual helps us
replenish our energy directly from the
Source. It offers us a protective energy
boost while spreading universal Source
energy throughout the world. This practice
is done seated with the palms facing up.
Start by saying, either internally or
aloud: “Dear guides, with gratitude I ask
that you fill my body and soul with your
love and protection. Please ground my
energy so that I may serve the greater
good with a renewed vibration.”
Feel your body connected to the Earth.
See your own energy reaching down to the
planet’s very core. Then imagine a bright
beam of light coming from above and filling
you with divine energy.
If visualisation comes easily to you, it’s
possible that you will actually see this light
in your mind’s eye. If you’ve never in your
life been able to see things in your mind’s
eye, don’t worry — just imagine it.
Allow the light to enter in through the
top of your head, beaming down through
your face, and allow some of it to expand
outward through your ears, sending forth
all the knowledge of the Universe.
Allow the light to continue descending
through your throat, neck, chest and
shoulders; into your arms; and through
your fingertips. Allow it to move down
through your torso and belly and down
your legs to come out of your feet.
See the light connecting you directly to
the floor (if you’re indoors) and the earth
beneath it. Now, allow that light to ground
you even further. Take a few breaths,
feeling how the light grounds you. When
you’re ready, open your eyes.
I encourage you to adapt this ritual for
your own needs over time. You will likely
learn to do it quickly, sometimes even
imperceptibly, as needed. The more you
do so, the more you’ll be able to recognise
when your energy requires a slight
adjustment to realign with Spirit.
Find out more about MaryAnn DiMarco
at: www.MaryAnnDiMarco.com
Excerpted from the book “Medium
Mentor: 10 Powerful Techniques to Awaken
Divine Guidance for Yourself and Others.”
Copyright ©2022 by MaryAnn DiMarco.
Printed with permission from New World
Library — www.newworldlibrary.com
“FEEL your body connected to the Earth. See your own energy reaching down to the planet’s very core.
Then imagine a bright beam of light coming from above and filling you with divine energy.”
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Steven Smith is a medium bridging the world of spirit to ours here on Earth, delivering spirit
communication with compassion and respect. He has featured on “The Psychic Matters
Podcast” with listeners in over 117 countries and has received training in Ojai, California, and
the United Kingdom.
Steven has conducted public demonstrations and offers private appointments, including
guidance, healing and mentorship services. Here he talks about the signs we receive from the
spirit world.
SPIRIT uses signs to communicate with
us as well as language. The sign language
of the spirit world is paramount to the
way communication takes place during
mediumship readings. This process also
applies to the guidance and messages that
we receive from Spirit daily.
Although it may have its mysteries and is
not always a straightforward path to learn
and develop, the communication process
of sign language from the spirit world takes
place more often than most of us realise.
The physicality of the human body
and its ability to perform sign language
through one’s hands, facial expressions
and gestures are not required in any facet
with spirit communication. Although,
that’s not to say our physical ability for sign
language itself does not come in handy in
communicating with the spirit world.
Bringing our awareness to the sign
language of the spirit world is helpful to
The Sign Language of
the Spirit World
BY STEVEN SMITH
STEVEN SMITH: “Before we moved into our
physical bodies for this lifetime, we were in the
realms of spirit and used the same Spirit-led sign
language.”
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each of us because our everyday life is
filled with Spirit-led sign language, day in,
day out, right from the moment we were
born. In contrast to this, before we moved
into our physical bodies for this lifetime,
we were in the realms of spirit, and used
the same Spirit-led sign language.
I am happy to say that this is excellent
news for all of us because it means we
already have the programming within our
inner-world, our soul-self. It’s only a matter
of becoming more aware and being open
to remembering and re-learning how the
process of such a unique sign language
takes place.
Let’s look at spiritual sign language
from an observational perspective and
contemplate why it is important, including
how it is relevant to each of us as the
wonderful, unique and beautiful spirits
that we are.
It’s important because the guidance we
receive through this sign language helps
us to navigate our way through this human
life experience. It gives us a better sense
of direction and clearer vision to face the
challenges we come across in our lives and
for helping others who need support.
Often without realising it, we
have a natural way of receiving this
communication on a regular basis. Let’s
look at an example.
A lady named Jenny was on her way to
work. Suddenly her attention was led – by
Spirit – to a dear friend of hers named
Edith, who she felt required significant
emotional support due to a stressful event
that had just taken place in her life.
It should be noted that Jenny did not
know this was a message communicated to
her from the spirit world. It was a feeling or
thought she suddenly had.
Jenny had not been in touch with her
friend Edith for quite some time and had
not known anything about her current
circumstances.
The message compelled Jenny to phone
Edith immediately. When the phone was
answered Jenny asked: “Edith, are you
okay? I don’t know why exactly, but I feel
concerned for you and want to let you
know that I am here for you any time of
day or night. I love you and hope things are
okay.”
Edith was immediately tearful as she
responded emotionally: “Oh Jenny, I don’t
know what to do with myself. I am so
overwhelmed and torn with sadness. My
husband passed away unexpectedly last
night.”
Jenny was shocked and did not expect
to hear this news, however, she went on
to support Edith for a period during her
healing journey of grief and acceptance of
the immense change that had taken place
in her life.
This one example clearly shows the
importance of such personal signs or
messages from the spirit world. But let’s
now take a closer look into what really
went on during this experience with a
more descriptive and accurate account of
what took place “behind the scenes” so to
speak.
Whilst Jenny was walking to work
taking in the scenery around her, an image
of Edith popped into her mind. This was
followed by an image of Edith crying and
sobbing on the floor, and then another
image of Edith receiving a telephone call.
Jenny began to feel a sense of urgency and
anxiety, describing it as an uncomfortable
knot in her chest area.
These images and feelings initially
seemed bizarre to Jenny, and she did not
know what to make of them. She was
hesitant to phone her friend in fear that
she would come across as odd or intrusive.
However, it was for the greater good
that she instinctively went with her
gut feeling and called Edith, which was
followed by her friend receiving great
comfort, support and healing.
Some months later, the two friends
went to a mediumship demonstration in
a nearby town. To their surprise, Edith’s
late husband, George, came through
to communicate with them both. The
medium brought forward an extensive
amount of evidential information, enough
to reassure them that it was most certainly
George coming through.
The medium described George so
accurately, including his attire, personality,
interests in life and unique memories. One
piece of information that struck them was
when the medium shared how George was
showing him an event.
Directing his voice to Jenny, he said:
“This gentleman is showing me a memory
of yourself, madam. He is showing me you
walking on your way to somewhere and is
giving me the feeling of being thrown by
something.
“He is now placing a photo in front of
you on this walk, the photo is of the lady
sitting next to you in the audience here
today.
“Now he is showing me a telephone
ringing, as though you needed to make a
phone call of some kind, and he is giving me
a rather anxious feeling. Does this make
sense to you, madam?”
With amazement and awe, both Jenny
and Edith looked at each other and
began to cry, feeling a sense of further
healing taking place. All along it was
Spirit communicating to Jenny through
BY journaling our experiences “we allow ourselves to broaden our awareness of what individually happens
to us during these times.”
HAVE you ever felt suddenly compelled to phone a
friend because you feel that something’s not right
with them?
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the means of a unique process of sign
language.
The sign language of Spirit is vast and
dynamic, fruitful and sweet, surprising and
enlightening. It is likely that you can look
back at some of your own past experiences
where similar situations, signs or intuitive
feelings have happened.
I highly recommend journalling such
experiences, even if it is one that took
place in the distant past. It is never too late
to reflect on these.
In doing so, we allow ourselves
to broaden our awareness of what
individually happens to us during these
times. One experience may be very
different to another, or similarities may
occur.
I feel it is also important for us to know
that these experiences are possible and do
happen to all of us. For some it may be very
evident and for others more subtle.
However, it should be known that you
do not need to be living a particular way or
practising a spiritual or mediumistic path
for these experiences to take place.
Whether you have a belief in spiritual
matters and practices or no interest in
them at all, these messages do still come
through and the spirit world does its best
to deliver such messages in a number of
ways.
So please be reassured that no matter
what pathway you are on in life, you
can have the confidence to trust the
sign language when you notice such an
experience unfolding in front of you.
The classical way that spirit
communication is taught is often referred
to in the form of the “Clairs.” The Clairs are
essentially a set of descriptions which shed
light on our sixth senses. We were all born
with these senses.
Clairvoyance Is a way in which we use our
mind’s eye to receive spirit communication.
It is our inner vision, enabling the ability to
receive signs, images and visual cues. Some
describe it as a TV within the mind.
Clairaudience is a way in which we use
our hearing to receive spirit communication,
which can be both internally within our
mind and externally just as we may hear the
television through our physical ears.
Clairsentience is a way in which we use
our feelings to receive spirit communication,
we can get a sense of feeling about something
or someone. We may sense the emotions
around an individual or situation.
Claircognisance is a way in which
we use our gut instinct to receive spirit
communication, where we just have a hunch
of knowing something that later turns out to
be true.
Clairalience is a way in which we use our
sense of smell to receive spirit communication,
it is the ability to smell odours that have
no physical source; maybe a fond scent of a
particular loved one who we were once close
to.
Clairgustance is a way in which we use
our taste to receive spirit communication,
it could be a case that you suddenly taste
tobacco or alcohol in your mouth, even though
you do not smoke or drink.
Clairtangency is a way in which we
use our physical touch to receive spirit
communication, by simply sitting on a chair
that once belonged to someone now in spirit,
their very essence may step forward. This is
also known as psychometry.
I believe there are more Clairs than we
perhaps already know of. There are depths
to the nature of living a human experience
in a soul’s journey which the brain can’t
possibly comprehend.
I strongly feel that as time goes by
in life, and as we go on to evolve as a
collective consciousness, much deeper
awareness and insight will be brought to
the realms of our living consciousness,
including a heightened sense of awareness
added to the frequencies of the dimensions
here on Earth.
How does this communication
process take place?
When we are in an altered state of
awareness/consciousness, those in the
spirit world have a way of passing on
“WHEN we are in an altered state of awareness/
consciousness, those in the spirit world have a way
of passing on information to us, we could call this
telepathy or silent communication.”
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information to us, we could call this
telepathy or silent communication.
There is no physical presence from
those on the Other Side communicating
with us, however, their presence is an
active force in the form of their soul-being
and energetic frequencies. We, as souls
within these physical bodies, all have the
ability to connect in the exact same way as
Spirit does.
The element of an altered state of
awareness/consciousness really comes
into practice here, because when those
in the spirit world communicate with us
using their sign language, it is required for
our busy minds to be gently toned down a
notch or two.
These communications can take place
during mundane tasks such as walking to
work, running errands or taking some time
to relax in a candlelit bubble bath.
This type of altered state of awareness/
consciousness is a process which takes
place unintentionally, and it is in times like
this when we get those “Ah ha!” moments,
or the miraculous knowing of who is about
to call us.
The more focused way of entering
this state is through practices such as
meditation and participating in active
development groups such as mediumship
circles.
During this altered state our energy is
raised to a heightened state, and we could
see this as tuning into our spirit world
radio, so to speak. In doing this we also
allow for the spirit realm to join in and
meet us somewhere in the middle of that
radio wave.
This is where the puzzle pieces meet,
and the communication takes place. Spirit
begins to pass over information from
their side, this may be received through
the various forms of spirit sign language;
seeing, hearing, sensing, smelling, knowing
etc.
When you embark on developing these
areas of communication from the spirit
realm, you also begin developing your own
unique way of communicating back to
Spirit.
I use the term “unique” here as it is
simply that. Each one of us, as we all know,
is unique in our own right and we have our
own way of doing things. What works well
for one may not work well for another.
For example, in a session with a client,
if I were to ask a spirit being to elaborate
on the information they were passing to
me, I may think that sentence in my mind:
“Spirit, please can you elaborate on this
information?”
This may be just enough for the spirit
communicator to report back to me
effectively. Although, for some in the spirit
world, sending imagery back to them
can be very helpful in engaging a better
understanding. So, instead of just using the
intention of thought, I may then conjure up
a clear visual in my mind’s eye.
This could be a small picture which is
surrounded by brainstorming activity, and
behind that is another layer of a bigger
picture encompassing the prior details.
In doing this we help bridge that gap for
those on the Other Side who may also be
developing their communication skills with
us here on Earth.
Some communicators in the spirit world
are more developed than others and this
shows as strength during communication.
Being clear with the person they are
passing information over to on Earth may
be as fluid as water running gracefully from
a tap.
Although, it is important to note that
just because the communicator in spirit is
well developed, the person on Earth may
be early on in their development and need
to get to know their signs and symbols
more clearly.
As a working medium I have come to
learn a lot of signs and symbols that have
a unique meaning to me, and this enables
me to understand what the spirit world is
communicating to me.
I know that when I see a steam train,
they are making a reference to chronic
smoking, although when I see a nonsteam train, I know they are referencing a
distance to be travelled. When I am shown
a stationary train, they are referencing the
feeling of being burnt out and having no
energy etc.
The depths to the nature of this
topic are never ending and I eagerly
encourage you to explore these areas if
you feel drawn to do so. There is a way
of incorporating these abilities into our
everyday lives and it is only a matter of
being open to the practice of it.
The message here is to know that the
spirit world has got our back and they are
only ever a moment’s thought away. The
more fine-tuned your awareness becomes
to such dynamics, the more other areas of
your life can become fine-tuned too.
Keep on moving forward on your
journey. You have got this.
You can find out more about
Steven Smith and his work at:
www.mediumshipandhealingservices.com
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What is a Lightworker? – Sandy Richardson,
New York, USA
Do you instinctively feel different from
others? Are you aware of a higher purpose
in life other than achieving material
success?
Do you look upon religions as being
generally manmade and therefore
irrelevant? Are you rebellious and
suspicious of authority?
Do you know – not just believe –
that you are a spiritual being having a
temporary physical experience? Do you
wish to use any special gifts you possess
for the benefit of others?
Then rest assured, you are not alone.
There are many, many others just like you.
They are known as Lightworkers.
Traditionally, they have been mediums,
healers, psychics, astrologers and yogis
etc. They have always existed, albeit on
the fringes of society. Last century they
initiated new spiritual movements such
as Modern Spiritualism, that rose to
prominence.
For a while those movements shone a
transforming light. That is, until they were
successfully opposed by religious groups
and materialists, lost their momentum and
became minority pursuits.
Modern Spiritualism, for instance, dates
from the 1840s and was supposed to be
an evidential revelation of humankind’s
true spiritual nature. Unfortunately, some
mediums were fraudulent. Detractors
successfully used that fact to deride and
belittle the movement in general, and it
declined.
Now a new breed of Lightworker is
emerging. It includes spiritual leaders,
counsellors, authors, broadcasters (see
YouTube) and channellers for angels,
ascended masters and extra-terrestrial
beings.
Generally, they are old souls, perhaps
as old as the human race. Others, although
old, are understood to be incarnating on
Earth for the first time. Also known as Star
Seeds, Indigos, Crystal or Rainbow children
they have mostly been born in the last
forty years.
All have incarnated for a specific
purpose. Collectively, they are here on
a mission to save us from ourselves, e.g.,
from destroying humanity and the planet
in a nuclear Armageddon, polluting it
with harmful emissions, hunting wild life
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to extinction and breeding animals for
slaughter.
They are here to shed light on
humankind and replace belief and faith
with knowledge and understanding. They
have helped us to rediscover the Ancient
Wisdom in the form of meditation and
other spiritual exercises, healthy eating
and alternative therapies.
They regard Earth as an organic being
whom some call by her old Greek name of
Gaia. They understand that Gaia herself is
ascending from the third to the fourth and
then fifth dimension, just as we are.
Their mission includes helping Gaia in
her ascension. Also known as earth angels,
they help transmute her energies from
the negative to those of light and love.
They also come to heal others by bringing
love and light, knowledge, understanding,
liberty and healing.
They differ from past leaders inasmuch
as they are not destined to become leaders
in the traditional sense. On the contrary,
they feel uncomfortable about being here,
surrounded as they are by injustice, cruelty
and greed.
Consequently, they are often loners,
even shy and retiring. Initially, they might
feel a deep sense of mission and purpose,
but don’t quite understand what it is. Nor
might they understand the unique type of
energy they possess, still less how to use it
to spread light and heal and awaken others.
For that they must undergo a spiritual
awakening before they can fulfil their
potential and help others. A Lightworker is
therefore someone with what is termed an
“awakened spirituality.”
As well as exercising their special gifts,
Lightworkers act in harmony with nature.
They are often good gardeners, are in thrall
to wildlife and abhor animal cruelty. They
are likely to lead healthy lives, eat a plantbased diet and shun strong alcohol and
recreational drugs.
Now though, as in the past, some socalled Lightworkers are false prophets. The
advice in the New Testament, 1 John 4:1
still holds good: “Test the prophets to see
whether they are from God.”
Who was the Victorian blind medium
who was an opera singer and also
demonstrated full materialisation?
– Simon Broadstairs, Edinburgh
He was Cecil Husk. Born in 1847,
his psychic experiences began as a boy
when he saw spirit forms.
His father, a professional singer,
was also a Spiritualist and encouraged
him to develop his psychic gifts. By the
time he joined the Carl Rosa Opera
Company as a singer around 1875,
he was accomplished enough as a
materialisation medium to give séances
while on tour.
Unfortunately, his sight deteriorated
and so he exchanged a musical career
for that of a professional medium. He
sat inside a cabinet while the spirits
materialised. They came out, walked
about and conversed with the sitters.
An important witness to his
mediumship was Florence Marryat
(1833-1899). A novelist, singer and
actress, she sat with the leading
mediums of the day. In The Spirit World
(see archive.org) she describes a series
of séances with Cecil Husk in 1892.
His principal guide was John
King, the powerful control of several
mediums including Florence Cook, the
materialisation medium for the spirit
of Katie King. The subordinate guides
were Ebenezer, Christopher, Uncle,
Tom Hall and Joey. (Joey had been
the guide of physical medium William
Eglinton),
“These controls,” Florence added,
“are employed in gathering the
materials with which John King works,
Blind physical
medium was also
an opera singer
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so that there may be no delay when he
arrives. As soon as that happens, you may
hear him issuing his commands to one and
another.”
He would say: “Make those passes more
to the right” or “Keep his head up ‘’ or “Two
of you raise his shoulders, so as to place
him in a more upright position” and so on.
They would then reply: “All right, John” or
“I’ve done it.”
King told her how the materialisations
were achieved. “When the controls have
collected the matter with which I work
– some from everybody in the circle, but
mostly from the medium’s brain – I mould
with it a plastic mask, somewhat like warm
wax in feel, but transparent as gelatine,
into the rough likeness of a face.”
The materialised spirit forms were
generally clad in ectoplasmic white
drapery which King had found to be the
most suitable substance. Florence noticed
that “when the full form dematerialises in
sight, and goes down through the floor, the
drapery invariably is left behind for a few
seconds till it follows suit.”
Alternatively, a spirit visitor could
choose to manifest in earthly apparel, but
would not be able to appear for as long.
The most dramatic materialisation she
saw was of Prince Albert Victor, Duke of
Clarence who had passed with pneumonia
in January 1892. He had been second in
line of succession to the throne.
Florence wrote: “I had, in common with
the rest of the nation, been deeply grieved
at the announcement of his death; and, as
will be seen hereafter, he seems to have
been aware of it.
“’For some time before he appeared,
we heard him remonstrating inside the
cabinet and say: ‘Leave me alone. Do leave
me alone. Can’t you see that I’m ill? Let me
rest.’ He, evidently, believed himself to be
still lying in his bed at Sandringham (where
he had passed).
“I did not know who was talking after
this fashion; but, as soon as the Duke
appeared, I recognised him from his
photographs. I exclaimed: ‘Why, it is the
Duke of Clarence!’
“He replied: ‘No, not that. Call me Eddy.’
I then remembered a story I had heard to
the effect that, some few months before
his death, he had been to visit a clairvoyant
who had told him, amongst other things,
that ‘marriage for him spelt death.’
“‘So, the clairvoyant was right, my poor
boy,’ I said; ‘and marriage, for you, did spell
death.’
“He drew himself up, retreated a few
steps and exclaimed in a clear voice, so
as to be heard by everybody ‘No, Miss
Marryat, not death – life!’ Tell everybody it
spelt life – life.’”
Cecil Husk was examined by several
scientists including Sir William Barrett,
a prominent member of the Society for
Psychical Research, Sir William Crookes, a
future president of the SPR and Dr George
Wyld, a Scottish homeopathic physician.
The latter two were particularly
interested in an iron ring that Husk
always wore around his wrist. Its internal
circumference was 182.5mm and it had
been placed there by spirit guides. To
pass over his hand it would have had to be
194mm.
Asked about it in an interview for the
International Psychic Gazette in February
1916, he said: “I suppose I must have had
my arm tugged and pulled at by hundreds
of people . . . but there was no way of
moving it. I am very much thinner now than
I was, but it still cannot be taken off.
“The spirits said they would never allow
that particular ring to be removed, but
they have frequently put on and taken off
another iron ring, of precisely the same
size. That has been taken off in the light
and thrown on to the floor, with a whirl and
a spinning noise.”
The interview included an account
by his housekeeper, Miss Simpson of his
having dreamt of the sinking of the Titanic
in 1912 in real time. He was already ill and
awoke about three o’clock in the morning
dripping with perspiration.
She recalled: “He said that he had been
in the water; he had heard a band playing
rag-time music, and then all at once Nearer
my God to Thee. He had also seen Mr Stead
and spoken to him.”
(W.T. Stead, the crusading journalist and
Spiritualist who was lost with the ship, was
his friend. Husk had no idea that he was
aboard. Later that day, the newspapers
carried news of the sinking.)
Husk spent his declining years blind,
paralysed and bed-ridden. The Husk Fund
was set up by friends to pay his expenses.
He passed to the Higher Life in 1920.
CECIL HUSK was encouraged by his father to
develop his psychic gifts at a young age.
W.T. STEAD appeared to Cecil in a real-time dream
of the Titanic sinking. Later that day the news of
the disaster was announced.
SIR WILLIAM CROOKES was one of the scientists
that examined Cecil.
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What is the “dark night of the soul?”
– Mrs R. Curtis, Wales
The Dark Night of the Soul is a
translation of the Spanish poem, Noche
oscura del alma by St John of the Cross
(1542-1591). He was a poet and mystic
philosopher.
The allegorical poem in eight stanzas
tells how on a dark night he crept out of his
house unseen. With no other light or guide
than “the one that burned in my heart” he
came to a secluded place.
There, someone was waiting – “him I
knew so well” – his lover and beloved, i.e.,
the soul with whom he was subsequently
joined in mystic union. Elsewhere, he wrote
of the soul: “It seems to be God Himself
and has the same characteristics as He”.
His was a journey of self-discovery
that sooner or later all of us must make.
The difference is that John was already an
enlightened being who purposely strove
for union with the soul.
For most, the physical, threedimensional world of illusion is so strong
that we remain unaware of our true
spiritual self. To discover it we must be
placed in a situation where all worldly
illusion is stripped away. We are left naked,
as it were, with only the light of the soul
to indicate our true spiritual nature and
purpose.
As we saw in a previous answer, the
modern Lightworker has to undergo this
spiritual awakening in order to discover
his or her true purpose in life. Even the
greatest spiritual masters had to pass
through the “dark night” in order to
discover their true mission.
The Master Jesus, for instance,
withdrew alone into the wilderness at the
beginning of his ministry. There, he was
presented with a choice. He could either
use his considerable powers to become the
kingly Messiah his people were expecting,
or he could renounce everything worldly
and become the medium for what his
friend John called the Logos, the Holy
Spirit.
Sometimes such a spiritual awakening
involves surrendering one’s physical life.
Passing through the ‘dark
night’ to discover your mission
When the fifteenth century French leader
and heroine Joan of Arc was captured
by the English, she was tried by the Holy
Inquisition for witchcraft.
Pronounced guilty she was sentenced
to be burned at the stake. She was told,
however, that if she confessed, she would
be spared that cruel death. Initially, she
did confess, but after a period of solitary
reflection she recanted.
She preferred going to the stake rather
than confessing to what she knew was
untrue. Eventually the Church proclaimed
her entirely innocent of the charges, and
she was canonised in 1920.
For most people the “dark night” is
not nearly so dramatic, but it can be
devastating none the less. Typically, your
friends abandon you, life seems unfair,
unjust and pointless; and the world, life
itself and perhaps even God seem to be
against you.
Only then, when you feel utterly
abandoned are you ready to surrender to
the light of the soul and experience that
mystic union.
The “dark night” is familiar throughout
history. Buddhists call it “falling into the
pit of the void.” Inayat Khan, the Sufi
philosopher wrote: “There can be no
rebirth without a dark night of the soul, a
total annihilation of all that you believed in
and thought that you were.”
Roberto Assagioli, the Italian
psychiatrist wrote that everyone has to
pass through the “dark night” until perfect
at last, he or she “enters into complete,
constant and inseparable communion with
the Spirit.”
Psychiatrist Dr Anna Yusim writes:
“Oftentimes, a ‘dark night of the soul’
is a necessary part of people’s spiritual
evolution.”
Author and life coach Shannon Kaiser
writes that the “dark night” is “a breaking
away from the illusions of fear and ego to
shift our alignment and values to what is
real and true, the connection to the divine,
and ultimately pave the way for your life
purpose and mission here on Earth.”
FOR most, the physical, three-dimensional world of illusion is so strong that we remain unaware of our
true spiritual self. To discover it we must be placed in a situation where all worldly illusion is stripped away.
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“Write the history of Salisbury Hall and you write the history of
England.” – Diana Norman from “The Stately Ghosts of England.”
SALISBURY HALL, originally called
Shenley Hall ( pictured below), near
St Albans in Hertfordshire has a long
history. Roman relics have been found
in the grounds and during the ninth
century, the site was part of the Manor
of Shenleybury. It was held by Asgar the
Stallar, who is believed to have been a
high official to King Egbert of Wessex.
After 1066 and the Norman Conquest,
the land and manor house passed to
the de Mandeville family. In 1380 it
was held by Sir John Montague, later
Earl of Salisbury. At this time, the house
acquired the name, Salisbury Hall.
Around 1420, Alice – Countess of
Salisbury – married Sir Richard Neville,
who became Earl of Warwick. They had
two sons, Richard Neville (later known
as Warwick the Kingmaker) and John,
Marquis of Montagu, who both died at the
Battle of Barnetin April 1471. A new house
was built around 1507 by Sir John Cutte,
Treasurer to Henry VII and Henry VIII.
During the English Civil War, the Hall
was used by Charles I as a Royalist
headquarters.
In 1668 Salisbury Hall was bought
by James Hoare, a London banker.
He paid the vast sum of £7,100 and it
was believed that he had bought it on
behalf of King Charles II so he could
conduct his affair with Nell Gwyn away
from the prying eyes of the court.
The following year it was sold to Sir
Jeremy Snow, another banker, a relation
of Samuel Pepys and a friend of Charles
II. Snow extensively rebuilt the Hall and,
confirming the earlier suspicions, allowed
it to be used by the King to see Nell Gwyn,
who was given a cottage in the grounds.
The two lovers continued their affair
The Ghosts of
Salisbury Hall
By John West
CHARLES II painted by Philippe
de Champaigne, c. 1653 (Photo:
Cleveland Museum of Art)
(Photo: Jason Ballard)
FEATURE
PSYCHIC NEWS | APRIL 2023 43
until the King’s death in 1685, with
Nell only surviving him by two years.
After this, the Hall changed hands
several times and in 1905 Lady Randolph
Churchill moved there. Her son, Winston
Churchill, was a regular visitor. He would
often retire to a tree house in the grounds
to write his speeches as he found his
mother’s social events too distracting.
Winston also found time to deal with a
fierce pike in the moat who was eating the
other fish and attacking any unsuspecting
ducks who made the mistake of choosing
the moat as their new home. Numerous
attempts to catch the beast had failed
so he borrowed a rifle and shot it.
In 1938 Sir Geoffrey de Havilland
bought Salisbury Hall to expand his
aviation business. The famous Mosquito
fighter-bomber was developed in the
grounds of the Hall, an aircraft which
went on to play a crucial part in winning
the air war over Europe for the Allies.
After the war ended, the Hall fell into
disrepair, and fears were raised about its
future. However, in 1955 it was bought by
Walter James Goldsmith, a painter and a
former Major in the Royal Marines, who
restored the building to its former glory.
I have many fond memories of visiting
Salisbury Hall as a child with my parents.
It was the 1970s and the Hall had been
open to the public for several years.
The nearby M25 had yet to be built, the
construction of which sadly destroyed the
rural beauty and isolation of the place.
I can remember a series of impressive
large stone portrait medallions in the
Crown Chamber. These depicted people
from the classical world including
Trajan, Julius Caesar, Cleopatra and
Marcus Aurelius. These were said to
have been brought to the Hall from
the nearby ruins of Sopwell Priory.
I also recall being led up the stairs
to a bedroom which was said to be
haunted. I found the whole experience
fascinating but was always disappointed
that the ghosts never appeared to me.
My mother felt the same way as she
also wanted to see a ghost! We would
gaze out of a window and look across
the lawn to the moat in the hope that a
phantom lady or ghostly Cavalier would
glide into view but, alas, it was not to be.
Salisbury Hall’s most famous ghost
is Nell Gwyn. She was said to have given
birth to Charles’ illegitimate son in the
cottage in the grounds of the Hall.
Nell, always a feisty young woman,
is said to have held the child out of the
window and threatened to drop him into
the moat if Charles declined to give him
a title. Charles, panic-stricken, is said to
have glanced at the tower of St Albans
Abbey a few miles to the north and replied,
“Pray spare the first Duke of St Albans.”
The cottage was to have another royal
connection several centuries later when it
was turned into a silk factory and provided
the silk for Queen Elizabeth II’s wedding
dress and coronation robe.
Nell has been seen on the stairs and
near the Green Bedroom. She has never
been seen in the bedroom itself, but Mr
Goldsmith often felt her presence there
and always regarded the room as being
haunted.
She also appeared in the oak-panelled
Crown Chamber downstairs. George
Cornwallis-West, the second husband of
Churchill’s mother, wrote of the encounter
in his book, Edwardian Hey-Days:
“One evening at Salisbury Hall just as it
was getting dusk, I came down the staircase
which leads into the old panelled room that
we used as a dining room, and there, standing
in a corner, I saw the figure of a youngish and
beautiful woman with a blue fichu round her
shoulders. She looked intently at me, and then
turned and disappeared through the door into
the passage. I followed and found nothing.”
The woman resembled his mother’s
former maid, Ellen Bryan, and he
became convinced that he had seen
the lady’s ghost. However, inquiries
soon proved that the maid was very
much alive and about to get married.
Cornwallis-West and his sister Daisy
were later looking at a print of Nell
Gwynne and both noticed how much Nell
and the maid looked alike. He then realised
that he must have seen the ghost of Nell.
Shortly after this, at the suggestion
of a member of the Society for Psychical
Research, a medium was given a letter
written by Cornwallis-West to see if they
could gather any impressions from it.
The medium said that the writer
had seen the ghost of Nell Gwyn “who
had come to warn him against an
impending danger.” Cornwallis-West
had no problems at the time but later
discovered that his solicitor had absconded
with over £10,000 of his money.
A woman’s laugh has often been
heard in the garden and many have
wondered if this is Nell too.
Walter Goldsmith also often felt a
“warm and friendly supernatural presence”
in his top floor studio where a bloodstain
had been said to appear from time to time.
In 1965 the actress Margaret
Rutherford, her husband Stringer
Davis and the clairvoyant Tom
Corbett visited the Hall during the
filming of a charming documentary
called The Stately Ghosts of England (the
documentary is available to view on
YouTube and is well worth a watch.)
Tom Corbett immediately felt Nell’s
presence in the Crown Chamber. However,
he said that she was finally reaching “her
state of rest” and would not be appearing
in the Hall for very much longer.
Corbett also picked up traces of a
man upstairs who had died in tragic
circumstances. Walter Goldsmith
explained that the man was a Cavalier.
He had fled back to the Hall after a
local skirmish and committed suicide,
fearing that he would be captured by
Parliamentarian troops and forced
to reveal military secrets – some
accounts even claim that the ghost of
the Cavalier sometimes appears with
a sword sticking out of his chest.
Mrs Goldsmith also revealed that she
had often heard footsteps walking by
her bedroom. They always went in one
direction and were never heard to return.
Tom Corbett asked if there had once
been another wing to the house and this
was confirmed by Walter Goldsmith
who said that it had been pulled down
in 1819. It appeared that the ghost of
the Cavalier had been walking towards
the now vanished Tudor wing.
Tom also revealed to the owners
that the Hall had a third ghostly
resident. This was a “warm-hearted”
lady who haunted the bridge over the
moat. However, Tom was unable to
tell them anything else about her.
The Cavalier was seen one summer
by Maria Goldsmith, another member of
the family. It was about 10.30pm and she
was in the old coach house when she saw
the ghost.
He was wearing a frilly white shirt
and dark knee breeches. He had silver
PORTRAIT of Nell Gwyn (1650-1687), mistress of
Charles II of England by Simon Verelst.
(Photo: best art65 on Flickr)
44 PSYCHIC NEWS | APRIL 2023
FEATURE
buckles on his shoes and his long fair hair
was tied in a ponytail. He looked very
serious but there was a hint of a smile
on his face as he stared at her. He then
began to look “like a faded photograph”
and vanished before her eyes.
The Cavalier was also seen by Lady
Gresley, wife of Sir Nigel Gresley, the
designer of the Pacific steam locomotives,
who lived at the Hall in the 1930s. She
was in her bedroom one night when the
ghostly figure of the Cavalier entered
the room. She was so terrified that she
vowed never to sleep in the room again.
Maria Goldsmith once slept in the room
above the porch. She described having “a
terrible feeling” as she entered it. She did
not want to stay there but all the other
bedrooms in the Hall had been taken.
There was a clock in the room which
usually chimed every hour, but this
had been stopped in case the chiming
disturbed her sleep. Around 2am Maria
was woken up by the clock ticking again.
The bed then began rocking backwards
and forwards for about three minutes.
She later spoke about her experience
in the room to her mother-in-law, who
showed Maria a book which told of a
governess having slept in the very same
room during the First World War.
She had seen “something terrifying”
come out of the wall during the night and
move towards the bed. The governess had
refused to sleep in the Hall after that.
A few years after the Goldsmiths
bought the Hall, they received a letter
from Mrs Rosamund Stutzel who had
lived there as a girl in the 1920s. She too
had slept in the room above the porch.
She had also felt something standing
by her bed. Her brother and sister also
witnessed “something terrifying” emerge
from the wall and stand by the bed. Walter
Goldsmith later discovered a blocked-up
doorway where the ghost had emerged.
It is recorded that Winston Churchill
slept in the room when staying at the
Hall. However, it is not known if he
witnessed any paranormal activity there.
Martin Oliver, a member of the nearby
de Havilland Aircraft Museum, was once
walking by the Hall with some colleagues.
It was evening and they all saw a staircase
light shining out from the Hall. They also
noticed a shadow by the window as if
someone was standing there. They later
discovered that the house was empty,
the Goldsmiths being away at the time.
The sound of a horse galloping over the
bridge was once heard by some American
tourists. Tradition states that the bridge
is haunted by the ghost of a messenger
who had ridden to the Hall during the time
of the War of the Roses, his horse dying
beneath him as he crossed the bridge.
Finally, previous occupants of Nell
Gwynn’s cottage often felt a presence on
the bridge, and poltergeist activity was
noted in the building when it was used as
an antique shop.
The Hall was sold in 1981 to a foreign
business. It was later converted into flats
and offices. Although a listed building, a
large extension was allowed to be built in
the grounds which further ruined the look
of this historic site. One can only wonder
in amazement why the Hall was not
bought for the nation and protected for
future generations to enjoy and explore.
And what of the ghosts? With all
the unwelcome changes to the Hall
over recent decades, I would not be
surprised if they have fled, never to return.
Salisbury Hall is no longer open
to the public, but the exterior can be
viewed from the de Havilland Aircraft
Museum which stands nearby. The
museum is open on a regular basis.
FEATURE
John West is a writer, film producer and
broadcaster. In 2018, he teamed up
with director Jason Figgis to produce
films and TV documentaries.
The pair have so far collaborated
on several projects ranging from a
documentary on photographer Sir
Simon Marsden to a feature film called
“Winifred Meeks.”
John has written two books on
the paranormal, “Britain’s Haunted
Heritage” and “Britain’s Ghostly
Heritage.” Both are published by JMD
Media Ltd.
They are widely available on sites
such as amazon.co.uk or can be
ordered from any bookshop.
THE de Havilland Aircraft Museum has three de Havilland Mosquitos on display where the prototype was originally designed and built. (Photo: Glyn Baker)
SIR GEOFFREY DE HAVILLAND bought Salisbury
Hall to expand his aviation business.
(Photo: San Diego Air and Space Museum’s
Library and Archives)
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THE SPIRITUAL ART
OF MARTY REYNOLDS
MY JOURNEY connecting to Spirit
through painting has been an ongoing
learning experience. I have developed my
technique from just utilising my conscious
mind to technically paint realistic images
to using meditative breathing and
visualisations to open my chakras so that
Spirit can inspire my artwork.
I have progressed to the point where I
can sometimes become totally absorbed
into the painting by entering the timeless
realm of the heart and soul in which Spirit
can project images concerning a person’s
past, present and future into my mind.
Occasionally, these images appear in
the background paint which has been
splashed onto the canvas.
I first began painting when I was at
college in 1972. My early paintings were
of mundane objects like a typewriter
with rumpled paper next to a soda can
on a table. In these paintings I mentally
concentrated on the technical aspects of
perspective, proportions and colour. But
then, during the class, my grandfather
passed away and I became angry and ill.
I missed several weeks of lessons but
knew I needed to do another painting.
I decided to paint the Greek Sun God,
Apollo.
As I was painting, I noticed that
my anger started to dissipate. When I
returned to class the instructor held up my
painting for people to comment on what
they perceived in it.
I was astounded at the various
responses. Some people thought it was
just Apollo the Sun God, while others
saw it as a representation of pure energy,
anger, determination, urgency, power, a
great purpose and a journey to Earth for
various missions.
It was incredible to me that my painting
had the power to evoke such responses
and connections from individuals based on
their personal feelings, perspectives and
experiences.
But what really shocked me was when
I gave the painting to my grandmother
Marty Reynolds has two master’s degrees – one in behavioural studies
and the other in business. Her first job was working for a California State
university where she travelled to various universities in the United States
teaching human development for co-operative education while she was a
history instructor.
Later, she became employed by a major aerospace company where
she taught executive development and later transferred into system
engineering. While working there she also taught business courses at
West Coast University.
Marty started her path of spiritual learning by sitting in a
development circle for four years. The circle was led by Reverend John L
Brooker, a Spiritualist from England who had written three metaphysical
books.
Along her spiritual development path she founded New Age Learning,
in which she and other metaphysical speakers gave seminars and
workshops. For many years she was a reverend in the Church of the
Universal Master.
After being in a car accident, she was forced to stop working full time
and became a support group leader for Benign Essential Blepharospasm
– a neurological disorder that causes spasms or twitching of the eyelid –
and now does dog therapy work. She has published articles for the
International Service Dog Association and “Therapy Dog Magazine.”
Marty’s life has been full of spiritual occurrences and she had the
privilege of staying with Alex Phillips – representative of the Maoris to
the United Nations – at his healing centre in New Zealand.
She was also invited by Algonquin William Commanda, Chief of
First Nations, a representative to the United Nations, to attend a secret
Maniwiki ceremony at his home in Quebec, Canada.
Marty is a reiki master and had the privilege of studying with Ronald
Jue, who brought the Dali Lama to California. In addition she studied the
art of mandalas with Paul Heussenstamm.
For the last ten years she has studied Qigong under Grandmaster Yuanming Zhang, and
continues learning with international medium Robert Brown. Here, she tells us about her
spiritual journey and shares some of her artwork with us.
HAWAIIAN WATERFALL with the light
beaming forth from the Sun’s rays.
SAMURAI WARRIOR – The fire dragon and Buddha suddenly
appeared in the painting along with other figures and symbols.
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and she refused to hang it on the wall. She
perceived it to be communicating that the
Angel of Death was coming to take her.
She did, however, pass away a few
months later. I did not paint again for 28
years.
Then, in the year 2000, I was in a car
accident that eventually landed me in the
Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
At the conclusion of my treatments,
the director of pain management said
that I needed to develop some hobbies to
distract my mind from the constant pain
that I would be suffering for the rest of my
life. So one hobby I turned back to was art.
When I returned from the clinic I began
taking some classes from Dr Ronald Jue,
who wrote The Inner Edge, which had a
foreward by the Dalai Lama.
He taught me to live in the moment and
notice the essence of things around me.
For example, when I take a walk,
sometimes I now notice the height of
a tree, the texture of its bark and the
radiant energy that emanates from it. I
incorporate these observations into some
of my paintings, focusing on the luminous
energy of nature.
I began to consciously experiment with
light in my paintings. For instance, the
picture of Hawaii has the light beaming
forth from the Sun’s rays.
Regarding this painting, when my
husband and I were in Japan we visited
a very small but unique Buddhist temple
near Gamagori.
When I entered
the temple with a
local guide, I felt a
speechless awe.
The temple had
gorgeous spiritual
paintings on the
ceilings and walls.
It was like I had
stepped into a totally
encompassing other
realm – as if I was
at the entrance of
Heaven.
As I stood
motionless, feeling
the vibrations of the
paintings, the monk
who painted them
approached me and
asked, via the guide
who translated for
him, if I was also an
artist.
I showed him the
Hawaiian painting on
my cell phone and he
replied, “You, too, are
a painter of the Light
like I am.” I felt
so humble and
honoured by his
comments, his art was so exquisite.
Thereafter, I began experimenting
with backlighting a painting to illustrate
the light that shines from within everyone.
The parrot and the woman on the bridge
paintings illustrate these techniques.
However, it wasn’t until I met Paul
Heussenstamm that I began to connect to
the light within to open up the creative
essence of my soul and connection to
Spirit while painting.
Paul is a spiritual painter, mainly of
mandalas, who gives art seminars called
“Art as a Spiritual Path.” I first met Paul in
his home studio in Laguna Beach a year
after returning home from the Mayo
Clinic.
Paul generously let myself and several
other women help him paint borders on
some of his paintings. He felt that painting
would help my healing process, which it
did.
Eventually, I took several of his
seminars. In one, after Paul had completed
a group meditation, I decided that I would
paint Christ.
The first day went well when I was just
doing the background of the painting.
However, when I began to paint the face
and body of Christ, I began to experience
a wide array of dimensions and vibrations
that began to emanate out of the painting
and myself.
I experienced a stream of
consciousness and a parade of images
of humanity. Faces and bodies that were
sick, depressed, downtrodden, fatigued,
poor, blissful and happy flooded my mind.
I felt upliftment and compassion but also
the excruciating anguish of the suffering.
I was feeling the spiritual essence of the
painting.
I took the painting back to my room.
Each time I attempted to paint the face it
kept changing. I felt so utterly connected
and overwhelmed by the painting that I
could not go back to the seminar.
I became utterly fatigued and fell to the PARROT – an experiment with light.
AURAGRAPH – Spot the dragonfly at the very top, but what else
can you see in the painting?
48 PSYCHIC NEWS | APRIL 2023
bed with a pounding migraine. I felt I would
never finish the painting. I entered a deep
precinct of my soul and continued to feel a
strange uplifting agony.
A few days passed like this. However,
the day before the seminar was to end, the
migraine stopped and I tried to finish the
painting.
This time I was elevated above the
suffering and pain within the image and
my mind catapulted above the distress to
achieve a blissful peace and compassion.
Then, a synesthesia occurred within
me. The colours of the paint projected fast
or slow vibrations. Some colours, like the
blues and purples, had a lovely high-pitched
tone to them.
Finally, while I was painting Christ’s face,
it became peaceful. I learned, through that
painting, the connectivity of all living things
from the streaming images and feelings
evoked within me. The painting itself
began a transformational experience that
occurred in my body, mind and spirit.
I walked out onto the balcony after
basically completing the mandala of Christ,
vowing never to paint Him again. I thought
of the scripture from Psalm 142:4, “My
spirit is faint within me, but you know my
path.”
As I looked up into the night sky, I saw
the image of a cross, which I photographed.
The next day when I returned to the
seminar, Paul asked me why I had not been
painting with the group. I told him how
difficult it was for me to paint Christ, and
how I became ill and overwhelmed in the
process. He understood completely.
After several seminars I began saying
a prayer of protection before beginning a
painting. Next I began doing a meditation
with a short breathing exercise to open my
chakras so that Spirit can sometimes work
with me.
This is an exciting and rewarding
exercise that can help one to connect with
the universal energy.
Begin by inhaling some deep breaths
through the nose to the count of four.
Fill your abdomen with the energy that
surrounds you.
Hold your breath to the count of five or
seven, and then slowly exhale through the
mouth to the count of four.
Visualise each chakra colour and open
each one into a lotus flower, starting with
the root chakra and progressing to the
crown chakra.
Proceed slowly, but at at your own pace.
Feel each chakra becoming warm and
allow yourself to become one with the flow
of energy.
As I do this exercise, I lose track
of everything around me and enter a
trance-like state. I surrender to the
process occurring as I connect with Spirit.
Sometimes hours will pass.
During this state of being I sometimes
see images in my mind related to the
person that I am doing the painting for,
and occasionally symbols appear in the
background paint that is just splashed onto
the canvas.
One time, while doing a painting of a
Samurai warrior for a specific person, some
images appeared in the background paint. I
did not see these images until my son, Dale,
looked at the painting and pointed out
several images.
Dale said, “Mom, look, there’s a dragon
and Buddha in the paint.” I looked, and
sure enough there was a fire dragon and a
Buddha.
I was shocked because I had suggested
to the person I was painting for – who
was on a business trip to Montana – that
he might want to visit the garden of a
thousand Buddhas.
CHRIST MANDALA – The process of painting the face and body of Jesus caused Marty
considerable discomfort.
THIS is the photograph of the cross in the sky
that Marty took after completing the Christ
mandala.
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After I completed the painting I found
out that he had visited the garden.
I then realised that this painting had
taken on a life of its own.
Before I knew it, there were the Qigong
elements of fire, water, earth, sky and
metal in it. Religious symbols abounded.
The Samurai became a spiritual warrior
fighting for peace and love among all
religions and people of this world with the
light from the Holy Spirit shining forth on
all.
In another painting I created for one of
my doctors, I consciously just wanted to
paint a caduceus in the centre of a dreamcatcher. However, in the background
paint and in my own mind I began seeing
symbols that related to the doctor’s past,
present and future.
Some of these images I put into the
painting and some just appeared in
the paint. The painting had become an
auragraph for the doctor.
Then Dale pointed out, “Mom, there’s a
dragonfly at the top of the wheel.”
I thought, “Oh, that’s terrible.”
However, when I researched
dragonflies I found out that in Asian
culture they are a symbol of good luck and
prosperity.
So I thought, “Well, if that is what is
supposed to be there, then I will leave
well enough alone and go with the
flow.”
I have discovered, through painting
and learning different techniques
such as doing a meditative exercise
before beginning a new piece, that this
process has led me to new spiritual
insights.
As I stumble along a spiritual path of
awakening, the paintings themselves
reveal hints of the mysteries of existence
which are in a realm beyond verbal
expression but can be communicated
through the art itself.
APOLLO – THE SUN GOD.
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MY name is Robert Mason. I am a spiritual investigator and clairvoyant. After many years of
research, I reached a point where I had made significant discoveries concerning the meaning of
life and whether we have a soul.
I acquired knowledge concerning our true spiritual nature, and overwhelming evidence that
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The following true accounts illustrate the way lives can be dramatically changed by a
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Halfway through the evening I was
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late sixties. The room this lady was sat in
was in between the lounge and kitchen.
It was reasonably big, decorated in the
flowery wallpaper that was popular in the
1970s (the year was 2006).
I noticed that there was no window in
the room, yet it was bright and clean. The
lady looked happy, but as I started to give
her a reading, I felt very much that her life
was on hold.
I immediately saw a man with her in
spirit form who I “knew” was her husband.
I told her this and she nodded to confirm.
Next, I was given a picture of a hospital
bed. The same man was laying there on a
life support system. A doctor was in this
scene, looking past me at the lady I was
with and asking her permission to switch
off the life support.
The doctor was telling her there was
nothing more the medical professionals
could do; her husband was technically
brain dead, but his body was being kept
alive by the machines.
I gently told the lady what I was seeing.
She remained calm and told me that her
husband had died six years earlier. She
explained how the doctor had indeed
asked for her permission to switch off the
life support. She couldn’t say yes, so went
for a walk around the local streets.
Upon returning to the ward, she told
me she was still unable to bring herself
to give permission. Then suddenly she
just came out with the words necessary,
giving permission for the life support to be
switched off.
The lady remained calm whilst she
told me all of this. She then became quite
emotional and said: “I murdered him. I
murdered him. I have locked myself away
in this room for the past six years. I haven’t
been out. I am looked after by my family,
but I won’t go out. I killed my husband.”
Her emotional outburst shocked me,
but only momentarily.
I was instantly taken back to the
hospital ward and had a bird’s-eye view of
the lady returning after her walk. I could
see and hear her asking for the doctor,
still undecided about what to do, when
suddenly her husband appeared, stood
The miracle of what
clairvoyance can offer
By Robert Mason
READER’S EXPERIENCE
ROBERT MASON: “I have witnessed this
miracle many times as people take their lives
off ‘hold’ and start living again.”
A SITTER had suffered years of guilt after giving in to doctors’ requests for permission to turn
off her husband’s life support system. She felt she had murdered him.
PSYCHIC NEWS | APRIL 2023 51
alongside her in spirit whispering in her
ear: “Switch off the life support. I am okay,
I am free of my wrecked body. Please tell
him you give your permission, my love.”
The vision disappeared and I sat facing
this emotionally distraught lady in front
of me. I told her what I had just seen. I told
her that her husband had not really been
lying there in the hospital bed but was
stood alongside her in spirit form, asking
her to tell the doctor to switch off the life
support.
The clairvoyant visions then closed. The
lady slowly lifted her drooping head and
stared at me. Then a smile appeared.
“You couldn’t have known all of this,”
she said. “I now believe that my husband
still exists. I did the right thing. I made the
right decision.”
I was then ushered out of her room to
give another reading in the kitchen to a
friend who had been waiting. At the end
of the evening, I walked into the lounge
to say goodbye to everyone. The air of
excitement was electrifying.
A middle-aged lady who must have
been the daughter said: “Mum has told us
she is no longer grieving and is no longer
blaming herself for Dad’s death. She wants
to get her life going again. Her first request
is that I take her out shopping tomorrow.
“Thank you for what you have done.
You have no idea what a miracle it is to see
Mum wanting to live her life again.”
BROTHERLY REINCARNATION
Prior to leaving the house I had
given a reading to a young lady, around
twenty years of age, who was the lady’s
granddaughter. I gave her a psychic
reading concerning her current life issues,
which seemed to be of help to her.
She then asked me, “Can you see my
brother in spirit?” I had to admit that I
couldn’t see him, so I told her no and asked
about him.
“He died at the age of two, before I
was born,” she replied. I thanked her for
the information. Then suddenly my angel
guide told me, “She is her brother.”
I knew immediately what this meant
and told her: “You are the reincarnated
soul of your brother. You wanted to be
back with this family so much that you
chose the first opportunity to be born
again in a new life with your Earth mother.”
The young lady smiled and responded
that she could accept what I was telling
her. This revelation had brought the
answers she was struggling to find and
peace to her soul.
I said goodnight feeling very much
that something much bigger than me
was at work. I can’t perform miracles, but
overwhelmingly felt humbled to be a part
of something so life changing.
WRONGFULLY IMPRISONED
The following is the account of a psychic
reading that involved seeing the future for
a lady. Without her telling me anything
beforehand, I discovered in the reading
that her family were deeply troubled by
what had happened to their son.
During the reading I saw two outcomes
for their son, one good and one not so
good, so I focused on the good path. As I
spoke, the future changed to become the
better outcome.
The lady was aged around 40 years
old. She was obviously taking no care of
her herself and had greasy hair all over
the place and scruffy clothes. She seemed
depressed as she welcomed me into her
house and sat me down.
My first words to her were simply: “It’s
about justice – or rather an injustice. Your
son is in prison for an offence he didn’t
commit.”
The lady sitting in front of me
screamed. Her scream shook the house.
How her neighbours did not come
running in to see what had happened I do
not know. Her scream shook me with an
unexpected shudder of stress because I
am not the kind of guy who does anything
to make anyone scream!
I imagined some heavy-weight fighter
of a husband appearing and throwing me
out – but fortunately she had kicked him
out of the house for a couple of hours for
privacy during the reading.
What I told her was correct. I went on
to tell her that her son’s prison sentence
would be overturned, and he would be a
free man within four weeks.
Her scream was one of surprise at
how I could possibly know all of this. I
spent another hour with her, bringing
some clear messages from her deceased
mother.
She calmed down very quickly and
became more optimistic and much happier
over that hour, and the messages from
her mother appeared to be of great
meaning.
I left her with good wishes. Inside my
mind I was saying a quiet prayer for her and
her son.
A HAPPY ENDING
The lady’s sitting was in the city of Hull,
which I only visit a few times a year, and I
never go to the public houses there.
However, about a month later I was
back there and did call into a Hull pub with
some friends, but in a different area of the
city. Hull is a big place.
Within minutes an attractive lady came
running up to me and gave me a big hug
saying: “It’s him… it’s him…”
I couldn’t help but notice a rather tough
looking partner behind the lady appearing
quite angry at her behaviour.
“It’s okay,” she told him. “This is the
clairvoyant.” The partner changed his
mood, put a smile on his face and shook
my hand. “Our son is no longer in prison,
everything you said came true,” continued
the lady.
The fact that their son was now free
was good news, but the added miracle for
me was the transformation of this lady.
She had taken on a new zest for living,
pulled herself out of depression and
acquired a new interest in taking care of
herself. She had given herself a makeover
with her hair and clothes. With such a
dramatic improvement I didn’t recognise
her.
My friends in the pub had been staring
at what was happening in amazement.
One of my hobbies is singing, and we had
just performed a concert, so my fellow
singers in the pub knew nothing about my
clairvoyance work. I just tried to shoulderoff what had happened in a joking way.
This is the miracle of what clairvoyance
can offer. I have witnessed this miracle
many times as people take their lives off
“hold” and start living again.
I have found that psychically some of
the future can be seen. If it is unwelcome,
then future events or situations can be
changed or avoided.
You can find out more about Robert’s
work at: www.intuitionxyz.com
A SON’S imprisonment for a crime he did not commit caused his mother to become deeply
depressed to the point where she wasn’t taking proper care of herself any longer.
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WE are told by scientists and activists that the principal cause of the
phenomenon commonly called global warming is the burning of fossil
fuels in cars, lorries, aeroplanes etc. It is also the case that there have, in
recent times, been seemingly more disasters due to seismic activity.
As Spiritualists, with our knowledge
of the spirit basis of all life, I suggest we
should consider an additional explanation
to the commonly accepted ones.
There is a popular misunderstanding
about Spiritualism that it is only about
contacting and receiving messages from
those individuals in the spirit world who
want to help us, or to prove to us that
they are still very much living and caring
individuals.
This is true of course, and many grieving
people have been hugely comforted by
such messages. Indeed, a lot of people
became Spiritualists as a consequence of
receiving such evidence.
It is mostly in English speaking countries
that Spiritualist churches exist, so the idea
that proof of survival beyond death has
a religious significance is not something
that occurs to all people. That does not
invalidate the idea of course. If accepting
truth depended upon widespread
acceptance, human understanding of life
and existence would still be in the Dark
Ages.
In the mid nineteenth century, many
thinkers and philosophers realised the
religious implications of mediumship and
they published their views. It is these great
thinkers, plus others from the spirit world
speaking through trance mediums, who
laid the foundations of our religion.
Unlike most leading religious beliefs,
Spiritualists make no claim that the only
sure way to heaven is by accepting its
beliefs and practices. All survive death,
but some, due to their strong conviction
that passing means annihilation, refuse to
accept what has happened to them after
death. Eventually though, all departed
spirits accept what has happened and then
continue the next phase of their lives.
The teachers and philosophers pointed
out that once one is convinced that life
is eternal, one’s attitude towards earthly
life cannot remain the same. The fact
of survival means life is not accidental;
intelligent design must be behind it.
Therefore, earthly life must be a
preparation for what is to come and how
we live our lives here is vital to our future.
Spiritualists accept all life is energised by
Spirit, even life we consider inanimate,
such as the Earth itself.
If Spirit provides the energy, mind
provides the direction. By mind we are not
referring to human mind alone, though our
minds do have an important role to play.
Understanding the power of
positive thought waves
By Lionel Owen
FEATURE
PSYCHIC NEWS | APRIL 2023 53
FEATURE
LIONEL OWEN: “If only each of us could cultivate the habit of sending out positive thoughts every day, we could bring about a revolution in life on Earth.”
There is universal mind too, a power we
refer to as God.
That power, that intelligence, guides the
whole of creation. Deathbed conversions
and vicarious atonement for sins also form
no part of Spiritualist philosophy. It is our
view that our experience in the afterlife is
determined by the quality of our lives here,
though allowance is made for individual
circumstances.
For instance, if one’s behaviour towards
others is affected by some physical disability,
it will have a much lesser negative effect
upon our soul than if we are perfectly
healthy yet still act badly towards others.
With regard to vicarious atonement,
our view is no one can assume the burden
of another’s sin. We accept that we are
each personally responsible for all our
actions but have endless opportunity to
atone for them and move on.
Some feel taking away vicarious
atonement cuts people adrift and they
lose their way. My own grandfather upon
becoming a Spiritualist cried out, “They
have taken away my saviour!”
He realised later, however, he felt
liberated once he accepted personal
responsibility. He realised vicarious
atonement was a false doctrine invented to
persuade people to adopt Christianity.
Though it is not easy to accept such
responsibility, neither is it too onerous
having to atone through giving personal
service to somebody one has harmed.
After all, carrying the weight of guilt,
even when it is repressed and shows in
hidden ways, is far from easy. Such guilt is
instantly assuaged once one truly atones.
Our role as individuals is to serve: to
serve one another and all other beings
sharing this planet with us.
The power and influence of mind cannot
be exaggerated, though most human
beings ignore it. The pernicious influence
of materialism and consumerism have
blunted human awareness of the true
meaning and purpose of life and led us to
deny the existence of the mind’s invisible
power. We pretend the mind is part of our
brain.
Materialism has undoubtedly
increased human greed and made us
far less sympathetic to the failings of
others, resulting in a succession of wars
and terrible atrocities in the name of
nationalism or in pursuit of a specific view
of life.
Intolerance is widespread and appears
to be getting worse. The spirit people tell
us that our behaviour and our selfish and
unworthy thoughts have surrounded Earth
with a dark pall of negative energy to pass
through, which causes them great pain.
Furthermore, it’s influence is extensive,
affecting even the Earth itself.
The oft quoted phrase, “It matters not
what I think as long as I do not act upon
those thoughts,” is shown to be completely
mistaken. Thought is much more powerful
than we imagine.
Whilst we may not act in furtherance of
certain thoughts, can we always be certain
somebody else hasn’t without realising
why? A thought once sent out, cannot be
recalled.
I believe acting as a result of another’s
thought could explain some previously
inexplicable actions that have resulted
in death or disaster. People in such cases
appear to act completely out of character.
It is the case that some people do not
possess strong minds and find themselves
very easily influenced by others. Thus,
when such people sense the presence of an
invisible thought-wave, they can easily act
upon it and not realise why they did so.
What is true of negative thought, is
equally true of positive thought. If only
each of us could cultivate the habit of
sending out positive thoughts every day,
we could bring about a revolution in life on
Earth.
If such things are true, it can surely be
argued that all this negative energy, if it
affects the very planet itself, must also
influence other things, such as the weather,
volcanoes and seismic activity.
That being the case, it is something
controllable once we all understand the
reality of thought waves. A determined
effort to change our ways of thinking and
discover how to dissolve the negative pall
surrounding the Earth by using the light
within us, could have a huge impact. It
could cause an enormous improvement in
our planet and the quality of our life here.
We need not be helpless in the face of
overwhelming odds but can be very much in
control of our environment. The choice is ours.
Do we sit, as Lizzie Doten wrote in her
poem God of the Granite and the Rose, “with
folded hands and fettered will,” or do we
use our minds constructively and undo
centuries of wrong thinking for the sake of
our children?
FEATURE
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Over the decades, hundreds of people visited the Hannen Swaffer home circle
to receive counsel and advice from Silver Birch. His medium was Maurice
Barbanell, who founded “Psychic News.”
Never once did Silver Birch show impatience or annoyance or judge those
who consulted him. Apart from his knowledge, kindness and compassion,
another particularly noteworthy aspect was the beautiful way in which Silver
Birch expressed himself.
Here, Silver Birch gives a spirit
world view of the animal kingdom.
The first point he answers is “Do you
believe that vivisection can be right
when it is undertaken with a good
motive?”
NO. How can that which is cruel be right?
How can that which causes pain, which
inflicts torture, be right?It is contrary to all
that we teach. It is wrong to experiment on
those who are not capable of resisting.
I would say that you can help people
through vivisection, but it is not right to
do so because it is contrary to everything
spiritual to inflict cruelty and suffering
on creatures who have done nothing to
deserve it.
Man is responsible for what he does. His
motive may be good in many cases and that
will affect his spiritual development. That is
how the law works.
It is not part of the divine plan that the
children of the Great Spirit should become
healthy through exploitation and cruelty to
the animals in your world.
This is where doctors have taken the
wrong path. They justify themselves by
saying that man is more important than
the animal. Therefore he has the right
to improve his health and wellbeing by
experimenting on these creatures. But that
is wrong.
The law is co-operation. Responsibility
should engender mercy and compassion.
You cannot exploit others without you
suffering as a consequence.
Cruelty is bad for the one who performs
the cruelty. When you manifest love, you
are the better for it. When you manifest
hatred, you are the worse for it. This is how
the natural law works.
It is right to strive to lessen the cruelty
inflicted on animals, to show there is a
better way, a way of mercy, and by teaching
people how to order their lives aright, to
live in harmony with the natural law, they
will become well, healthy and radiant.
What is spiritually wrong can never be
condoned, but in an imperfect world there
will always be abuses and excesses.
You must fight to promote the welfare
of all who should dwell together in amity,
peace, concord and love. For love is the
fulfilling of the law. You cannot have love if
Spirit guide condemns
vivisection
you wreak cruelty on others.
Why are some animals naturally cruel to one
another? A cat will play with a mouse for
hours. A fox will kill all the hens in a coop.
Should this question not be addressed
to the Great Spirit? It is the law of
evolution at work. The law of evolution is
development from the lower to the higher.
It is the law of polarity in action.
Just as you can have excessive cruelty
you can also have excessive kindness. It
is the gradual development of the animal
through its evolution and the human
through his evolution.
If the reason for life is to learn love and
compassion, why does nature set such a
bad example by allowing predators?
Nature does not set anyone a bad
example. Nature is an expression of the
Great Spirit. The Great Spirit is perfect.
The laws of the Great Spirit are perfect.
Nature left to its own devices will
always achieve the right balance and
harmony. If man lived in harmony with
nature your world would be a paradise, a
kingdom of heaven.
There are predators, but that is part
of the way nature ensures the survival of
the fittest. Yet that is only one aspect of
natural law at work. The essence of nature
is co-operation. Nature is symbiotic.
You, for example, are a gardener. If you
prepare your garden and co-operate with
SILVER BIRCH: “How can that which is cruel be
right?”
FEATURE FEATURE
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they play in the whole process.
The law of cause and effect is
immutable. Whatever is must be the result
of what was. The animal is an essential part
of the evolutionary plan, just like the tree,
the ocean and everything in nature.
The link is in the unifying spirit. All life is
one. You have a relationship not only with
animals, but with all wherever there is life.
They will follow their preordained paths.
The extent to which they develop is
governed by that part of the law which
applies to them as it applies to a flower, a
tree, a bird, to the beasts of the field or to a
human being.
Can an animal therefore break its own law?
Only in the sense that you contravene
a law, but it will operate just the same. You
can transgress, but you cannot break the
law in the sense of preventing effect from
following cause. You can only kick over the
traces.
Could an animal ever do anything for which
it can be blamed spiritually?
Yes, if it transgressed the operation of
the natural law. There are rogue animals
just as there are rogue human beings.
It has been said that when an animal dies
it returns to a group soul. However, there is
considerable evidence for animals surviving
death. Can you enlighten us on this apparent
paradox?
There is individual survival for domestic
animals that have had association with
humans. Thus they have been helped to
achieve an individual evolution that is not
possible with animals who are still in a
group soul, or soul group, even on earth.
It is part of the wonderful relationship
that can exist between humans and
animals, each helping the other to develop
spiritually.
You help the animal that comes into your
surroundings to achieve a consciousness
that is more personal and individual than it
otherwise would have been.
It is that which survives death. But
where there is not this more evolved
“human” expression, it joins the soul group
or group soul.
Would an animal reincarnate?
No, though there is a theory about the
transmigration of souls.
Is the intention that animals shall gain
individuality in association with human
beings, that all animals shall have
consciousness in their own right?
Yes, as man radiates love in his thinking
and his actions towards all the animals, then
in return they will radiate love and, as it says
in your Bible about the wolf and the lamb,
man will lie down with them at the same time.
In order to sustain life, man has no
alternative but to take plant life, filch fowls’
eggs and cows’ milk or, more savagely,
slaughter animals.
How can such robber sustenance be
reconciled with an all-beneficent Creator
without offence to that reason which
you, often enough, have bidden us not to
disregard?
Do not blame the Creator because you
kill animals. The choice is yours. You do
not have to kill them, but in any case the
answer is very simple.
Your evolution will decide for you what
you should do in these matters. If you have
any doubts, your conscience will give its
added answer.
You are responsible for what you
do, and all your actions will affect your
spiritual nature.
An added factor is your motive. If
your motive is clearly good and you have
to kill, then that obviously produces an
ameliorative result in your development.
You cannot cheat the spiritual laws
because they are based on cause and
effect, reaping and sowing. Everything
you do, think and say has an automatic,
inflexible result; no cheating is possible.
If you do wrong consciously, then you
are responsible for it. Your shoulders must
bear the burden that results.
If you do good because you desire to
do so not for vanity’s sake, because the
motive then is poor, but because your soul
desires to serve, then by the very fact of
that happening you must be spiritually
better for it. This is the law that will always
operate.
I have always said that it is preferable
not to be involved in consuming food that
bears the mark of Cain upon it. Killing is
wrong, though sometimes motive must of
necessity be taken into account.
Those who desire spiritual mastery
must be prepared to pay the price and live
in harmony with the natural laws of the
universe.
These are spiritual in origin. The aspects
of the spirit are always the same – love,
compassion, tolerance, sympathy and
co-operation.
If you follow these principles, you will
find that you are being led to eat aright, to
drink aright and to live aright. But yours is
the responsibility for deciding because the
Great Spirit has endowed you with the gift
of free will.
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which are available, please visit:
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nature, the results are beautiful. Man is
the predator, the greatest destructive
creature that has been known for many
millions of years.
Is it wrong to spray with insecticides to try to
prevent malaria, etc?
Of course you must have respect for all
life, but this is a question of motive and of
degree.
If you have conditions where, due
to certain circumstances, there are the
kind of insects that cause disease, then
your motive in using sprays is a good one.
Respect for life must be tempered with the
necessity of ensuring there are conditions
in which it can flourish.
Similarly, if you have houses infested
with bugs, it is easier to spray and get rid
of them if your motive is to improve the
health of those who dwell there.
If an animal develops human qualities, such
as noble sentiments and intelligence, will
it remain an animal without any chance of
further evolution or may it in time step into
the human realm?
Evolution is part of a natural law. It has
a main stream and many tributaries, but all
are part of the same law.
The spirit within you is in essence the
same spirit within the animal. There is no
difference in essence, but only in degree.
Potentially, being infinite the spirit can
achieve the tremendous expression latent
in man or animal, but spiritually it is all of
one path.
Who is to determine where spirit has
branched off to be expressed through an
animal as distinct from branching off to be
expressed through man? I do not see the
problem there at all.
Does an animal evolve in a similar way to
man?
It follows its own path of evolution. It is
part of the same pattern which is behind
all evolution; it is development.
If I say to you, “Do all children evolve
in the same way as their parents?” the
answer is “Yes” and “No.” They have
a predestined pattern which they
must follow, but within that there is a
certain amount of free will regulated
by the awareness reached at stages of
unfoldment.
Everything which has spirit is capable
of infinite development… Animals follow
their line of evolution according to the part
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all the numbers from 1-9 ~ Good luck
This month we have five copies of
Peg Couch’s beautiful hardcover
book Creating Smudge Sticks as
prizes.
The publisher writes: “Smudging is an ancient
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discover recipes to suit your every need.
“An inspirational quote and suggested
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you can benefit from this powerful tradition, no
matter what your background. All you need is
an open heart and an open mind.”
For your chance to win one of the copies,
complete the sudoku puzzle and send the
numbers which appear in the shaded centre
row, from left to right, along with your name and
address to:
Creating Smudge Sticks, Psychic Press Ltd,
Unit 2, Griggs Business Centre,
West Street, Coggeshall,
Essex CO6 1NT
You can also enter by email at:
Closing date for entries is 8th June, 2023
January 2023 winners can be found on page 66
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A Good Read
All titles available from Amazon.co.uk or
Amazon.com unless otherwise stated
LIFE IS AN ILLUSION
Loving messages from Beyond
By Dennis Jackson
& Alice Best Jackson
RRP UK £16.50 US $19.99
300 pages
The publisher writes: “Life Is An
Illusion brings forth valuable
spiritual information that will touch
the hearts, minds and souls of
everyone who reads this book.
“The authors adeptly address the
toughest questions from sceptics,
portray their findings in a manner
that is warm and compassionate,
and debunk many of life’s
unanswered questions.
“In this book readers will gain a clear understanding of the
following topics:
• Free will – it’s not a matter of if we have it, it’s a matter of
when we use it
• Why “bad” things happen to good people
• How mediumship readings help people heal and move
through the grief process
• Love versus fear-based choices and decisions
• Why some children cross over before their parents
• How and why to surrender to the flow of life
“Dennis and Alice present their readers with vignettes that
include personal and convincing details from their decades of
readings.
“They answer perplexing questions for those who are both
familiar with or new to receiving messages from Beyond. Equally
important, they tap into our innate desire and ability to live life in a
state of unconditional love.”
NEAR DEATH LESSONS
A dream. A terminal illness. An
extraordinary life gained from
eight near-death experiences
By Chris Jankulovski
RRP UK £20.56 US $24.97
228 pages
The publisher writes: “Everyone
faces adversity in life; it’s an
inevitable part of the human
experience. But what separates the
people who persist, survive, even
thrive through challenges, from
others whose obstacles stop them
in their tracks?
“Chris Jankulovski is no stranger
to uncertainty – he’s been living
with it from the moment he received a diagnosis of Von Hippel
Lindau (VHL) Syndrome at the age of nineteen.
“For a time, he allowed this diagnosis to get the best of him –
finding comfort in bad company and habits, and in the idea that
there was no point in having dreams, as he would not live long
enough to make them a reality.
“That was until a series of near-death experiences triggered a
profound personal transformation and finally led Chris to create
the life of his dreams. He embarked on an incredible journey of
healing that turned his life around from despair to happiness,
success, love and finding profound joy in life.
“The adversities he faced along the way humbled, tested
and ultimately provided him with the perspective to see life’s
challenges in an entirely new way.
“Chris is committed to sharing his story to show others that
even at their lowest, they can dare to hope that the best is yet to
come.
“The lessons he shares will inspire, challenge and empower you.
They are your roadmap to guide you, with a companion who has
been where you are and not only survived but learned to thrive.”
PSYCHIC BLESSINGS
By Diane Lazarus
RRP UK £13.99 US $16.50
228 pages
The publisher writes: “When
Diane Lazarus was crowned
‘Britain’s Best Psychic’ by TV’s
Channel 5 back in 2006 she
thought her life would get easier.
“After a turbulent childhood
with a violent father and a mother
who constantly warned her to
hide her strange powers for fear
of being labelled ‘crazy,’ she could
now relax and use her psychic gift
openly. Yet as her fame spread and
desperate people from around the
globe began to beg for her help,
she found herself suddenly thrust into a world of brutal murders,
sinister disappearances, spooky events and personal heartbreak.
“Once again she had to fight back, with only the invisible
presence of her brave great grandfather in spirit at her shoulder,
constantly urging her on. And along the way, just as he promised, a
miracle happened.
“Diane found love again and to her amazement she discovered
her powers were actually increasing. Diane’s new life was only just
beginning.”
CRYSTAL COMPANIONS
An A-Z guide
By Jessica Lahoud
RRP UK £14.99 US $16.95
272 pages (Hardback)
The publisher writes: “Crystal
healing is for everyone. Learning
to work with these gifts from
nature should be simple, easy and
effective.
“This beautifully illustrated
book is a modern guide that aims
to demystify the spiritual jargon
surrounding crystal healing and
teach practical rituals to help you attune to crystal energy. It can
either be read the whole way through or used as a reference guide.
“With everything you need to know to start your crystal
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journey, Crystal Companions ensures you have all of your questions
answered in simple terms so you can focus on self-care and
exploring the magic of nature’s precious creations.”
‘BILLY’ HOPE: PSYCHIC
PHOTOGRAPHER
‘EXTRA’-ORDINAIRE!
By Ann Harrison
RRP UK £14.99 US $25.11
356 pages
The publisher writes: “‘Billy’ Hope
is probably the best-known psychic
(Spirit) photographer ever. People
travelled from across the world
to sit with him and Mrs Buxton,
otherwise known as the ‘Crewe
Circle.’ Yet there has never been a
book about him.
“There are snippets in several
books on his work but never a
book analysing the accusations of
fraud matched by the investigations into those claims, and proofs
of genuine work from those who had tested him, under strict ‘foolproof’ protocols, over the 25+ years of capturing images of those
in Spirit. So – here it is.
“Although accused of fraud several times, no case against him
was proved. In 1922 Harry Price attempted to prove ‘Billy’ Hope
was fraudulently placing images on the photographic plates, and
the mud has stuck, so that many today still believe it to be so. Now,
100 years later, is the time to set it straight.
“Working from journals and books of the time, important
verbatim reports have been brought together in this book,
together with many photographs and images from those reports.
“Scientists, professional photographers, journalists, churchmen,
lawyers and sceptical researchers all made an effort to test him for
themselves.
“Highly esteemed by many people of standing, they worked
frequently at the British College for Psychic Science in London
over a period of ten years, and travelled throughout the British
Isles, from Glasgow to Eastbourne, from Belfast to Norwich, never
charging a fee for their work in almost twenty years.”
THE OTHER SIDE
A journey into women, art and
the spirit world
By Jennifer Higgie
RRP UK £22.00 US $28.39
320 pages (Hardcover)
The publisher writes: “It’s not so
long ago that a woman’s expressed
interest in other realms would
have ruined her reputation, or even
killed her. And yet Spiritualism, in
various incarnations, has influenced
numerous men – including lauded
modernist artists such as Wassily
Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Kazimir
Malevich and Paul Klee – without
repercussion.
“The fact that so many radical women artists of their generation
– and earlier – also drank deeply from the same spiritual well has
for too long been sorely neglected.
In The Other Side, we explore the lives and work of a group of
extraordinary women, from the twelfth-century mystic, composer
and artist Hildegard of Bingen to the nineteenth-century English
Spiritualist Georgiana Houghton, whose paintings swirl like a
cosmic Jackson Pollock.
As well as the early twentieth-century Swedish artist, Hilma
af Klint, who painted with the help of her spirit guides and whose
recent exhibition at New York’s Guggenheim broke all attendance
records; the ‘Desert Transcendentalist,’ Agnes Pelton, who painted
her visions beneath the vast skies of California; the Swiss healer,
Emma Kunz, who used geometric drawings to treat her patients;
and the British surrealist and occultist, Ithell Colquhoun, whose
estate of more than 5,000 works recently entered the Tate Gallery
collection.
“While the individual work of these artists is unique, the women
loosely shared the same goal: to communicate with, and learn
from, other dimensions.
“Weaving in and out of these myriad lives, sharing her own
memories of otherworldly experiences, Jennifer Higgie discusses
the solace of ritual, the gender exclusions of art history, the
contemporary relevance of myth, the boom in alternative ways
of understanding the world and the impact of Spiritualism on
feminism and contemporary art.
“A radical reappraisal of a marginalised group of artists, The
Other Side is an intoxicating blend of memoir, biography and art
history.”
THE MEDIUM DISCOURSE
RED CLOUD’S INNER
TEACHINGS
By Brandon J. Kim
RRP UK £14.39 US $19.95
710 pages
The publisher writes: “Estelle
Roberts’ spirit control Red Cloud
provides his inner teachings on
various subject matters such as
Atlantis, the many spheres of the
spiritual world, the many different
laws of God and even the twelve
disciples of Jesus.
“These classroom-style teachings
give readers the feeling that they
took part in these courses themselves.
“Time is of no importance for the world of spirit, and these
wise words of wisdom still remain incredibly valuable today to
those seeking the truth and their inner light.”
SOUL REVELATION
ORACLE DECK
By Chris Aldous
£25 plus postage
Only available from:
www.etsy.com
The publisher writes: “This deck
contains 50 cards, channelled from
Spirit by medium Chris Aldous over
a period of four weeks.
“Each card’s artwork was hand
designed and illustrated by Chris
on A3 black paper using metallic
pencils, before being scanned and
professionally printed in the UK
onto 340g coated card stock with
rounded corners.
“This first edition of the Soul Revelation Oracle Deck is presented
in a tuck box with leaflet guide.
“The cards themselves are very powerful and get straight to
the heart of any matter. They are very intuitive, easy to read and
are fantastic healing cards. They are great for psychic and spiritual
readings, philosophy and teachings.”
ORACLE DECK
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MAIDENHEAD
SPIRITUALIST
CHURCH
River View Lodge,
Ray Mead Road,
Maidenhead,
Berkshire
Sl6 8NJ
OPEN – SEE BELOW
President:
Sharon Silver
Telephone:
07770 433129
Sundays 6.30pm
Divine Service
Wednesdays 1pm - 3pm
Healing Clinic
Thursdays 7.30pm
Mediumship Demonstration
Monthly Open Platform
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Car Park and facilities
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PENZANCE
CHRISTIAN
SPIRITUALIST
CHURCH
Bread Street,
Penzance, Cornwall
Tel: 07800 812973
07800 813533
07780 661670
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Monday: 7pm sharp
Open Healing Circle
Thursday: Service 7.00pm
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CHURCH
CURRENTLY CLOSED
Visiting mediums who would
like to serve please contact
Carol on 01840 770057
CHRISTCHURCH
SPIRITUALIST
CENTRE
196B Barrack Road,
Christchurch,
Dorset
BH23 2BQ
President:
Karen Martin
Enquiries: 07849 606437
www.christchurchsc.org.uk
OPEN – SEE BELOW
APRIL 2023
Sunday Service at 10.45am
2nd PAT VITINS
9th MARTIN JONES
16th TONI GOSWELL
23rd VANESSA SMALLWOOD
30th VICKIE DRIVER
Thursday Service at 7.30pm
6th JOHN MORROW
13th JANET NEVILLE
20th BEVERLEY ALLEN &
RICHARD HUNT
27th TRACY CRAIG
Healing
In person
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Special Events
Tuesdays 11th & 25th April
7.30pm - 9pm £3
Open Circle
Saturday 8th April
Mind Body Spirit Event
Saturday 15th April
Workshop with
SARAH BURCH
Church accessible for
wheelchairs and has a loop
system for hearing
aid wearers
BOURNEMOUTH
SPIRITUALIST
CHURCH
16 Bath Road,
Bournemouth,
Dorset BH1 2PE
Telephone: 01202 551751
Website: www.bsnuc.co.uk
OPEN – SEE BELOW
APRIL 2023
On the first Sunday of the
month there will be two
Divine Services
10.45am and 6.30pm
Sunday 2nd 10.45am
Divine Service with
VANESSA SMALLWOOD
Sunday 2nd 6.30pm
Divine Service with
VANESSA SMALLWOOD
Tuesday 4th 7pm Open Circle
Thursday 6th 3pm
Demonstration of
Mediumship with
JAMIE WILLIAMSON
Sunday 9th 10.45am
Divine Service with
WENDY WHARTON
Tuesday 11th 7pm
Open Circle
Wednesday 12th 7pm
Philosophy and Awareness
with GEOFFREY HAYWARD
Thursday 13th 3pm
Demonstration of
Mediumship with
CLAIRE LOUISE SUTTON
Sunday 16th 10.45am
Divine Service with
GEOFFREY HAYWARD
Tuesday 18th 7pm
Open Circle
Wednesday 19th 7pm
Evening of
Mediumship with
SARAH DEVERELL
Thursday 20th 3pm
Demonstration of
Mediumship with
AL & GEOFF POTTS
Sunday 23rd 10.45am
Divine Service with
JANET NEVILLE
Tuesday 25th 7pm
Open Circle
Wednesday 26th 7pm
Fledglings Evening with
JANET EMILYMAE
Thursday 27th 3pm
Demonstration of
Mediumship with
KARLA HAYNE
Sunday 30th 10.45am
Divine Service with
ELAINE BEVAN
All Welcome
KINSON
SPIRITUALIST GROUP
Kinson Community Centre,
Pelhams Park, Kinson,
Bournemouth BH10 7LH
Telephone: 01202 715754
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Fortnightly Sunday
Divine Service at 6.30pm
Wednesday 5th April
7.30pm - 9pm
Open Development Circle
Saturday 15th April 12 noon
Mind Body Spirit Fayre
See Facebook for other events
All Welcome
CHELTENHAM
NATIONAL
SPIRITUALIST
CHURCH
Bennington Street,
Cheltenham,
Gloucestershire GL50 4ED
Telephone: 01242 703 288
Registered for Funerals,
Weddings, Blessings,
Naming Ceremonies,
Commitment of Union
OPEN – SEE BELOW
www.snu.org.
uk/cheltenhamspiritualist-church
Facebook: Cheltenham
Spiritualist Church
Sundays at 11am
DIVINE SERVICE
Thursday 7.30pm
Open Awareness and
Development Group
Friday 1.30pm - 2.30pm
Healing
Saturday 7pm
Evening of Mediumship
Specials and Workshops
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Sunday 23rd 6.30pm
Divine Service with
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Tuesday 25th
Spiritual Healing
2pm - 4pm & 5pm - 7pm
Saturday 29th 10am - 1pm
Coffee Morning
Spiritual Healing and Private
Readings available
Private Readings are
£10 for 20 minutes
Refreshments available
Sunday 30th 6.30pm
Divine Service with
JEFF WOODHOUSE
See website for details of our
Special Events, Workshops and
Development Groups
All Welcome
CARPENDERS PARK
CHRISTIAN
SPIRITUALISTS
Bushford Scout Hall,
St Georges Drive,
Carpenders Park,
Watford,
Hertfordshire WD19 5HD
(Hall cannot be seen
from road – go up drive
between numbers
37 and 39 St Georges Drive)
Contact Elaine Federico:
07746 730082
OPEN – SEE BELOW
Sundays 10.30am
Divine Service
Healing Available
An activity table
is provided for children
All Are Welcome
INDEPENDENT
SPIRITUAL GROUP
Orpington, Kent
Enquiries: 07879 820125
or 07734 793640
Website:
www.independant
spiritualgroup.uk
OPEN – SEE BELOW
Sunday Service 6.30pm
At Liberal Hall,
7 Station Road,
Orpington BR6 0RZ
Wednesdays:
Open Circle
At Conservative Hall,
6 Sevenoaks Road,
Orpington BR6 9JJ
See Facebook for Events
and Workshops
All Welcome
BEXLEYHEATH
CHRISTIAN
SPIRITUALIST
CHURCH
85 Lion Road,
Bexleyheath,
Kent
DA6 8NT
Enquiries:
07950 672200
Email:
Bexleyheath.church
@gmail.com
Or see us on Facebook
OPEN – SEE BELOW
APRIL 2023
Sunday Divine Service
at 6.30pm
2nd GWEN LEGG &
CHRIS RAHR
9th JULIE SINCLAIR
16th KIM ELSTON
23rd CHARLEEN AUSTIN
30th CHRIS CONNELLY
Tuesday Service
at 2pm
4th JILL BALL
11th SHEILA SMITH
18th JULIE SINCLAIR
25th JACQUELINE HILL
Spiritual Healing
Tuesdays
7.30pm - 8.30pm
Donation
Open Circles
Mondays ( (Except 10th )
7.30pm - 9.30pm £5
Alternate Wednesdays
5th & 19th April
12 noon - 2pm £5
Open Platform
Wednesday 19th April
7.30pm - 9.00pm £5
Special Events
Wednesday 26th April
7.30pm - 9pm £5
Evening of Mediumship
and Psychic Art
with
JOSEY & TRUDIE
All Welcome
BITTERNE
SPIRITUALIST
CHURCH
Top of Lances Hill,
390 Bitterne Road,
Bitterne,
Southampton,
Hampshire SO18 1DR
Tel: 07731 938587
OPEN – SEE BELOW
Website:
www.bscw.andydowland.com
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Bitterne Spiritualist
Church
Official services offered:
Spiritual Naming, Weddings
(including Same-Sex
Marriages), Renewal of Vows,
Civil Partnerships,
Funerals, Memorial Services
APRIL 2023
Sunday 2nd 6.30pm
Divine Service with
SUE ELLIS CSNU
Monday 3rd 7.30pm £5
Pathways Development
Group with
DAVID POWELL CSNU
Tuesday 4th
Spiritual Healing 2pm - 4pm,
last booking in time 3.45pm
Also 5pm - 7pm, last booking
in time 6.45pm
Healing is free but any
donations are gratefully
received
Animals in need of healing
are also welcome
Friday 7th 7.30pm £3
Talks with Spirit – Philosophy
and Discussion Group
See website for
further details
Sunday 9th 6.30pm
Divine Service with
CARIANNE ROBINS
Tuesday 11th
Spiritual Healing
2pm - 4pm & 5pm - 7pm
Saturday 15th 2pm
Annual General Meeting
Sunday 16th 6.30pm
Divine Service with
JOHN TAYLOR
Tuesday 18th
Spiritual Healing
2pm - 4pm & 5pm - 7pm
Saturday 22nd
11am – 2.30pm £10
Workshop on “Energy
Medicine” with
JULIE HUDLESTON
Phone Suzanne on
01489 885552 to book
WEST WICKHAM
SPIRITUALIST
CHURCH
Surrey Road,
West Wickham,
Kent BR4 0LU
President:
Alan Mitchell-Sleight
Tel: 01959 573049
E-mail:
mitchellsleight@
btinternet.com
Mediums’ Secretary:
Pat Dalby
Telephone:
07739 968645
OPEN - SEE BELOW
April 2023
Sunday Services
at 6.30pm
(doors open 5.50pm)
2nd ANN & DAVID GROVES
9th BILL HUGHES
16th MARK MCDONAGH
23rd STEPHEN GRAVES
30th INGRID KELLY
Wednesday
Evening of Mediumship
at 8pm
£5 (Members £4)
5th LEANE JOHNSON
19th IAN TAYLOR
26th JACK ECKHART
LANGELUND
(Via ZOOM)
ZOOM ID:
81322609141
Password:
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Entry is free but if you
would like to donate please
go to the website and click
on the donate button
Open Circle via ZOOM
Thursdays 11.30am -1pm,
5pm - 6.30pm & 7pm - 8.30pm
Private Readings
Thursdays by phone or online
For details contact
Karen Wood on:
07958 622656
Spiritual Healing
Before the service on
Sunday from 5pm - 6pm
(providing healers are
available)
Monday Church Circle
Mondays 7pm Entrance £5
Open Circle
Email: info@westwickham
spiritualistchurch.co.uk
if you would like to join
Please visit our website:
www.westwickham
spiritualistchurch.co.uk
for details of other
upcoming events
All Welcome
HAMPSHIRE
HERTFORDSHIRE
KENT
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LEICESTERSHIRE
LONDON
BARNES
HEALING CHURCH
Between
77-79 White Hart Lane,
London SW13 0PW
Five-minute walk from
Barnes Bridge
Railway Station
Enquiries: 07581 534028
Facebook:
www.facebook.com/
barneshealingchurch
OPEN - SEE BELOW
Website:
www.barnes
healingchurch.co.uk
E-mail: barneshealing
APRIL 2023
Sunday Service of Mediumship
at 6.30pm
2nd ALAN ALBISTON
9th ROBERT GIACHE
16th ANNA LOVEDAY
23rd ROSIE SPIRIT
30th JEFF HEWITT
Healing
Thursdays 10.30am - 12.30pm
Please see our website or
Facebook page for details
of Private Readings, Open
Platforms and more, and
for any changes to the
advertised times and
mediums above
A Warm Welcome Awaits Everyone
REGISTERED FOR
MARRIAGES, CEREMONIES
& SACRED SERVICES
FULHAM NATIONAL
SPIRITUALIST
CHURCH
Kelvedon Road, Fulham,
London SW6 5BP
(Nearest Underground
station Parsons Green)
Buses No. 11 and 14
Email: fulhamspiritualist
OPEN - SEE BELOW
APRIL 2023
Sunday Divine Services in
Church at 6.30pm
2nd ALF HUNT
9th ROY SUNLEY
16th To be confirmed
23rd IRIS BRIDGEWATER
30th IRENE HALL
Thursday Online Zoom
7.30pm Services
6th NEIL PAYNE
13th To be confirmed
20th DEBBIE ROMERO
27 th JASON DEAN ROTHWELL
ONLINE ZOOM SERVICES
ID: 689 400 7125
Passcode:
FULHAM (capitals)
For more information
regarding our Events, Services
and making freewill donations
please contact us via our
email address:
fulhamspiritualistchurch@
yahoo.co.uk
Free Parking
All welcome
THE LONDON
SPIRITUAL MISSION
13 Pembridge Place,
London W2 4XB
Email: secretary@
spiritualmission.co.uk
Website:
www.spiritualmission.co.uk
Tel: 020 7229 2024
OPEN - SEE BELOW
Sunday Services 6.30pm - 8pm
Wednesdays 7pm - 8.15pm
for Demonstration
of Clairvoyance
Spiritual Healing
Mondays 1pm - 5pm
Thursdays 5pm - 7pm
Animal Healing
Domestic pets welcome
at the Monday and Thursday
Healing Sessions
For Special Events, Courses
& Workshops please see our
website
SYDENHAM
SPIRITUAL &
HEALING CENTRE
Venner Community Hall,
1, Venner Road,
Sydenham,
London SE26 5EQ
(Venner Road is opposite
Sydenham Railway Station
The hall is adjacent to
Sydenham High Street)
Buses: 176, 312, 75, 194,
202, 450
Enquiries: Caroline Hackett
on 07891 067478
OPEN - SEE BELOW
Demonstration of
Clairvoyance every
Wednesday at 8.00pm
Doors open 7.30pm
APRIL 2023
5th MATT & KIRSTY
GROGAN
12th DIANA REID
19th TBC
26th RAY PRENDERGAST
Healing every week
from 7.30pm until 9pm
All Welcome
LANCASHIRE
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
OPEN - SEE BELOW
APRIL 2023
Sundays 6.30pm – 8pm
Divine Service (Donations)
2nd Communion &
MARY WARD
9th Easter Sunday with
JANET MILLS
16th JUDITH FREEMAN
23rd LAURA MARTIN
30th ANN & DAVID GROVE
Friday Evenings of
Clairvoyance 7.30pm - 9pm
£4 (Members £3)
7th Closed Good Friday
14th KIM COLLIER
21st KIM CATTERMOLE
28th STEVE GRAVES
Healing
Wednesdays 10.30am
Weddings
We are registered to conduct
and register marriages, also
same sex marriages.
Provided you are legally
entitled to get married we
would be happy to arrange the
ceremony for you.
Please see a Minister,
President or any member of the
committee for further details.
Christenings, Wedding
Blessings, Renewal of Wedding
Vows and Funeral Services
A fee of £25 is charged for
these services, but donations
are always gratefully received.
All Welcome
CLEVELEYS
SPIRITUALIST
CHURCH
93 Beach Road,
Thornton Cleveleys,
Lancashire
FY5 1EW
Call us on:
07756 967803
See us on Facebook
OPEN - SEE BELOW
Monday 7.30pm
Clairvoyance & Open Circle
Wednesday
12.15pm - 1.15pm Healing
Wednesday 2.30pm
Clairvoyance Service
Thursday 6.30pm - 7.25pm
Awareness Class
Thursday 7.30pm - 9.30pm
Development Circle
(Must be a church member)
Friday 7pm - 8pm Healing
Sunday 2.30pm
Divine Service
Healing Sunday 2.30pm
Every Third Sunday
of the Month
Meditation Sunday 2.30pm
1st Sunday Alternate Months
from February Yearly
Private Readings on request
Readings Day Spring and
Autumn – See notices or
phone church number for
information
We are Registered for
Namings/Weddings/
Same-Sex Marriages/
Funerals/Wedding Blessings
All Welcome
LEICESTER
PROGRESSIVE
SPIRITUALIST
CENTRE
4 St. James Street,
Lee Circle,
Leicester LE1 3RE
President: Marian Sawczuk
OPEN - SEE BELOW
Services with Mediumship
Sundays 6pm Divine Service
Mondays 7.30pm
Clairvoyant Hour
Wednesdays 2.30pm
Thursdays, Fridays and
Saturdays:
Special Demonstrations
as advertised
Development Groups &
Circles held every day
of the week
Healing
Saturdays 10.30am - 12.30pm
Mondays 6pm - 7pm
Wednesdays
12.30pm - 2pm
For details of workshops
and special events,
visit our Facebook page
or website:
www.progressivespiritualist
church.co.uk
Email:
Telephone:
0116 2536098
All Welcome
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THE LIGHT
ON THE HILL
HARROW
SPIRITUALIST
CHURCH
1 Vaughan Road,
West Harrow,
Middlesex,
London
HA1 4DP
OPEN - SEE BELOW
www.harrowsnuchurch.
wixsite.com/harrow
Tel: 07528 348432
APRIL 2023
Healing & Divine Service
in Church
Wednesdays at 7.30pm
5th KEVIN TREFRY
12th ADELE MALONE
19th MARC IMPEY
26th GARY WHITE
Healing Before the service
every Wednesday
Special Event
Saturday 8th April
7.30pm - 9.30pm £5
Special Evening of
Clairvoyance & Spirit Art
with WANDA BOLTON
& LYN ST CLAIR
Mondays
ZOOM Healing and Divine
Service at 7pm
Please see Facebook or our
website for details
Zoom ID: 916 859 8296
Password: harrow
Please see our Facebook
Group: Harrow Spiritualist
Church for up-to-date news,
events and serving Mediums
All Welcome
ALCOMBE &
MINEHEAD
CHRISTIAN
SPIRITUALIST
CHURCH
Grove Place,
Manor Road,
Alcombe,
Minehead
TA24 6EH
Tel: 0783 110 4896
OPEN – SEE below
Spring & Summer
(March to end of October)
Sunday Service at 6.30pm
Healing Groups,
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, inc.
Groups, Meditation & Healing
Winter
Sunday Service at 3pm
(November to end of February)
www.mineheadspiritualist
church.co.uk
GOLDEN LIGHT
SPIRITUALIST
CENTRE
38-40 Bevan Lee Road,
Cannock,
Staffordshire WS11 4PZ
OPEN – SEE BELOW
Sundays at 6.30pm
£3 entrance
Healing after the Service
Psychic Surgery
also available
All Welcome
CROYDON
SPIRITUALIST
CHURCH
Chatsworth Road,
Croydon,
Surrey CR0 1HE
Contact Telephone:
020 8688 1827
Email: croydonspiritualist
OPEN - SEE BELOW
Website:
www.croydon
spiritualistchurch.org.uk
APRIL 2023
Sunday 11am Service
Sunday 2nd April
DONNA BARKER
Sunday 9th April
SUPNA ALI
Sunday 16th April
DAVID CHAPMAN
Sunday 23rd April
STEPHEN BRAME
Sunday 30th April
IAIN MASON
Wednesday Evenings of
Mediumship at 7.45pm
Members: £2.50
Non-Members £5
Wednesday 5th April
RYAN WATTS
Wednesday 12th April
SHERRIE HARDAKER
Wednesday 19th April
STUART COOPER
Wednesday 26th April
PAULINE WALSH
Healing
Thursdays 6pm - 7.30pm
All Welcome
MIDDLESEX
HAMPTON HILL
SPRITUALIST
CHURCH
Angel Close,
Windmill Road,
Hampton Hill
TW12 1RG
Enquiries: 07845 641 627
www.hamptonhill
spiritualists.co.uk
OPEN - SEE BELOW
APRIL 2023
Sunday 6.30pm Service
2nd BRUCE BAYLEY
9th MARTIN TWYCROSS
CSNU
16th DENISE & LES PILGRIM
23rd ANNE MCKEEVER
30th BARBARA WALKER
Thursday 7.30pm
Demonstration
6th LORRAINE FRANÇOIS &
ALAN SALMON
13th WANDA & LYN
SPIRIT ART
20th GILLY PALMER CSNU
27th SHEILA SMOOTHY
Spiritual Healing
Every Wednesday from
7.30pm - 8.45pm
Healing is given on a
donation basis
Evening Open Circles & Classes
All start at 7.30pm
Monday 3rd April
Open Platform with
MARTIN TWYCROSS
Monday 10th April
Awareness & Mediumship
Circle with
PAMELA POLLINGTON
Special Events
Saturday 1st April 7pm
Psychic Supper
£23 (Members £20)
Saturday 22nd April £32.50
Day of Spirit Art Readings
with WANDA & LYN
Weddings, Namings and
Funerals Arranged.
See our website for
further details
All Welcome
SURREY
RONALD HEARN
Born on June 9, 1927, Ronald Hearn (pictured left) became one of this world’s greatest
tried-and-tested mediums. Apart from public demonstrations, he reached countless thousands of
people through highly accurate taped sittings and many TV and radio programmes
The author of three books, London-based Ronald worked in the USA, Canada,
Sweden, Australia, Germany and New Zealand as well as the UK
Ronald passed to the spirit world on June 5, 2016
To read about his unique gifts, please visit the official Ronald Hearn website at:
www.ronaldhearn.com
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EAST SUSSEX Open Platform
Medium training on first
Saturday of month with
LESLEY HAMILTON
Saturday 1st April
2pm - 4pm £5 (members £4)
Audience £3
Guided Meditation
On the 3rd Wednesday of
the month with
CHERRY SRINAGANAND
Wednesday 19th April
7.30pm - 9pm
£5 (members £4)
Please check our website
for updates and any
programme changes
All Are Welcome
SPIRITUAL
AWARENESS GROUP
Bringing Spirit to the people
Glyn Hall,
Cheam Road,
Ewell Village,
Surrey
KT17 1SP
CURRENTLY CLOSED
Enquiries: Betty Masters
Tel: 07786 741509
Email:
spiritualawareness
SUTTON YOUNG
SPIRITUALIST
CHURCH
Thomas Wall Centre,
Benhill Avenue,
Sutton,
Surrey
SM1 4DP
CURRENTLY CLOSED
Enquiries:
020 8641 2630
SEAFORDSPIRIT
Seaford Independent
Spiritualist Church,
3 Warwick Road, Seaford,
East Sussex BN25 1RS
Telephone: 01323 737407
IN-PERSON AND ONLINE
Email: enquiries@seaford
spirit.co.uk
Weekly Divine Service
Thursday at 7.30pm
Alternate weeks
In-Person and Online
Demonstrations of
Mediumship and Workshops
For full details see our
website:
www.seafordspirit.co.uk
Subscribe for updates and
to register for online events
and to receive log in codes
for Divine Services
FARNHAM
INDEPENDENT
CHRISTIAN
SPIRITUALIST
CHURCH
Hale Village Hall,
1 Wings Road,
Farnham
GU9 0HN
President:
Jean Harris
Telephone:
07936 708882
OPEN – SEE BELOW
Follow us on Facebook
APRIL 2023
Please note:
The church will
be open every Sunday
Divine Service
Sundays at 6.30pm
2nd KEVIN TREFRY
9th Easter Service with
CAROL DAWBER &
VAL TRIGGS
16th KAREN NOGHANI
23rd JAN ROSS &
GILL THOMAS
30th HAYLEE FIX
Tea/coffee and Chris’s
home made cake
after the service
Open Platform
will continue on zoom
Third Saturday of each
month from 2pm- 4pm
Run by
SPENCER ROSE
Zoom no:
389 563 4932
Passwork: FARNHAM
All levels and a supportive
audience welcome
No charge
A Warm Welcome To All
KINGSTON
NATIONAL
SPIRITUALIST
CHURCH
Villiers Road,
Kingston upon Thames,
Surrey
KT1 3AR
Website:
www.kingstonsc.net
Email: kingston.spiritualist
@yahoo.com
Follow us on Facebook
Enquiries:
07503 405007
Bookings: 07780 474440
OPEN – SEE BELOW
APRIL 2023
Sunday Service at 11am
2nd CELIA MITCHELL
9th PAULINE WALSH
16th MARTIN TWYCROSS &
AGM
23rd JUNE FROST
30th LORRAINE
GILBERT-GRAY
Mondays
Evening of Mediumship at
7.30pm £4 (members £3.50)
followed by Healing
3rd CORAL THOMPSON
10th CLOSED –
BANK HOLIDAY
17th BARBARA POTTS
24th LYNN ROSE &
STEVE CORBETT
Healing by donation
Monday 8.45pm - 9.15pm
Wednesday (Pets allowed)
2pm - 3.45pm
Open Spiritual Awareness
Friday 7th April
and Friday 21st April
7.30pm £5 (members £4)
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SCOTLAND
GUERNSEY GREECE
WEST
YORKSHIRE
WEST SUSSEX
For a list of SPIRITUALIST CHURCHES
and CENTRES in the USA,
visit our website:
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ANGEL IN BLUE
Storrington Village Hall,
59 West Street,
Storrington,
West Sussex
RH20 4DZ
OPEN – SEE BELOW
Social, Support and
Mediumship Demonstration
Evenings
The last Friday of each month
Starts at 7.00pm
Entrance £6 inclusive of
Raffle and Refreshments
Enquiries to: Val Harber
07713 769978
or by email:
All Welcome
BARNHAM
SPIRITUAL CENTRE
Barnham Community Hall,
Murrell’s Field,
Yapton Road,
Barnham
West Sussex
PO22 0AY
OPEN – PLEASE SEE
FACEBOOK FOR EVENTS
Contact Darren Hart:
0774 945 4281
www.darrenhartmedium.co.uk
Every Monday 7.30pm
Evening of Mediumship
We are a spiritual centre
providing Evenings of
Mediumship weekly
We also provide Private
Readings as well as Healing
Find details of all our latest
events on Facebook:
Barnham Spiritual Centre
Serving all local communities
All Welcome
HEBDEN BRIDGE
SPIRITUALIST
CHURCH
14 New Road,
Hebden Bridge,
West Yorkshire
HX7 8AD
Follow us on Facebook
Sundays at 6.30pm
Divine Service
(Free will donation)
Tuesdays at 7.30pm £3
Service
All Welcome
SUTTON COLDFIELD
SPIRITUALIST
CHURCH
Kenelm Rd, Off Manor Hill,
Sutton Coldfield B73 6HD
www.scsonline.co.uk
Tel: 0121 354 3266
OPEN – SEE BELOW
Sunday 6.30pm
Divine Service
Monday 1.30pm Service
Tuesday 7.30pm
Mediumship Classes
Thursday 1.00pm Healing
Friday 7.30pm £3
Development Circle
For Details,
Monthly Specials &
Workshops please see our
Website/Facebook pages
Follow us on Facebook at:
Spiritualist Church,
Sutton Coldfield
All Welcome
SPARKLE OF LIGHT
SPIRITUAL CENTRE
(SLSC)
Founder & Manager:
Spiritual Medium & Psychic
Alice Trevorrow
Geilston Hall, Main Street,
Cardross G82 5PA
Tel: 0772 9868 456
Social Media:
Facebook & Instagram
OPEN – SEE BELOW
Sunday Service:
First and Last Sunday of
the month 7pm - 8.30pm
Doors open 6.30pm
Mediumship/Psychic
Demonstrations
Refreshments & Snacks inc.
Door Entry £4
Healing 5pm - 6pm
Donation Only
Mediumship Circle:
9pm - 10pm £3
Charity Events held
throughout the year
Private Readings Available
Sparkle of Light Spiritual School
Teachings and Workshops
Coach Alice Trevorrow
Guest Mediums
throughout the year
Tuesday Online Service
7.30pm - 9pm Mediums
throughout the world
Free Will Donation
THE
GREETING PLACE
FOUNDATION
SPIRITUALIST
CENTRE
Douzaine Room,
St Peters, Guernsey,
Channel Islands
Enquiries to:
Ann Jennings
Telephone:
01481 247185
Mobile:
07781 413218
OPEN: SEE FACEBOOK
Email:
Website:
www.healing
andspiritualcentre.co.uk
Our regular services are:
Sunday 11.00am
Address and Communication
Other services as announced
Everyone Welcome
SPIRITUALIST
SOCIETY OF ATHENS
“The Divine Light”
Channelled Teachings from
the highest authority of the
Heavenly Kingdom.
Various spiritual leaders,
from Socrates and
St. John the Baptist
to Goethe and Newton teach
invaluable lessons
to humanity.
Website:
www.divinelight.org.gr
Email:
Address:
12 Niovis Str.,
Athens,
Greece,
11252