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Contents
04 Two Worlds Are One
Tony Ortzen features several
subjects including actor June
Brown’s psychic story, ants being
able to detect cancerous cells
in humans and meditation for
prisoners
08 Biker guru has mission
to save our soil
An Indian guru is travelling over
18,000 miles to highlight the sorry
state of the Earth’s soil
09 Looking on the bright
side with moon worship
Cheshire psychic Claire Stone
believes that the moon can improve
one’s health and wealth
10 Famous paranormal
library faces
uncertain future
One of the world’s largest libraries
of paranormal material must find a
new home or risk being broken up
12 Resident is asked to
sign disclaimer to live
on haunted street
A seemingly ordinary street is
reputedly so haunted that a new
resident had to sign a waiver before
moving in
13 Mysterious
‘Men in Black’ follow
up UFO encounter
Government officials are believed
to be secretly collecting data about
alien encounters
13 ‘I was once my great-
great-grandmother’
says toddler
A child remembers her previous life
as a “dead” relative
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33 Sudoku competition
It’s on the cards, as this month we have
five oracle decks for lucky winners
34 Finding meditative
moments in ancient crafts
Debbie Munro reveals some
14 Hotel tells guests to unexpected spiritual benefits of
spinning and knitting
beware of pushy ghosts
Guests report apparitional antics 37 Identifying your soul plan
when staying at an hotel in Liverpool
15 Alicia has the key
Among other aspects, healer and
medium Debra Kilby explores how
souls choose their parents
to inner beauty
Singer Alicia Keys’ self-care 40 Spirit voices were heard
products soothe both body and soul from 1,000 miles
16 PN columnist Graham Jennings features two
unusual mediums and the claim that an
Billy Roberts is American gangster haunted a British
criminal
promoted to the
Larger Life
A tribute to medium, author and PN
43 Plane vanishes
columnist Billy Roberts
into thin air
Seatbelts on as John West describes
18 British medium passes more haunted airfields
on in Thailand
Former policeman Peter Close
48 Spiritual art
Psychic artist Monique Painchaud
passes on aged 94 presents some of her spirit portraits
20 Clairvoyant with with comparison photos
52 Ostrich feather denotes
Mandarin guide is
promoted ‘dead’ brother’s presence
Keith Hudson enters the spirit
realms, which he served for decades
Lionel and Maria Owen join the debate
about the part chance plays in our lives
22 Near-death experiences 58 Classified advertising
are out of this world
60 What’s on at Spiritualist
First-hand accounts from those
who left their bodies and what they
encountered churches and centres
26 The power of
hand analysis
Master hand analyst Brent Bruning 22
explains how palmistry can reveal
a blueprint of one’s life and much
more
30 COVER STORY
Have festive fun and
celebrate the seasons
Ellen Evert Hopman suggests
wonderful ways to mark events
such as Beltaine and the changing
seasons
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DESIGN AND LAYOUT Dot cottoned on to healing Chloe couldn’t crawl, could not sit up and
couldn’t even eat proper food. She could
Louise Lynch ACTOR June Brown, who played the chain- only swallow tinned baby food. ”
smoking, bible-quoting Dot Cotton in BBC June contacted the London Healing
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TV’s EastEnders, once told how she lived in Mission and invited the Rev Roy Jeremiah
Bryan Golland a haunted house and sent absent healing to to help.
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Psychic Press Ltd, June, who passed on last month aged on her head and prayed that the healing
Unit 2, Griggs Business Centre 95, first joined EastEnders in July 1985 as power would go through her,” she explained.
West Street, Coggeshall the mother of notorious ne’er-do-well Nick “Within a fortnight, Chloe began to crawl.”
Essex CO6 1NT Cotton, who was played by John Altman. By the age of two, the child was able to
Some years ago, June said that on Sundays, run about normally and was “fully healed
Tel: 01376 563091 her one day off, she liked to sleep if possible. except for a very slight limp, which she still
“It would probably do me a lot more good gets when she is tired.”
EDITORIAL EMAIL to get up and go to church, but I’m afraid I’ve Off stage, June faced a number of
pneditorials@gmail.com lapsed rather on that front,” she explained. difficulties including the loss of her sister
“I used to be a regular churchgoer until I Marise in childhood, then her first husband
WEBSITE & found there were a few things I didn’t agree and later a baby with her second partner.
ONLINE SUBSCRIPTIONS with… Spiritually I do consider myself a very June married actor John Garley in 1953,
www.psychicnews.org.uk religious person. but experienced tragedy when he took his
“I am also very interested in Christian life in 1957.
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June explained that she was sent the names suddenly thought, “I must go home.”
FRONT COVER of people “who need prayers and I pray for The moment she reached the front door,
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In an interview with a Manchester paper, found my husband unconscious by the gas
June revealed how healing helped her partially fire.”
paralysed daughter Chloe. When June discovered John beside a
Psychic News. Published by Psychic Press “I became interested in Christian healing suicide note he was still alive, but passed on
Limited. Pre-press and printing by Warners when my mother was ill,” said June. “I couldn’t in hospital four days later.
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JUNE BROWN told of exploring a tunnel which
inexplicably vanished. (Photo: Joe Freeman)
house by themselves,” she said. “We quickly
realised that we had a very helpful ghost on
our hands.”
Once, the actor was in the kitchen
preparing dinner and a cooking utensil
went missing. She asked out loud, “Where’s
that blasted spoon?”
The “next second, a pan lid rattled on
the other side of the kitchen. When I lifted
up the lid, there was the spoon.”
June, who was interested in astrology,
also told of being “out with a friend in the
Warwickshire countryside and we came
across this tunnel that seemed to go on
forever.
“The deeper into the tunnel we went,
the more we felt we were never going to
come out alive and eventually fled back the
way we’d come.
“When we returned to the same spot
the following day, all trace of the tunnel
had vanished.”
A fellow actor on EastEnders is on record
as saying that although not a Spiritualist,
June “was an avid reader of Psychic News,”
which was established 90 years ago this
month.
‘Star’ shines on paranormal
AS I devoted my entire column to the war
in Ukraine last month, some items had to
be held up, so let’s leap straight in with an
account about medium Sally Morgan, who
made massive headlines as a lead story in
the Daily Star Sunday.
“TV psychic Sally: I talk to dead hubby”
announced the front cover. Inside, Sally
explained that her husband John, who
passed on in September from Covid, is in
frequent contact with her.
Sally, 70, said that two days after John
passed on, she took a shower, walked into
her bedroom and “he was sitting on the
bed.
“No-one will convince me that I didn’t
she him. It was him… Seriously, he hasn’t
left me. I feel him with me every single day.
He’s still with me.”
Sally also told how their pets reacted to
John’s spirit presence and described how
a cushion a fan sent her which features a
photo of them together “flew off the chair.”
In an editorial, the paper commented:
“The more we know about this life, the less
we understand…
“Surely no-one would be so cruel as to
say that Sally’s experiences are not 100 per
cent genuine.”
Of Sally’s “thought-provoking
interview,” the paper said: “In an age when
science is put on such a high pedestal, it is
amazing how much we cannot understand.
“From ghosts to UFOs, there is more
evidence each day that something strange
is going on.
“You might even put religion in that
category. That’s another phenomenon
science cannot explain.”
The editorial ended: “We have to trust
SALLY MORGAN saw her “dead” husband sitting
on the bed. (Photo: Facebook)
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the experts. Their findings, after all, are
rigorously tested before they are judged to
be correct.
“But science is not the be-all and end-
all. There are more things in heaven and
earth. Sally Morgan and the ghost of her
husband show us that.”
Last month the Daily Star carried an
intriguing story by journalist Kurt Robson,
who began his account, “Crew onboard
the USS Kearsage have shockingly claimed
the ship was tailed by two car-sized balls
of light that were untraceable by thermal
image locking and unaffected by anti-
drone weapons.”
Those on the US Navy warship said that
the UFO encounter “lasted for several
nights while the vessel was on a training
exercise off the east coast of the US.”
The “troubling sighting” was revealed
by documentary filmmaker Dave C. Beaty,
but a video of the event is yet to be made
public.
Mr Robson continued: “The menacing
‘balls of light,’ which have been described
by sources familiar with the encounter, are
said to have been 200 feet above the ocean
and around half a mile behind the warship.
“They were first spotted by the deck
watch, but the crew was not able to gain a
thermal targeting lock on them.
“It’s understood that the marines
on board the vessel first believed
the UFOs were part of their training
exercise with new anti-drone weapons,
but shortly realised that none of their
countermeasures worked on the objects.
“The mysterious objects were allegedly
doing rapid swooping manoeuvres as they
followed behind the ship.”
‘Dead’ wife seen on plane
STILL high in the sky, here’s a really
intriguing story about a former cabin crew
member who encountered a “dead” woman
she thought was an ordinary passenger.
Not surprisingly it made down-to-
earth headlines on Dailymail.com where
reporter Lillian Gissen explained that it
caused a sensation after being posted
on the video-focused social networking
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service TikTok.
It was placed there by former Emirates
Airlines employee Sandra Kwon, who is
popularly known as Jeenie Weenie online.
Lillian Gissen continued: “According to
Sandra, she thought the deceased lady was
a passenger and asked her if she needed
anything.
“The woman then allegedly told her to
bring her husband, who was asleep at the
time, some green tea when he awoke, and
even what he likes in the hot drink.”
In the viral clip, Sandra “re-enacted the
moment that she allegedly spoke to the
ghost.”
Wearing a fake flight attendant uniform,
Sandra began: “Good evening ma’am. Can
I offer you something to snack on? I’ve
noticed both you and your husband had
nothing to eat.”
Pretending to be the deceased woman,
she then responded with: “Oh, no thank
you. I don’t want to wake up my husband.
He’s just had a really long week.
“I’m not hungry, but I am cold though.
Can I please get another blanket?”
Sandra fetched the woman a blanket
and asked if she wanted something warm
FORMER cabin crew member Sandra Kwon
re-enacts what happened when she encountered
a passenger who had passed on. (Photo: jeenie.
weenie/Facebook)
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ACCORDING to scientists, a type of ant was able to differentiate healthy human cells from cancerous ones.
to drink.
Still acting as though she were the
“dead” woman, Sandra said, “I’m actually
OK, but could you grab a green tea with
milk and sugar for my husband when he
wakes up?”
The video then switched to Sandra’s
interaction with the husband. “You’re
finally awake!” she said. “Your wife actually
asked me to bring you that green tea.”
“What do you mean my wife?” he asked.
“Did you put milk and sugar in my green
tea?”
“Yes, I’m sorry,” Sandra responded. “Is
that incorrect? Your wife is the one that
told me to do that for you.”
At that point, the husband said: “My
wife passed away last week. I’m taking her
home on this flight.
“She’s in cargo, but I believe you. This is
how I drink my green tea. I think she’s just
worried about me.”
Millions of people watched the
re-enactment on TikTok. “I have chills,” one
person wrote with another adding: “While
scary, it’s quite sweet that even in death
his wife was looking out for him. I would
have probably started crying had it been
me.”
What the website termed a
“flabbergasted viewer” commented:
“Never heard a ghost story from a plane
before. Interesting and thank you for
sharing. RIP to that wonderful wife.”
The point is that the so-called dead
do not rest in peace, which is a totally
meaningless expression, but continue with
their lives on the Other Side from where
they still guard, guide and love us.
To detect cancer
WHEN gardening, I try never to kill
anything, though insects like snails and
slugs can be mighty trying when they start
feasting on home-grown tomatoes, for
instance.
Turning to even smaller creatures, ants
scurry about, but always seem to be on a
specific mission. Now it seems that they
could play a larger role, for according to
new findings they may be used one day to
detect cancer in humans.
Apparently, scientists have discovered
that like some dogs, ants can “sniff” out the
disease.
One press report stated: “In various
experiments, dogs have detected different
types – for example, finding breast and
lung cancer by sniffing patients’ breath.
“But a study has now found ants have
a ‘high potential’ to be used as a form of
detection.”
Researchers reported that “after just
a few minutes of training, Formica fusca
black ants were able to differentiate
healthy human cells from cancerous ones
in a Petri dish.
“This, they believe, is because healthy
and cancerous cells emit different
compounds that ants can distinguish by
smell.
“Most people rely on an MRI,
mammogram or blood tests, which can
be expensive and invasive, to pick up
cancerous cells.”
Published in the journal iScience, the
study “is the first to show ants have ‘high
potential, are capable of learning very
quickly, at lower cost, and are efficient’.”

Based at the French National Centre
for Scientific Research, the authors of the
report said, “We show that individual ants
need only a few training trials to learn,
memorise and reliably detect the odour of
human cancer cells.”
Meanwhile, according to researchers at
the University of Saskatchewan, Canada,
spending just ten minutes with a therapy
dog could reduce pain, depression and
anxiety in A&E patients.
They found that patting a dog may
release the “cuddle hormone” oxytocin,
sparking positive emotions and making
pain more bearable, which sounds like a
barking good idea.
Not just the ticket
IT’S all very well saying, “You’ve got to be
in it to win it,” but why is it that I usually
win nothing after buying a scratch card?
Maybe it’s something to do with the fickle
finger of fate.
Be that as it may, New Yorker Juan
Hernandez recently scooped a $10 million
(£7,671,650.00) prize from a scratch card –
the second time he has won in three years.
Afterwards, he commented, “I’m still
trying to spend the $10 million I won in
2019.”
After his win, Mr Hernandez helped
various people in need, such as Wesley
Hunter, who was “able to get a new truck
NO wonder Juan Hernandez is giving a thumbs up, for he won $10 million twice in three years.
(Photo: New York Lottery)
AT HMP Hull, which has its own TV station, daily meditation classes are being beamed into cells.
(Photo: Keith D)
and get back to work after months of
struggling.”
Apparently, the odds of winning the $10
million Deluxe scratch-off game is 1 in 3.52
million, but Mr Hernandez is not the first to
beat them.
A retired utility worker from Maryland
won his second $2 million (£1,534,330.00)
prize in 2021 after deciding to purchase a
few scratch cards from a local garage.
Four years earlier, Michelle Shuffler
from North Carolina won $10,000
(£7,675.00) on a scratch card and then a
further $1 million (£767,165.00) just a few
hours later.
So too did Veronica Buchanan from
Missouri, who scooped $1,000 (£767.00)
and another $100,000 (£76,751.00) on the
same day.
Wealth does not, of course,
automatically bring happiness, but as
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someone once commented, “at least you
can be miserable in comfort.”
Meditational matters
IN what one account called “a tough jail,”
prisoners are having “daily meditation
classes beamed straight into their cells.”
HMP Hull has its own TV station where
inmates can make and edit their own
programmes.
An unnamed man told the prison
newspaper Inside Times: “I thought I would
let you know about a TV show I have made
called Daily Meditations, in which I teach
people the basics of meditation and how to
practise it in your cell.
“I got the idea whilst working as a video
editor on this establishment’s in-house
television channel called Hull TV…
“Both Buddhism and meditation have
helped me massively since coming into
prison.”
The inmate said that meditation helped
him with his arrest and imprisonment, to
stop smoking, cease cannabis use, and
cope with post-traumatic stress disorder,
depression and bereavements.
The programme is now being shared
with other jails to transmit on their in-
house TV channels.
Hull prison takes in young offenders
and males over eighteen. Its website says
it is “committed to providing a safe and
educational environment where men can
learn new skills to help them on release.”
To add meditation is surely an excellent
idea and one which should be adopted
nationwide, as self-harm amongst
prisoners and assaults run into thousands.
So, too, does the reoffending rate.
A peaceful practice such as meditation
can only help not only inmates, but society
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Biker guru has mission
to save our soil
WHAT The Guardian called an “Indian Spiritualist” has set off on
a 100-day motorbike trip from London to India to highlight the
urgent need to rescue the Earth’s soil.
Jaggi Vasudev, who is better known
as Sadhguru, will cover 18,600 miles
travelling through Europe and the
Middle East meeting celebrities,
environmentalists and influencers in a bid
to bring attention to one of nature’s most
undervalued resources.
“The journey is part of his #SaveSoil
campaign, which is calling on policymakers
to make soil regeneration a priority,” wrote
journalist Anna Turns.
“The United Nations has said a third of
soil globally is degraded and more than 90
per cent could become degraded by 2050.
“It can take 1,000 years to produce a
few centimetres of soil according to the
UN’s campaign against desertification.”
Environmentalists claim that the UK
may have between 30 and 100 years of
harvests left before the soil is too poor to
grow significant amounts of food. While
the science has been challenged, the
world’s soil is eroding at an alarming rate.
“I’m not a scientist,” said Sadhguru. “I’m
not an environmentalist. I belong to the
land, not to the lab, but I know there’s a
soil crisis, so I’m talking to as many heads
of state, politicians, leaders, top scientists
and influencers as possible.”
The 64-year-old motorbike enthusiast
and yoga guru has support from
famous names from all walks of life,
including primatologist Dr Jane Goodall,
mindfulness expert Deepak Chopra, and
actor Leonardo DiCaprio.
Sports stars such as rugby’s Jonny
Wilkinson and German former footballer
Michael Ballack also support him, as
do musicians across the spectrum from
rappers to classical artists.
Sadhguru, who gave a number of
interviews on radio and television ahead
of the trip, commented, “We’re using
both motorcycles and music to connect
with people, so that 3.5 billion citizens
understand we must address this problem
right now in order to make a significant
turnaround within the next ten to fifteen
years.”
In an interview with Chris Evans on his
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JAGGI VASUDEV: “Life needs to sustain itself.”
(Photo: Isha Foundation)
Virgin Radio breakfast show, Sadhguru
explained that because nutrient levels in
soil have gone down significantly, they
have also declined in the food we eat.
“If you ate one orange in 1920, to get
the same stuff today you’d have to eat
eight oranges,” he said.
Sadhguru pointed to the huge increase
in the sale of supplements as a sign people
know food is not providing all the nutrients
we need, adding that chemical fertilisers
had at first seemed like the answer to
increasing yields. He continued:
“Then we thought, ‘We don’t need
anything else other than these chemicals,’
so we completely ignored the organic
content and just went on adding chemicals,
which we have managed for a few years…
“We need to understand the human
body as a complex system. We are just a
reflection of the soil.
“We have done exactly the same
with both. We thought just the chemical
additions can grow the crops.
“Similarly now we are thinking just the
supplementary additions can take care
of us. We don’t really need food. This is
not the way life works. Life needs life to
sustain itself.”
Anna Turns said that fourteen
countries have signed a memorandum of
understanding to work collaboratively to
secure soil health globally. Sadhguru hopes
that more of the UN’s 193 member states
“will come on board as he bikes through
Europe.”
Sadhguru said that so “much land is
now ploughed or paved. But it’s not our
property – it’s a legacy that’s come to us
and we have a responsibility to pass it on
to future generations as a living soil, not as
inert sand.”
The Guardian commented that soil “can
be enriched by introducing cover crops
and more vegetation or adding plant litter
and animal waste.
“Increasing organic matter improves
soil structure, aids water retention,
reduces erosion and boosts biodiversity.
“A teaspoon of healthy soil contains
more microbes than there are people on
the planet.”
Sadhguru said that healthier soils
“provide more nutritious food and more
climate-resilient landscapes that are
better able to cope with extreme weather
events, such as floods. We can’t address
climate change without addressing soil
health.
“Without citizens making a big
statement, no government is going to make
long-term investments, so for 100 days, we
want the whole world to talk about soil.”
On his website, Sadhguru is described
as a yogi, mystic and visionary. All his
efforts have been towards one goal: raising
human consciousness through his Isha
foundation and personal appearances. The
word isha means “the formless divine.”
Sadhguru loved nature as a child and
was taught yoga at the age of eleven. He
graduated from the University of Mysore
with a BA in English Literature and also
gained an interest in motorcycles.
After starting out in business,
Sadhguru re-evaluated his life and began
an extensive journey to gain mystical
experience. He offered free yoga classes in
Karnataka and Hyderabad, which led him
to establish the Isha Foundation in 1992
near Coimbatore, India.
Sadhguru has been conferred with
three presidential awards. Amongst
books he has written are Karma: A Yogi's
Guide to Creating Your Own Destiny, Inner
Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy, Mystic’s
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Looking on the bright side
with moon worship
ACCORDING to Cheshire psychic Claire Stone, a growing number
of women are looking to the moon to increase their health, power
and wealth.
Daily Mail reporter Samantha Brick
recently witnessed a full moon ceremony
hosted by Ms Stone in a field near Hale.
She joined a group of females dressed
in white as they stood in a circle holding
hands.
“There is drumming and chanting,”
wrote Ms Brick, “then silence as each
woman engraves her hopes and ambitions
for the coming month on a white or silver
candle.” They were told to visualise what
they wanted to attract into their lives.
“We ‘see’ it coming true in our minds,”
said Ms Stone. “The intent is amplified by
the energy of the moon and those in the
circle.”
Ms Stone said that wishing on the moon
helped her move into her dream home, a
£1.4 million farmhouse, which she shares
with her husband and two daughters.
“Claire is adamant that it was thanks to
the power of the moon that she was able
to let go of destructive thought patterns
and set new intentions for her life,” said Ms
Brick.
“The collective positive energy of the
other women present, she insists, served
only to make these intentions more
powerful.”
Ms Stone was initially attracted to
complementary sources of healing as a
teenager suffering from agoraphobia and
anxiety.
“I started looking for something to help
make me happier,” she said. “I first joined
a couple of local groups where women
would meet up once a month on the full
moon when I was in my 20s. It seemed like
a natural and magical thing to do.”
The paper commented: “Claire, who
drives a black Mercedes GLE coupe, was so
inspired by her early experiences of moon
circles that she decided to hold her own
monthly ceremonies outside her home.
“They have been an astonishing success:
at various times more than 3,000 women
have come along. Her circles – priced at
CLAIRE STONE: “Women are reclaiming their voice
with moon manifestations.” (Photo: Claire Stone)
£22.00 for a two-hour session – cater for
up to 100 women at a time online, and 50
at a time in person.
“She says the moon-worshippers can
be broadly split into two groups: some
are women from the hippyish spiritual
community, while a sizeable and growing
number are successful, wealthy and often
self-made business owners.”
Ms Stone sees a link between the
growing empowerment of women and the
boom in moon worship.
“I like the fact that women are
reclaiming their voice with their moon
manifestations,” she said. “Women of all
ages from sixteen to sixty come.
“The young ones particularly love how it
makes them feel, the difference it makes to
their lives.”
Several famous and powerful women
have announced their interest in moon
worship. TV presenter Holly Willoughby
calls the moon her “trusted constant” and
“a goddess with incredible feminine energy
and cycles just like women have.”
Friends actor Jennifer Aniston is said to
attend moon circles where women sit and
share their experiences and dreams.
Lady Carole Bamford, described in the
press as a “billionaire eco entrepreneur”
explains on her website, “Our bodies are
made up of 70 per cent water, so it’s no
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wonder that the moon, which controls
the tides, has the power to affect us all in
different ways as well.”
The paper added that many gardeners
believe the moon influences moisture in
the soil and that germination of seeds can
be improved depending on the type of
plant and the phase of the moon.
Some women are turning to moon
worship to help them conceive, with
scientists studying the link between
menstrual cycles, fertility and the phases
of the moon.
Yasmin Boland, author of the book
Moonology, suggests that “harnessing the
power of the moon can give you the boost
to achieve whatever you want in life.”
“In astrology, women are completely
aligned with the moon,” she said. “It’s
the way we as women reconnect with
ourselves.”
Ms Boland also produces diaries which
lay out the lunar calendar month by month
and show readers how to work with the
energy of that year.
“But what does Claire do in her moon-
circle ceremonies?” asked Samantha
Brick. “Having positioned an altar in the
circle, she invites those attending to take a
personal item of theirs, such as a crystal, to
positively ‘charge’ under the moon.”
“We then use big white or silver
candles to bring in the energy of the moon
and black candles when we want to let
something go,” said Ms Stone.
“Each person engraves on their candle
their intention… If the intent is love, then
it’s a generic request and never about a
specific person – that’s black magic when
you try to draw in someone specific to you,
and not something I will work with.
“If it is for healing, then you inscribe ‘I
am healed.’ If it’s for money, you engrave
the amount you want to draw in.”
The report ended with veterinary nurse
Victoria Twist, who credits the moon
for her return to full health after spinal
surgery.
Ms Twist is also convinced that thanks
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Famous paranormal library
faces uncertain future
ONE of the world’s largest
libraries of paranormal material
must find a new home or risk
being broken up.
The extensive collection of the
Parapsychology Foundation, which was
started in 1951 by famous medium Eileen
Garrett and congresswoman Frances P.
Bolton, faces eviction as the Long Island
building that houses it is up for sale.
With a price tag of $795,000 (over
£605,000) the not-for-profit organisation
cannot afford to buy it. The current
president of the foundation is Eileen’s
granddaughter Lisette Coly.
Interviewed by Oliver Peterson for
danspapers.com Ms Coly said that in 1951,
the foundation’s main mission “was to act
as a clearing house for information about
a very misunderstood and very complex
field that very few people recognised and
knew…
“People expect that since we’re titled
the Parapsychology Foundation that I’m
here to convince you of all the phenomena.
We are not here for that.”
The library contains an estimated
12,000 books as well as thousands of films,
videos and documents.
In an article for nytimes.com reporter
Suzanne Clores wrote that Eileen Garrett
did not have an easy start.
Born in Meath, Ireland in 1893, she was
orphaned when both parents committed
suicide. An aunt and uncle adopted her.
The website said that as a girl, Eileen
“started seeing apparitions, hearing voices
and predicting future events.
“When she moved to London at age
fifteen she found a mentor, the Spiritualist
LISETTE COLY: “My grandmother refused to think
everything mysterious was a ghost.”
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EILEEN GARRETT: “Monday, Wednesday and
Friday I believe in the paranormal.”
James Hewat McKenzie, and attended the
school he founded – the British College of
Psychic Studies in London – in the 1920s.”
Later, Eileen was entranced by a guide
named Uvani.
“My grandmother refused to think
everything mysterious was a ghost,” said
Ms Coly. “She thought it just as likely that
she had multiple personalities or was using
telepathy or some other phenomenon that
wasn’t yet understood.”
Eileen subjected herself to numerous
tests. In 1930, psychic researcher Harry
Price arranged a sitting at which she was
asked to contact Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
the creator of Sherlock Holmes, who had
recently passed on.
“Instead,” said Suzanne Clores, “Uvani
brought through the deceased pilot of a
crashed blimp, the R-101, that had fallen in
France two days earlier.
“The seemingly sensitive information
she channelled – that the engines were too
heavy, it was flying at too low an altitude
and an oil pipe was plugged – caught the
attention of the reporters in attendance.”
Eileen was dismayed by her sudden
fame. The next year she moved to the
United States and went on a lecture tour
for the American Society for Psychical
Research.
The medium established the
Parapsychology Foundation with Frances
P. Bolton, who was Ohio’s first female
representative in Congress.
“Their mission,” said Ms Clores, “was to
widely fund the study of consciousness,
particularly the aspects known as
paranormal or ‘psi.’
“The two women supported decades of
scientific and academic research with Ms
Bolton’s inherited oil money.”
Ms Coly’s mother, Eileen Coly, became
president of the foundation on Eileen
Garrett’s passing in 1970. Lisette Coly
took over the presidency in 2012.
She has maintained the library, carried
on giving grants, re-established the
Helix Press imprint and served as editor
in chief of the International Journal of
Parapsychology.
The growing collection was housed in
New York until cheaper premises became
available in 2005 in the former whaling
village of Greenport.
Fewer visitors during the Covid
pandemic coincided with the end of the
financial support the foundation received
from Ms Bolton both during her lifetime
and afterwards via an endowment. The
sale of the property has brought another
blow.
Ms Coly’s daughter Anastasia Damalas
is trying to digitise material and build a
social media presence to preserve the
foundation’s archive and continue to make
it accessible, as well as highlighting the
need for funding.
Unless she can find an “angel” to endow
the collection, Ms Coly will try to place it
in various universities where it can still be
of use.
Describing phone calls she received
over the years, Ms Coly said: “Parents call
wanting to help their children who they
worry might be possessed. After 9/11,
someone called wanting to know if souls
could be trapped on a plane.
“People need help getting through
the experience, whether or not it is
paranormal. And that does not mean
sending them to a random psychic on the
street.”
Of Eileen, Ms Coly commented: “My
grandmother used to say: ‘Monday,
Wednesday and Friday I believe in the
paranormal. Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday I don’t. And Sunday I don’t give a
damn.’ After all these years, I feel the same
way.”
Explaining that she “refused” to see the
library broken up, Ms Coly added: “I’ve
been a good soldier. I’ve played within
the rules of academia. But everything
is morphing. We need to move with the
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Resident asked to sign disclaimer
to live on haunted street
A SEEMINGLY innocuous street on the outskirts of Bolton is
reputedly so haunted that a new resident had to sign a waiver to
move there.
WINGATES GROVE “was said to be haunted by a poltergeist terrifying all those who lived there.”
(Photo: Google)
“Wingates Grove in Westhoughton
was said to be haunted by a poltergeist
throughout the 1990s terrifying all those
who lived there,” said Paige Oldfield in the
Manchester Evening News.
“The malevolent spirit was said to have
attached itself to a row of council houses
and tormented families for years.”
Bolton Council investigated, but staff
could find no rational explanation. Even
so, wrote Ms Oldfied, “one resident was
still made to sign a disclaimer form before
moving into her home.”
The problems began in 1993 when one
couple reported that their toddler would
talk to a “little man” in his room and an oil-
type substance ran down the walls.
Council maintenance workers could
not determine the cause, so the parents
contacted a local church and an exorcism
was carried out at the address.
“Following the ritual, the street fell
quiet,” wrote Ms Oldfield. But in 1999, a
new spate of supernormal activity was
experienced two doors down from the first
scene of disturbance.
A family had recently moved in and the
daughter, Laura, now 34, felt uneasy as
soon as they arrived.
“I begged my mum not to move in,” she
told the paper. “I didn’t like the feel of it. I
didn’t feel comfortable, but when we got
our stuff in, it faded a bit.
“When things started happening, my
mum would say it was the ghost of my
granddad. But I said it wasn’t.
“I just knew there was something there.
It felt like I was walking into someone’s
personal space. I didn’t want to walk
through the door.”
One day, Laura’s older brother
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screamed when he accidentally cut his
foot open on a picture frame which was
standing on the staircase.
It was hanging on the wall just moments
before and had not fallen down, but
appeared to be held in place by a strange
force. “That was one of the first scary
things that happened,” Laura said.
Another time, her brother’s girlfriend
came to stay. Waking in the night, Laura
found the girl standing in her room, staring
at her as she slept. Laura went back to
sleep.
The following morning, the girlfriend
said that she too had been disturbed in the
night. “She said I did the exact same thing
to her,” Laura added.
Strange things happened outdoors,
too. Dozens of dead crows were once
found scattered around the front and back
garden, and in the alleyway at the side of
the property.
This house also manifested a baby oil-
type substance, similar to that found in
the original haunted house. Laura said
it dripped down her bedroom walls,
causing posters to fall down. There
was also a foul sulphur smell
likened to rotting eggs in the
property.
Laura added that some
council maintenance workers
even refused to visit the
address due to its reputation.
“My nephew used to speak
to someone and called him
‘Big Guy’,” she recalled. “He
kept doing it in the same place
and would point right up to the
corner.”
On one occasion, Laura was
upstairs when she thought she heard her
brother open the front door, put his keys on
a hook and walk into the kitchen.
However, twenty minutes later he
walked through the door for the first time,
insisting he had only just got home.
Laura moved out of the house when she
was sixteen, but has “suffered with anxiety
since, to the point where the whole thing
about the street is on my doctor’s note.
“The last five months we lived there
I slept in a bed with my mum and dad
because I was that scared.
“I kept seeing people stood at the door.
I fell asleep facing my wall because I was
terrified of turning over.”
These days, the street is quiet and
uneventful, but Paige Oldfield reported
that when Caron Walton purchased Laura’s
childhood home in 2006, she had to sign
a disclaimer before she moved into the
address and could not live in the property if
she had young children.
“I had to sign a disclaimer saying I
wouldn’t use a ouija board or do black
magic or anything dark,” said Caron.
“They wanted me to sign a slip of paper.
I quite liked it. I’ve heard tales that there’s
meant to be an old man walking around on
the landing, but we’re quite happy here.
I think it’s quite novel; I quite like it. It’s a
selling point for me.”
Caron hasn’t experienced any
paranormal activity since moving into the
address.
“I’ve had pets, like dogs, and they’ve
never been freaked out,” she added. “I’m
open to it; I’m not a disbeliever. I’ll believe it
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Mysterious ‘Men in Black’
follow up UFO encounter
GOVERNMENT officials are believed to be secretly collecting data
about possible alien encounters, according to Daily Star journalist
John Ward.
A reader explained that two mysterious
men visited him after he saw a UFO and
reported it to police, although the Ministry
of Defence (MoD) insists that it does not
respond to claims of such sightings.
The Leeds father of three, an education
worker, described himself as “very
sane” and did not want to be identified
because of his fears about the potential
repercussions for speaking out.
“I saw a dark orange ball in the sky,” he
said. “At first I thought it was a helicopter
or a light aircraft in trouble. But instead of
falling to the ground the ball just hovered.
“I was a bit surprised and confused. The
thought that it was a UFO or whatever
didn’t enter my head.
“I got home and thought there might be
a website where you can report unusual
sightings of aircraft, but I couldn’t find any,
so I ended up contacting the police.”
About ten days later, two men arrived at
his house. They are generally termed “Men
in Black.”
‘I was once my great-great-grandmother’ says toddler
A POST on the social media platform TikTok has shown a two-year-
old girl spontaneously identifying herself in an old photograph as
being her own great-great-grandmother.
The story was picked up by Daily Mail
reporter Carly Stern, who wrote that
the child’s mother shared the moment in
which she filmed her toddler picking up
an old black-and-white photo of her own
grandmother and great-grandmother.
Named only as Ella, her daughter
repeatedly pointed at the older woman in
the photo, saying, “That’s me!” Nobody had
told the youngster who the women were.
Her mother explained that they were at
Ella’s grandmother’s house when the little
girl saw the picture for the first time.
“She never saw this picture before and
could not have known that it’s my grandma
and great-grandmother,” said her parent.
In the 30-second video clip, Ella
picked up the framed photo, pointed and
repeated, “That’s me” several times.
“Which one’s you?” her mother asked.
“That’s grandma and me,” little Ella
replied, holding the picture up to show her
mother.
The unnamed reader
continued: “There were
two ordinary men in
suits with briefcases
who flashed some form
of ID and said they were
Government officials.
They asked to speak to
me about what they called
‘the event’ in which I saw a
glowing object.
“They wanted to know
the location, the time and
how high I thought it was. I
NICK POPE: “This will only fuel the
asked where they were from, rumours.” (Photo: SMG2019)
but they smiled and left.”
When the man told his nine-year-old
son about it, the boy asked, “Were they the
Men in Black?”
The child was referring to the popular
American film starring Will Smith
and Tommy Lee Jones, where quasi-
government agents use various methods
to silence witnesses of UFO events.
“Show mama which one’s you,” her
mother added. “This one,” said Ella,
putting her finger on her mother’s great-
grandmother.
The TikToker shared a few more details
in the comments section of the post,
clarifying that the person Ella pointed to
was her own great-grandmother or Ella’s
great-great-grandmother.
“She never saw this picture before,”
Ella’s mother stressed, adding that it was
an especially emotional moment for her
daughter’s grandmother.  other woman posted, “When my daughter
“My mum almost cried,” she said. “She
just framed this pictured. My daughter
told my mum the same thing except, ‘This
is mummy’s grandma and me.’ I never said
it was grandma or explained who either
person was to her.”
Thousands of viewers responded to the
video, with many sharing their own unusual
stories.
“My son is my mother,” one woman
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Dressed in black suits, they are known as
the Men in Black.
The man said he laughed, but then
began wondering who
the visitors were and who
they worked for.
The anonymous reader
“did a bit of research
and saw the MoD used
to collate figures, but
stopped in 2009. I am
completely at a loss as to
who this could be.”
Nick Pope, who
investigated UFOs for
the British Government,
commented, “Whoever
these individuals were,
this will only fuel the
rumours the MoD is still
secretly investigating UFOs despite official
denials.”
At the end of its report, the Daily
Star added, “The MoD told us, ‘We don’t
respond to reported UFO sightings’.”
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posted. “One day he called me dollbaby... I
almost fell off my chair... She’s been dead
for ten years and no one knows she called
me that.”
Another stated: “My daughter has said
many times, ‘When you were in my belly’ or
‘When you were my daughter’… My mum
died when I was five.”
“My daughter is my grandpa,” said
another commenter, who explained that
her grandfather passed on two years
before her daughter was born.
“She sings his barber shop gang songs,”
said the woman. “I don’t even know them.”
In a poignant comment on the thread,
was three-and-a-half she told me about her
husband who died in an avalanche on his
way home to my great-grandparents for
Christmas.”
The original TikTok post attracted
over 185,000 likes and more than 3,000
comments, with many people making
similar remarks about potentially
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Hotel tells guests to beware
of pushy ghosts
IN another article with a paranormal theme, the Daily Star said that
guests staying at Britain’s “most haunted hotel” are being warned
that ghosts have been getting physical with reports of visitors
being pushed and tripped over.
Journalists Sian Hewitt and Kurt
Robson said that staff at the Adelphi Hotel
in Liverpool are taking the precaution after
some tourists reported being assaulted by
unseen mischief-makers.
“I have stayed there recently and it
certainly is no longer for the faint-hearted,”
said ghost hunter Robert Pulme.
“Ghosts since lockdown are getting
braver and braver, and it seems the
Adelphi, known as the most haunted hotel
in the UK, is no exception.
“I’ve had reports of ghosts pushing
AT the Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool, a paranormal investigator saw what he believed was the captain of the
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people, tripping them up and even
shouting at them as they attempt to sleep.
The place is overrun.”
Mr Plume added: “The ghosts seem to
pick on certain individuals in groups, so
if you’re singled out, you’re in for a rough
stay.
“Some are going nuts. There are reports
of a woman roaming the corridors like in
The Shining hotel, just wailing.
“Others say they have spotted couples
in olden day clothing just standing in
corners and staring at people.
“Some of the ghosts reported are
loud and in people’s faces, shouting and
swearing, while others are more eerie and
stare, and try to freak people out.”
The paper said that the online review
site Tripadvisor had been flooded with
warnings of unexplained events at the
Adelphi.
One reviewer named Rebecca wrote:
“Stayed at the Adelphi with a tour group. I
had read in other reviews that the hotel is
haunted and it certainly looks like a setting
for a scary movie.
“Our room was quite large and perfectly
comfortable. Unfortunately, my adult
daughter suffered extremely vivid waking
nightmares of a presence in our room.”
Another guest named Mia called it
the “most haunting night of my life. Not
a place for the light-hearted. Only do it if
you are making a ghost hunting YouTube
video! Don’t bring children here.”
Robert Pulme added that he was
“getting more and more calls about
aggressive ghosts since lockdown finished
– from everywhere. Covid has awoken
something in the spirit world, that’s for
sure.”
The Adelphi Hotel is a central Liverpool
landmark. The current building dates back
to 1914 on a site first developed in 1826.
Various guests have reported noises
in the night, mysterious handprints on a
mirror and sightings of strange figures
including a grey lady.
Paranormal investigator and author
Tom Slemen described the hotel as the
most haunted he had visited.
Mr Slemen gives talks in the Adelphi’s
Sefton Suite, which is an exact replica of
the Titanic’s first-class smoking lounge.
He once reported seeing three men
dressed as naval officers, who he believed
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Alicia has the key to inner beauty
AMERICAN singer, songwriter and actor Alicia Keys knows that
beauty really is more than skin deep.
She is expanding her range of self-care
products labelled Keys Soulcare, aiming to
steer the beauty industry towards a more
meaningful approach to looking and feeling
good.
Ms Keys wishes to create products that
nourish not only one’s physical wellbeing,
but also one’s soul.
Alicia grew up in the tough streets
of Hell’s Kitchen, New York. She has
previously admitted to having struggled
with fame and feeling unable to cope with
the conflicting demands of all those around
her.
In 2016 she took a public break from
wearing make-up, declaring that she
had become too dependent on it to feel
confident. Although she wears it now,
Ms Keys discovered a new approach
to wellness and self-care, and the Keys
Soulcare brand was born.
ALICIA KEYS: “Even things as simple as mantras
and affirmations are highly effective.”
(Photo: Walmart Stores on Flickr)
The singer’s long-term ambition is to
transform the beauty industry and the
concept of beauty.
With an emphasis on natural, cruelty-
free and gender-neutral products, Keys
Soulcare “offerings” carry affirmations
on their labels such as “I give myself
permission to glow” and “I am devoted to
this moment.”
In an interview with Emma Sandler for
beauty website glossy.co Ms Keys said:
“I try to find special moments that mean
something.
“Often, we try to figure out how to
create time for ourselves and how to do it
and follow through with it.
“You say it and think it, but don’t do it, or
you do it, but you’re already so burnt out
that it’s not preventative.
“Doing it before burnout is the goal.
Even things as simple as mantras and
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affirmations are highly effective and
powerful rituals that I do, especially when
I’m not feeling great.”
The singer added: “I do it with my kids,
too. My youngest son, Genesis, is a little bit
of a hot pepper.
“If something is bothering him to the
point of a meltdown, I talk to him a lot
about the control we have over our energy,
and creating a mantra and what he wants to
bring forth to himself today…
“I also love baths and sometimes read
while in the tub or relax completely.
“Journalling is another big one for me.
I will write a stream of consciousness or
reflect on what’s happening and how I feel.”
Talking about her self-care range,
Ms Keys said: “Keys Soulcare is about a
perspective and a point of view and how to
implement these pieces into our daily lives.
“That’s why I call products ‘offerings,’
because it is an offer to join a practice of
paying attention to yourself, even if it’s for
five minutes while getting ready for work or
getting ready for bed.
“I definitely see Keys Soulcare as a
lifestyle. It’s something you adopt and a
way of thinking and a way of being.”
She added: “As women, we get caught up
with feeling like we’re supposed to look a
certain way or present ourselves a certain
way.
“It’s powerful to change existing
concepts and allow beauty to be on the
inside and how you’re fulfilling your soul
and spirit.
“What makes you beautiful is when you
are content and self-confident and know
yourself.”
Ms Keys said that after she turned to
meditation, “it shifted my energy within
myself, my decision-making process and my
confidence level.”
Marketing for the Keys Soulcare brand
online is carried out by employees known
as “lightworkers” rather than writers and
editors, with the promotional articles
referred to as “stories.”
One example is the Obsidian Stone
Gua Sha Body Massage Tool, which, the
Keys Soulcare website says, is “known to
help stimulate energy flow and promote
spiritual relaxation while also enhancing oil
and moisturiser application.”
It is also said to have a soul-nurturing
benefit of addressing stagnant energy and
promoting spiritual relaxation.
Similarly, the Sage and Oat Milk Candle
promises to “cleanse your space and radiate
positive energy.” n
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PN columnist Billy Roberts is

promoted to the Larger Life
MEDIUM, author and Psychic News columnist Billy Roberts has left therapies in Rodney Street, Liverpool.
It was opened by famous medium Doris
the earthly scene after passing on at his home in Cornwall where Stokes.
he lived with his wife Dolly. Aged 75, he had been suffering from The centre also offered spiritual and
severe ill-health for some years. reiki healing, homeopathy, reflexology,
Psychic since childhood, seeing the so- Weak and unable to do anything but dieticians and parapsychologists. Some
called dead was commonplace to him. Billy watch TV, he began hearing “silent voices” years later, Billy opened The Paranormal
left school in 1962 to live the dream and urging him to go on living. Then he saw Study Centre in Penny Lane, Liverpool.
played lead guitar in a rock band touring a TV programme about the National In 2003, Billy was commissioned by
Europe with some of the biggest names in Federation of Spiritual Healers. Sony Games to feature in a documentary
the world of music. Billy contacted them and was visited to promote its new Playstation 2 Game
These included Chuck Berry, The by a healer. From there he began to learn Ghost Hunter, which was filmed at various
Moody Blues, The Yardbirds, The Small about Spiritualism. locations in New Orleans and the Gulf of
Faces and The Who. Previously, whooping cough at the Mexico.
Living between Paris and Brussels, age of three left Billy with an incurable As a medium, Billy served many
young Billy began taking stimulants to respiratory disease. He was not expected Spiritualist churches all over the country
stay awake for late-night gigs. Soon he was to survive his teens and spent many and was a registered healer with the
addicted to drugs, and ended up in hospital months in hospital. National Federation of Spiritual Healers.
weighing only five-and-a-half stone. A natural medium, in 1983 Billy He lectured and held workshops in
A specialist predicted he would have established The Thought Workshop, the universities and centres worldwide.
only another five months to live. Billy was northwest’s first centre for psychic and Billy’s first autobiography was published
sent home to Liverpool to die. spiritual studies and complementary by HarperCollins in 1995. His 35 books

Medium possessed the great

skill of explaining sometimes
complex matters in easy to
understand terms, but without
writing down to people

BILLY ROBERTS lived the dream by

playing lead guitar in a rock band.

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HERE Billy Roberts is seen with his wife Dolly. At one meeting, he reunited a mother with her son, who passed after a motorbike accident.
were published by various companies such
as Allison and Busby, Thorsons, Llewellyn,
Trinity Mirror, Piatkus and Apex.
Billy wrote two children’s books, Circle
of the Hollow Tree and The Magic Locker,
which were inspired by the time he spent
in Alder Hey Hospital. It became a musical
for which Billy produced the script as well
as all the music. The proceeds went to the
hospital.
One of Billy’s first TV appearances was
in 1995 on Channel 4’s The Big Breakfast
with Gaby Roslyn and Paul Ross.
He also appeared on Good Morning with
Anne and Nick, This Morning, The Weird
Hour, Housebusters, Psychic Roadshow with
Russell Grant, Upfront with Uri Geller and
his own 36-week TV series Secrets of the
Paranormal on Channel One.
In her eulogy at Billy’s funeral service,
Dolly said during his professional life as a
medium, Billy demonstrated “in theatres all
over the UK, Europe and America.
“Instead of just giving messages to
selected members of the audience,
he always wanted to include all of the
audience.
“Billy said that just giving messages to
members of a theatre audience could be
quite depressing, so he always balanced
it with a certain amount of humour by
playing psychic games and introducing
handwriting analysis.
“His shows always lifted an audience,
which made giving messages easier. He
wanted them to feel that they were glad
they came…
“Billy loved writing and there are
several manuscripts waiting to be
published, including two novels.
“It is amazing that Billy managed
to write all of these books with little
education, but he always believed that
he was being helped by the nineteenth-
century writer and dramatist Maurice
Maeterlinck.”
In 2009, Billy signed a twelve-month
contract with TV’s Most Haunted. During
Hallowe’en week, the live programme went
out from the old North Wales Hospital
asylum in Denbigh, which has been empty
since 1995.
The programme drew a record number
of viewers, but upset some local residents
who took offence at being labelled “Village
of the damned” because Most Haunted
claimed the land had been cursed by three
witches allegedly burned on the site.
Billy was unaware of the controversy
while filming over five nights before a
packed hall of 300 people inside the
building, which was built in 1842.
“The only thing I was worried about
was the terrible cold,” he said. “There was
no heating because of health and safety
regulations, so I was sitting there every
night in my overcoat and thermals.
“I did sense a number of presences
at the hospital, and not necessarily evil.
Hospitals do generate a lot of emotion
which can impregnate the atmosphere.”
In 1993, Billy reunited a victim of the
Hillsborough disaster with his daughter at
the Neptune Theatre in Liverpool.
The tragedy, which occurred in 1989,
claimed the lives of 96 football supporters
who were crushed to death as a result of
massive overcrowding at Hillsborough
Stadium, home of Sheffield Wednesday
Football Club.
“Was his name George?” asked Billy.
“Yes,” replied a young woman.
“He is with his mother, but I cannot
understand what she is saying to me,”
the medium continued. “Is she foreign?”
“Polish,” was the reply.
“I seem to be hearing something which
sounds like Johnny, but it isn’t,” continued
Billy. “It’s Jana,” smiled the young girl. “This
is his brother,” said the medium.
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Billy added that a cross or some sort of
medal had been placed in George’s coffin.
His daughter replied that it was a medal.
Earlier in the evening, the 250 people
present also saw Billy reunite a mother
with her son, who had been killed in a
motorbike accident.
“I have a man who is looking for his
mum,” said Billy. “He tells me his name is
Graham. He was killed on his motor-bike in
an accident by a roundabout.”
An immediate response came from a
woman in the audience. “You are Ann,”
said Billy. When the woman confirmed
this, Billy said, “Your son is talking about
Thomas à Becket.”
“Beckett is my surname,” she answered.
“Thomas is his grandfather.”
The medium continued that her son was
calling “Roly” and asked if she understood
this. The woman replied it was his
nickname for her.
Billy then asked who “Debbie” was, and
the woman pointed to a friend sitting next
to her.
“Graham is thanking you, and saying you
have a chain belonging to him.” The friend
replied that this was correct.
Last week, PN editor Tony Ortzen
commented: “Although I knew Billy for
some years, we never met in person, but
were still friends via phone and e-mail.
“Billy had a superb knowledge of
Spiritualism, the paranormal and allied
areas. He also possessed the great gift of
explaining sometimes complex matters
in easy to understand terms, but without
writing down to people.
“Over the last few years, Billy suffered
very poor health, but battled on regardless.
“All of us at PN regarded him as a much-
valued member of our team. We wish him
well in his new vantage point, where he’s
still probably writing away.” n
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British medium passes in Thailand
MEDIUM Peter Close has passed on in Chiang Mai, Thailand, aged
94. He left the UK to live there permanently around twenty years
ago.
Peter was interviewed by a Psychic News
reporter on the eve of him celebrating 30
years as a London police sergeant.
His father Harry was a Bradford, Yorks
League cricketer “well known on the
sacred cricket pitches of the North.”
Our report continued: “His one wish
was for a son who would take his sporting
passions to even greater heights.
“A medium once told his wife that she
would have two very famous sons. Half of
that prediction has already happened.
“Their second son Brian has taken
the family name to proud places in the
annals of international cricket and risen to
become an England test selector. No father
could wish for more.
“Now it is the turn of his older brother,
for 30 years one of the many unsung
heroes of the London police force. This is
the story of Peter Close.”
With “a handful of educational merits,
Peter signed on for national service with
the RAF and was sent to Palestine.
“The plight of the Jews and the
commercialism of Jerusalem, where he
lived for a year, knocked all remaining
vestiges of orthodoxy out of this
impressionable young man.”
After returning to the UK, Peter signed
on as a recruit with the London Met,
merely intending “to give it a try.”
In his time, our report continued, “this
bobby has pounded one of the seamiest
beats in London both in uniform and in
plain clothes.
“He is a copper who could shock you
with facts about the vice and the gambling
he encountered in our capital cities during
the permissive 60s.
“But he doesn’t. Peter is close both by
name and, I discovered, by nature. That’s
how they breed them in Leeds.
“A modest, almost shy, man he was
acutely embarrassed to be on the
unaccustomed end of a notebook and
obviously very relieved when it was all
over.”
One day, Peter decided to attend
a public meeting at the Spiritualist
Association of Great Britain where veteran
medium Eileen Blaschke correctly told him
of a motorcycle accident he had suffered in
1959 and the surprising revelation that he
was very psychic.
It was a lead Peter had to follow up. In
November 1976 he had a private sitting
with medium Stanley Poulton, who told
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A FORMER policeman, Peter Close sometimes
found himself psychically weighing up a few
villains. (File photo)
him he should be developing his psychic
gifts.
Subsequently, Peter sat with various
other mediums such as Jessie Nason,
Stanley Poulton and Doris Collins.
Later, he encountered veteran teaching
medium Ivy Northage and sat in her
development group.
“I went to her with big ideas of how
good I was,” said Peter with a rueful grin.
“She shot me down in public – and in
flames.
“But I learned a tremendous amount
from Ivy. I needed to be sorted out. She did
it. Ivy gave me the confidence to mount a
public platform.”
After giving our reporter a sitting, he
commented: “Peter linked me with people
I had long forgotten, such as a primary
school headmaster who taught me how to
spell psychology – and what it means.
“The surname wasn’t quite right. Peter
supplied it as Smithson; it was Simpson.
The relatives he spoke of followed one
after the other in rapid succession.
“They were all on target, and glad to
be used, as always, for journalistic test
mediumship.”
Asked if he ever used his psychic gifts
whilst in the police force, Peter revealed
that he found himself psychically weighing
up a few villains and could tell if they were
lying.
Peter added that his Chief
Superintendent knew about his
mediumship and would joke, “I hope you
don’t see anything in my aura!”
For several years Peter edited an
international police newspaper, but had to
give it up, as there were too many church
meetings to attend.
Although given several “minor”
commendations for his police work,
characteristically Peter refused to
elaborate.
Psychic News once told how a retired
Wing Commander brought up as a Roman
Catholic received such astonishingly
accurate survival evidence from Peter
that he could no longer describe himself as
sceptical.
Peter Cooper called his sitting “a life-
enhancing experience,” adding: “I left in a
state of exhilaration, full of joy and awe at
the wonderful universe we live in in which
two different worlds are joined by a bridge
of love.”
As a probation officer for 23 years,
Wing Commander Cooper added he was
“used to assessing evidence” and excluded
fraud as an explanation of the sitting.
Wing Commander Cooper decided to
attend a demonstration given by Peter
Close and two other mediums in aid of
Ethiopia.
“The other two mediums performed
very well,” added the Wing Commander,
“but it was Peter Close who caught my
attention. He did his demonstration with
a good deal of warmth, friendliness and
charm. I was deeply impressed by his
ability…
“He hardly ever looked at my face, so he
was not watching me for facial reactions.
He was 95 per cent factually correct. This
degree of accuracy seemed to me to be a
fantastic achievement.”
Peter told the Wing Commander that
his parents were not together in the spirit
world, adding, “Your father came from over
the sea.” This was correct; he was born in
Eire. He added:
“I see his mother, a stern, disapproving
woman, holding a bible. She disapproved of
many things, particularly of his marriage to
your mother.”
The Wing Commander “was really
startled. She was a religious bigot and
hated my mother.”
Peter’s words that the father was a
heavy drinker were correct. “He was a
chronic alcoholic,” confirmed the sitter,
who was “again astonished” when Peter
added that his parent “spent more time
with his cronies, and more money on them,
than with his family.”
As the medium said, his father died a
violent death. “When drunk,” confirmed
the Wing Commander, “he fell under a
train.”
Peter mentioned the spirit presence
of a man who committed suicide. He had

been a client of the Wing Commander’s
when he was a probation officer.
Next came what he described as
“breathtaking perception by Peter Close.”
The medium linked with a nun who
travelled all over the world to North and
South America, Africa and Australia.
The Wing Commander knew the
identity of this spirit visitor. Though she
passed before he was born, “she has been
the biggest single influence in my life.
“Peter Close was particularly impressive
in dealing with this strange and important
relationship.
“There was never any doubt in my mind
from an early age that communication was
not only possible, but did actually take
place between me in this world and the nun
in the spirit world. I often spoke to her in
prayer.”
The nun, Mother Janet Erskine Stuart,
came from “a rather aristocratic family”
and passed in 1914.
Mother Stuart joined the Society of the
Sacred Heart at Roehampton, SW London,
and became Superior at this convent.
“Eventually,” said the ex-probation
officer, “she became Superior General of
the whole society.
“She had to travel to many distant lands
to visit the society’s convents, moved in
high circles and knew the Pope.
“It is clear to me that Peter Close’s gift
as a medium is altogether extraordinary.
He was quite specific, time and time again,
and was nearly always spot-on.
“It was perhaps the most impressive
experience of my fairly long and varied life.”
As well as demonstrating in the UK,
Peter also worked in the USA, where he
appeared on TV.
When he likewise appeared on British
TV, Peter told of a psychic portrait given
to him via an unnamed psychic artist, who
said the spirit sitter had a beard, was a
relative, had served in the military, been an
officer in the army and was very religious.
Peter had no idea who this was, but
sent the portrait to his mother. As well
as identifying the sitter as Peter’s great-
grandfather, she explained that he fought
at Balaclava and was an officer in the
Salvation Army.
The presenter wanted to know how
Peter could be sure the medium did not
just draw a face similar to his own.
“He didn’t look like me,” Peter
commented, “and the photograph my
mother sent me was identical.”
Fellow medium Robert Brown told
Psychic News last week: “When I spoke to
Peter in late January, he told me he was
‘ready to go,’ but his passing still hit me very
hard.
“I knew Peter for 50 years. Apart from
being a friend of my family, we sat together
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in Ivy Northage’s class and lived together
for a number of years.
“During this time, Peter held his own
home circle, which I ran when he was on
one of his many travels.
“I feel it is like an end of an era, but am
sure that Peter was greeted with a really
great celebration on the Other Side.”
Robert said that Peter first visited
Thailand on holiday in the 1980s and in
1996 decided to buy a property and spend
more time there.
“Around 1999,” Robert added, “Peter
chose to live permanently in Thailand with
his partner Rin, who looked after him so
wonderfully throughout his later years.”
Peter attended and taught at Robert’s
annual retreat in the Bahamas for thirteen
years, “generously always insisting that this
was at his own expense.
“Peter said this was his way of giving
back to Spirit and future mediums for all
that he had received. Find me another such
medium!”
Robert ended: “Peter was incredible at
flower reading. An invitation from medium
Ellie Fristensky for him to go to Mississippi
became an annual event.
“The work they did together was
groundbreaking in the so-called Bible belt
in bringing Spiritualism and mediumship to
an area where it had not been welcome.” n
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Clairvoyant with Mandarin guide
is promoted
CLAIRVOYANT Keith Hudson, who once received pictorial
evidence from a “dead” relative he never met, has entered the
Larger Life.
In 2009, Keith was interviewed
by Psychic News’ tarot expert Wendy
Stokes, who said it was “easy to reach
Walthamstow Spiritualist Church.
“It is only five minutes’ walk along St
Mary Road from Walthamstow Central
station. This short walk brings the seeker
to the quaint sixteenth-century beauty of
Walthamstow Village.
“The Squire’s Almshouses date from
1795 and walkers can enjoy hearing the
bells of St Mary’s Church ring out the
quarter hours whilst admiring the old tuber
roses which grow outside this unique but
impressive Spiritualist church.
“The building was originally a
schoolhouse built in 1819 to house a
master, mistress and 200 pupils. A tiny fire
station was tucked in beside it.”
Wendy met the “very bubbly” Keith
at the church. He told her he “first got
involved with mediumship in 1966.
“I was working in a shop and the chaps
who lived upstairs invited me to a séance.
I was given some very convincing proof of
soul survival and from then on I trained to
become a medium.
“I have a Chinese spirit guide named Tsu
Ling, who was a Mandarin magistrate.
“I sat in training circles for many years
under the direction of several well-known
mediums. Ursula Roberts showed me how
to see auras.”
Keith was interviewed by The Guardian’s
G2 Magazine concerning an issue that
changed the course of his life.
“My father rejected me as his child
because I was the only one out of everyone
in the family who had blond hair,” he said.
“It was only when my father passed into
the spirit world that he returned to give me
a message that he now accepted I was his
son. It was a wonderful moment for me. I
now forgive him for everything.”
Describing an average day, he told the
magazine: “I get up in the morning and
never know what the day will hold.
“I get my paperwork completed first,
as I might have several private clients
throughout the day. Some come for
spiritual healing and others for messages
from their loved ones in the spirit world.
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KEITH HUDSON: “I’m just an ordinary bloke.”
(File photo)
“I am often asked for tarot or palm
readings and also do numerology. This
is fairly routine work for me. I’ve been a
medium for 40 years, so I’m fairly confident
and enjoy the work.
“I specialise in removing blocked energy,
a type of spirit release. I am also involved
with house blessings and have attended
several haunted houses to cleanse away
undesirable entities.”
In addition to giving private sittings,
Keith also served Spiritualist churches. He
added:
“If I have no work on a particular day,
I do a crossword over my morning coffee
and head for Watkins Books in Central
London where I always find the books I’m
looking for.
“For many years I owned a bookshop
in Wood Street, Walthamstow and like to
read. I have a reference collection of 600
books, many of which are rare first editions
or signed copies.”
Wendy Stokes commented that as they
spoke, “Keith rushes from his landline to his
mobile phone to receive calls from clients.
“The door bell rings and he excuses
himself to attend to more pressing matters.
Keith clearly enjoys his job and has plenty
of energy to attend to those who call him.”
The same year, Keith was one of several
mediums who appeared on Channel
4’s Talking to the Dead, an hour-long
investigation into Spiritualism.
Programme makers were granted
“unprecedented access” to Walthamstow
Spiritualist Church, which was described as
Keith’s “second home.”
Viewers were told that his mediumistic
ability first surfaced when, at 23 years old,
he repeatedly saw the face of an unknown
man who was subsequently drawn during a
visit to a psychic artist.
In an interview with Richard Alwyn,
Keith retold the story about the different
colour of his hair, saying that from the
moment he was born, his father “hated”
him because “he thought I wasn’t his.
“He had to come back and say sorry
because you can’t move on if you’ve got
guilt. You have to sort things out.”
Mr Alwyn asked how his father had
returned after passing on. Keith replied:
“I was sitting on my own the day after he
passed. The room went 20 degrees below
and he stood there.
“I said, ‘What are you going to say?’ He
said, ‘I’m sorry,’ and that was it.”
Asked if he felt at peace once his father
had apologised, Keith added: “Yes, of
course I do. It’s given me strength and now
I can do things because I believe.
“If someone says I’m their worst enemy,
I will sit down and send them unconditional
love.”
Interviewed by The Guardian, Keith
gave further details about the man he kept
seeing in his head. “What’s going on here?”
he thought to himself. “I’m just an ordinary
bloke.”
Keith went to see a psychic artist, who
produced a picture “which was exactly the
face I was seeing, and said she thought it
was my grandfather.”
When Keith showed the spirit-inspired
sketch to his mother, she explained it was
his great-grandfather, who passed on six
years before he was born.
Keith was Vice-President of
Walthamstow Spiritualist Church and later
became President. Thought to be aged
79, he passed on in his sleep in sheltered
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Near-death experiences
are out of this world
By Jens Amberts

Last month saw the publication of a new book which not only examines the I KNOW that consciousness survives the
philosophical aspect of near-death experiences (NDEs), but includes accounts from death of the physical body because I’ve had
those who returned to describe what they saw. that experience personally.
“Why an Afterlife Obviously Exists” is by Jens Amberts, who trained in philosophy Having had this NDE, I no longer fear
at Linköping University in Sweden. Linköping is the country’s fifth largest city. death. When my time comes, I will embrace
After some opening remarks from Mr Amberts, this extract contains testimonies death.
from those who underwent a NDE, which he collected from various sources. In fact, I know people who are dying
right now and I envy them their journey. It’s
THERE is arguably no question that is more people described their NDE. For many of them
important for humanity as a whole, or for it was a life-changing adventure. Some of their a wonderful, wonderful place to go.
the average individual, than whether an comments have been amended or abridged.
afterlife exists or not.
It is definitely granted that very many I NO longer viewed death in the same way
people already believe, hope or doubt that as others did, so it was very hard for me to
an afterlife exists. mourn anyone.
But belief, hope or doubt does not Of course, if someone close to me
really take us very far, or passed on, I was sad
rather, it results in the because I missed them, but
kind of world we live in I no longer mourned for the
right now with respect to deceased because I knew
this issue where everyone they’d transcended to
has different viewpoints, another realm and I knew
beliefs, opinions and that they were happy.
doubts. It’s not possible to be
A near-death sad there. I now hold a view
experience (NDE) can of life that very few, if any,
be broadly defined as in my social circle shared or
an unusual and lucid even related to.
experience that occurs at I was also finding it
a time of an imminent life- challenging to integrate
threatening event. back into life because this
Research has shown world still didn’t seem real
that they occur in roughly JENS AMBERTS: “Many people to me. The other realm felt
nine to eighteen per cent of believe an afterlife exists.” more genuine.
all cardiac arrests, with no
sufficient or necessary cause having been IN a moment I was just somewhere else. I
identified for why they happen to some certainly understand people’s scepticism
and not to all, making every one of us a about this. If it hadn’t happened to me, I’d
potential NDEr were we to come close to be sceptical about it too.
death ourselves. Was I just suffering from oxygen
NDEs often include perceptions starvation of the brain? Was this something
of leaving the body, feeling peaceful, that could have brought about this
entering a tunnel or passageway, seeing hallucination?
or even entering a light, meeting deceased That was the real world there. You
relatives, meeting a being of light, going know, that was really home. The fear of
through a life review, experiencing an death is certainly gone, and when it comes
overwhelming sense of unconditional love my time to go, I’m ready.
and acceptance, etc. It has changed my entire life; it changed
the way I felt about how I wanted to live my
In their own words, here is how a variety of life, how I wanted to fit in.

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I WAS being drawn towards this light, and
was being pulled and pulled and pulled. I
was almost to the light, and basically what
it felt like was waking up.
It was like this existence here on this
Earth was just a dream that I had had and
I was waking up and more alive and alert
than I have ever been in my life.
HE was a concentrated field of energy,
radiant in splendour, indescribable, except
to say in goodness and love. This was more
loving than one can imagine.
I knew that this radiant being was
powerful. It was making me feel so good all
over. I could feel its light on me – like very
gentle hands around me.
I could feel it holding me, but it was
loving me with overwhelming power.
Then he called out in a musical tone to the
luminous entities who surrounded the
great centre.
Several came and circled around us.
During what follows some came and went,
but normally there were five or six and
sometimes as many as eight with us.
They said that they could turn their
brilliance down and appear as people. I
told them to stay as they were. They were
beautiful.
I’m an artist. There are three primary,
three secondary and six tertiary colours
in the visible light spectrum. Here, I was
seeing a visible light spectrum with at least
80 new primary colours.
I was also seeing this brilliance. It’s
disappointing for me to try and describe
because I can’t – I was seeing colours that I
had never seen before.
What these beings were showing me
was their glory. Everywhere around us
were countless radiant beings, like stars in
the sky, coming and going.
It was like a super magnified view of a
galaxy super packed with stars. In the giant
radiance of the centre they were packed so
densely together that individuals could not
be identified.
THERE are great cities very similar to the
ones we live in now, only these places have
great harmony and balance to them.
I saw one city that was made entirely
of gold and precious stones. It actually
glowed! The higher up you go in Heaven,
the more it becomes impossible to give a
human description.
I try to explain it by saying there are
flashes of light and brilliant colours of
every spectrum everywhere.
The realm is a real happening place I can
tell you that! I always laugh when I think of
society’s image of Heaven as little cherubs
sitting around playing harps on clouds. It’s
a whole lot more intense than that.
Surprisingly, texture is apparently
something that can be felt in Heaven. In
fact, all of our five senses are very much
the same as on Earth, only in Heaven, they
are far more developed to an unimaginable
degree.
THE first thing that happened when I
transitioned into the light was I felt like this
bliss, like a sense of peace. This divine love
was just wrapped around me.
I knew I was what people say – that
they’re home; yes, that’s exactly how you
feel, you feel so very safe.
As I was in this bliss, and it was like I was
plugged into the motherboard. I had this
expansive experience.
All your senses are like supersized; it
was like this infinite divine consciousness.
You really don’t have any questions, like
you have this knowing.
The light parted at one point. I stepped
out into this meadow, and there were
trees, and grass, a field of daisies, and
there were beings. At that point it was
so overwhelming to see it and to see that
perfection.
THE sound of that music I cannot possibly
describe with words because it simply
cannot be heard with that clarity in this
world.
The colours were out of this world; so
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deep, so luminous, so beautiful. My hearing
was so acute I could sense every little
detail.
I was aware of everything around
me with so much clarity. I could see the
perfection in every sound. It was a totally
different perception than the one while in
this life.
The colours were so vivid, so luminous,
so clear, with so much detail. I could
distinguish every detail in that piece of
music and with incredible depth.
I SAW the most amazing forest and flowers
on the Other Side. The flowers were all
over the place with no resemblance to
flowers on Earth.
Although I can’t describe the smell,
it was gorgeous! The flowers glowed in
different indescribable colours.
I WAS taken by the hand and led into
another realm. It resembled Earth because
there were trees, sparkling sand and
aquamarine water.
There were fruit-laden trees, lush
foliage and vibrantly coloured birds.
Everything was alive – each flower and
every glistening grain of sand. Floral
fragrances filled the air.
THE sparkling colours were found within
and around the strong and pure crystal
light that the sky/heavens consisted of.
We stood there on a high plateau in
heavenly beautiful nature. Below to the
left was a valley where a river flowed.
Further away in the valley, I saw a
powerful and clear light that one cannot
describe with words. The environment
was so beautiful that it exceeded human
understanding.
IN the room were three beings made of
shimmering crystal. Light shone through
them like a glass prism, forming a rainbow.
Pure light shone through the fibres,
forming colours in all shades.
When they spoke, their messages were
sent telepathically. They could read my
thoughts.
Looking into their eyes, they were
shades of intense colours that changed and
shifted with electric sparks.
The love radiated from their eyes, as
if I were the most precious creation God
had ever placed into existence. It was as if
they knew me intimately, yet I didn’t feel
uncomfortable feeling that they did.
WHAT does heaven looks like? “Oh my
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God” doesn’t even describe how beautiful
this place is. There are no words.
I mean, I could sit here and not say
anything and just cry, and that would be
what heaven looks like.
There are mountains of beauty; there
are things in this realm, you can’t even
describe how beautiful this place is.
There are colours you can’t even
imagine; there are sounds you can’t even
create. There are beauties upon this world
that you think are beautiful here.
Amplify it over there times a billion. It’s
incredibly beautiful. There are no words
to describe how beautiful this place is. It’s
incredibly gorgeous.
THE sound was palpable and almost
material, like a rain that you can feel on
your skin, but that doesn’t get you wet.
Seeing and hearing were not separate in
this place where I now was. I could hear the
visual beauty of the silvery bodies of those
scintillating beings above, and I could see
the surging, joyful perfection of what they
sang.
It seemed that you could not look at
or listen to anything in this world without
becoming a part of it – without joining with
it in some mysterious way.
Again, from my present perspective, I
would suggest that you couldn’t look at
anything in that world at all, for the word
at itself implies a separation that did not
exist there.
Everything was distinct, yet everything
was also a part of everything else, like the
rich and intermingled designs on a Persian
carpet or a butterfly’s wing.
Thoughts entered me directly. But it
wasn’t thought like we experience on earth.
It wasn’t vague, immaterial or abstract.
These thoughts were solid and
immediate – hotter than fire and wetter
than water – and as I received them, I
was able to instantly and effortlessly
understand concepts that would have
taken me years to fully grasp in my earthly
life.
I WAS absolutely free and immediately
greeted by a group of I don’t know what…
people, spirits, beings.
For me they had physical form,
somewhat three-dimensional – head, arms,
legs – wearing these incredible robes and
really just obviously radiant from within,
not like there was a sun or bright light
shining, but from within.
It was as though these robes were, I
don’t know, woven together with fibres
of love. I mean, it was a love that is not
something we experience here.
It’s a love that is pure and complete and
tangible. You can feel it; you can see it; you
can touch it.
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IN this representation, a young woman looks on after leaving her physical body.
I EXPERIENCED a very vivid life recall. It
was both painful and exquisitely beautiful.
It was like viewing a film filled with precise
detail.
Every single thought, word, deed,
decision and action was brought forth and
re-experienced and re-examined. It was
self-evaluation with total transparency and
honesty.
Throughout, I was never judged by any
of these divine beings. They simply held
me in love with complete compassion and
acceptance.
In this review, I realised that I was every
single person I’d ever encountered or
thought of. As I merged with and became
them, I felt exactly what they experienced
as a result of my loving or unloving
thoughts and actions.
I saw it all from their point of view,
not only how my actions affected them,
but then through them how that affected
others they encountered, as the effects
kept on going.
I saw that the love we express ripples
out, creating an everlasting beauty that is
often unbeknownst to us at the time.
It felt as if we are living inside a grand
game, which is perfectly designed to
always give us another opportunity to get
it right this time.
I saw that everything we do makes a
difference. The impact we have on one
another is profound.
In this process of ruthlessly honest
self-reflection, nothing went unnoticed.
Nothing was able to be hidden. Nothing.
Not one single thing.
This life review was like going through
everything with a fine-tooth comb,
looking under every rock, leaving no stone
unturned, seeing into each crevice with
a divine light that revealed every hidden
place.
Through the entire process, it was all
looked at and discerned through the lens
of love.
IN a life review you see every single
moment of your human life. We have total
recall in our spiritual nature. Total recall.
Every single moment, every single
action, every single thought, word, every
single sensory sensation, everything we
felt from other people, it’s all right there
and we relive it all.
It only takes a few seconds, but we
relive it all completely. In addition, we
relive how we impacted all the other
people around us – how everyone else
related to what we were saying, doing,
thinking and feeling, and the ripple effect in
their lives on everybody that they know.
ALL of us are going to die at some point, so
when you do get there, it’s different. It’s
this whole other thing and you’re not going
to want to leave – it’s wonderful and it’s
beautiful.
Coming back you see everything
different. We’re all here to learn; we’re all
here to do better and be better.
WE judge ourselves. It’s not really a
judgement; it’s a learning episode. Life is a
learning episode for us.
We are here to learn and grow, and to
become better and learn empathy and
compassion and love for others and learn
from our wrongdoings of what we did on
Earth because we’ve all done them.
They showed me that we choose our
parents; we choose our life; we choose our
hardships. We come down multiple times
by choice, not by force, to learn and grow
from the experiences to make us better
spirits.
n “Why an Afterlife Obviously Exists” is
subtitled “A Thought Experiment and Realer
Than Real Near-Death Experiences.”
Published by Iff Books, it costs £10.99
and is available from various sites on
the internet or can be ordered from any
bookshop. An ebook version is available at
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The power of hand analysis
IMAGINE knowing the blueprint of your entire life and how to
change it into a life you love. This is the mission of master hand
analyst Brent Bruning, whose work goes beyond palmistry into the
very nature of who we are.
Having read the hands of 20,000 people
– including actors Russell Brand and Keira
Knightley, singer and songwriter Beyoncé
and even the Theological Adviser to the
Pope – Brent is able to explain your soul
path as well as problems you are likely to
face on your journey.
And he doesn’t want you to just believe
it; Brent wants you to see it for yourself
in his book, The Power In Your Hands,
where he illustrates the life pattern of 100
remarkable people.  
Brent studied hands and interviewed
people for fourteen years about their
life purpose. His work, alongside the
International Institute of Hand Analysis
(IIHA), has helped build a map that allows
him to reveal a blueprint of your life and
understand your soul path.  neurotransmitters.
The hands reveal what you love and
experiences you block out. This creates
a pattern of experiences, which then
becomes our life pattern.  in their story, whether it is someone who
In hand analysis, in a matter of two
hours Brent describes who you are, your
mind, body, spirit and soul, and how they all
combine into a life story.
What does this give you? According to
Brent, it’s a complete life blueprint of what
you are here to do and how to evolve –
your life purpose and life lesson.
“Different people have different hands,”
he said. “But similar people with similar
hands share similar life problems as well as
soul paths.
WHEN twins separated at birth were reunited, it
was found they had “lived a strikingly similar life.”
(Photo: NBC)
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BRENT BRUNING: “Each finger represents a
different life purpose.”
“After hearing someone talk about their
life story, you begin to relate the same
pattern over and over in their hands as
loves art, who wrestles with money issues
or is trying to heal an abusive past.  a lizard’s hand. The greater the ball on the
“When you organise 20,000 hands and
personally read 2,000 people, you see a
very predictable pattern of the same life
story repeated over and over – patterns
which run deep.”  ‘Whatever this area is, I must have it in my
Fingerprints are epigenetic, which
means experiences over a lifetime become
ingrained deep within our behaviour and
nervous system. Whatever a mother
experienced over a lifetime is what the
foetus experiences.
Likewise, when trauma is passed down
over several generations, it is revealed in
the fingerprints of both the mother and
child. This is a very important element of
hand analysis, as metaphorically speaking,
we seem to be born into a biological river
and are being sent downstream.
Since the discoveries in the 1960s with
twins separated from birth, it has been
established that there is a biological life
pattern influenced both by personality
type and conditioned by our environment.
Orphaned at birth, twins Jim Springer
and Jim Lewis were reunited after 39
years. They found they lived a strikingly
similar life.
Both held jobs in law enforcement,
drove the same type of Chevrolet, made
toys in their workshop, married a woman
with the same name and divorced at the
same time.
“When you look at their hands,” said
Brent, “you can interpret the same life
patterns by understanding how and why
the nervous system makes these patterns.”  
Your handprints: where science
meets your soul
As a seven-week-old foetus, your soul or
“consciousness” begins to emerge. The
emotional centre of the brain releases
sensations: a surge of the happiest
These chemicals and growth hormones
stimulate areas of the nervous system that
target different regions of the hand.
Different tips of the fingers called
volar pads begin to expand and grow like
tip of the finger, the more the stimulation
and growth hormone.
“This is not just an event,” said Brent.
“For four months, the soul is saying,
life and grow in experience’.” 
Eventually skin forms and we see a
topographical map of the expansion – a
fingerprint, which is an area that your
divine soul yearns to grow this lifetime.
If it is a big ball, they get a whorl
showing a “must-have” area. If it is a wave,
they may love it. If it is nothing, they might
simply block it out.
“Each finger represents a different life
purpose or life lesson,” said Brent. “By
seeing a circle/whorl formation on our
‘directing’ index finger, we see a person
who craves to be a visionary leader like
Richard Branson.
“However, if nothing grows, this person
may actively avoid positions of power.

ACTOR Keira Knightley’s hands “showcase two energies – Air (intellectual) and Water (feminine).”
(Photo: “The Power in your Hands”)
“Interpreting the fingerprint pattern for
all ten fingers, we now have a map of what
makes the person naturally the happiest.
“In this way, we can guess by the whorls
on the ring fingers who is the artist in
making, who are the businessmen and
thousands of other combinations.”
The power in your hands
Brent’s new book, The Power In Your Hands,
is based on the comparison of over half a
million hands to behavioural traits and life
themes. 
Every line and swirl, every ridge and
whorl, and even the shape and size of our
hands and fingers, has been decoded and
charted by the International Institute of
Hand Analysis.
The end result is a detailed “life pattern,”
which allows us to look beyond our
personality and into our soul’s purpose.
Brent blind-tested the handprints by
recording interviews of people explaining
their life challenges and life purpose. Then
he recorded an IIHA master hand analyst
who had to decipher someone’s handprint
and determine what the owner would say.
The result was a one-to-one match
of the video recordings. The second half
of Brent’s book is devoted to showing
the side-by-side comparison of both
interviews.
The IIHA could guess, for example, not
only that someone was a movie director
from a handprint, but the kind of films the
person made by interpreting themes the
individual craves and will struggle with.
See yourself in your hands:
where does your energy lie?
Judging by a hand shape alone, Brent can
see environments where you are “in your
element.” Borrowing from the Greeks, he
organises people into four patterns.
Identical hand shapes share the same
temperament, personality and even facial
type.
People with broad “Earth” hands have a
practical hardworking nature whilst those
with short fingers and dazzling lines on the
palm exhibit a “Fiery” nature.
Individuals with soft, slender hands that
sweat easily have an emotional “Watery”
nature. Finally is the intellectual “Airy”
tribe, which denotes those who have long
fingers and long palms.  types, but with the same characteristics.
Most people are a combination of two
or more elements forming a personality
“Archetype” that shows what they like and
occupations they love.
For example, actor Keira Knightley’s
hands showcase two energies – Air
(intellectual) and Water (feminine); her
defining nature is that of an emotional/
intellectual.
Ruled by the heart, these archetypes
strive for beauty and honesty, and where
possible perfection.  showing that time is needed in silence and
Actor Dustin Hoffman’s square
hands lean more towards an Earth/Fire
combination, with many chaotic lines
running across his palms.
These show a creative presence
combined with the hands of someone of
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a humble and hardworking nature who
thrives under pressure.
You could fall into any one of twelve
categories, hand analysis drawing on
personality theory and the strength of each
of the natural elements within a person.
Find your archetype
The rest of the hand and fingers show
different sides of our personality and
experiences we yearn to have. There are
a total of eight mythological archetypes/
personalities which are represented in
traditional palmistry.
“While this is a poetic language,
Aristotle’s interpretation that we all have
the gods in Olympus shown in various
degrees through the palm and fingers is a
beautiful way to understand ourselves,”
said Brent. “Describing human beings and
experience needs to be done subjectively.
“Think of the index finger. You direct and
point with it. The Romans named this after
Jupiter, the god on Olympus, that directs
and points.
“When you organise people with tall
index fingers, you see they all strive for
dignity no matter what hand shape.
“There’s actor Emma Watson with her
Water hands and Hugh Grant with his Airy
hand shape. They are different personality
“The ring finger is perhaps easiest to
see. The Greek’s called this Apollo after the
sun god.
“The more the ring finger is as tall as the
middle finger, the more the person puts
himself in the centre of things.”
Hand analysis often shows dilemmas
within your own personality. For instance,
someone with a strong thumb will have
drive, but they may also have a large
outer palm called the “Moon” region
reflection.
“It is the job of the hand analyst to
present a picture of how these different
sides of your personality combine, so
you can open a new life chapter and feel
complete and content,” said Brent.
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What about the rest of the lines?
If you shock your brain with three months
of electric shock therapy, your hands will
explode with lines. This fact establishes the
brain and hand connection.
A literal Pandora’s box, the lines unearth
our deepest urges and show how we think,
act and express ourselves.
Just as the soul shows in the
fingerprints, the mind, body and spirit
are represented in three lines as each of
the three major centres of the brain are
developed. They are formed before we can
even bend our hands.  rise vertically upwards, we see the person
The first line, called the Life Line, curves
around our thumb. This is formed when the
body begins to show conscious movement
and the baby moves the hands and legs.
The deeper the Life Line, the more
grounded you are. You feel this in your
nervous system when you are grounded or
heavy.
Weight trainers have a very strong Life
Line. The shorter it is, the more restless,
ungrounded and animated a person
becomes.
The next to develop is our Heart Line,
which shows how spirited a person is. This
is formed when we develop an emotional
centre of the brain and a baby begins to
show facial expressions.
The more the Heart Line curves upward
touching the index finger, the more
passionate or compassionate we find the
expression of a person.
An intense extrovert who is ruled by her
spirit and desire for fun, Beyoncé’s Heart
Line curves upwards dramatically. 
Short, deep Heart Lines that stay within
the palm show people with a more cool
or reserved spirit. Private and loyal, their
hearts are ruled by practicality and gut
instincts. American actor Brad Pitt is in this
group.
Then we have rational hearts, where
the upper line is ruler straight and ends an
inch below the index finger, like actor Julia
Roberts. People who fall into this category
show very controlled emotions and tend to
overthink situations.  enjoys based on whether they are vertical
Finally we have the mind or “Head Line,”
which extends horizontally from above the
thumb into the palm. This is formed when
the foetus begins making decisions, turning
toward a light source as the final centre of
the brain, the cerebral cortex, forms.
This represents our thinking. The longer
it is (e.g. ending below the pinky), the more
information and time we need to make a
decision.
Lengthier Head Lines are seen in the
contemplative while the shorter they are,
like comedian Ricky Gervais, the more
quick and decisive we are.
Seeing relationships between these
lines also allows us to see patterns. For
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example, we can see how dependent a
person was on their mother for emotional
regulation.
If the Life Line and Head Line are
separate, like actors Jodie Foster or Keira
Knightley, we tend to be self-reliant. If they
are connected, we feel a strong urge for
dependency.  In a follow-on programme called The
With the mind, body, spirit and soul in
place, a baby is born. Over the next seven
years, the child is conditioned to express
or suppress certain energies and new lines
begin to emerge across the palm.  powerful and direct with your tall index
Each finger has a root and where lines
craving certain experiences.
For example, a long line stretching up
towards the index finger (Jupiter) shows
our need to express power and set goals
whereas a line stretching up towards our
ring finger (Apollo) indicates a desire to
express creativity.   is established, he then invites you to
Lines can also run horizontally as the
person begins to experience challenges and
struggles.
Wherever the lines emerge indicates
experiences a person struggles with or
(expressing) or horizontal (blocking).
According to Brent, lines can come and
go in this lifetime just like trails no longer
traversed.
Putting it all together
to evolve and grow
Knowing how your hand shape, fingers,
lines and fingerprints combine allows us to
have a complete map of the life pattern and
what you are here to do.
“But this is just the start,” said Brent.
“Knowing your design allows you to see
what naturally makes you happy.
“Hand analysis helps you evolve to your
highest self. You can see how you are in
relationships, and what kind of hand type
would make a good fit for you as a partner.
“For therapists, this is a vital tool to
know a client’s struggle. Within minutes,
we see exactly what the issue is and how to
break through.”
Shift, Brent explores how to transform your
struggles and evolve your “Shadow side.” 
“Every aspect of the hand is a double-
edged sword,” he said. “You can’t be
finger without sometimes being dominant,
arrogant and egoistic.
“But what triggers this expression? This
is the main reason people come for a hand
analysis.”
Every part of the hand shows your
positive and defensive negative, or
“Shadow side.”
While in your shadow, you are triggered
and stressed, and in defence mode. Your
mindset is fixed; every day repeats creating
an unfulfilled ordinary existence.
“People can remain in this stress pattern
for 80 per cent of their adult life without
knowing there is another way to live,” said
Brent.
“The more you stress, the faster you age,
but what most people don’t understand is
that by releasing the stress pattern, you
can reverse ageing.
“You see this when you go on holiday.
If I can show you what blocks your energy
and how to release the block, you will have
more energy.”
In The Shift, Brent shows you how to
connect to this difficult, defensive pattern,
accept your whole self without judgement,
release the trigger and begin a new more
fulfilling life.
Once a vision of this new self and life
live as this new person for 28 days in a
transformational process called The Hero’s
Journey. Both programmes are acclaimed
by both oncologists and therapists. 
“My mission,” said Brent, “is to revive
individuals to live a life they love. For so
many people, 90 per cent of their thoughts
today are those that they had yesterday.
“Hand analysis awakens people to their
true potential and invites them on a Hero’s
Journey to live it.”
n For a hand analysis session, visit Brent’s
site at www.thepowerinyourhands.com
“Psychic News” readers should use the
coupon code “Psychic” for a £40 discount.
“The Power In You Hands” features 100
life pattern examples of successful people. A
portion of the book’s sales benefits the BBC’s
“Children in Need.”
For further details about the book, please
see www.thepowerinyourhands.com/book
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Have festive fun and

celebrate the seasons By Ellen Evert Hopman

Drawing on ancient traditions and beliefs, in this unusual feature Ellen celebrate nature’s turnings.
In my newest children’s book Once
Evert Hopman suggests various ways to mark such events as Beltaine Around the Sun, I introduce youngsters and
(May Day) and the changing seasons. adults to the major festivals of the sacred
A teacher of herbalism since 1983, Ellen is a professional member of Earth, offered in a wheel starting with
the American Herbalists Guild. Also a member of the Grey Council of Samhain (Hallowe’en), the beginning of the
dark half of the year and ending with the
Mages and Sages, and former professor at the Grey School of Wizardry, autumn equinox.
she has appeared at schools and workshops across the USA and In each chapter, I tell an original story
Europe. which is designed to be read out loud by
Ellen’s latest book is entitled, “Once Around the Sun – Stories, Crafts parents to kids or by children to their
parents.
and Recipes to Celebrate the Sacred Earth Year.” Though aimed at There is a small glossary and
children, it can be enjoyed by all ages. pronunciation guide for the foreign words
I AM blessed to live in an oak forest in rural I am a Druid. The word “Druid” is embedded in each tale, a dish to make and
western Massachusetts where I can walk fraught with many different meanings a hands-on activity for each chapter. My
outside my door or gaze out of any window depending on who you ask. For me, it goal is to bring together the sights, sounds,
and watch the seasons changing. Beltaine describes a person who honours the three tastes and feelings of each seasonal
comes late to these parts. worlds (land, sea and observance, so families and groups can
The ancient Druids once sky) and the old gods and share them.
calculated the date by goddesses of the Celtic We live in an era when children are
watching hawthorn trees pantheons. glued to their phones and many families
because their blooming was We especially honour have even given up on eating dinner
the signal that the light half trees. As I like to say, “Every together. We now have to consciously stop
of the year had arrived. tree is a church for a Druid” and plan opportunities for face-to-face
When the first hawthorn because the roots go down living interactions.
blossoms opened it was to the underworld of the My hope is that families and school
finally warm enough to sidhe (faeries) and the groups will use these stories and crafts to
send cows back up to the ancestors. learn about the wider world and to foster
hills for their summer The trunk spans the live encounters away from television, the
grazing. ELLEN EVERT HOPMAN: “Every middle realm where we internet and smart phones.
Beltaine usually comes to tree is a church for a Druid” humans, animals, birds, I was born in Austria and schooled in
my garden around mid-May insects and plants dwell, the United States, Spain and Germany. I
at the earliest. By that time the oak leaves and the branches reach for the sky realm of now live in the States where most citizens
are the size of a squirrel’s ear and sporting the sun, moon and stars, the abode of the never leave the country. There is often an
their clusters of golden oak flowers. The goddesses and gods. unfortunate lack of awareness of other
hawthorns are usually in their first bloom Druids, much like all witches and cultures, languages and nations, and a lack
by then and I know that summer is really Pagans, honour the procession of the of empathy that follows. I am trying to
here. seasons by stopping to reflect and remedy that in a small way in my book.

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I can envision a classroom reading the
stories out loud, pinpointing on a map
where each tale originates. Children would
gain an expanded view of the world, other
peoples and languages. The crafts and
recipes will hopefully spark imagination
and artistic development.
The book was composed during Covid
pandemic lockdowns. Perhaps as a result
it provides a message of hope – a wish for
togetherness along with an awareness that
nothing really ends. We are all part of a
greater cycle that comes and goes, round
and round, unceasingly.
After the darkest night of the year, the
sun inevitably returns, and life and light
are reborn. Adults have told me that they
keep the book by their bedside and read it
before they go to sleep because it brings
them peace.
In the first chapter, I offer an original
tale about the Cailleach, the ancient land
goddess of winter, along with a recipe for a
wintertime herbal tea and an Irish potato
dish called colcannon.
The craft I share in the chapter is how to
make a magic wand. To do that the reader
is given instructions and a list of trees and
woods to pick from with their magical
attributes explained. For example:
• Oak – For strength, endurance,
communication with the high gods and
finding balance.
• Pine – For rebirth, immortality,
flexibility, cleansing and creating peace.
• Ash – For communication with the three
worlds of land, sea and sky, and for
mastery and leadership.
• Cherry – Quests for beauty and
competitions of all kinds.
• Willow – For poetry, gentleness, healing
touch and matters related to the moon.
Next up is a Norse tale for the Yuletide
season about a nisse (an elf) and the return
of Sunna, the sun goddess. My original
story is followed by recipes for roasted
vegetables Viking style and salmon patties.
The craft for this chapter is how to
write secret messages with invisible ink. I
also offer the runes of the Norse “Younger
Futhark” alphabet, which children can
memorise and carve into wood or use for
magical communications.
The word “rune” comes from the Old
Norse word rún (secret). Children can
learn the ancient runic alphabet and use
it to write a phrase from left to right using
one or two dots to separate each word. For
example:
• Fé (“wealth,” “cattle”)
• Ur (“physical power on the physical
plane”)
• Thurs (“giant; supernatural being which
is on Earth”)
• As/Oss (“one of the gods”)
• Reio (“travel,” “ride,” “wrath”)
TAKEN from the internet, this colourful display was designed to celebrate May Day.
For New Year there is the tale of La
Befana, the Italian Christmas witch who
flies on her scopazzo (broomstick) to bring
gifts to good children… and coal or an
onion to bad ones!
A recipe for Bay Laurel tea is given in
honour of the ancient Roman New Year’s
goddess called Strenua, and more recipes
for a La Befana cake and candied orange
peels.
The craft for this chapter is how to make
your own “besom” – or magical broom –
and how to use it for flying. Traditionally,
a besom is made with an ash wood handle
and birch twigs, but other woods will do.
This kind of broom is more of a prop or
ritual object than a really sturdy broom for
cleaning the house. One can even make a
besom with feathers, thick grasses or other
long, pliable materials.
An Irish tale for Imbolg (February 1-2)
follows with recipes for Irish oatmeal soda
bread and instructions on how to make
homemade butter. Making butter is very
easy, which anyone can do in the kitchen:
Gather together a pint of heavy whipping
cream, some sea salt, a jar with a tight-fitting
lid and a bowl of iced water. Pour the heavy
cream into the jar, cap and shake vigorously
for at least fifteen minutes.
Once the butter is solidified, pour off and
reserve the liquid buttermilk, and then rinse
the butter by pressing it into the iced water,
squeezing out any remaining buttermilk. If
desired, work in sea salt, honey, chopped
herbs or any other flavouring.
Imbolg is the festival of the goddess
Brighid, who later morphed into St Brighid.
I give step-by-step instructions for making
a Brighid’s Cross, an ancient sun symbol
woven from rushes, and a straw Brideog (a
Brighid doll) as the crafts that accompany
the celebration.
Next comes an Anglo-Saxon inspired
tale about Eostre, the goddess of spring,
hares and eggs.
There is a recipe for hot cross buns and
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another for a wild spring greens soup using
nettles, dandelion leaves, green onions,
turnips, carrots and potatoes or winter
squash.
The craft for this chapter is detailed
instructions on how to dye Easter eggs
using natural fruits and herbs.
The chapter most relevant to the time
of year as you read this on or around
Beltaine has another tale inspired by Irish
magical lore. Here is a small excerpt.
…There was a hill outside the village where
all the great fire festivals were celebrated with
bonfires and feasting.
For the tribe, Beltaine was one of the most
important days of the year – Devin had kept
a careful watch on the local hawthorn trees
and the moment she found the first tree in
bloom she went through the village loudly
announcing that Beltaine had arrived!
“You see, the trees know when it is warm
enough to send the cattle up to the hills – they
tell us by their flowering,” she explained to
Cailyn that very morning. “One of the jobs of
a Druid is to keep a careful watch on the local
hawthorn trees.”
Preparations had begun on the building of
two sacred bonfires made from nine sacred
woods, and a third fire just for dancing
around.
Nine strong men removed all metal from
their bodies so as not to offend the faeries,
and walked deep into the forest to search for
fallen branches and boughs.
The sweet, yeasty smell of bannocks baking
hung in the air and everywhere women and
girls were preparing the oaten cakes to be
used in their land blessings.
Young men and warriors sat cross-legged
on the grass, sharpening their swords and
tools on whetstones and coating them with
goose grease to preserve them from the damp.
The whole tribe was preparing for summer.
“Let’s pick all the yellow flowers we can
find to decorate Mamai’s May Bush!” said
Cailyn. Mamai and the aunts made a May
Bush for the tribe every year, decorating it
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with sun coloured flowers, ribbons and eggs
dyed yellow.
The girls were happy to contribute. They
bent to their task, searching out marsh
marigolds, buttercups, dandelions and
primroses, trying hard not to stain their
clothing. It felt good to be out in the bright
sunshine, with the warm grass between their
toes…
There is a recipe to make bannocks
(large, flat round oat cakes) and
instructions for how to offer them to
creatures that might harm the farm, such
as foxes, crows, ravens and eagles.
Since the chapter is a story about
Druids, I include a section on the ancient
Irish Ogham alphabet, which was both pre-
Christian and pre-Roman. The letters had
tree names, for example:
• Beith, (Beth) from the Old Irish Beithe;
“Birch tree.”
• Luis, (Lush) from Old Irish luise “blaze”
or lus “herb”; by tradition “Rowan.”
• Fearn, (Fyehrn) from Old Irish fern,
which means “Alder tree.”
• Saille, (Sal-yuh) from Old Irish aail,
which means “Willow tree.”
• Nion, (Neen) from Old Irish nin,
which means either “fork” or “loft”; by
tradition “Ash tree.”
Within the chapter instructions are
given for setting up and dancing around a
British maypole and separate instructions
for creating an Irish may bush.
The summer solstice chapter focuses
on the Polish festival of Kupalnocka, the
Slavonic midsummer celebration where
girls make wreaths and fling them into
water for boys to catch. There is a recipe
for peppermint chocolate tea and another
for sour cherry pierogies (filled dumplings).
The crafts for this chapter are making
flower crowns and flower wreaths. I
provide a long list of herbs, vines, flowers
and woods and their magical properties to
use for the crowns, wreaths and bouquets.
For example:
• Apple blossoms for innocent, sweet
love. Roll two pink candles in fresh apple
blossom petals and honey on the full
moon.
Burn the candles together while
chanting, “Love be here, here to stay, the
OAT cakes were offered to creatures that might
cause harm at a farm.
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EVEN today, dancing around a maypole still occurs
in parts of the UK.
time is now, light the way.” Carry a bit of
the wood to attract a sweet lover. As the
Welsh proverb states, “A seed hidden
in the heart of an apple is an orchard
invisible.”
• Basil. The tea is used to wash floors and
walls to protect a house and family. It
attracts customers and repels thieves
from a place of business.
Rub some on your forehead as
protection when in a crowd of people,
especially those you do not trust.
• Birch. “The lady of the woods” is used
for cleansing, renewal, purification and
to get organised for a new project. It is
“The tree of new beginnings.”
Make a broom of birch twigs with an
ash handle bound with willow. Use it to
brush away the old to make room for
the new.
• Chamomile. A wreath of chamomile
hung in the home will protect it from
lightning. Sprinkle the flowers around
the house and bathe in the flowers for
courage and protection.
• Cinquefoil is used in the bath to wash
away curses. Fill an empty eggshell
with this herb, tape it shut and hide it
somewhere in the home to protect the
property.
Known as “the helping hand,” keep a
pressed leaf in your place of work to aid
you in your projects.
• Clematis increases the sweetness that
comes late in life such as respect from
one’s children, cronehood and the
honouring of elders.
The Lúnasa (Lammas) chapter follows
with an original story about Lugh of the
Long Arm and his foster father the sea god
Manannán Mac Lir.
There are suggestions for the early
harvest feast such as breads made from the
new grain, dishes made with new potatoes
and anything made with bilberries.
Since Lúnasa (Lammas) was traditionally
a time for competitions, I offer examples of
fun, traditional games such as horseshoe
pitching, Blind Man’s Bluff and many more.
Other suggested activities are making
thanks offerings to the faeries and land
spirits, performing a play about Lugh and a
dragon, and visiting holy wells.
The final autumn equinox chapter
involves the spirits of the grain and the
spirits of the sea. I tell an Orkney-based
tale about mermaids and the god and
goddess of the ocean and their struggles.
I offer a recipe for broonie (oatmeal
gingerbread) and instructions for making
a corn dolly from the last sheaf of the
harvest.
There is a description of an autumn
equinox altar to give thanks for what has
been accomplished in the light half of the
year, and to set one’s intentions for what
one wishes to accomplish in the coming
dark half of the year.
Further suggestions for autumn
activities include storing fresh produce and
herbs, making jams, jellies and pies, and
making gingerbread creatures, breads and
cakes incorporating small amounts of new
grains freshly harvested.
Then there’s bringing fresh vegetables
to a local food bank, planting a tree, digging
for new carrots and other roots, and
leaving a portion of the harvest on the land
for the land spirits to enjoy.
n “Once Around the Sun – Stories, Crafts
and Recipes to Celebrate the Sacred Earth
Year” is published by Destiny Books (an
imprint of Inner Traditions) at £12.99 and is
available from various sites such as amazon.
co.uk It runs to 160 pages. A Kindle edition is
also available.
For details of Ellen’s other books, please
visit www.elleneverthopman.com
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Finding meditative moments

in ancient crafts
By Debbie Munro

A former nurse and archaeologist, Debbie Munro now runs the “The This culminated on the day I saw a
spinning wheel for sale online. I pressed
Lace Knittery,” a natural yarn and fibre-filled emporium in Somerset. the button not having a clue – and it was
A natural empath and sensitive, Debbie appears at local and sold to me.
national shows, “usually with a drop spindle or knitting in my hands,” A recycled vacuum cleaner box duly
and has also appeared on TV demonstating knitting techniques or arrived with the wheel and my creative
journey into the past and a present journey
spinning. Below, she explains how both have meditative qualities. into myself had begun.
DO you watch sport? I must admit that I I had a love/hate relationship with that
rarely do so, as my go to activities are yoga first wheel. It would not do what I wanted,
and rambling with some beachcombing but I persevered.
thrown in when the opportunity arises. I found some felting fibre and produced
Neither could be considered as a a hat, which was too small for my head.
spectator or team sport. With yoga I am Filled with discontent, it hangs on the back
competing against myself both physically of the door to this day and I have grown to
and mentally. love it.
However, I could not work out the
I didn’t see much of the Olympic Games,
problem – was it the wheel or me? I nearly
but did catch one thing – swimmer Tom
gave the whole thing up, but spinning was
Daley, OBE, knitting while watching the
obviously in my destiny.
rest of his teammates compete.
As I was visiting a craft show, nestling
When questioned about it in later
at the back of a stand was a spinning
interviews, Tom said a trainer suggested
wheel for sale. “Can I try it?” I asked. The
it as a way to deal with stress and he was experience was kismet.
hooked. I can only liken it to when I was at
At last it seems the wider world is DEBBIE MUNRO found that dowsing rods “melded another local show a few years ago and
catching up to the beneficial properties of to my hands.”
saw a stall selling dowsing rods.
mindful making with fibre and yarn, and I had seen them used on archaeological
the meditative space it creates. Is this the fleece on fence lines and flax growing in
sites and always wondered what they do
new recognition and understanding of the vibrant fields each summer. This created a and how they work, so picked up a couple
ancient skills of spinning and knitting as yearning to know more, a desire to connect of pairs of rods and waved them around in
meditation? with those who came before and to learn. a self-conscious way.
I have been spinning fibre for close to It remained just a possibility as small Nothing! The stallholder encouraged
twenty years, knitted for as long as I can children and busy lives took over, but every me to find my pair. I had nothing else to do,
remember and had the desire to spin for a time I looked at a spindle whorl or loom so carried on and then I found my pair.
number of years before I took it up. weight while studying archaeology the When I picked them up, there was an
On my rambles, I would spot tufts of desire remained and grew. almost audible click. They melded to my

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hands. No other pair felt right: these were You begin to think about and feel
mine. connected to those who have gone before.
It was the same with the spinning wheel; Your hands are working in the same way
we were one. Within a few minutes of and producing the same result.
trying it out, yarn was flowing from my I am always amazed that I am doing
fingers onto the wheel with no cussing, something which is centuries old.
begging or crying. The alchemy had begun. You appreciate the skills that you are
So how is mindful making with spinning continuing.
and knitting becoming part of an everyday A huge understanding of lives gone
meditative practice? before and respect for them develops. I
The first reaction is physical, nearly often think about mediaeval illustrated
instantaneous and happens each time. parchment documents where alongside
Once you pick up the needles, hook or fantastical beasts and farming scenes are
spindle, or sit down at a wheel, your body illustrations of women with drop spindles.
language changes. I feel an instant connection when I pick
Your shoulders drop, limbs relax and one up, as I am producing yarn in the same
breathing slows. Any anger, frustration way that has been done for hundreds if not
or hatred of the day disappears and it is DROP spindles, which have been around for
thousands of years, can also be used for spinning. thousands of years. You cannot help but
impossible to remain tense. feel those generations behind you as you
Your mind has divorced from an When looking at films of women during work.
immediate concern that seemed so huge the Second World War, while listening to My spinning wheel was made in 1973
the moment before as you focus on terrible news on the radio and worrying around the time of BBC TV’s The Good Life
something else, something for you. about relatives, I often wondered how they sitcom in which Felicity Kendal and Richard
Knitting or spinning breaks the cycle of were not pacing the floor. Briers played a couple who gave up the
worrying or destructive thoughts when the Look closer and they are usually all rat race for a life of simplicity and self-
mind – or mine at least – feels caught up in knitting while listening. They exude a sufficiency in the suburbs.
a whirlpool of repeating worries, concerns
certain calmness. Did knitting, which was I often wonder who owned the spinning
or perceived hurts.
one thing they could do from the home wheel before me. It feels full of love and is
Both enable the mind to put these
front, produce this state of calm as a by- a sturdy competent workhorse. Was that
thoughts into perspective. Those which are
product? feeling imbued by the previous owners?
trivial are forgotten within a few moments
Even without major worries to process, The connection forged in the mind with
of starting to create.
I am not saying that all worries big and this state of calm or meditation allows your ancestors makes me want to carry on and
small are forgotten in a few moments. deeper mind to soar across time and space. do my best with their skills and equipment,
Knitting or spinning is no magic cure for
life-changing or traumatic events, but what
does happen is a duality of the mind.
Your eyes see and your hands feel the
fibre or yarn in front of you and the top
most part of your mind is concentrating on
the work of making.
Practise enough and some moments it
seems as though the spinning and knitting
is being done with no input from yourself;
hands and fibre are performing through a
oneness with the world.
That is pure magic. Enjoy the moment
because you will over think, stumble and
the moment is lost.
At a deeper almost subconscious level,
your mind enters a meditative state and
for those greater concerns it processes,
accepts, decides and roams across the
possibilities and options.
Nothing is hurried or harsh. There is no
“Eureka!” moment, but just an end result of
a calmness of being and an acceptance of
the new state.
At the end of this process, you make
peace with yourself, accept what you
cannot change and move forward.
For myself, it helped me to process a life-
altering health diagnosis. Speaking to other
knitters and spinners, this deep state also
helped them to accept the ill-health and
death of a relative, cope with depression
and move forward from redundancy. SEEN at her spinning wheel, Debbie Munro says, “It’s the action that’s important, not the end result.”

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and pass it on to those in the future.
With the meditative state achieved, you
inherit an obligation and understanding of
lives past, but also a responsibility to carry
it forward in the best way possible.
Beyond a connection forged with
previous generations, work with fibre
or yarn long enough and importance of
honouring Earth and the animals and
plants who produce fibre becomes more
and more important.
You cannot enter a deep, relaxed and
contented state if you know something
suffered for your peace. It has driven
me to search out and use only traceable,
responsible and sustainable sources.
In the last decade that I have been
talking to people about this, a huge amount
has changed, which we as consumers have
achieved, though it’s one ball of yarn or one
fleece at a time.
Ten years ago, there was a widespread
farming practice in the major wool-
producing countries called mulesing.
This involved the removal of strips
of wool-bearing skin from around the
breech of a sheep to prevent the parasitic
infection flystrike. The exposed wounds
often became infected.
I found it impossible to use any fibre or
yarn which I knew had mulesed content.
I could not make anything that I enjoyed,
found it difficult to settle into spinning and
told a lot of people about it.
A decade later and most yarn and fibre
is now non-mulesed. The practice is now
banned in all countries with one exception,
which I expect to follow soon.
Our consumer choices driven by
mindfulness forced this change. I find that
my drive to learn and inform may have had
a little part in this, which gives me great joy.
Karma is in everything.
This is only the beginning. The
Fibreshed movement is growing in the
UK and around the world and supports a
sustainable holistic way of producing from
the farm to the end user.
Amongst the tenets of the Fibreshed
movement is that a garment is made using
entirely natural fibres, without chemical or
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You cannot enter a deep, relaxed
and contented state if you know
something suffered for your peace
artificial inputs, and is biodegradable and
compostable.
There is also a growing industry of
recycled yarns and fibres, often using
waste which we shipped to Third World
countries. Are the positive intentions
of multiple people to mend the world
beginning to reap rewards? I like to think
that they are.
The difference in using a fibre or yarn
that you know has not caused pain to an
animal or Earth is huge. Because the skills
in spinning and fibre crafts are so tactile,
you can feel the difference.
Yarns and fibre with minimal or no
chemical treatment which you know have
been properly looked after feel more
alive. This is everyday working meditative
thoughts and deeds in action.
It is becoming ingrained in the soul and
those new to these crafts benefit. There is
a huge choice now and a lot of people who
will help and direct responsible consumer
choice.
When you use responsibly sourced
and ethically produced yarn and fibre, it is
easier to reach the meditative state.
For me, this is because when the mind
separates into its duality, I am not worrying
about or thinking of the source of the
material I’m using. This allows my mind
to travel to think of the past or go to the
future instead.
I find that the calmness of being
becomes a habit, like meditation when a
state of a meditative mind can be achieved
within a few breaths. It allows you to live
in the moment and accept your mistakes,
celebrate your successes and be an
individual.
If a thread breaks when spinning, start
again and don’t beat yourself up. Even if
there is a lumpy patch, you have created
something beautiful and unique.
When you come across that lump,
it will take you back to the moment of
its creation. Instead of feeling unhappy
that you didn’t make a perfect yarn, you
can remember the day, the weather and
feelings, and enjoy its quirkiness.
When I create a design or dye yarn
a new colour, I am drawing on this and
capturing a moment in time. My oneness
with the fibre means that every time I look
at that colour or design, I am transported
back to the place of its inception.
It makes me smile. I can feel the heat of
the day or smell the pineapple weed. It is
like going to my place with the rest of the
light when I meditate at the end of a yoga
session.
With knitting, I think there is a mistake
in every single piece I make. The calm state
of mind says: “This is okay. I am not perfect
and don’t have to be.”
If you feel the desire to investigate
further and try out one of these ancient
skills, there are a many resources online
and various clubs, guilds and groups that
can help in all areas of the country.
Go to shows, talk to people, and look
at books, magazines or YouTube. Do
whatever works for you.
There are only two provisos I would
give. Number one: you don’t have to like
everything and you will not be good at
everything.
I really dislike several forms of knitting
and it’s like pulling teeth for me spinning
chunky yarn. Find your place and you will
also find your calm and develop at your
own pace.
Secondly, think outside the box. The
meditative aspect allows you to do that.
If in your deep state of mind you wonder
“What would happen if I did that?” try it.
The universe may be trying to tell you
something. It could be a way for you to
grow spiritually, heal or something which
will change the world.
Finally, it doesn’t matter if you knit only
a couple stitches, undertake two minutes
of drop spindle spinning or sit there and
knit one thousand stitches. It’s the action
that’s important, not the end result, so just
enjoy whatever you do.
n Debbie can be contacted via e-mail at
thelaceknittery@outlook.com or Instagram
@thelaceknittery Her website is at
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Identifying your
soul plan
BY DEBRA KILBY

Debra Kilby is a healer, channel, spirit baby medium, soul plan reader come can be through so many ways – a
sudden inspiration, a song, a healing
and author of “Rosa’s Choice: Healing the Wounds of the Mother,” session or reading an article such as this
which is “A Journey into the world of the spirit baby.” will activate your answers.
In her own words, Debra “supports women to birth themselves, their No one else holds your answers, but
babies and life, empowering them to remember their gifts and who we’re all a piece of each other’s puzzle
helping one another to remember.
they are to live the life they desire through various energy healing I feel 2022 is a year that the call to
tools, channelled messages and intuitive insights. “ uncover your soul’s plan, align with it
and know yourself on a deeper level will
LET’S start with a channelled message I
become even stronger as we question the
received on your soul’s plan. It reads: “Sit
world around us and what we thought to
still in the waters of yourself where you
be true and instead rediscover our own
will the find the place where I abide.
truths. It’s also a time to remember just
“Sit still in the waters of your life, so you how vast and magnificent we are.
can find the place where I reside. Sit still in There’s a common saying when faced
your life as it currently runs and find the with big choices and experiences that
place where your waters abide. “I’m only human,” as if you are only able to
“Sit still in the life that is all around, manage a certain amount and that you’re
so you can find your place, the place you limited in some way.
abide.” I feel it’s time to turn this around.
Have you ever wondered if your soul Lifetimes of “stuff” – past life and ancestral
has a plan? If so what is it? Why did you as well as this lifetime – hurts and traumas
choose to experience certain things on a DEBRA KILBY: “No one else holds your answers.” have led us to forgetting just how powerful
soul level? and magnificent we are.
Questions such as “What am I doing mind for days, months or years. You’re not “only human.” You are human
here? Why did I choose to be on Earth at Spirit shared with me that we only ever – a hugely powerful creation and creator,
this time? What is my life all about?” may ask the questions to which we already and a beautiful mishmash of all the most
well have been spinning around in your know the answers. How those answers magical beings.

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It's you – always you – who holds the
choice and power. No fixing of you or your
life is necessary, but just a remembering
that you are so much more than you’ve
ever been told.
What’s needed is knowledge of your
own power and how to access it. You are
already the perfection you seek.
That doesn’t mean self-growth and
awareness are not necessary, for we’re
always growing. The difference is knowing
you are becoming who you already are,
which allows for more acceptance of
yourself as you continue on your life’s
journey.
Knowing your soul plan can take the
pressure off your human self. You can be
more curious about what your soul wished
to learn this time around and also step
more confidently into your natural gifts
and talents.
It also means that you can follow the
direction of your life’s purpose with less
confusion and self-doubt.
How do you know what
your soul plan is?
Whenever I’m giving a soul plan reading
and taking someone through the energies
of their soul choices, challenges and
natural gifts, I’m not telling them anything
they don’t already know; they just haven’t
consciously “seen” it yet or put it into a
context that makes sense to them.
We’re already living our soul’s plan.
When you become consciously aware
of this, something is activated to begin
working within your soul essence and feel
more aligned and confident in who you are.
There are many ways to access this
knowledge about yourself – numerology,
regression, astrology and meditation are
just a few examples.
In this article, I’ll share with you the
soul plan reading system as well as offer a
glimpse into the spirit baby realm and the
experience you may have had when making
your soul choices.
I will also share some questions that
may be helpful to ask yourself to activate
your remembrance.
What’s in a name?
Firstly, a little on the soul plan system,
which is a new interpretation of an ancient
system of life purpose analysis channelled
by Blue Marsden, a Hay House author
and creator of London’s Holistic Healing
College.
It works on the conscious and
unconscious levels, revealing the energies
in your soul plan that bring your challenges
to the fore.
It also opens you up to embody your
gifts that then help you move through
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challenges to reach your goals and
ultimately your life purpose energy – your
highest potential in this lifetime.
The soul plan system interprets your
choices on both a worldly level – money,
relationships and career – and a spiritual
level. It’s helpful for personal, relationship
and business readings.
When I access someone’s life before life,
I’m either taken to their “planning room”
or an energy or experience in a different
life or realm which they would like to find
resolution on. This becomes one of their
YOU are “already the perfection you seek.”
motivations for their life experiences this
time around.
There are 22 energies in the soul
plan system. We experience all of them.
However, we choose to experience some
more intimately each lifetime.
For a soul plan reading, the answers
lie in your birth name. The name you are
gifted with at birth is fundamental to
your relationship with the world and your
unique life path within it.
The process has been described as
“reading the DNA of your soul” as you
discover those aspects of life which on a
higher level you have chosen to experience,
the natural talents you’ve likewise chosen
to embrace and goals you wish to reach.
Your name is like a secret code to who
you are – a blueprint for your life that helps
direct you to be who you came here to be,
unlocking your potential and awakening
your true purpose. It’s like a map of life.
Through a soul plan reading, you
discover whether your energies are
guiding you to be of service, to teach, to
communicate, to be a healer or channel,
to facilitate groups, create change and
bring heaven to earth, for example, and
challenges you wish to work through to
fully embody the potential within yourself.
Your name sets the intention for your
life experiences. On the whole, your full
birth name, whether adopted or changed
for whatever reason, remains your
dominant vibration.
Nicknames and married names
attract new energies, which bring in new
experiences, but your original name sets
the scene.
Each letter has a unique sound
vibration, which interacts with universal
energies. Your name connects you to the
people, opportunities and situations which
will enable you to fulfil the call from your
soul to achieve your soul’s purpose.
Your name is how you introduce
yourself to the world. There is a powerful
energy released each time you say your
name or your name is called.
Whoever names you is acting as a
channel of the intention and your name is
fundamental to your relationship with the
world.
I have read and shared the soul plan of
many clients whose birth certificates had a
spelling mistake or those who are adopted
and their birth name is different from their
current passport or official name.
It never ceases to amaze me how
they resonate more with the energies,
challenges, gifts and goals of their original
birth name than with the name they go by
now.
You can check the meaning of your
name and its history on many websites.
Your name offers a clue to your lineage as
well as your purpose.
It’s a really interesting exercise to
explore your name meaning more deeply.
If you set the intention of “knowing” when
you do this, a little spark of recognition will
be lit.
Why make those choices?
I’ve already mentioned how experiences in
our past lives can be a motivation for what
we want to experience in this one. The
important thing to know is that you get to
choose.
Life doesn’t happen to you, for you are
the one who chooses and creates. This
choice starts long before you come into
physical form.
However, I would like to make it clear
that once upon a time our soul choices may
have been a pretty fixed experience.
Now, with the level of awareness
rising, I feel and have witnessed new plans
being made. You are not beholden to any
contracts or choices. The whole point is
that you are a powerful creator and get to
choose in every moment.
Choice begins long before you arrive in
physical form. As a spirit baby medium, I
love visiting the spirit baby realm.
Rosa, one of my spirit babies, said:
“Earth is the greatest show to be a part
of with all sorts of gifts and skills they are
bringing from all cultures and experiences.

“Here in the spirit baby realm they hone
their gifts, make their friends and plan their
lives.”
We’re already practising our gifts
before we even come into form. A personal
experience of this was meeting the energy
of a surgeon of one of my clients and how
he already knew who he was going to help
and how.
This was reaffirming and soothing for
my client to see and feel for herself before
going in for an operation.
You can read more about the spirit baby
realm in my book, Rosa’s Choice: Healing
the Wounds of the Mother. Here are two
key aspects of choice you had before you
arrived.
How do souls choose their parents?
Some parents are already chosen from
the soul family. There was role swapping
from mum to friend, and child to parent,
and many negotiations and agreements
between souls who had spent lifetimes
together.
Others chose soul family members
whom they knew would offer them the
experiences they needed.
Some souls requested to meet up with
soul family members who had recently
passed, as they knew they could offer them
insight, wisdom and advice before they
arrived on Earth.
Other souls had chosen their location
first and then began to choose parents
living in their preferred location. Some had
a number of souls in Spirit and already on
Earth to choose from.
The babies didn’t see anyone we here on
Earth may feel or deem to be “a bad choice”
because these souls weren’t judging the
behaviour of anyone. They only saw the
love and the light of the souls.
I’m sure many of us have asked the
question why children would choose what
may be considered a challenging family
upbringing as we may judge it.
One spirit baby stated simply: “Because
I love them. They can give me what I
need and bring me to where I need to go.
Because I’ll be different, I can help them to
be different too.”
I saw many guides talking to the baby
souls. Although my knowledge of sacred
geometry is minimal, there were symbols,
diagrams, charts and maps of the stars that
showed how everything is aligning and
how we’ll all align in this huge picture of
the universe with maps and figures being
manoeuvred about on a massive scale.
Location, location, location
I was amazed to see how important
location was in terms of choice. When I
was shown the phase from spirit baby into
physical form, you might imagine this as a
type of classroom.
In this “classroom,” spirit babies could
look at the whole Earth with an image of
the view astronauts are privileged to see.
This three-dimensional view could be
turned and zoomed in on, so they could
really get a sense in great detail of all the
areas they could go to. It was like Earth
under a microscope.
As they saw Mount Everest, the babies
all let out a gasp of delight. For many this
felt like a touchstone between Earth and
the spirit baby realm.
Perhaps it is an access point. The top of
Mount Everest felt very similar in energy
to where they were currently – a precious,
Spirit-Earth connection point.
The babies were shown oceans, lakes
and seas, cities and the countryside,
deserts and forests, and then finally people
walking around.
What was really clear is that location
SOME parents are “chosen from the soul family.”
is very important as part of their plan
and their mission, and where was their
light was needed. They looked without
judgement and more in terms of what they
want to do in order to bring light to that
particular place.
They – and I assume that means all of
us – were able to view Earth from this very
high perspective.
If we all had the opportunity to be in
that space and see our planet and our own
lives from this perspective, I wonder if we
would we do more ourselves to transform
how we live and treat Earth rather than
leaving it all to the next generation of souls.
Graduation
There were lots of negotiations and
friendships made and re-formed – the who,
the why, the what and the where? – until all
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souls found each other to make their plan
together.
There’s always a bigger plan, but I
believe that what I was shown is a snapshot
of how an individual plan comes together –
our own piece of an infinite puzzle.
Are you curious what your soul choices
and experience are? A key to note is that
you have always had choice and continue
to have choice of what you see, experience
and create in your world. No one and no
thing gets to choose for you.
The message that opened this article
and the words below are ones I channelled
from Source when I was first intrigued
about soul plan and why it’s important:
“All people seek is nothing more than to
be able to relax in the still waters of their
minds, knowing there is nothing to do and
nothing to be but themselves. It is from
this place that all shall come; it is from this
place all they seek.
“They shall find and become at one and
at peace with their world and the world
around them, for they have found the
oneness with no separation or illusion of
what they are leaving behind and instead
stepping into all the gifts and treasures
they will find.”
I hope this article has opened up
a gateway for you to know, align and
embrace your soul plan and live your best
life. See how you go with the questions
below to help connect with your life’s
purpose.
1) What lights me up?
2) What experiences do I wish to have in
this lifetime?
3) What role do I enjoy the most –
partner, parent, teacher, counsellor,
etc?
4) What traits do I like about myself in
each role and which ones don’t I like?
5) If I had no financial constraints at all
what would I be doing?
6) What do I want my legacy to be?
7) What are the reasons that I don’t go
after my dreams?
8) Where do I feel most stuck in life –
career, relationships, money, etc?
9) If I could change a habit or behaviour,
what would it be?
10) What key events worked out and
which ones didn’t – and why?
n To connect with Debra or ask further
questions, please visit her website at
debrakilby.com where you can purchase her
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Your paranormal and spiritual
questions answered
BY GRAHAM JENNINGS
Spirit voices were heard
from 1,000 miles
Who was the medium through whom the
direct voice was heard 1,000 miles away?
– Bernadette Robinson.
This was the trance, healing and
clairvoyant medium Mona van der Watt.
Born in Scotland in the early years of the
last century, she saw spirit forms as a child.
Her mother was a natural medium.
Mona founded a Spiritualist church in
Edinburgh in the late 1930s. When she was
sitting for development, her guide gave
her a choice: she could either develop a
loud direct voice for a small gathering of
people or a quieter one suitable for a large
gathering. She chose the latter.
The direct voice, first heard close to
the solar plexus, became a high-pitched
voice near Mona’s left shoulder. While
demonstrating, she could physically hear
the voice relaying messages from spirit
communicators.
Mona then repeated it to the recipient.
Those who were near her sometimes heard
the voice as well.
Her first husband was opposed to
Spiritualism and refused to let her
demonstrate at other churches. That
marriage ended in divorce, but in 1954 Dr
Eben van de Watt, a South African, visited
the USA and Britain seeking knowledge of
Spiritualism.
Eben went to London and then Scotland
where he met Mona. They fell in love,
married and Mona emigrated to South
Africa.
She and Eben were determined to found
a church. Mona gave private sittings for the
Cape Town Psychic Club and put her fees
into an account “until I needed it to buy my
first hymn books.”
Together they hired halls for church
services. Eventually, they rented an old
nursing home on a permanent basis. It was
in Oranjezicht, a suburb of Cape Town on
the granite slopes of Table Mountain.
The couple transformed it into a church
and called it The Little Temple of Spiritual
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MONA AND EBEN VAN DER WATT raised enough
money for up to 1,000 food parcels.
Fellowship. From the outset, they were
as inclusive as they could be under South
Africa’s apartheid laws.
All citizens were classified by race,
mostly Bantu (black Africans), Coloured
(mixed race) or White. In the Cape the
majority were Coloureds with Afrikaners
and Europeans in the minority.
Mona became President of The Little
Temple, which held services alternately
in Afrikaans and English. Everyone was
welcome to attend.
She also encouraged Non-whites
to develop their own speakers and
mediums and hold services. This
demonstrated that Spiritualism was
universal, unlike the dominant Dutch
Reformed Church, which supported
apartheid.
Many Non-whites were impoverished,
so at Christmas Eben and Mona collected
money and donations for up to a thousand
food parcels. These were distributed on
Christmas Eve.
On Christmas Day, private cars and
a St John Ambulance collected up to
300 children, some handicapped, for a
Christmas party. If more Afrikaners had
been like Eben, the history of their country
would have been so different.
On one occasion Mona relayed a
communication from former Prime
Minister Jan Smuts (1870-1950),
prophesying great changes ahead.
Mona’s mediumship continued to
develop. The high-pitched voice near her
left shoulder became more audible than
in Scotland. The congregation nearest her
heard the guide relaying messages in rapid
English, which she then repeated.
Sometimes, Mona wore a throat mike,
so that everyone could hear the voice.
Occasionally, it would leave her and be
heard above the head of a congregation
member, giving the message directly.
Now and again, Mona’s guide had
difficulty in understanding a spirit
communicator. He could be heard asking
for clarification in Afrikaans before
relaying the message to Mona in English.
Mona was entranced during her
demonstrations. She walked around
with her eyes closed and was directed by
her guide to stop in front of the person
intended.
She also travelled widely and in 1963
demonstrated clairvoyance in London. A
PN reporter wrote: “Sceptics who would
argue that ventriloquism is the answer
have the findings of a team of six doctors
from Edinburgh to explain.
“They examined the medium with a
stethoscope. Wherever they put it, they
heard the voice speaking. Yet it was
impossible for them to trace its source.”
Mona practised healing in the church
and hospitals, including the Roman
Catholic Monastery Hospital. She and
Eben knew Christiaan Barnard, the South
African surgeon who performed the first
human heart transplant operation in 1967.
The following year he suffered arthritis
in his hands. They asked Harry Edwards at
his healing sanctuary in England to send
absent healing, which he did.
It was successful and Christiaan

Barnard was able to continue with his
heart transplants. In 1969, he opened a
bazaar at The Little Temple.
Mona and Eben were active members
of the International Spiritualist
Federation. In 1960 and 1963, she
attended congresses of the federation.
On both occasions, while Mona was in
transit, as promised her guides managed
to reproduce her direct voice in The Little
Temple. It was clearly heard by the whole
Murderer claimed ‘dead’ gangster
haunted him
November’s magazine told how Al Capone
was haunted by the spirit of another
gangster whom he had murdered. Are there
any other instances of “dead” gangsters
haunting anyone? – Michael Thompson.
In 1961, Victor John Terry, a twenty-
year-old bank robber, was tried and found
guilty of murder. He claimed as his defence
that he had been influenced by the spirit
of an American gangster called Jack “Legs”
Diamond.
Like Capone, Diamond (1897-1931)
rose to notoriety during the Prohibition
era. He was a New York bootlegger,
hijacker, murderer and notorious double-
crosser. Hated even by fellow gangsters
he was, in the curious spirit of the age,
sometimes admired by the public.
Diamond was wounded in numerous
shootouts, but survived. Arrested and tried
several times, he was always acquitted.
After celebrating his latest acquittal for
kidnap and torture, Diamond staggered
back to his Albany boarding house and
collapsed. He was later shot dead by two
unknown assailants.
In 1960, The Rise and Fall of Legs
Diamond, a film glamorising his exploits,
went on general release in the UK. Victor
Terry must have seen it.
He claimed that Diamond’s spirit had
haunted him since boyhood. Like Diamond,
he was frequently in trouble with the law
and served time in borstal for a violent
robbery.
Seeing his hero on the silver screen can
only have fuelled his ambition to become
a gangster himself. Terry applied for a
shotgun licence in the name of “Diamond”
and on November 8, 1961 purchased a
shotgun and cartridges.
He stole a green Wolseley car in
Chiswick, West London, where he lived,
then drove to Worthing in West Sussex to
congregation while she was more than
1,000 miles distant.
Fraternally Yours, the federation’s
journal, reported that on June 24, 1971,
Mona’s guide predicted the fourth Arab-
Israeli war.
“The trouble is not over,” he said. “The
storm breaks towards the Suez Canal… It
will be a fiercer storm than before.”(The
Yom Kippur War began on October 6,
1973.)
A NOTORIOUS double-crosser, Jack “Legs” Diamond was killed by two unknown assailants.
(Photo: Philadelphia Police Department wanted poster)
visit his girlfriend Valerie Slater.
On November 10, he and an accomplice
walked into Lloyds Bank at Field Place in
Durrington near Worthing. Terry pointed
the gun at Andrew Barker, the cashier, and
John Pull, the bank’s guard, and demanded
money.
When Mr Pull refused, Terry shot him
dead. He and his accomplice escaped with
£1,372. Terry then went on the run with
Valerie.
The crime shocked the nation and their
photos were in every newspaper and on
television.
After two days, they booked in at an
hotel in Glasgow. The owner recognised
her English guests as the fugitives and they
were arrested in their room at 1.00 am on
November 13.
Terry was tried for murder at Lewes
Assizes in March. His defence council, Alan
King-Hamilton, QC, described in detail
how Terry believed the spirit of Diamond
had influenced him for most of his life.
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In that year, The Temple of Spiritual
Fellowship moved to bigger premises
in Fleetway House on Cape Town’s
foreshore.
Sadly, in later life Mona was troubled
by ill health and confined to bed for three
years.
At the end of August 1980, she said to
Eben: “I think I am going to pass on. Give
my love to everyone.” She passed a few
hours later.
Terry, he said, had signed a hotel
register as “Mr and Mrs Diamond.” He
added, “In Terry’s hallucinations it was not
he and his girlfriend who were going away;
it was ‘Legs’ Diamond and his gangster’s
moll.”
Mr King-Hamilton produced evidence
of Terry’s mental instability, but the jury
thought otherwise and found him guilty.
Terry was sentenced to death and
committed to Wandsworth prison. His
appeal was rejected and he was hanged on
May 25, 1961.
Gertrude Terry (no relation), the then
Secretary of London’s Ealing Spiritualist
Church, contacted PN. She remembered
Terry attending demonstrations of
clairvoyance there the year before.
He came dressed as a Teddy Boy and
always sat alone. He once asked to speak
to her, but she was busy at that moment.
When Gertrude looked round for him,
he had gone, and later regretted she was
unable to help him.
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Medium spoke 26 languages
when entranced
What can you tell me of the Brazilian
medium Carlos Mirabelli who wrote and
spoke in over twenty languages, some of
them ancient, and yet was barely literate?
– Susan West.
Carlos (Carmine) Mirabelli was born to
Italian immigrant parents in Botucatu, São
Paulo, Brazil in 1889.
Mirabelli’s psychic abilities manifested
in his teens when he was working as a clerk
in a shoe shop. Boxes flew off shelves and
followed him as he fled into the street.
He was committed to an asylum – a not
uncommon fate for mediums then – for
observation. Even in a straitjacket he was
able to move distant objects.
The doctors concluded this was “the
result of the radiation of nervous forces
that we all have, but that Mr Mirabelli has
in extraordinary excess.” He was released
after nineteen days.
Mirabelli began to demonstrate a
range of psychic phenomena including
materialisation, psychokinesis (objects’
paranormal movement), levitation, trance
speaking and automatic writing in many
languages.
In 1919, the Academy of Psychical
Studies “Cesare Lombroso” (presumably
named after the Italian criminologist) was
founded in São Paolo by José de Freitas
Tinoco.
The academy investigated Mirabelli
for trance speaking, automatic writing
and physical mediumship. It is the
academy’s 1926 report that is the source
of most of the information concerning his
mediumistic abilities.
In total 392 sittings were held, either
in broad daylight or bright electric light.
While entranced, Mirabelli spoke in 26
languages including dialects and wrote in
28.
He was even able to speak in one
language while writing in another. They
included Czech, Japanese, Latin, Chaldaic
and Egyptian hieroglyphics, all written
rapidly.
His linguistic abilities were otherwise
limited to Italian and Portuguese with
some English and possibly German. He
spoke none of them correctly.
Carlos Imbassahy, a Spiritist, described
him as speaking “detestable Italian mixed
with Portuguese and Spanish words.”
Of course, all these phenomena,
wonderful as they are, are not necessarily
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evidence of survival or a spirit world. A
full form materialisation is, especially of
someone who is well known.
Such a person was the Bishop of São
Paolo, Dr José de Camargo Barros. He
went down with the SS Sirio when she sank
in 1906, and was last seen blessing the
drowning passengers.
For the 63 sittings for physical
phenomena, Mirabelli was fastened to
an armchair in full view of everyone.
Sometimes he and the chair were seen to
levitate.
The materialisation of the bishop was
witnessed by Eric Dingwall, a Research
Officer for Britain’s Society for Psychical
Research (SPR).
He described an odour of roses filling
CARLOS MIRABELLI: A “dead” bishop materialised
at one of his sittings. (Photo: Rodolpho Hugo
Mikulasch)
the room and a “vague cloudy appearance”
forming above Mirabelli in the chair. The
cloud moved towards the sitters and the
“smiling form” of the bishop emerged from
it. Eric Dingwall wrote:
“He was wearing his biretta (an
ecclesiastical hat) and insignia of office
and when he descended to earth he was
minutely examined by a medical man.
“His respiration was verified and the
saliva in his mouth examined: even the
inner rumblings of the stomach were duly
heard and noted.
“Other sitters also examined the
figure and fully satisfied themselves that
they were not the victims of illusion or
disordered imagination. The Bishop then
addressed them and told them to watch
carefully the mode of his disappearance.
“The phantom then approached the
medium who was lying in his chair in a deep
trance, and bent over him.
“Suddenly the body of the phantom
appeared to be convulsed in a strange
manner and then began to shrink and
seemingly to wither away.”
This was but one of many remarkable
physical phenomena witnessed by
Dingwall. He considered them “so
extraordinary indeed that there is nothing
like them in the whole range of psychical
literature.”
Author and paranormal investigator
Guy Lyon Playfair added that if everything
reported were true, “He was without
doubt the most spectacular physical
effects medium in history.”
Why, then, wasn’t Mirabelli better
known to the rest of the world? One
reason is that most of the accounts were
written in Portuguese and not translated,
like O Medium Mirabelli by Amador Bueno.
Another was a cursive and dismissive
investigation in 1934 of Mirabelli by
another SPR Research Officer, Theodore
Besterman. While admitting that there
were some phenomena he could not
explain, he believed the rest were simply
conjuring tricks.
Dingwall thought his criticisms unfair
and complained that he had not bothered
to interview the witnesses of Mirabelli’s
more spectacular phenomena.
Unfortunately, Besterman’s allegations
of fraud were not without foundation.
In 1990, a photo turned up in the SPR
archives of Mirabelli apparently levitating,
his head near a ceiling.
Careful examination showed that the
photo had been retouched, presumably
to remove a stepladder on which he was
standing.
Why on earth should Mirabelli ever
have stooped to such a silly subterfuge?
Was it because he wasn’t above pulling a
fast one if the expected phenomena failed
to occur? We shall never know.
Playfair, however, a fluent Portuguese
speaker, went to Brazil twenty years after
Mirabelli’s passing in 1951. He spoke to
three of Mirabelli’s sons and several people
who had witnessed his phenomena. All
affirmed what they had seen and saw no
reason to change their testimony.

Plane vanishes
into thin air
Earlier this year, John West took a tour of haunted airfields of
Lincolnshire. Below he presents more high-flying cases and starts with
RAF Hibaldstow, which closed in 1947.
IN 1953 (another account says it was
1952) several former RAF fighter pilots
travelled to the airfield for a nostalgic look
around. They stayed for an hour chatting
and exchanging old war stories before
deciding to return to their cars.
As they turned back for a final look at
the airfield, they suddenly heard the sound
of a Merlin engine being throttled back.
They then saw a Mark IV Spitfire coming
in for a landing on the main runway. When
it reached the airfield perimeter the plane
vanished.
Kelstern
RAF Kelstern closed in 1945. The war
memorial at Kelstern is a bleak and lonely
place even on a summer’s day.
One foggy Remembrance Sunday, a lady
called Minnie was visiting the memorial.
She and several other visitors heard a
SEVEN Spitfires are seen in flight during the
Second World War.
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 Kirton-in-Lindsey
In 1965, RAF Kirton-in-Lindsey was
handed over to the British Army. In 2004,
Lancaster bomber flying overhead. They it was returned to the RAF and became the
assumed it was the Lancaster from the home of the No 1 Air Control Centre.
Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, but were The site’s military phase ended when
surprised that it was flying as it was foggy. it was sold in 2014 by the Ministry of
It later emerged that the Lancaster had Defence in to Acorn Recyclers.
not been flying that day. Others have also The former officer’s mess is said to be
claimed to have heard Lancasters taking haunted. Cleaners have refused to go on
off or flying over the former airfield.
It was June 1995 and Sue and Ted
Foster were looking at the memorial when
they noticed a man dressed in RAF uniform
standing thereby. Ted spoke to him and
asked if he was stationed in the area.
The man replied “Ludford Magna.” Ted
and Sue looked back at the memorial and
then decided to leave. It was then that they
noticed the uniformed man had vanished.
RAF Ludford Magna closed in 1964 and
was sold the following year. In 1995, there
were no RAF personnel stationed at the
THIS rare photo was taken outside the officer’s
former airfield, the area having been long mess at RAF Kirton-in-Lindsey in May 1942.
given over to farming and small businesses. (Photo: Facebook/Memories of RAF Kirton in Lindsey)
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VARIOUS paranormal incidents have occurred at RAF Manby. Above is its former Watch Office.
their own to the upstairs toilets and lights
have been known to turn themselves on
and off.
Doors would be found open after being
closed five minutes before. People have
also felt a sense of unease in the building
and been relieved to vacate it.
In the mid-1960s, David Drew, who we
encountered earlier in my account of the
hauntings at Hemswell, was sixteen years
of age and a cadet in the Air Training Corps.
David was attending a gliding school
based at RAF Kirton-in-Lindsey and due to
take his first solo flight one cold and windy
day in winter. He climbed into the glider
and was winched up to 900 feet.
After David pulled the release, he found
himself lifting upwards and banking his
glider to start a circling flight. It was at this
point that he was surprised to see a Spitfire
appear from nowhere.
He turned violently away from it as the
fighter flew by him with its nose rising and
the flaps descending as if preparing to land.
It then suddenly vanished.
Although shocked, David continued
with his flight and landed the glider badly.
During his debriefing, he was taken to task
for his poor flying, but decided to keep the
sighting of the Spitfire to himself for fear of
ridicule.
Manby
RAF Manby closed in 1974. The former
airfield is said to be haunted by the ghost
of an airman dressed in a greatcoat and
gumboots with white socks over the top.
Local legend maintains that he was
a sergeant armourer who killed himself
during the Second World War. The sounds
of aircraft are occasionally heard above the
old runways.
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In the 1980s, a cadet in the Air Training
Corp decided one night to look around the
old officer’s mess after being unable to
sleep. In the building, he noticed an airman
dressed in 1940’s flying gear walking
towards him.
The cadet spoke to him, but the man did
not reply and walked on. The cadet looked
back, but the airman had vanished.
A car show was being held at Manby
and a lady and her father decided to visit
the deserted control tower. They climbed
through a window and made their way
upstairs to the former control room.
The father took a photograph and they
left the building. When the photograph
was developed, a shape resembling a
Lancaster bomber could be seen through a
window. There was nothing to account for
this, as the area outside the control tower
PEOPLE who visit the memorial at RAF Metheringham “often experience a feeling of great sadness when
standing before it.” (Photo: Adrian S. Pye)
had been empty and free of shadows.
The Cornish Paranormal Group visited
the officer’s mess in August 2010. One
team member saw the silhouette of an arm
and shoulder of a person walking away
from a door.
Changes in temperature were noted.
A request for any spirit beings present to
lower the temperature resulted in part
of the building getting colder. Another
request to increase the temperature saw
the same area get warmer.
Torches were also seen to dim as if in
reply to questions from the team. A light
switch string was seen in room 27 to
move on its own. Footsteps, tapping and
a dragging sound were also heard in the
building.
A light fitment in room 26 started to
swing despite the absence of draughts.
Two members of the team also reported
hearing what could have been a dog
running towards them from upstairs.
In April 2011, the group visited the
control tower. One team member heard
a woman laugh and a shadowy figure was
observed passing from the office area into
the kitchen. A white cat was also seen
running across the floor of the control
room and vanishing into thin air.
A second control tower was also
investigated, as people who worked on the
site reported feeling uncomfortable there.
The sounds of a voice and footsteps were
noted and the figure of a man over six feet
tall was seen briefly on the bottom floor.
The sounds of tapping were also heard.
These appeared to be in response to
questions asked by the group.
RAF Manby made newspaper headlines
in 2017 when Steve Wesson was filming
there for a ghost hunting series on

YouTube.
Mr Wesson was investigating one of the
abandoned buildings with a security guard
and two members of his team when a dark
figure holding a torch was seen in the video
walking across the corridor behind them.
No one was in that area at the time. Mr
Wesson said he was at a loss to explain
who it could have been.
Metheringham
RAF Metheringham closed in 1946.
People who visit the memorial to No 106
Squadron often experience a feeling of
great sadness when standing before it.
A steward who worked in the
Metheringham Airfield Visitor Centre
reported hearing unexplained noises at
the site of the old sergeant’s mess. He also
felt a ghostly presence when in the Carey
Powell Museum Room.
A visitor to Metheringham called Ian
Calvert reported how his fully charged
camera batteries were suddenly drained of
power every time he visited the airfield.
Ian Williams was serving in the RAF and
often used Metheringham as a shortcut
when driving to Coningsby. Once, along
with two colleagues, he saw a number of
lights shining from the direction of the
deserted buildings on the airfield.
RAF Metheringham’s most famous
ghost story is that of a nineteen-year-old
woman called Catherine Bystock from
Horncastle.
She was supposed to have been killed in
the summer of 1945 when her boyfriend,
an RAF flight sergeant, skidded his Royal
Enfield motorcycle on a wet road and
crashed. Catherine was thrown from the
machine and killed, but her boyfriend
survived with only a few bruises.
It is claimed that Catherine has been
seen on the road which crosses part of
the airfield. She always appears between
9.30 pm and 10.00 pm, and is dressed in
a grey headscarf and a pale green jacket
bearing RAF insignia. The smell of lavender
perfume is also noted.
Catherine stops passing cars,
motorcycles and even pedestrians, and
tells them that her fiancé has crashed his
motorcycle and is lying injured further up
the road. She then vanishes and the scent
of lavender becomes the smell of rotting
flesh.
Bruce Barrymore Halpenny first
brought the story to the public’s attention
in Ghost Stations, a series of books devoted
to haunted airfields.
However, Mr Halpenny later admitted
to having “altered and even created certain
aspects of the Metheringham Lass” to
catch out those who had falsely claimed to
THE sounds of wartime aircraft “have been heard over the airfield” at RAF Sandtoft, where this memorial
stands. (Photo: Adrian S. Pye)
A LANCASTER bomber takes to the skies to keep
Britain safe from enemy action. (Photo: Cpl Phil
Major ABIPP/MOD)
have seen Catherine.
Mr Halpenny declined to elaborate
further on this statement when pressed to
do so by other paranormal researchers.
It is further claimed by people living in
the area that the whole story was invented
by the owner of a property on the former
airfield. This had been done to scare away
unwanted visitors because the area was
plagued by joyriders and other forms of
anti-social behaviour.
If this was the case, it had the opposite
effect, as more people travelled to the site
in the hope of seeing the ghost.
It has to be said there is a serious
question mark hanging over this case. A
search of records reveals no one called
Catherine Bystock living in Horncastle at
the time of her alleged death.
Nor is there any record of the accident
in local newspapers for 1945. This,
combined with Mr Halpenny’s admission
that he embellished the case, can only cast
doubt as to the reality of the haunting.
Mr Halpenny died several years ago
without revealing just how much of the
ghost story was invented by him. So did he
make it all up as some have claimed or was
he misled by the unnamed property owner
who wanted to scare people away?
Despite doubts about this haunting,
there are a couple of reports suggesting
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that the story may contain a grain of truth.
In the early 2000s, a resident living in
a converted barn on the airfield reported
smelling a strong smell of lavender when
he first moved in.
In 2008, an individual called Ian
wrote of Metheringham on the Airfield
Information Exchange website. He said a
friend had seen a woman one night trying
to wave him down as he was driving along
the road said to be haunted by Catherine
Bystock.
The friend drove on, but decided to turn
back to see what she wanted. This time,
there was no sign of the woman. Other
drivers have also reported a strange feeling
on the section of the road where the young
woman is said to have died.
North Witham
RAF North Witham closed in 1956. On
August 2, 2007, Nicholas Eudall from
nearby Colsterworth was looking around
the former airfield.
It was 9.00 pm and he started chatting
with a man standing in the doorway of the
ruined control tower. The man said he had
been bringing in aircraft, but told Nicholas
that it was now safe for him to walk on the
runway.
Nicholas’ girlfriend then arrived with
her young son and the man went into
the tower saying that he had to do some
checks.
Strangely, they could not hear any
footsteps inside the building after he had
left them and a look inside showed the
place to be deserted.
One of the new buildings occupying
part of the old airfield lies near the
Colsterworth roundabout on the A1. The
property is reported as always being cold
even with the heating switched on.
However, one cold night in January
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2022 it was found by staff to be extremely
warm inside despite the heating being
turned off.
One member of staff has glimpsed
figures out of the corner of his eye.
Moreover, plates and cups are known to
suddenly fall to the floor and smash into
pieces when no one is near them.
Sandtoft
RAF Sandtoft closed in 1955. The sounds
of wartime aircraft have been heard over
the airfield.
The apparitions of an RAF crew haunt
the road that crosses the site. People have
also reported feeling uneasy when visiting
the former dispersals area.
Wickenby
RAF Wickenby closed in 1956 and is now
used as a civilian airfield. Comedian, comic
actor and author Michael Bentine, who had
a lifelong interest in the paranormal, was
stationed there during the Second World
War.
In his excellent book, The Door Marked
Summer, Mr Bentine wrote of a strange
MICHAEL BENTINE told of greeting a Flight
Lieutenant unaware that his colleague had been
killed in an air crash. (File photo)
experience when returning to the base
after spending 48 hours on leave in
London.
It was 11.50 pm. Mr Bentine had just
reported his return to the guard room. He
was walking towards his hut across the
snow when some fifteen yards away he
46 PSYCHIC NEWS | MAY 2022
RAF WICKENBY is now a civilian airfield. Here is its Memorial Walk. (Photo: Ian S)
saw a colleague walking towards him in the
moonlight.
It was Flight Lieutenant Walker,
nicknamed “Pop” because he was in his 30s
and a lot older than his fellow airmen.
Mr Bentine shouted out a greeting and
waved a salute to him. “Pop” appeared to
acknowledge him and carried on walking to
his own hut.
Next, Mr Bentine felt a sudden chill, but
assumed this was due to the cold. He soon
found himself in his own hut and retired to
bed.
The next morning he was woken up by
a Leading Aircraftman, who gave him tea
and some water for his shave. He asked if
Mr Bentine had enjoyed his leave and then
expressed sadness about Flight Lieutenant
Walker.
Mr Bentine asked what he meant as
he had only seen him the night before.
The Leading Aircraftman said this was
impossible, as the man had died before Mr
Bentine’s return to the base.
He was then told that “Pop” had
volunteered to accompany a new crew
on their first mission to bomb Berlin. The
Lancaster made it back to Lincolnshire, but
crashed into a wood at Hainton.
All the crew were killed. It was thought
that low cloud had been responsible for the
accident. Upon learning this, Mr Bentine
realised he had spoken to a ghost.
The control tower is haunted. People
have heard scraping sounds coming from
the wall, footsteps and unexplained bumps.
A paranormal investigation team once
caught the sound of Morse code on video.
A man in flying gear has also been seen
walking into the control room and going
upstairs. He then vanishes.
A dog was once heard running down the
stairs, its tail hitting the wooden banister
as it did so. The witnesses waited for the
dog to run into the room, but it did not
appear.
Ghostly figures have been seen walking
near the runway and the apparitions
of men dressed as mechanics glimpsed
running towards the area where the
wartime hangars used to be. The figures
then vanish.
A man once thought he heard the sound
of people talking beyond some trees. He
went to investigate and found the spot – an
old dispersal area – deserted. n
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.
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FEATURE

Spirit portraiture has many famous names attached to it, such as Coral Polge and
Frank Leah, and can be one of the most evidential forms of mediumship we have
access to today if delivered with an accurate reading. This month we feature the spirit
portraiture of medium and artist Monique Painchaud from Vancouver, Canada.

MONIQUE PAINCHAUD is an international evidential medium

and spirit portrait artist from Vancouver, British Columbia,
Canada. Her background was as a professional graphic designer/
animator and court illustrator for television news and video
production for over 30 years. Her career and education took her
across Canada and the United States working for several television
networks and film.
Always open minded and excepting of the paranormal as natural
phenomena from a young age, the skill of mediumship with the
ability to draw spirit people commenced as a result of a profound
and life-changing spiritual awakening following the death of her
father and brother as well as the end of a 26-year career with a
national television network in BC Canada. 
These traumatic experiences created a permanent shift in what
Monique perceived as real, both in the world she had always lived
and worked, and in who she actually was.  
A newfound awareness of a spiritual reality had occurred and it
changed life for her as she knew it. 
It was many months later, after the initial awakening,
that Monique would find herself moving through a difficult
and disorientating dissipation of an old sense of self, and a drive
to follow a spiritual creative path that would be of her own
making, while being guided by inexplicable coincidences and
synchronicities.   of her in her own kitchen, validating what her grandmother had
As she did when she was a child, Monique once again
experienced the paranormal, but on a much more personal level.  
Monique recognised these stepping stones of experiences as
a loving spiritual energy guiding her into an unknown direction of
service for others in this world.   entirely different way.
THIS great-great-great-great-grandfather came through in a spirit
portrait sketch and reading wishing his great-great-great-great-
granddaughter a happy birthday by indicating the awareness of an
electric fan she received for one of her birthday gifts on a hot summer
day.
His name was David Spence and he was a member of Parliament
for the Manitoban Canadian Government.
IN this three-minute psychic sketch, a grandmother did not want a
spirit portrait sketch of herself, but a sketch of what she was watching.
She watched her granddaughter at home cooking grandmother’s
recipe, which included plenty of diced tomatoes.
The granddaughter went home and had her son take a photograph
revealed to her in her reading.
The passing year revealed to her the world of mediumship,
and how fantastic it was to include her skill as an artist but in an
The awakening had at first left Monique with the inability to
work with art and technology as she normally would.  
Going for job interviews and attempting to continue computer
animation and design would leave her nauseous and experiencing
the sensation of floating out of her body.
Monique remembers going for one job interview to work in
film production. While the spirit essence of who she was floating
above her body, she watched herself walking down the street to
the interview.  
Monique then observed herself from above having
the interview and being informed that she had got the job, only
then to quit the next day with an overwhelming devastation she
felt in what she had actually done.  
Without any understanding or logic in her behaviour Monique
continued living her life, relying on what she was feeling and
following the synchronic stepping stones of opportunities that
seemed inexplicably to unfold before her. 
These synchronicities led Monique to a Spiritualist church
where she learned for the first time that she was among like-
minded people, who introduced her to the world of mediumship.  
It was only natural for her to suggest to the group that she
would draw Spirit, being a professional court illustrator.  Why, after
all, would she talk about what she was seeing when she could draw
these spirit people instead.
Coming back to the church for another mediumship class,
Monique brought pencil and paper, presuming the sitting court
illustration stance as she had done for so many years before,
expecting to draw what she would see. 

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Monique was told, however, to actually draw what the other

mediums on platform were seeing. This was something that she
had never done, but was quite willing to try, and in doing so, found
out that the experience was nothing like she anticipated.  
Not being able to then see what other mediums at that time
were describing, Monique decided to just put pencil to paper while
not knowing the  outcome of the sketch.  
It was then that she could feel the full power of a living spiritual
energy working through her. With tears in her eyes, Monique had
to concentrate on deep breathing as this energy worked through
her while she drew. 
That 30-minute portion of the class left her finishing three spirit
portraits, each recognised by the recipients in the room.  

ABOVE: A mother from British Columbia, Canada in a five-minute

sketch during a reading to her daughter talks about great pride
for her.

BELOW: The same mother from British Columbia, Canada, in

another spirit portrait sketch, but years older in a second reading for
her daughter. 
An elder mother now comes through with an essence of maturity
and adoring affection for her daughter.

A beloved Canadian uncle lets himself be known to his niece in this

five-minute spirit portrait sketch and in a message through a reading
that indicates his awareness of a framed photograph she has of his
family on her mantelpiece in her home.
Elated that she could use her skill as an artist again without
suffering, Monique knew that this was the direction in her life that
she was to follow, and to focus on her art with the development of
her mediumship.  
The feeling for her was like that of a long awaited gift that was
to be bestowed upon her by a living intelligent and deeply loving
energy that had come, seemingly suddenly, into her life.  
A sovereign spiritual energy she decided to call “God mediums.  
source energy,” which she realised had been with her all along, Monique’s work and art have been mentioned and displayed
simply observing and without judgement, she unknowingly lived in published books by other mediums and she now
her life the way she thought fit. does professional readings and demonstrations worldwide.  
With years of practise and then working as a medium, her new- As Spirit works through her, she uses her gift of spirit
found career started to bloom; doing readings and spirit portrait art in livestream broadcasts and platform demonstrations,
portraiture work, including drawing spiritual guides for other both on her own or linking with mediums across the globe. 

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A British grandfather is revealed in this five-minute spirit portrait A Portuguese/Canadian father in Spirit indicated he would like a
sketch to his grandson. five o’clock shadow drawn on his face in his sketch while passing a
A wealth of experience and knowledge was indicated in a reading loving message to his son from Montreal, Canada in a mediumship
as well as a background in the military. reading. 
His son commented, “My dad was one of those men who had to
Through her mediumship and channelling, Monique  shave twice a day.”
offers loving messages and guidance from Spirit and personal
guides regarding issues of past, present and future.   You can find out more about Monique’s work at:
As a spirit portrait artist, she also provides a six-minute  facebook.com/monique.painchaud.3/
sketched portrait with every reading of a loved one, which will be
You can also email Monique direct at:  
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Ostrich feather denotes
‘dead’ brother’s presence
In our March issue, Spiritualist minister David Hopkins explored the
part chance plays in our lives. Below, Lionel Owen, former President
of the International Spiritualist Federation (ISF), and his wife join the
debate.
MANY people are convinced that chance
has played a huge role in their lives, its
events and the direction it has taken.
From the accident of birth, how they
made a living and meeting their spouse,
they claim to see nothing but mere chance.
They explain away things that led to major
changes in their lives as coincidence.
I believe this is a misleading and totally
erroneous way of looking at what happens
in our lives. We are all subject to far more
guidance than is generally assumed.
I doubt the role of chance in any human
affairs. Explaining events using chance
ignores a basic fact about human beings
which Spiritualists understand.
We know that each person is a spirit,
spending a limited time on Earth. The spirit
within us and the spirit world, which is its
natural element, vibrate at much higher
frequencies than our physical bodies. This
is affirmed by open-minded scientists.
Albert Einstein insisted there is no
such thing as matter, for everything in
the universe consists of energy. What
we consider to be matter, he explains, is
energy vibrating particularly slowly.
Everything is in motion and the
frequency of its vibration determines its
apparent solidity. Solidity is subjective, for
things only appear solid to human beings
because their vibration is similar to that of
our physical bodies.
Those on the Other Side explain that
this is why spirit forms appear to our
eyes as ghosts or apparitions. Conversely,
everything in their world seems solid to
them for the same reason.
We know our five senses are inferior to
those possessed by animals. For instance,
dogs can detect smells completely beyond
our olfactory sense. Elephants make
sounds our ears cannot hear.
As spirit beings, we are born with a
psychic or extra-sensory link to all other
life, be it on Earth or in Spirit. This is
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By Lionel Owen
WAS it chance that Lionel and Maria Owen
met and later married after both attended an
International Spiritualist Federation seminar?
because life is spirit. It cannot exist except
by being energised by the power of spirit.
Throughout her life, my wife Maria has
been spirit guided in ways many would say
was due to chance or coincidence. Let me
give some examples.
Her brother Dirk, to whom she was
very close, moved to South Africa from
Germany. At one point, he decided to visit
Europe by journeying the length of Africa
with a rucksack like a globetrotter.
Dirk travelled through Namibia and
then Zimbabwe, and so forth. After moving
to South Africa, years later, Maria decided
to try to retrace his steps for at least part
of that journey. In all, she travelled some
8,000 kilometres.
When Maria reached the border
between Namibia and South Africa, she
drove into a garage. Suddenly, she saw
a truck driving towards her with a sign
across the top of its cab announcing in
huge letters “GLOBETROTTER.”
Written on the windscreen was Dirk,
which was clearly the driver’s name.
Coincidence or what?
On her return journey, moving into
South Africa from Botswana, Maria drove
through the Swartberg Pass. It was so
strikingly beautiful that it took her breath
away.
Suddenly, she had to stop. There, lying
in the road was a beautiful white ostrich
feather.
Dirk tragically passed to Spirit in his
late thirties. Since passing on, he has often
announced his presence by leaving white
feathers for Maria, which has become a
personal symbol between them.
How wonderful – and what a comfort –
that just as Maria was ending her journey
of homage, there should lie in full view a
single large white feather, which she still
treasures.
When facing a decision to leave her
native Germany, spirit people took over
again. Here, in Maria’s words, is what
happened:
‘
At the beginning of 2002, I had been
travelling in New Zealand and Indonesia
for four months. On Bali, I briefly met a
German.
His name was Gustav, a friend of a
Balinese artist to whom he introduced me.
Gustav and I had spoken twice, for about
twenty minutes each time, on very formal
terms.
Months after my return to Germany,
around the beginning of November, I
received a phone call from Gustav. For a
whole hour he tried to convince me to live
and work in South Africa, whence he had
just returned.
I was looking for a new direction and
for work, but he was unaware of this. I was
completely flabbergasted and asked, “Why
on earth are you telling me all this?”
“I don’t know,” he replied. “I was just on
my way into the kitchen and turned around
to call you.”
The next day, I phoned a travel agent
to check on flights to Windhoek, Namibia,
where some old friends lived, and then to
Cape Town. This was over Christmas and
New Year, when flights were normally fully
booked.

Three hours later the travel agent rang
back, saying, “I’ve booked your flight.”
“Are you crazy?” I asked. “This was just
an enquiry.”
“Don’t worry,” said the travel agent, “as
you can cancel within three days.”
The next day when I met another
travel agent who I’d been helping with
translations she was upset that I hadn’t
asked her, so I suggested she call the
airlines to see if she could book flights for
me.
She called every possible airline and
not one seat was available. Now I knew I
had to go to South Africa and ultimately
emigrated there.
The summer of 1997 was a difficult
period of my life and I felt I had to get
away and visit an old friend in Kenya,
where I lived for many years. I called her in
Mombasa.
“Sorry,” she said. “You can’t come
because I’m flying to Europe.”
“But I want to see you,” I replied.
“Where will you be?”
“At a spiritual seminar in England.
Someone recommended it. Apparently,
there’s a beautiful park with gorgeous big
trees.”
My friend gave me the address of a lady
to contact in England. I was determined to
see my friend and if the seminar were no
good, I’d read a book under those trees.
I phoned the lady in England and was
told, “Oh, we were fully booked, but I’ve
just had one cancellation.” Booking it
immediately, I asked, “Can you tell me
what it’s all about?”
“We are holding workshops and
demonstrations,” she replied. “Give me
your address and I’ll send you a brochure.”
I booked a flight to England. The
brochure arrived just before I left for
the airport and I put it unopened into my
handbag.
The flight was from Basel in Switzerland
to Stansted, Essex. The plane was full with
one empty seat next to me, which a young,
dark haired woman took.
Once we were airborne, I took out the
brochure when I heard her say, “We’re
obviously going to the same thing!”
The lady next to me, who was called
Angelika, explained what the event was all
about. It was a complete mystery to me.
Frankly, I didn’t find it at all believable,
but it was too late to change my mind.
I must stress that at this point in my
life I knew nothing about Spiritualism,
mediumship, life after death and allied
topics.
Arriving at the Arthur Findlay College,
which was the venue, I learnt that the
seminar was the Fraternal Week of the
International Spiritualist Federation (ISF).
Angelika led me to a dining room, where
lunch was in full swing. We sat down at a
table with eight people, one of whom was
called Joan Shergold, who gave me the first
inkling of what these people are about.
She is a psychic artist. Being German, I
thought, “a psychological artist,” but that
made me none the wiser.
When Joan and I were at the table a
few days later, she said, “If I had to draw
a picture for you now, it would be of a big
black dog.”
“Why on earth would you do that?” I
asked.
“Because,” Joan replied, “when you
walked in here there was a dog by your
side. Have you ever had a big black dog?”
I could hardly reply because I burst into
tears. My dog, Moritz, who I found as a
puppy while living in the Maasai Mara in
Kenya, had been my permanent companion
until his passing a few years earlier.
I was totally overwhelmed that he
should still be around me and could not
really understand what was happening.
Too late – someone invisible took me by
the hand.
I had recently experienced a lot of
tragedy with three loved ones dying within
a period of just two years.
During the following days at the Arthur
Findlay College, they all came back to me,
which was an indescribably overwhelming
experience that changed my life forever.
The then President of the ISF was one
Lionel Owen. He and I became friends
there and then, neither of us knowing that
later we were to become husband and
wife. Chance or guidance? That is the
question.
Our loved ones and friends in the spirit
world will always find ways of telling us
they are with us.
It may be unexpectedly hearing a
favourite song or piece of music they
particularly enjoyed or a small item in our
homes, like a photograph or ornament,
being moved from its usual position.
Our minds belong to our Spirit; they are
We are
incomplete if we
choose just to pay
attention to our
physical selves
FEATURE
not part of the physical body, despite what
scientists would have us believe.
Our minds are always on the alert and
can detect the smallest psychic emanations
both from other people and inanimate
places such as rooms or buildings.
It is not uncommon for people
to become aware of a sad or violent
happening somewhere. This is usually due
to events which involved strong emotions.
All matter, whether animate or
inanimate, has an invisible or psychic part
to it and that is where such events are
recorded.
If we are sensitive or even just happen
to be in an unusually contemplative mood,
our invisible self will detect these psychic
remnants.
’
In our early days together, I took Maria
to London to show her around. At one
point, she suddenly felt terrible and could
not understand why.
Neither could I until I glanced around
and noticed we were just passing the
Tower of London, which was the scene
of so much misery and violent death
centuries ago.
The same thing can happen when we
meet someone for the first time or come
across a stranger. Our invisible self will
reach out to their invisible self and detect
whether or not we are in harmony with
them.
This is not guidance by a spirit friend or
relative, but one’s own psyche in action. It
is important never to forget that we are
spirit beings now, complete with all the
psychic sensitivity which is an intrinsic part
of spirit.
Many choose to ignore it, which is most
unwise. Just because it is not visible does
not mean the psychic or spirit self does not
exist. Out of sight is not out of mind.
It certainly does exist and we should
always make ourselves aware of the
information it passes to our conscious
mind. We are incomplete if we choose just
to pay attention to our physical selves. n
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 QUESTION:
What is the price on Love?

ANSWER:
There isn’t one – love can not be bought
The reason that I pose this question and then give a response to it, is to let you know that neither my
colleague nor I charge for any help that we can extend.
“What is the nature or type of help that they can extend?”
This may be the thought that now comes to your mind.
Rather than go into a lengthy explanation, perhaps a brief explanation will help?
My colleague has the “Gift” of “Mediumship.”
However, although often being called a “Psychic” he is not a fortune-teller. His “information” comes from
an external source, and that “source” focuses on things that are of the heart/spirit.
Example: inner you; things regretted; forgiveness; a deceased family member; a loved-one; a friend.
My application is that of “Contact-Healing,” sometimes referred to as “laying-on-of-hands” Healing.
Maybe the simplest way of explaining it is to think of an engine that has run down and is about to stop
working. It needs its battery recharging. You are the “Motor” and I try to be the “Charger.”
The motor and charger have to be connected – hence the term “laying-on-of-hands.”
You may not be a “Believer” in such things, but when all other avenues of help seem to be exhausted is it
unusual to give something that may help – and without financial cost - a try?
I do not operate a business, therefore should you wish to visit, you will be coming to my home – and like
any friend you will get a cup of tea or coffee – for free!!
To start with, please contact me by phone or in writing.
After having received your phone call/letter, I will get back to you in writing and thereby confirm details of
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Regardless of the seriousness of your condition you will be made most welcome.
Please write to me at the following address:
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15th KEVIN HALES FACEBOOK OR PHONE Civil Partnerships, Sunday 29th 6.30pm
22nd JANET EMILYMAE FOR DAYS & TIMES Funerals, Memorial Services Divine Service with
Thursday Service at 7.30pm www.snu.org.uk/ MAY 2022 JEFF WOODHOUSE
5th HAZEL MCLISTER cheltenham-spiritualist- Sunday 1st 6.30pm Monday 30th 7.30pm £5
BREWER church Divine Service with Pathways Development
12th DAVID POWELL Facebook: Cheltenham GEOFF HAYWOOD CSNU Group with
19th KEVIN HALES Spiritualist Church Monday 2nd 7.30pm £5 DAVID POWELL CSNU
26th FLEDGLINGS’ EVENING Sundays at 11am Pathways Development Spiritual Healing
Distant Healing DIVINE SERVICE Group with Tuesdays
Sent Tuesdays at 10.30am Thursday 7.30pm DAVID POWELL CSNU 2pm - 4pm & 5pm - 7pm
Church accessible for Open Awareness and Sunday 8th 6.30pm Healing is free but donations
wheelchairs and has a Development Group Divine Service with are gratefully received
loop system for hearing Friday 2pm Healing LESLEY KNIGHT See website for details of our
aid wearers Saturday 7pm Monday 9th 7.30pm £5 Special Events, Workshops and
Evening of Mediumship Pathways Development Development Groups
KINSON Specials and Workshops Group with All Welcome
SPIRITUALIST GROUP every six weeks DAVID POWELL CSNU
Kinson Community Centre, All Are Welcome Sunday 15th 6.30pm HERTFORDSHIRE
Pelhams Park, Divine Service with
Kinson, HAMPSHIRE JULIE HUDLESTON CARPENDERS PARK
CHRISTIAN
Bournemouth Monday 16th 7.30pm £5
BH10 7LH BASINGSTOKE Pathways Development SPIRITUALISTS
Telephone: SPIRITUALIST Group with Bushford Scout Hall,
01202 715754 CHURCH DAVID POWELL CSNU St Georges Drive,
www.facebook.com/ 28 Victoria Street, Saturday 21st May Carpenders Park,
KinsonSpiritualistGroup Basingstoke, We are celebrating our Watford,
OPEN – SEE BELOW Hampshire 75th Anniversary with the Hertfordshire
Sunday 6.30pm RG21 3BT following programme: WD19 5HD
Divine Service Tel: 07544 548172 10am - 12 noon  (Hall cannot be seen
See Facebook for other events CURRENTLY CLOSED Private Readings from road – go up drive
All Welcome www.basingstokesc.co.uk £20 for 30 minutes between numbers
Facebook: (all readings must be 37 and 39 St Georges Drive)
Follow BasingstokeSC pre-booked)  Contact Chris Palmer:
12.30 – 1.30pm  Healing 01923 221918
Psychic News Follow OPEN – SEE BELOW
This is freely given but any
Magazine on Psychic News donations will be gratefully Sundays 10.30am
Magazine on received Divine Service
1.30pm - 3.30pm Tickets £10 Healing Available
Workshop with All Are Welcome
@psychicnewsmag MINISTER MATTHEW SMITH An activity table
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KENT MAY 2022 LANCASHIRE LEICESTERSHIRE
Sundays 6.30pm – 8pm
BEXLEYHEATH Divine Service (Donations) BURY LEICESTER
CHRISTIAN 1st MARY WARD SPIRITUALIST PROGRESSIVE
SPIRITUALIST 8th HELEN HALL CENTRE SPIRITUALIST
CHURCH 15th CHRIS KING 3 Russell Street, CENTRE
85 Lion Road, 22nd JANET MILLS Bury, 4 St. James Street,
Bexleyheath, 29th LAURA MARTIN Lancashire BL9 5AX Lee Circle,
Kent Friday Evenings of Tel: 0161 654 9282 Leicester
DA6 8NT Clairvoyance 7.30pm - 9pm OPEN – SEE BELOW LE1 3RE
Enquiries: £4 (Members £3) Website: President: Marian Sawczuk
07950 672200 6th LINDA WADDOUPS burysnu.weebly.com OPEN - SEE BELOW
Email: Bexleyheath.church@ 13th KEVIN SANSOM Follow us on Facebook: Services with Mediumship
gmail.com 20th MARY WARD Bury Spiritual Centre Sundays 6pm Divine Service
Or see us on Facebook 27th KEVIN SANSOM Tuesdays 7.30pm - 8.45pm   Mondays 7.30pm
OPEN – SEE BELOW All Welcome Evening of Mediumship Clairvoyant Hour
MAY 2022 Saturdays  7.30pm - 8.45pm Wednesdays 2.30pm
Sunday Divine Service WEST WICKHAM Divine Service Thursdays, Fridays and
at 6.30pm SPIRITUALIST Due to Covid restrictions we Saturdays:
1st TBC CHURCH are limited to the number of Special Demonstrations
th
8 JULIE SINCLAIR Surrey Road, people we can have in the as advertised
15th TINA MUDDLE West Wickham, centre. Please reserve your Development Groups &
22nd CHRISTINE TUCKER Kent place via our Facebook page Circles held every day
29th CHARLENE AUSTIN BR4 0LU before attending. of the week
Tuesday Service at 2pm President: All Welcome Healing
3rd KAREN GONELLA Alan Mitchell-Sleight Saturdays 10.30am - 12.30pm
th
10 KAREN HAMBLETON- Tel: 01959 573049 CLEVELEYS Mondays 6pm - 7pm
OWEN E-mail: mitchellsleight@ SPIRITUALIST Wednesdays 12.30pm - 2pm
17th GWEN LEGG & btinternet.com CHURCH For details of workshops
CHRIS RAHR Mediums’ Secretary: 93 Beach Road, and special events, visit our
24th LAURA BROWN Pat Dalby Thornton Cleveleys, Facebook page or website:
31st SHEILA SMITH Telephone: 07739 968645 Lancashire www.progressivespiritualist
Spiritual Healing OPEN - SEE BELOW FY5 1EW church.co.uk
Every Tuesday MAY 2022 Call us on: 07756 967803 Email:
7.30pm - 8.30pm Sunday Services 6.30pm See us on Facebook spiritchurch@outlook.com
Open Circles (doors open 5.50pm) OPEN FOR SERVICES Telephone: 0116 2536098
Mondays 7.30pm - 9.30pm 1st ALAN & PAT SEYMOUR Monday 7.30pm All Welcome
£5 (Not Monday 2nd May) 8th BARBARA POTTS Clairvoyance & Open Circle
Alternate Wednesdays 15th ROGER & LOUISA PASK
22nd STEPHEN GOLDSACK
Wednesday
12.15pm - 1.15pm Healing
LONDON
11th & 25th May
12 noon - 2pm £5 29th MARY O’CONNOR Wednesday 2.30pm BARNES
Special Events Wednesday Clairvoyance Service HEALING CHURCH
Wednesday 11th May Evening of Mediumship 8pm Thursday 6.30pm - 7.25pm Between
via ZOOM £5 (Members £4) Awareness Class 77-79 White Hart Lane,
7.30pm - 9pm £5 4th PAULINE WALSH Thursday 7.30pm - 9.30pm London
Evening of Mediumship with 18th INGRID KELLY Development Circle SW13 0PW
ANGELA BRIGENSHAW Open Circle via ZOOM (Must be a church member) Five-minute walk from
Saturday 14th May Thursdays 11.30am -1pm, Friday 7.00pm - 8.00pm Barnes Bridge
Church Open Day 5pm - 6.30pm & 7pm - 8.30pm Healing railway station
Readings, Spiritual Healing, Private Readings Sunday 2.30pm Enquiries: 07581 534028
Stalls and Refreshments Thursdays by phone or online  Divine Service Facebook:
See Facebook for full details For details contact Karen Healing Sunday 2.30pm www.facebook.com/
Wood on: 07958 622656 Every Third Sunday barneshealingchurch
THE Spiritual Healing of the Month OPEN – SEE BELOW
SANCTUARY OF Before the service on Sunday Meditation Sunday 2.30pm Website: www.barnes
HEALING CHRISTIAN from 5pm - 6pm (providing 1st Sunday Alternate Months healingchurch.co.uk
SPIRITUALIST healers are available) from February Yearly E-mail: barneshealing
CHURCH Monday Church Circle Private Readings on Request church@hotmail.co.uk
Mills Terrace, Mondays 7pm Entrance £5 Readings Day Spring MAY 2022
Chatham, Open Circle and Autumn – See Sunday Service of Mediumship
Kent Email: info@westwickham Notices or Phone at 6.30pm
ME4 5NZ spiritualistchurch.co.uk Church Number for 1st CELIA MITCHELL
Tel: 01634 880039 if you would like to join Information  8th ALAN ALBISTON
Email: george.mcqueen@ Please visit our website We are Registered for  15th PAULINE WALSH
yahoo.co.uk www.westwickham Namings/Weddings/Same- 22nd PHILIP WATERS
Website: www. spiritualistchurch.co.uk Sex Marriages/Funerals/  29th SANDRA AETHERIS
sanctuaryofhealing.co.uk for other upcoming events Wedding Blessings Wednesday Service of
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 Mediumship at 7.30pm FULHAM NATIONAL SYDENHAM MAY 2022
TEMPORARILY ON HOLD SPIRITUALIST SPIRITUAL & Sundays 6.30pm Service
DURING MAY CHURCH HEALING 1st LARRY & ANN
Healing Kelvedon Road, Fulham, CENTRE FEATHERSTONE
Every Thursday London SW6 5BP Venner Community Hall, 8th TBC
th
10.30am - 12.30pm (Nearest Underground 1, Venner Road, 15 BRIDGET
Please see our website or station Parsons Green) Sydenham, 22nd JULIETTE CELESTE
Facebook page for details Buses No. 11 and 14 London 29th PAUL CHARNICK
about Private Readings, Email: fulhamspiritualist SE26 5EQ Wednesdays 7.30pm Service
Open Platforms and more, church@yahoo.co.uk (Venner Road is opposite 4th TBC
th
and for any changes to Working for Spirit Sydenham Railway Station 11 ROSIE SPIRIT
the advertised times and into the 21st century The hall is adjacent to 18th JOSIE SMITH
mediums above OPEN - SEE BELOW Sydenham High Street) 25th PAT MURRAY
A Warm Welcome Awaits MAY 2022 Bus: 176, 312, 75, 194, 202, 450
Everyone Sunday Divine Services in Enquiries: MIDDLESEX
REGISTERED FOR Church at 6.30pm Caroline Hackett
MARRIAGES, CEREMONIES 8th BILL HUGHES on 07891 067478 KENTON
15th CELIA MITCHELL OPEN – DETAILS BELOW SPIRITUALIST
& SACRED SERVICES
22nd JOHN JEMMETT Demonstration of CHURCH & HEALING
th
29 LES & DENISE PILGRIM Clairvoyance CENTRE
EALING NATIONAL
Thursday Online Zoom every Wednesday at 8.00pm 35 Churchill Avenue,
SPIRITUALIST
7.30pm Services Doors open 7.30pm Kenton, Harrow,
CHURCH
5th ELAIN STAINTON MAY 2022 Middlesex HA3 0AX
66-68 Uxbridge Road,
12th ALICE TREVORROW 4th MATT & KIRSTY President: Bette Kotecha
West Ealing,
19th SPENCER ROSE GROGAN Tel: 020 8621 3103
London W13 8RA
th
26 KAREN PITCHFORTH 11th MALCOLM PUTLAND & (Answerphone)
OPEN - SEE BELOW
ONLINE ZOOM SERVICES LESLEIGH BADGERY CURRENTLY CLOSED
(Next to Ealing Fire Station)
ID: 689 400 7125  ~ Spiritual Art www.kentonspiritualist
Buses 207, 83, E2, E7, E8
Passcode: 18th PAULINE WOODHATCH church.co.uk
Enquiries: Alison
Tel: 07958 463529 FULHAM (capitals) 25th DIANA REID
Workshop Healing every week by THE LIGHT
MAY 2022
Held in our Church  from 7.30pm until 9pm ON THE HILL
Sundays 6.30pm - 8.00pm
Sunday 29th May Visit our website at: HARROW
Voluntary Donation
10.30 am - 4pm www.sydenhamspiritual SPIRITUALIST
1st CLOSED
th Development of Psychic centre.co.uk  CHURCH
8 ANASTASIA
and Mediumship skills (all 1 Vaughan Road, Harrow,
15th SEAN CAREY
levels) with NATHAN POOLE VIOLET MOON Middx, London HA1 1DP
22nd CHRIS SILLITOE
For more information please SPIRITUAL CENTRE OPEN - SEE BELOW
29th BRENDA ELVIN
contact us via our email Ruskin House, Website:
Thursdays 7.30pm - 9pm
address: Nelson Mandela Room, www.harrowsnuchurch.
Entrance £3.50
fulhamspiritualistchurch@ 23 Coombe Road, wixsite.com/harrow
5th GILLIAN BLAISE
yahoo.co.uk Croydon, Email:
12th OWEN WILLIAMS
Greater London lightonthehill@live.co.uk
19th ALAN ALBISTON
THE LONDON CR0 1BD Tel: 07528 348432
26th WILL TURNER
SPIRITUAL MISSION PARTIALLY OPEN MAY 2022
Healing
13 Pembridge Place, PLEASE SEE WEBSITE Healing & Divine Service
Sundays 5pm - 6.15pm
London W2 4XB www.violetmoonpsychic.com in Church
Donations welcome
Email: secretary@ Email: lorraine@ Wednesdays at 7.30pm
See Facebook for details
spiritualmission.co.uk violetmoonpsychic.com 4th SONIA THOMAS &
of the following:
www.spiritualmission.co.uk Fridays: 7pm - 8.30pm MARK FLANAGAN
Saturday 7th May
Telephone: 020 7229 2024 Demonstrations of 11th ALAN ALBISTON
Follow your Spiritual Flow
OPEN - SEE BELOW Mediumship Clairvoyance 18th DAVID CHAPMAN &
Workshop with
Church Activities Events KATHY MORRELL
ROSIE SPIRIT
Sunday Services 25th RICHARD BALDWIN
Monday 9th May Open Circle
6.30pm - 8pm WOOD GREEN & BRENDA TREADGOLD
Saturday 14th May
Wednesdays 7pm - 8.15pm SPIRITUALIST (Spirit Art)
Table Top Sale
for Demonstration CHURCH Monday ZOOM Healing and
Tuesday 17th May
of Clairvoyance (Cnr of Maryland Road) Divine Service
Friendship Circle
Spiritual Healing High Road, Wood Green, at 7pm
Wednesday 18th May
Mondays 1pm - 5pm London Please see Facebook or our
Spirit Guide Special with
Thursdays 5pm - 7pm N22 5AR website for details
OWEN WILLIAMS
Animal Healing OPEN Zoom ID: 916 859 8296
Saturday 23rd May
Domestic pets welcome Minister in Spirit: Password: harrow
Private Readings
Find us on Facebook: at the Monday and Thursday Mrs Ida Stenning Please see our Facebook
Ealing National Healing Sessions Enquiries: 020 8888 1992 Group: Harrow Spiritualist
Spiritualist Church For Special Events, Courses Website: Church for up-to-date news,
MARRIAGES SOLEMNISED & Workshops please see our www.woodgreen events and serving Mediums
NAMINGS website spiritualistchurch.co.uk All Welcome

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SHROPSHIRE STAFFORDSHIRE Sundays at 6.30pm Meditation theme TBC
1st KAREN WOOD (Zoom) Special Event
DAWLEY ANGEL ATTIC 8th IRENE HALL (Zoom) Saturday 28th May
GUIDING LIGHT Staffordshire’s Principal 15th SUE & MALCOLM 2pm - 4pm £10
SPIRITUALIST Independent Psychic Centre, NASH (Zoom) An Afternoon of
CHURCH St Patricks Place, Zoom details for Gong Sound Healing
Dawley House, Stafford, above events with LIN CRANE
22 Burton Street, Telford, Staffordshire Meeting Number: Please bring yoga mat and
Shropshire TF4 2ES ST16 2PN 845 9445 1863 small head cushion
Contact us: 01952 507188 TEL: 07504 126336 Pass: 323327 Places are limited
OPEN - SEE BELOW Email:    22nd CAROL DAWBER Pre-book and pay on the
Facebook: Dawley Guiding rachel.angelattic@gmail.com at Hale Village Hall, live booking line 07780 474 440
Light Spiritualist Church See our main advert on page 66 29th SUE ELLIS Please check website
Saturdays 7.30pm - 9pm £3   at Hale Village Hall, live for updates
Doors open 6.30pm
Fridays:
SURREY Always a warm welcome All Are Welcome

Specials as advertised CROYDON KINGSTON RICHMOND

See our Facebook page
SOMERSET
ALCOMBE &
MINEHEAD
CHRISTIAN
SPIRITUALIST
CHURCH
Grove Place,
Manor Road, Alcombe,
Minehead TA24 6EH
Tel: 0783 110 4896
OPEN – PLEASE SEE
WEBSITE FOR DETAILS OF
GROUPS, MEDITATION
AND HEALING
Spring & Summer
Sunday Service at 6.30pm
22 ALAN MITCHELL-SLEIGHT
(March to end of October)
Winter Sunday Service at 3pm
(November to end of February)
Healing Groups,
a monthly Healing Day,
Healing Evenings,
Open Circles,
Evenings of Clairvoyance
all available on various days
during each month.
See our website for the full
day-by-day itinerary of what
our church can offer you.
www.mineheadspiritualist
church.co.uk
SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
For a list of
Spiritualist
Churches
and Centers
in the USA
visit:
our Services between Zoom
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SPIRITUALIST NATIONAL
CHURCH SPIRITUALIST
Chatsworth Road, CHURCH
Villiers Road,
Croydon,
Surrey Kingston upon Thames,
CR0 1HE Surrey
Contact Telephone: KT1 3AR
020 8688 1827 Website:
Email: croydonspiritualist www.kingstonsc.net
church@gmail.com Email: kingston.spiritualist
OPEN – SEE BELOW @yahoo.com
Website: www.croydon  Follow us on Facebook
spiritualistchurch.org.uk Enquiries: 07503 405007
MAY 2022 Bookings: 07780 474440
Sunday 11am Service OPEN – SEE BELOW
1st MOLLIE MCMANUS MAY 2022
8th SANDRA DOUGHTY Sunday Service, 11am
15th EVE ELLAR 1st MICHAEL LENNON
nd
8th OWEN WILLIAMS
29th STEPHEN BRAME 15th ESI CAKMAKCIOGLU
Sunday 6.30pm Service (Spirit Art)
1st MARC IMPEY 22nd CORAL THOMPSON
8th BRENDA HODGSON 29th JACKIE BURTON
15th NATHAN POOLE Mondays
22nd TERESA RICKETTS Evening of Mediumship at
29th STEPHEN HARDY 7.30pm £4 (members £3.50)
Wednesday 7.45pm Service followed by Healing
4th MICHAEL LENNON 2nd CHURCH CLOSED
11th DONNA BARKER 9th RIKI DAVIES
18th DOROTHY YOUNG 16th ASHLEY MILLS
25th CHARLENE AUSTIN 23rd ROBERT GIACCHI
Healing 30th CELIA MITCHELL
Thursdays 6pm - 8pm Healing by donation
All Welcome Monday 8.45pm - 9.15pm
Wednesday (Pets allowed)
FARNHAM 2pm - 3.45pm
INDEPENDENT Open Platform
CHRISTIAN Medium training on first
Saturday of month with
Hale Village Hall, LESLEY HAMILTON
1 Wings Road, Farnham Saturday 7th May 2pm - 4pm
GU9 0HN £4.50 (Members £4)
Audience £3
President: Jean Harris
Tel: 07936 708882 Guided Meditation
OPEN Third Wednesday
This year we are sharing of month with
CHERRY SRINAGANAND
and Hale Village Hall A different theme each month
Follow us on Facebook Wednesday 18th May
MAY 2022 7.30pm - 9pm
SPIRITUALIST
CHURCH
97 Church Road,
Richmond,
Surrey
TW10 6LU
Website: www.richmond
spiritualistchurch.com
Email:
richmondchurch97
@gmail.com
Enquiries: 07507 703497
Follow us on Facebook
OPEN – SEE BELOW
MAY 2022
Sunday Divine Service
6.30pm (doors open at 6pm)
Goodwill donation
1st PAULINE WALSH
8th KAREN OWENS
15th ROSA PLAZA
nd
22 ANNEMARIE COLLIER
& GUEST
29th KARIM
Wednesday Demonstration of
Mediumship at 7.30pm
(doors open at 7pm)
£5 (Members £3.50)
4th ALAN ALBISTON
11th KAREN PYLE
18th MARC IMPEY
25th ROBERT GIACCHE
SPECIAL EVENTS
Circles, Events, Workshops
and Private Readings
Tuesday 3rd May
2pm - 4pm
Entry £5 (members £3.50)
Friendship Circle
(in person) led by
ANNEMARIE COLLIER
giving messages in a
friendship circle
Coffee, tea & cake afterwards
Tuesday 3rd May
4pm - 7pm
Private Readings
£18.50 for 30 mins
Tuesday 3rd May 
7.30pm - 9pm
Entry £4.50 (members £3.50) CRAWLEY
Speakers and Chairpersons EAST SUSSEX SPIRITUALIST STH YORKS
Class (in person) with CHURCH
LORRAINE GILBERT SEAFORDSPIRIT & HEALING CENTRE WHITHAM ROAD
Tuesday 10th May Seaford Independent Capel Lane, SPIRITUALIST
7.30pm - 9.30pm Spiritualist Church, Gossops Green, CHURCH
Entry £4.50 (members £3.50) 3 Warwick Road, Seaford, Crawley RH11 8HL 109 Whitham Road,
Open Platform (in person) East Sussex BN25 1RS OPEN – SEE BELOW Broomhill, Sheffield,
with PAULINE WALSH Telephone: 01323 737407 President: Tom Baker South Yorkshire S10 2SL
Tuesday 31st May IN-PERSON AND Tel: 01342 870657 Telephone: 0114 2664025
7.30 - 9pm ONLINE SERVICES Wednesday Mobile: 0742 266 5205
Entry £5 (members £3.50) Email: enquiries@seaford 7.30pm Clairvoyance OPEN FOR IN CHURCH AND
Open Circle with spirit.co.uk Email: ONLINE MEETINGS
OWEN WILLIAMS Weekly Divine Service crawleyspiritual@gmail.com www.whithamroad.co.uk
Private Readings are available Thursday at 7.30pm Website: www.crawley IN CHURCH SERVICES
on request Alternate weeks spiritualistchurch.co.uk Sundays at 3pm
In-Person and Online Please see Facebook for Divine Service
SPIRITUAL Demonstrations of recent updates ONLINE SERVICES
AWARENESS GROUP Mediumship and Workshops All Welcome Wednesday 8pm - 9pm
Bringing Spirit to the people For full details check our Zoom Open Circle
Glyn Hall,
Cheam Road,
website: WILTSHIRE Friday 8pm – 9pm via Zoom
www.seafordspirit.co.uk Mediumship Demonstration
Ewell Village, Subscribe for updates and WILTON Room opens 7.45pm
Surrey to register for online events SPIRITUALIST Links posted on the day on
KT17 1SP and to receive login codes CHURCH our Facebook page
CURRENTLY CLOSED for Divine Services Light, Nature, Truth https://www.facebook.com/
Enquiries: Betty Masters   3 Warminster Road, groups/174768449232308
Tel: 07786 741509 WEST SUSSEX Wilton, Salisbury,
Email: spiritualawareness
group@gmail.com ANGEL IN BLUE
Wiltshire SP2 0AT
Telephone: 07892 685626
GUERNSEY
Storrington Village Hall, NOW OPEN THE GREETING PLACE
SUTTON YOUNG 59 West Street, Storrington, Sunday 6.30pm FOUNDATION
SPIRITUALIST West Sussex RH20 4DZ Divine Service SPIRITUALIST CENTRE
CHURCH OPEN Includes Demonstration Douzaine Room, St Peters,
Thomas Wall Centre, Social, Support and of Mediumship Guernsey, Channel Islands
Benhill Avenue, Mediumship Demonstration See Facebook for other events Enquiries to: Ann Jennings
Sutton, Evenings Follow us on Facebook at: Telephone: 01481 247185
Surrey The last Friday of each month Wilton Spiritualist Church Mobile: 07781 413218
SM1 4DP Starts at 7.00pm OPEN: SEE FACEBOOK
CURRENTLY CLOSED
Enquiries: 020 8641 2630
Entrance £6 inclusive of
Raffle and Refreshments
WEST MIDLANDS Email:
greetingplace@cwgsy.net
Sunday Service at 6.30pm Enquiries to: Val Harber SUTTON COLDFIELD Website: www.healingand
followed by Healing 01403 865823 or by email SPIRITUALIST spiritualcentre.co.uk
Clairvoyant Evening at angelinblue@btinternet.com CHURCH Our regular services are:
7.30pm All Welcome Kenelm Road, Sunday 11.00am
One Wednesday per month Off Manor Hill, Address and Communication
We are a friendly BARNHAM Sutton Coldfield Other services as announced
independent Spiritualist SPIRITUAL CENTRE B73 6HD Everyone Welcome
church Barnham Community Hall, Website:
All very welcome indeed Murrell’s Field, Yapton Road, www.scsonline.co.uk GREECE
Do come and visit us! Barnham PO22 0AY Tel: 0121 354 3266
OPEN – PLEASE SEE OPEN – SEE BELOW
The advertising FACEBOOK FOR EVENTS  MAY 2022
deadline is the Contact Darren Hart: Sunday 6.30pm
0774 945 4281 Divine Service
8th day of the www.darrenhartmedium.co.uk Monday 1.30pm Service
SPIRITUALIST
month prior to SOCIETY OF ATHENS
Every Monday 7.30pm Tuesday 7.30pm “The Divine Light”
the publication Evening of Mediumship Mediumship Classes Channelled Teachings from the
month. We are a spiritual centre Thursday 1.00pm Healing highest authority of the
The June issue’s providing Evenings of Friday 7.30pm  £3 Heavenly Kingdom.
deadline is Mediumship weekly Development Circle Various spiritual leaders, from
8th of May. We also provide Private For Details, Monthly Specials Socrates and St. John the Baptist
Readings as well as Healing & Workshops please see our to Goethe and Newton teach
Please email your Find details of all our latest Website/Facebook pages invaluable lessons to humanity.
monthly events events on Facebook: Follow us on Facebook at: W: www.divinelight.org.gr
to: pnadverts@ Barnham Spiritual Centre   Spiritualist Church, E: info@divinelight.org.gr
gmail.com Serving all local communities Sutton Coldfield Address: 12 Niovis Str.,
All Welcome All Welcome Athens, Greece, 11252

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ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE CENTRE
25 Palmerston Place, Edinburgh, Scotland EH12 5AP
Website: www.arthurconandoylecentre.com
Phone: 0131 625 0700
MAY 2022
(Z) = via ZOOM (IC) = In Centre
Mondays 6pm-7pm Hatha Yoga with SOPHIE O’BRIEN
£5.50 - £8.50 (Z & IC see website)
Mondays 2pm-3pm £3 Heart-Centred Meditation with
CHLOE DEAS (Z)
Tuesdays 5.45pm-6.45pm £12 Qi Gong with MIKE HALL (IC)
Wednesdays 6pm-7pm £5 Yin Yoga with SOPHIE O’BRIEN (Z)
Thursdays 2pm-3pm £3 Open Circle with HAZEL MARTIN (IC)
Thurs 6pm-7pm £3 Open Circle with ELIZABETH TITTERTON (Z)
Thursdays 5th May to 9th June 7pm-9pm £120 for full course
“The Healer Within II” with KAREN FRANCES (Z)
Mondays 9th & 16th May 7pm-9pm £35 for both sessions (Z)
“Using Tarot to Connect to the Spirit World” with BETTY JANE WARE
Tuesday 3rd May 7.30pm £6 (Z) Talk by DR STAFFORD BETTY
Tuesdays 3rd & 10th May 7.30pm-9pm £15 per session (IC)
Beginners Psychic Development with HAZEL MARTIN
Tuesday 10th May 7.30pm £6 (Z) Talk by PHILIPPE GUILLEMANT
Saturday 14th & Sunday 15th May 10am - 5pm £140 (IC)
“The Psychic Treasure Chest” Workshop with ANN THÉATO
Tuesday 17th May 7.30pm £6 (Z) Talk by HELANE WAHBEH
Tuesday 24th May 7.30pm £6 (Z) Talk by TOM LAWRENCE
Saturday 28th & Sunday 29th May 10am - 5pm £140 (IC)
“Soul Sense” Spirituality Workshop with JULIE HAINES
Tuesday 31st May 7.30pm £6 (Z) Talk by CHRISTOPHE FAURE
Saturday 4th June 10am - 5pm £40 (IC) “Parapsychology: The
Cutting Edge.” A day of talks and seminars
LEE
Tuesday 7th June 7.30pm £6 (Z) Talk by WILLIAM MEADER CLAIRVOYANT
Friday 10th June 7.30pm-9pm £15 (IC)
An Evening of Mediumship with SANDRA AETHERIS I am an independent psychic with
Saturday 11th & Sunday 12th June 10am - 5pm (IC)
Workshop £100 ~ Optional Lunch Package £20
over 30 years experience
“Mediumship Development Workshop” with
I get straight to the point in my phone
SANDRA AETHERIS
Monday 13th June 12 noon - 3pm £45 for 30 minutes (IC) readings with honesty and details
Private Readings with SANDRA AETHERIS (Book Early)
Tuesday 14th June 7.30pm £6 (Z) Talk by JESSICA CORNEILLE My customers return time and
Tuesday 21st June 7.30pm £6 (Z) Talk by DR HELENA DALY time again
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United Church An Evening of Mediumship with LISA WILLIAMS Specialist in
Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th June 10am - 5pm £160 (IC) love and relationship readings
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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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