1st May - I attended the Edinburgh
Psychic College – Know as The Edinburgh College of Parapsychology for a Demonstrations
of Evidence of Survival.
The
College is a non-denominational, charitable organisation, which prides itself
on its welcoming and all-inclusive attitude
The
college aims are:
To provide a better understanding of life after
death
To always be respectful to all thoughts and
religious beliefs
To provide comfort during periods of sadness and
loss
To promote a better understanding of spiritualism
To be at the forefront of training of up and coming
mediums
To educate through our extensive spiritualist
library, which is second to none in Scotland, housing over 2500 books
To promote discussion and debate
The college has an open door policy to people of
all religions and we welcome with open arms anyone who wishes to come along and
take part in any activities held within the college.
Demonstrations of Survival ...Wednesdays 2.30pm -
3.30pm and
Fridays 7.30pm - 8.30pm
Fridays 7.30pm - 8.30pm
Please check website www.edinburghpsychiccollege.com
2 Melville Street,
Edinburgh EH3 7HF... tele 0131 220 1433
2nd - The Lighthouse Spiritualist Church Youth Athletic Club Hall, George Road, Gourock, Inverclyde, PA19 1YT. Always a well attended church.
2nd - The Lighthouse Spiritualist Church Youth Athletic Club Hall, George Road, Gourock, Inverclyde, PA19 1YT. Always a well attended church.
5th – It is always a pleasure to take
the service at the Love
and Friendship Spiritualist Church.
After many years in the Langside Halls the Church has moved to The Couper Institute,
86 Clarkston Road, Cathcart, Glasgow, G44 3DA.
The service remains on Sundays at 6.30pm Maureen Land Medium / President
and her dedicated committee go that extra mile to attend to the needs of all
who enter through the doors of the church.
9th – Taking the excellent development circle that I am always
praising.
The
12th - 18th saw us based in Torquay and travelled about
Devon for a few days. Unfortunately
Isabel took ill when we were away but we still enjoyed the break.
Once
again while away I again met up with a fellow psychic researcher, the
researcher I have teamed up with more over the years than any other. “S” is most clinical in her approach to this
kind of work and treats each case like a full blown police investigation. “S” started off with an interest in UFO
research and then to psychic detection but now she takes in all aspects of the
paranormal experiences of others. I have
always been impressed by her sympathetic
Questioning of those who have had some form of unusual experiences and
giving long term support to those who find it difficult to get over or come to
terms with their experiences.
“S” is an expert in Tai Chi which s becoming very popular these
days and many spiritualists are turning towards this sort of thing. Rigorous studies have shown that it helps
people of all ages, especially those over 65 to reduce stress, improve balance
and general mobility also increasing muscle strength. Several churches
have Tai Chi classes on their premises and I have often though a Tai Chi
session before a medium goes on the platform would be ideal for getting a
strong link with Spirit.
Bill sent me several reports on fraudulent mediums
and asks me “”What do you think of these?”
Bill I will let G K Chesterton answer you; -, “No conceivable number of false mediums
affects the probability of real mediums, one way or the other. This is surely
obviously enough. No conceivable number of forged banknotes can disprove the
existence of the Bank of England.....
G K Chesterton, scepticism, and spiritualism, Illustrated London News,
1906.
A new
medium on the circuit feels that he is not getting the chance he deserves to
serve churches. He comments “There are those around me who have others
promoting them while I have no one. I
have seven bookings in my diary this year while those who have sponsors have
around 15-20 booking in the same period”.
I am not jealous I would just like an even playing field”.
Seven
bookings in the first year out of the fledgling stage is not bad and who is to
say how many bookings you will pick up in the next seven months. Better quality than quantity. Get a good link with your guides each time
you appear on the platform and all will see what you are capable off. Many a new medium has been promoted too fast
too soon and after a short time they are never heard of again. Let Spirit be your agent and I assure you
that if the platform is where you are meant to be – you will be there.
Now an
email from a booking secretary...
“I owe a lot to our local Spiritualist church.
To pull my weight within the church I was always willing to help out in the
kitchen. Then I could not believe it when
I was asked to be the booking secretary. This was the first time anyone had put
any trust in me and I was not going to let my beloved church down. Recently,
because of a few health problems I missed giving a curtsey call to two mediums
and they were not too happy. One said if
that happened again she would not turn up.
I know it was my fault but I am shocked that the mediums have been so
nasty”.
Courtesy
calls are a bone of contention with some mediums and to be honest I would say
courtesy calls are a must, as some bookings can be made one or two years in
advance. Much can happen in the interval
and a thirty second call can stave off any problems on the night. But I
feel the responsibility is on both the medium and the booking secretary. As you mentioned you forgot to phone because
of health reasons, so surely it is a simple matter for the mediums to phone
themselves and check all is OK. We are
all supposed to be Spiritualists after all.
You have encountered two mediums that have not have been as
understanding as they should have been.
We are not all like that. I am sure Spirit would have been more
understanding.
Double
bookings are another bone of contention with both mediums and booking
secretaries. Although frustrating we are
all human and mistakes will be made. If
a church phones me and says that they have double booked then I usually say “let the other medium take the service”
as I have plenty of bookings over the years and the other medium may not have
as many. I was always very diligent as
far as recording my bookings are concerned. But recently I relied on a small
electronic diary which played up and caused a few problems, leaving me double
booked a few times. My fault I take the blame for not keeping two
diaries as I did in the past. The only
fair way I could sort it out was honour the first booking taken for that date
but I still feel I let the other churches down.
To the churches concerned I apologise again.
Since its relaunch the Psychic
news has gone from strength to strength and I have to mention issue 4101 in
particular for several interesting articles.
My favourite section of this
magazine is The Letter Page where the
ordinary Spiritualists can air their views. If you have a gripe or praise about
our religion don’t keep it to yourself, use this page to let others know.
The Abbey is self-supporting, with a farm where vegetables are grown and
bees, pigs and cattle are kept, a shop which sells wine, honey beeswax, fudge
and other items made by religious communities throughout the world, and a gift
shop, book shop, and restaurant. But it
is the wine - the Buckfast tonic wine – that usually springs to mind when the
name Buckfast is mentioned. This
relatively cheap tonic wine is abused especially by the young and the antics of
many who have partaken of this wine have devastated many a community here in
Scotland.
On the positive side I heard of a 93-year-old who put being in good health
and active at ninety-three was down to taking half a glass of Buckfast Tonic
Wine every day for over fifty years. But these days he is concerned at going into
his local shop and asking for this wine.
“People look on me as a wino as
the bottle is handed over to me” he said.
Like everything this wine can be used as intended or abused.
...SPIRIT WORKS WITH US IN SO MANY DIFFERENT WAYS....
One evening about 6.15pm I got a call from a church asking if I could take
their service in just over an hour’s time as the booked medium had taken ill at
the last moment. I said “yes” and had
barley time for a shower and get dressed if I was going to get to the church on
time.
I rushed out of the house grabbing a tie and suit jacket without putting
them on. While driving I glanced down at
the passenger seat to where my jacket and tie were lying and was horrified to
see the tie I had brought with me. It
was one I had been given as a present and never worn, it certainly did not go
with the shirt I had on. Normally this
would not have bothered me but all the way to the church I kept thinking “This tie just does not fit in with what I
am wearing”.
I reached the church with only a few minutes to spare and as I was walking
up the steps to the community centre I was putting a knot on the tie. All of a sudden I heard a young girl’s voice
saying “Grandpa – that is my daddy’s tie
– that man must have got it from the charity shop”. Somehow that made me have more negative
thoughts about the tie but as I was immediately stepping on to the platform the
minute I entered the building I forgot all about the tie.
All during the service I could not take my eyes of a lady sitting in the
back row and with the last message of the evening I went to her. After the service she came up and said “This is the first time I have ever been in a
spiritualist church. My husband past
four months ago and I felt I had to come to a spiritualist church this
evening. I came with my daughter and my
father but my father felt this was not the place for my daughter so he took her
home. I was going to leave also but when
you stepped on the platform I noticed your tie.
Johnnie my husband had a tie like that, he wore it a lot and we put it
into a charity shop with his other clothes”.
Yes – it could have been a coincidence – but such situations have happened
in the past especially with ties.
Several times I have put on a tie and changed it before going out to a
church and usually when that happens the ties comes in as part of the message..
I have many ties but at this particular time the only colour of tie I did
not have was a red on. Then on being
given a red tie for a birthday or Christmas present I felt it was too bright
and did not wear it. One evening I did
put it on for a service and while giving a gentleman a message from his father
the tie seemed to dazzle me. So I
mentioned “Your dad wore a tie, in fact I
believe a red tie was his favourite”. The
son replied “My father never went out
without wearing a tie and the only ties he would wear were red ties, although
not as bright as yours”.
Friend who is also a medium had
similar experiences with her grandmother’s brooch. She did not wear the brooch as she was
frightened she would lose it as it was the only personal item she had of her
grandmother.
Well, she did wear it twice and both times while taking a service. She had been given a lovely blouse as a
present but she felt it was too low at the neck. She decided that a brooch would keep the
neckline that little bit higher so she wore her grandmother’s brooch, but only
putting it on before she went on the platform, and taking it off immediately
afterwards. The twice she wore this
brooch on the platform were eighteen
months apart, both times it came into the message.
The first time she said to a lady “”Your
aunt had an old fashioned brooch like this – it was her pride and joy”. The lady replied “Yes – and I now have this brooch”.
The second occasion it was the colour of the brooch she mentioned
and it also could be accepted as good evidence.
Now again all this could be down to coincidence but this medium said in
all her years on the platform as far as she can remember these two occasions
were the only times she can remembers describing an item of jewellery in great
detail.
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the 2 ½ years. The site has been running. I’ve been asked several times to
comment on psychometry and I’ve never got round to it. Over the next four blogs
I will have Roy Dutton’s “Experiments “With Metal Dowsing Rods”.
Roy, a retired
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