16th July I was on my way north to
the Dalneigh Spiritualist Church Inverness to a great Highland welcome and a
good turnout.
22 nd – I attended the Pollockshaws and
District Spiritualist Church. It was
good to see Bill Thompson sitting in the congregation. Bill a good medium in his own right and founder
of this long running church. Bill has
not been too well recently and has had
to step back from church activities. But
he will not be too concerned as the church is in good hands with Margaret Ross,
Irene and Susan at the helm.
25th -Development Circle...
28th I was at ASK Dunfermline and
this usually busy church and this night was no exception as there was a full
house.
29th – A workshop... “Understanding
your psychic abilities”.
31st – A workshop... “
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7th August giving a talk... “Spirit
are closer than you think”
During this time I have been receiving Indian
Head Massage from a friend and I must say I have been receiving benefit from
it.
With the conclusion of the
case on the murder of little Daniel Pelka I have had several emails asking me
as a spiritualist what are my views on capital punishment.
My main reason against
capital punishment is that there is no guarantee that an innocent person will
not be executed. Many times in the past mistakes
have been made and I can think of nothing worse than an innocent person being executed
for a crime they did not commit. But with the horrendous suffering and eventual
death that little Daniel Pelka had to endure, I feel that there are exceptional
cases where capital punishment may be the right sentence to fit the crime. Maybe
we should have capital punishment standing by on the sidelines for cases like
this one.
In Magdelena
Luczak and Mariusz Krezolek we know we have those responsible. And although
they will spend at least the next thirty-years in jail. Every minute of every day they will be in
fear of their lives. It may be
impossible to keep these two safe because of the hatred other prisoners will
have towards them. On top of that
because of such a barbaric crime it will be hard for the most even tempered and
disciplined officer to be civil to them.
Maybe this is one case where the death-sentence could be rolled
out. This crime has brought out the
worst in so many, as they say what they would like to do to this evil pair. But
we must not stoop to their level, or all is lost. We live in a civilized society – not perfect
– but fairly civilized. We cannot go
back to the dark ages because of this evil pair.
Will this
death of this little man finally be the wake up call to the authorities to act
and not to say ‘sorry’ after such an incident?
Spiritualism seems to be the second religion of many
people. As well as attending churches of
the religion they were born into they come along to our services. Even regular attenders to our churches refer
to the religion they were born into if asked what religion they are... One clergyman I know was surprised how many
of his flock attended spiritualist churches.
He said “I am not too concerned as
they will always come back to their home”.
Two years later with the original spiritualist church in his area moving
to bigger premise, and a second one opening, he confidently said “I think most attend these places for a bit
of entertainment and nothing more”.
I have to agree with his last comment in a way. There are those who look on our religion as
entertainment and some in our movement are happy to have it look like
entertainment to draw people in and to expand their ego... But in general our churches fly the flag as
“Spiritualism the Religion”.
Talking to a small group of spiritualists and
non-spiritualists recently, all who had sampled our divine services admitted,
after other religious services spiritualism was like a breath of fresh air.
One gentleman said “Spiritualism is an open and tolerant religion I am fee to
come and go as I please. I attend
several of your churches in our area I do not confine myself to one church and
no one cares”.
Another – “In
your churches I feel free to discuss my doubts and concerns without being
quoted a few ancient verses and looked upon as if I am a trouble maker”.
“The
best way I can think of your religion is that it is a thinking-person’s
religion”.
“I was
a regular member at my spiritualist church for eleven years and never in that
time did anyone force me to become a member.
Then I felt the time had come to enrol and I am glad I did. Now as a member and now I can have a say on
the running of the church. Being a
member of my old church/religion I never had any say in what went on”.
But not all positive remarks as one would
expect...
“A thinking person’s religion?
I think that those who think about what is going, on instead of being
carried away with the thought of the dead communication with us, will smell a
rat and stay well away” commented one gentleman.
Automatic
Writing
The ability to write intelligible
messages without conscious control or knowledge of what is being written,
sometimes called ‘trance’ writing. The
sceptics refer to this as no more than a parlour game
The
deaths of racehorses on the racetrack seem to be accepted as part and parcel of
the sport, but I wonder how many of those who contribute to the racing industry
by gambling realize the following.
Up to
the end of July...of the sixty-eight horses ending their lives on British race
courses in 2013 – 10 have collapsed and died during or immediately after a
race... And this is called a sport?
If I was writing a book on the
subject the only title there could be is “RUN
TILL THEY DROP – DEAD” I am
contacting the RSPCA to comment on this and will be interested in their reply.
The fourth and final part
of Roy Dutton’s Dowsing.
Chapt. 4 Conclusion.
Unless the reader has experienced the
mysterious crossing of two well-balanced rods during a serious dowsing session,
he or she will probably consider the things described in this article to be
just too incredible, despite my claims of scientific objectivity throughout. It
is true, nevertheless, that my sole motivation has been to understand more
about life’s mysteries. Indeed, my insatiable curiosity has led me to
investigate other strange and uncommon human experiences as they have come to
my attention throughout my life. Unadventurous people with closed minds are simply
not on my ‘wavelength’.
The
writing-up of my experiences as a dowser (or, more accurately, a diviner, because water has been only incidentally
involved in my activities) is part of my desire to communicate my findings
during the experiments described here and during others of a different nature,
to people who have been persuaded to close their minds to such subjective
phenomena. In my view, all that we perceive is subjective, even those phenomena
that have been categorised and presented by scientists ‘objectively’. Each one of us is at the centre of our
personal universe, from birth to death. No one else can exactly share our
experiences in our personal location in Space and Time. Scientists are in this
situation like everyone else, but, today many have tried to persuade people to
the contrary.
I
have tried to understand why those rods cross in response to some image held in
my mind. The only feasible solution seems to be that very small (imperceptible)
nervous impulses in my arms are created in the circumstances described, these
producing minute changes in the balancing of the rods. At no time have I been
aware of such changes. How I have managed to sense the location of the unseen
imagined object, why the cross-over point of the rods should have been directly
over the object sought for and what kind of signal was received by my body to
produce those responses, I still have no clear idea.
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* My next workshop will be at the Glasgow Association of Spiritualists, on 24th August at 10am....
