Attacks on Sally Morgan backfire

 The Australian lawyer who investigates the paranormal, Victor J Zammit writes about psychic Sally Morgan who is suing a British newspaper for libel: 

"Some time ago - as the regular subscribers will know - I tried to defend Spiritualist Sally Morgan, the highly entertaining and energetic British mental medium, against unfair and vicious attacks in the mainstream press in the UK. Like many mental mediums Sally has a successful track record for doing brilliant work in providing people with personal experience of survival after death. I challenged the critics and others to look at the evidence, 'see for yourself', 'investigate yourself'.What happened? At the time Sally Morgan was in crisis. She had some 30 bookings planned for the U.K. After the unfair attacks - and after people investigated Sally 's mediumship- the bookings in different theatres soared to some 80 all over the UK between now and November this year! Some of the bookings are already SOLD OUT! Well done Sally! See http://www.sallymorgan.tv/tour -for dates"

Read much more at Victor's website/



  

The Journalist,The Titanic & Spiritualism

Britain's first great investigative journalist William Stead (5 July 1849 – 15 April 1912) is to be honoured  by The Chartered Institute of Journalists - to mark the 100th anniversary of his death aboard the Titanic.

Less well known is that William Stead was also a Spiritualist.

The Chartered Institute of Journalists is to honour Britain’s first investigative journalist - on the 100th anniversary of his death aboard the Titanic. President Norman Bartlett will lay a wreath at the memorial to W.T Stead on the Victoria Embankment in London on April 15.
William Thomas Stead was acknowledged as Britain’s leading campaigning and investigative journalist in the late 1800s, particularly for his work in exposing the white-slave trade and child sex abuse in London’s brothels by the nation’s upper classes. This resulted in the passing of the Criminal Amendment Act which raised the age of consent from 13 to 16.
As part of his campaign, Stead “bought” a chimney sweep’s 13-year-old daughter (Eliza Armstrong) for £5 which earned him a three-month prison sentence. He continued to edit the Pall Mall Gazette (which later merged into the Evening Standard) from his prison cell.

After his death on the Titanic, the Institute of Journalists launched an appeal to raise funds for a memorial. So much was raised that two memorials were erected, one opposite Temple Tube station and the other in Central Park, New York.

Stead was a pacifist and peace campaigner and started a Spiritualist quarterly  magazine  called Borderland.

 Before Stead boarded  The Titanic, he said 2 spiritualist friends had warned him the journey would not end well but Stead dismissed their fears stating that whatever was to come, he could not avoid fate.

Throughout his life he claimed he would either die by lynching or drowning. When the iceberg struck the Titanic in 1912, Stead is said to have assisted women and children into the lifeboats and then retired to the sitting room to smoke a cigar and read a book.