psychic Sally Morgan wins court case

Daily Mail pays £125k damages plus costs to TV psychic Sally Morgan over 'charlatan' report

Dominic Ponsford 20 June 2013

The Daily Mail has agreed to pay TV psychic Sally Morgan £125,000 in damages as well as legal costs over a 2011 story which accused her of being a charlatan.
The settlement comes ahead of an expected libel trial in the long-running case.
Her solicitor Graham Atkins read out a statement at the High Court this morning outlining the terms of the agreed settlement.
He said that Morgan was a psychic who has performed over 600 shows at theatres and venues and also appeared on television.
Following a theatre performance in Dublin in 2011 an article appeared in the Daily mail "in the context of a general attack on psychics as being charlatans", he said.
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/daily-mail-agrees-pay-substantial-damages-tv-psychic-sally-morgan-over-report-suggesting-she-cheated

Bill Roache hires psychic to talk to dogs

CORRIE's Bill Roache has admitted to using a psychic — so he can communicate with his dogs.

The soap's longest-serving actor, 79, revealed he had contacted Jackie Weaver, who claims to be able to talk to animals.

He says Jackie can tell him how Poppy, Oliver and Harry are "feeling".

Bill — who plays Ken Barlow in the hit soap — said: "Jackie said Poppy even did an impersonation.............

 http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/4064786/Bill-Roache-news-Corrie-star-hires-psychic-to-talk-to-his-dogs.html

Spirit Photography-Actual Spirits Caught on Film!

The methods of Edgar Cayce are still used to cure untreatable illnesses.

In 1986, 27-year-old Cathy Comora visited her ophthalmologist after having some minor vision problems.  She was horrified when her doctor told her she had optic neuritis, a severe inflammation of the optic nerve.  Cathy was told she would probably go blind:

“It was a very frightening experience.  He said I wouldn’t want to run out right away and buy a white cane, but it’s very serious and I was scared.  I mean, I suddenly realized that there is a possibility that I could go blind.”

Since there is no known cure for the disease, Cathy chose to look for an alternative treatment.  She found a doctor who was familiar with the mysterious methods of a man named Edgar Cayce.  Edgar Cayce became famous in the 1920s for diagnosing illnesses, even though he had absolutely no medical training.  In his lifetime, Cayce made more than 9,000 diagnoses, or “readings” as he called them, while in a deep, self-induced trance.  Even though Edgar Cayce died in 1945, many practitioners still follow his teachings.  Some dismiss the cures as mere lucky coincidence.  But for those diagnosed with a disease that modern medicine cannot cure, Edgar Cayce’s methods continue to hold out hope.

read more here 

Psychic Sally Morgan under attack again

The British platform medium Sally Morgan, sometimes referred to as 'Princess Diana's psychic' is under attack again in the Daily Mail newspaper.

It was claimed earlier that some people at one of Sally's platform readings reputedly heard someone relaying information to her from outside the hall. She has vigorously denied the claim.

You can access the Daily Mail report here.

Movies About Spiritualism

In this modern day of mass and quick communications via a host of new media, Spiritualism seems to have fallen by the wayside as a subject for film.

However there are many good short clips on Youtube about the subject (one is below) but we hear there is a new Spiritualist organisation that is to concentrate on producing documentaries about Spiritualism that will include attempts to show as much physical evidence as possible.

More about that when it comes to hand.

Here is a short film about the history of Spiritualism made by the SNU.

Scientist Proves ESP Is Real

From the New York Times :


Prof Bem

One of psychology’s most respected journals has agreed to publish a paper presenting what its author describes as strong evidence for extrasensory perception, the ability to sense future events.

The decision may delight believers in so-called paranormal events, but it is already mortifying scientists. Advance copies of the paper, to be published this year in The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, have circulated widely among psychological researchers in recent weeks and have generated a mixture of amusement and scorn.

The paper describes nine unusual lab experiments performed over the past decade by its author, Daryl J. Bem, an emeritus professor at Cornell, testing the ability of college students to accurately sense random events, like whether a computer program will flash a photograph on the left or right side of its screen. The studies include more than 1,000 subjects.

Some scientists say the report deserves to be published, in the name of open inquiry; others insist that its acceptance only accentuates fundamental flaws in the evaluation and peer review of research in the social sciences.

“It’s craziness, pure craziness. I can’t believe a major journal is allowing this work in,” Ray Hyman, an emeritus professor of psychology at the University Oregon and longtime critic of ESP research, said. “I think it’s just an embarrassment for the entire field.”

The editor of the journal, Charles Judd, a psychologist at the University of Colorado, said the paper went through the journal’s regular review process. “Four reviewers made comments on the manuscript,” he said, “and these are very trusted people.”

All four decided that the paper met the journal’s editorial standards, Dr. Judd added, even though “there was no mechanism by which we could understand the results.”

But many experts say that is precisely the problem. Claims that defy almost every law of science are by definition extraordinary and thus require extraordinary evidence. Neglecting to take this into account — as conventional social science analyses do — makes many findings look far more significant than they really are, these experts say.

“Several top journals publish results only when these appear to support a hypothesis that is counterintuitive or attention-grabbing,” Eric-Jan Wagenmakers, a psychologist at the University of Amsterdam, wrote by e-mail. “But such a hypothesis probably constitutes an extraordinary claim, and it should undergo more scrutiny before it is allowed to enter the field.”…

[continues in the New York Times]