Picton haunted hunters are ghost busted

PICTON is world famous for being a hive of supernatural activity, but it is now in mortal danger of becoming a different type of ghost town. 

• Vikki Campion Urban Affairs Reporter
• From: The Daily Telegraph
• January 05, 2011 12:00AM

  Business leaders in the rural community, southwest of Sydney, are mourning the death of the town's ghost tours after the local shire council forced the closure of the popular attraction.
The business was forced to shut its doors after residents complained the tours attracted hooligans who trespassed, threw eggs at houses, screamed late at night and did burnouts in their cars.
Seven people lost their jobs and the Picton Chamber of Commerce fears more could be at risk with petrol stations, restaurants and motels directly affected.
Read more at the Daily Telegraph

The Wisdom of Edgar Cayce

Welcome to Reflections: The Wisdom of Edgar Cayce
About Edgar Cayce

Edgar Cayce (1877-1945) has been called the “sleeping prophet,” the “father of holistic medicine,” and the most documented psychic of the 20th century. For more than 40 years of his adult life, Cayce gave psychic “readings” to thousands of seekers while in an unconscious state, diagnosing illnesses and revealing lives lived in the past and prophecies yet to come.

# A long time member of the Enmore Spiritualist Church was privileged to give the son of Edgar Cayce  a reading at Lily Dale in 2006 and revealed astonishing information that had never been told outside the immediate family. We will carry an interview here with that member in the future.
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Sky Radio in the USA can be heard on the Internet. You can go to there website by clicking this link.

This show is a series on the great psychic Edgar Cayce and there are pod casts available at the website so you can listen to older shows. Check out the website. There are numerous interesting shows connected to the 'other world' !

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at the Enmore Spiritualist Church

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was one of the world's foremost proponents and believers of Spiritualism. He was also the author of some of the most enduring books in modern history-the tales of Sherlock Holmes.

In 1921 Sir Arthur visited and toured Australia. He gave his farewell speech to an audience of members of the then Enmore Spiritualist Church.

In future posts we will bring you the text of his speech. Here is an interview with Sir Arthur :

Life After Death !

All these new informative and excellent books are available at AMAZON.

Life After Death : Some Of The Best Evidence
by Dr Jan W VanderSande PHD

Life After Death : The Evidence by Dinesh D'Souza

Life After Death : Living Proof by Tom Harrison

Supernatural sleuths and the search for truth

From The Sydney Morning Herald 39th December 2010.
Supernatural sleuths and the search for truth 
The official line is that police do not seek help from people claiming to be clairvoyants - but the pressure to solve crimes can lead to a softening of the rules, writes Kim Arlington.
It was a case that made international, albeit slightly sardonic, headlines.
''Psychic finds wrong corpse,'' reported Britain's favourite tabloid, The Sun. ''At least someone was found,'' the New York Daily News conceded.
In August, a fortnight after six-year-old Kiesha Abrahams went missing from her Mount Druitt home, a ''hunch'' led an Aboriginal elder to bushland in Sydney's west.

There, in the Nurragingy Reserve at Doonside, Cheryl Carroll-Lagerwey made a gruesome discovery: a human torso minus the arms, legs and head, wrapped in plastic beside a creek.
The remains were not those of Kiesha but of Kristi McDougall, a 31-year-old mother who had disappeared two months previously. Two people have since been charged with her murder.

" No-one Dies In Lily Dale"

Lily Dale in Chautauqua County in New York State is one of America's oldest and most famous communities that is devoted to Spiritualism.

Below is a film featuring Lily Dale and you can find out much more by going to their website here.

The community provides a series of seminars and meetings throughout the year. There is a fee for admission to the grounds, which include a museum.  The Marion Skidmore Library. Lily Dale Museum & Historical Society, bookstore, shops, and a snack bar. Also of note to the potential tourist is the Lily Dale pet cemetary. The pet cemetery is located at the entrance to the LeoLyn Woods a towering old growth forest.

The town of Lily Dale has its own Volunteer Fire Department, water supply and two swans named Lily and Dale. Visitors must pay a gate fee of $10 per person during the summer season which runs from mid-June until Labor Day. Gate fees are waived on Sunday morning to allow nearby residents to attend church services. Included in the gate fee is admission to a variety of daily and weekly scheduled events: mediumship demonstrations, thought exchange meetings, and healing services, among others.

Internet radio and Signs of Life

 Chris Carter has examined all of the existing evidence developed by near death experience researchers and compiled a comprehensive book that leads one to an inescapable conclusion - the evidence for survival of consciousness is clear and concise. Evidence is taken from ancient cultures through modern neuroscience, as all of the arguments for and against survival are explored in his book, Science and the Near- Death Experience - How Consciousness Survives Death. Chris's clear conclusion is that the data fully supports the notion that our minds can, and do, function after our brains have stopped. Join us tonight as we explore the brain and consciousness, deathbed visions, and the specific elements of the near death experience where people are thrust into another world.

you can listen to the latest and past shows at this link :
http://www.foreverfamilyfoundation.org/signsofliferadio.htm

From the Spirirtual Association of Great Britain

Exciting and Important News for 2011!

During the Christmas holiday closure period the SAGB will move to a new home that is still in Belgravia, London, but much closer to Victoria station! With effect from 12th January 2011, the SAGB will reside in the Victoria Charity Centre, we will be housed alongside other worthwhile charities such as, the Royal Institute for the Blind, Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths, and the Women's Interfaith Network to name but a few. Like most modern buildings today, when you come to visit the Association, you will need to first sign in at reception in the foyer on the ground floor, and from there you will be directed to the second floor. There is a lift and wheelchair access to all areas. For the first quarter, while we settle in and find our feet, we will not be offering any evening demonstrations at 7pm. The Sunday Service will be at 3.30 instead of 4.00 and the demonstration on Sunday will be at 5.00 instead of at 6pm. Please take a note of the new opening hours and times, they are slightly different, and we look forward to welcoming you into our new home. Our new website will be available during the Christmas period and will display all the latest information and what is planned during the first quarter of 2011.

So please remember! After we close on Sunday 5th December at 7pm we
re-open on Wednesday,12th January 2011 at 11.30, in our new home at
11 Belgrave Road, London SW1V 1RB, close to Victoria Station.
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The 7 Principals of the SAGB:


We believe in an Infinite Intelligence, Who
governs all

We believe that personal identity and all sentient
forms of life survive physical death

We believe that continuous existence and
eternal progress occur for all in the Hereafter

We believe in communion with the spiritual
realms

We believe that all of humanity is spiritually linked

We believe that in the Hereafter, all must account
for their actions on earth and will judge
themselves accordingly

We believe that all are responsible for the way
they conduct their earthly lives.

Sitters witness Spirit fingers during seance

Sitters witness Spirit fingers during seance

by LEWIS SUTTON

Trumpets levitated and 'dead' father gives convincing personal evidence to sitter at David Thompson and Stewart Alexander sйances.

 

THE COBER Hill Conference Centre has over recent years been the venue for several seminars on physical phenomena. The Centre, sited just north of Scarborough, overlooks beautiful Yorkshire countryside with the North Sea visible just a short distance away. This seminar, the second to be organised by Alf and June Winchester, featured sйances with mediums Stewart Alexander and David Thompson plus lectures, demonstrations of psychic art, psychic surgery together with daily meditations and healing sessions.

The first seance of the seminar was with medium Stewart Alexander and lasted for nearly two hours - but time passed quickly with all the action that took place. Soon two trumpets were flying around up to about 8ft (2.4m) from the medium who was located behind a curtain in a corner of the room. This type of phenomena does not provide direct evidence of Survival, but does show just how flexible and adaptable ectoplasm is. And I don't know how anyone other than our Spirit friends could so accurately propel trumpets rapidly around the room in the dark without hitting anything!

Read the rest of the article here !

The spirit photography of Ada Deane – The Armistice Day Series

Jim Warwood takes a look at some controversial spirit photographs. Though apparently having many psychic experiences as a child, it was not until Ada Emma Deane was fifty-eight years old that her career as a photographic medium began.  After becoming involved with Spiritualism, she was encouraged by a North London medium to develop her psychic powers and in June 1920 obtained her first psychic photograph.

Read the full story at The Spirit of PN

A video on the Beginnings of Modern Spiritualism

The Beginnings of Modern Spiritualism

James Van Praagh contacts a young father who died from a heart attack

James Van Praagh  is one of the most noted mediums in the world. He travels and gives lectures and is also the Producer of the Television series Medium.
Here James does a reading for a widow whose husband died at age 29 from a heart attack. From his Beyond TV show. To learn more about James, visit www.vanpraagh.com

Noted British Spiritualist Montague Keen

In his own words- from Spirit !

"I was born into a Jewish family in Maida Vale, London on 7-2-25 the youngest child of John Keen. My father had a club and a guest house and we had a very comfortable life until the war broke out and I was sent to Wales as an evacuee – I was not happy there as they would not allow music in the house so I learned to play music in my head – Rachmaminov 2nd Piano Concerto was one piece of music I knew well and it became so important to me.

My father was killed when a bomb hit our house and I got a telegram to come back to London immediately. Suddenly we did not have a home it was the end of my childhood and my education which I loved – I had dreamed of going to university. My mother said I had to go to work to help support her. At 16 years old I got a job as a journalist at the Hornsey Journal as a young reporter – I cycled all over North London. I had to grow up fast.

I suffered from ashma and ended up in hospital many times. It helped if I went to see horror films so the cinema became a big part of my life.

I decided at 14 years old I really did not want to belong to any religion – I needed my mind to be free of restriction. I wanted to explore life. There was a medium in London Tom Corbett who was extremely popular with all the actors and actresses and high society at the time so I decided to investigate him. By then I was working at the House of Commons and no one ever refused an invitation lunch in that great historic building. So I was able to interview all those people I would never otherwise get to. I wrote a book on Corbett but never got around to publishing it. All I can say is it certainly opened up the world of spirit to me and it became my greatest interest in life."

Paula Gloria & Veronica Ford Keen (Communicates with Her Late Husband)


You can read more about Montague Keen at the Montague Keen Foundation website
http://www.montaguekeen.com/index.html

"Psychic warned Sheridan: 'Murdoch ordered surveillance'

Scots politician Tommy Sheridan

A "Psychic Agony Aunt" told Tommy Sheridan he was under "24/7" surveillance by the News of the World, a court heard yesterday.

Yasemin Urquhart, who wrote for the newspaper under the pseudonym "Ruth the Truth", sent a series of emails to the politician, telling him the observation was "ordered by Rupert Murdoch" and advised him to "keep your head down".

The emails were shown to the Scottish News of the World editor Bob Bird during his fourth day on the witness stand at Sheridan's perjury trial at the High Court in Glasgow.

Sheridan and his wife Gail are accused of lying during the successful action against the paper over allegations made about his private life. They both deny the charges.

The action followed the newspaper's claims that he was an adulterer who visited swingers' clubs.

Sheridan, a former contestant on Big Brother, won £200,000 in damages after the newspaper printed the allegations.

Following the civil jury trial at the Court of Session in Edinburgh, a police investigation was launched and the former MSP and his wife, both 46, were charged with perjury.

Read more at the Press Gazette

Startling new study 'proves' that we can see the future

Are humans psychic? Startling new study 'proves' that we can see the future
By Fiona Macrae

You may already know this…but psychic powers seem to actually exist.

Research suggests that far from being a trick employed by fairground fortune tellers, many of us are blessed with the ability to see into the future

Influencing events before they happen is also within our remit, the study by a respected psychologist found.
The publication of the results in a leading social science journal will make waves in the world of science.

They will also start a million conversations about the significance of everyday occurrences, such as knowing who is at the end of the phone before picking it up.

Daryl Bem, a physicist and part-time magician turned psychologist, set out to investigate psi, or parapsychology.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1330596/Humans-psychic-powers-startling-new-study-reveals.html#ixzz15aPUwTgO

Muscian Phil Collins believes he lived before

The famous drummer from legendary group Genesis, Phil Collins believes that in his last life he was at the Alamo. Over the years he has been an active collector of relics relating to the Alamo.

In the latest Rolling Stone Magazine he has spoken of of his previous life and 'ghost' photos he took at the Alamo.

These days, Phil Collins is more interested in the Battle of the Alamo than in music. And he’s not just an Alamo history buff, he’s a collector. He says he has hundreds of cannonballs, documents, and other artifacts in his basement in Switzerland.

And now, he thinks some of the photos he’s taken at the site of the Alamo show ghosts or something like them.

Phil told “Rolling Stone” there are, quote, “glowing, semi-transparent light orbs” in the pictures, and he believes they represent, quote, “paranormal energy.”

Phil has also been told by a psychic that he fought at the Alamo in a previous life and he thinks it could be true.He says, quote, “I don’t want to sound like a weirdo. I’m not Shirley Maclaine, but I’m prepared to believe. You’ve seen the pictures. You can’t deny them.” Phil also talks about the neck and spinal cord injury that essentially makes it impossible for him to play the drums like he used to, because he can’t grip the sticks.

Distinguished researchers found evidence for survival

compiled and edited by Michael E. Tymn


It wasn’t long after the birth of modern Spiritualism in 1848 that scientists and scholars began investigating the phenomena. Many of them started out with the intent of showing that all mediums were charlatans, but one by one they came to believe in the reality of mediumship and related psychic phenomena. A few of them sat on the fence when it came to professing a belief in the spirit world, but others were more courageous.

Today, researchers such as Dr. Gary Schwartz of the University of Arizona and Dr. David Fontana, a psychology professor in England, are continuing to verify the existence of genuine mediums, and, concomitantly, of a spirit world, but considering the conclusions of the famous researchers of yesteryear, we should be able to invoke the legal doctrine of Res Judicata – it has already been decided. Consider the following testimony.

Judge John W. Edmonds (1816-1874) – After serving in both houses of the New York legislature, including president of the Senate, Edmonds was elevated to the New York State Supreme Court and became its Chief Justice. He began his investigation of mediums in 1851, assuming that he would expose them as frauds.

– But all this, and much, very much more of a cognate nature went to show me that there was a high order of intelligence involved in this new phenomenon – an intelligence outside of, and beyond, mere mortal agency; for there was no other hypothesis which I could devise or hear of that could at all explain that, whose reality is established by the testimony of tens of thousands, and can easily be ascertained by any one who take the trouble to inquire…

to read more go here

Psychic radio

Captain Pat has a psychic show on Sunday nights on c913FM RADIO.
Click here to go to the station and listen on the internet.

Everyone has a story…….and every Sunday night from 6pm Captain Pat interviews those locals who help make the Macarthur area great. His popular “coffee table chat” style of interviewing takes us on an interesting journey – exploring the lives and times of his guests.

Pat has interviewed well over a thousand locals in the last few years including Ken Moroney, the then Commission of Police; the late 104 year old Matilda Stone who wanted to hear (and got) Vera Lynn; Tim Roberts up and coming hockey superstar; Chief of the Australian Air Force, Mark Binskin; Kevin Shepherd, one of the original boys in the Vegemite TV Commercial; Ellie Roach daughter of the late Warrant Officer Kevin "Dasher" Wheatley VC and Formula Ford racing driver Tom Williamson.

Pat also gives opportunities to local musicians to play live on-air, including Nathan Foley, Ric Bailey, Christie Lamb, Jake Gilroy, Peter McWhirter, Luke Koteras, Heather Honey, Nathaniel Oliveri and Aaron Culligan. And bands Celeritas; Will and the Indians; Stanley and the Knives; End Over End and Rani's Fire. Pat is well connected within the local area and also arranges live gigs for them.

From 8pm the lights go down and the Psychic Mediums appear. Pat “opens the lines” and callers receive a free reading by gifted psychics. Over the past few years psychics Ezio de Angelis, Amanda Rousettey, Marcia Quinton, Imelda Penny, Deb Powell, Kerry Wearing, Lana Jackson and Christine Rose have become regular guests.

Join Captain Pat every Sunday night from 6pm on your station - C91.3FM

The beginnings of Spiritualism

The origin of mediumship is usually linked to the Fox sisters at Hydesville, New York in 1848, but believers date the unofficial beginning of Modern American Spiritualism to the Shakers and similar religious groups. By 1853 the movement had reached San Francisco and London, and by 1860 was worldwide. The Fox family remained very active in Spiritualism for many years. Other notable Spiritualists were Mercy Cadwallader, who became a sort of missionary for the movement, and Emma Hardinge Britten, who wrote e first Spiritualist newspaper in Britain, The Yorkshire Spiritual Telegraph, was published, and by the 1870s there were numerous Spiritualist societies and churches throughout the US and Britain.

There was little in the way of national organisation of mediums in Britain or the USA although some regions of Britain had organised Federations that might have up to thirty circles of similar beliefs, and in 1891 the National Federation of Spiritualists (NFS) came into existence and grew quite large before its name change to the Spiritualists' National Union (SNU) in 1902. British spiritualists of this time were often adherents of the temperance and anti-capital punishment lobbies, often held radical political views and were frequently vegetarians. Some were active in Women's Rights and a minority espoused Free Love: the popular perception of Spiritualists was often of radicals in the Victorian period.

To read more on the Fox Sisters click here for their Wikipedia entry

New internet Spiritualist newspaper launched

It’s now over three months since the last issue of Psychic News rolled off the presses. For the former editorial team there have been some tough times, and we have so much appreciated your messages of encouragement. The one thing we never doubted was that we would eventually return to our regular readers, and hopefully reach many new ones, with a truly independent voice for spirit. We cannot call it Psychic News, but we can certainly continue the spirit and passion of the paper our pioneers set up, hence our new title, Spirit of PN.

Spirit of PN is brought to you by former PN editor Sue Farrow, assistant editor Paul Brett and techno-wizard Magnus Smith. A new and very welcome addition to the team is Geoff Griffiths, who is working incredibly hard to promote and publicise our new venture.

click here to go to the website and register