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

Harry Price : British psychic researcher

Harry Price (17 January 1881 – 29 March 1948) was a British psychic researcher and author.

Although Price claimed his birth was in Shropshire, he was actually born in London in Red Lion Square othe site of the South Place Ethical Society's Conway Hall. 
He was educated in New Cross, first at Waller Road Infants School and then Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham Boys School At 15, Price founded the Carlton Dramatic Society [and wrote small plays including a drama about his early experience with a poltergeist which he said took place at a haunted manor house in Shropshire


Harry Price & a Spirit

A few years later, Price came to the attention of the Press when he claimed an early interest in space-telegraphy.

He set up a receiver and transmitter between Telegraph Hill, Hatcham and St Peter's Church Brockley and captured a spark on a photographic plate, though according to the most recent biography of Price by Richard Morris, this was nothing more than Harry writing a press release saying he had done the experiment as nothing was verified.

The young Price also had an avid interest in coin collecting and wrote several articles for The Askean, the magazine for Haberdashers' School. In his autobiography, Search for Truth, written between 1941 and 1942, Price claimed he was involved with archaeological excavations in Greenwich Park, London but in earlier writings on Greenwich denied he had a hand in the excavation.

The above is from Harry's Wikipedia entry. You can read more on Haryy Price here.

an interview with Harry Price:

Scientist Claims Proof Of Afterlife

Scientist Claims Proof Of Afterlife

Research Finds Accuracy Of Mediums Channeling Dead People

CLEVELAND -- What happens after we die -- do we continue on or is this life the end?

Many of us hope there is an afterlife, and now some Arizona scientists say they have proof through their afterlife experiments.

There are many people who say they have died and come back to life. They claim to have experienced an afterlife, even if for only a short time.
Scientists at The University of Arizona have done extensive research, and say that they have the proof that when we die we continue to live beyond our physical bodies.

"Almost anyone who sees the data says there's something real here," said one of the researchers.

Allison Dubois is a spiritual medium, or someone thought to be able to communicate with the dead.

Christine Vettore was brought in for a reading with Dubois, who attempted to contact Vettore's dead relatives.
"I'm hopeful that there's an afterlife so I can see everybody I've lost already," said Vettore.

It doesn't take long -- within seconds, Dubois says Vettore's daughter is coming through.

It is a gift Dubois says she's had her whole life, but it comes with a lot of criticism.

"I think there are some people that are Charlatans, and with any profession there's going to be some bad apples, so I mean that just goes with the territory, so the ones that are accurate and are legitimate just have to prove themselves," said Dubois.

This reading is part of a science experiment -- Dr. Gary Schwartz, of the University of Arizona, is observing.

The Harvard-trained doctor looked for what he calls hits and misses, or the accuracy of the reading.

He's building on his hypothesis that there is life after death, and that mediums can talk to those who have died. After Vettore's daughter is contacted, Dubois contacted Vettore's brother and mother. She is able nail facts, giving details about the relations that she could not have known beforehand.

For instance, Dubois tells Vettore that her mother knows there's a carrot cake and a bowl of peanuts in her house.

Read more here.

Judge Edmonds

Judge John Worth Edmonds (1816-1874)

John W. Edmonds was one of the most influential early American Spiritualists. After a great public career, as a member of both branches of the New York State Legislature and, for some time, President of the Senate and Judge of the Supreme Court of New York, he resigned the latter position on account of the outcry raised against his Spiritualistic beliefs and, especially, his support of the Fox sisters.


His interest in the Rochester knockings was aroused in early 1851, and the first account of his experiences was published on August 1, 1853, in the New York Courier, in an article "To the Public." In this article, in order to meet the constant attacks against him by the Press, he confessed his complete conversion to Spiritualism and related his experiences. This bold step aroused a tremendous sensation, and a furious controversy arose.

In a letter published in the New York Herald, on August 6, 1853, he wrote:

"I went into the investigation originally thinking it a deception, and intending to make public my exposure of it. Having from my researches come to a different conclusion, I feel that the obligation to make known the result is just as strong. Therefore it is, mainly, that I give the result to the world. I say mainly because there is another consideration which influences me, and that is, the desire to extend to others a knowledge which I am conscious cannot but make them happier and better."

The Fox Sisters

His investigations into mediumship were logical, hard, and indicative of a man of the law. He was very shrewd, and, consistently, his conclusions were the same: spirit out of body can and does communicate with spirit in body.

From: First Spiritual Temple

As time passed on, Judge Edmonds developed mediumship himself. Between the years 1853 and 1854, within a small circle formed with a few close friends, he received many spirit messages and communications. The chief communicators were alleged to be Swedenborg and Bacon.

Science explains materializations

Victor Zammit has a fascinating piece on materializations on his website : Some of you would know that my partner Wendy and I, who are both professionally qualified in Scientific Method and Psychology, have been attending and investigating David Thompson's materializations for almost five years now. We need to remember that it was materializations which convinced some of the greatest scientists this world has ever seen of the existence of the afterlife. I can tell you from personal experience that even if you believe in the afterlife nothing can prepare you for the reality of that first experience of materialization. On more than seventy occasions we have seen guests to the circle speaking directly with and touching their loved ones from the spirit world.

Read more at Victor's website Friday Afterlife Report : here.

Medium Elwood Babbitt lectures at Amherst College

In the later part of the 20th century, Elwood Babbitt carved out a niche for himself in the domain of deep-trance mediumship. Though not as widely-known as Edgar Cayce, Babbitt’s predictions concerning climate change, pole shift, and ancient civilizations caused many to take notice. Some of these have already come to pass. Do you consider predictions to be true and factual, or wild-ass guesses that happen to coincide with reality, and why?

WHAT'S WRONG WITH 'CLOSED-MINDED ORTHODOX SCIENTISTS?

 More from Viktor J Zammit's Friday Afterlife Report

We are still having problems with conservative scientists these days. We must never forget the huge blunders made by 'closed minded' scientists who stubbornly refused to investigate the evidence of a new discovery or invention which was contrary to their own cherised beliefs. We remember that these stubborn negative scientists got together, in the name of orthodox American science.

Thai Cannes winner steeped in Spiritualism

Reuters : Like most of his feature films, Thai auteur Apichatpong Weerasethakul's "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives" is set in Issan province, where he grew up. It playfully invokes both the lifestyle and animistic beliefs of the Northeast country folk, and the primitive magic of early Thai cinema, relating both of these to his musings on reincarnation.

Since commercial returns or widespread support have never been factored into Weerasethakul's career, its surprise win of the Palme d'Or Sunday will seal its favorable future in festivals and specialist releases.
Boonmee (Thanapat Saisaymar) who is afflicted with acute kidney failure, returns to his country estate in Isan to spend his last days under the care of his devoted yet no-nonsense sister-in-law Jen (Jenjiro Pongpas), nephew Tong (Sakda Kaewbuadee) and Jaai, a Burmese worker.

One evening, while the family is relaxing on their terrace, the apparition of Boonmee's dead wife Huay (Nattakarn Aphaiwonk) appears, followed by long-lost son Boonsong. Boonsong, who looks like a Yeti with red laser beam eyes, recounts how his interest in photography led him deep into the jungle in search of Monkey Ghosts, until he himself is transformed into one.

The matter-of-fact way in which the humans interact with dead or otherworldly beings make for some deadpan humor: upon seeing Thuy in halogenic form and Boonsong in a rubbery gorilla suit, Tong remarks, "I feel like the strange one here." There is also eerie poignancy in the way spiritual beings hover around Boonmee as they sense his impending transition to another world.

The film was inspired by a book by a Buddhist abbot recording accounts of people who remembered their past lives. Although Boonmee attributes his illness to the karma of his having killed too many "Commies" and rid his farm of bugs, Weerasethakul does not broach the subject in terms of causality or retribution, nor does he tie Boonmee's past lives to any tangible persona or timeline. The cave which becomes his resting place is also where his first life began. The crucial point he recalls is that at his genesis, he was "neither human nor animal, neither man nor woman."

This makes the structure free-floating and esoteric, incorporating myth (underwater sex between a facially-tainted princess and a catfish), politics (photographs of soldiers hinting at military-related human disappearances) and parallel worlds (Tong and Jen in different places at the same time).
This view of reincarnation as all beings coexisting in one non-linear universal consciousness is also central to Apitchatpong's conception of cinema as the medium with the power to replay past lives and connect the human world to animal or spiritual ones. That may be why he shot the last scenes involving parallel worlds in 16mm, as homage to the format of film in his childhood memory. His casting of actors or roles (like a monk, a Burmese worker) from previous films in also a kind of reincarnation of the director's cinematic past lives.

The director's film language has always been experimental, intuitive and personal to the point of mystical (or mystifying to a mainstream non-Thai audience). By comparison, "Uncle Boonmee" employs less difficult cinema vocabulary, staying away from any avant garde filming technique and allowing one to tune into its sleepy, meditative frequency. The natural locations (especially the cave glittering in the dark) exude cosmic energy, while sound extracted from wildlife plays as significant a role as an animate being.    

Mind blowing power of love

THE mystery behind the ''sixth sense'' - how people interact on a physiological level - is a step closer to being unravelled, according to a Sydney neuroscientist.
A five-year study monitoring brain activity during therapy sessions has shown that two people can become physiologically aligned - parts of their nervous systems beating in harmony - despite having no physical contact with each another.
Trisha Stratford, the neuropsychotherapist who did the research at University of Technology, Sydney, said her study provided a deeper understanding of what happened when people interacted, including when a couple fell in love.
Ms Stratford said her research could also provide clues about how best to communicate with or ''chat up'' a potential partner using this sixth sense, which has long been suggested but never extensively identified in science.
She observed 30 volunteers using electrocardiography and a monitor on the finger to measure skin conductance resonance to identify the moment of alignment or ''oneness'' during individual counselling with a therapist.
Read more at The Sydney Morning Herald

B. Anne Gehman

Anne Gehman

Psychic medium B. Anne Gehman gave her first spirit readings to her teddy bears at age five. Raised in the Mennonite tradition, she left home at age 14 to finish her schooling. A life-changing near-death experience led Anne to develop her natural gifts, including an uncanny ability to predict future events. She has gained international attention for her help in solving crimes, locating oil and missing persons, healing illnesses, and connecting family members with their loved ones in spirit. She has worked with top government agencies and officials, police departments, judges, and corporate CEOs. She was elected to the International Congress of Parapsychologists and Paraphysics in Prague, Czechoslovakia and is listed among the Top 100 Psychics in the Country. She has worked with the University of Arizona on a research study regarding after death communication, which is documented in the book, The Afterlife Experiments by Dr. Gary Schwartz. An ordained Spiritualist minister, Anne is the Pastor of the Center for Spiritual Enlightenment in Falls Church, Virginia
.Read more at Hay House.

The Kings Speech

"The King's Speech" won the top award at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday, giving the  film, directed by Tom Hooper some early momentum heading into Oscar awards season. The film starring Colin Firth as Britain's reluctant King George VI and Geoffrey Rush as his speech therapist, captured the festival's People's Choice award.

The film is about HRH Duke of York who was cured of a speech impediment by an Australian speech therapist Lionel  George Logue.(1880-1953).

Less well known about the illustrious Logue is that he was also a dedicated Spiritualist towards the end of his life who discovered the faith after his wife's death in 1945. It has also long been rumoured that many members of the British Royal Family are believers in Spiritualism.

Watch an interview here with Colin Firth about the film.

More from the Spiritualist Gordon Higginson