Ever been to a Spiritualist Church?

Nothing to be frightened off..and it can be amusing and interesting as well as most informative,

Here is a video of what a typical service with readings can be like:

a son speaks about his father : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle visited Australia and spoke at the Enmore Spiritualist Church in 1921. He gave his farewell address at the Church and thanked the congregation for the warm reception he had received from Spiritualists in Australia, despite also finding demonstrators outside his public meetings, demanding he be deported !

Recently we sadly discovered that the handwritten and signed speech written by Sir Arthur was stolen from the Church files during a break-in in 2010. Here is Adrian Conan Doyle talking about his father's beliefs:

Exciting new discussion board on Spiritualism

             Physical Mediumship 4U

As mentioned earlier, Enmore closed it's discussion board for a number of reasons but the main one was such a board needs a dedicated team of moderators to operate-a team with time on their hands to ensure 'spirited' debate will remain free of bitchy and personal comments while conveying helpful information.

You can no better than this board  and we at Enmore warmly recommend it as one-stop board for all interested in the ethereal: go HERE for the site.

From the BBC :

Modern Spiritualism

The Modern Spiritualist movement dates from 1848 when the Fox sisters of Hydesville, New York produced knocking sounds that were alleged to be messages from a spirit. Spiritualists communicate with the spirits of people who have died.

(Image shows Rev. Judith Rochester at the Lily Dale Assembly, NY, the world's largest Spiritualist community.)

Go to the BBC website and read thier brief outline on modern Spiritualism.

Board now closed

Please note : we have now closed the discussion board and warmly thank the 173 members who joined and posted many informative messages.

Unfortunately the time it takes to moderate such a board was becoming a time consuming task and the truth is there are quite a number of message boards about Spiritualism that do it that much better.
We recommend our members on the board now join another that we will recommend in the next few days.

George Galloway & The Enfield Poltergeist

"I first heard of George Galloway's upcoming cameo in movie The Enfield Poltergeist last year. That supposed supernatural activity was witnessed in a council house in a very common part of the UK presents no political embarrassment to one of my favourite politicians. The British film is produced by his son-in-law Jay Stewart and is due for release in autumn 2013. For more info, the flick has a Facebook page here.

Read more at   :http://madamearcati.blogspot.co.uk/?zx=f909af80d9f9deb0

More Evidence for Life After Life

Dr. Jeff Long talks about his experiences with Near Death, and how they affected his life and work.Preview for upcoming documentary Afterlife, a full length documentary about near death experiences. For more information please visit www.PaulPerryProductions.com

Madeleine McCann: Haunting Evidence

 British police have released a new photofit of the missing child Maddie McCann :

Three American clairvoyants from hit US show 'Haunting Evidence' travelled to the Algarve, in January 2008, in an attempt to find Madeleine. The trio use their "powers" to visit the scenes of crimes and speak to people "from beyond the grave".

Gerry and Kate McCann decided not to take up an offer to co-operate with the show - which has been described as a 'sick TV stunt'.

The programme was first screened in the US in October 2008.

'Psychic profiler' Carla Baron in Praia da Luz

See more here :
http://www.mccannfiles.com/id183.html

Couple claims rental home is haunted, sues landlord

A New Jersey couple claims that shortly after moving into their new rental home, they discovered an unwanted roommate: a poltergeist.

Now they're suing the landlord for their $2,250 security deposit, claiming that all the paranormal activity forced them to flee just a week after moving in.

Josue Chinchilla, his fiancee Michele Callan and her two children moved into the three-bedroom home on March 1, and claim to have started experience strange things almost immediately.

Ghostly footsteps and whispering could be heard throughout the house, the couple told the Ashbury Park Press. Doors would slam and lights would flicker on their own, and clothes that were tucked away in closets would be found strewn all over the floor.

Chinchilla and Callan even claimed to record a menacing voice saying "Let it burn," according to ABC News.

The couple told the Ashbury Park Press that they were slow to believe the strange occurances in their home

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/jersey-couple-claims-rental-home-haunted-sues-landlord-article-1.1062032

Titanic Victim William T. Stead

Remembering Titanic Victim William T. Stead 100 Years Later

Posted on 02 April 2012, 10:01

With the 100th anniversary of the Titanic disaster coming up on April 15, it seems like an appropriate time to remember William T. Stead, one of the victims of the tragedy. A 62-year-old British journalist and pacifist, Stead was on his way to New York City to give a lecture on world peace at Carnegie Hall.  President William Howard Taft was also one of the speakers.

 Several survivors reported seeing Stead at various places in the 2 hours, 40 minutes that elapsed between the time the floating palace on its maiden voyage hit an iceberg and then made its plunge to the bottom of the North Atlantic.  All told of a very composed and calm man, one prepared to meet his death with courage and hope.  Frederick Seward, a 34-year-old New York lawyer, said that Stead was one of the few on deck when the iceberg was impacted.  “I saw him soon after and was thoroughly scared, but he preserved the most beautiful composure,” Seward, who boarded lifeboat number 7, recalled.  Andrew Cunningham, a 35-year-old English cabin steward serving Stead (below) and several other passengers, recalled that Stead had not been feeling well all day and had supper in his room.  “I did not see him again until after the accident,” Cunningham related. “Then I went to see all my passengers.  He had gone on deck but soon came back.  I said, ‘Mr. Stead, you’ll have to put on your life-belt.’ He said, ‘Cunningham, what is that for?’  I said, ‘You may need it.’ I put the belt over his head.  We bade each other good-bye, and that was the last I saw him.”

the story continues here on Michael Tibb's website White Crow Books.

Titanic Sinking Foretold

Titanic Sinking Foretold In Fictional Accounts Years Before Disaster

 The Titanic's plunge into the frigid Atlantic was predicted several years before the disaster — not by an oracle or in a conspiracy theory but in seemingly innocuous works of fiction about shipwrecks.

The Sinking of a Modern Liner

The most striking and prophetic example is The Sinking of a Modern Liner, written in 1886 by English journalist W.T. Stead.

The story is eerily similar to the actual Titanic's ill-fated demise. In Stead's book, an ocean liner leaves Liverpool and while on a journey to New York City, becomes involved in a collision. In the ensuing panic, many passengers drown because there are too few lifeboats.In a strange twist of fate, Stead inadvertently foretold his own death in the book: he was onboard the Titanic when it sank in April 1912.

It would appear his own work didn't dissuade him from embarking on long ocean journeys across the Atlantic.

The captain of the ship in Stead's book brandishes a revolver to keep steerage passengers from storming the lifeboat deck, a detail that some have chalked up as another similarity with the real-life disaster but that historical accounts like A Night to Remember by Walter Lord have debunked.

more at the HuffPost 

Victor Zammit says 'telepathy proven"

 The "afterlife lawyer" Victor Zammit has an interesting piece on his website :

These are the same ones who regularly attack mediums and the paranormal. Now Chris Carter points out in an article in EPOCH TIMESthat leading hard-line skeptical psychologists Richard Wiseman and Chris French have admitted that the evidence for telepathy is so good that by the standards of any other area of science, telepathy has been proven. Not only that, he claims that "two surveys of over 500 scientists in one case and over 1,000 in another both found that the majority of respondents considered ESP “an established fact” or “a likely possibility”—56 percent in one and 67 percent in the other."

From Private Investigator To Afterlife Investigator

Bob Olson was a private investigator who, through a series of unusual events, came to investigate life after death. This video tells his story of his work as a private eye and how he came to investigate evidence of the afterlife. - Bob Olson,
 http://www.AfterlifeTV.com

The Wiggles & The Psychic

Wiggle Don Page (the Yellow one) has spoken of a reading he had with US psychic John Edwards :
 ''Nobody could have known what John knew because nobody knew me that well,'' the Dural resident told his local newspaper the Hills Shire Times. ''I was lucky that I had two great readings that really hit home.''
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/private-sydney/sao-paulo-a-gown-town-20120316-1vaek.html#ixzz1pc5PbbKg

Characteristics of the Afterlife

Characteristics of the Afterlife

I recommend that you read Mike Tymn's description of the period after death to understand more about the fact that the transition from life to the afterlife is quite normal. Some people don't even know they've passed away. The link is http://metgat.zaadz.com/blog.

Leslie Flint

Leslie Flint is called a "direct-voice medium" because the voices heard came directly from the dead person, not through the medium's voice. Ample evidence from rigorous controls and testing leave no doubt that the recordings are of people who are not using bodies any more, but are more alive than people who are experiencing the limitations of a body.

Can Mediums Really Talk to the Dead?

Can Mediums Really Talk to the Dead?
by Julie Beischel, PhD and Dean Radin, PhD

Dean Radin: I want to ask you a question that you likely get a lot. How did a nice young lady with a doctorate in toxicology and pharmacology end up doing mediumship research?

Beischel: I do get asked that a lot. It’s a long story, but the short version is that when I was in graduate school, my mom committed suicide. I was twenty-four at the time. Science is my religion, and I turned to science to see what it had to say about the afterlife. Although there were some things being done, I found science did not have very many answers.

I had a reading from a medium, and from my personal experience, I recognized that there was clearly something going on there. I have a strong sense of justice, and it angered me to know that there are people in the world who have this innate gift of what they experience as communication from the other side, which they want to use to help people, yet most scientists were just dismissing the whole thing outright, without any information about the reality of it. So I got on my soapbox and began my scientific investigative pursuit.

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.

Princess Diana's psychic sues for defamation

TV psychic Sally Morgan sues Daily Mail for defamation
 26 January 2012

By Sarah Limbrick

TV psychic Sally Morgan is demanding damages of £150,000 from Associated Newspapers over a Daily Mail story accusing her of scamming a vulnerable audience.
The article, published on 22 September, was headlined: “What a load of crystal balls!”
It alleged Morgan pretended to have psychic powers when she was in fact simply repeating instructions from members of her team via a microphone and hidden earpiece, according to a writ lodge at the High Court.
Morgan, who was Princess Diana’s former psychic, claims the story caused substantial damage to her reputation, as well as hurt, distress and embarrassment.
The story was widely reported in the national press at the time but Associated Newspapers is the only publisher named on the writ. The story in question was an opinion piece by the magician and former psychic Paul Zenon.

MORE AT THE PRESS GAZETTE 
 

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