£3.

80 | FEBRUARY 2019 ESTABLISHED IN 1932

incorporating Two Worlds

PENDULUM POWER
THE AKASHIC RECORDS –
A WALK THROUGH TIME

MEDITATION
EXPERIMENT

UNSEEN HANDS WIN

REBECCA CAMPBELL’S
PLAY GUITAR WORK YOUR LIGHT
ORACLE DECK

VALENTINE’S DAY
SUPERSTITIONS LOST NECKLACE
IS SPIRIT TEST
AN INITIAL GUIDE
TO MEDIUMSHIP HAUNTED CHURCHES
02>

JOHN OF GOD HANDS

HIMSELF OVER TO POLICE 9 770033 280014

ISSUE NO 4172
 Never miss a copy Please send me a subscription to Psychic News for
of Psychic News™ (tick box) 6 months n 1 year n

Take out a Name ......................................................................................

subscription! Address...................................................................................

....................................................................................................
6 Months 1 Year
....................................................................................................
United Kingdom £25 £48
Overseas £35 £68 ....................................................................................................
Online website version £14 £26 ....................................................................................................

For the online website version, Telephone No... ....................................................................

or to pay in your own currency, please visit:
Email Address... ...................................................................
www.psychicnews.org.uk
I enclose a cheque for £.................
By post, please send your details or the form (right) to:
Psychic Press Ltd, Cheques payable to ‘Psychic Press Ltd’

Unit 2, Griggs Business Centre, Please charge my card £..................

West Street,
Coggeshall,
Essex CO6 1NT
To subscribe by phone, call:
01376 563091
Email: subscription@psychicnews.org.uk
For the interactive app version with added
video content, visit your App Store or
order from: www.pocketmags.com
Card No ......................................................................................
Expiry date ................................................................................
Sec. No (last 3 numbers on reverse).........................................
We would occasionally like to send you special offers relating
to Psychic News. If you would like to be informed of these
please tick the method you would like to receive them by:
Email n Post n Phone n Any n

Crystal Healing Halstead

5 High Street, Halstead, Essex CO9 2AA
Your one-stop spiritual shop for
Alternative Therapies such as
Crystal Healing and Reiki, as well as
Oracle Card Readings and 1-2-1 Meditation
Plus exciting and unusual gifts including healing bracelets, incense,
oils, candles, specialty crystals, pottery wind chimes, amethyst tea
light holders, chakra wall hangings, Himalayan salt lamps and more

Follow on Facebook at: Crystal Healing Halstead

2 PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019

Contents 14

04 News and views from 21 38

the editor’s desk
A red top paper sees red that
inmates at a prison are being
offered pet therapy. Meanwhile, a
famous magician is open-minded
about the paranormal

08 Healer hands himself

over to police
Hundreds of patients allege that
12 Have moving moments 34 Spiritual art
Psychic artist Katie Anne
a healer known as John of God with a do-it-yourself
Reynolds shares some of her
assaulted them meditation test inspiring pictures
Prince Harry reveals to a Buddhist
10 Famous Spiritualist’s monk that he meditates on a daily
basis
38 American president’s
gnome letter is sold wife consults
at auction
A letter in which Lord Dowding
14 The Akashic Records
International speaker Sandra Anne
astrologer
Advice columnist Graham
reveals his belief in gnomes, fairies
Taylor explores and explains the Jennings charts the full story
and rebirth sells for £350.00
Akashic Records behind former First Lady Nancy

11 Ashley strikes lucky 18 Lost necklace is

Reagan seeking astrological
assistance
again with Bronze
Age ind
spirit test
Medium Pam Brittan tells how 41 Sudoku competition
This month, we have ten decks of
A man who once sold everything a misplaced necklace igured in
to place a massive one-off bet survival evidence oracle cards as prizes
locates a hoard of Bronze Age
artefacts
21 Sealed with a kiss 42 An initial guide
12 Vicar bans yoga classes
A vicar objects to yoga’s “religious
Red roses at the ready, Barbara
White features the origins and
to mediumship
Stephen O’Brien describes a
legends of St Valentine’s Day formula to adopt when relaying
connotations” mediumistic messages
25 Unseen hands
play guitar 44 Haunted churches
John West investigates ghostly
Billy Roberts recalls how a spirit
guide gave pictorial proof of his goings on at ancient churches
identity
48 A good read
28 Where are they now?
In an occasional new series, Robert
Top titles on a variety of subjects
from ways to lift your spirits to the
Brown discovers that a psychic Kabbalah
former policeman now lives in
Thailand 50 Letters
Readers write on trying to
30 COVER STORY understand the nature of God,
the aura and learning from letters
Pendulum power penned by historical igures
Bestselling Hay House author

30
Radleigh Valentine reveals all about
how to use a pendulum and harness 58 Guide to churches and
its power psychic centres
PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019 3
 EDITOR
NEWS Tony Ortzen
ASSISTANT EDITOR, ADVERTISING,
CIRCULATION & MARKETING
Paul Brett
pnadverts@gmail.com
CIRCULATION MANAGER
& EDITORIAL SECRETARY
Amber Wallbank
TECHNICAL ASSISTANT
Magnus Smith
DESIGN AND LAYOUT
Louise Lynch
ACCOUNTS
Bryan Golland
CONTACT DETAILS:
Psychic Press Ltd,
Unit 2, Griggs Business Centre
West Street, Coggeshall
Essex CO6 1NT
Tel: 01376 563091
EDITORIAL EMAIL
pneditorials@gmail.com
WEBSITE &
ONLINE SUBSCRIPTIONS
www.psychicnews.org.uk
ISSN 0033-2801
Opinions expressed in PN’s Personal
Experience columns are those of their
individual authors and should not necessarily
be taken as an endorsement by the editor.
The Psychic News logos are UK and Community
registered trade marks of JV TR Limited (Company
Number 07793490) and are used under licence
FRONT COVER
Photo: Starblue | Dreamstime.com
Psychic News. Published by Psychic Press
Limited. Pre-press and printing by Warners
(Midland), Lincolnshire. We regret that
we are unable to recommend particular
mediums and healers. Whilst we endeavour
to ensure those given editorial coverage
on our pages and those who advertise
their services are bona ide exponents, the
abilities of exponents are often subjective.
Advertisements appearing in Psychic News
do not necessarily relect editorial policy
and no responsibility can be accepted for
dissatisfaction with any service or product.
Readers are asked to exercise due care when
responding to advertisements. Whilst we
welcome them, PN cannot take responsibility
for unsolicited manuscripts, articles,
photographs etc. © Psychic Press Ltd
4 PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019
Two Worlds
Are One
NEWS AND VIEWS FROM
THE EDITOR’S DESK
BY TONY ORTZEN
to the village of Eastchurch on the Isle
‘Sun’ shows thunder of Sheppey. Opened in 1980, it has four
KEEPING in mind that the UK is the world’s residential wings each housing 100-plus
ifth largest economy, the state of some inmates.
prisons is an utter drug-fuelled disgrace with Inside, the paper said that “vetted lags”
inmates living in the most appalling ilth- care for the goats in a farm area of the
illed conditions. prison’s grounds and that the scheme “is
thought to be costing thousands.”
I am not suggesting for a moment that
David Spencer, research director of the
prisoners should enjoy a life of four-star
luxury, but surely inmates should be Centre for Crime Prevention, said it “beggars
reformed and re-educated, and return belief that anyone would think this is a
to society as improved individuals with reasonable use of resources.
something positive to offer. “Category B prisons house serious
So where’s all this leading? To The Sun criminals. Does anyone really think that
newspaper and the angry stand it took in a petting a few goats is going to keep them on
lead story against inmates at one institution the straight and narrow?”
Meanwhile, Harry Fone, of the TaxPayers’
being offered pet therapy.
“You’ve goat to be kidding” ran a massive
page one headline in capital letters. This was
followed by, “Jail lets iends pet animals on
NHS.”
In their exclusive story, journalists Tom
Wells and Neil Syson began: “Violent lags are
stroking and feeding goats in NHS-funded
animal therapy sessions.
“They pet pygmy goats Karen and Faye in
courses to teach them to ‘take responsibility
for others’ at category B HMP Swaleside in
Kent.”
Category B prisons are for those who do
not require maximum security, but for whom
escape needs to be made very dificult. PET therapy with pygmy goats teaches prisoners to
A men’s jail, Swaleside is located close “take responsibility towards others.”
Psychic News (incorporating Two Worlds)
Psychic News was founded in 1932 and Two Worlds in 1887. Both were established by
famous mediums and joined forces in July 2018 to form a single publication promoting
Spiritualism from an independent viewpoint and mind-body-spirit issues.
© We are always thrilled when readers and subscribers tell their social media friends
about Psychic News and the stories or features that they particularly enjoy. By publicising
our existence in this way you are giving us valuable support.
But please remember that like all other publications, our contents are copyright,
which means you must not publish screen captures or copies of our pages on Facebook,
Instagram, websites or other online media platforms without our permission.
Instead, when you write a comment or a few paragraphs about something you have
read in our columns, please add psychicnews.org.uk as a link so that your followers can
visit us and buy their own copy of the magazine or take out a subscription and read the
story in full.

VIRGIN TRAINS’ staff are now wearing pink high visibility vests at various events because the colour “is
known to have a calming effect on crowds.”
Alliance, added that equipping prisoners
“with skills to get work on the outside is
one thing, but wasting taxpayers’ cash like
this really takes the biscuit.”
The project involves inmates at the
prison’s Personality Disorder Unit who
have mental health problems, but are not
serious enough to be treated in hospital.
Sessions were said to be a “positive social
activity.”
Peter Saunders, of The National
Association for People Abused in
Childhood, welcomed the scheme, saying
that introducing the care of animals “can
have a therapeutic effect.”
Additionally, NHS England said that
local prisons and health services “make
decisions on what mental health services
to provide.”
In an editorial, The Sun thundered that
using therapy goats in prison “is almost
beyond parody.”
It suggested that inmates should
undertake educational activities to “help
them ind employment when they leave
jail.
“But at a time when our prisons are
grossly understaffed, some bright spark
thought spending taxpayers’ cash on
farmyard animals was a priority. It really
gets our goat.”
In a nutshell, animal-assisted therapy
is a growing ield that uses dogs or other
animals to help people recover from, or
better cope with, health problems such as
heart disease, cancer and mental health
disorders.
Interestingly, James Middleton, 31, the
Duchess of Cambridge’s brother, has just
spoken out in its favour.
Ella, his cocker spaniel, recently qualiied
as a Pets As Therapy (PAT) dog and is now
oficially registered to provide therapeutic
help to humans.
“Proud of Ella becoming a PAT dog this
year,” he told friends online. “Animals can
provide a sense of calm, comfort or safety
and divert attention away from a stressful
situation and toward one that provides
pleasure.”
Mr Middleton said he is a “huge believer”
in animal-assisted therapy, which has
helped him to cope with clinical depression
and Attention Deicit Disorder.
He added that Ella “has done so much for
me.” Both are now volunteers with the Pets
As Therapy charity.
Colour therapy can likewise have a
profound effect on humans. Pink is said to
soothe, nurture and help to dissolve anger,
a point taken on board by Virgin Trains.
The company has started deploying staff
trained in conlict resolution to deal with
football supporters at stations.
Virgin Trains’ event hosts are now
wearing pink high visibility vests because
the colour “is known to have a calming
effect on crowds.”
Staff have received extra training in
customer service and conlict resolution
techniques, such as maintaining eye
contact, not interrupting people and
avoiding being judgmental in situations
which could escalate.
NEWS
A magic moment
FOR decades, most magicians have
been highly sceptical of Spiritualism,
mediumship and the paranormal. Not so
veteran magician and mentalist David
Berglas.
Born in 1926, Mr Berglas escaped from
Nazi Germany when aged just eleven and
subsequently found worldwide fame.
One of the irst magicians to appear
on British television, Meet David Berglas
regularly attracted audiences of over
nineteen million viewers in the mid-1950s.
Recently, Mr Berglas was awarded
an MBE (Most Excellent Order of the
British Empire) for services to magic and
psychology. But what’s really interesting is
that he’s always been fair-minded towards
mind-body-spirit subjects.
So what’s the evidence? In the dusty
recesses of my mind, I recalled an exclusive
article Mr Berglas wrote for PN.
“What is psychic? What is paranormal?
Parapsychology? Supernatural?” he began.
“These are terms that we bandy about, yet
I really do not understand them.
“I understand their popular meaning,
of course, but I do not understand why we
have to categorise things in this way.
“There is certainly much more in life
than we understand at present, so I cannot
agree with people who make deinite
statements in one direction or the other.
“I compare it to a long line which is black
at one end and white at the other, with a
grey area in between. I like to think I have
my feet irmly on the ground – and right in
the middle of that line.”
He continued: “I have been called a
watchdog. I am, yet I like to keep watch on
both ends of that line, black and white.
“To the out-and-out sceptic I will say:
‘Now, wait a minute! How can you be so
sure? It hasn’t been researched enough.
You have not experienced it personally.’
“On the other hand, I will say to the
true believer, ‘There are many tricks and
psychological self-delusions that you know
nothing about, so how can you make such
PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019 5
 NEWS
DAVID BERGLAS: “There can be no doubt that many psychic or spiritual healers have helped people.”
(Photo: Jon Randall)
bland statements?’
“It does not follow that just because
a magician can duplicate an effect, the
original must have been a trick…
“Ever since I have been an investigator,
that is, for most of my life, my attitude
has been not to impose conditions. I do
not insist that this or that must be done in
broad daylight or inside a sealed tube.
“Of course, I like to tighten up the
conditions later, but if you make people
feel ill at ease because you are a sceptic,
they can always claim that the phenomena
did not occur because the disturbing
atmosphere restricted them. On the other
hand, a genuine subject could also feel
restricted.
“It also does not follow that if you are a
magician you must be a sceptic. There are
many who are not. My own overall attitude
is much more broadminded than some give
me credit for.”
Writing that magicians “are the most
narrow-minded people in the world,” Mr
Berglas added:
“You cannot investigate anything unless
you have an open mind. This means going
along prepared to see rather than deciding
beforehand that you are not going to see
6 PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019
anything. This, unfortunately, is what many
of my fellow sceptics do.
“It is quite proper for the sceptic to
question the claims and beliefs of others –
this is what the word means. Spiritualists
are sceptics in that they question the
beliefs and claims of the materialists or
atheists.
“What is not proper is to declare a belief
or a claim to be false before investigating
it.”
Having spent “a very great deal of my
life trying to ind personal evidence of
such physical phenomena as psychokinesis
(objects’ supernormal movement) and
levitation,” Mr Berglas said he was yet
to be convinced, but had “certainly been
puzzled on a few occasions.”
He cited “some after-effects of a case
in Wales of the so-called poltergeist type
for which I could not provide a ready
explanation.”
Later came: “Turning to the ield of
psychic or spiritual healing, we have a very
different picture. I certainly believe in
healing.
“I have practised it myself for many
years. I prefer to call it psychological or
self-healing rather than psychic.
“There is an element of faith in all
healing, whether the faith is in the doctor,
the medicine, the bark of a tree, the laying
on of hands, prayer or whatever.
“In non-medical healing, it is spiritual
rather than medical knowledge which
heals you of your ailments. It does
not necessarily need to have religious
connotations.
“There can be no doubt that many
psychic or spiritual healers have helped
people. So have I.
“I have helped a lot of people without
considering myself to be psychic. The
methods I use may not be the same as
others’, yet the end result, which is what
matters, can be very similar.”
Of his award, Mr Berglas said he had
spent over 60 years reading minds, “but
I certainly did not see this one coming.”
Doubtless receiving it was a magic
moment.
Of popes and parrots
I HAVE never had much time for the
Roman Catholic Church since so many
popes have been hardliners with
thoroughly outdated illiberal views on
abortion, contraception, gay and other
minority rights, the role of women in
society and a host of other topics.
However, Pope Francis seems to have
broken the mould to some degree. For
instance, ive years ago he hinted that he
accepts animals survive death.
Though a noted cat-lover, Francis’
predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, seemed
to close the doors of heaven to pets and
other animals in a sermon he gave during
which he commented, “For other creatures,
who are not called to eternity, death just
means the end of existence on Earth.”
From cats to parrots, and Pope Francis
recently criticised those who pray “like a
parrot.”
Talking about the importance of the
Lord’s Prayer, the pontiff said that prayers
are not more effective because they
contain a lot of words.
He referred to a passage in the Bible in
which Jesus states that worshippers must
not “babble like pagans.”
Speaking at the Vatican, the Pope said:
“The pagans thought that by speaking,
speaking, speaking, they were praying.
“I also think of many Christians who
pray, speaking to God as if they were
parrots. No: praying is done from the heart,
from within.
“God does not want to be appeased with

POPE FRANCIS: “Praying is done from the heart,
from within.” (Photo: Jeffrey Bruno-Aleteia)
long streams of adulation, as the pagans
did to win the benevolence of the deity. It
is enough to talk to Him like a father who
knows what we need before we even tell
Him.”
The Pope also criticised those who
attend church to be seen as good
Christians, but then live unpleasant lives.
“How often have we seen the scandal of
people who go to church, spend the whole
day there or go every day and then live
hating others or speaking badly of others?”
he asked. “It is better not to go to church.”
Quite right. Whatever the denomination,
it’s no use being goodly and godly within a
church and ghastly outside its conines.
Interestingly, rather than residing at the
lavish papal apartments in the Apostolic
Palace, Pope Francis lives in a Vatican-
owned guesthouse, which has been
described as far from a luxury hotel.
Just the ticket
YES, I know it’s really medieval, but
I thoroughly enjoy reading about
superstitions, so was delighted when Daily
Mirror journalists Ruki Sayid and Emily
Retter wrote a feature under the clever
headline “Charmed, I’m sure.”
They started with the Lottery.
Whenever I buy a ticket, I rarely get one
number right even though those born
under Cancer, my sign of Sagittarius and
Taurus are statistically the luckiest players.
The pair wrote that triangles “have been
regarded as the luckiest shape throughout
history.
“There’s a reason why pyramids are
pyramids. The structure is seen as one
of strength, with the three sides of the
pyramids representing the life cycle –
birth, maturity and death.”
Turning to horseshoes, legend states
that St Dunstan from the tenth century
“trapped the devil in a horseshoe;
therefore, putting one above your door
protects you from evil.”
A horseshoe facing up is claimed to
gather luck whilst a downward-facing one
“is said to cover you in good luck.”
Over to coins, which, the journalists
wrote, are regarded as lucky throughout
the world.
You should pick one up only if it is face-
side up. It is said to increase your luck “if
you wear a bent coin around your neck
or keep it in your left pocket. It’s best to
include a coin in a new coat, wallet or
shoes.”
To ladders, under which one should
never walk, as it breaks the unity of the
shape of the triangle it forms.
This is, apparently, the unity of a family
with two parents and a child or the Holy
Trinity – the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
If you transgress and carelessly walk
under a ladder, the antidote is crossing
your ingers and spitting through the
ladder’s rungs three times, which, to
me, sounds both disgusting and disease-
spreading. Ugh!
Meanwhile, ladybirds are symbols of
good luck, “especially if they land in your
hand. The spots will indicate how many
children a recently married woman will
have.”
Other lucky omens the paper featured
were crocodile teeth, elephants, a rabbit’s
foot and laughing statues of Buddha.
A HORSESHOE which is downward-facing “is said
to cover you in good luck.”
NEWS
Just like Oliver
LAST month, I featured some teachings
from Zodiac, the guide of medium Winifred
Moyes. Like Oliver Twist, various readers
asked for more. Happy to oblige, let’s
savour these:
• Some plough. Others cast the seed and,
perhaps, others again reap the golden
grain.
Who shall say which act has drawn
the greatest blessing? It is not for us to
choose our part. It is ours to do the next
thing and the next and the next, and
leave the rest to God.
• Each one of you has a garden of your
own. With some the garden is large;
with others it is small.
Those in the Spirit see not the
length and breadth of the garden which
belongs to the individual; they see the
blossoms which bloom therein.
• Pray, strive and hope, and do the next
task and the next, whether that task
brings you material gain or not. Work
on, for out of that which you call labour
something glorious is erected for all
time.
• The true worker, the true toiler, is
building in the conditions of the Spirit
that which is glorious to behold.
• You may be limited as far as that which
you name psychic power is concerned,
but the power of the Spirit is within
each one – the power to heal, the power
to recharge another, the power to bring
sight to the inly blind.
• Be practical. Show that common
sense which is part of your spiritual
equipment.
• Build not for today, but for that time
when life in a fuller, sweeter, wider,
stronger sense will be your own. Build
for the great tomorrow…
Keep your eyes above the level of
earthly things yet not upon the stars,
but upon your fellow human beings, for
there are many who stand in need of
help.
There are many who are crushed
beneath the sorrows and trials of daily
life; there are many whose bodies are
anguished; there are countless lonely
souls hungering for a friend.
Keep not your eyes upon the
heavens if it distracts you from the
needs of your fellow beings, for the only
way to pierce the clouds and to look
into the realms of Spirit is by service. n
PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019 7
 NEWS
Healer hands himself
over to police
A HEALER known worldwide
has handed himself over to
police after more than 500
women claimed that he sexually
abused them.
Known as Joao de Deus – John of God –
Joao Teixeira de Faria initially came under
suspicion when ten women accused him
of sexual misconduct at his clinic, Casa de
Dom Inacio de Loyola in Abadiania, Brazil.
After their accusations were aired on
Brazil’s Globo TV network, authorities
were contacted by hundreds of others,
including the healer’s adult daughter,
Dalva Teixeira.
Following the claims, Mr Faria was
given a deadline to comply with an arrest
warrant. He did not surrender and was
deemed a fugitive from justice.
However, Mr Faria, who has been
interviewed by Oprah Winfrey and treated
Bill Clinton, later surrendered on the
outskirts of Abadiania.
According to a video released by the
newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo, Mr Faria
said, “I surrender to divine justice and
justice on Earth.”
He reportedly spent the night at the
State Delegation of Criminal Investigations
in the state capital.
Now 49, his daughter Dalva claimed
during an interview with the Brazilian
magazine Veja that under the pretence of
mystical treatments, her “monster” father
abused and raped her between the ages of
ten and fourteen.
Ms Teixeira said her father stopped
after she became pregnant by one of his
employees, but alleges she was beaten so
severely by her parent that she suffered a
miscarriage.
“He used to say that God didn’t exist,
that he was God,” she told the Brazilian
press.
Of those who have accused her father
of abuse, Ms Teixeira commented: “None
of those women is lying. I know because I
went through it. I suffered.”
One press report said that the healer
“attracted followers from around the
world, all looking for spiritual guidance or
cures for aflictions.
“He gained international exposure in
2012 when Oprah Winfrey visited his
8 PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019
JOAO de DEUS: “I surrender to divine justice and
justice on Earth.” (Photo: Relvavend)
retreat to interview him for her talk show.
“In a since-deleted column on oprah.
com Winfrey wrote that she was
overwhelmed by the experience of seeing
him cut into the breast of a woman without
anesthesia and that she left feeling ‘an
overwhelming sense of peace’.”
On Conversa com Bial, a late-night
talk show, a Dutch patient named Zahira
Leeneke Maus accused the healer of
manipulating her into performing sex acts
then raping her during a visit to his clinic.
American tour guide Amy Biank also
appeared on the show and claimed she
witnessed Mr Faria carry out abuses.
Nine other Brazilian women, who
chose anonymity, also told a TV network
they were also abused on the pretext of
transferring his “cleansing” energy.
Some said they were seeking a cure for
their depression and sexual assault trauma
when the alleged abuse took place.
Ms Maus said she went to the healer’s
centre in 2014 seeking healing from the
trauma of her previous sexual abuses.
During a second visit, she was told she was
chosen to have a private consultation with
Mr Faria.
Assured “You feel special” by the healer,
Ms Maus claimed that at the second
session, Mr Faria came close to her,
smelled her skin and asked her to stand
with her back facing him and led her to a
bathroom.  As this had never occurred before,
Once there, he allegedly touched her
inappropriately and forced her to have sex.
Ms Maus said she did not leave because
she wanted to be trained as a medium at
the centre.
“I was terriied of them sending bad
spirits in my direction, wrecking my life;
that I would not be able to sleep,” she told
Globo TV.
Other victims said they were also
abused after they were chosen for private
consultations, which made them feel
special. They all said that after they were
abused, Mr Faria offered them crystals and
gemstones.
Mr Faria’s centre is located near the
capital Brasilia. Police and prosecutors
in several states allege that he forced the
women into sex acts during one-on-one
“healing” sessions.
According to prosecutors, at least one
complaint came from a woman in America
and another one from Switzerland.
At one point, Mr Faria briely met
hundreds of white-clad faithful waiting for
him in Abadiania, telling them, “I am not
guilty.”
All the women claiming abuse said they
were aged in their 30s when the alleged
acts took place between 2010 and early
2018.
Globo’s G1 news website cited a
statement from Mr Faria’s press service
saying he had used his gifts to treat
thousands of people over the past 44
years and “vehemently rejects (allegations
of) any improper practice during his
treatments.”
Unexplained incidents occurred when
detectives spent two hours interviewing
Mr Faria.
Detective Karla Fernandes, who is
responsible for co-ordinating the task
force investigating complaints against him,
told the press:
“Suddenly the computer that was being
used to transcribe the suspect’s answers to
the allegations seemed to have a life of its
own and the commands on the keyboard
wouldn’t work.
“When the clerk tried to enter the
medium’s statement, the keys locked on
a speciic letter and OOOOOOO was
recorded continuously on the screen for a
few seconds.”

police put it down to a faulty computer,
then a printer in the room start to print of
its own accord and a fridge blew up.
Det Fernandes said: “It was hot in the
interrogation room and I decided to turn on
the air conditioning.
“I plugged the lead into an extension
shared with a mini-fridge and the electrical
wiring suddenly exploded, burning out the
fridge. Everyone in the room screamed
with fright.
“Although these things surprised us,
they failed to interfere with our work. He
(John of God) didn’t say a word.”
Court documents show that Mr Faria
tried to withdraw nearly $9 million before
he surrendered to police. A judge rejected
granting him bail.
Fagner Pinho, of the prosecutor’s ofice,
said that investigators found irearms and
large quantities of cash in a house used by
Mr Faria as a spiritual retreat.
One press report said investigators also
believe that two unexplained incidents
which occurred before Mr Faria gave
himself up “could be linked to the occult.
“A police clerk, who was meant to
transcribe the faith healer’s testimony
at the police station in the rural town of
Annapolis, was run over in a car accident
and broke his arm.
“Investigators originally intended to
question the suspect at this small outpost,
but the unexpected incident meant the
interview had to be transferred to Goiania,
the capital of the state of Goias.
HERE John of God appears at a healing session. Amongst his patients in the past was Bill Clinton.
(Photo: Relvavend)
“As the press staked out John of God’s
house in the city of Abadiania, rumours
began to circulate that ‘spirits’ had cursed
the reporters, photographers and TV
camera crew who had camped for nearly
24 hours waiting for the psychic healer to
surrender after a warrant was issued for
his arrest.
“Hardened professionals admitted
they started praying when a news agency
photographer in the press pack suddenly
fell ill and lost consciousness for a few
minutes”
Det Fernandes commented: “I accept we
are dealing with a situation which involves
beliefs and mystic energies.
“I’m a Spiritualist, and a believer in the
spirit world and the paranormal. Although
I’m not afraid, I do have a healthy respect
for the unknown.”
The BBC’s website commented: “Mr
Faria, who is not a medical doctor, has
previously been ined and jailed for
operating without a licence…
“According to ABC News, Mr Faria
claims that the spirits of more than 30
doctors and other entities can enter his
body, and that they perform the healings.”
Another report stated that Mr Faria’s
“reputation reaches far beyond Brazil, with
followers in the United States, Europe and
Australia.”
Mr Faria’s lawyer claimed that his client
is being “persecuted” and the allegations
are from “people who want to destroy
him.” n
NEWS
‘Buddha Boy’ is
under investigation
IN a separate development, police in
Kathmandu have revealed that a spiritual
leader in Nepal, who is believed by
his followers to be a reincarnation of
Buddha, is under investigation over the
disappearance of several devotees.
Once dubbed “Buddha Boy,” Ram
Bahadur Bomjan, 28, found fame
fourteen years ago when followers
claimed he could meditate motionless in
the country’s jungles for months without
water, food or sleep.
Special police investigators have
started inquiries after the families of
four of Mr Bomjan’s devotees allegedly
vanished from his ashrams.
“The police have started investigating
these complaints against Bomjan,” Uma
Prasad Chaturbedi, a spokesman for
Nepal’s Central Investigation Bureau,
told a French news agency. “The
investigation is in the preliminary stage
and we cannot share many details.”
The Daily Mail said that Mr Bomjan
has “long been dogged by accusations
of abuse in deeply spiritual Nepal, even
as thousands of worshippers queued for
days to witness his so-called miracles of
meditation deep in the jungle.
“In September last year, an eighteen-
year-old nun accused the guru of raping
her at one of his ashrams.
“Dozens more have iled complaints
against him alleging assault. The self-
styled godman said he beat them for
disturbing his meditation.”
The Bodhi Shrawan Dharma Sangha,
an organisation associated with the guru,
recently dismissed as baseless a series of
new allegations made by a local website,
which highlighted reports detailing
disappearances, sexual assault and
violence in his ashrams. n
PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019 9
 NEWS
Famous Spiritualist’s gnome
letter is sold at auction
LORD DOWDING: “My doubts about reincarnation have now been removed.” He is seen with his wife
Muriel and their dog.
A LETTER in which famous Spiritualist Lord Dowding reveals his
belief in gnomes, fairies and rebirth has sold at auction for £350.00.
As Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding,
he masterminded the Battle of Britain,
which played a decisive part in the Second
World War.
Dated June 23, 1944, the letter was
sent to someone named only as Mrs
Bines. It was sold by Nottingham-based
International Autograph Auctions.
In it, Lord Dowding writes: “Fairies,
gnomes & nature spirits in general I now
accept holus bolus (without reservation) as
to their existence.
“As to photographs of them, I retain a
healthy scepticism unless I know all about
the conditions in which the photos were
produced. My doubts about reincarnation
have now been removed also.”
Lord Dowding also believed that fairies
were “essential to the growth of plants and
10 PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019
the welfare of the vegetable kingdom.”
In the letter, he discloses that he
received a message from his irst wife,
Clarice Maud Vancourt, who passed on
suddenly in 1920, about the reincarnation
of animals.
“Knowing my interest in the matter, my
wife has sent me a long message about the
animals which I hope to publish in my next
book,” Lord Dowding wrote.
“Animals have their own sphere, but
pets can be retained in the human spheres
so long as the love-link lasts.”
Richard Davie, of International
Autograph Auctions, commented:
“Unfortunately, we do not know anything
more about Mrs Bines, although she seems
to have shared similar beliefs to Dowding.
“Dowding’s letter is a truly remarkable
item in my opinion for the revelation that
he makes in regard to his belief in fairies
and gnomes, and to having received a ‘long
message’ from his wife, who had been dead
for 24 years.
“When you consider this man led us to
victory in the Battle of Britain, its contents
are quite staggering.”
Lord Dowding was actively involved
in Spiritualism as both a writer and a
speaker. His irst book on the subject, Many
Mansions, was written in 1943, followed by
Lychgate, The Dark Star and God’s Magic.
A wing at the Spiritualist Association
of Great Britain’s previous premises in
London’s Belgrave Square was named in
his honour.
A member of the Fairy Investigation
Society, Lord Dowding knew that people
considered him a crank for his belief in
them.
Another time, he commented: “Of
course UFOs are real and they are
interplanetary... The cumulative evidence
for the existence of UFOs is quite
overwhelming and I accept the fact of their
existence.”
Last year, a three-page letter from
Lord Dowding was sold by International
Autograph Auctions and fetched an
astonishing £4,400.00. The estimated price
was £1,500.00.
Written from Lord Dowding’s home
in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, it was sent to
press baron Lord Beaverbrook, who was
Minister of Aircraft Production in Winston
Churchill’s War Cabinet at the time of the
Battle of Britain in 1940.
In the letter, Lord Dowding irst thanks
the peer for sending him some cheese from
the West Country. Later comes:
“What a terrible menace this European
Common Market is! All the unemployables
of Europe will invade us & succeed where
Hitler failed.
“I think that even Macmillan is a bit
shaken by the amount of opposition he is
meeting. I wish you well in your paper’s
ight against it.”
Lord Dowding’s irst wife was the young
widow of an Army oficer. He married his
second partner, Muriel Whiting, in 1951,
and passed on in 1970 aged 87. n

Ashley strikes lucky again
with Bronze Age find
A MAN who once sold all his possessions to place a massive one-
off bet in America has struck lucky again after inding a hoard of
Bronze Age artefacts.
Ashley Revell’s adventure with a single
spin of a roulette wheel “all started in the
pub.
“I was drinking with my friends when
one of them said, ‘Wouldn’t it be great if
we went to Las Vegas and bet everything
on one spin.’
“We had one of those drink-fuelled
conversations that seem like a good idea
at the time.
“The next day I thought about it more.
It got under my skin. I thought what an
amazing experience it would be.
“At the time, I wasn’t married, didn’t
have any kids and was completely single. It
was now or never.”
Ashley, then 32, had £10,000 and sold
everything he owned. This included a
Rolex watch, a BMW, golf clubs and “all
the lashy items that were the trappings
of my single life.” Both his parents were
against the idea, calling it “silly.”
After six months, Ashley “was ready to
go. By this point, things had escalated and
Sky was ilming my journey. I headed out
to Las Vegas owning nothing but a tuxedo,
which I hired.
“The night before I slept like an
absolute baby. There were no concerns
whatsoever.
“Thinking back it seems crazy, but I
was so convinced I was going to win. I was
literally going down there to collect my
winnings.”
Next morning, Ashley headed to the
Plaza Casino and Hotel having “wired
£76,840 across from the UK. When I got
there, they gave me a big stack of chips.
“At this point, I didn’t know whether
I was going to go for red or black. I was
hoping for some sort of divine inspiration,
but it didn’t happen.”
Reaching the table, the croupier
explained, “Look, when I spin the ball, if it
goes round more than three times before
you say ‘Red’ or ‘Black,’ it’s a no bet.”
Suddenly, “he started spinning the ball
around. The irst thing that came into my
head was red, so I just pushed all my chips
forward.
“That spin was the most amazing
moment of my life. It is a cliché, but
NEWS
time did stand still. It was just complete
calm because I had done all the hard work.
“Everything had been sold. I had no
possessions. I had decided whether to
go red or black. There were no more
decisions to make – it was a complete
feeling of freedom.”
The ball “sort of bobbled around and
then landed in what I thought was red, but
it disappeared slightly from view.
“I looked around and, as the wheel
spun back into view, there it was resting in
number seven. Red.
“There were a few people watching.
They cheered and I cheered. Somebody
ran in with a bottle of champagne and
everyone was celebrating.
“My friends and family were there
going wild. I had won £153,680. It was just
a crazy time of complete happiness.”
Returning to the UK, Ashley
completely changed his lifestyle, “as the
whole experience taught me what is really
important in life isn’t Rolexes or lash cars,
but sentimental things.
“When I got back home, I did buy one
treat for myself – a trip round Europe on
the back of a motorbike.
“On that trip, I met a girl in Holland.
I took her back to England with me, we
married and now we’ve got two children.
You could say I have my bet to thank for
inding me a wife.”
Recently, Ashley uncovered 23 ingot
pieces whilst searching a ield in Kent with
a metal detector group.
He led members to the ind after
stumbling across some “scraps” of metal,
“but didn’t know what I had found at
irst and chucked them in the bin. Luckily
someone realised what they were.”
The British Museum has now
expressed an interest in acquiring Ashley’s
ind. n
PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019 11
 NEWS
Vicar bans yoga classes
AN Anglican vicar has banned yoga classes from his church hall due
to its “religious connotations.”
Melissa Makan held sessions of
Yoga Nidra, which induces a state of
consciousness between waking and
sleeping, for several months until she got
a text “out of the blue” ending her weekly
sessions at the hall of St John the Baptist in
Halifax, West Yorkshire.
Ms Makan, 37, said the Rev James
Allison discovered the sessions were being
held after a friend of his wife attended a
class.
The Rev Allison, 57, later said that
several members of his congregation had
issues with some yoga teachings and the
ban followed a meeting of the Parochial
Church Council (PCC).
“It’s ridiculous,” said Ms Makan. “I’ve
been teaching for about seven months at
the church hall.
“I was told a friend of the vicar’s wife
said she had been to the class, the vicar
found out it was yoga and is totally against
it.
“I was then told it’s not just the vicar,
but also the PCC. Yoga isn’t a religion. I
wish I could explain it to him, or he could
come and see it for himself, but they
haven’t tried to understand it.”
Ms Makan added: “My style and
teachings have zero Sanskrit words. It has
Have moving moments with a
do-it-yourself meditation test
HOT on the heels of the news that Prince Harry is meditating every
day before he becomes a father, here’s a chance for PN readers to
try what many on social media wrongly believe is a stress test, but
more of that later.
“Harry Krishna” ran a lead story
headline in The Sun, which said that “Meg’s
chilled-out prince” is meditating on a daily
basis.
Journalist Emily Andrews explained
that Prince Harry, 34, chatted to Buddhist
monk Kelsang Sonam when he and his
wife Meghan visited a café in Birkenhead,
Merseyside.
“Harry asked me how I became a
Buddhist monk,” said 69-year-old Kelsang.
12 PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019
no mantras.
“The Rev Allison probably knows more
about Hinduism than I do. What he is
doing is causing a division when the world
is already so divided. He is openly saying,
‘That’s OK.’ I just think, ‘What are you
representing?’
“Even if it does have Hindu origins, so
what? Tea has Chinese origins. You could
go on forever. Where do you want to start
and where do you want to stop?”
Catherine Horsfall, who has attended
the classes since April, said she found Ms
Makan “to be extremely professional,
friendly and dedicated to helping people
with relaxation.
“I am a working mum-of-two. My
husband work longs hours. I get very little
time to relax and therefore struggle to de-
stress.
“I also have some medical conditions,
including chronic migraine and chronic
insomnia. The class helps me release stress
and tension, and has improved the quality
of my sleep.”
The Rev Allison commented: “We had a
meeting and took the unanimous decision
not to renew the yoga class agreement in
the hall.
“Yoga is a rainbow of different
“He said he meditated every day, so I gave
him my meditation book.”
The prince also revealed that he is a
feminist when he and Meghan, who is six
months pregnant, visited the Tomorrow’s
Women charity.
“Harry initiated a group hug,” said its
chief executive oficer Angela Murphy.
“There were about ifteen women – it was
a scrum. He said, ‘Come on, group hug.’
You don’t expect that. They engaged and
MELISSA MAKAN: “Yoga isn’t a religion.”
(Photo: Facebook)
experiences and some of our congregation
have issues with some styles and teachings.
“We don’t know enough about this
class to pick our way through it. Some
open-mind meditation can be unhelpful
to certain people and great care has to be
taken over how it is taught.
“We’ve got no reason to doubt the
teacher, but much like in the case of
not allowing gambling or alcohol in the
community hall, we can’t be responsible
for that.”
The Rev Allison insisted he had not
kicked the group out, but allowed them
time to ind a new venue.
The classes are to transfer to the
Wade House Community Centre in the
neighbouring village of Shelf. n
initiated conversations with the women
and were so warm.”
Carol Cooper, the paper’s doctor, said
meditation helps people to sleep better,
reduces anxiety and makes individuals
more patient, which were valuable assets
for a new father.
“Harry,” she added, “will have a sense of
physical and mental wellbeing.”
The paper ended by saying that
meditation is practised widely in many
eastern religions and philosophies,
including Hinduism and the Hare Krishna
movement.
In its report of the couple’s visit to
Birkenhead, the MailOnline said that Los

IT has emerged that Prince Harry is now meditating
on a daily basis.
(Photo: DoD News / EJ Hersom)
Angeles-based meditation instructor
Light Watkins claimed he had spent four
days giving Meghan one-to-one guidance
and still e-mails the duchess a “daily dose
of inspiration.”
He told The Mirror: “I met Meghan
through a mutual friend and she was really
intrigued by the fact I was a meditation
teacher.
“She came by my home studio and we
did four sessions over four days, so you
become self-sufficient in it.
“I took her through it and she had
wonderful experiences. She really
appreciated the training and getting
structure.”
Mr Watkins added that Meghan
later got back in touch and told him:
“I’m meditating every day, twice a day
– it’s wonderful. Once in the morning
for twenty minutes and once in the
afternoon.”
Now look at the image above by Yurii
Perepadia, a 50-year-old designer from
Oleksandriya in Ukraine (Photo: Guten
Tag Vector/Shutterstock). He created it
three years ago in about two hours.
Can you see parts of the image moving?
According to reports on social media, if it
remains still, you are calm.
Should the image move, you are
stressed – and if the central column turns
like a carousel, you are very stressed.
This is incorrect, for Mr Perepadia is
keen to point out that the image is nothing
to do with testing stress, but is an optical
illusion.
However, we have discovered that if it
is moving, some people can slow it down
with meditation.
Spend a few meditational moments
with the image and see if you can slow
down any movement. Do let us know your
results – and happy meditating!
Footnote. If you are concerned about
being stressed, it is better to see a
qualified professional rather than trying
to self-diagnose on social media, as tests
posted there might not be all they claim
to be. n
PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019 13
 THE AKASHIC RECORDS
A WALK THROUGH TIME
By Sandra Anne Taylor

Based in Ohio in the USA, Sandra Anne Taylor is an international speaker lecturing
throughout the world on healing, quantum psychology and mind-body-spirit topics.
The author of several books and a pack of oracle cards, for over 25 years Sandra
has been a counsellor in a private psychology practice, working with individuals and
couples in the treatment of anxiety, depression, addiction and relationship issues.
Sandra’s books are available in 24 languages and dozens of countries around
the globe. In this intriguing article written especially for “PN,” Sandra explores
and explains the Akashic Records. Her book, “The Akashic Records Made Easy,” is
published by Hay House at £9.99.

14 PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019


WHAT do quantum physics, inspiration and
discovery, your present circumstances and
your future destiny all have in common?
All this – and so much more – can
be found in the Akashic Records, the
compendium of knowledge that spans from
the ininite past into the unending future.
The term “Akashic Records” comes
from the Sanskrit word Akasha meaning
sky or ether. This aptly represents the vast
expanse of vibrating consciousness that
ills the records with limitless information
and opportunity.
Scientists deine consciousness as
a vibrating ield of information and the
Akashic Records are an unlimited ield
of information about the energetic and
natural worlds. They hold every bit of
universal knowledge from the wisdom
of ancient societies to the undiscovered
truths of the quantum physical world.
They also hold all the facts, energy
and experiences from each soul’s eternal
existence, past, present and potential
future.
Since the records hold unlimited
information about literally everything and
everyone in the universe, most people use
them as a way to investigate how their
past-life records could be inluencing their
present patterns.
The truth is that your personal records
hold every bit of information relating
to how such issues as love, inances and
health have played out throughout your
eternal life.
These – and all the experiences and
emotions of past lives – are written in the
records you have brought into this life.
Those records are inluencing you even
now.
You can tap this incredible resource to
heal stuck patterns, receive inspiration and
manifest the very solutions you long for in
your life.
By investigating past records, you
can gain clarity about any unhealthy
or dishonouring habits that may be
sabotaging both your present experiences
and future goals.
While it can be very helpful to use the
Akashic Records to investigate your past
lives, it can be equally revealing to view the
records of the past in this life as well.
When one of my clients looked into
her past records, she saw that she had
spent her childhood and several past
lives trying to live up to her father’s harsh
expectations, always desperate to get the
love he seemed to be withholding. She
realised she had brought that pattern
forward into her behaviour in adult life.
My client would constantly strive to
please men she dated by being willing
to completely follow their agenda
without any regard for herself. She had
SANDRA ANNE TAYLOR: “Your personal records
hold every bit of information relating to how such
issues as love, inances and health have played out
throughout your eternal life.”
unknowingly written strong records of
self-dismissal, then wondered why she was
always unhappy.
But it wasn’t too late. She determined
to speak her truth and write new records
where she accepted and prioritised herself.
Because she no longer lived in self-
dismissal, she did not attract men who
were willing to use and dismiss her. In
fact, she used the process of future record
writing described later on to ind the
tender-hearted husband she had always
truly deserved.
In this and in so many ways, the Akashic
Records are an amazingly powerful tool
for change and success. They reveal past
inluences and future potentials.
The records can bring helpful guidance
in every area of life whether creative,
inancial or personal. They can also
connect you with the spirit realms and the
loving guides that are always available to
you.
Akashic messages from Spirit
The spirit world offers a very important
connection to the Akashic Records. From
your own spirit, your higher self, to the
guides, masters, family and friends who
have passed, the higher vibration of this
spiritual energy resonates more easily with
the frequency of the records.
You have special guides who carry life-
changing inspiration from the Akashic
Records if you just open up to their
presence. They have a personal interest
in you, so you can forge close connections
with them and other spirit guides.
Whenever you meditate, you can ask
the record angels and guides speciic
questions or request their assistance in
FEATURE
any endeavour. They are always available,
loving and interested, and constantly
willing to help often in unexpected ways.
You may be surprised to know that the
Akashic Records hold real energy as well
as information. Just as angels can bring
very helpful inspiration to you, they can
also bring any speciic type of energy you
desire.
The records hold the vibrations of
courage, strength, love, peace and power.
The angels can bring these wonderful
vibrations to you whenever you may need
them.
Because the Eternal Records are illed
with the consciousness of Spirit and
mankind, they are also illed with every act
of courage and devotion that has graced
the human experience.
The history of love in all its forms is
available to you and can open your heart
to the experience of loving yourself and
others. Indeed, this is a part of the record’s
purpose: to hold the energies of all truth
and power.
So let yourself relax and ask for what
you need. Open up to the strength and
peace that the Akashic angels can bring.
The record spirits are very real entities,
whispering guidance and infusing you
with a power you may not realise you
have. They can be the source of eternal
inspiration and also bring revelations of
the past, present and the potential yet to
come.
“A Christmas Carol” –
Visiting the Akashic realm
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens hasn’t
been out of print since its irst publication
in 1843. It has been translated into
dozens of languages and converted into
countless plays, TV shows and theatrical
productions.
This is the story of Scrooge, a miserly
old man who changes his life – and the
lives of many others – through a personal
epiphany. But did you know that this
tender-hearted and moving story actually
reveals some important truths about the
Akashic Records?
Through the help of Spirit, who often
delivers Akashic messages, Scrooge is able
to go back and witness his choices and
circumstances of the past. He is also able
to investigate present records and witness
the options that they hold.
Finally, Scrooge is taken into the
records of his potential future – a future
that seems inevitable based on his present
behaviour, attitude and choices, and a
future where both he and the sweet child
Tiny Tim pass away by Christmas of the
following year.
Via these various travels through time
PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019 15
FEATURE
and experiences in the records, Scrooge
realises that he no longer wants to pursue
the wretched path he is on. When looking
upon his own headstone, Scrooge is driven
to pleading with the ghost of Christmas yet
to come and says:
“Men’s courses will foreshadow certain
ends, to which, if persevered in, they must
lead… But if the courses be departed from,
the ends will change.
“Good Spirit… Assure me that I yet may
change these shadows you have shown me
by an altered life.”
This is precisely what the records are
all about – helping us change our energetic
shadows and alter our lives. Scrooge
realises this opportunity and wakes
up on Christmas morning with a deep
appreciation and renewed excitement for
life.
He then goes on to write wonderful new
present records, illed with compassion,
generosity and the heartfelt purpose of
connecting with and helping his fellow
man.
Clearly Scrooge viewed the past,
changed the present and forged wonderful
new Future Records. Scrooge lived on and
became known for his exuberance.
It was said of him that he knew how to
keep Christmas well and kept it in his heart
throughout the year, a function of being
conscious of one’s options and writing
joyous Present Records.
Though Dickens never identiied it,
Scrooge used the incredible power of the
Akashic Records, the information brought
by Spirit and held in the ether to his beneit
and to the beneit of many others.
With the Akashic Records we, too, have
the ability to look through time and make
the changes that empower us.
Although on the surface, A Christmas
Carol is just a sweet, cautionary tale
reminding us not to live in misery and
constant striving, it is really much more
than that. It’s also a moral reminder
that we should prioritise our social
responsibility and our understanding that
we are all indeed connected.
On an even higher level, it tells us
that we are capable of looking into the
past and the future. If we are open to the
information there – in the Akashic Records
– we can shift the quality of our life at its
very core.
Inspiration from the
Akashic Records
A Christmas Carol is not only a story about
the Akashic Records, but also an example
of how they can reach into the hearts of
men and inspire greatly. It is my belief that
this story – so beautifully penned – was
actually inspired and given to Dickens by
16 PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019
the records themselves.
In a letter to a friend, Dickens described
how he received the opening scene of
the book in a dream, which is a very
common way to receive Akashic Record
information.
Dickens was also in the habit of walking
through the streets of London late at night,
thinking about the work he was currently
writing.
These were walking meditations of
sorts, where his mind would wander and be
illed with ideas of where to take his story
next.
He told one friend that his walks during
the writing of A Christmas Carol, which
were sometimes more than ten miles a
night, were illed with images and ideas.
After some sleep, Dickens would
write those ideas down, and then later
that evening go out and receive more
inspiration to be woven into the plot,
characters and dialogue.
Dickens didn’t realise it, of course, but
he was connecting with the inspiration of
the Akashic Records, giving to the world
a truly enduring and important piece
of work, entertaining, compelling and
inspiring people for over 170 years.
You, too, have the ability to be inspired
by the records. When your energy and
intention resonate with the Akashic realm,
they create an open, lowing pipeline to
the universe and you can be blessed by the
results.
Whatever you would like to be inspired
about, the Akashic ield is always open
to you. All you have to do is to create a
focused intention or even just be willing
to receive inspiration and discovery of any
kind. Weave that intention into your daily
life, then relax and let go.
You can also ask for assistance from the
spirit beings and guides who are always
willing to bring record inspiration. The
universe wants to promote expression,
creativity, evolution and enlightenment.
Your determination to grow and bring
some sort of betterment to the world
aligns with universal intention and will
touch your heart and mind, forging a
dynamic destiny and inspiring you in ways
you may have never dreamed of.
Recording successful futures now
In addition to receiving inspiration and
viewing the past, you can also resolve your
present issues or problems by planting a
visualisation of success in your records of
the future.
You can enlist the assistance of the
record angels or guides to carry your
intention into the Universal Records to be
fulilled.
This reveals how truly remarkable the
Akashic Records are in their power and
scope. The past and the future converge
in this present moment, and you can use
this time to create new records for the
immediate and long-range future.
In order to establish successful events
in your Future Records, try the following
meditation. This process combines the
power of visualisation with the strength of
Akashic Record creation.
It also brings in the incredible energy of
the Record spirits, which accelerates your
intention far beyond mere visualisation.
Steps for Future Record writing
1. Have the details, images and emotions
of your joyous outcome already
planned out in your mind. Use only
one goal per programming session.
2. Breathe deeply and let yourself relax.
As you do, imagine your consciousness
gently loating to your Record Library,
where you can meet your guide or
record angel.
3. Continue to relax and see your
Record Movie Screen come to life.
Let yourself happily view wonderful
images of your successful outcome
playing out on this future record
screen.
See or sense them unfolding just
as you desire. Let yourself feel the joy
that these lovely images bring.
4. As the scene starts to wrap up, afirm
that you are placing this successful
experience into the records of your
future reality, then visualise your
guide or angels lifting the successful
outcome into the energetic realm, the
realm of all possibilities.
As they do, thank them and know
that they will be working on your goal
as well, planting the seeds of success
in your Future Records.
You can apply this process to any
endeavour you desire, including physical
healing, career success, romance and
increasing prosperity.
Whatever stuck pattern you may be
facing, you can change it by placing new
images and energies into your Future
Records, and by supporting them with
present records of healthy, self-honouring
choices.
The Akashic Records can help
you change your life. The amount of
information, inspiration and energy they
bring will enrich your life in ways you can’t
even imagine.
In fact, once you begin to open the
record doors and tap the discovery, power
and spirit there, your life will never be the
same! n
 HELP RAISE FUNDS FOR
INTERNATIONAL ANIMAL RESCUE
Evening of Clairvoyance with
KERRY STANDFAST
& LISA MEGENNIS
Saturday 2nd February 2019
7pm – 9.30pm, £12
Thornwood Village Hall, North Weald Bassett,
Thornwood, Epping, Essex CM16 6NR
Please email: info@yogaleggs.com
to book and arrange payment of £12 for your ticket
Start with drinks and shopping from a handful of small
local businesses. Tickets are limited.

NATURE’S
SOLUTIONS
~ A natural option ~
Situated in the historic city of
Stirling, Scotland, you can ind
a wee gem of a shop to satisfy
your spiritual needs
If you are drawn towards
crystal gem stones, oracle
and tarot cards, essential oils,
meditation aids, incense,
candles, Himalayan salt lamps,
and magnetic bracelets,
then look no further
We offer expert advice in a
loving and calming atmosphere
All our shampoos, soaps,
lotions and potions are
NOT TESTED ON ANIMALS
so are cruelty free
Contact Jill at:
56 Baker Street, Stirling,
Scotland FK8 1DB
Tel: 01786 447445
www.natures-solutions-uk.com
Email: info@natures-solutions-uk.com
www.facebook.com/NaturesSolutions/

PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019 17

 A medium for over 30 years, Pam
Brittan’s book “Spirit Shows The

Lost necklace Way” was recently published by

Local Legend and includes many
descriptions of her spiritual work.

is spirit test
Called “An ordinary woman with
the most extraordinary gift,” in this
“PN” interview, Pam answers a
series of questions about her life and
mediumship. The irst points put to
PN Reporter her were: “Where did you grow up?
Were your family Spiritualists?”

I WAS born in Birmingham, but spent my

early years in Wales in a children’s home.
My Uncle Sid was a Spiritualist medium
who served many churches around the
country and my grandmother would often
read tea leaves for people.
Uncle Sid researched the family tree
and discovered a French Romany gypsy
a few generations back; it seems that
clairvoyance has been passed down
through the family since then.
Being in a children’s home was
extremely distressing and inluenced who
I was as an adult. It was an era of sending
children away to Australia, New Zealand
and America.
I could have been amongst those
children if they could have found my
mother to sign the papers. There were
regular beatings and locking us in dark
cupboards. Even now I do not like enclosed
dark places.
The 1950s were very different from
today. An unmarried mother was seen as
a brazen woman and shunned by society.
This is what happened when the truth
emerged about my mother.
Although the book touches upon lots of
personal and spiritual times, I have tried to
keep more to the spiritual aspects.
The traumas during my irst marriage
were many, but for the sake of my
daughters I have not expanded on them
too much. Their father is now in the spirit
world and many of the issues were drink-
related.
The girls were not privy to a lot of the
happenings because I wanted to protect
them. It was a very hard time.

What do your children do for a living?

One works as a human resource
manager in the USA for the Salvation
Army, and another for a well-known bed
company as a human resource learning and
development manager.
My other daughter is a supervisor in
the catering department at a local college.
My stepdaughter works for a well-known
PAM BRITTAN: “Being in a children’s home was extremely distressing and inluenced who I was as an adult.” supermarket chain as a checkout operative.

18 PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019


What led you to develop your gifts?
When I was young, I had only a vague
idea of what my uncle did. Actually, it was a
friend who introduced me to a Spiritualist
church and I felt instantly at home there.
I had been hearing and seeing Spirit
from an early age. However, it was only
when I attended the church that I realised
this wonderful gift I had been given was
something not to be afraid of, but to be
nurtured.
When the opportunity came to join a
development group, I grabbed the chance.
I had a kind of knowing that I was being led
in this direction.
Was it dificult to continue your development
when you had your own family?
The straight answer to that is “Yes!” It
wasn’t just having young children, but I was
also running a newsagents’ business open
from 6.00 am until 6.00 pm and that took
its toll.
Although things were dificult, I made
every effort I could to keep the learning
process going because I wanted to
continue to develop and understand the
spiritual aspect of my gift.
Was there a particular turning point in your
mediumship?
The turning point was when my mentor
Anne Taylor began to take me with her
to serve Spiritualist churches around the
country, as it helped me to trust what Spirit
was telling me.
Anne put me forward at Bromsgrove
Spiritualist Church to attend the
Spiritualists’ National Union’s novice
scheme.
As novices, we were put into groups of
three to serve various churches around the
country together and our competence was
assessed each time.
No one can give you the gift of
mediumship, but this process helped me
enormously in ine-tuning my presentation
when I was on the rostrum.
At the end of the scheme, we were
tested on our abilities and then it was time
to serve the churches on our own. This was
a bit scary at irst!
As I became more experienced, I
realised that Spirit would never let me
down as long as I worked with love and
light.
How did you get to know your guides?
I smile as I answer this question because
at irst I didn’t have a clue that there were
any guides to help me.
As time went by, through meditation
and sitting in a circle, I kept being given
information in short messages, showing me
pictures or giving me signs that I needed to
research.
As I became more experienced,
I realised that Spirit would
never let me down as long as I
worked with love and light
Even when my main guide Crowfoot
made himself known to me, I didn’t believe
it and just thought it was a silly name!
However, he has conirmed his identity in
some wonderful ways.
Crowfoot was a great leader of the
Canadian American West and a chief of the
Blackfoot people.
He was known as a diplomat and
peacemaker who led his people through
the perilous times that transformed them
from nomads to reservation farmers,
ranchers and miners in western Canada.
Crowfoot understood the power of the
white man in his country and curbed his
natural ierce warrior resentment because
he knew his people faced annihilation or
domination by a white government.
He skilfully avoided confrontation and
took his people into the new era as calmly
as he could. He also encouraged other
tribes to follow his lead and many did just
that. Crowfoot embraced the doctrine of
“One law for all people.”
Some guides have been with me for
short periods of time without my ever
knowing their names.
This is all part of the development
of being a medium, as each guide has
something different to offer whether it
is learning or helping you on the rostrum
during a service.
You have served Spiritualist churches
throughout the UK. Do you also give private
sittings or workshops?
For many years I worked all across
the country serving churches, but due to
illness and increasing dificulties with my
mobility, I have had to adapt to serving
Spirit in different ways.
However, I still do occasional
workshops and private readings. I am
now concentrating on online courses to
promote the Spiritualist cause and maybe
undertake Skype readings for those who
are in most need.
Can you give one or two examples of
especially important or evidential spirit
communications?
FEATURE
A young lady came to see me in great
distress, as her mother had passed and she
was inding it dificult to come to terms
with this.
Firstly, her maternal grandfather
came through and spoke of Margaret, the
young lady’s mother, being over there. He
described shared memories and then her
mother came through. The young lady was
now in tears.
Her mother spoke about needing to
ind a lost necklace, a gift from the mother,
which the young lady was very upset
about.
Her mother told her to look “at the
bottom of the wardrobe.” Other things
were said that she understood and brought
comfort to her.
A few days later, this young lady rang
me to say that the necklace had indeed
been found in the bottom of the wardrobe
nestling inside a shoe. She now felt very
much more at ease about her mother’s
death.
Another time, I gave a reading to friends
of mine who had lost their eldest son while
he was having an emergency operation for
appendicitis.
The reading was going to be very
emotional for all of us. Although as
a medium you try not to let emotion
overwhelm you, it can be dificult.
When I give readings for friends, I ask
Spirit to give me information that I couldn’t
know. Their son showed me a quite large
wooden rod with a natural V-shape at the
top, told his dad to use it more often in the
future and then laughed.
The son also spoke of going to Scotland
to an island with a special name. I didn’t
know anything about this, but it seems
that my friends were planning to take their
son’s ashes to this very place.
The family often used to go ishing
together and the wooden rod had been
found in this place. They hadn’t been
ishing since their son died and the rod was
stored away in the garage.
The young man thanked his mum and
dad for looking after his children, and sent
his love for the little girl he hadn’t seen
PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019 19
FEATURE
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL: “He had so much to
say about life in general.” (File photo)
before he died.
At the time of this reading, the child was
about to be born, but no one was aware of
the gender; yes, it was a girl. So although
it was indeed emotional, the evidence was
very real.
You have had to overcome a lot of dificulties
in your life. Do you think they have had a
spiritual purpose?
I am sure that many people mirror the
personal dificulties I have endured. There
were years of family troubles and then
serious illness.
Being told I had multiple sclerosis came
as a complete shock, but to have a cancer
diagnosis in the same year was a double
whammy. Fortunately, a hysterectomy
solved the problem with the cancer, but
the MS is ongoing.
I have learnt to live with the illness
and not let it deine me. Everyone can
contribute to life: they just need to have a
dream and live it.
I’ve always known that there was a light
and an energy helping me along the way. I
had to ind my path through these times to
enable me to help others better.
My empathy towards people is due
to all of this. I feel that my purpose is to
inspire others and to assure them that the
traumas of life can be overcome, and that
you can be a better person than you used
to be by learning life’s lessons along the
way.
20 PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2018
If you could spend a day with six people,
“dead” or alive, who would you choose and
why?
This is very hard, as there are so many
inspiring people, but I would like to speak
with Sir Winston Churchill, not because of
his war effort, but he had so much to say
about life in general.
I would also like to meet my French
Romany gypsy ancestor to see what
she would have to say about my life as a
medium.
Another person I would love to meet
is Mother Shipton, who lived in a cave in
Yorkshire and correctly predicted many
inventions centuries ago. Along similar
lines, I’d like to talk to Nostradamus, who
also fascinates me.
This may sound like a cliché, but I would
like to have some time with Jesus. I have
many theories about who the man was, so
it would be extremely interesting to ind
out the true facts.
Do you have any hobbies or interests away
from the psychic scene?
I have many and varied hobbies. I knit,
sew tapestries, read and like to paint. I am
learning about psychological astrology,
which I ind fascinating, and love creating
stuff on my computer.
What would be your perfect Sunday?
A lazy day, with a late breakfast, and
reading the papers, etc. Sometimes, being
with family would also be great.
NOSTRADAMUS: Born in France in 1503, this
physician and seer predicted events centuries
ahead.
What advice would you give to a ledgling
medium?
Trust Spirit. There are lots of courses
to train mediums, but it must come from
the heart, the knowledge within and
connection with the spirit world.
A true medium is born with the gift, so
training ine-tunes delivery. I would also
say you are tested on a regular basis, and
that trusting in your guides and helpers
will give the inspiration to overcome all
obstacles.
I have two sayings when I teach – “Don’t
think, just link” and “Don’t doubt, give out.”
The “Don’t think” comes from trying to
analyse a message as it comes through.
This is not needed.
You must just give the message and
the response will be there. Once you start
trying to dissect a message, you have lost
the connection, so that leads to the next
saying of “Don’t doubt, give out.” Never
doubt Spirit.
I would also advise never to let ego be
the leader. Always be humble and thank
the spirit world for giving you the gift
because that is what it is. As a gift, Spirit
helps and guides you along the way.
It is wonderful to help those who
are grieving, but as a medium you must
be responsible for how you transmit
messages, especially from a rostrum. That
is why training is useful.
Where do you live? Do your neighbours know
you are a medium?
In Bromsgrove, which is thirteen miles
south-west of Birmingham city centre. Lots
of people know what I do because of the
work I have done at the local Spiritualist
church.
I do not broadcast my calling to
everyone. Some I know would probably not
approve, but others are curious about what
I do and what I believe, so it is a mixed bag,
as it is with society.
The reaction now is very different from
when I began many years ago, as people
are more open to the possibilities of a
wider aspect of life. They have begun to
realise that there is more to heaven and
earth than we know.
Serving a church recently, I noticed lots
of youngsters in the audience. Even if this
is out of curiosity, some are the potential
mediums of the future.
Our pioneers wanted Spiritualist
churches to have the freedom to inspire
congregations from the rostrum and offer
evidence that spiritual connections can
happen. Long may it be that way!
For further details about Pam’s book, please
visit www.local-legend.co.uk n
 d w it h
ea l e
S a kiss
IS St Valentine your favourite saint? He’s certainly one of the best-
known ones, though it’s probably a toss-up between him and St
Nicholas – Santa Claus – whom we featured for our Christmas
issue.
They are celebrated by an enormous
number of people for different reasons.
There is a link, though, since we perceive
both as having the potential to affect our
personal lives.
St Valentine is the patron saint of
lovers. His festival – St Valentine’s Day – is
celebrated every year on February 14.
Whether you plan to celebrate a long-
standing romantic attachment or a recent
one, you would do well to remember this
date, which can be just as signiicant for
married couples, too.
Don’t make the mistake of dismissing
the idea because you’re “past that sort
of thing” or you have been together long
enough for your partner to realise just
how much you appreciate them “without
all that nonsense.” Showing appreciation
is never wasted and does not go out of
fashion.
Valentine’s oficial title is St Valentine
of Rome. Widely recognised in the third
century as a Roman saint, venerated by the
Roman Catholic Church, since then he has
A RED robed St Valentine is seen baptising also been celebrated in Anglican churches.
St Lucilla. Valentine was a Roman priest. In the
By Barbara White
year 269 AD, he was sentenced to a three-
part execution by beating, stoning and
inally decapitation because of his refusal
to deny Jesus. Emperor Claudius Gothicus
(Claudius II) ordered the execution.
Claudius’ decision is even sadder than
at irst seems. Considered one of the
kinder emperors of the third century AD,
it appears that he and Valentine were
friends.
The pair enjoyed meaningful
conversations about religion. Valentine
had been attempting to convert Claudius
to Christianity, but must have pushed
matters a little too far, resulting in the
emperor exploding in an “Off with his
head!” rage when Valentine continued to
refuse to abandon Christianity.
In fact, Valentine had been secretly
helping other Christians by marrying
engaged couples, which at the time was in
deiance of a decree forbidding marriage.
Father Frank O’Gara, of Whitefriar
Street Carmelite Church in Dublin, where
Valentine’s remains are said to be buried,
tells in plain language the real story of
the man who was to become St Valentine
and how his destiny was shaped by the
conditions and events of the time.
“He was a Roman priest when Claudius
was persecuting the church,” Father
O’Gara explains. “Claudius had issued
PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019 21
FEATURE

an edict that prohibited the marriage of

young people…
“It was based on the hypothesis that
unmarried soldiers fought better than
married soldiers because married soldiers
might be afraid of what might happen
to them or their wives or families if they
died…
“The real history of Valentine’s Day is
not comprised of roses, chocolates and
pretty cards.
“Instead, crime, imprisonment and
execution are at the heart of our modern
day love festival, dating back to the man
whose martyrdom seems to have inspired
the event.”
Back to today, and it is estimated that in
the UK two years ago, £980 million-worth
of gifts were bought for St Valentine’s
Day. This was up £15 million on the
previous year. Annually, more than 25
million cards are sent.
But how is the event marked abroad?
Let’s take a look at Russia where,
apparently, it’s relatively new and only
began to be widely celebrated in the early
1990s.
At some schools, children exchange
gifts and hold special events, concerts
and parties to mark the day. Nightclubs
arrange parties for couples to celebrate in
a romantic way whilst shops are decorated
with hearts, lowers and different gifts to
attract customers.
Giving lowers to acknowledge special
occasions and holidays is considered
one of the most romantic gestures in
Russian culture. As in many other parts
of the world, red roses are a symbol of
passionate love and romance, and are the
most popular lowers on St Valentine’s
Day.
Meanwhile, in the USA, St Valentine’s
Day is believed to have been imported by
British settlers to North America in the
19th century.
The irst mass-produced St Valentine’s
Day cards with embossed paper lace are
said to have been produced in the United
States shortly after 1847 by entrepreneur
Esther Howland of Worcester,
Massachusetts.
In the second half of the 20th century,
the practice of giving gifts along with cards
became popular. Roses and chocolates
were the most commonly exchanged
presents.
Around the 1980s, the diamond
industry began to promote Valentine’s
Day as an occasion to give ine jewellery.
The day has come to be associated with
a generic platonic greeting of “Happy
Valentine’s Day.”
The Greeting Card Association
calculates that 145 million Valentine’s Day
cards are sent out every year in the United
IT was once believed that if you saw a lock of doves on St Valentine’s Day, you would have a happy,
peaceful marriage.
States. Next to Christmas, it is the largest
seasonal card-sending occasion.
The event is also celebrated in China,
though it is dificult to conirm the exact
time when a Western-style Valentine’s
Day was introduced there.
The day is widely celebrated in urban
areas, where there are many commercial
events, especially in cities like Shanghai,
Beijing and Hong Kong. It is not so
popular in smaller cities, towns and the
countryside.
Gifts like lowers, chocolates, ties and
watches are given. Apparently, more
chocolate than usual will be on sale in
supermarkets whilst compared with
ordinary days, cinemas are much busier.
Many restaurants have special set menus.
However, care needs to be taken
when choosing presents. Avoid selecting
a bouquet of yellow roses as a gift for a
loved one in China because presenting
them to someone generally symbolises a
declaration of separating.
Neither should an umbrella be a gift,
as the Chinese word for umbrella sounds
the same as “breaking up.” The Chinese
also avoid shoes, for giving them implies
“packing off your love.” However, if your
loved one refunds one yuan, the curse will
be broken.
Now to Australia, where about 90 per
cent of those in the age group of 18-24 and
45 per cent of people above 50 are said to
celebrate the day.
During the Australian gold rush period,
some miners became extremely rich
due to the new wealth found from the
Ballarat mines. Miners sometimes ordered
extravagant Valentines amounting to
thousands of pounds.
Lavish Valentines were made of a satin
cushion, perfumed and ornately decorated
with lowers and coloured shells. Some
were even adorned with a stuffed
hummingbird or bird-of-paradise.
While exchanging paper cards is a
common way of celebrating Valentine’s
Day, worldwide these days more and more
people use texts and e-mails to express
their feelings.
Now let’s take a quick look at various
other facts, igures and superstitions about
the occasion:
• About three per cent of people buy
Valentine’s Day gifts for their pets.
• In the Middle Ages, young men and
women drew names from a bowl to
see who their valentines would be.
They wore these names on their
sleeves for one week.
To wear your heart on your
sleeve now means it is easy for
other people to know how you are
feeling.
• The Italian city of Verona, where
Shakespeare’s lovers Romeo and
Juliet lived, receives around 1,000
letters addressed to Juliet every
Valentine’s Day.
• The oldest surviving love poem to
date is written on a clay tablet from
the times of the Sumerians, the
inventors of writing around 3,500
BC.
The author is unknown, but it is
thought to have been recited by
a bride of Sumerian king Shu-Sin,
who ruled between 2037-2029 BC.
The poem starts:

22 PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019


“Bridegroom, dear to my heart,
“Goodly is your beauty, honeysweet,
“Lion, dear to my heart,
“Goodly is your beauty, honeysweet.”
• If someone thinks of ive or six
names considered to be suitable
marriage partners and twists the
stem of an apple while the names
are being recited, it is believed their
spouse will be the one whose name
was spoken the moment the stem
broke.
Meanwhile, if an apple is cut in
half, the number of seeds found
inside it indicates how many
children an individual will have.
• On Valentine’s Day, the irst male
name you read in the paper or hear
on TV or the radio will be that of
the man you will marry.
• If you see a lock of doves on
Valentine’s Day, you will have a
happy, peaceful marriage.
• In medieval times, girls ate unusual
foods on Valentine’s Day to
make them dream of their future
husband.
• It was once believed that if a
woman noticed a robin lying
overhead on Valentine’s Day, it
meant she would wed a sailor. A
sparrow indicated marrying a poor
man, but being very happy.
If she encountered a goldinch, it
was thought her husband would be
a man of great wealth.
• The tradition of using an X to
represent a kiss began with the
medieval practice of allowing
those who could not write to sign
documents with this letter of the
alphabet.
This was done before they were
witnessed and the signer placed
a kiss upon the X to indicate
sincerity. With the passage of time,
an X became commonly used at the
end of correspondence to indicate
a kiss.
• During the 1700s, one popular
British custom on the eve of
Valentine’s Day was for unmarried
women to pin ive bay leaves
sprinkled with rose water to their
pillows. Eggs with salt replacing
the removed yokes were then
consumed prior to retiring for the
evening.
Before going to sleep, the woman
would recite the following prayer
– “Good Valentine, be kind to me;
In dreams, let me my true love see.”
If this charm worked, she would
view her future husband whilst
dreaming.
It goes without saying that for centuries,
the great, good and ordinary people have
written of love. Consider these sayings:
Being deeply loved by someone gives
you strength while loving someone deeply
gives you courage – Lao Tzu.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of
friendship that makes unhappy marriages
– Friedrich Nietzsche.
Love is that condition in which the
happiness of another person is essential to
your own – Robert A. Heinlein.
You don’t love someone because they’re
perfect; you love them in spite of the fact
that they’re not – Jodi Picoult.
Love is needing someone. Love is
putting up with someone’s bad qualities
because they somehow complete you
– Sarah Dessen.
Never love anyone who treats you like
you’re ordinary – Oscar Wilde.
When we are in love, we open to all that
life has to offer with passion, excitement
and acceptance. We need to learn to love
ourselves irst, in all our glory and our
imperfections.
If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot
fully open to our ability to love others or
our potential to create – John Lennon.
Love does not consist of gazing at each
other, but in looking outward together
in the same direction – Antoine de Saint-
Exupéry.
Love is a ire. But whether it is going
to warm your hearth or burn down your
house, you can never tell – Joan Crawford.
If you love somebody, let them go, for
if they return, they were always yours. If
they don’t, they never were – Kahlil Gibran.
Love is composed of a single soul
inhabiting two bodies – Aristotle.
When the power of love overcomes the
love of power, the world will know peace
– Jimi Hendrix.
A loving heart is the truest wisdom
– Charles Dickens.
Love is friendship that has caught ire. It
is quiet understanding, mutual conidence,
sharing and forgiving.
It is loyalty through good and bad times.
It settles for less than perfection and
makes allowances for human weaknesses
– Ann Landers.
Where there is love there is life
– Mahatma Gandhi.
Love is when the other person’s
happiness is more important than your
own – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Love is, of course, at the very heart of spirit
communication, since it acts as a vital link
between here and the Beyond. Love was
often mentioned in the teachings of Silver
Birch. In More Philosophy of Silver Birch, he
FEATURE
commented:
“Love is not physical, it is spiritual. The
fact of earthly parents providing a vehicle
for the soul has no eternal signiicance.
What is eternal is the attracting power of
love.
“Love is the fulilling of the law. And
the law is the law of the Great Spirit…
You cannot destroy love because love is
eternal, love is ininite. You cannot change
that which is of the spirit and make it into
nothing. Love will always endure…
“Hatred is never right. It is wrong to
hate. You must love. You must even try to
love those who hate you and those who
would do their worst to you.
“You must love in its most
compassionate form. The acme of spiritual
healing, for example, is love. Without
compassion, healing exists only in its
physical or magnetic state.
“With compassion, the spirit power is
beginning to operate and there is love in
action. This is the divine, the Great Spirit
being relected in the service that you
render.
“We must try to supplant hatred with
love because this is transforming darkness
into light…
“There will always be the few, not many,
through whom the love of the Great Spirit
will shine. It is always the pioneers and
revolutionaries who have performed the
greatest service.
“Work with those who are animated by
the power of love and desire to manifest it
in even greater measure. The Great Spirit
is not in a hurry as you are. The Great Spirit
has been in charge of the universe for a
very long time.” n
For a full list of Silver Birch books
which are available, please visit www.
spiritualtruthfoundation.org/shop
JIMI HENDRIX: “When the power of love
overcomes the love of power, the world will know
peace.” (Photo: Hannu Lindroos/Lehtikuva)
PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019 23
 11 Kensington Gardens, Brighton BN1 4AL
Two Feathers offers a collection of authentic
Native American jewellery, totem animals, musical
instruments, drums, dreamcatchers and much more
We stock Star Child of Glastonbury organic herbs and
oils, our own sage, sweet grass and palo santo together
with an extensive range of natural crystals from
around our planet. Our store also features our inspired
collections of exquisite jewellery including opal,
moldavite, lapis, amber, moonstone to name a few!
Tarot readings daily, also shamanic and crystal
vibrational healing, please call for an appointment

Tel: 01273 692929 www.twofeathers.co.uk

ASPECTS OF THE SOUL

A wonderful new insight
into our Guardian Angels
FREE COURSE
Please visit our website
www.guardianangel.uk.com
24 PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019
 Unseen hands
play guitar By Billy Roberts
WRITING this in early January, it’s the time of year
when we tend to become relective and turn our
thoughts back to days gone by. However, it is human
nature for us to recall unhappy moments in life perhaps
a little more than we do the happy times.
I am no exception. My of Padua church in Liverpool.
wife, Dolly, always says I am a I returned home only to throw
daydreamer, as not only do I my guitar in the corner of my
frequently think of the past, but bedroom, announcing to my
talk about it too. Dolly says I do this mother that I would never play it
when she is busy trying to write or again. After a little reassurance, she
undertaking some other mentally quietly closed the bedroom door
challenging chore. and left me sobbing into my pillow.
I’m also extremely nostalgic. Around 2.00 am, after hearing
Because of the work I do, at times the sound of the twanging strings
I have become very morbid with of my guitar, I woke with a start and
my mortality staring me in the face. sat bolt upright on my bed, listening
Dolly always snaps me out of it – to the guitar playing by itself, as if
and a good job too! the strings had been plucked by
Although psychically inclined some unseen hand.
since childhood, I became a My mother also heard it and
professional medium only in came into my room. “Tall Pine!” she
1980-81. However, becoming a exclaimed. This is my spirit guide
professional medium when I grew and mentor, who had always been
up in the 1950s and 1960s was with me through childhood and still
most certainly not an option. is today.
From the age of nine, all I ever His tall, slender form suddenly
wanted to do was to play lead appeared in the corner of the room,
guitar in a rock band and become a his head slightly lowered as he
pop star. This was a passion and my looked at my guitar. Tall Pine slowly
main dream. disappeared and my mother smiled
Unfortunately, this dream was as she left the room.
nearly destroyed when, at the I know this might sound a
age of fourteen, my irst band was little far-fetched and fanciful to a
booed off stage at our irst gig at sceptic, but I am always the irst
the Christmas dance at St Anthony to question anecdotal accounts of

PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019 25

FEATURE
IN this rare photo with The Rolling Stones, Billy Roberts (far right) is seen with Brian Jones, Charlie Watts, Mal Jefferson (a member of his group), Bill Wyman,
Keith Richard and Mick Jagger.
other people’s experiences. This particular
episode in my life was extremely signiicant
and is etched on my memory.
I have never been one for talking about
my spirit guides, but Tall Pine has always
been an extremely signiicant igure in my
life and still is today.
Needless to say, the unfortunate
experience at St Anthony’s Church Hall
became just a memory. When I left school
in 1962 at the age of sixteen, I was already
living the dream of every other kid my
age – playing lead guitar in a rock band
and touring the UK before taking off to
the Continent to support many of the big
names of the day.
This was a huge achievement for me,
as from the age of three I had suffered
with bi-lateral basal non-cystic ibrosis
bronchiectasis and was not supposed to
have lived to see my teens.
However, I did. Although my life was
very restricted, I was enjoying doing what
I wanted to do more than anything in the
whole world. We were eventually managed
by Jean Vanloo, the director of Unidans,
one of the largest agencies in Europe at the
time.
We supported the Moody Blues, The
Yardbirds, Memphis Slim, Jimi Hendrix,
Chuck Berry, and the Small Faces, to name
just a few of the greats in the world of
music.
Living in Paris, we played regularly at La
Locomotive Club next door to the famous
Moulin Rouge. This was a dream come true
for me.
However, sometimes playing through
the night, and then again the following
afternoon, left us all extremely tired and
worn out. Living life in the proverbial fast
line eventually took its toll.
My gradual use of drugs to keep me
going, and my failing health, brought
everything crashing down around me. I
was forced to return to the UK in 1970
for treatment and to be cared for by my
mother.
Unfortunately, at more or less at the
same time, my father was diagnosed with
pancreatic cancer and passed away within
six weeks. We were all understandably
devastated.
26 PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019
It’s little use for spirit
guides to take us down
an easy, pain-free
road, as nothing would
be learned
My father was the rock of the family and
always kept everything together, myself
included. I thought I had been completely
abandoned by the spiritual forces I always
believed were guiding me and wondered
why Tall Pine had encouraged me to
continue with my career in music if he
knew what was going to happen to me.
Disillusioned, losing faith and at the
lowest point I had ever been, I couldn’t see
a way out and seriously considered ending
my life.
It was at this point that the spirit world
came back into my life with a vengeance,
making it abundantly clear that I now had a
path to follow.
My mother, grandmother and Aunt
Louise were all mediums. Although my
grandmother passed on six months before
I was born, I began to have a relationship
with her, albeit a spiritual one.
Aunt Louise had been a policewoman
and sat with many veteran mediums of her
day, including the great Estelle Roberts.
She became my mentor and helped me a
great deal to understand my mediumistic
skills.
Even though, after numerous
treatments in various clinics, I eventually
recovered, it was a long and painful battle
that left physical and emotional scars. I
began to explore the world of mediums and
became friends with Edinburgh medium
Mary Duffy.
In fact, Mary was the only medium ever
to name Tall Pine. Nobody else came close
to it. Mary told me that Tall Pine said if I
ever got the chance to have a consultation
with a gifted artist, he would make sure I
would receive a drawing of his likeness.
Nobody except my mother and Mary
Duffy knew what Tall Pine looked like, so I
was overwhelmed with excitement when
I was given an appointment with world-
renowned psychic artist Ivor James, who
has since passed on.
My entire future as a medium was
placed on Ivor James’ shoulders. I knew
that if he did not draw a picture of Tall Pine
as I knew him, my conidence and belief in
everything would most probably have been
shattered.
Years of drug use had taken away
my self-esteem and caused me so much
psychological and emotional trauma I
really did feel at times that I was losing my
mind.
As soon as I entered the room in
Liverpool’s Daulby Street Spiritualist
Church, where Ivor was giving his
consultations, he immediately began to
sketch, scarcely peering over his
spectacles to look at me.
I sat nervously, my heart beating like a
drum in my chest, my eyes ixed on Ivor,
the sound of his pencil scratching across
the paper getting louder and louder by the
second.
“You know who I’m sketching, don’t
you?” he said in a low, rich voice. Although
Ivor didn’t know it, his question made the
whole scenario seem worse than it actually
was.
After what seemed like an age, he
inished sketching, sprayed his work with
a ixative and turned the paper to face me.
“Tall Pine!” I gasped in disbelief. “That’s
him.”
Ivor just smiled, nodded and asked,
“Who else?” Although he didn’t realise it,
Ivor had given me the best gift of all.
We later became good friends and Ivor
worked many times at my centre, The
Thought Workshop in Liverpool, unaware
of what part he had played in my future as
a medium.
From then on my life became
more meaningful, as I began piecing
together what seemed like an extremely
complicated jigsaw together. I now knew
I had a vocation, and this was to follow a
speciic spiritual path.
I now realise it’s little use for spirit
guides to take us down an easy, pain-free
road, as nothing at all would be learned
from that.
Although I don’t always see Tall Pine,
I know when he is there. He, too, had
an extremely dificult life and passed
when just 32. I really do feel I owe him
everything. n
Billy Roberts is available for talks,
workshops and demonstrations of
mediumship. E-mail billyroberts@sky.com
 SPIRITUALIST ASSOCIATION OF GREAT BRITAIN
341 Queenstown Road, Battersea, London SW8 4LH
Telephone 020 7931 6488 v Website: www.sagb.org.uk
WE ARE OPEN SEVEN DAYS A WEEK
Private Sittings available daily: face to face, telephone or Skype
Geoff Hayward
Spiritual Healing Walk-in Clinics seven days a week Terri Stromeyer

90 minute Open Circles: Weekend Open Circles from 12.30pm to 2pm ~ Monday Open Circle 1.30pm to 3pm
Open Platforms 90 minutes: Twice a month, Thursday 6.30pm to 8pm
Beginners’ Trance Circle with Terry Tasker, once a month on Saturday 12.30pm to 2pm
Thursday evening Teachings: 90 minutes, 6.30pm to 8pm
Lectures, Philosophy, Open Platforms, and Understanding Trance Circle for intermediate/advanced students
Suzanne Gibson-Foy: Circle ‘Working with the Inner Light’ Circle: Once a month on Sundays at 12.30pm to 2.30pm
Dorothy Young
1 hour daily demonstrations: all at 3.30pm, apart from Sunday which is 5pm Pauline Mason
Evening demonstration at 6.30pm on Wednesdays
90 minute demonstrations of clairvoyance and psychometry on selected Saturdays 3.30pm & Sundays 5pm
We also offer: Psychic Art Demonstrations, Distant Healing Circle, Bereavement Support Circle,
Connecting with Guides Circle, Guided Meditation, Sunday Service, Hypnotherapy
and Saturday workshops: please see the website for full details
February Workshops: Saturdays 11.30am to 5.30pm ~ Full details of all workshops on www.sagb.org.uk
16th February: Pauline Mason: The Power of Spirit: all levels £60 (Members £50)
Paul Smith 23rd February: Geoff Hayward: Auras & Chakras: all levels £60 (Members £50) Terry Tasker

Suzanne Gibson-Foy George Lawson Steve Woods Pam Akbas Peter Smith Joanne Jimenez Hilary Smith

STEVE HOLBROOK
TOUR DATES MARCH 2019
For venue enquiries, contact Rob Green,
Are you searching for answers? Tour Manager on: 07834 218427
Feeling lost in love, unhappy at work or
Or, for full website itinerary, visit:
unsure what the future holds for you?
Get the clarity and guidance you need and www.steveholbrook.co.uk
deserve with a Reading from experienced
and caring Psychic, Helen MARCH 2019
Tuesday 12 th
Spiritual Centre, Stockton 07738 290740
Accurate Psychic Readings are available worldwide
Weds 13th Brighton St WMC, Heckmondwike 01924 403192
via telephone or Skype, or in person at
Angel Wings Holistics in Poole, Dorset Thursday 14th Holiday Inn, Leeds Garforth 01823 666292
Friday 15th Village Hall, Ulceby 07986 981199
You’ll also ind Reiki, Holistic Therapies, Meditation Groups,
Workshops and more Sunday 17th Holiday Inn, Rotherham 01709 571111
Same-day appointments are often available, so get in touch Monday 18th Crofters Hotel, Garstang 01823 666292
today and ind your spiritual path! Tuesday 19th Coleg Cambria, Deeside 6th,
Call, text or WhatsApp: 07795 818646 Connahs Quay 01978 267047
Email: helen@angelwingsholistics.com Weds 20th Kyte Hotel, Darrington 01977 600661
Or visit: www.angelwingsholistics.com to book online today! Thursday 21st Alma Lodge Hotel, Stockport 01823 666292
Friday 22nd Spiritualist Church, Derby 07434 128670
Saturday 23rd Hotel Victoria, Newquay 01637 872255
Sunday 24th Hilton Hotel, Northampton 01823 666292
Monday 25th Town Hall, Kings Lynn 01823 666292
Tuesday 26th Spiritualist Centre, Cambridge    07980 580121
Weds 27th Angel Attic, Stafford 07504 126336
Thursday 28th Irish Club, Batley 01924 475960
Friday 29th Gingerbread Club at Grantham FC,
Grantham 07904 807915
Saturday 30th Isbourne Centre, Cheltenham 07789 176256

Occasionally changes are made to

the venue diary, so please always
double check on our website

PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019 27

 h e r e a r e
W ?
they n o w
This month, Robert Brown (left) begins an occasional column appreciating the work of
mediums and healers who opened doors, blazed a trail or made a difference.
First to be featured is fellow medium Peter Close (above), formerly of London, who
worked as a police oficer for over 30 years and became known as “The psychic bobby.”
As well as serving churches in the UK, Peter ran highly successful development circles
and also demonstrated in America for over 25 years.
A true Yorkshireman, his mother was a healer and he is the brother of legendary
English cricket team captain Brian Close. At 90, Peter is now retired and living in
Thailand. Points put to him appear it italics.

Why did you decide to leave the UK and
settle abroad?
When I left the police force in 1983, I
started to visit Thailand for holidays and
fell in love with the country.
Later when I saw that property prices
were much cheaper than in the UK, I
bought an apartment on the 16th loor of
a new condominium block in Pattaya as a
holiday home.
However, after a few years I spent more
and more time there and decided I wanted
to spend the rest of my days in Thailand, so
sold my London lat and moved.
I now have a villa. I sold the apartment
when I left Pattaya and moved to Chiang
Mai. In Pattaya, my apartment overlooked
the sea, but I now live in a suburb of Chiang
Mai.
This is a city in mountainous northern
Thailand. Founded in 1296, it was the
capital of the independent Lanna Kingdom
until 1558. Its Old City area still retains
vestiges of walls and moats from its history
as a cultural and religious centre.
It’s also home to hundreds of elaborate
Buddhist temples, including the 14th
century Wat Phra Singh and 15th century
Wat Chedi Luang, which are adorned with
carved serpents.
When did you irst realise you had psychic later times.
gifts? I worked with Gordon on many
I grew up knowing nothing about my occasions. They became my role models, as
abilities, although unknowingly they may their work measured up to what I wanted
have affected my life. to become.
When I got interested in Spiritualism,
it was mostly through curiosity. My irst
LOCATED in the northern part of Chiang Mai,
inkling was when I received messages that Thailand, Wat Ban Den is one of the most
I had psychic abilities. beautiful Buddhist temples and has also been
called “remarkable” and “stunning.”
What was your irst experience of spirit (Photo: Maxpixel.net)
communication?
I joined a development circle at the
Spiritualist Association of Great Britain
under the tuition of Toni Smith. It was then
that I really became aware and got my irst
experience of spirit communication.
Subsequently, I changed circles and
seized the chance of a seat in a circle run
by veteran teaching medium Ivy Northage.
I stayed with that group until I graduated
and started working as a medium myself.
You have a long association with Spiritualism
and knew many well-known mediums.
Which ones were inspirations to you?
As well as Ivy, I was impressed with
Gordon Higginson and Stanley Poulton,
both of whom I became friendly with in

28 PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019


Do you think enough effort goes into
training or preparing mediums today?
I think there should be more control
over the training of mediums and testing
before anyone is allowed to demonstrate
in public.
I feel that there are many badly trained
mediums who do little to prove survival.
However, I have been absent from the UK
scene for some years, so am not fully aware
of the situation today.
However, good survival evidence is
better than fortune telling and far more
interesting to others.
You must have witnessed the highs and lows
of Spiritualism. Can you give some examples?
What does stand out to me is the
wonderful hospitality and friendliness
experienced through Spiritualist
organisations both in the UK and overseas.
There used to be some wonderful
events, such as PN’s dinner-dances, which
attracted hundreds of people and were
held at top hotels in London. Today, the
International Spiritualist Federation still
organises overseas gatherings.
At the other end of the scale, the
humblest of churches often made you feel
instantly at home and amongst friends.
On the other hand, it depresses
me when I hear of distortions of our
wonderful truth and misuse of the gift of
mediumship.
How do you feel about the commercialisation
of mediums on TV shows and in the media?
I am not opposed to commercialisation
of mediumship on TV. Such programmes
reach a broader audience than we
normally can and inluence those who
might be a little scared of entering a
Spiritualist church. The more we can reach
out and help people, the better it is.
What can be done to improve standards of
mediumship?
The need is proper teachers. I don’t
mean to undermine home circles, but some
are good and others not so good. I think
the governing bodies should take this in
hand and make sure that teachers are
trained properly.
Not all mediums make good teachers.
Just because someone gets known, it
does not follow that his or her classes will
be better. Dedication and sincerity are
the things to look for in anyone running
development classes or circles.
The purpose of mediumship is to
provide proof of survival and not just to
make people happy receiving comfortable
messages. The message is important, but
there should be ample evidence of who is
sending it.
What advice can you give to anyone seeking
to develop his or her gifts?
Wanting to serve is important. You
should only accept the best and discard
the rest. Attend your circle every week and
listen to your teacher.
Devote yourself to Spirit and don’t go
around giving messages to all and sundry.
When you are contacting Spirit, do not be
afraid to ask questions. Learn to dig for
facts and never accept second best.
If you were granted one wish for Spiritualism
what would that be?
My wish for the future is that
Spiritualism should continue to expand and
grow, and that we stay with the truth.
FEATURE
What have been the high and low points of
your career as a medium?
Most of the high points in mediumship
revolve around my teaching. When my irst
group of ive mediums graduated, I was
a very proud man indeed and it made me
think that all my work had been worthwhile.
Another occasion I had cause to be
proud was when I appeared sharing a
meeting with you at an hotel near Knott’s
Berry Farm theme park in California.
This sell-out meeting was attended by
several now well-known American mediums
including a young James Van Praagh,
who had just started working, and the
incomparable Kenny Kingston.
The only real low point was my
unexpected retirement when travelling
to California on a non-stop light from
Bangkok to Los Angeles. I was in the air for
many hours and taken ill during the light.
After a few days’ rest, I started my tour
and took several meetings until one night I
collapsed on the loor of my hotel. I couldn’t
stand up and spent the night on the loor.
Next day, I succeeded in getting back
on my feet. Two days later, I moved on to
Mississippi where my tour was to continue.
Luckily for me, my hostess was a
doctor, who took me off to hospital where
I was diagnosed as having suffered from
congestive heart failure. As a result, I had
to cancel the rest of my tour and endure a
light back to Bangkok.
Sad as this was, I cannot help but think
that Spirit had a hand in taking care of
me. I would not normally have been at the
doctor’s house, as I usually stayed with
my great friend and fellow medium Ellie
Fristensky.
I have never been able to endure a long-
distance light since then. The incident put
an end to my career.
Can you give a snapshot of a typical day in
your life?
I seem to spend more time sleeping,
so my days are not spent very excitingly.
Luckily, it is almost always sunny and warm
here, so I spend a lot of time enjoying the
sun.
My days consist of reading a lot and
watching television, but I still ind time for
meditation.
How do you manage language-wise in
Thailand?
Language isn’t a real problem. Many
people speak some English, which is the
main foreign language taught in schools.
Do you miss anything about the UK?
I miss the National Health Service, as we
have to pay for health care here, and when
you get old, you need it more. However, I
certainly don’t miss the British weather! n
PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019 29
 Pendulum
power
Radleigh Valentine is a bestselling Hay House
author of ive tarot decks, one angel oracle card
deck and books including “The Big Book of Angel
Tarot” and “How to Be Your Own Genie.”
An internationally known spiritual teacher,
since 2012, he has spoken at more than 70
events in ten countries and is a frequent speaker
at the Angel World Summit in London and
Engelkongress in Germany and Austria.
Radleigh’s latest book, “Compendium of
Magical Things: Communicating with the
Divine to Create the Life of Your Dreams,” is also
produced by Hay House.
Retailing at £12.99, it covers an array of
subjects including angels, fairies, runes, the I
Ching, astrology, numerology, meditation and
mantras. Below, Radleigh, who lives in the USA,
takes a look at the power of the pendulum.
THERE are a vast number of ways to speak to the Source. I
call them “languages of the Divine.”
Pick a language and the Source will gladly chat you
up in the way that feels most comfortable to you. Some
people ind one language and stick with it. However, other
people like to have several ways to get Divine information.
One of those ways is by using a pendulum – or, as I like
to call it, the “oracle in your pocket!”
Dowsing is most often thought of as using two
metal rods to seek out water, minerals and lost items.
Pendulums are a version of dowsing that is more often
used for getting information or divinatory messages from
the Divine via your subconscious.
A pendulum is incredibly easy to use and almost
anything can act as one. You can place a paper clip on the
end of a piece of string or use a wedding ring tied to a
piece of ribbon. Voilà – you have a pendulum!
Store-bought and artisan-created pendulums come in
many varieties made of metal, stone, wood and crystals.
I prefer the crystal types not only because they are so
attractive, but also because of the manifesting and healing
properties that crystals bring to the table.
Some pendulumists (try saying that three times fast!)
have many different pendulums, saving certain ones for
speciic purposes. For example, they might have one for

30 PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019


decision-making, another for inding lost
items and a completely different one for
spiritual or divinatory insights.
Pendulums go way back in the history
of humankind. There’s evidence of the use
of pendulums in ancient China and the
ancient Roman Empire.
Their use also moves across many
different cultures, including Greek, Hindu,
Hebrew and many more.
Curiously, many of the most famous
proponents of dowsing were Roman
Catholic priests, abbots and bishops.
Stories of leaders of the Roman Catholic
Church researching and using dowsing go
back as far as the 17th century.
There are endless theories and
speculations about how pendulums work.
It’s my perspective that pendulums are
touching the subconscious within all of us,
which, in turn, is connected to the Divine.
Pendulums draw their answers by going
directly through the subconscious whereas
other oracles are more of a mix between a
direct path to messages from the Universe
and the subconscious.
I don’t see this route as being better
or worse than other oracles, but it
does provide an opportunity for self-
understanding that can be very interesting
and useful. Working with a pendulum just
feels different from doing so with other
oracles.
Are people who use pendulums making
them move via tiny, almost imperceptible
muscle movements? The vast majority of
experts on the subject would tell you the
answer to that question is a resounding
“Yes!”
Does that negate the validity or the
Divine nature of the information being
provided? I would tell you absolutely not.
When we shufle tarot cards or place
our hand into a pouch of runes, we’re
allowing for the Divine to guide our hands
to bring forth the messages or answers we
seek. The same is true of working with a
pendulum.
Our subconscious knows the answer
to the questions we ask when it ever so
slightly moves the hand that holds the
pendulum. The fact that our bodies are
moving the pendulum is irrelevant if we
have faith that God is always within us
and always wants to provide us with the
answers we seek.
To begin working with pendulums, you’ll
need to start by iguring out the options of
“Yes,” “No,” “I don’t know” and “Answer not
available.”
You can discover or programme
your pendulum for these answers. My
preference is just to ask the pendulum.
The irst step is to hold your pendulum
in one hand, completely still. Use your
FEATURE
other hand to cease its movement if you
need to. Then ask your pendulum, “Show
me Yes” and watch to see what movement
it makes. The most common are:
• A straight line moving back and
forth, left to right
• A straight line moving away from
your body, then back to your body
• A circle moving clockwise
• A circle moving counterclockwise
• Not moving at all
Take your time. The pendulum might
move immediately or may take a few
minutes or even a few tries. Any movement
might seem very slow or slight at irst, but
it’ll become more signiicant as you wait.
Once you’ve established what “Yes”
looks like for your pendulum, bring it to a
complete stop again. Now ask, “Show me
No.”
Usually “No” is the opposite movement
from “Yes” – for example, a clockwise circle
rather than a counterclockwise circle. But
nothing is outside possibility. If “Yes” is a
straight line left to right for you, but “No” is
a clockwise circle, just go with it.
Follow the same method to ind
out your pendulum’s movements for “I
don’t know” and “Answer not available.”
Sometimes the pendulum will have its own
ideas for these answers.
For me, “Yes” is the pendulum swinging
in a straight line from left to right. “No” is
the pendulum swinging in a straight line
away from and then back to my body.
“I don’t know” is a counter-clockwise
circle. “Answer not available” is the
pendulum simply refusing to move at all.
An alternative method to asking the
pendulum is telling it what its movements
should be. I think it’s a more natural
method to let the pendulum tell you, but if
you’ve strong feelings about this, go ahead
and programme it. There’s
If you want “Yes” to be a clockwise
motion, then say to your pendulum, “This evidence of
is Yes” and move it in a clockwise circle. If
“No” is counterclockwise, then make the the use of
movement while telling the pendulum,
“This is No.” pendulums
“Yes” and “No” as answers are pretty
self-explanatory, but let’s talk about “I in ancient
don’t know” and “Answer not available.”
Why would an oracle tell you “I don’t China and the
know”? In my experience, that usually
relects a poorly worded question.
Roman Empire
For example, if you ask the pendulum
should you move to London or Brighton,
your pendulum won’t be able to answer
that because it’s not a “Yes” or “No”
question; it’s an “or” question.
PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2018 31
FEATURE
Pendulum work is about breaking things
down into small speciic pieces. Frankly, I
ind the Universe as a whole to be a very
literal place that requires very speciic
questions to get accurate answers.
Going back to our example, you should
irst ask the pendulum, “Should I move to
London?” After getting your answer, then
ask it, “Should I move to Brighton?”
If both places are of interest to you,
then be sure to ask about both cities,
even if the answer to the irst city you
mentioned is “Yes.”
It’s totally possible that both cities will
have an answer of “Yes,” indicating that
either city would make you happy.
Pay attention to how enthusiastically
the pendulum swings or moves for each
city. The more dramatic the answer, the
happier you’re likely to be in that city.
If the movements are the same, then it’s
probably time to ask more questions. You
can ask things like “Would I be inancially
successful in London?” or “Would I ind
true love in Brighton?”
Poorly worded questions can also get
you inaccurate answers with a pendulum.
This is usually because you didn’t really
think the question through thoroughly.
Let’s go back to our moving question.
Let’s pretend you’ve got Liverpool on your
mind and you’re really thinking about
moving.
You ask the pendulum, “Should I move?”
It says, “Yes,” so you pack your bags and
move to Liverpool, but it’s not at all what
you’d hoped for. What went wrong?
Consider that you asked a very broad
question with “Should I move?” Your
pendulum said “Yes” because you really
need to move to a house with a more
positive energy, but in the same city
you’re living in. Should you move? Yes! To
Liverpool? Well, you didn’t ask that, did
you?
Now, why would you get “Answer not
available”? I’ve actually experienced this
answer with angel work and tarot cards
sometimes.
The Source knows the path to your
happiness far better than you do.
Sometimes having a particular piece of
information before you’re ready for it
could really trip you up.
It’s tempting to be alarmed by this
answer, but you shouldn’t be. You should
just trust that the answers you seek will be
revealed in perfect timing.
One of the most common uses for your
pendulum is to locate lost items. You can
ask a series of questions that lead you to
what you’re trying to locate.
In this example, you might start with
“Are my car keys in the house?” Remember
to be speciic about what keys you’re
looking for if you own more than one set.
32 PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019
If you get a “Yes,” then you can from go
room by room asking the pendulum, “Are
the car keys in this room?” or you can just
sit somewhere and ask, “Are the car keys in
the kitchen?”
Once you’ve narrowed it down to a
particular room, you can then ask the
pendulum, “Are the car keys near the east
wall?”
You can also use a pendulum to
manifest things in your life that you
desire. Most of them work via the law of
attraction by using the pendulum’s natural
connection with the subconscious to bring
it into alignment with your conscious
desires.
When the conscious and the
subconscious are in agreement in a
positive way about what you want to
create in your life, magic can happen pretty
quickly.
One way to manifest with the pendulum
is to focus on whatever it is you want to
bring into or remove from your life.
Begin with the normal preparation work
for your pendulum. Think about what it is
that you want to bring into
your life and then ask the
pendulum whether you’re
currently in an energetic
space to make that
happen.
The pendulum will
let you know if you are.
If it says “Yes,” then let
the pendulum swing in
the “Yes” motion while
you think joyfully and
optimistically about
what you want to
create.
If it says “No,”
start asking your
pendulum what
sort of changes you
need to make in
order to bring about the desired
outcome.
Your pendulum can help you clear out
any negative energy patterns while at the
same time bringing in new things that you
want to manifest. Feng shui practitioners
sometimes use this method.
To clear out negative energy, after
your regular preparatory work, take your
pendulum and start to twirl it in a circle
in the counterclockwise direction. While
you’re doing that, say to yourself:
“I now remove all negative energy
from my life. All unhealthy or undesired
connections with other people are cleared
away.
“My negative thinking is erased. All
harmful energetic attachments to others
are removed.”
While you will have started
the pendulum’s movement in the
counterclockwise direction, as you say
these things, the pendulum will take over.
You’ll no longer be moving it; just let it spin
until it’s done.
Depending on how much energy there
is to clear, your pendulum might swing
pretty wildly, but will eventually stop.
You’ll probably feel lighter, happier and
illed with more energy after this exercise.
But consider this: the work you’ve
done has now cleared out a lot of energy
that was taking up space in the magical
manifesting machine that lives within
you. Now it’s time to ill up that space
as otherwise it will be easy for negative
energy to rush back in.
Start your pendulum spinning in a circle
in a clockwise direction. While it spins,
begin telling the pendulum what you want
to manifest.
For example, this might be: “I am
healthy and strong in all ways. I am full of
energy and motivation to complete all the
things I desire to accomplish.”
Perhaps you might say: “I am deserving
of love. Romance that is supportive
and kind inds its way
easily into my life.”
Make it an
afirmation of whatever
you want to manifest.
The pendulum will once
again take over the
movement.
When it comes to a
stop, you’ll know that you
have illed your magical
manifesting machine all
the way up. The more you
do this routine, the more
quickly things will manifest
in your life.
Of all the oracles out
there, pendulums might be
the easiest to use, especially
for quick and impromptu
answers. You can easily carry one with you
everywhere you go.
So long as you can ind a private space –
or at least don’t mind if you get weird looks
from others – you can just pull it out and
get super fast “Yes” or “No” answers.
It can help you make decisions, though
it might require a lot of “Yes” or “No”
questions to get there and help you ind
lost items.
While I still primarily work with angels
and tarot as my “native tongue,” I consider
the pendulum to be a great addition to my
oracle toolbox – and, of course, I love that
it its in my pocket! n
Portions of this article were excerpted from
Radleigh’s “Compendium of Magical Things.”
 WIMBLEDON
SPIRITUALIST
CHURCH
136 Hartfield Road,
Rev Ray and Rev Jackie Robinson London SW19 3TJ
Tel: 020 8542 2394 Accredited Training Courses in
President: Rev Ray Robinson – Tel: 07787 566274 Holistic and Spiritual Wellbeing
Mediums’ Secretary: Lorna Auston – Tel: 07738 416079 The Training Centre of Wellbeing Ltd in Doncaster offers
Email: wscpresident@ashleyr.co.uk a unique mix of accredited courses on spiritual and holistic
Facebook and Twitter: @wimbledonspirit subjects alongside the more practical ways of running your
Sunday Service 11.00am Address and Clairvoyance own business and being self-employed
3rd February PHIL SHAW and Holy Communion Courses are available in:
10th February LORRAINE HERON Animal Therapy, Holistic Therapy, Reiki Therapy,
17th February JUNE FROST Sound and Tuning Fork Therapy, Mind Therapies, Nutrition,
Professional Tarot Reading, Spiritual Healing, Mediumship,
24th February SHIRLEIGH MONACO
and Business and Management Skills
Tuesday Service 7.30pm Clairvoyance The classroom sessions are in small groups of up to six students ensuring a
Admission from £2.50 to £6 personalised teaching experience and we also run an approved centre scheme
5th February ESI CAKMAKCIOGLU (Psychic Art)
The Training Centre of Well Being Ltd is at:
12th February GRAHAM WATSON
41 Owston Road, Carcroft, DONCASTER,
19th February ASHLEY ROBINSON South Yorkshire DN6 8DA
26th February SHIRLEIGH MONACO Tel: 07539 033778
Wednesday 5th 12 - 4pm Friendship Club: tea, readings & healing Website: www.centrewellbeing.co.uk
Sunday 24th February 7.30pm Admission £4.95 Email: enquiries@centrewellbeing.co.uk
Evening of Clairvoyance with IVAN LEE Facebook: www.facebook.com/holisticdoncaster
Thursday 14th 7.30pm Open Platform with PHIL SHAW
HEALING:
Sundays before and after morning service
Tuesdays 7pm - 8.30pm & Thursdays 10am - 12 noon
Indian Head Massage available with LESLEY KNIGHT
Private Readings, Weddings, Namings and Funerals available

HACKBRIDGE
SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
Hackbridge Hall, London Road,
Hackbridge, Surrey SM6 7HF
Buses 127 and 151. Hackbridge Station (BR) two minutes
President: Rev Jackie Robinson Tel: 07818 061063
Mediums’ Secretary: Sue Bailey
Sunday Service 6.00pm
3rd February Closed
th
10 February ELAINE GRANT
17th February DAVID CHAPMAN
24th February SHIRLEIGH MONACO
Thursday Service 7.30pm
7th February ELAIN STAINTON
14th February LINDA DALLOSSO
21st February JUNE FROST
28th February TBA
Tuesdays 2pm - 4pm Friendship Club –
Short readings, spiritual healing and friendship
Wednesday 13th February 2pm Afternoon of Clairvoyance
with MARY DIXIE

PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019 33

SPIRITUAL ART
In this feature we regularly read how art is the starting point for a person’s
self-healing journey. This often also brings an awakening to the spiritual realms
and a wider communication with Spirit. This month’s artist, Katie Anne Reynolds
from the West Midlands, is no exception. Here, Katie shares her story and art.

MY name is Katie Anne Reynolds from Sedgley in Dudley, West

Midlands. Iam 42 years of age.
I have worked off and on as a clairvoyant tarot reader for the
last ive years and also connect with Spirit to produce paintings.  
It all came about after working as a counsellor for six years. I
was working for Cruse Bereavement Care as a grief counsellor
doing one-to-one and group therapy sessions when I irst “heard”
Spirit talk to me in a clairaudient way, much to my surprise! I then
went on to work with children in schools and doctors’ surgeries. 
As a child, I had always sensed and heard Spirit, and used tarot
cards. My experiences were often viewed as a product of an
overactive imagination. 
In 2012, as a single mother of two, my life seemed to crash
before my eyes as the recession and government funding cuts left
me without work. This downward spiral took its toll on me, and
my mental health suffered. 
In an attempt to ind help for my anxiety and depression, I
attended an art therapy group. It was just a group of strangers
and we chatted and painted whatever we felt like. It really helped.
I also found a new best friend there called Tree. 
I was at my most vulnerable when I picked up canvas and paint
and discovered a love for creating with art. Although I had no
previous experience, this ability appeared in my life totally out of
the blue and I had a real passion for it.
Working with paint helped me to “zone out,” to quieten the
mind. This made me feel like a healing process was beginning. 
I then discovered that other people also saw healing or hidden
meanings in my work. 
Now I tune into Spirit and meditate each time before I paint.
I tune in with my guides, the universe and angelic energies and
show gratitude for their help and ask them to work through my
art. My artwork for me is my saviour. COSMIC COTTAGE (above) This painting was commissioned by a
For contact details see Katie’s advert on page 37. customer who asked me to paint something for her. She gave me a
free rein, which is how I love to paint!
I meditated and tuned into Spirit and asked what I needed to
paint for the lady. I felt the need to paint her somewhere calm, a
retreat in which to totally escape. The message came to paint her
a cosy cottage with a lush garden far far away from stresses and
strife. It came to be set in the cosmos... 
Later, when I revealed it to the customer, she said she had
been using a guided meditation and had been focusing on a cosy
cottage as part of her meditation.
We felt we had connected on some spiritual level to produce a
cosmic cottage, with Spirit’s help, of course. 

FREE AS A BIRD
THE DOORWAY (above) (right)

34 PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019

 Please do keep your artwork coming so we can
display it in the magazine and with our followers
on Facebook and Twitter. If we print your work in the
magazine you will receive a surprise spiritual book or gift.
Send your art to: Paul Brett, Psychic News,
Unit 2, Griggs Business Centre, West Street, Coggeshall, Essex
CO6 1NT, United Kingdom
or email to: pnadverts@gmail.com
THE VOYAGE (above)
This painting depicts a journey, be it a
spiritual or physical one. The ship is sailing
through space, without limits.
Again, the universe and its ininity and
power is represented.
spi
r F
eve itual RE
ry boo E
art k o
ist rg
w e s ift fo
ho r
w
WHITE RHINOS (above) I painted White Rhinos as my irst project when I started oil
class. It was amazing to dabble with the thick glossy buttery textures of the oils and the
aromas of linseed oil. I knew immediately I was in love with this
medium. 
With this painting it felt itting to attribute the strength of
these creatures. At the time it had just been announced that
they were soon to be no more, as they were due to become
extinct.
I felt quite emotional painting these beautiful beasts. At
home I just let myself loose with the oils and discovered a
more gestural way of painting. This new quick and suggestive
approach – which surprised me a bit – was so free and enjoyable. 
I am a total animal lover. My two children and I live with
two rescue lurcher dogs, a rescue guinea pig, a snake and four
budgies. Being quite an introvert, I enjoy time at home with my
animals. Painting the animal world is a joy. 
I hope this painting shows the respect I have for these
beautiful animals and sends healing and hope for other
endangered species.
THE FOX (left) I painted this as I associate the fox as my
animal guide. After I attended a workshop where you focus on
discovering your animal guide through meditation, I had a vision
of this fox. At the time I also seemed to be having a lot of fox
encounters, too. These included when I had to slow down as a
fox casually strolled across the road, stopped and then looked
directly at me. At that moment of direct eye contact, I knew that
the fox is indeed my animal guide.
Like a fox, I have struggled through hardships and challenges,
sometimes by the skin of my teeth, but somehow I have the
same inner resilience that a mother fox has for her cubs. 
PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019 35
CABBAGE WHITES AND AUTUMN BERRIES (above)
Sedgley Beacon is a beautiful spot close to my home. It is a
lovely area where I often meditate. It is so high up it feels as
though the clouds are in reach. On one particular warm autumn
day I found it alive with cabbage white butterlies, busy amongst
the elderberries and blackberry bushes. I felt inspired to recreate
their busy, happy, luttering in a painting. Their energy was full of
enjoyment in that one happy, warm, sunny moment. I hope this
painting also conveys the change of seasons.
PENGUINS AND NORTHERN LIGHTS (above) I feel my life and
painting direction changed when I discovered the world of oil
paint. The courses I have studied are taught by one man, an artist
named Sean Counley. I was intrigued by what I had seen done in
oil before and found his fantasy style of painting beautiful.
Penguins and Northern Lights was my irst ever independent
oil painting. I did it for a lady who had suffered poor health and
was a lovely strong soul. She asked me to paint something to
mark the occasion of the birth of her great grandchild and to
celebrate her family. She told me she liked penguins.
After meditating I had the message to paint the Northern
Lights to represent the witnessing of a special celebratory
moment – something rare but awesome. I hope the penguins are
depicting no better way to celebrate than to look to the sky and
witness one of nature’s wonders. As a family they look in awe at
the sky and give thanks for their precious gift of a child.

GREY HORSE (right)

I painted this grey
horse as a way of
expressing strength.
The horse to me has a
certain look in his eye
– open to the viewer
to decide. The bridle
seemed to suggest
restraint, as if he
wants to, and might
just, break free with
his sheer strength and
will. 
I particularly love
to paint horses as I
grew up with a father
who had many horses,
which he bred himself.
COSMIC BLUEBIRD (above) I painted Cosmic Bluebird as I My father lived a
felt the need to express total freedom. I love to paint space traveller’s lifestyle and loved to attend Appleby Horse Fair. He
and the stars. I feel this painting represents a state of mind – was an artistic man who made and sold his own bow top gypsy
an idyllic feeling of being able to spread your wings and ly. caravans.
The cosmos and its ininite nature refers to having no He sadly passed to the world of spirit last year after battling
bounds and total freedom. The bluebird has the choice to go in with cancer. He was a strong, free-spirited man. 
whatever direction it wants to. I like this feeling.

36 PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019

SPRING TULIPS (above) I painted Spring Tulips after a period
of spiritual cleansing. At the time, I had done so many tarot
readings and had lots of life challenges. I had decided to put
the tarot cards to one side for a while to recharge my batteries.
During a meditation at the end of my rest period, I connected
with the most beautiful healing energy. I literally felt like I had
been touched by beauty and healing. I needed to paint and
express those feelings and emotions.
So the image came to me to paint lush tulips in full lower
at their peak of beauty, basking in the sunshine. The energy
in this painting summed up how I felt after this memorable
meditation. 

WHITE IRIS (above)

PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019 37

 American president’s
wife consulted astrologer
By Graham Jennings
FORMER First Lady Nancy Reagan sought astrological assistance after an assassination attempt on her husband Ronald.
Is it true that President Ronald Reagan
and his wife Nancy regularly consulted an
astrologer? – Betty Anderson, by e-mail.
They did indeed consult an astrologer –
or rather the First Lady did, and for most of
her husband’s presidency.
Nancy wrote in her 1989 memoir My
Turn that her husband was uneasy about
her doing so and worried that “it might
look odd if it came out.” Nevertheless, his
attitude was “If it makes you feel better, go
ahead and do it.”
To appreciate their attitude in context,
it is necessary to consider the events of
March 30, 1981. In his second month of
ofice, as President Reagan was leaving
the Washington Hilton hotel, John W.
Hinckley, Jr ired six shots at him from a
.22-calibre revolver.
A bullet entered the president’s chest,
punctured a lung and become lodged an
inch from his heart. His press secretary, a
secret service agent and a policeman were
also wounded.
President Reagan was successfully
operated on, but remained seriously
weakened for months. Nancy feared
something similar happening again, so she
turned to Joan Quigley, an astrologer she
had met on The Merv Grifin Show, a talk
show hosted by the former singer and
actor.
Joan Ceciel Quigley (1927-2014) was a
wealthy socialite who lived in the exclusive
Nob Hill area of San Francisco. She had
been in thrall to astrology from the age of
ifteen.
Joan also studied art history, geology
and economics, but mathematics proved
the most useful. After graduating in these
subjects, she studied astrology under a Mrs
Jerome Pearson, who hated mathematics.
38 PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019
JOAN QUIGLEY: “Not since the days of the
Roman emperors has an astrologer played such
a signiicant role in the nation’s affairs of State.”
(Photo: PA/Eric Risberg)
She told Joan, “I’ll do the astrology if you’ll
do the maths.”
Joan’s later astrology relied on
computerised mathematical calculations
that could time events to the day, the hour
and almost to the minute. A Republican,
when Ronald Reagan campaigned for the
presidency in 1980, she volunteered her
services because he “had the most brilliant
horoscope I’d ever seen.”
Joan would have known of the so-called
zero curse, whereby since 1840 every
president elected in a year with a zero, as
Reagan was, had died in ofice. Astrologers
say that in the zero year of a twenty-
year cycle, Jupiter and Saturn are in an
unusually inauspicious conjunction.
Others attribute the curse to a Shawnee
medicine man, Tenskwatawa (1775-1836),
who was known as “The prophet.” He was
defeated at the Battle of Tippecanoe in
1811 by Major-General William Harrison,
who afterwards burned his village.
In revenge, Tenskwatawa is said to have
prophesied that if Harrison became the
Great Chief, he would not complete his
term of ofice nor would any other Great
Chief elected in a zero year.
A terrible curse indeed! Yet there is
no historical proof that he ever made it.
His other sayings are recorded, so why
not this? It only appears in full in 1931
in Ripley’s Believe It or Not!, a popular
magazine specialising in the sensational
and the bizarre.
Anyway, Harrison was elected president
in 1840 and did indeed die in ofice,
as did the next six “zero” presidents –
Lincoln, Garield and McKinley (all by
assassination), then Harding, Roosevelt
and inally Kennedy (by assassination).
It was in these circumstances that
Nancy Reagan approached Joan Quigley.
When asked whether or not she could
have foreseen the attempt on his life, Joan
replied that she would have done had she
been looking.
Joan had already told Mervyn Grifin
that March 30 was going to be a dangerous
day for the president.
So it was that Joan became the
unoficial astrological adviser to the
president, responsible for his safety,
reportedly for a retainer of $3,000 per
month.
In her 1990 memoir What Does Joan
Say? Joan wrote that she only met him
once, but knew his horoscope backwards
and read it hourly.
“I had to convince myself that it was

possible to protect the president,” she
wrote. “At times, it was not easy.”
Nancy had a telephone link between her
anonymous “friend” in San Francisco, the
White House and Camp David. Reportedly,
no major move, decision or presidential
announcement was made without Joan
checking that the planets were in a
favourable alignment.
Almost everything successful in
Reagan’s presidency was attributed by
some to Joan’s inluence. This included his
personal charm and immunity to criticism,
and the thawing of relations with Soviet
leader Mikhail Gorbachev’s “evil empire,”
which helped to end the Cold War.
All went well until Nancy and the
president’s chief of staff, Donald Regan,
began to quarrel. He blamed her for his
dismissal in 1987 and in 1988 published his
memoir For the Record: From Wall Street to
Washington.
In it he revealed the extent of
Joan’s role in White House affairs and
consequently those of the nation. Donald
Regan told how he kept a colour-coded
calendar for “good,” “bad” and “iffy” days to
decide whether or not it was propitious for
the president to travel, speak in public or
negotiate with a foreign power.
Donald Regan added he was “aghast”
that the president’s movements were
discussed over a public telephone with a
third party who had no security clearance.
Within hours of publication, the New
York Times had identiied Joan as the third
party. It broke the story with the headline
“Astrologer runs the White House.”
The revelation was potentially
disastrous for the Reagans. Religious
leaders called astrology the “devil’s tool”
and quoted the Bible whilst the Federation
of American Scientists dismissed it as
fantasy.
Both the Reagans initially denied that
decisions were ever made on the basis of
astrology. Nancy rang Joan and told her
to keep quiet about their relationship. She
queried, “But what if someone asks?”
“Lie if you have to,” was Nancy’s curt
reply. The pair never spoke again, but both
provided appropriate postscripts to their
relationship.
Nancy wrote: “Very few people can
understand what it’s like to have your
husband shot at and almost die, and then
have him exposed all the time to enormous
crowds, tens of thousands of people, any
one of whom might be a lunatic with a gun…
“I was doing everything I could think of
to protect my husband and keep him alive.”
Meanwhile, Joan wrote, “Not since the
days of the Roman emperors, and never in
the history of the United States presidency,
has an astrologer played such a signiicant
role in the nation’s affairs of State.”
THOSE who follow Jainism seek liberation from the cycle of death and rebirth.
FEATURE
When I was watching BBC TV’s coverage
of Remembrance Sunday, David Dimbleby
said that both Spiritualism and Jainism were
represented at the Cenotaph. I have never
heard of Jainism. Can you enlighten me? –
Simon Elder, by e-mail.
The Jain is similar to the Buddhist and
the Hindu inasmuch as he or she seeks
liberation from the cycle of death and
rebirth.
This cycle is likened to a sea called
Samsara in Sanskrit, which the Jain must
cross. To do this, he follows the teachings of
a tirthankara, a fully-realised being who has
already crossed it and attained liberation or
moksha.
The name tirthankara means a ford-
maker, or one who has made a fordable
passage by which others may cross.
In the annals of Jainism there have
been 24 tirthankaras, the last being Lord
Mahavir. He was born Vardhamana in 599
BC in India in what is now Bihar.
Though a prince of the royal household,
Mahavir renounced everything at the
age of 30 to become a monk and seek
enlightenment and liberation.
Through deep silence and meditation,
over the next dozen years Mahavir
overcame desire and attachment and all
manner of hardship to attain what Jains call
kevala jnana, or perfect enlightenment. This
is a state of perfect perception, knowledge,
power and bliss.
By now, he had earned the name of
Mahavir, which means “very courageous.”
For the last 30 years of his life, he taught
the people how they too might attain
perfect enlightenment.
Mahavir proclaimed, “A living body is not
merely an integration of limbs and lesh, but
is the abode of the soul which potentially
has perfect perception, perfect knowledge,
perfect power and perfect bliss.”
At the heart of his teachings are the
Five Great Vows – those of non-violence,
truthfulness, honesty, chastity (not
PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019 39
FEATURE
necessarily celibacy) and non-attachment.
The most important is non-violence or
ahimsa, not harming any living creature,
even an insect.
Jainism is, and always has been, open
to people from all walks of life – prince
or commoner, poor or rich, monk or
layperson. Men and women are on an equal
footing. The 19th tirthankara, Mallinatha,
is believed by some Jains to have been a
woman.
In 527 BC, Mahavir, then aged 72,
attained nirvana or complete liberation.
His puriied soul left the physical body and
became a Siddha, a liberated one, living
forever in a state of bliss.
He thus joined the other tirthankaras
who are, effectively, the gods of Jainism
along with innumerable others who
have destroyed their karma and become
omniscient and omnipotent.
In other words, the gods of Jainism are
human beings who have attained nirvana.
The concept of gods as a race apart from
humans does not exist in Jainism.
There is no Father God either to rule
the universe, which has no end and no
beginning, and rules itself by its own
cosmic laws.
The number of gods is continually
increasing as more human beings attain
nirvana. Not only humans, but every
living creature has the potential to attain
nirvana.
There are 25,000-30,000 Jains in the
UK. A prominent one I know of is Nitin
Mehta, MBE. His website at nitinmehta.
co.uk has details of his many activities in
connection with animal welfare.
He is active in Compassion in World
Farming and the Animal Interfaith Alliance,
and the founder of the Young Indian
Vegetarian Society.
Nitin Mehta believes that “granting
rights to animals is crucial for the moral
well-being of the human race; and we owe
it to future generations to aim to bring
compassion and peace to other species.”
In Plato’s “Republic” there is a mention of
the spirit world in the “Myth of Er,” but it is
mythological.
Wasn’t there another Greek philosopher,
Plotinus, mentioned by Sir Oliver Lodge in
“Raymond or Life and Death,” who gave
clairvoyant descriptions? Can you tell me
anything about him? – Maureen Ellis, by
e-mail.
It was Frederick Myers, a co-founder
of the Society for Psychical Research,
who noticed the uncanny accuracy of the
descriptions of spirit life in the works of
Plotinus.
The philosopher (AD 205-270) wrote
in Greek in his Enneads or Treatises about
40 PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019
PLOTINUS: As he passed on, a snake appeared
from beneath his bed and slithered into a hole.
“nations of unembodied spirits” and their
cycle of incarnation, physical dissolution
and return to spirit existence.
Myers translated some of the passages,
which read: “The earth which is There (i.e.
the spirit world) clearly is not an empty
void, but much more full of life, wherein
are all creatures that are here called land
animals and plants that are rooted in life.
“And sea is There, and all water in
ebb and low and in abiding life, and all
creatures that are in the water…
“As then Heaven is, and There exists, so
are and exist all the creatures that inhabit
it; nor can these fail to be, else would those
(on earth?) not be.”
Who, then, was Plotinus and whence
came his extraordinary understanding of
our true spiritual nature and continuous
existence before and after incarnation?
He was almost certainly Egyptian,
though a love of all things Greek suggests
he was of Greek or Hellenised Egyptian
descent. His close friend and disciple,
Porphyry of Tyre (c 234-c 305 AD), wrote
his biography.
Plotinus settled in Rome, but was born
around AD 205 in Lycopolis or Wolf City,
the modern Asyut in the Nile delta. It was
associated with the funerary deity, the
jackal-headed Anubis.
In his Enneads, Plotinus made spirit
beings and their emanation from the One,
the supreme, all-encompassing Deity the
very basis of his philosophy. A medium
himself, he also told how the higher spirits
communed with men and guided them.
“Souls which once were in men, when
they leave the body need not cease from
beneitting mankind,” he wrote. “Some
indeed, in addition to other services, give
occult messages, thus proving by their own
case that other souls also survive.”
He was vegetarian and though suffering
from poor health in later years, refused any
medication derived from animals.
Plotinus meditated and attained a
degree of enlightenment similar to that of
yogi adepts and some Christian saints.
“Let the soul,” he said, “contemplate the
Great Soul” and it “may be sure of vision
when suddenly it is illed with light; for this
light is from Him and is He; and then surely
shall one know His presence.”
Plotinus venerated Plato as the
Master, yet surely surpassed him in his
descriptions of spirit life. Plato’s narratives
are theoretical and, as you say, draw on
classical imagery, such as the Myth of Er.
The philosopher Porphyry wrote that
Plotinus “had for (an) indwelling spirit a
being of the more divine degree, and he
kept his own divine spirit unceasingly
intent upon that inner presence.”
When a visiting Egyptian priest offered
to invoke a materialisation of this spirit,
Plotinus accepted. A séance was held in
the Temple of Isis near the Pantheon in
Rome and involved a ritual with birds.
The guide materialised and the priest
exclaimed, “You are singularly graced; the
guiding spirit within you is none of the
lower degree but a god.”
Plotinus had no time to question the
“god” because the assistant holding the
birds “whether through jealousy or in
terror” strangled them. Instantly, the
materialisation vanished.
Towards the end of his life, Plotinus
contracted diphtheria. He became weak
and feverish, his throat sore and voice
hoarse. His eyesight deteriorated and
ulcers formed on hands and feet.
His close friend Eustochius, a physician
from Alexandria, told of Plotinus’ inal
moments. When summoned, Eustochius
arrived late and Plotinus addressed him
from his bed.
“I have been a long time waiting for you,”
said Plotinus. “I am striving to give back the
Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.” As
his spirit left the body, a snake appeared
from beneath the bed and slithered into a
hole.
n If you have a question for Graham
Jennings to answer in his column, please
e-mail pneditorials@gmail.com
 WIN
WORK YOUR LIGHT
ORACLE CARDS

This month we have ten copies of Rebecca

Campbell’s Work Your Light Oracle Decks – 4 5 6 8 1
illustrated by Danielle Noel – as prizes in our
sudoku competition. 1 9 7 5
The publisher writes: “Are you ready to Work Your Light? This
beautiful 44-card oracle deck has been created to help you light
up the world with your presence. By working with its ive suits
6 9
and connecting with your intuition, you will be able to start living
a life in alignment with who you truly are. 3 4 6
• Conirmation cards a hit of instant guidance
• Inquiry cards help you tune in to the whispers of your soul
• Action cards guide on what action to take
6 1
• Activation cards invoke healing within you
• Transmission cards connect you with supportive energies” 9 2 4
Rebecca Campbell is a celebrated spiritual teacher and the
bestselling author of Light Is the New Black and Rise Sister Rise.
She teaches internationally, encouraging people to answer the
8 2
callings of their soul.
For further details visit: www.rebeccacampbell.me 1 7 6 4
Danielle Noel is a designer, writer and visual artist. She weaves
together a combination of mystical narratives and intuitive
visions in her illustrations, paintings, photography, and design.
7 8 2 1 5
For further details visit: www.daniellenoel.art How to solve sudoku: Place a number from 1-9 in each
empty cell so that each row, each column and each 3x3 block
For your chance to win one of the copies, complete the sudoku contains all the numbers from 1-9.
puzzle and send the numbers which appear in the shaded centre
row, from left to right, along with your name and address to: Work Your Light Oracle Cards by Rebecca Campbell
Work Your Light, Psychic Press Ltd, (artwork by Danielle Noel) available from Hay House UK
Unit 2, Griggs Business Centre, West Street, at £15.99, or Hay House US at US$18.99.
Coggeshall, Essex CO6 1NT, UK.
You can also enter by email to: pneditorials@gmail.com
The winners of the sudoku competition held in the
The closing date for entries is 8th April 2019 November 2018 issue can be found on page 54

PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019 41

 An initial guide to
mediumship
In the second part of an article which champions the development of accurate
mediumship, Stephen O’Brien highlights the psychic problems that all
demonstrators face when working with the public and explains what the initials
CERT represent.
A medium for over 40 years, Stephen is founder and principal of the Swansea-
based Academy of Psychic and Spiritual Studies.
The author of seven best-selling books, he is a registered spiritual healer and
skilled counsellor, whose academy runs home-study learning courses and a varied
programme of events. Please visit www.stephenobrien.co.uk/ for further details or
STEPHEN O’BRIEN:
“Spirit people are warm and
to order Stephen’s highly recommended books and a range of audio cassettes.
emotional beings.”

FOR investigative and training purposes, let us now take a look at
the structure of evidential mediumistic messages.
For over four decades I’ve taught the
following formula which, since I created it,
has circumnavigated the globe and been
reprinted in several books and shared on
many websites: all mediumistic messages
conform to a basic pattern which I call “The
CERT formula.” This stands for:
C equals communicator
E equals evidence of identity
R equals reason for the spirit return
T equals tie up all the loose ends
At some point in transmission, every
spirit message needs to contain these four
basic elements, particularly the third one –
the reason for the return.
Let’s start from the top. Firstly, a
communicator must be present. This will
be a man, woman, child, an animal or – in
these progressive New Age times – an
energy being or angelic entity.
Mediums must be certain that
an intelligent entity is trying to
communicate with them. They might
hear a voice clairaudiently, see a spirit
form clairvoyantly, sense a presence
clairsentiently or simply receive a stream
of clear thought impressions.
These impressions must come from a
discarnate source. Sometimes, these four
psychic abilities work simultaneously, but
at other times because sensitivity is always
luctuating perhaps only one or two might
operate.
Nevertheless, mediums need to be
certain that they are in touch with a spirit
communicator before they start relaying
survival evidence.
If they don’t know whether or not
they’re contacting a discarnate entity – a
being who radiates a vibrant and separate
personality of his or her own – then
they require further skills improvement
in a specialised circle for mediumistic
development.
Secondly, discarnate beings must
provide positive information to identify
themselves unequivocally with accurate
and acceptable statements that spring
from their unique minds and personalities.
Just like us, spirit people are warm and
emotional beings, and their messages are
usually full of individual character and
feeling.
Some details they often transmit are
about their passing, their names, their
relationship status, the quaint stylistic
phrases they used on Earth or impressive
and signiicant memories which link them
with their loved ones.
Thirdly, the reason for their spirit return
needs to be stated. Every communicator
has something he wishes to say to those
whom he loves. If a medium is truly in
contact with a living personality on the
other side of life, he will receive the reason
why that person is present at the meeting.
Lastly, try not to be the kind of medium
who gives a confusing mishmash of
information which is often accompanied by
the tiresome advice to “Take it home and
think about it.” Tie up all the loose ends.
Demonstrators need to accept that it
is their responsibility to make the spirit
attunement connection and then to relay
intelligent and acceptable messages,
making sense of as many of the details as
they can, there and then.
Spirit messages are not supposed to
confuse recipients; whenever possible they
should clarify thoughts and circumstances.
It is vital that mediums diligently train
themselves to link with communicators
living in the next world rather than glean
thoughts from the minds of people living in
this one. Here’s a simple exercise to try.
Assemble a group of developing
mediums. Let each person secretly write
down on an envelope a selection of random
numbers along with some identifying
marks or drawings, then hand it to the
leader.
Each medium is charged to complete a
private reading for whoever belongs to any
randomly chosen envelope, but only when
sitting alone at home.
Privately, they tune in to their spirit-
world inspirers and ask for several pages of
survival evidence for the sitter. At the next
gathering, the recipients are identiied and
each piece of information is checked and
veriied.
Simple exercises like these encourage
developing mediums to recognise and
to rely solely upon the voice of the
spirit world – and if more development
circles adopted these kinds of disciplined
training methods, the standard of public
mediumship would rise dramatically.
n These teachings are from Stephen
O’Brien’s bestselling mediums’ manual, “The
Power of your Spirit – Develop your Natural
Psychic Abilities” (Voices Books, 384 pages).
Author-signed copies can be ordered online
from www.stephenobrien.co.uk at £9.99.

42 PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019

 THE GLYN EDWARDS FOUNDATION
2019 Events and Workshops
12th January 2019 ~ 10am - 5pm ~ £25
BRIDGING THE GAP – Working Mediums’ Day Janet Glasgow

hosted by JANET GLASGOW

9th February 2019 ~ 10am - 2pm ~ £25
STARTING OUT – The Foundations of Mediumship
with MARY SMITH
15th March 2019 ~ 7pm - 9.45pm ~ £15 *** Mary Smith

DEMONSTRATION OF SPIRIT ART with

SANDY INGHAM & JANET GLASGOW
16th - 17th March 2019 ~ 10am - 5pm ~ £125
EXPRESSIONS OF SPIRIT ART with SANDY INGHAM
12th April 2019  ~ 7.30pm - 9.45pm ~ £7 *** Sandy Ingham

EVENING OF CLAIRVOYANCE with

12 Woburn Walk, London WC1H 0JL
Tel: 020 7387 0358
Website: clearlydestiny.london
or ind us on Facebook
Email: clearlydestiny@gmail.com
Open Monday to Friday 10am-5.30pm and Saturday 10am-4pm
At Clearly Destiny we are connected to the Divine,
Ascended Masters, Angelic Realm, Spirit Realm and Star Beings.
heir purpose is to bring forward knowledge to help with
the ascension of humanity.
Clearly Destiny is focused on providing opportunities for
lightworkers to fulil their potential by ofering a wide range of
activities. We ofer workshops, Skype sessions and one-to-one
mentoring for the majority of our activities.
Readings available: Spiritual, Trance, Angel, Clairvoyance,
Auragraph, Spirit Art, Astrology and Tarot.
hese readings are aimed at giving information to empower people
to make decisions for their highest divine good.
Clearly Destiny’s shop has all the tools to assist lightworkers along
the spiritual path; from oracle cards to crystals to merkabas.
Further information is available through our website.
Sign up for our newsletter.
SUE CHAPMAN & RICHARD CHAPMAN
13th April 2019  ~ 10am - 5pm ~ £45
MENTAL MEDIUMSHIP: IN TUNE WITH THE
SPIRIT WORLD with SUE CHAPMAN
Sue Chapman
11th May 2019 ~ 10am - 2pm ~ £25
DOWSING with MARIEA RUDENKO
15th - 16th June 2019 ~ 10am - 5pm ~ £95
MENTAL MEDIUMSHIP with RICHARD CHAPMAN
13th July 2019 ~ 10am - 2pm ~ £25 Richard Chapman
ATTUNEMENT with JANET GLASGOW
17th August 2019 ~ 10am - 5pm ~ £45
MEDIUMISTIC POWERS with DANIEL PITT
12th October 2019 ~ 10am - 5pm ~ £25
BRIDGING THE GAP – Working Mediums’ Day Mariea Rudenko
hosted by JANET GLASGOW
15th November 2019 ~ 7.30pm - 9.45pm ~ £7
EVENING OF CLAIRVOYANCE with GERARD SMITH
16th - 17th November 2019 ~ 10am - 5pm ~ £125
MENTAL MEDIUMSHIP with GERARD SMITH
Daniel Pitt
Events held at Addington Village Hall, Addington, Kent unless marked ***
*** denotes event will be held at Leybourne Village Hall, Leybourne, Kent
To book, please contact Jean for a booking form
and payment details: jeandixon37@gmail.com
glynedwardsfoundation.org Gerard Smith

PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019 43

 r c H e s
e d c H u
H au n t By John
West

LONDON is regarded as the most haunted city on Earth. With over 2,000 cracked during the blitz of 1941 and now
years of history, it is hardly surprising that every part of the old city lies on the loor of the church.
centre seems to have a tale or two connected with the supernatural. St Magnus the Martyr,
London’s churches are no exception. In the irst of a two-part feature,
Lower Thames Street
here you will ind some of the many ghosts connected with its spiritual
heart. St Magnus is one of London’s loveliest
churches. It stands on the original
alignment of London Bridge, which was the
only way of entry into London for those
heading from the south.
It was destroyed in the Great Fire and is
regarded as one of Wren’s most expensive
churches, as the rebuild cost over £9,000,
which was then a huge sum.
The building can lay claim to at least one
ghost – a igure of a stooping and cowled
man who has been seen by visitors.
In his book Haunted London, Peter
Underwood writes of a church worker
who encountered the apparition on three
separate occasions. She saw it twice as she
was sewing in the vestry.
The irst time it walked around her and
vanished into a wall. The second occasion,
some four years later, was more dramatic,
as it appeared standing next to her. It
: Chris Downer). was so close that she could even see the
ew-b y- the- Wardrobe. (Photo
St Andr serge material of the cassock.
The woman looked up and saw that the
bell, known as Gabriel, which once hung form had no face. It was hardly surprising
St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe, in the tower of Avenbury church in that she led the room upon seeing this.
Queen Victoria Street Herefordshire. It held an evil reputation, The apparition’s third appearance
as it was known to ring of its own accord occurred during Mass one Sunday
The original church dates from the 13th whenever a vicar died there. morning. She was putting money in the
century and was the parish church of Witnesses testiied that they had heard collection box when she saw a man walk up
William Shakespeare during his time it on the deaths of the last two vicars the nave and into a row behind her.
working at the nearby Blackfriars Theatre. before the church was demolished in the The worker assumed it was a real priest,
The building was destroyed during the 1930s. The bell was then brought to its but suddenly remembered it looked
Great Fire of London of 1666 and replaced current home in the city. exactly the same as the apparition she
by a new church, which was designed by Sir Roughly a year after being taken to had previously seen in the vestry.
Christopher Wren in the Baroque style. St Andrew’s, it was heard to toll when She turned round, but the
The church suffered damage again the church was locked. The police were igure had vanished. The verger
during the Second World War, but was called, but could ind no conirmed that no one had
rebuilt and rededicated in 1961. Its curious signs of a forced entry. It entered the church during the
name is due to its having been sited near emerged that the vicar service.
the building which was used to house the of Avenbury had died An electrician working in the
state robes of the reigning monarch. that very night. church also saw a priest in a
The church houses a 15th century The bell was serge cassock. He watched the

44 PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019


igure intently before it vanished.
One Easter, a man in the choir informed
the rector that he had seen a robed igure
on the stairs. The form then vanished into a
wall.
A former rector, the Rev H. J. Fynes-
Clinton, told Peter Underwood that he, too,
saw the priest after a Sunday service. The
congregation had left and the doors were
locked.
The Rev Fynes-Clinton was putting some
items in a cupboard behind the side altar
when he saw a robed igure about four or
ive feet in front of him. He was about to ask
how he had entered the locked church when
the igure stooped down and appeared to be
searching for something.
The verger asked if he could help. The
igure straightened up, looked at him with a
smile and vanished.
Another former rector’s wife twice saw
a short, black-haired priest kneeling in the
Lady Chapel. She described him as wearing
an old-fashioned “sort of cassock.” She
turned to speak to him, but he disappeared.
Some visitors have seen the igure
standing near the site where Miles
Coverdale, the person responsible for the
irst English translation of the Bible, is
buried. Others have felt a sense of sadness
when standing near the white marble
inscription which commemorates him.
Miles Coverdale was also the rector of
St Magnus and some have wondered if the
ghostly igure is him.
In 1951, a medium claimed that the ghost
was indeed Miles Coverdale. Apparently,
he was unhappy that his remains had been
removed to the church after the site of his
original burial place, St Bartholomew-by-
the-Exchange, was demolished in 1840.
The view towards the altar of St Bartholomew the
Great. (Photo: Diliff). Below left. An aerial view
of St Magnus the Martyr. (Photo: Northcote Lea).
Bottom right. Author and psychic researcher Peter
Underwood. (Photo: Christopher Underwood)
St Bartholomew the Great,
West Smithield
The church was founded by Rahere, an
Anglo-Norman priest and monk during the
time of Henry I. He made a pilgrimage to
Rome, but caught malaria and was near to
death.
Rahere vowed that if he ever got better,
he would return to England and establish a
hospital for the poor.
After recovering, one night Rahere
dreamed that St Bartholomew appeared
to him and told him to build a church and
hospital in Smithield, which then lay on
the outskirts of London.
Rahere was buried in the church and
his ghost is still said to visit his beloved
foundation. Footsteps have been
attributed to him and his igure has been
seen several times by those working in the
building.
One lady was arranging lowers, but
they kept falling over and appeared to
move when she was not looking. She
complained to the rector, who explained
that Rahere had been standing behind
her, adding, “You know how he dislikes
FEATURE
women!”
Another rector, W. F. G. Sandwith, was
in the church when he saw a cowled man
standing in the nave. He appeared to be
examining one of the Norman columns.
The Rev Sandwith walked towards the
igure and asked if he needed assistance,
as the main body of the church was in
darkness. The apparition ignored him,
turned and walked towards the Lady
Chapel.
The rector followed, but as he was
about to catch up with the igure it
vanished. His wife also saw the same
igure standing near the altar rail one
Christmas Eve. A cowl hid his face.
Mrs Sandwith spoke to him, but he did
not answer and then glided into the vestry.
She followed him, but found the vestry
empty.
The next day, the rector was
celebrating Holy Communion when he
saw a monk’s cowled face looking down at
him from a capital of one of the pillars.
He was so shocked that he paused,
the congregation looking on with some
puzzlement as he did so. He then resumed
the service and the face faded away.
PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019 45
FEATURE
Another time, the rector was in the
church with two visitors when he saw
a monk in a black gown standing in the
pulpit. He appeared to be wildly preaching
in silence to an invisible congregation,
bending to his right and left, and thumping
cushions in front of him.
The rector noticed that the two ladies
appeared unaware of him and made a point
of directing their attention to the pulpit,
saying, “I don’t think that pulpit is worthy
of the church, do you?”
He also pointed to a Jacobean efigy
near the pulpit. Both times the ladies
acknowledged what he had pointed out,
but did not refer to the igure.
It was now clear that they could not see
the monk. The igure continued preaching
in silence for a full ifteen minutes before
fading away.
The Rev Sandwith also recalled a verger
and bell ringer called John Hope, who had
died in St Bartholomew’s Close. As he
left the dying man, he heard a voice call
“Rector” across the close. He went towards
the voice, but could ind no one.
During Mr Hope’s funeral service, the
Rev Sandwith noticed the tolling bell had
suddenly stopped. It emerged that the
rope snapped as Hope’s body passed by it.
During the singing of the psalms, a voice
was heard joining in. The Rev Sandwith
thought that it sounded very much like
Hope’s.
The famed ghost-hunter and author
Elliott O’Donnell once told Peter
Underwood that one summer afternoon
he had seen a monk pass him as he walked
down the aisle. Mr O’Donnell felt that the
igure gave the impression of stealth, but
also noted it made no sound.
The author also said that one morning a
church oficial saw a white luminous shape
in the main aisle. It appeared to take the
shape of a woman resembling his daughter,
who was then living in Australia.
The oficial naturally became very
concerned and even thought that she could
have died. He later received a letter in
which she stated she had been very ill.
At one point, the daughter believed she
was dying and thought she was standing
in St Bartholomew’s looking at her father.
It transpired that allowing for the time
difference, her father’s vision occurred at
the same time as his daughter’s experience.
The same man also heard footsteps
when alone in the church. They were often
heard in the ambulatories.
46 PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019
Others have seen a white light or shape
in the central aisle. A dark shape was once
seen gliding along one of the ambulatories
– and the curate who witnessed it was so
shocked that he became ill for a long time
afterwards.
Organ music has also been heard when
the church has been empty and locked
whilst shrieks and groans were heard
outside the entrance to the church. This
area was the scene of horriic burnings at
the stake in the Tudor period.
A grim reminder of these times was
discovered in 1849 when, during the
digging of a sewer, blackened stones,
charred human bones and burnt oak posts
were found. Some of the posts still had
staples and rings attached to them.
The central aisle was also the scene of
a terrifying experience for two ladies one
July morning. They began to feel trapped
and felt that something evil was following
them. This feeling became so intense that
both led the church.
One autumn evening, another female
church worker encountered something
moving by the font. She then saw a small
igure wearing a cocked hat who was
standing in the shadows by Rahere’s tomb.
It then vanished.
She became convinced that she had
seen the ghost of William Hogarth, the
painter, who often frequented the church
in his lifetime.
Peter Underwood spoke to Dorothea
St Hill Bourne, who had three strange
experiences in the building. Once, she
arrived at the church to practise singing
Bach.
As she sang, Miss Bourne became aware
that the church seemed to be illed with a
large crowd who were listening to her. As
soon as she stopped, the impression left
her. On another occasion, she experienced
a time slip.
Miss Bourne had been walking along
one of the ambulatories when she noticed
that the altar and candles had moved
to a different position from where they
normally were. The feeling lasted but a
moment before they returned to their
usual positions.
Finally, a pageant was being held in the
church and a monk was seen by her to
walk down the central aisle of the packed
church. No one knew who he was.
In May 1999, the verger, John Caster,
received a phone call from a security
company telling him that the alarms had
gone off in the church. He immediately
went there, but could ind nothing to
account for the alarms sounding.
Mr Caster then heard the sound of
footsteps walking down the central aisle.
He asked who was there and the footsteps
stopped. They then continued and the
verger quickly locked the doors and called
the police.
The police could ind no one. Nor were
any windows or doors found to have been
opened.
Next day, the security company sent
an engineer to reset the alarms. He
was astonished to discover that only
the beam near Rahere’s tomb had been
broken. Whoever had been in the church
apparently suddenly appeared from
nowhere.
I had an interesting experience in the
church during the 1980s. Upon nearing
Rahere’s tomb, I experienced a sharp pain
in my head. As I moved away from the
tomb, it subsided.
I decided to walk back to the tomb and
the pain immediately returned. I retraced
my footsteps several times and the pain
continued to return and subside as I moved
to and from the tomb.
When Rahere’s tomb was opened in
1865, one of his sandals was stolen. The
thief became ill and quickly returned
the sandal, as she thought she was being
punished for the theft. Some believe that
Rahere’s ghost, if it is indeed he, only
became active after this event.
Jack Hallam, author of Ghosts of London,
wrote that a correspondent of his was
convinced that Rahere’s ghost could be
seen every July 1 at 7.00 am. He would
apparently appear from the vicar’s vestry
and walk around the church.
(To be continued)
John West is a writer, broadcaster
and ilm producer. In 2018, he
teamed up with director Jason Figgis
to produce feature ilms and TV
documentaries. The irst of these was
the documentary Simon Marsden: A
Life in Pictures and the ilm, Winifred
Meeks, a ghost story set on the
Suffolk coast.
John also has his own golden
oldies show on Smart Radio, which is
broadcast every Tuesday at 2.00 pm
on smartradio.org.uk
 The Spiritualist Association
of Great Britain
Presents
Suzanne Gibson-Foy

A Residential Weekend Seminar

~ Teaching & Development ~
Worthing, 12th to 14th April 2019
Venue: The Chatsworth Hotel, by the sea in Worthing
Geoff Hayward
The seminar tutors are Suzanne Gibson-Foy,
Terri Stromeyer, George Lawson, Geoff Hayward,
Pauline Mason, and Terry Tasker
From 2pm on Friday12th April to 2pm on Sunday 14th April 2019,
come and join us for a weekend of mediumship and trance
workshops, philosophy, meditation and two, two-hour evening Pauline Mason
demonstrations featuring all the tutors
Suzanne, Pauline and Terri will each be taking intermediate level
Geoff and George will each be taking beginners’ level
Terry Tasker will be taking intermediate level trance & cabinet work
~ Maximum of twenty students with each tutor ~
This year we will be offering day student places at the cost
of £180, which includes all meals except breakfast Terry Tasker

For those of you wishing to book the hotel, to view the hotel rooms
please visit: www.chatsworthworthing.co.uk
Most special dietary needs catered for
Total cost for full board per person:
Double/twin room for single occupancy: £310.00
Twin room sharing: £260.00 per person
George Lawson
£100.00 non-refundable deposit per person for all bookings
You will be able to book which tutor you would like to work
with for the weekend, but places are limited, so book soon to
avoid disappointment
Please e-mail your interest to: weekendseminar@sagb.org.uk,
and we will send you a booking form along with the terms
and conditions for the event Terri Stromeyer

Chakrareiki Holistic Therapy Centre

HARBOUR CRYSTALS AND WOOLS
At the Chakrareiki Holistic Therapy Centre you walk
25 Causewayhead, Penzance, into heaven and loat out on a cloud
Cornwall TR18 2SP Therapies for the mind body spirit and soul
Tel: 01736 874455 Guided Meditation, Reiki, Crystal Healing or Spiritual Healing can
harbourcrystals.com be combined with massage to create a unique treatment for you
A lomi lomi massage is a very spiritual and cleansing
www.facebook.com/harbourcrystals massage which is just one of the massage therapies available
Harbour Crystals & Wools is a family-run business Treatments and We are all
established in 2005. We have readings most days but therapies are done in different so
Mondays are clairvoyant readings and a calm and tranquil each therapy is
the rest of the week are tarot environment. A bespoke to
range of massage your needs.
readings.
techniques is used to Angel Card
Five years ago we took suit your needs. Readings available
on selling wool too, and it
works very well with the Unit 3, 27 Victoria Road, Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire LN12 2AF
crystals and jewellery. www.chakrareiki.co.uk

RONALD HEARN
Born on June 9, 1927, Ronald Hearn (pictured left) became one of this world’s greatest
tried-and-tested mediums. Apart from public demonstrations, he reached countless thousands
of people through highly accurate taped sittings and many TV and radio programmes
The author of three books, London-based Ronald worked in the USA, Canada, Sweden,
Australia, Germany and New Zealand as well as the UK
Ronald passed to the spirit world on June 5, 2016
To read about his unique gifts, please visit the oficial Ronald Hearn website at:
www.ronaldhearn.com

To advertise call: 01376 563091 or email: pnadverts@gmail.com

PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019 47
 A Good Read
All titles available from Amazon.co.uk or
Amazon.com unless otherwise stated
LEARNING TO LOVE
By Eileen Caddy, MBE
and David Earl Platts, PhD
RRP UK £9.99 US $12.99
128 pages
The publisher writes: “Is it possible for
us to learn to love? Or do we just have
to wait for it to happen? Bringing more
love into our lives is not a mystery to
seek ‘out there,’ but often a journey
back to ourselves and our inner core.
Every person is born with the capacity
to love.
“Over time, with life not always on
our side, some of us have built up barriers to love based on
beliefs, fears and behaviour that no longer serve us. Often it is
self-doubt and feelings of unworthiness that hold us back from
experiencing all the love around us. The primary lesson in life is to
learn to love. Only when we start to love and accept ourselves,
with all that we are, can we love others freely and fully.
“Learning to love requires an intention to change and a
willingness to take action. Once we understand how to work
with our doubts and fears, and learn how to change our beliefs
and behaviour, our barriers will begin to melt away and we
spontaneously open up to connect more deeply and
harmoniously with others.
“A clear and insightful guide, Learning to Love explains the
down-to-earth practicalities of exploring feelings, attitudes,
beliefs and past experiences that block us from loving and
receiving love. Deceptively simple yet profound exercises,
meditations and visualisations support us in examining our inner
world and applying these vital concepts for real change in our
lives.
“The strategy of the book is based on popular workshops the
authors facilitated for years in and outside the Findhorn
community. Many of the underlying principles and techniques
originate in the system of psychosynthesis, a transpersonal
psychology founded by Italian psychiatrist Roberto Assagioli,
MD. Learning to Love invites you to make a free and informed
choice to bring more love into your life and then helps you
implement this choice step-by-step with conidence and joy.”
SCIENCE IN THE
SÉANCE ROOM
By Paul Miller
RRP UK £10 US $14
196 pages
The publisher writes: “During the years
of extremis in our mortal world, the
author Paul Miller found time to delve
back into the work of eminent
scientists who were intrigued by the
unexplainable phenomena occurring
around them.
“Experts in their various ields of
scientiic discovery, they set about
trying to analyse and understand how tables could move
without human contact and musical instruments could play
themselves.”
48 PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019
EVEN MORE DAYS
OF HEAVEN
180 ways to lift your spirits
By Sandra Bray
RRP UK £8.00 US $10
218 pages
The publisher writes: “This is a book
full of inspiration for those on a
spiritual path, especially for those
times when we feel unsure of the way
forward. Every entry is an idea to
pursue, a new project to undertake or
a theme for meditation.
“An astonishing feat of research
and of deep insight, the book is a sequel to Sandra Bray’s brilliant
debut title Odd Days of Heaven – a runner-up in the Local Legend
National Spiritual Writing Competition – which offered
fascinating suggestions for the odd-numbered days of the year.
“Even More Days of Heaven now completes a full year of
wisdom. These two books represent a genuine and unique gift to
us all. Here you will ind one hundred and eighty activities, some
brief and others absorbing, which are sure to lift your spirits and
give you a lighter step on your journey. One or two of them may
even change your life entirely…
“This is a book that may be dipped into at any point, but quite a
few of the suggestions are speciic to their dates of entry so it
may be a good idea to check a little way ahead. ‘Feel free,’ says
Sandra, ‘to ignore any suggestions that do not resonate with you
– but please don’t be afraid to move out of your comfort zone
occasionally!’”
LIVING ON THE
INNER EDGE
A practical esoteric tale for those
who aspire to the esoteric mysteries
By Cyrus Ryan
RRP UK £14.99 US $23.95
232 pages
The publisher writes: “A mystical story,
breaking traditional boundaries, new
thought, practices, insights, and a way
of knowledge. Everyone walks their
own path but in the New Age of
Spirituality the idea of ‘Group Work’
was born from the works of the
Tibetan Master D.K., where he
introduced the idea of group work on
the physical plane and in the higher spheres of the soul, and the
Gurdjieff/Ouspensky work which was accomplished through
intense group meetings and personal interaction.
“Living on the Inner Edge is a foray into the world of
experimental ‘Group Work’ which lasted for over 30 years,
constantly evolving and synthesizing the essence of different
esoteric traditions into a new body of discipline that achieved
extraordinary results.”
Cyrus Ryan has written for many New Age periodicals,
newsletters and quarterly publications, and lectured to
numerous groups including the Theosophical Society.
AWAKEN
By David Ash
RRP UK £17.90 US $24.95
390 pages
The publisher writes: “Inspired by the
insight of yogis from ancient India,
visionary physicist David Ash has
dedicated his life to developing a
vortex physics that bridges the physical
with the non-physical. He has opened
the frontiers of science to the
supernatural and the paranormal in a
way never before possible.
“Ash shows there may be super-
energy realities co-existing with our world in dimensions beyond
the speed of light and our range of perception.  With this new
super-physics he illuminates the nature of spirit and soul, the
mysteries of life after death, near-death experiences,
reincarnation, healings and miraculous manifestations.
“Ash also predicts we are due for colossal geophysical changes
resulting from a shifting of the Earth’s crust, as endorsed by
Einstein. Through the vortex physics he is able to explain climate
change, global warming, the reversal of the earth’s poles and how
anti-matter at the centre of the Earth could be responsible for
these changes.
“David Ash predicts a process whereby the speed of energy in
the whirlpools of light forming the subatomic particles of our
bodies can be accelerated beyond the speed of light enabling us
to ascend into the super-physical realms.
“Awaken is an offering of love and hope for the awakening of
humanity into higher worlds of extraordinary possibility. We are
stepping into new times. Here is your guidebook.”
THE PSYCHIC POSTMAN
Letters by day, messages by night
By Jeff Phillips
RRP UK £8.00 US $10.65
131 pages
The publisher writes: “Jeff Phillips –
aka The Psychic Postman – is a comical
psychic medium bringing laughter and
fun into his demonstrations in
Spiritualist churches and centres
around the UK. Everyone thinks Jeff is
a hilarious, friendly and outgoing guy
who believes that working with Spirit
should be enjoyable and entertaining.
But Jeff hasn’t always felt this way.
“This is the story of despair to happiness. How one man found
a reason to live, and in doing so, brought comfort, love and
upliftment to everyone who needed the evidence of eternal life.”
THE CINDERELLA MEDIUM
Autobiography of a
Spiritualist medium
By Irene Wilson with Richy Horsley
RRP UK £9.95 72 pages
The publisher writes: “Born during the
Second World War in a County Durham
pit village, life was a harsh and bleak one
of chores and toil for the young Irene.
“The coal miner’s daughter was the
oldest of thirteen children and her early
life made Cinderella’s look easy. Her
only escape was playing with her
friends who nobody else could see! The young Irene had a special
gift. ‘Stop talking to yourself or you’ll end up in the loony bin,’ her
mother often shouted.
“A chance encounter with Gypsy Rose and a startling revelation!
There was light at the end of the tunnel and a big change was
coming. The spirit world had a plan for the Cinderella Medium.”
COMPENDIUM OF
MAGICAL THINGS
Communicating with the Divine
to create the life of your dreams
By Radleigh Valentine
RRP UK £12.99 US $16.99
208 pages
The publisher writes: “With a little
help from the angels and a dash of fairy
dust, Radleigh Valentine invites you to
ind your perfect ‘language’ for
communicating with the Universe to
manifest your most cherished dreams!
“This simple how-to guide explores
different divination tools, also known
as oracles, which are simply methods
of getting clarity and assistance from Source. You’ll learn the
basics of working with the magic of angels, fairies, tarot and
oracle cards, Lenormand, runes, pendulums, the I Ching,
astrology, numerology, meditation and mantras – all delivered
with Radleigh’s gentle sense of humour and deft way of making
complicated topics easy to understand.
“With each turn of a card, swing of a pendulum or chanted
mantra, your eyes will be opened to the brightness and the
vastness of the Universe. Release your fears and see again
through the universal language of laughter that life really is
magic!”
KABBALAH
Secrecy, scandal and the soul
By Harry Freedman
RRP UK £18.99 US $28
304 pages
The publisher writes: “This book tells
the story of the mystical Jewish system
known as Kabbalah, from its earliest
origins until the present day.
“We trace Kabbalah’s development,
from the second century visionaries
who visited the divine realms and
brought back tales of their glories and
splendours, through the unexpected
arrival of a book in Spain that appeared to have lain unconcealed
for over a thousand years, and on to the mystical city of Safed
where souls could be read and the history of heaven was an open
book.
“Kabbalah’s Christian counterpart, Cabala, emerged during
the Renaissance, becoming allied to magic, alchemy and the
occult sciences. A Kabbalistic heresy tore apart seventeenth
century Jewish communities, while closer to our time Aleister
Crowley hijacked it to proclaim ‘Do what thou wilt’.
“Kabbalah became fashionable in the late 1960s in the wake
of the hippy counter-culture and with the approach of the new
age, and enjoyed its share of fame, scandal and disrepute as the
twenty irst century approached. This concise, readable and
thoughtful history of Kabbalah tells its story as it has never been
told before.”
Harry Freedman is a writer and academic with a PhD in
Aramaic. His publications include The Talmud: A Biography, The
Murderous History of Bible Translations and The Gospels’ Veiled
Agenda. He has written for The Guardian, Jewish Chronicle, Jewish
Quarterly, Judaism Today and contributed to the Encyclopaedia of
Modern Jewish Culture.
KEEP AN EYE ON THE
PSYCHIC NEWS FACEBOOK PAGE
FOR POP-UP COMPETITIONS TO WIN
SPIRITUAL BOOKS & GIFTS
PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019 49
 Letters
In each issue we will give £10 to the author of the letter we ind the most interesting.
Attempting to understand God
IN the January issue of PN, on page
7 there was an article headed, “To
describe God.”
Speaking for myself, I gave up decades
ago. Why? Because attempting to
comprehend God is like an atom of paint
trying to understand the picture it is part
of. It’s impossible.
A single atom of paint could never
comprehend the frame around that
picture and even less so the building in
which the painting hangs.
Attempting to understand God is like
standing in a bucket and trying to lift
it up by pulling on the handle. As mere
fragments of the “Great whole,” we will
never understand God.
Glib statements like “God is love” are
Sorting fact from iction on the aura
IF Spiritualism is to make genuine progress in the modern world, in
which people are empowered as never before to think for themselves,
then its teachings need to be rational.
In describing what it means to be
human, the sciences must be embraced
too, as far as possible, and especially
those of neurology and physiology.
It is no longer good enough to
keep repeating old theories as if they
were beyond argument or to dress up
beliefs with pseudoscience that has no
foundation in knowledge.
Billy Roberts often has interesting
things to say, but I’m sorry; his article
“The aura unveiled” (December)
represents all that is wrong with so much
spiritual teaching these days.
Whilst claiming scientiic support, in
his irst few paragraphs Billy makes at
least eight statements of “fact” about
the aura without any justiication
whatsoever – the “aura is an extensive,
multidimensional phenomenon… on
many different levels of consciousness…
a database of human experience… our
prehistoric radar device…” and so on.
Billy then goes on immediately to
contradict himself. Having said that our
sixth sense towards others is “a chemical
reaction” in the aura, he deines the aura
as “electromagnetic.” The loose grasp
of science continues with a conlation
50 PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019
THIS representation of God is by Italian
Renaissance painter Cima da Conegliano.
of no help. It has been said that “All things
are artiicial for nature is the art of God.”
Really? Then why is nature so cruel?
NIGEL PEACE: “It is no longer good enough to keep
repeating old theories.”
of the external aura with cellular
“bioluminescence.”
Information-encoded particles called
biophotons are indeed emitted by our
cells when DNA contracts, but this
“light” is invisible and ultra-weak, and is
equivalent to seeing a candle lame at a
distance of ifteen miles.
It is not the same thing at all as the
chemical luminescence of, for example,
irelies and some deep-sea ish, which
has entirely different properties and
This
£10 issue’s
le
winn tter
er
If God made all living things, why did
He create viruses and the tapeworm?
No one can comprehend God. At least, I
can’t.
Of only one thing am I certain. It is
not God who haunts the blood-drenched
pages of the Bible, but rather man’s
invention of Him.
Here’s another glib statement, which
is not very helpful, but perhaps a little
more thought-provoking – “God is a
circle whose centre is everywhere and
whose circumference is nowhere.”
Of course, that’s saying nothing really,
but then there is nothing that can be said
about the question of God. God is, and
has to be, unknown and unavailable
– Sidney J. Clark, Norfolk.
causes.
The muddled “statements of fact,”
without any evidence offered, continue
throughout the article.
We are invited to accept that the
external aura is somehow linked to
the “meridians” of the internal energy
system, but the latter is neurological
(allied to the endocrine system)
whilst the former is still stated to be
electromagnetic.
The meridians are then said to
promote blood low, mixing up the
neurological and cardiovascular systems.
To top it all off, the aura is said to be
the means of “allowing spirit beings to
communicate” – somehow from their
non-material, non-electromagnetic
world – because these meridians are
“etheric wiring,” whatever that means.
Nothing that has been said here is
intended to suggest that the aura does
not exist.
However, let us be honest enough to
admit that we do not yet know exactly
how it is composed, how extensive it is or
what purpose it has rather than expect
others to accept a raft of irrational
beliefs dressed up as science without any
foundation. Sorry, Billy – Nigel Peace, by
e-mail.

Scientists ind glow around humans
Offered the right of reply, Billy Roberts commented:
I ALWAYS welcome honest debate and am glad that Nigel Peace has
at least enjoyed some “interesting things” I’ve had to say in the past.
However, in answer to his letter, my “loose grasp of science” has allowed
me to explore the subject in some detail.
Scientiic research
Regardless of what Mr Peace said, the
aura is a scientiic as well as a metaphysical
phenomenon by virtue of the fact that
it has attracted a lot of interest from
scientists in the past and continues to do
so.
As Mr Peace most probably knows,
Semyon and Valentina Kirlian were the
irst to photograph some aspects of energy
radiation, particularly from the hands.
Today, their crude photographic apparatus
is used as a diagnostic tool by others
working in the same ield.
The Kirlians’ work is still being carried
on in Moscow University. Under the
supervision of Mio Watanabe, scientists
at Tokyo University conducted extensive
research into the aura and human
bioluminescence with a highly sensitive
camera based very loosely on a Kirlian
camera, but much more sophisticated.
Using their camera, they were able
to photograph a person’s “glow,” as they
called it. They concluded that this was
brightest in the morning and seemed to
fade at night.
The Japanese scientists call this process
GDV, which they say is based on light
emissions that appear in high voltage
electromagnetic ields. The scientists are
certain that its further development could
enable it to be used in the diagnosis of
diseases.
In fact, many hospitals in India
are already using special Kirlian-like
photographic apparatus in the diagnosis of
diseases.
Additionally, researchers in Spain
suggested that some people who claim to
see the aura are perhaps suffering from the
neuropsychological phenomenon known
as synaesthesia, and that this could be
a scientiic explanation for their alleged
ability.
Scientist Bruce Copen’s research
into human bioluminescence led him
to postulate that there is a bio-plasma
body permeated with etheric channels
or “wiring,” which interpenetrates the
USING Kirlian photography, this striking photo
shows the emanations around a leaf.
(Photo: Richard Sharp)
physical body.
The term “etheric wiring” is used
to explain that currents of energy are
conveyed along the nadis (channels) from
the chakra system to the organs of the
physical body in the relentless process of
maintaining balance.
Scientists at the Kazakh State
University at Alma-Ata concluded that
illnesses tend to show up in advance as a
disordered play of lares in the bio-plasma
body some considerable time before they
manifest in the physical body.
Mr Peace questioned my use of the
term “etheric wiring,” suggesting that it did
not make sense. The subtle anatomy, the
more reined part of our being, has been
widely known in Oriental medicine for
centuries and is still referred to today in
holistic complementary medicine.
As previously explained, the etheric
wiring system is equated with the millions
of channels known as nadis.
As outlined in my article, a meridian is
equated with the trunk of a tree, and the
nadis with the branches of the tree. Ida,
LETTERS
pingala and sushumna are the three major
nadis essential in the transportation of
energy throughout the circulatory system.
Chemical reaction
My reference to “chemical reaction”
when meeting someone we like or dislike,
whichever the case may be, was merely to
point out that the aura plays a signiicant
part in this phenomenon.
It is caused primarily by an interruption
of the electromagnetic impulses emanating
from the body. Chemical reaction is
something one says to describe this.
The aura and mediumistic
communication
From a mediumistic perspective as
opposed to a scientiic one, a reined
aura is more receptive to disembodied
communication. It is an axiom of physics
that no two bodies of matter can exist in
the one space at the same time.
However, millions of vibrations can
and do exist in the one space without
interference. The so-called spirit world
is not a place. It has nothing to do with
places, but is a condition or transcendental
state of being.
The spirit world interpenetrates the
physical world. Mediumistically inclined
individuals are sensitive to it by means of
their aura, through which information is
received.
Of course, there is also a neurological
process to support this communication, as
in the functioning of the pineal gland.
Research carried out at California
University has concluded that this
important organ is surrounded with
minute crystalline deposits and also allows
us to monitor molecular changes in the
atmosphere.
The aura – the database
In esoteric parlance, the aura is regarded
as a database of human experience and
contains information pertaining to an
individual’s past, present and, to some
gifted individuals, the future.
I also explained that the chakra system
is connected to the endocrine glands
and nerve plexuses through an extensive
system of nadis, along which lows prana
from the chakras to the organs of the
physical body, and so on.
PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019 51
FEATURE
Letters
Learning personal responsibility from letters
IN a Sunday supplement, I found some letters written by truly great
names, who I believed had long ago been consigned to history books.
Let’s start with a letter to Giovanni da
Pistoia in 1509 from the genius artist and
sculptor Michelangelo, who painted the
ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome.
In the form of a poem, Michelangelo
wrote of the intense physical suffering the
task of painting the chapel ceiling caused
him.
After building his own scaffolding, he
had to be permanently on his back with
paint dripping onto his face. Michelangelo’s
back caused him agony. In addition, the
unnatural position created deformities,
including a goitre, because his head was
squashed downwards onto his chest.
The painting was not completed until
1512, meaning that Michelangelo endured
this situation for several years. Yet visitors
see only the beauty, unaware of the torture
involved in this huge work of art.
Sixteen years later, in May 1528, Henry
VIII wrote to Anne Boleyn, with whom
he was in love, addressing her as “My
mistress and friend.” The letter begins, “I
and my heart put themselves in your hands,
begging you to have them as suitors for
your good favour.”
Henry was desperate for a male heir, but
because the Roman Catholic Church would
not grant him an annulment from his irst
wife, Catherine of Aragon, he broke away
from Rome and established the Church of
England.
He married Anne Boleyn in 1532
although he considered her guilty not
only of failing to produce a son, but also of
being unfaithful. He had her executed by
beheading.
Next, Napoleon wrote to his wife
Josephine on December 3, 1805, at the
battleield of Austerlitz, euphoric after
defeating the emperors of both Russia and
Austria, confessing that he was “slightly
tired” after spending many cold nights in
the open.
52 PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019
In July 1944, the poet T. S. Eliot was
an editor at Faber and Faber, a publishing
company. In a huge miscalculation, he
rejected publishing George Orwell’s Animal
Farm, a masterpiece of writing, which has
now been in print for decades.
The letters were written in different
centuries, but all are good examples of life’s
great dilemmas.
Michelangelo worked through great
suffering to produce his masterpiece
whereas Henry VIII tried to do his duty
to produce a son, but succumbed to the
corruption of power.
As for T. S. Eliot, he undoubtedly
followed his conscience by rejecting Animal
Farm and Napoleon obviously thought he
was doing his patriotic duty by waging war
and conquering other lands.
To what extent did any of the four follow
Spiritualism’s ifth principle of personal
responsibility? What does personal
responsibility mean exactly?
Conscience is a good guide, but is not
infallible. Let’s look at the negative aspects
that these letters reveal.
• The thirst for glory. This is evident in
Henry VIII’s decisions in divorcing his
wife, hastily marrying Anne Boleyn to
hopefully produce a son and having her
beheaded when she didn’t measure up.
He was prepared to go to any lengths
to secure his own position.
• It is just as evident in Napoleon’s
triumphant boasting. Did he even
hesitate for a moment about the ethics
NAPOLEON: “He had convinced himself that killing
of going to war? He had convinced
was justiied.” This 1812 painting of him in his
himself that killing was justiied. study at the Tuileries is by Jacques-Louis David.
• Michelangelo and T. S. Eliot emerge as
having paid the greater attention to What a fascinating extra dimension
their consciences and hence score the these hand-written letters give us into the
most for Spiritualism’s highly crucial lives of some whose destiny is far different
regard for personal responsibility, with from our own – Barbara Mason, by e-mail,
different levels of success. Bayswater, W London.
The Greater World Christian THE GREATER WORLD
OWNED CHURCHES

Spiritualist Association LEEDS GREATER WORLD

SANCTUARY
14 Clarendon Road, Leeds,
Founded in 1931 as a result of the two-world partnership West Yorkshire LS2 9NN
between medium Winifred Moyes and her guide Zodiac, President: Margaret Bellamy
The Greater World association is still lourishing Tel: 01132 456 623
Sunday Services at 3.00pm
and 6.15pm
SPIRITUAL HEALING
TEMPLE OF LIGHT
Wednesdays 10.00am until 12.30pm 221 New Road (Luton Arches),
Chatham, Kent ME4 4QA
President: Rita Davidson
Membership fee £12.50 p.a. Tel: 01634 819 268
Sunday Service 6.30pm
A free Newsletter is issued to all members quarterly
LUTON
CONTACT US: Tel: 020 7436 7555 The Greater World Church,
64A Compton Avenue, Luton,
www.greaterworld.net Beds LU4 9AZ
Cynthia Barnwell, GWRM
Tel: 01582 584164
Have a look at our bookshop
ALL CHURCHES HAVE
email: greaterworld@btconnect.com SPIRITUAL HEALING
AVAILABLE ON THE PREMISES
OTHER SERVICES ARE HELD
3-5 Conway Street, London W1T 6BJ THROUGHOUT THEWEEK

FINANCIAL HELP
THE SPIRITUAL TRUTH FOUNDATION
is a charity that makes grants to Spiritualists in need,
for kitchen equipment, furniture, household goods,
removal costs, travel for family illness, any unexpected
expenditure and also church building repairs and refurbishment
Last year’s grants totalled £19,000
Apply to: Grants Secretary, STF,
To advertise in Psychic News c/o Psychic Press Ltd,
Call: 01376 563091 Unit 2, Griggs Business Centre,
Email: pnadverts@gmail.com West Street, Coggeshall,
Essex CO6 1NT
or visit
www.psychicnews.org.uk www.spiritualtruthfoundation.org
PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019 53
 CAMBERLEY SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
112 GORDON ROAD, CAMBERLEY, SURREY GU15 2JQ
Website: www.camberleyspiritualistchurch.org ~ Tel: 01252 879719
FEBRUARY 2019
SUNDAY SERVICE at 6.30pm TUESDAY CLAIRVOYANCE
3rd SPENCER ROSE & SUE GIGG at 7.30pm
10th MARTIN TWYCROSS 5th SUE ELLIS
17th JENNY VENABLES 12th CRAIG HAMILTON-PARKER
24th MARINA WHELAN 19th JEAN HARRIS & IRENE HALL
followed by AGM 26th MARION CHILVER

SPECIAL EVENTS FOR FEBRUARY 2019

Wednesday 6th 7.30pm OPEN PLATFORM
Friday 8th 7.30pm AWARENESS CIRCLE
Friday 15th 7.30pm MINI WORKSHOP

SPIRITUAL SURGERY
EMOTIONAL HEALING
SOUL HEALING
UK AND WORLDWIDE Suppliers of Crystals, Fossils, Gemstones,
You can be treated effectively in Angels, Angel & Tarot Cards, Books, Jewellery,
the comfort of your own home Dragons, Witches, Green Men, Suncatchers,
Telephone or video Pagan Supplies, Fairies, Dreamcatchers, Incense,
real time appointments Essential Oils, Candles and much more!
Money-back guarantee on your irst treatment Spellbound Gifts,
For full details see website: 28-30 Coleshill Road,
www.spiritsurgeon.co.uk Nuneaton,
Or contact Ed Pearson for a chat Warwickshire
via mobile or WhatsApp on CV10 0NY
+44 (0)7771 862088 Tel: 0247 639 7165
www.spellboundgifts.co.uk
SCOTTISH SPIRITUAL COLLEGE
Seminar at Stirling University, Scotland
15th – 22nd June 2019
£280.00 includes all workshops and self-catering accommodation
Workshops: Mediumship, Tarot, Divination,
Dowsing, Psychic Art, Runes, Angels, Crystals,
EFT, Colour, Psychometry, etc.
PROGRAMME AVAILABLE
For further information contact Kate on:
01355 276410
e-mail: holistichealers.ssc@tiscali.co.uk
website: www.scot-spirit-coll.co.uk

V V V V V CONGRATULATIONS V V V V V
The winning numbers for the Sudoku competition in the November issue to win a deck of
The Divine Feminine Oracle by Meggan Watterson, are 543 276 819. Here are the ten lucky winners:
Jeff Breddy, Surrey Mrs Margaret Davis, Staffordshire 
Ann Sturgess, Hampshire Mrs Val Inglis, Scotland
Gillian Clark, North Yorkshire Nicola Beddoe, East Sussex
Angela Smyth, Australia Judi Beverley, Wiltshire
Debra Lamb, Hertfordshire Teresa Noone, London 
The Divine Feminine Oracle Deck, Hay House UK, £15.99 www.megganwatterson.com

54 PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019

WEBSITE LISTINGS
Advertise your site here
Just £19.25 for one year
Call: 01376 563091
or email: pnadverts@gmail.com
www.colourpsychologytoday.com
www.michael-chapman.co.uk
www.healing-hearts-centre.co.uk
www.newspiritsongs.co.uk
www.spiritartgallery.net
www.alex-lovelock.com
www.raybrownhealing.com
www.daviddrew.co.uk
www.edmontonspiritualistchurch16.com
www.southandwest.webs.com
www.twoworldspromotions.com
www.sandyingham.co.uk
www.garypsychicportraits.co.uk
www.broniawestclairvoyantmedium.
co.uk
www.chrisratterpsychicsurgeon.com
www.hpai.co.uk
www.earthangelcrystals.co.uk
www.spiritualtruthfoundation.org
www.psychicnews.org.uk
www.Timeismine.com
www.tomjohnston
spiritualistmedium.com
www.arthurconandoylecentre.com
www.hayhouse.co.uk
www.andrewwoodley.co.uk
www.susanwoodmedium.com
www.atlantiswisdom.org
www.artofspirit.co.uk
FREE Development Listings
Are you looking for sitters to join your development circle
– or starting a new one? Are you looking for a circle?
Psychic News wants to put you in touch with development
groups and circles in your area
We will advertise your details free of charge for three issues,
as long as it costs no more than £3 (US$5) to join or attend the
group or circle. Email your wording (up to 45 words), name and
contact details to: pnadverts@gmail.com or post details to:
Psychic News Circle, Unit 2, Griggs Business Centre,
West Street, Coggeshall, Essex CO6 1NT
Please ensure your name and contact details are included
on all correspondence
Psychic Press Ltd reserves the right to refuse or remove these notices at any time
******
BOURNEMOUTH AND POOLE
Starting new circle, particularly for
bereaved parents/siblings.
Meditation, crystals, Moon magic, colours, candles,
photographs and drawings, heavenly messages, angels,
dreams, philosophy, poetry, and Silver Birch books.
Circle meetings to raise vibrations and connect.
Please phone or text for more information: 07534 546986
Bournemouth and Poole area.
******
LONDON
Psychic Circle Restarting. Ladies invited to afternoon
weekly circle in Hackney, East London. All welcome.
2pm - 4pm ~ day to be arranged. £2 inc. refreshments.
Please ring Helen: 020 8985 0256
******
Healing Hearts Spiritual Centre
A superb platform medium every week, psychic surgery,
healing, stalls, 1-2-1 readings & luxury rafle.
Doors open EVERY Tuesday at 6.00pm for 1-2-1 readings
& healing.
Platform demonstration begins at 8.00pm – 9.15pm.
£4 entrance fee includes FREE buffet with cakes
and all refreshments.
HEALING HEARTS PSYCHIC SURGEONS
Open 1st & 4th Thursday of each month from 7.00pm
(£5 minimum donation includes refreshments)
All proits above running costs to 4 charities – see website for
more details at: www.healing-hearts-centre.co.uk
Or see our Facebook Page
www.facebook.com/healinghearts.centre
Contact: 07455 227100
Bulphan Village Hall,
Church Road, Bulphan,
UPMINSTER, Essex, RM14 3RU
SPIRITUALIST MEDIUMS INTERNATIONAL
IRENE AND DAVID JACKSON (MCSSI)
Spiritualist Mediums & Healers
Our credentials are husband and wife
full-time working mediums and healers based
in Poole, Dorset, with many years’ experience
of most aspects of mediumship (mental,
physical and trance) between us
Whatever your spiritual needs are at this point in
your life, we will be most happy to hear from you
We are only an e-mail, telephone call or text away
Telephone: 01202 734841 or 07773 454003
Email: djackson.crantock@virgin.net
PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019 55
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING
READINGS
Alison’s Straight Talk
Psychic ServicesTM
Honest, Direct, No-nonsense
Readings
30 Years’ Experience
Complete Conidentiality
01646 698026
11am – 1am
www.straighttalkingpsychics.com
Credit & Debit cards accepted
For entertainment only
JAMES - Medium
Telephone Readings
£15 by appointment
Tel: 0780 4871 958
DAVID SPENCER
Experienced Spiritual Medium/Clairvoyant
offering Spiritually-guided Postal Readings
Send brief letter and £25 to:
Mr D. Spencer,
22 Skylark Rise,
Tavistock,
Devon
PL19 9FT
ANGIE FARTHING
Clairvoyant Medium
Telephone Readings
Tel: 0793 0545324
EILEEN RENDLE
Experienced Clairvoyance
 Psychic/Card Readings
One-to-one or phone reading
Phone: 01288 356802
www.eileenrendle.com  SUSIE MATTHEWS
PAUL CISSELL
Spirit Medium
Readings available in person at my centre
in Portsmouth or via Skype
Development Courses and Private Tuition
Tel: 0771 453 1153
www.paulcissell.com
VIOLET MOON
Psychic Medium, Clairvoyant,
Tarot and Angel Cards
Let the tarot guide you
Tel: 020 8251 7165
or 07930 809172
for details
PayPal, credit and debit cards accepted
SHIFTING SANDS TAROT
Guidance on life goals, relationships,
discover hidden issues at work
Postal Tarot Readings by Experienced
Psychology Lecturer/Life Coach
Send question plus payment of £20.00 to:
Shirley Heelas,
14 Scratby Crescent,
Scratby, Gt Yarmouth,
Norfolk NR29 3QR
for 1,500 word (approx) report
Tel: 01493 730137
56 PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019
CONNIE
Medium,
Life-long Psychic
with 30 years’ experience
Readings from £15
Ring me on:
01277 222595 or 07827 296934
www.findyourtrueway.co.uk
POSTAL READINGS
Clairvoyant Spiritualist offers
Postal Readings for £5.00
Private Sand Readings also available
Over 20 years’ experience
Please send photograph and SAE to:
Mrs Pamela Havens,
9 Swirles Buildings,
Great Yarmouth,
Norfolk
NR30 2DZ
SANDRA YVONNE
A caring Medium/Clairvoyant and Tarot
Reader with over 30 years’ experience
Offers Telephone Readings, Private Sittings
and Postal Readings
Call me for direction and guidance on:
020 8765 9049
E-mail: diamond27@talktalk.net
ARCHANGEL CARD READINGS
with Experienced Psychic Intuitive
Loving spirit guides by audio mp3 or post
£25.00
CHRISTINE SNOWDON
Psychic Medium
Telephone: 07525 661559
E-mail:
christinesnowdon@gmail.com
OFFICIANT
Is available for Weddings, Funerals,
Namings and Memorial Services
in the Portsmouth area
As well as Private Readings
Email: susiematthews@yahoo.com
Or call: 07809 243283
PSYCHIC POSTAL READING £15
KELLY CUMMING
24 Baglan Heights,
Port Talbot SA12 8UF
TERESA
Clairvoyant Medium
Aberdeen
Phone Readings – £20
Tel: 0782 613 7619
CHERRILYN J
PSYCHIC MEDIUM
(Clairaudient/Clairvoyant)
Photo/Written/Telephone
Reading £15
For more information Tel: 07969 038544
Email: Cherrilynj-psychic@hotmail.com
www.Cherrilynj-psychic.com
Violet Moon Psychic
Upstairs at
Ashnaa Salon,
6 George Street,
Croydon CR0 1PA
Pre-booked appointment times available between
11.30am - 6.15pm Tuesday - Saturday
Sunday 11.30am - 4.30pm
To book appointments:
Mobile: 07930 809 172 or 020 8251 7165
Crystal sales, face-to-face psychic,
spiritual tarot and angel card readings
Shop Online: www.violetmoonpsychic.online
Pay through the phone readings:
Tel: 0913 530 0004
Calls cost: £1.00 per minute plus your phone provider’s
access charge. All calls recorded. 18+. Entertainment
purposes only. You must be the bill payer or have the bill
payer’s permission.
Free promotional messages may be sent.
Enquiries: violetmoonpsychic@outlook.com
Mailing List: at violetmoonpsychic@outlook.com
TAROT
READINGS
& GIFTS
In-depth reading £10
Phone/email/in person
For more info Tel: 0782 524 9214
Email: sweetpeaguidance@gmail.com
www.sweetpeaguidance.co.uk
ASSOCIATIONS
THE BRITISH MEDIUM AND
PSYCHIC ASSOCIATION
Directory of Mediums and Psychics
www.britishpma.co.uk
FREE TO JOIN
New members welcomed
HEALING
‘WILLOW FLOW HEALING’
Qualiied and Experienced Healer
Absent Healing: weekdays, evenings, w/ends
Email: willowlow.healing@gmail.com
Call: 0770 710 0706
TIPTREEGROVE
NATURAL ENERGY HEALING
Cambridge & Suffolk Borders
Reiki and Spiritual Healing
By appointment only
Please e-mail:  
adgrove.fordham@gmail.com
or text Dulcie on:
07922 477424
ABSENT HEALING
FOR PEOPLE AND ANIMALS
NO FEES
Telephone Tony on:
020 7476 3766
E-mail: tony.lu101@gmail.com
 HEALING CRYSTALS SOUL MATES
(CONTINUED) THE FREE SPIRITS CLUB
For friends, romance or penpals
Extensive register ~ Established 20 years
HEALING CLINIC Write to: Shirley Heelas,
Dr Brown, Spirit Consultant Free Spirits Club,
Every Tuesday morning 14 Scratby Crescent, Scratby,
10am and 11am group sessions Great Yarmouth, Norfolk NR29 3QR
Donations welcomed or call: 01493 730137
CLEARLY DESTINY
12 Woburn Walk
Euston,
SPIRITUAL SHOPS
London
WC1H 0JL
020 7387 0358

THE
SURREY HEALING SANCTUARY BOOKS
Penduckshaw,
Rabies Heath Road,
Bletchingley,
Surrey
RH1 4NB
(near Junction 6, M25)
Email: surreyhealing@yahoo.co.uk
Contact: Alec & Marilyn Nicolas
Healing and spiritual surgery
(herbal medicine and
reflexology also available)
By appointment only
(including evenings and weekends)
www.surreyhealingsanctuary.co.uk
Tel: 01883 741800

CONTACT AND ABSENT HEALING

for people and animals
No fees
Melksham, Wiltshire
Contact: MIKE FISHER CLASSIFIED RATES
Tel: 01225 400310 CLEARANCE SALE
E-mail: of Spiritual Antiquarian Books 60p per word inc VAT
mikej.isher@virginmedia.com on behalf of a 77 cents (US)
Spiritualist church Churches/Centres:
HEALER From £1.00 each, plus £1.00 p & p each 40p pw 62 cents (US)
For a list, please e-mail:
PRACTITIONER brianashield460@gmail.com
Website address = 4 words
ASSOCIATION or send a large letter stamp to Call: 01376 563091
INTERNATIONAL 6 Windrushes, Email: pnadverts@gmail.com
Caterham,
The Gateway Church Building, www.psychicnews.org.uk
CR3 6SP
2A Northcote Street,
Cardiff
CF24 3BH
Chairman: Mr Ray Williams
Tel: 029204 65171
Website:
www.hpai.co.uk
E-mail:
ray.e.williams@btconnect.com
The association was established in 1977
to promote the art of spiritual healing
The HPAI maintains a register of all approved
practitioners, healers and healer counsellors
The HPAI is an umbrella for
spiritual healing organisations
We also provide professional
indemnity insurance James E. Padgett
www.thenewtementofspiritual
1883-1923 www.thegenuinejesus.com ism.com www.spiritualismandbeyond.com
See website for therapies we cover and
further information
We also are able to offer membership and
cost effective insurance for reiki healers

PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019 57

Spiritualist Churches & Centres,
and Spiritual Shops in the UK
ENGLAND
BEDFORDSHIRE
LUTON
CHRISTIAN
SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
64a Compton Avenue,
Leagrave, Luton,
Bedfordshire
LU4 9AZ
Tel: 01582 584164
Service Every Wednesday
8pm Clairvoyance Evening
Followed by Healing if required
Specials as advertised
All Welcome
BERKSHIRE
READING
NATIONAL
SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
York Lodge,
81 Baker Street,
Reading,
Berkshire RG1 7XY
Tel: 0118 950 7281
Email: church@readingsc.org
www.readingsc.org
February Events
Sunday 6.30pm Divine Service
with Address and Clairvoyance
3rd ROY SUNLEY
10 WANDA BOLTON
th
17th KEVIN DING
24th KAREN NOG
Thursday 7.45pm Mediumship
7th JEAN HARRIS
14th IRENE HALL
21st SPENCER ROSE &
SUSIE GIGG
28th DAVID COLE
Open Circle at 7.15pm
Tuesdays 5th, 12th, 19th & 26th
with SHARON SPENCE
Open Power Circle at 7.30pm
Tuesdays 5th, 12th, 19th & 26th
Special Events
Friday 22nd at 7.15pm £2
Open Platform for Aspiring
Speakers and Demonstrators
with mentor SPENCER ROSE
Healing
Monday 1.30pm - 3pm
(excluding Bank Holidays)
Wednesday 7.30pm - 9pm
Small animals welcome too
Saturdays – Occasional
Workshops or Special Events
See website, Facebook or in
Church for details
All Welcome
58 PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019
MAIDENHEAD
SPIRITUALIST CHURCH CORNWALL DORSET
York Road, Maidenhead,
BUDE CHRISTCHURCH
Berkshire SL6 1SH
President: Sharon Silver FREE SPIRITS SPIRITUALIST CENTRE
Tel: 01628 299337 SPIRITUALIST CHURCH 196B Barrack Road,
The Parkhouse Centre, Christchurch,
Sunday 6.30pm Divine Service
Ergue-Gaberic Way, Dorset BH23 2BQ
Wednesday 1pm - 3pm 
Bude, President: Karen Martin
Healing Clinic
Cornwall Enquiries: 07849 606437
Thursday  7.30pm 
EX23 8LG www.christchurchsc.org.uk
Mediumship Demonstration
www.budefreespirits.co.uk February Events
Monthly Open Platform
Every Thursday Sunday Service at 10.45am
and other Special Events
7.30pm - 9pm 3rd SANDY HAGGER OSNU
please see website
BUDE HEALING CLINIC: 10th KIM-JOHN WEBB
http://maidenhead-spiritualist-
Every Wednesday 7pm - 9pm 17th DAVID POWELL
church.weebly.com
Visiting mediums who would 24th LINDA & ROBERT
A warm welcome is
like to serve Bude Free Spirits PALLETT
extended to all
please contact Carol Thursday Service at 7.30pm
Car Park and facilities for
disabled visitors on 01840 770057 7th ANNE RANDALL &
MARRIAGE and All Welcome IRENE INGLES
14th JO GORDON
NAMING CEREMONIES
PENZANCE 21st DYMPHNA RUSSELL
CHRISTIAN 28th JANET EMILYMAE
WINDSOR
SPIRITUALIST CHURCH SPIRITUALIST CHURCH Healing
Bread Street, Every Tuesday 10am - 11.30am
Adelaide Square,
Windsor, Berkshire Penzance, Cornwall Church accessible for
Tel: 07800 812973 wheelchairs and has loop
President: Denise Shoremi
Tel: 07976 815195 07800 813533 system for hearing aid wearers
07780 661670 All Welcome
Mediums’ Secretary: Richard
Tel: 07505 493 153 Monday: Open Healing Circle
7pm sharp KINSON
February Events
Sunday Divine Service 6.30pm Thursday: Service 7.00pm SPIRITUALIST GROUP
Followed by Healing Kinson Community Centre,
Free-will offering
3rd TBC Follow us on Facebook: Pelhams Park, Kinson,
Penzance Spiritualist Church Bournemouth BH10 7LH
10th GILLY PALMER
17th FRANKIE SHAW All Are Welcome Tel: 01202 715754
www.facebook.com/
24th CELIA MITCHELL 
Tuesday 7.45pm Admission £3 DEVON KinsonSpiritualistGroup
Every Sunday 6.30pm
Evening of Clairvoyance EXETER
5th DANNY LICELLE Divine Service
SPIRITUALIST 2nd Monday in month
12 PAMELA POLLINGTON
th
CENTRE AND
CSNU at 8.00pm
HEALING GROUP Clairvoyance Demonstration
19th MARTIN TWYCROSS  York Road,
CSNU All Welcome
Exeter,
26th ROY SUNLEY Devon
Whilst every effort is taken, there will be EX4 6PF
times when the medium listed will change Website: www.
Development Circle exeterspiritualistcentre.org
Alternate Mondays Sunday 6.30pm Service
7.30pm - 9.30pm with PLEASE NOTE NEW TIMES
ROY SUNLEY & SUE ELLIS/ Wednesday 1.30pm
DENISE SHOREMI Mediumship
Friday 15th February 7.30pm Saturday (as advertised)
Open Platform Private Readings
Date list available Demonstration of Mediumship
Thursday 8pm - 9pm Healing Healing:
Bookings, Private Sittings and Tuesdays 2pm - 3.30pm
Workshops, please call phone & Wednesdays 6pm - 7.30pm
numbers at top of advert See website for
Come along and experience Healing times on Sundays
the lovely atmosphere and details of Special Events
Website: www.windsor and Development Groups
spiritualistchurch.co.uk All Welcome
 BOURNEMOUTH LYNDA OLDHAM
SPIRITUALIST ESSEX SPIRITUALIST CENTRE HAMPSHIRE
CHURCH Stanway Village Hall,
16 Bath Road, EPPING Villa Road, BASINGSTOKE
Bournemouth, SPIRITUAL SANCTUARY Stanway, SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
Dorset BH1 2PE Thornwood Village Hall, Nr Colchester, 28 Victoria Street, Basingstoke,
Telephone: Weald Hall Lane, Essex Hampshire RG21 3BT
01202 551751 Thornwood, CO3 0RH (Near Fairield Arts Centre)
Website: Epping, 2nd Thursday, Monthly President/Mediums’ Secretary:
www.bsnuc.co.uk Essex  CM16 6ND Evening of Mediumship Lou Nye
February Events Enquiries to  Guest Medium each month Tel: 07544 548172
 Sunday 3rd 10.45am Jan: 01279 861515 6.15pm for a  www.basingstokesc.co.uk
JAN RIDGE or Linda: 0796 3605 630 7.30pm start for the Afiliated to
Sunday 3rd 6.30pm (Registered Charity 284561) Mediumship Demonstration Spiritualists’ National Union
JAN RIDGE Tuesday Healing: 1pm - 2.20pm We offer:  February Events
Monday 4th  7.30pm Freewill Donation 15-Minute Readings Sunday 6.30pm
JAN RIDGE Tuesday Service 2.45pm £3 (for a donation) Address & Clairvoyance
Spiritual Awareness Plus last Friday of every month Healings (for a donation) 3rd TBA
Tuesday 5th  7pm at 8pm Gong Healing  ~ 10 Craft Tables  10th TBA
Open Circle Evening of Clairvoyance £5 Rafle ~ Cakes and a Cuppa 17th JILL PICKETT
Wednesday 6th 7.30pm All Welcome £3 admission   24th ANDY MULLIGAN 
Open Heart Meditation with Please arrive early if Thursday 7.30pm Clairvoyance
TIM JOHNSON HEALING HEARTS you want a reading 7th MICHAEL LENNON
Thursday 7th 3pm SPIRITUAL CENTRE Lynda’s Mob: 07591 920603 14th TBA
JOAN DUNBAR A superb Platform Medium Follow us on Facebook 21st ANNE RANDALL
Sunday 10th 10.45am every week, 28th CHERYL BRENNAN
DAVID POWELL                     Psychic Surgery, Healing, GLOUCESTERSHIRE Open Circle First and second
Sunday 10th 6.30pm                     Stalls, 1-2-1 Readings Wednesday of month
LAURENCE COHEN and Luxury Rafle CHELTENHAM at 7.30pm £3 with SUE GIGGS
Monday 11th 7.30pm                     Doors open EVERY Tuesday NATIONAL Open Platform Third Wednesday
DAVID POWELL at 6.00pm for SPIRITUALIST of month at 7.30pm £2
Spiritual Awareness 1-2-1 Readings and Healing CHURCH with VAL TRIGGS CSNU &
Tuesday 12th  7pm Platform Demonstration begins Bennington Street, CAROL DAWBER CSNU
Open Circle at 8.00pm - 9.15pm Cheltenham, Healing Monday 2pm - 3.30pm
Wednesday 13th  7.30pm £4 entrance fee includes Gloucestershire All Welcome
Philosophy with FREE buffet with cakes and GL50 4ED
DAVID POWELL all refreshments Tel: 01242 703 288 FLEET
Thursday 14th 3pm ------------ Registered for Funerals, SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
LYNN CHURCHILL COLEMAN HEALING HEARTS Weddings, 193 Aldershot Road,
Saturday 16th  7.30pm   PSYCHIC SURGEONS Naming Ceremonies, Church Crookham,
Evening of Mediumship with Open 1st & 4th Thursday Blessings, Hampshire GU52 8JS
RICKY WHITEMORE of each month from 7.00pm Commitment of Union Tel: 01252 625976
Sunday 17th 10.45am                     (£5 minimum donation www.snu.org.uk/community/ Mediums’ Secretary:
RICKY WHITEMORE includes refreshments) churches/cheltenham.html 01252 624986
Sunday 17th 6.30pm                     All proits above running costs Follow us on Facebook: Website: www.
RICKY WHITEMORE to four charities Cheltenham fleetspiritualistchurch.co.uk 
Monday 18th 7.30pm                    See website for more details at: Spiritualist Church February Events
RICKY WHITEMORE www.healing-hearts-centre.co.uk Sunday 11am Sunday Divine Service at 6.30pm
Spiritual Awareness Or see our Facebook Page Divine Service 3rd DENISE PLUMB
Tuesday 19th  7pm www.facebook.com/ Thursday 7.30pm 10th ANDY & BRENDA DEAN
Open Circle healinghearts.centre Open Awareness and 17th Fledglings with
Thursday 21st 3pm Contact: 07455 227100 Development Group SPENCER ROSE
LAWRENCE SAVILLE Bulphan Village Hall, Friday 2pm Healing 24th MARION CHILVER
Sunday 24th 10.45am Church Road, Saturday 7pm Thursday Clairvoyant Evening
BARBARA BREEZE Bulphan, Evening of Mediumship at 7.30pm (£2 admission)
Sunday 24th 6.30pm UPMINSTER, Specials and Workshops every 7th GILLIAN BLAISE
BARBARA BREEZE Essex six weeks 14th IRENE INGLES
Monday 25th 7.30pm                     RM14 3RU All Are Welcome 21st RICHARD & MAGGIE
BARBARA BREEZE ALLUM
Spiritual Awareness 28th MARTIN TWYCROSS
Tuesday 26th  7pm CSNU
Open Circle
Wednesday 27th 7.30pm
For a list of Healing
Every Tuesday 7.15pm -
Open Platform
Thursday 28th 3pm
Spiritualist Churches 9.00pm (doors close at 8.40pm)
Open Circle 7.30pm - 9.30pm
ANGELA PERRY
Spiritual Healing:
and Centers in the Wednesdays 6th & 20th Feb
with DENISE PLUMB
Monday 2pm - 4pm
Tuesday 10.30am - 12.30pm
USA visit our website: Open Platform
Friday 8th Feb 7.30pm
Wednesday 10.30am - 12.30pm with SPENCER ROSE
Thursday 7pm - 8pm psychicnews.org.uk Meditation Circle 7.30pm £3.50
Friday 10.30am - 12.30pm Wednesdays 13th & 27th Feb
& 2pm - 4pm 7.30pm £3.50
All Welcome with JIM WALKER CSNU

PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019 59

 BITTERNE
SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
Top of Lances Hill,
390 Bitterne Road,
Bitterne,
Southampton,
Hampshire SO18 1DR
Tel: 07731 938587
www.bitternespiritualist
church.org
Follow us on Facebook:
Bitterne Spiritualist Church
Oficial services offered:
Spiritual Naming, Weddings
(including Same-Sex Marriages),
Renewal of Vows,
Civil Partnerships,
Funerals, Memorial Services
Tuesdays (from 8th January):
Spiritual Healing
2pm - 3.30pm and 5pm - 7pm
FEBRUARY
Sunday 3rd 6.30pm 
Divine Service taken by
JON GAULT
Monday 4th 7.30pm £3
Pathways with
DAVID POWELL CSNU
Saturday 9th 10am – 12 Noon
Cafe Chat – Support Group
Spiritual Healing available
Sunday 10th 6.30pm
Divine Service taken by
SANDY HAGGAR OSNU
Sunday 17th 6.30pm
Divine Service taken by
CARIANNE ROBINS
Monday 18th 7.30pm £3
Pathways with
DAVID POWELL CSNU
Saturday 23rd 10am – 1pm
Coffee Morning
Private Readings and Healing
(Readings £10 for 20 mins)
Healing is freely given but a
donation is appreciated
Gift Vouchers available for
Private Readings
Sunday 24th 6.30pm
Divine Service taken by
LESLEY KNIGHT
See website for details of our
regular Coffee Mornings,
Special Events, Workshops and
Development Groups
All Welcome
HERTFORDSHIRE
HITCHIN
SPIRITUALIST
CHURCH
Whinbush Road, Hitchin,
Hertfordshire
SG5 1PZ
Tel: 07581 492507
www.hitchinspiritualist
church.co.uk
Sunday Service 6.30pm
Healing: Tuesdays 2pm &
7.30pm
Demonstrations and workshops
as advertised on website
All Welcome
60 PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019
CARPENDERS PARK KENT WEST WICKHAM
CHRISTIAN SPIRITUAL SPIRITUALIST
SPIRITUALISTS TEACHING GROUP CHURCH
Bushford Scout Hall, Five Wents Hall, Surrey Road,
St Georges Drive, Swanley Lane, West Wickham,
Carpenders Park, Swanley, Kent Kent
Watford, BR8 7LD BR4 0LU
Hertfordshire www.kstg.org President &
WD19 5HD Tel: 07789 501650 Mediums’ Secretary:
(Hall cannot be seen from road Follow us on Facebook: Alan Mitchell-Sleight
– go up drive between numbers Kent Spiritual Teaching Group Tel: 01959 573049
37 and 39 St Georges Drive) Meetings 1st and 3rd Tuesday E-mail enquiries:
Contact Chris Palmer: of every month mitchellsleight@
01923 221918 Tuesday 5th February 8pm £6 btinternet.com
Sundays 10.30am Evening of Clairvoyance & February Events
Divine Service Orb Manifestation with Sunday Services 6.30pm
Healing Available KEITH THOMPSON (doors open 5.50pm)
All Are Welcome Tuesday 19th February 8pm £6 3rd CHARLENE AUSTIN
An activity table Evening of Clairvoyance with 10th MARK McDONAGH
is provided for children ANN LYE 17th SHAVINI SAMARDI
All Welcome 24th PHIL TOWLER
MAIDSTONE Wednesday Evening
KENT SPIRITUAL
DEVELOPMENT
Demonstrations 8.00pm
6th STEWART COOPER
BEXLEYHEATH CENTRE 20th ELAIN STAINTON
CHRISTIAN (M.S.D.C.) Workshops
SPIRITUALIST meets at Madginford Hall, Saturday 16th February  
CHURCH Egremont Road 10am - 4pm £20
85 Lion Road, (behind the row of shops), Karen’s Workshop
Bexleyheah, Maidstone, Open Circle Thursdays
Kent Kent 12noon -1.30pm & 7pm - 8.30pm
DA6 8NT ME15 8LH Private Readings Thursdays
Enquiries: Tel: 01634 386472 Please book in advance with
07950 672200 or 07925 998065 Alan Mitchell-Sleight on
Email: Bexleyheath.church@ Email: msdc@msdc.org.uk 01959 573049
gmail.com We run Psychic & Spiritual Spiritual Healing
Or see us on Facebook Development Mornings, After the service on a Sunday
February Events Open Circles, Healing and at approximately 8pm
Sunday Evening Service Meditation Mornings with (providing healers are available)
at 6.30pm free student readings, monthly and Tuesdays 12.30pm - 1.30pm
3rd SHEILA FOSDYKE evenings of Mediumship, Please visit our website
10th BARBARA ALMOND Workshops, Psychic Suppers, www.westwickhamspiritualist
17th SHERRIE HARDAKER Psychic Fairs, Courses, church.co.uk
24th CHRISTINE ARGENT Coach Trips etc. for other upcoming events
Tuesday Afternoon Service Download the full programme
at 2.15pm from our website or ring us! THE SANCTUARY
5th JACKIE COURTNEY www.msdc.org.uk OF HEALING
12th LINDA WADDOUPS February Events CHRISTIAN
19th JANET GLASGOW Saturday 2nd February SPIRITUALIST
26th RAY TURNER 10am - 1pm, £5 CHURCH
Open Platform Psychic & Spiritual Mills Terrace,
Wednesday 20th 7.30pm £3 Development Morning Chatham,
All ledglings welcome to try Free tea/coffee and biscuits Kent
Spiritual Healing Open to all ME4 5NZ
Tuesdays 1pm - 1.45pm Wednesday 13th February Tel: 01634 880039
& 7.30pm - 9pm 8pm - 10pm Email:
Open Circles £7 (£5 for ‘friends’ of MSDC) george.mcqueen@yahoo.co.uk
Every Monday 7.30pm £4.50 Monthly Meeting Website:
Wednesdays 6th & 20th Evening of Mediumship with www.sanctuaryofhealing.co.uk
Midday - 2pm £4.50 MARK McDONAGH Sunday Service 6.30pm
Special Events Saturday 16th February Wednesday 10am - 1pm
Thursday 21st February 10am - 1pm £5 per person Healing
12 noon - 2pm £2 Healing & Coffee Morning Friday 4pm - 6pm Healing
Craft, Chat & Cuppa This includes two treatments Friday 8pm Clairvoyance
Saturday 23rd February i.e. various healing/readings/ We also offer various
1pm - 2pm £7 complementary therapies Workshops & Special Evenings
Private Readings Indian Head Massage, of Clairvoyance
15 minutes Hand Massage and See website for
Wednesday 27th February Hopi Ear Candles, plus Readings more information
7.30pm £5 Come along for tea/coffee and
To advertise
Evening of Psychic Art cake to pass a little time with
Call: 01376 563091
with like-minded people and catch up
ANDY MULLIGAN with what we are doing Email:
pnadverts@gmail.com
All Welcome All Welcome

LANCASHIRE
BURY
SPIRITUALIST CENTRE
3 Russell Street,
Bury,
Lancashire
BL9 5AX
Tel: 0161 654 9282
Website: burysnu.weebly.com
Follow us on Facebook:
Bury Spiritual Centre
Tuesday  6pm  Healing
(last registration 6.30pm)  teachings of Spirit within the
Healing is also available on
request after the service
Tuesday 7.30pm - 8.45pm   Everyone is welcome.
Evening of Mediumship
Friday (fortnightly)
7.15pm for 7.30pm start
Awareness Class
Saturday  7.30pm - 8.45pm
Divine Service
All Welcome
CLEVELEYS
SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
93 Beach Road,
Cleveleys,
Lancashire
FY5 1EW
(Opposite the Travellers Rest
Public House)
Whether you just want to make
sure a loved one who has passed
over has arrived safe, if you
want to discover how you, as a
Spirit yourself, play your part in
the Universe, want to take your
first steps on your own spiritual
journey, or just want to sit in a
tranquil, welcoming sanctuary
for your soul to recharge itself…
We will be waiting for you.
List of Services:
Sundays 2.30pm
Guest Medium
First Sunday of every month
2.30pm Healing Sunday with
Guest Medium
Monday 7.30pm Clairvoyance
Service with Guest Medium
followed by Open Circle
Tuesday 7.30pm
Meditation Class
Wednesday 12.30pm - 1.30pm
Spiritual Healing
2.30pm Guest Medium
Thursday 7.30pm
Awareness Class
Special Services as announced
Private Readings are available
upon request
We also have the facilities for:
Naming Ceremonies,
Weddings and Funerals
We are on Facebook
and on the web at:
www.cleveleys
spiritualistchurch.co.uk
Call us on: 07756 967803
or come on in – it would be
lovely to see you
ROSSENDALE
SPIRITUALIST
CENTRE SPIRITUALIST CENTRE
Greenield Gardens’
Community Centre,
Off Helmshore Road,
HASLINGDEN,
Lancashire
BB4 4BE
Charity No: 1100213
The Centre was established in
August 2003 and opened in
January 2004.
We aim to promote the
locale and beyond. There are no
membership requirements.
Development Groups & Circles
We hold:
1) An evening of Healing every
Monday from 7pm Saturdays 10.30am - 12.30pm
Up to eight healers available
2) A Service with a visiting
medium every Tuesday evening
from 7.30pm
3) A closed Mediumship
Development Circle
every Sunday from 7.30pm
4) Ad hoc specials announced
via our Facebook page
WHITE FEATHER
SPIRITUALIST
CENTRE
Claremont Community Centre,
Claremont Road,
Blackpool,
Lancashire
FY1 2QJ
Tel: 01253 355595
Every Friday
6.30pm Healing
7.30pm Clairvoyant Evening
followed by Open Circle
All Welcome
LEICESTERSHIRE
HINCKLEY
NATIONAL
SPIRITUALIST
CHURCH
32 Station Road,
Hinckley,
Leicestershire
LE10 1AW
Tel: 01455 442781
www.snu.org.uk/community/
churches/hinckley.html Saturday 16th 2.00pm - 4.00pm
Follow us on Facebook:
Hinckley National Saturday 23rd 2.00pm - 4.00pm
Spiritualist Church
Sunday 6pm
Service with Mediumship
Tuesday 7.30pm Open Circle Closed for February
Service with Mediumship
Wednesday 2pm Divine Saturday 9th February 10am - 4pm
Service
Wednesday (fortnightly)
7.30pm Healing
Special Events
As advertised in Church and
on Facebook
All Welcome
LEICESTER
PROGRESSIVE
4 St. James Street,
Lee Circle,
Leicester LE1 3RE
President:
Marian Sawczuk
Services with Mediumship
Sundays 6pm
Divine Service
Mondays 7.30pm
Wednesdays 2.30pm
Thursdays, Fridays and
Saturdays:
Special Demonstrations
as advertised
held every day of the week
Healing
Healing every Thursday 7.30pm
Mondays 6pm - 7pm
Wednesdays 12.30pm - 2pm
Fridays 6pm - 7pm
For details of workshops
and special events, visit our
website:
www.progressivespiritualist
church.co.uk
Email:
spiritchurch@outlook.com Between 77-79 White Hart Lane,
Tel: 0116 2536098
All Welcome
LONDON
BALHAM
SPIRITUALIST
CHURCH
Hamilton Hall,
211 Balham High Road,
London SW17 7BQ E-mail: barneshealingchurch@
Tel: 07933 332187
February Events
Sunday Divine Service at 11am
3rd MILDRED DAVIDSON
10th RAY PRENDERGAST
17th SID PRIVETT
24 OWEN WILLIAMS
th
Wednesday Service at 7.30pm
6th MICHAEL LENNON
13th YANNI LEONTI
20th MAGGIE JONES
27th MARTIN JONES
Private Readings
Friday 1st 7.00pm - 9.00pm
with JOHN ALEXANDER
Friday 8th 7pm - 9pm TBC
  with SHEILA McCARTHY
  with STEPHEN GOLDSACK
Spiritual Healing
after Sunday Services
Workshops
£20 Advance bookings only
Healing Workshop with
SID PRIVETT
Saturday 2nd March 11am - 4pm A Warm Welcome Awaits Everyone
£20 Trance Workshop with
MAGGIE JONES
Some experience necessary
PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019
ACTON
SPIRITUAL CENTRE
The Cottage,
Woodhurst Road,
Acton,
London
W3 6SL
President: Elaine Jordan
Tel: 020 8896 0184
February Events
Sunday Service 6.30pm
3rd IRIS BRIDGWATER
Wednesday Service 7.30pm
6th TONY STOCKEN
13th OWEN WILLIAMS
20th JODIE RUSKIN
27th DAVID COLE
Open Circle every Tuesday
7.30pm - 9.30pm £3.00
LORRAINE GILBERT, DSNU
(please check opening days for
healing and circle during the
holiday season)
Large car park
A warm welcome
is extended to all
BARNES
HEALING CHURCH
London
SW13 0QA
Five-minute walk from
Barnes Bridge railway station
Enquiries:
07581 534028
Facebook:
BarnesHealingChurch
Website: www.
barneshealingchurch.co.uk
hotmail.co.uk
February Events
Sunday Healing Service
at 6.30pm
3rd SANDRA DOUGHTY
10th HELEN NICHOLAS
17th STUART COOPER
24th JANET NEVILLE
Wednesday at 7.30pm
Evening of Clairvoyance £3
6th MARC IMPEY
13th DAVID BURKE
20th GRAHAM WATSON
27th MICHAEL LENNON
Special Events
For details about our once a
month morning of
One-to-One Readings,
Open Platforms,
Circles, Workshops,
Animal Healing,
Special Evenings
and much more,
please see our website or
our Facebook page
Healing
Tuesdays 7.00pm - 8.30pm
Thursdays 10.30am - 1.30pm
REGISTERED FOR
MARRIAGES, CEREMONIES
& SACRED SERVICES
61
 BATTERSEA
SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
46 Bennerley Road, SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
Off Northcote Road,
London SW11 6DS
President – Margaret Cutler:
020 7223 3156
Enquiries: 020 7622 4900
or 020 3573 3571
E-mail: bsc@batterseasc.co.uk
Website:
www.batterseasc.co.uk
February Events
Sunday Service 6.00pm
3rd TANNYA STREATFIELD
10th JOHN ALEXANDER
17th COLEEN ROCHERE
24th JONATHAN WHITAKER
Thursday Service 7.30pm
7th GLADYS WILLIAMS
14th MARY REGAN
21st TRACEY KRAY
28th SHARON MARTIN
Bennerley Friendship Club
Wednesday 6th February
2pm £3 with Medium
MICHAEL LENNON
Private Readings
Tuesday 6th February
7pm - 9pm with Medium
JANET NEVILLE Every 1st Saturday of the month
Readings must be booked and
paid forin advance at church –
no phone bookings accepted
Healing
Mondays 1.30pm - 3.00pm
Fridays 5.30pm - 7.00pm
(No Healing sessions on SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
Bank Holidays)
Advance Notices
Saturday 9th March
11am - 4.30pm
£12 (Members £10)
Trance Workshop with
MAGGIE JONES
Please bring packed lunch –
tea and coffee available
Sunday 24th March 4.30pm
AGM – will all members try
to attend please
PSYCHIC NEWS
NEVER MISS A COPY,
SUBSCRIBE TODAY ON
01376 563091 OR AT
www.psychicnews.org.uk
62 PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019
CLAPHAM EDMONTON LEWISHAM
NATIONAL SPIRITUALIST SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
CHURCH 65 Boone Street, Lewisham,
11a North Street, 14 Linnell Road, London SE13 5SA
Old Town, London N18 2QW Website: www.Lewisham
Clapham, Telephone: 020 8887 9610 spiritualistchurch.com
London www.edmontonspiritualist Church Tel: 020 8852 7823
SW4 0HN church16.com President: Dot Firth
Enquiries: Tel 020 7498 5521 Follow us on Facebook Tel: 07732 261 417
February Events February Events for readings
Sunday Service: 6.00pm Sundays at 6pm     February Events
3rd COLLEEN RECHER 24th STUART FORBES                      Sunday 6.30pm - 8pm Service
10th BRUCE BAYLEY Mondays at 1.30pm 3rd MIRANDA WRIGHT
17th JOHN ALEXANDER 4th JODIE RUSKIN 10th SHEILA SMITH
24th IAIN MASON    th
11 PAULINE WING th
17 GARRY TITHERIDGE
Tuesday: 6.00pm 18th CHRISTINE HYLTON 24th MAGGIE JONES    
Private Readings and Healing. 25th PAUL CHARNICK Mondays
Readings end at 8.00pm Open Circle Mondays 7.15pm - 8.45pm £6
5th SONIA FITTON Closed until further notice Open Development Circle
12 TREVOR CHRISTIAN
th
Spiritual Healing Tuesdays 12.30pm - 2.30pm 
19th RALPH MAVER Tuesdays 12.15 - 1.45pm  Private Readings £18 for 30 mins
26th MELANIE BOND &  7pm - 8pm Bookable in advance
Saturday: 7.30pm All Welcome 1pm - 2.30pm Spiritual Healing
Evening of Clairvoyance 2nd Wednesday of each month
2nd JANET NEVILLE FULHAM NATIONAL 7.15pm - 9.15pm £3 entrance
9th FIONA & MARY ROSE SPIRITUALIST CHURCH Open Platform Development
16th IRIS BRIDGEWATER Kelvedon Road, Fulham, Thursdays
ISM/RAM London SW6 5BP 7pm - 9pm Group Readings
23rd PAT MURRAY (Nearest Underground station £6 for 10 min readings
Open Platform Parsons Green) Tickets on sale from 5.30pm
Buses No. 11 and 14 7.15pm - 8.30pm Spiritual Healing
6pm - 7pm Tel: 020 7736 7248 1st & 3rd Thursday of each month
Everyone is Very Welcome President: Mrs J. Way 7pm - 9pm Private Readings
at our Church! Church Secretary: Carol Jones £18 for 30 mins
Working for Spirit into the 21st century Book in advance
EALING February Events All Welcome
NATIONAL Sunday Service 6.30pm
3rd MARC IMPEY MORDEN
66-68 Uxbridge Road, 10th SID PRIVETT SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
West Ealing, 17th DENISE & LES PILGRIM 214 Morden Road,
London 24th ROY SUNLEY     Morden,
W13 8RA Thursday Demonstration 7.30pm London
(Next to Ealing Fire Station) 7th MELANIE BOND SW19 3BY
Buses 207, 83, E2, E7, E8 14th ELAIN STAINTON Enquiries
Enquiries: Alison 21st JOHN JEMMETT Tel: 020 8648 5369
Tel: 07958 463529 28th NIKKI HUNTINGFORD Church Tel: 020 8544 1816
February Events A very warm welcome awaits E-mail:
Sunday Service at 6.30pm friends old and new ~ Come and morden.church@hotmail.co.uk
3rd BRENDA ELVIN meet us at our lovely church February Events
10th CLOSED WEDDINGS * NAMINGS * Sunday Evening 6.30pm
th
17 MARC IMPEY FUNERALS Service and Clairvoyance
24th CLOSED 3rd MICHAEL LENNON
Thursday Mediumship THE 10th MARIEA RUDENKO
at 7.30pm LONDON SPIRITUAL 17th LYN ROSE
7th DONNA COLLINS MISSION 24th SHARON MARTIN        
14th LES & DENISE PILGRIM 13 Pembridge Place, Thursday Evening 7.45pm
21st TERRY BOWEN London W2 4XB Clairvoyance
28th THERESA secretary@spiritualmission.co.uk Entrance £2.50
Please note that Thursday www.spiritualmission.co.uk 7th IRIS BRIDGEWATER
demonstrations are charged at Tel: 020 7229 2024 14th SONIA CAMPBELL-
£3.00 (£2.00 members) Church Activities WILLIAMS 
and Sunday services remain as Sunday Services 11am & 6.30pm 21st MARY REGAN
a voluntary donation Wednesdays 7.30pm 28th MELANIE BOND
Special Event for an Hour of Clairvoyance Private Readings
Saturday 23rd February Spiritual Healing Non in February
Private Readings 10am- 1pm Mondays 11am-1pm, Open Circle
£12 (£10 members) for 2pm-3pm, 5pm-7pm and Mondays at 8.00pm
20 minute reading Thursdays 5pm-7pm (except Bank Holidays)
Please pay at time of booking For Special Events, Leader: Rene Bond
Find us on Facebook: Courses & Workshops Spiritual Healing
Ealing National please see our website Spiritual Healing available
Spiritualist Church Animal Healing 8pm every Sunday
MARRIAGES SOLEMNISED Mondays 11am-1pm Free-will donation
NAMINGS All domestic pets welcome All Welcome
 SYDENHAM WOODFORD HAMPTON HILL
SPIRITUAL & HEALING SPIRITUALIST MANCHESTER SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
CENTRE CHURCH Angel Close, Windmill Road,
Venner Community Hall, 9 Grove Crescent, Hampton Hill TW12 1RG
1, Venner Road, South Woodford, Enquiries: 020 8941 5177
Sydenham, London www.hamptonhillspiritualists.
London E18 2JR webeden.co.uk
SE26 5EQ http://woodfordchurch.com February Events
(Venner Road is opposite February Events Sunday 6.30pm Service
Sydenham Railway Station Sunday 3rd February 6.30pm THE 3rd MINISTER
The hall is adjacent to KATHLEEN BAILLIE SERAPHINA BRENDA LAWRENCE
Sydenham High Street) Monday 4th February 2pm HOLISTIC & 10th CLAIRE BROAD ISM/RAM
Bus routes: SANDRA MITCHELL AETHERIS WELL-BEING 17th MARINA WHELAN CSNU
176, 312, 75, 194, 202, 450 Sunday 10th February CENTRE 24th KEVIN DING
Enquiries: Caroline Hackett 11am - 4pm  £10   117 - 119 Stamford street,  Thursday 7.30pm Demonstration
on 07891 067478 Shamanic Workshop Ashton Under Lyne 7th TREVOR WARD CSNU
Demonstration of Clairvoyance If you have a drum or rattle OL6 6XN 14th MARTIN & PAMELA
every Wednesday at 8.00pm please do bring it along Tel: 07800 639 280 21st STEVIE & HAYDN –
Doors open 7.30pm Please bring a packed lunch www.theseraphinacentre.com  Spirit Art
February Events Sunday 10th February 6.30pm Find us on Facebook  28th MINISTER
6th ELAIN STAINTON JONATHAN WHITAKER Monday evening 7 - 8pm SUZANNE GIBSON
13th STEVE GRAVES Monday 11th February 2pm Tuesday evening 7.30 - 9pm Evening Open Circles & Classes
20 PAULINE WOODHATCH
th
FRANCIS STADDEN  Wednesday 11am - 12pm All start at 7.30pm
27th STUART COOPER Saturday 16th February Spine Safe Pilates  Monday 4th Open Platform
Healing every week by 11am - 4pm   £12 (£10 membs) Wednesday  1 - 2pm Yoga  with MARTIN TWYCROSS
registered healers from “Practising For Patform” 1st, 3rd, & 4th Wednesdays Monday 11th
7.30pm until 9pm Workshop with 7 - 8pm Meditation Open Awareness Circle
Visit our website at: BRENDA HODGSON 2nd Wednesday 7pm - 8pm with LINDA TWYCROSS
www.sydenhamspiritual Please bring a packed lunch Sound Bath Tuesday 19th
centre.co.uk  Sunday 17th February 6.30pm Thursday 10 - 11am & 1 - 2pm Open Healing Circle with
JOHN ROONEY Meditation SHEILA SMOOTHY
WOOD GREEN Monday 18th February 2pm Thursday 7.30 - 9pm Yoga  Monday 25th
SPIRITUALIST CHURCH SHARON LAW Friday 3 - 4pm Tai Chi Open Awareness Circle
(Cnr of Maryland Road) Thursday 21st February Tuesday - Saturday 9am - 4pm with SUSIE SHAW
High Road, 2pm - 3pm £3 Angelic Reiki, Relexology  Tuesday 26th
Wood Green, Demonstration of Mediumship All massage/Facials Speakers & Philosophy Class
London with ALAN ALBISTON Intuitive Readings  with MARTIN TWYCROSS
N22 5AR in aid of the Church charity We also offer 1-1 or group  Spiritual Healing
Minister in Spirit: Saturday 23rd February Development Every Wednesday from 7.30pm
Mrs Ida Stenning 11am - 4pm   £12 (£10 membs) Angelic Ascension Teaching Special Events
Enquiries: “Inspiration and Intuition” 1-1 Usui Reiki Teaching Tuesday 12th February 7.30pm
020 8888 1992 Workshop with We also have a lovely cafe and Introduction to
Website: STEPHANIE BARROWS gift shop Spiritualism Evening
www.woodgreen ISM/RAM Free or £3.50 for non-members
spiritualistchurch.co.uk
February Events
Please bring a packed lunch
Sunday 24th February 6.30pm
MIDDLESEX Saturday 16th February £20
Morning of Readings
Sunday 6.30pm Service MICHAEL REDWIN HAYES Bookable in advance
3rd DAPHNE YOLE Monday 25th January 2pm SPIRITUALIST CHURCH Sunday 24th February
10 LARRY FEATHERSTONE
th
DOUGLAS ROTHWELL Albert Hall, 10.30am - 4.30pm
& ANN Weekly Services: Albert Road, £22 (£20 members)
17th KEVIN NOLAN Monday 7.30 - 9pm Hayes, Shamanic Workshop with
24th DAVID & CATH Spiritual Awareness Group Middlesex WANDA BOLTON
Wednesday 7.30pm Service Tuesday 7.30 - 9pm £3 UB3 4HR Book in advance
6th JONATHAN WHITTAKER Open Circle with Telephone: Weddings, Namings and
13th FELICIA SHARON LAW 07949 186308 Funerals arranged
20 PAULINE WING
th
Wednesdays Find us on Facebook: All Welcome
27th STUART FORBES 2pm - 4pm & 7.30pm - 9pm Hayes Spiritualist Society
Tuesday 7.30pm - 9pm Healing Spiritual Healing Wednesday 6.30pm - 7.30pm INSPIRATIONS
Thursday No Healing Friday 7.30pm - 9pm £3 Healing SPIRITUALIST GROUP –
All Welcome Open Circle with Wednesday 7.30pm UXBRIDGE
JOHN JENKINS £3 at door Walter Pomeroy Hall,
Friday 7.30pm - 9pm £3 Service with Clairvoyance Royal Lane, Hillingdon,
PLEASE NOTE: Open Circle with Thursday 2.30pm - 4pm Middlesex UB8 3QY
The BRENDA HODGSON Healing Tel: 0208 841 4901
Please see website for details Every Friday 7.30pm £3.00 or 01895 466 514
advertising of our regular Private Readings Open Circle Follow us on Facebook:
and Dru Yoga Classes Coffee Morning: Inspirations Spiritualist Group
deadline All Welcome last Saturday of the month, – Uxbridge
for the March To advertise in
January - November Every other Monday 7.30pm
11am - 4pm Open Circle
issue is Psychic News Private Readings: Thursdays 7.30pm
th Call: £10 for 20 mins Service with Mediumship
8 February Bookable in advance Entrance £5 (Seniors £4.50)
01376 563091
All Welcome All Welcome

PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019 63

 HOUNSLOW THE LIGHT
SPIRITUALIST ON THE HILL OXFORDSHIRE STAFFORDSHIRE
CENTRE HARROW
14/15 Hanworth Terrace, SPIRITUALIST THE ANGEL ATTIC
Hounslow, CHURCH KARENZA Staffordshire’s Principal
Middlesex 1 Vaughan Road, SPIRITUAL NETWORK Independent Psychic Centre,
TW3 3TS Harrow, Middlesex, Cholsey Pavilion, St Patricks Place,
Email: hounslowspiritualist London HA1 1DP Station Road, Stafford,
centre@yahoo.co.uk Website: Cholsey, Wallingford Staffordshire
Website: www.harrowsnuchurch. OX10 9PT ST16 2PN
www.hounslowspiritualist wixsite.com/harrow Tel: 01491 523822 TEL: 01785 600994
centre.webeden.co.uk Email: Email: info@karenzaspirit.net or 07504 126336
President: lightonthehill@live.co.uk Monday 4th February at 7.30pm Contact Rachel, email:
Jeanette Brown Telephone: 07528 348 432 FILM NIGHT rachel.angelattic@gmail.com
Enquiries: 07523 702340 Service Times: Monday 4th March at 7.30pm Private One-to-One Sittings
February Events Sunday 7.30pm - 9pm 5th Anniversary Courses ~ Workshops
Sunday Service 6.30pm Wednesday 7.45pm - 9pm Evening of Mediumship with Social Events, Afternoon Teas
Address & Clairvoyance Healing Services: BECS SAWYER Psychic Suppers
3rd CARRIE NORTH Monday 10am - 12pm Monday 22nd April at 7.30pm Classes & Groups, Open Circle
10th No Service Wednesday 9.15pm - 9.45pm Special Bank Holiday Evening of Demonstration Evenings
17th MARTIN BRADLEY Sunday 7.30pm at start Mediumship with ANDY BYNG Educational Programmes 
24th No Service of Service A Warm Welcome and so very much more...
Wednesday: Clairvoyance 7.30pm All Welcome Extended To Everyone Do call or email, check out our
Admission £3.00 Please ind more information at: Facebook (Angel Attic) page
Members £2.00 THE www.karenzaspirit.net for upcoming events
6th DONNA COLLINS SANCTUARY OF A warm welcome is
13th PAM POLLINGTON
20th SID PRIVETT
THE SILVER CROSS
Friends Meeting House,
SHROPSHIRE extended to all
Proud stockists of Psychic News 
27th IRIS BRIDGWATER Belmont Road, Uxbridge, DAWLEY
Spritual Healing Middlesex UB8 1QW GUIDING LIGHT HART
Thursdays 6.30pm - 9pm President: Linda Chant SPIRITUALIST CHURCH 9 Eastgate Street,
Private Readings Tel: 07792 900194 Dawley House, Stafford,
available at Coffee Morning Website: www. 22 Burton Street, Telford, Staffordshire
1st Saturday of Month sanctuaryofthesilvercross.com Shropshire ST16 2NQ
Bookable in advance February Events TF4 2ES Magical Gifts:
Cost £15.00 Sunday Divine Service Contact us: 01952 507188 Unique and beautiful Pagan
Please call 07523 702340 at 6.15pm Facebook: and holistic products from
to book 3rd JOHN ALEXANDER Dawley Guiding Light all around the world, many
Further information about us 10th VAL BROWN Spiritualist Church handmade locally.
and our events can be found 17th SID PRIVETT Saturdays 7.30pm - 9pm See: http://hart-magical-gifts.
on our Website & 24th LESLEY CREEK  Evening of Clairvoyance mybigcommerce.com/
Facebook page Healing available after service £3 at the door TRAINING:
All Welcome We are a ive-minute walk from includes rafle ticket, tea, Courses available in Tarot, Reiki,
Uxbridge Underground station. coffee and biscuits Crystals and Aromatherapy
KENTON Tea and cakes after services Fridays: Specials as advertised THERAPIES: Reiki and crystal
SPIRITUALIST All very welcome! healing, Aromatherapy massage
CHURCH & HEALING SOMERSET READINGS: Tarot and Spirit
CENTRE
35 Churchill Avenue,
NORFOLK ALCOMBE AND
readings (also available
for functions/parties)
Kenton, SNETTISHAM MINEHEAD See: www.hartmaggie.co.uk
Harrow, INDEPENDENT CHRISTIAN Or phone Maggie on:
Middlesex SPIRITUALIST CHURCH SPIRITUALIST CHURCH 0782 528 5688
HA3 0AX Memorial Hall, Grove Place, E: maggie.jennings@ntlworld.com
President: Bette Kotecha Old Church Road, Manor Road,
Tel: 020 8621 3103
(Answerphone)
(Next to the Rose and Crown)
Snettisham,
Alcombe, Minehead
TA24 6EH
SURREY
February Events Norfolk PE31 7NA Tel: 0783 110 4896 SPIRITUAL
Sunday Service 6.30pm Contact Sandra: 01485 541719 Winter Sunday Service AWARENESS GROUP
3rd SUSAN ROBERTS Follow us at: www. at 3.00pm Bringing Spirit to the people
10th GWEN SMITH facebook.com/ (November to end of February) Glyn Hall,
17th GRAHAM MORRIS SnettishamSpiritualChurch Summer Sunday Service Cheam Road, Ewell Village,
24th SURINDER THANDI  Services at 6.30pm Surrey KT17 1SP
Thursday Clairvoyance 7.45pm Every 2nd and 4th Sunday (March to end of October) Enquiries: Betty Masters
7th DAVID COLE of the month at 3pm Healing Groups, Tel: 07786 741509
14th BARRY CAIRNS Healing available after Service a monthly Healing Day, Email: spiritualawareness
21st LESLEY CREEK All Welcome Healing Evenings, Open Circles, group@gmail.com
28th MARC IMPEY Evenings of Clairvoyance all Sunday Services with Clairvoyance
Visit: FOLLOW available on various days Entrance fee £4.00
www.kentonspiritualist PSYCHIC NEWS ON during each month. Doors 6.15pm for 6.45pm start
church.co.uk See our website for the full February Events
for further details day-by-day itinerary of what 3rd TRICIA BAMSEY
Special events our church can offer you. 10th LESLEY HOUBIE
throughout the year www.mineheadspiritualist 17th SHARON MARTIN
A Warm Welcome Awaits YOU!
@psychicnewsmag church.co.uk 24th SID PRIVETT

64 PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019

 CROYDON
SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
Chatsworth Road, Croydon,
Surrey CR0 1HE
President: Mr Alan Seymour
CSNU, LSSNU
Contact telephone number:
020 8688 1827
& 07990-535942
Email:
alanpseymour@btinternet.com
Website: www.croydon
spiritualistchurch.org.uk
Church of the Year 2016
February Events
Sunday 11am
3rd PAT SEYMOUR OSNU
10th VICKY KNIGHT &
JENNY WOOD
17th BRENDA COTTINGHAM
24th Church Circle Members
Sunday 6.30pm
3rd EVE ELLAR
10th JANET GLASGOW
17th KAREN WOOD
24 ANNE-MARIE BOND
th
CSNU
Wednesday 7.45pm
6th JOHN ALEXANDER
13th DAVID CHAPMAN
20th PAT SEYMOUR OSNU &
ALAN SEYMOUR CSNU
27th GARY WRIGHT &
KAREN QUARCOO
Healing
Every Thursday at
1.30 - 3.30pm & 6.00 – 8.00pm
All welcome
Open Platform
Third Monday every month at
7.30pm (18th February)
Open Platform – All welcome
Fledglings, training speakers
& demonstrators and
congregation required
No charge
Special Events
Please see website
FARNHAM
INDEPENDENT
CHRISTIAN
SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
Hale Village Hall, 1 Wings Rd,
Farnham GU9 0HN
President: Jean Harris
Tel: 07936 708882
Follow us on Facebook
Divine Service every Sunday
6.30pm - 8pm Free-will offering
3rd February SARAH McLOCKLIN
10th February IRENE INGLIS
17th February MARION CHILVER
24th February JANE CAMPBELL
Open Circle
Friday 1st 7.30pm - 9.30pm £5
Friday 8th 7.30pm - 9.30pm £5
Open Platform
Friday 15th 7.30pm - 9.30pm £3
Healing
After services plus Tea & Coffee
Sat 9th Feb 12 – 3pm Readings
Three mediums and lots of stalls
A Very Warm Welcome to All
KINGSTON NATIONAL RICHMOND
SPIRITUALIST CHURCH SPIRITUALIST CHURCH WEST SUSSEX
Villiers Road, 97 Church Road, Richmond,
Kingston upon Thames, Surrey TW10 6LU BARNHAM
Surrey KT1 3AR Website: www.richmond SPIRITUAL CENTRE
Website: www.kingstonsc.net spiritualistchurch.com Barnham Community Hall,
Email:  Email: Murrell’s Field, Yapton Road,
kingston.spiritualist@yahoo.com richmondchurch97@gmail.com Barnham PO22 0AY 
President: Bernadete May Enquiries: 07507 703497 Contact Darren Hart:
Secretary: Gerrie Chaney Follow us on Facebook 0774 945 4281
Telephone: 020 8401 6967 February Events Every Monday 7.30pm
Mobile: 07910 335 763 Sunday Divine Service at 6.30pm Evening of Mediumship
February Events 3rd LYNN BURRIDGE & First Sunday of the month
SUNDAY 11am Divine Service ANNA LOVEDAY 6.30pm Divine Service
3rd SHARON MARTIN 10th MARION CHILVER We are a spiritual centre
10th LESLEY HAMILTON 17th GLADYS WILLIAMS providing Evenings of
17th BARBARA WALKER 24th PAT MURRAY Mediumship on a weekly basis
24th SHEILA SMOOTHY & Wednesday Clairvoyance at 7.30pm and a monthly Divine Service
BARBARA WALKER 6th JO We also provide Private
MONDAY 7.30pm 13th PAULINE WALSH Readings as well as Healing
Evening of Mediumship 20th MICHAEL LENNON Find details of all our latest
4th BOB GIACCHI 27th BOB GIACCHE events on Facebook:
11th ROSA PLAZA Open Circles Barnham Spiritual Centre  
18th CORAL THOMPSON First Monday of month 7.30pm Serving all local communities
25th JANET GLASGOW with DEL HODD
Healing £3.50 (Members £3) CRAWLEY
Mondays 8.45pm - 9.45pm Last Tuesday of month 7.30pm SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
Wednesdays 2.00pm - 4.00pm with OWEN WILLIAMS & HEALING CENTRE
Events £3.50 (Members £3) Capel Lane, Gossops Green,
Friday 1st  7.30pm Open Platform Crawley, W. Sussex RH11 8HL
Spiritual Awareness Evening Second Tuesday of month President: Maureen Hedger
with GERRIE CHANEY 7.30pm with LYNN BURRIDGE Tel: 01342 870657
Saturday 2nd  2pm - 4pm £3.50 (Members £3) February Events
Open Platform with Meditation Circle Please check opening days
LILY JENKINS & Third Monday of month during the Holiday Season
JACK McCAUGHERTY at 7.30pm with DELL HODD Sunday Divine Service
 Saturday 9th  10am - 1pm & ANGELA PENYCATE 6.30pm - 8.00pm
Private Readings (Please note that no pets or 3rd SUE MOORE
  30 minutes for £20 children are admitted to circles 10th KEELY WILLIS
(Pre-book at church only) and the open platform) 17th CRAIG O’MALLY
 Friday 15th  7.30pm Speakers and Chairperson’s Class 24th GRAHAM WATSON
Spiritual Awareness Evening First Tuesday of month 7.30pm Wednesday 7.30pm 9.00pm
with GERRIE CHANEY with LYNN BURRIDGE  Clairvoyant Evening
 Wednesday 20th  7.30pm £3.50 (Members £3) £4.00 (Members £3.00)
Open Platform with After each service, there will be 6th NIGEL GAFF
GERRIE CHANEY/BILL RAE free tea, coffee and biscuits, th
13 PAUL BROADWAY
 Friday 22nd  7.30pm £5 and time for a chat 20th IAIN MASON
“Exploring Our Spirituality” We have an absent healing book 27th ROBIN HODSON
A Talk: Harry Edwards, for you to place the names of those Spiritual Healing is available on
the Great Healer in need. We send out prayers to Thursdays 7.30pm - 9.00pm
by MARTIN THOMAS    them twice a week at the above Advance Notice
Full programme on Website services. Saturday 2nd March 10am - 4pm
All Welcome All Welcome PRIVATE READINGS
Can be booked in advance
SUTTON YOUNG EAST SUSSEX E-mail:
SPIRITUALIST CHURCH crawleyspiritual@gmail.com
Thomas Wall Centre, SEAFORDSPIRIT Website: www.crawley
Benhill Avenue, Sutton, Seaford Independent spiritualistchurch.co.uk
Surrey SM1 4DP Spiritualist Church,
Enquiries: 020 8641 2630 3 Warwick Road, Seaford, ANGEL IN BLUE
February Events East Sussex BN25 1RS Storrington Village Hall,
Sunday Service at 6.30pm Tel: 01323 737407 West Sussex
followed by Healing Email: RH20 3DZ
3rd JUNE FROST enquiries@seafordspirit.co.uk Social, Support and Mediumship
10th VICKY & DAVY Website: Demonstration Evenings
17th PAULINE WALSH www.seafordspirit.co.uk The last Friday of each month
24th ANNE WILKINS Thursday 7.30pm Divine Service Starts at 7.00pm
Clairvoyant Evening at 7.30pm Friday 10.30am - 12 noon Entrance £6 inclusive of
Wednesday 13th February Healing Rafle and Refreshments
with PETER GODDARD Clairvoyant Evenings Plus Cowfold Village Hall
We are a friendly independent Alternate Saturdays 7.30pm quarterly from 1st March 2019
Spiritualist church Demonstrations and workshops Enquiries: Contact Val Harber
All very welcome indeed as advertised on website 01403 865823
Do come and visit us! All Welcome angelinblue@btinternet.com
PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019 65

TYNE & WEAR
NEWCASTLE
UPON TYNE,
HEATON AND BYKER
SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
16 - 18 Tosson Terrace,
Heaton,
Newcastle upon Tyne,
Tyne and Wear
NE6 5LX
Telephone: 0191 273 7013
Sunday 4.30pm - 5.30pm
Healing
Sunday 6.30pm
Divine Service
Monday 7pm
Clairvoyance
Thursday 7pm
Discussion and Open Circle
Specials as advertised
All Welcome
WEST MIDLANDS
THE
BUTTERFLY
FELLOWSHIP 2012
Wollaston Village Hall
Community Centre,
Bridgnorth Road,
Stourbridge,
West Midlands
DY8 3QA
Wednesday 6th February
2.00pm, £2
Afternoon Club: History of
Pottery in Staffordshire
Wednesday 20th February
7.30pm, £5
Demonstration of Mediumship
with KATH & MITCH SHIRLEY
Wednesday 6th March 2pm, £2
Afternoon Club: Indian Head
Massage with KAREN LORD
Friday 8th March 7.30pm £5
Demonstration of Mediumship
with DANIEL PITT
Wednesday 20th March
7.30pm £5
Demonstration of Mediumship
with PATRICIA REDMOND
Complimentary refreshments
served after each event
Tickets available at our website
Enquiries to:
07809 464165
See our excellent website at
www.butterly2012.com
& follow us on Facebook:
The Butterly Fellowship 2012
Psychic News available
at our meetings
Large Car Park at
Community Centre
All Welcome
66 PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2019
DUDLEY
SPIRITUALIST CENTRE
Buffery Paradise Centre,
Buffery Park, Dudley,
West Midlands DY2 8SH
Associated to the
Spiritualists’ National Union
Charity Registration 261898
Sunday
Divine Service:
Last Sunday in month
Doors open 2.45pm
Healing, Philosophy,
Demonstration
Tuesday
6.30pm - 7.15pm Healing
7.30pm - 9pm Members’ Circles
& Development Group
Thursday
1st, 3rd & 5th weeks in the month
Demonstration starting
at 7.30pm
Thursday Divine Service:
2nd & 4th week in month
starting at 7.30pm (Doors 7pm)
Home Visits / Private Sittings
arranged by request
Special Events/Services
as advertised
Visit us on Facebook
A Warm Welcome To All
SUTTON COLDFIELD
SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
Kenelm Road,
Off Manor Hill,
Sutton Coldfield B73 6HD
Website:
www.scsconline.co.uk
Telephone: 0121 354 3266
Follow us on Facebook at:
Spiritualist Church,
Sutton Coldield
Sunday 6.30pm Service
Monday 1.30pm Service
Tuesday 7.30pm
Mediumship Classes
Thursday 8.00pm Healing
Friday 7.30pm  Open Circle
Saturday 11.00am Healing
Monthly Specials/Workshops –
please see Website/Facebook
WILTSHIRE
WILTON
SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
Light, Nature, Truth
3 Warminster Road,
Wilton,
Salisbury,
Wiltshire
SP2 0AT
Tel: 07892 685626
Follow us on Facebook at:
Wilton Spiritualist Church
Sunday 6.30pm
Divine Service
Includes a Demonstration
of Mediumship
Open Circle
2nd and 4th Tuesday of each
month at 7.30pm
Everyone Welcome
WEST YORKS WALES
HEBER STREET THE
SPIRITUALISTS’ GATEWAY CHRISTIAN
SOCIETY SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
The Mother Church of 2A Northcote St (off City Road)
British Spiritualism CARDIFF CF24 3BH
11 Heber Street, Telephone: 029 20470461
Keighley, Sunday 6.30pm Service
West Yorkshire Tuesday 10.30am to 12noon
BD21 5JU Spiritual Healing
(For Sat Nav use BD21 5JU, 7.00pm Demonstration of
house number 11) Mediumship
Tel: 01535 647080 Followed by Spiritual Healing
www.spiritualistchurch Saturday 7.00pm
keighley.co.uk Demonstration of Mediumship
Follow us on Facebook:  Registered for the
Keighley Spiritualist Church Solemnisation of Marriage,
 Saturday  7pm  Divine Service Naming & Funeral Services
Tuesday  7.30pm  Healing Website:
 2nd  & last Thursday of month gatewaycschurch.co.uk
7.30pm  Open Circle All are welcome
Wednesday Special 7.30pm  
Demonstration of Mediumship GUERNSEY
once a month 
 See website or in Church for THE GREETING PLACE
details of Special Events FOUNDATION
All Welcome SPIRITUALIST CENTRE
Douzaine Room, St Peters,
STH YORKS Guernsey, Channel Islands
Enquiries to: Ann Jennings
WHITHAM ROAD Telephone: 01481 247185
SPIRITUALIST Mobile: 07781 413218
CHURCH Email: greetingplace@cwgsy.net
109 Whitham Road, Website: www.healingand
Broomhill, spiritualcentre.com
Shefield, Our regular services are:
South Yorkshire Sunday 11.00am
S10 2SL Address and Communication
Tel: 0114 2664025 Monday 7.30pm Healing Group
Mob: 0742 266 5205 Saturday 10.30am Healing Clinic
www.whithamroad Other services as announced
spiritualistchurch.co.uk Everyone Welcome
Sunday 6.30pm - 8pm
Divine Service GREECE
Sunday 3pm - 4.30pm
Open Circle
Tuesday 7.30pm - 9pm
Mediumship
Wednesday 11am - 1pm
Healing SPIRITUALIST
Wednesday 1.30pm - 3pm SOCIETY OF ATHENS
Open Circle
Wednesday 7.30pm - 9pm
“The Divine Light”
Channelled Teachings from the
Open Circle highest authority of the Heavenly
We also hold monthly Kingdom. Various spiritual leaders,
Special Evenings of Mediumship from Socrates and St. John the
along with other Special Events Baptist to Goethe and Newton teach
throughout the year,  invaluable lessons to humanity.
including three Psychic Fairs, Website: www.divinelight.org.gr
a Psychic Supper, E-mail: info@divinelight.org.gr
Development Workshops and Address: 12 Niovis Str.,
Development Courses Athens, Greece, 11252
 SCOTLAND
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE CENTRE
Home of THE EDINBURGH ASSOCIATION OF SPIRITUALISTS
25 Palmerston Place, Edinburgh, Scotland EH12 5AP
BILLY ROBERTS
Website: www.arthurconandoylecentre.com
Phone: 0131 625 0700 Email: info@arthurconandoylecentre.com
Sundays 11am DIVINE SERVICE
Wednesdays 7.30pm OPEN CIRCLE (Except August)
Special Events and Courses
Tuesday 5th February 7.30pm £5 Talk “Precognition:
From Life to Lab” with PROFESSOR CAROLINE WATT
Friday 15th February 7.30pm - 9pm £15
An Evening of Mediumship with JONATHAN BROWN
Friday 15th - Sunday 17th February £125 10am - 5pm
THE SERENITY STUDIO
(Friday 10am - 1pm) Intermediate Course: Mediumistic & Located in Trevone, Cornwall,
Spiritual Unfoldment with JONATHAN BROWN
Tues 5th Mar 7.30pm £5 ‘Science of Self-Esteem’ DAVID R HAMILTON we offer a variety of
Tuesday 12th March 7.30pm - 9pm £10 Complementary Treatments,
Monthly Spiritual Meditation Session with FREDRIK HAGLUND
Thursday 14th March 6pm - 8pm Mini Readings 15 mins for £10
ranging from Aromatherapy to
Sat 23 rd March 10am - 5pm £50 Crystal Workshop JOAN FREW Meditation and Relaxation Techniques
Thursday 28th March 7.30pm - 9pm £10 per week ~ Weekly Class:
Understanding your Spiritual Ability with FREDRIK HAGLUND Workshops covering a variety of subjects
Friday 5th April 7.30pm £20 At St Mark’s Unitarian Church also available
Demonstration of Mediumship with JUNE FIELD
Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th April 10am - 5pm Private Consultations on request
Two-Day Spiritual Workshop with JUNE FIELD
Friday 19th April 2019 7.30pm £20 At St Mark’s Unitarian Church
If you are in Cornwall, why not pay us a visit
Demonstration of Mediumship with GORDON SMITH
For further information
Friday 19th - Sunday 21st April 10am - 5pm (except Friday 1pm - 5pm)
Improve your Mediumship with GORDON SMITH – Part 1 contact Dolly Roberts at:
Friday 10th May 2019 7.30pm £20 At Augustine United Church info@serenitystudiocornwall.co.uk
Demonstration of Modern Day Seership with TONY STOCKWELL
Friday 10th - Sunday 12th May 2019 10am - 5pm
Modern Day Seership with TONY STOCKWELL
Also available: Holistic Therapies • Healing • Private Sittings •
Aura Camera Readings • Victorian Tearoom • Room Hire • Psychical
Research and Investigation Unit • Follow us on Facebook & Twitter

PSYCHIC NEWS
PSYCHIC NEWS || FEBRUARY
FEBRUARY 2019
2019 67
67