Supernatural sleuths and the search for truth

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

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

" No-one Dies In Lily Dale"

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

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

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

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

Internet radio and Signs of Life

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

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

From the Spirirtual Association of Great Britain

Exciting and Important News for 2011!

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

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


We believe in an Infinite Intelligence, Who
governs all

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

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

We believe in communion with the spiritual
realms

We believe that all of humanity is spiritually linked

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

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

Sitters witness Spirit fingers during seance

Sitters witness Spirit fingers during seance

by LEWIS SUTTON

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

 

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

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

Read the rest of the article here !

The spirit photography of Ada Deane – The Armistice Day Series

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

Read the full story at The Spirit of PN

A video on the Beginnings of Modern Spiritualism

The Beginnings of Modern Spiritualism