PAGE 4 PSYCHIC NEWS JULY 1,2000 Fapuih Your letters are very welcome. Dim■ in ITn~nrlori~*■ i mil Post or Fax to: The Coach House, Stansted Hall, Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex CM24 BUD. Fax No: 01279 817 051 VAIID I ETTEDe TA Tiir CAITAD ■ %#wW Wmmm I I CnO I\J I nc Clll I Share Your News, Views, and Opinions... vernacular ‘burned out,’ and it took Blessings Sent To Coral And Tom WORKING AND LIVING IN over three years for various healers to work with this medium rid of We would like to please mention that many through her wonderful evidence ingetting HARMONY WITH EVERYTHING their fears and conflicts. There Coral Polge - the extremely well gifted and portraits from spirit. internal was no one person who worked in psychic artist- has been in hospital for Coral contracted an infection and I wish to bring to PN’s attention the medical therapies so Edmonton th with this person since spirit one entire year on June 12 2000! several hospitals, many operations and notion that there seems to be almost a Spiritualist Church, through its isolation This It was on the same date last year several falls later, she still battles sadly ‘competition’ in some readers’ minds committee, welcomes anyone with works through many channels. is now back the circuit giving (1999) that she fell at her home and against what has become a very of spiritual churches versus spiritual open arms who wishes to use us while person on to spiritual suffered a broken right femur (hip) on debilitating illness. centres. the need is there. For just as the fact is back (more wisely) a community in the full knowledge that sunny Saturday morning when she Let us please remember dear Coral As President of Edmonton that I do not accept there is any such of waspreparing to take her ailing husband and Tom inour prayers (as Tom is also Spiritualist Church I should like to notion of a jealous God, so we do not the support of the spirit. IfI example, we are out shopping. still hospitalised) and send them our make it crystal clear with PN readers feel the need to ‘hang on’ to a member can useanother to build a Coral eventually managed to get healing thoughts. How about a special that in no way do I endorse any such once they have travelled a journey in the throes of trying new church. We are being helped by Ken Tom Johanson - her sick husband - healing minute, especially for them at competition between my church and through any problem that has brought suggested that we budget and indeed the well known and gifted say 9pm each evening from allPsychic any other spiritual organisation. In them to our door, asked for our help, Hodson who cost £BO,OOO. We felt we could healer-to summon an ambulance. She News readers? fact,I welcomethe fact that Spiritualism and then may simply go ontheir way to for a of for £70,000. had been nursing Tom (who sadly has Coral and Tom, please do get well, is strengthening itself inwhatever way give back to the Spiritualists’ world only comfortably budget So, for the last two weeks we were developed Alzheimers disease) athome the pair of you, very soon. this fine body wishes to express itself, through whatever channel they may get round this when and had cut her work down to a bare Our love and thanks for all that you whetheritbe through churches, centres, feel is right for them to adopt. wondering how to out the blue we a call from our minimum. She had travelled so much have done are with you. or just a gathering of spiritual minded For our congregation is an ever- of had internationally and really missed her Bless you both! people who join together for one changing one where new faces and advertising people offering to pay us for another advertising spiritual work, with which she loved to Friends, sitters common purpose in whatever opinions are always joining in, where, putting up board. Problem solved. bring joy and immense comfort to so and spiritual workers circumstances: and that is the hopefully, needs are being met and propagation of the truth of survival where, hopefully, some may stay on to This is what it’s really all about. after death. contribute towards the running of their Nobody but spirit may have the The Hafan-y-Coed Experience Just as spiritual healing is a church. complete answer. We should work and complementary therapy that runs along IfI can use one example; we had a live in harmony, and love and support quite happily with other ongoing medium who had become in thepopular each other. I have justreturned from one of the from local groups and churches and David Thompson, London NlB most remarkable weeks ofmy life. several were reunited with loved There is no doubt about it that ones in this way. Jean had also Hafan-y-Coed is the place to be for invited people in the audience who WHERE TO GO Enjoyment Of Article In PN Physical! I took some twenty-five wished to sit in the cabinet who were IN THE USA I enjoyed reading Bridget Hickey’s men came tocollect mum’sbody. They people with me for the Trance & possibly sitting for physical to come superb in Psychic News, May sounded more like two estate agents as We are visiting the USA in article Physical week, including two young forward if they wished to sit this 20 issue ‘To Whom it may Concern: they said “She will be ready to view in November driving through Arizona, people who have only been in particular evening and a young lady Death, Wills and What to do with the two days time.” They meant in the Colorado, Wyoming then Utah, Spiritualism for four weeks, having from the audience did just that and Body.’ chapel of rest. If, like me, up to that to Phoenix Arizona for the met me at one of my meetings and brought through a son to be reunited returning To the vast majority people the point I had never seen a ‘dead’ body, flight home. of started a beginner’s class two weeks with his mother. subject of ‘death’ is one to be avoided then nothing quite prepares you. I can If anyone knows of spiritual place before we went to Wales! In the There were many wonderful at all costs, until, that is, when we are still smell that sickly smell of to put on our list, i.e. sanctuaries, event one of them has proved to be a moments during the week and lost of personally confronted with it by the embalming fluid. There we all were, churches, meeting places, or potential physical medium (whom we the students found they had gifts they passing of a family member or a close family, united ingrief, looking downat whatever name spiritual havens go shall be sitting for) and there were didn’trealise they had. Many, many friend. Iremembertwo years ago now, mum’s lifeless body. I remember by, do please let us know and we three other potential physical faces showed themselves on the faces my own dear mum passed away, as she thinking that she really did look better shall try to incorporate them into our mediums amongst those I took from of the students and everyone came wished, at home. dead that she had been in the last few itinerary. Postage from England is my own area (some joined us from away with something never to be I remember clearly the family had days of her illness. From the corner of just a normal first class stamp for a London). forgotten. gathered together. The doctor was my eyes I could see mum breathing, I letter but, wait for it, Valerie assures The highlight of the week was the Ron Jordan was to have been with to confirm that she had indeed was waiting for her eyes to open, she me we shall be on the Internet soon present seance on Thursday night which us as one of the tutors, but died. There all were, really looked like she was in a deep so emails will be in order. Valerie we sitting in mum started at 10pm and as well as Jean unfortunately, as you know, he had and dad’s living room, waiting for the sleep. has dragged me into the 21 st century Duncan, Hilary Goodings and Fiona an emergency eye operation, which funeral tocome and take mum’s One thing’s for sure, it’s not cheap technology. She broke my quill pen director Cooper (the tutors), there were also did not go as it should and he was worn-outbody totheir premises. There to die. Mum could have had a nice He which was a disaster, especially as I some of our students on the table. unable to travel to be with us. was mum, - well, her body - sitting holiday for the price of her funeral. had just learned to do joined up in The results were superb with the was, however, not forgotten and was “Hadn’t you Thanks again Bridget, for your writing! her favourite armchair. table, some 7-8 inches off the floor, mentioned by someone every day best your mother’s body up?” article. Any help from anyone will be cover moving around, spirit lights and received lots of distant healing. said the doctor. After a little while, two Mark Digby, Essex everywhere, spirit people walking Truly a wonderful experience for greatly appreciated. Wishing wherever much around the students being touched anyone and if you are looking for everyone, you are, and and tickled, etc. What an evening! good tuition, hard work, excellent love, light laughter. and Valerie Smith, ‘MY LIFE’S WORK IS DYING’ The next evening was another seance results and wonderful experiences Frederick Post Box Moncarapacho, How to of Although my health is still not up to and this was using students again, as Hafan-y-Coed is the place for you, 46, thrilled I was read Bridget 8700 Olhao, Algarve, Portugal. Hickey’s ‘To Whom it May Concern’ I will not be thwarted and aim to well as tutors. They started off in the huts in a field or not! Forget the par, Tel: 00 351 289 704879 May of Psychic News. hold four workshops on the subject of cabinet and trance took place, and wonderful food, en-suite in a edition Fax: 00 351 289 701748 have been with The several of them had definite face accommodation, designer-style I in touch death; bringing in aspects of fear, beliefs, grieving changes. The highlight of the furnished rooms, just go and get Natural Death Centre for some months; religious/spiritual my was in green after death, medical evening was Hilary Goodings giving good tuition and come away wanting No ‘Religion’ first interest burials, before and staff and last I a ofThe truthful with the and a demonstration of transfiguration more. year borrowed copy being patient = from our library after care at home with supportive ancf the forming of ectoplasm. Many Kay Austin, No Enemies Handbook local family, month wait. shock at sudden death, near people in the audience had come Ethel Road Spiritualist Centre, Kent Re the letter from David Thompson, a three agencies, When I read page six, of Aldous death experiences, out of body June 17, about peace in Ulster. Huxley telling dying wife to go into experiences, complementary I am sure David knows, but I his therapies the and the suggestion of a new and other dimensions. Two wonder if the majority and the Light How It Took Years For often for midwives for the dead, I In the beginning local radio and politicians know that the problem profession gasped, because that is how I described press hounded me because Iplanned to started when James I - 1603 to 1625, Message To Get Through my work; hold a celebration around the time of settled Protestants in Northern acting as a midwife from this I have Spiritualism for side, working with the angels and Souls.’ A local vicar accused me been into only what Spiritualism was about. Ireland and they couldn’t agree with ‘All two years. I’m an elderly man and Then escorts to deliver the spirit home. of being in league with dark forces. came the greatest surprise. Catholics. As Arthur Findlay tells us have tried to your way of Last Autumn, I promoted, via local When asked why? - my answer was - understand My wife came and described herself. in ‘The Curse of Ignorance’ page life. I also attend my local Church of It was as though could see her. council and press, a venture I hoped to to take away the fear of death. you 214, Vol 2, and he also tells us on England. My and I regularly hold in April year, of the My family have discussed, wife She gave evidence that nobody but page 34 how Protestantism this a Festival attended the church for twenty-six my and I knew. We had Day of theDead. It was to be a weekend willingly, my plans for a green burial; wife lived originated. It seems, in a dispute years. After her death, I wanted to event, some ofit similarto the Mexican to be sent off in a totally unorthodox in Brighton. The medium, Marion about dogma and the selling of look into life after death, and found Dampier Jeans, and said, celebration of the dead, but somewhat fashion, not involving strangers to smiled ‘No indulgences. To me, that seems a some Spiritualist churches in excuse, as lived in Hove!’ This toned down. A picnic in the cemetary arrange my ritual. After the initial tear, you reason to hate one’s sad to the very poor mingle together I hope will joy as well as London. I was see was correct. My wife hated people neighbour. where people could which be for Spiritualist empty, with and share theirmemories ofloved ones, sadness, I want to hear laughter as the churches calling Hove, Brighton. She gave all Recently, one of my grandsons only a handful of people attending. her names, that included animals. talk on Green stories of mum’s little idiosyncrasies and the fact that she never was working in Ireland and telling A Little by little,I could understand Burials, another on Life after Death do the rounds, yet once again! My grew a nail on her little finger. This me how friendly the people are. why. The standard of mediumship is and a candle-lit vigil at a local beauty daughter has told me she will be very was the key that I have waited for. They would talk to one, shake your poor with mediums giving only weak This was our spot. disappointed if I don’t haunt her and password. hand, ask you where you were from, messages from spirit, the rest being As it out, my healthprevented her siblings as I promised! Thank you to this medium, who and some asked him he was a turned like telling. if me from seeing this through and I I was sixty this February and one of more fortune put spirit return first. There was no Catholic or a Protestant. As Wayne was The other week, I thought that I from the District my gifts from my two great grandsons inflated ego either; when I spoke to has probably never been in a church refused permission would pack in going to the her smiled Council over the cemetary. The whole was a little book ‘For Grandma,’ - one afterward, she warmly he would say that he had no religion. Spiritualist churches, as there was no idea went down a the gems by Hugh Leonard, and hugged me. Then ofcourse he found that he had like lead balloon of ‘My people, who thought and made Dying evidence. I left the church, and can now say I am sure there is a with the local Grandmother her Life’s went to no enemies. ’ Then, I a church in North that there is life after death. This moral there somewhere. expressed in no uncertain terms, that I Work. This would stand us all in good London where a medium with a was and great took two years and many Spiritualist Cliff Lloyd, Wales mad, evil, cruel; even though I stead, for acknowledging being personality, and in the most churches. I left my home two times a explained thoroughly what my aims mindful of death could make us more wonderful, warm way, week to find this evidence. Can THE EDITOR RESERVES and ideas were and that I have whole loving and living beings. communicated with Her for God Bless, spirit. anybody believe that? THE RIGHT TO EDIT OR professional qualifications was to bereavement Cates, philosophy easy understand, Charley Peacock, TWIO CUADTCM I CTTCDC counselling and care of Margaret Gloucester in the simple way that she explained onUii i iwC i i erfo the dying.