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The Quarterly Review the CHURCHES' FELLOWSHIP if /J <x_Z / / Ifp The Quarterly Review of THE CHURCHES’ FELLOWSHIP for Psychical and Spiritual Studies Spring 1985 No. 123 From the Chairman ---------- - 2 Learning for Living - Here and Hereafter ------ 5 Parapsychology and Religious Education................................- 9 Parapsychology at Fourteen......................................................................13 Nomination Paper - - -- -- -- -- -19 Book Reviews - -- -- -- - - ..-24 Early Memories of the Fellowship --------31 The Churches’ Fellowship for Psychical and Spiritual Studies (FOUNDER: LT. COL. REGINALD M. LESTER, Q.J.I.) President Emeritus: The Worshipful Chancellor the Revd. E. Garth Moore St. Mary Abchurch, Abchurch Lane, London EC4N 7BA Telephone: 01-626 0306 President: The Revd. Dr. Martin Israel Vice-President: Miss Margaret Brice-Smith Chairman: Mrs. Barbara Bunce Vice Chairmen: The Revd. Michael Shrewsbury, Capt. Hugh Corbett Honorary Treasurer: Mr. Jack Holmes General Secretary: Mr. Julian Drewett Editor: Dr. Elizabeth Bowen MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL The Revd George Aylen, Dr. Elizabeth Bowen, Mrs. Patricia Patey, Dr. Ian Pearce, Canon John Smith, Mrs. Beryl Statham, Mrs. Dorothy Warren, Mr. Geoffrey West, and Regional Representatives ex-officio. AIMS AND OBJECTS The aims and objects of the Fellowship are summarised below, but can be read in fuller detail in the official prospectus. The Fellowship, an Ecumenical body of Christians founded in 1953, exists for the study of the wider reaches of the paranormal and extra sensory perception in their relation to the Christian faith. The field of study includes psychical phenomena, mysticism, creative meditation and spiritual healing. The psychical includes such phenomena as telepathy, clairvoyance, clairaudience, precognition and psychokinesis. There are two classes of membership: full and associate. Those eligible for full membership must be practising members of Churches which are members of or affiliated to the World Council of Churches, or must themselves acknowledge Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour of the World. Others are eligible for associate membership as the council may from time to time determine. Associate members cannot vote or hold office. The Fellowship is entirely dependent for its funds on the generosity of its members. The subscription is £8.00 per annum; £12.00 for combined husband and wife subscription; pensioners, students, clergy, ministers of religion and their spouses £5.00 each. Life Membership £75. Sub­ scription includes the Quarterly Review and The Christian Parapsy­ chologist free. Those who can subscribe more are asked to do so, and covenants are greatly appreciated. The Fellowship is registered as a Charity and so qualifies for income tax rebate on all covenanted subscriptions. Copyright of all material in this Review is reserved to the authors and publishers. Nothing may be reproduced or translated without written permission; opinions do not necessarily express the views of anyone except the individual contributor. EDITORIAL We are thinking about education, this Spring. One of the ideas that I find interesting is the thought that we never go to bed the same person as when we awake. We are changed every day by the people we meet; we learn from them as they do from us, either for weal or woe. Do doctors learn more from their tutors than from their patients? I doubt it. I have been intrigued, too, in parish life, to notice how often parents are taught by their children. One Sunday, in a previous parish, we were having lunch when the door-bell rang. On the door-step was an apologetic general practitioner whom we knew slightly and his small son, George. It seemed that George had attended our infant Sunday School that morning and had heard for the first time about baptism. At home again and demanding details of his own baptism, he found it hadn’t happened. He was highly indignant; “You’ve neglected me,” he told his startled parents, “I might have got killed!” Nothing would content him, but that his father should return churchwards forthwith to arrange the baptism of himself and his small sister. George and his family became regular members of our church comm­ unity. I have wondered since what became of that man of action whose understanding flowered so instantly into deed. I have wondered also what it was that his teacher said in Sunday School. Perhaps George learnt, as I have done, that we have three real birthdays: one, when we are born into this world, a second, when we are born into the Christian family and our third, when we are born into the life to come. One does not, after all, accept lightly being deprived of a birthday, at six years old. God grant to us, too, that our new understandings may so order and change our lives to activity or stillness that we can look forward to our next birthday with joy and hope. 46We know that Thou art a teacher come from God:” John 3.2 “They that put their trust in Him shall understand the truth”. Wisdom of Solomon 3.9 Knowledge we ask not - knowledge Thou hast lent, But, Lord, the will - there lies our bitter need. Give us to build above the deep intent The deed, the deed. John Drinkwater from “A Prayer” 1 FROM THE CHAIRMAN Education and mission, the dual themes chosen by our Editor for this “Quarterly Review”, present a vital component of our work in the CFPSS, a component which needs constant consideration and re-appraisal. There has always been an educative, missionary element in our work, of course, arising out of a wish to share the new perceptions given to us with all who might benefit from them. These new perceptions have been recognised as bringing comfort to the bereaved, healing of souls, and renewal or gift of faith where there was darkness or lack. There was a feeling that this (whatever form our individual re-awakenings had taken) had not come to us through currently or generally available religious teachings, and that in the CFPSS therefore we had a job to do in sharing our experiences and spreading our knowledge. One way of sharing has been through our meetings at group, branch, region or national level, and through our two journals. Thus we have been introduced to speakers, writers and teachers, on psychical, spiritual and mystical subjects, at a level beyond that normally available to us in our own localities. So we have learned and shared in growth, while being available so that any who wished might find us and join us. This way of sharing within the Fellowship has been, I know all will agree, of the deepest value in helping us as individuals to fulfil one of our prime res­ ponsibilities on earth, that is to continue to learn and grow in spirit and in truth, and then to share that growth in giving and in witness whenever, wherever, and however God may call on us. As well as individual growth through membership, there has also been the realisation that we must spread our knowledge more widely than by solely depending on people coming to us. In the past there have been committees and special representatives who have done good work in schools and colleges, and individual members still make this valuable contribution whenever there is a local opportunity. More recently, how­ ever, we have not done so much, as a body, to “go out”. Perhaps the time has not been right, or perhaps we have been aware of continuing indifference or prejudice, by no means universal but pervasive enough to be discouraging, and for this or other reasons; means of communication seemed to be restricted. The third paragraph of the Venerable Michael Perry’s Editorial in the Winter 1984 “Christian Parapsychologist” makes very relevant reading in this context, as does much of the material in that issue. Now more than ever we are surely required to make a special effort, as a Christian organisation with such precisely defined aims and objects as ours, to make use of our growing resources and accumulating experience 2 and maturity for the benefit of the vast numbers who will never, individu­ ally, be able to come to us directly. To do this while, in all humility, at the same time accepting that we ourselves still have so much to learn, we must seek to supplement the education of the educators (teachers and lecturers) and add to the knowledge of those about to undertake pastoral responsibilities (clergy in training). Dealing with paranormal experiences (whether benign or malign) is some­ thing that teachers and clergy have little or no training for. Such experien­ ces may be of the psychical variety, with beneficial or potentially harmful content, or may be incidents in psychological or spiritual growth; they are still mostly misunderstood, mishandled or ignored in educational, pastoral and medical work (as usual, recognising the honourable excep­ tions). We hope, therefore, in the coming years to offer seminars to teachers in religious education, ordinands, clergy, doctors and psychia­ trists, thus, with their co-operation, increasing our own knowledge as well as offering what we have learned to date. So, gradually, we may gather and build up resources in training, publications and expertise. We begin with a Religious Education Teachers’ seminar in April of this year, and ask you to hold this and other missionary endeavours in your prayers. Whatever we have learned we must share as widely as possible where it is most needed; yet never forgetting that we must, ourselves, always go on being willing to learn at all levels of spirituality, so that we may read the signs correctly and ensure that our work is really Christian. I am the more aware of continuing eagerness for knowledge and growth, and of enthusiams for our cause, after taking part in our consecutive Annual and ICCP conferences in September last, and then enjoying some memorable welcomes at several branches in the following months.
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