£3.80 | FEBRUARY 2016 ISSUE NO 4136 HOW DOES WIN A SET OF 8 ENLIGHTENMENT TONY STOCKWELL CDS FEEL? DAVID BOWIE ‘BELIEVED PSYCHIC PREDICTED HIS DEATH’ PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE DEAD MESSAGES FROM THE UNIVERSE THE REAL HARRY PRICE CAR CRASH HAS PSYCHICAL INVESTIGATOR UNEXPECTED IMPACT OF BORLEY RECTORY ON PSYCHIC’S GIFT BIG BANG THEORY STAR APPORTS: A - Z OF MOVED TO TEARS BY THE PARANORMAL READING WITH MEDIUM 02> ASK A MEDIUM… ROBERT BROWN ANSWERS YOUR QUESTIONS 9 770033 280014 Contents 13 54 (Photo: Gorvachove Potha) 05 22 18 38 Spiritual art The work of artist, medium and Jim Parsons (Photo:TLC) healer Patrick Gamble 05 Jim Parsons in tears 42 All worlds are one after spirit message Roy Stemman’s paranormal reflections 06 Researchers uncover Stoke’s Spiritualist past 46 How does 22 Meet the real enlightenment feel? Harry Price 08 Lacoste heiress loses Revelatory moments in time, $200,000 in scam Paul Adams helps us separate fact recalled by Sandy Phillips from fiction 48 Spontaneous 09 ‘Psychic told David Talking to the animals Bowie when he would 26 paranormal activity Pet psychic Parisa Jenkins tells die’ Tricia Robertson reveals why it is how she does it so intriguing 10 News 29 Ask a medium 51 Have your say Here’s your chance to ask Robert 13 Susan King Brown about mediumship and Readers’ letters Roy Stemman meets an intuitive Spiritualism counsellor with a global clientele 52 What the eye 33 A is for apports doesn’t see... 18 More photographs of The first in our A-Z of the Ghost hunting, as seen through the the dead? paranormal series eyes of Billy Roberts John West discusses more examples of ghostly images 54 Messages from the universe Craig Hamilton-Parker reveals the secrets of his Naadi reading 9 58 A good read Our selection of spiritual titles 52 26 (Photo:ISO Records) (Photo: Nevit Dilmen) PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRAUARY 2016 3 PROFILE Car crash has unexpected impact on psychic counsellor’s gift Roy Stemman meets SUSAN KING, whose intuitive powers have changed lives – including her own 14 PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2016 PROFILE It seems her gift deepens whenever she goes through mental, physical or emotional trauma. ‘It has changed many times,’ she volunteers FOR MORE than 30 years, Susan King has way it has evolved, she recognises changes trauma. “It has changed many times,” been helping people to gain “a different that have occurred without understanding she volunteers. “Metamorphosis after perspective” on the confusion, challenges why they occurred. metamorphosis. And I have no control over or troubles that have intruded into their Susan first became aware of her those changes.” lives. intuitive powers as a teenager. In those Having seen how friends and associates The Lancashire-born intuitive spends a early days her intuition expressed itself had benefited from her intuitive insights, quarter of the year or more in the United as “feelings” about people or events. She and realising that she enjoyed using the States, holding regular consultations in discovered she had the ability to find gift to help people, Susan King moved to Los Angeles, Miami and New York. She lost items – a ring on one occasion – by London’s Maida Vale in the hope that she also makes annual trips to Asia – mainly visualising where they were. could build up a clientele through word-of- Singapore and Bali, but also to Japan in the She also dreamed of events that soon mouth recommendations. past. happened or were confirmed, including Watching television one morning, she When she’s not globetrotting, Susan “seeing” her sister involved in a motorcycle began getting intuitive impressions about is to be found in the south of England, accident in France and hitting her leg on a the presenter. She thought no more about responding to her clients’ needs from telegraph pole. it until a friend phoned her from Liverpool home, by phone or Skype. Having started work in the a few days later to ask how things were We meet for afternoon tea in the rural pharmaceutical industry, Susan had working out for her in London. Somehow, town of Steyning, West Sussex. “I love the no thoughts about using her gift the conversation turned to Susan’s Sussex countryside,” she confides, and is professionally. It was simply something experience while watching the morning TV clearly happy to be back in England from a she could do, and she made use of it only show. recent working visit to America’s east and among friends and family. “Oh, she went to university with my west coasts. After a car accident in her mid-20s, sister,” the friend replied. In a world in which self-promoting Susan realised her intuitive perceptions “And that conversation eventually led to individuals label themselves as “world- were functioning differently. all my GMTV and BBC work,” Susan says, famous psychic” or “international medium”, “Instead of feeling things, I started referring to a period when she became a Susan King is a welcome exception. She seeing things symbolically. This usually regular guest on British TV shows. Then, has never used a public relations company happened when I was holding an object with a film company’s backing, the United to promote herself and she refuses to be belonging to someone and it was how States beckoned and she was soon making called psychic – even though what she does I worked for four or five years. Then I televised appearances on that side of the clearly involves what most people would started seeing things as they were – Atlantic, too. regard as psychic powers. realistically.” Susan King’s intuitive help was now “If you’re psychic you’re claiming to A few years later, while living in New being sought by the rich and famous as have special powers,” she explains. “I don’t York, she suffered a back injury that left well as by ordinary individuals in need of believe I have special powers. I believe her unable to walk. guidance. I have simply become aware of an inner “I was a prisoner on the 22nd floor “I tell them that I help them have a sense – intuition – and that awareness has of a midtown Manhattan apartment for different perspective on whatever is enabled it to open up and allows me to use nearly two years. During that time, I used troubling or confusing them. I tell them it to help others. my intuitive gift to help visitors who had I will build a picture of what’s going on “I’m sure prehistoric man had a problems and wanted my insight into their around their life, and by doing that I will heightened form of intuition but modern situations, and it was then that I discovered see what the problem is. Some people technology has led to it being lost by most I no longer needed to hold an item that say, ‘Look, I’ll tell you what the situation people. Once you recognise and develop it, belonged to them. I could open up and see is’, just to save time when they see where it’s as easy as throwing a frisbee.” things without any form of contact.” I’m going. But I never ask them what is Despite that, she has no control over It seems her gift deepens whenever she troubling them. the way it functions. Looking back on the goes through mental, physical or emotional “Also, I never tell people what to do. PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRAUARY 2016 15 PROFILE I never make decisions for people because I can’t do that. That is not what I do in my life. Everyone has their own responsibility A person’s space is precious. If and must make their own decisions. But somebody invites me in it means they I can give guidance: ‘Well, if you do that I think that could happen, or if you do this, trust me with the innermost fragility of this could happen’. whatever’s going on in their heart and “When I’m working, I never look at the person. I always look into space, because their emotions. I have great I’m looking at the pictures in my head. It’s respect for that like a little movie that reflects backwards into the middle of my head. So although I cast my vision outwards, I’m not looking out. And it means I can be very specific about what I see.” We are in a busy restaurant and I wonder whether Susan ever feels an intuitive urge to give guidance to people who she senses are in need of help. “I don’t believe in saying anything to a person unless they invite you in,” she answers. “They have to invite me into their space. I’m not one of those people who goes around saying, ‘Oh, I think you should do....’ “A person’s space is precious. If somebody invites me in it means they trust me with the innermost fragility of whatever’s going on in their heart and their emotions. I have great respect for that.” Among those who have invited Susan King into their space is a world-famous fashion icon. “When I was living in New York I did a session for a young woman,” Susan recalls. “I told her that her company was being sold. I saw this woman having these negotiations with men from Europe on a tropical beach, with blue waters. She went back to the office and asked a colleague, ‘Are you selling the company?’ The astonished woman responded, ‘Who’s told you that?’ “It was me, of course, and it was true.