Issue 2 (2017) What’s On The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Centre Step in to Summer with our New and Exciting Events • Murder Mystery WHAT’S ON AT THE FRINGE DEMONSTRATIONS OF Evening MEDIUMSHIP WITH Find out what great new shows are on at the Centre this August! • New #TuesdayTalks GORDON SMITH Programme AND • Autumn Workshops— book now or regret it JUNE FIELD later! • Exclusive Competition to be won by one lucky reader • Meet our Mediums • Weekly Classes EXCLUSIVE Demonstration and Interview with world Workshop from renowned medium international medium Paul Jacobs Tony Stockwell! Registered Charity in Scotland: The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Centre @arthurconandoylecentre SCO42492 is operated by The Palmerston Trust Company Registration No. SC402435 @acdcentre The Palmerston Trust Phone: 0131 625 0700 25 Palmerston Place www.arthurconandoylecentre.com @arthurconandoylecentre Edinburgh, EH12 5AP [email protected] What’s On Page 1 Message from the Chair Summer is almost upon us and The Centre is gearing up for the frenetic activity of The Fringe and the wealth of international visitors and performers that it brings. We have a varied selection of performers with us again this year - see page 5 for details. Before that however, we celebrate the fact that we are host to some of the best mediums in the world - on 20th May, Paul Jacobs will be back with his 5 day Course; in June, Gordon Smith's School of Intuitive Mediumship runs its second module of the Foundation Course and in July Tony Stockwell is conducting a course on Trance, something I know is very popular for those wanting to take their mediumship that step further. Tony is also giving a demonstration of mediumship on Saturday, 8th July - something not to be missed! As we head towards the Autumn we've given you a sneaky peak at some of our speakers in our Tuesday Talks series, which is growing more popular and attracting a regular audience. Also, we have some new Mediums to The Centre in our 'Affordable Workshop' series. See page 4 for more information. So, I hope we have given you food for thought and we look forward to welcoming you to some of our events. Ann Treherne MEET THE MEDIUMS We have three resident mediums here at the centre who offer Private Sittings on a daily basis, at a time to suit you. Contact us on 0131 625 0700 to book your sitting. Cost: £35 per half hour YVONNE CRAIG EWAN IRVINE ANN TREHERNE Yvonne is a member of the Edinburgh Ewan is a Medium working in the UK and Ann comes from Edinburgh, the birthplace and Association of Spiritualists Church, based Ireland. hometown of Arthur Conan Doyle and is Chair of here in the Arthur Conan Doyle Centre. The Centre. As a child, Ewan experienced many strange She is a psychic and medium and has been happenings that could not be explained Like Arthur, Ann is a Psychic Investigator and very fortunate to have trained for some 15 logically. It was only at the age of 19 that he long-standing member of The Scottish Society for years with many of the top tutors at the began to realise that he had the ability of Psychical Research. Arthur Findlay College, Stansted, Essex. mediumship. Having developed these abilities, Yvonne currently teaches a beginners he became a regular demonstrator of As well as tutoring in Meditation, Psychic and awareness class at the church, and serves mediumship within the UK and Ireland. Mediumistic Development, she also trains many churches throughout Scotland as well Ewan also has a great interest in the Psychic Investigators and Researchers. In her no as giving spiritual readings and assessments paranormal and has used his mediumship nonsense approach, she advocates here in the centre. ability within many haunted locations. investigation via scientific and analytic means. It is Yvonne’s privilege to be able to bring Ewan has also appeared in a number of TV comfort and upliftment through Spiritual When undertaking Private Sittings, Ann works productions including Most Haunted Live and readings to those seeking to reconnect to with the sitter in a sensitive manner to bring help ITV’s Tough Gig. and comfort to those in need. their loved ones and proving survival. Ewan is a qualified hypnotherapist and has also written a number of articles and co-wrote Ann is currently writing a book about her the book " The Wee Book O'Scottish experiences and when not directing operations Mindfooness " with fellow hypnotherapist at The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, she travels Susan Cohen. nationally and internationally giving talks and MEDIUM AVAILABILITY running training courses on Mediumship, Psychic Investigations, and of course, on Arthur Conan Ann Treherne— Wednesday Evenings and Thursday’s Doyle. Ewan Irvine— Wednesday Afternoon’s (or by appointment) Yvonne Craig— Monday Evenings What’s On Page 2 Interview with Paul Jacobs In an exclusive interview with Rose, Marketing and Events Coordinator at the centre, world renowned medium Paul Jacobs sits down with us to tell of his first experience with spiritualism, how he dealt with it growing up, and gives us some tips on what to expect if you’ve never been to a demonstration of mediumship before. You can access this interview in full via our website. Can you tell us a bit about your background. Where are you from and how did you get involved with Spiritualism? I’m from Wolverhampton originally and it was Wolverhampton Spiritualist Church where I first entered a Spiritualist Church. I had moved into temporary home premises connected to my work and I was having all of these weird and wonderful, strange objective experiences that scared the living daylights out of me. Then a few days later I was walking down a road and came across a building I’d walked past countless times saying Spiritualist Church and I thought I’d go in and see what’s going on. When I went in the medium on stage turned out to be my great aunt. 6 weeks later I had a phone call from her asking if I was still attending, and she invited me to go to Gordon Higginson’s church and meet him which meant nothing to me, but of course he was the president of the Spiritualist National Union, principle of the Arthur Findlay College, and the finest medium in the last 100 years. 6 weeks more than any evidence that I could give you, it’s very diffi- later my aunt died. Gordon Higginson was due to take the funeral cult to put in to words. This is a problem with medi- service, he called me over to sit with him and said ‘I can help you young umship, more and more mediums need to accept and man’ and that was the beginning of my journey with mediumship. acknowledge that no medium is 100% accurate. It’s not possible. Our conscious mind interferes. We have to inter- Do you recall having a specific first encounter that made you pret those feelings and emotions, we also have to inter- realise you might have a talent for it? pret those clairvoyant pictures and we can make mis- takes. I’m honest when I do demonstrations, especially at I always had experiences as a child which I would tell my parents about demonstrations with non-spiritualists. I’ll say before I start but they just said it’s your imagination. When I would go to bed, I would ‘No medium is 100% accurate’. If more people went with say there’s a gentleman in the room or a lady in my bedroom but they that approach then it would be better, and more accepta- would just brush it off as my imagination. Then in my later teens I ble. As receptive as I am at that time I never know from moved into an old property and I would be aware of this gentleman who one communication to the next how receptive I’m going to it turned out used to live in the place but had gone to the spirit world. I be, what type of evidence, how I’m going to receive it, dif- just kept putting these experiences to one side, I didn’t actually think it ferent communicators from the spirit world you blend easi- was me being a medium, I thought it was just the places I was going or er with than others, and even a recipient isn’t always a had been. Then before I was going to the Wolverhampton Church I was good recipient, they can make or break the communica- having very strong experiences, I would hear objectively my name being tion. So I think it takes all 3 ingredients; the recipient, me called and I would dive under the bed covers and say ‘go away, I don’t and the communicator to play their part right for that con- want to speak to you’, and I would see lights shooting across the room. tact and communication to really build and unfold. I found it quite scary and I didn’t understand coming from a Catholic background, there’s a negative aspect taught from orthodox religion so For people who are attending a demonstration for I thought it was something negative when actually it was the spirit the first time, what can they expect and what world trying to give me that push to do something about my would your advice be? development. Quite often a large percentage of my audience have never When you feel a spirit there, what is the sensation? been to a demonstration before so I try to explain to them how it works; the mechanics of it.