IT’S NOT everyday that a Spiritualist book is published by a world renowned physical medium. As such, I was delighted to receive Stewart Alexander’s Memoirs recently and have spent many a happy hour savouring the treasure trove of anecdotes and thought provoking views expressed therein. Stewart Alexander has been involved with Spiritualism for over 40 years, [...]

The end of Psychic News was confirmed by the SNU at its A.G.M this weekend, as shocked and disgusted delegates looked on. Founded in May, 1932 by Spiritualist legend Maurice Barbanell, Psychic News served the Spiritualist community steadfastly through good times and bad. It was a vehicle of truth and light, bringing forth each week reports [...]

Michael Tymn was kind enough to send me a copy of his new book, The Articulate Dead. For those of you not familiar with Michael, he is vice-president of the Academy of Spirituality and Paranormal Studies, Inc., and editor of the Academy’s quarterly magazine, The Searchlight. So, he certainly knows his stuff! The main focus of [...]

I am always intrigued when sceptics proclaim that they can reproduce the occurrences of the seance room. Commonly, such claims are made by armchair ‘experts’ with no knowledge or experience of the actual events of the modern day seance room. So sure are they of their superior understanding of how trickery is the only explanation for [...]

A new experiment looking for evidence that telepathy occurs in the brain, has been published in the International Journal of Yoga, by a group at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, in Bangalore, India. The experimenters used an fMRI scanner to measure brain activity during the experiment. It measures the haemodynamic response related to [...]

Authors Paul Adams, Eddie Brazil and Peter Underwood will be presenting the results of their reappraisal of the material relating to the famous Borley Rectory case in a lecture to be held at the Society for Psychical Research next month. The lecture, entitled The Borley Rectory Companion, will commence at 6.35pm and end at approximately 9.00pm [...]

News reaches me that the Crown Publishing Group has acquired the rights to the non-fiction book by screenwriter David Jehar about the controversial physical medium ‘Margery’ Crandon. According to Mr. Jehar the advance he was paid for his book was in the “high six figures.” He said his book will tell the story of Harry Houdini’s campaign [...]

By Louise Dobson I have sat in circle to develop clairvoyance at the Newton Abbot Spiritualist Church in Devon for over two years now, and felt blessed that I had the opportunity to sit with physical medium Stewart Alexander, for what would likely be his last public demonstration. It was particularly poignant for me since the last [...]

After fifteen years of public séances across the United Kingdom and abroad, physical medium Stewart Alexander has “no regrets” over his decision to retire from large scale demonstrations. Speaking about his last public séance, held in Devon last month, Stewart said: “I have to tell you that for me it was somewhat emotional as you can imagine. [...]

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