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Sun, 04 Jan 2009 12:45:04 +0100

Can't wait to see the photos!

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Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:31:47 +0100

the peace that passeth understanding

the blessings of Angels

In response to:Psychic Fair

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 23:17:49 +0100

Hi Tom,

From Wikipedia:
Spiritualist churches are places of worship for the practitioners of Spiritualism. The Spiritualist service is usually conducted by a medium. There is an opening prayer, an address, hymns and finally a demonstration of mediumship. Through engaging their intuition, they attempt to contact with the spirits of the dead. This is known as opening up. In Britain especially, such mediums are trained to produce clear evidence that the spirit contacted is the person they claim it to be before going on to give any "message" from the spirit. Such evidence can be details of where they lived, including addresses sometimes, particulars of illnesses suffered and notable events in their lives, often known only to the person in the audience being given the information. The standard of mediumship varies greatly but the best do produce startlingly accurate information about the spirit with whom they are in contact.

Spirtualists believe that we all die physically; and that some aspect of the personality or mind survives this and continues to exist on a spirit plane. Spiritualists use the word Spirit as a plural which describes all minds and entities who have entered into the spirit world. The purpose of the medium is to provide some evidence that a human has survived by describing the person to their surviving relatives. The degree of accuracy with which the deceased are described goes some way to convincing the living relatives and friends that the medium has some contact with the spirit. Spiritualists describe this as Survival Evidence.

Spiritualist Healing is a form of mediumship which involves a technique of directing healing energy to the patient from a higher source. The healer uses his or her hands to affect repair of damaged or diseased tissue. All or part of the patient's good health is sometimes restored.

There have been a number of outstanding and famous practitioners of spirit communication connected to Spiritualist churches. One of the principal advocates of Spiritualism was the 20th century British writer Arthur Findlay. Findlay was a magistrate, farmer and businessman who left his mansion house as place for the study and advancement of psychic science. This has now become a psychic college in Stansted, England and is run by the S.N.U.

It was fun but not what i'm looking for, i'm glad your Nan had fun, I think you can probably take what you want from a Tarot reading but you do have to be careful of con artists

In response to:Psychic Fair

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 22:48:10 +0100

What on earth is a "spiritualist church" - I've never heard of one of those.

Sounds like you had a fun evening though, so that's good. As for the tarot readers, they normally go for clues in the person and since you were not giving much away, you didn't get much back. My granny used to go to a tarot reader regularly and she loved it and got loads from it, but then they used to chat like old mates during it.

Tom.

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Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:14:31 +0100

I saw and talked to David Wells at Witchfest International a couple of weeks ago - he's a great character and very inspiring.

My house is very haunted... in fact just about everywhere I've ever lived has had its otherworldly entities. Some are pleasant, some less so. Go with the flow and enjoy the journey!

A journey

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