PsychicNewsIssue4209February2022

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GROWN-UP ADVICE ON
PSYCHIC CHILDREN

WAYS TO CONNECT WHEN THE FUTURE IS
WITH YOUR SEEN IN A DREAM
UNBORN BABY SEEK OUT YOUR
SOUL’S PURPOSE
CHALLENGES OF THE
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TIGER REPRESENTS
CHINESE NEW YEAR

HOW THE CELTS
VIEWED PASSING ON

‘ALIENS ARE PREPARING TO
MAKE CONTACT’ SAYS URI

SCOTTISH WITCHES MAY
RECEIVE PARDON

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Contents 36

04 Two Worlds Are One 14 Man’s best friend helps 36 Tiger represents

Tony Ortzen highlights the passing to cope with Covid rules Chinese New Year
of a landmine-detecting hero rat,
questions the ethics of giving a A new study finds that pets, and In a delightfully descriptive
pig’s heart to a human and features especially dogs, have helped feature, Wendy Stokes outlines
predictions from a psychic who humans to cope with Covid how to celebrate Chinese New
reads the way asparagus falls regulations Year, which occurs this month

08 ‘Aliens are preparing to 16 Seek out your 38 Camp is ‘Psychic capital

make contact’ says Uri soul’s purpose of the world’

Motivational speaker and Intuitive coach Natalie Farrell Graham Jennings tackles three
paranormal metal-bender Uri invites you to take part in a quiz to subjects, including the origin of
Geller maintains that aliens have discover your soul’s purpose mysterious lights and a medium
been visiting Earth for thousands of who developed her gifts beneath
years 20 Ways to connect with the stage of the London Palladium

09 New film is planned on your unborn baby 42 Cards are based on

policeman’s encounter In this unusual article, Debra Kilby gods, goddesses and
describes how to connect with
with UFO unborn babies guardians

A former policeman tells of being 23 COVER STORY Tarot expert Wendy Stokes
ordered not to tell the media after reviews a new deck, which is
he encountered a UFO Grown-up advice on non-binary

10 Spiritualist centre is psychic children 43 Challenges of the

nominated for historic Medium Ceryn Rowntree offers Covid crisis
some practical advice on parenting
status a child who is psychic Leading Spiritualist Lionel Owen
writes that the pandemic has
An American centre which is the 26 How the Celts viewed elevated some scientists “to the
largest Spiritualist community level of saviours”
in the world looks set to receive passing on
historic status 46 Apparitions appear
Former nun Phyllida Anam-Aire at haunted airfields
11 Scottish witches may writes that “Life has been and ever John West takes off to investigate
will flow in and through us whether various paranormal happenings at
in form or out of form” RAF bases

receive pardon 29 Sudoku competition 50 Live in the present
30
A member of the Scottish Five lucky readers will each receive moment
parliament plans to bring forward a 34 a set of Pamela Steele’s new oracle
bill to pardon alleged witches who deck “A responsible person makes
were put to death mistakes,” writes leading medium
When the future Robert Brown, “but when they do,
12 Giving gifts ‘is good is seen in a dream they take responsibility and put it
right”
for the heart’ Publisher Nigel Peace describes a
prophetic dream which came true 52 Famous singer
Researchers report that giving and investigates a system that has
given pointers to the future for predicted his own
gifts to others brings several health 4,000 years
benefits passing
Spiritual art
13 Former scientist says Once a member of a rock band,
Medium, reiki master and spiritual clairvoyant Billy Roberts says
unicorns help her to heal artist Katie Curtis tells her psychic that some of the so-called
story eccentric people he met mostly
A former cancer research scientist “possessed an inherent belief in the
who is now a psychic healer claims supernormal”
that she uses visions of angels and
unicorns to treat patients 56 A good read
Descriptions of eight tempting
46 mind, body, spirit titles

26 58 Classified advertising
60 What’s on at Spiritualist

churches and centres

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NEWS EDITOR Two Worlds
Are One
Tony Ortzen
NEWS AND VIEWS FROM
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Paul Brett Hero rat passes on Cambodia to begin his bomb-sniffing career.
It is estimated there are up to six million
[email protected] AS Spiritualists, we believe that all humanity landmines in the country.
is linked spiritually and that no matter what
CIRCULATION MANAGER someone’s belief, everyone will survive the Magawa was the most successful rat
& EDITORIAL SECRETARY great adventure called passing on. trained by the Belgian charity APOPO to
alert human handlers about the mines, so
Amber Wallbank In effect, humankind is one vast family, they could be safely removed.
[email protected] which makes it all the more bewildering
that war between nations has bedeviled our “Trained to detect a chemical compound
TECHNICAL ASSISTANT precious planet for centuries. within the explosives, Magawa cleared more
Magnus Smith than 141,000 square metres of land – the
Often hostilities are caused by religion or equivalent of twenty football pitches,” said
DESIGN AND LAYOUT politics. Tragically, what should unite has so the BBC.
Louise Lynch often divided… and continues to do so.
“He weighed 1.2kg (2.6lb) and was 70cm
ACCOUNTS Over the years, the amount spent on (28in) long. While that is far larger than
Bryan Golland armaments runs into billions. A price cannot,
of course, be put on the amount of suffering HERO rat Magawa is seen wearing his PDSA gold
CONTACT DETAILS: that war has caused to millions of often medal. (Photo: © PDSA/APOPO)
Psychic Press Ltd, totally innocent people.

Unit 2, Griggs Business Centre Means of destruction have become ever
West Street, Coggeshall more ghastly and deadly with landmines,
Essex CO6 1NT to cite just one example, causing terrible
injuries, often for decades after hostilities
Tel: 01376 563091 cease. Princess Diana highlighted the horrific
results.
EDITORIAL EMAIL
[email protected] Scamper forward a brave young rat named
Magawa, who I’ve featured a couple of times
WEBSITE & in the past. The first time was after being
ONLINE SUBSCRIPTIONS awarded a history-making medal.

www.psychicnews.org.uk Last month, the brave rodent passed on
aged eight. In five years, he sniffed out over
ISSN 0033-2801 100 landmines and other explosive devices in
Cambodia, SE Asia.
The Psychic News logos are UK and Community
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IN an operation which has been condemned by animal charities, a patient with a terminal condition was which kept him alive after being diagnosed
given a heart from a genetically-modified pig. with a terminal condition.

many other rat species, Magawa was still Have a heart? Dr Griffith added that he first broached
small enough and light enough that he did the experimental treatment in mid-
not trigger mines if he walked over them. LAST month, I highlighted the fact that December during a “memorable” and
moral matters are never, ever easy to “pretty strange” conversation.
“Magawa was capable of searching solve, citing the case of assisted dying.
a field the size of a tennis court in just Here is another conundrum: is it spiritually “I said: ‘We can’t give you a human
twenty minutes – something APOPO says acceptable to transplant an animal’s organs heart; you don’t qualify. But maybe we can
would take a person with a metal detector into a human? use one from an animal, a pig. It’s never
between one and four days.” been done before, but we think we can do
At the time of writing, it is just yesterday it.’
Two years ago, Magawa was awarded that an American man was given the heart
the PDSA Gold Medal for “his life-saving of a genetically-modified pig. “I wasn’t sure he was understanding me.
devotion to duty.” Then Mr Bennett said, ‘Well, will I oink?’”
David Bennett, 57, underwent the
The rodent was the first rat to be given experimental seven-hour procedure in The first person in the world to receive a
the medal in the charity’s 77-year history. Baltimore. heart transplant from a pig, animal welfare
It is often described as the George Cross organisations were not impressed.
for animals. Magawa retired last June. “It was either die or do this transplant,”
said Mr Bennett explained a day before People for the Ethical Treatment
“All of us at APOPO are feeling the loss surgery. “I know it’s a shot in the dark, but of Animals (PETA) condemned it as
of Magawa,” said a statement from the it is my last choice.” “unethical, dangerous and a tremendous
charity. “We are grateful for the incredible waste of resources. Animals aren’t tool-
work he’s done.” Doctors at the University of Maryland sheds to be raided, but complex, intelligent
Medical Center received special beings.”
It added that his “amazing sense of dispensation by the US medical regulator
smell” allowed “communities in Cambodia to carry out the procedure on the basis A spokesperson for Animal Aid, the UK-
to live, work and play without fear of losing that Mr Bennett had terminal heart based animal rights group, told the BBC it
life or limb.” disease. was opposed to modifying animal genes or
transplants from one species to another “in
Apopo said that the African giant pouch The pig used in the transplant had been any circumstances.
rat “passed away peacefully” and was modified to remove several genes that
previously in good health, spending most would have led to the organ being rejected “Animals have a right to live their lives
of his last few earthly days “playing with his by his body. without being genetically manipulated
usual enthusiasm.” with all the pain and trauma this entails,
One report stated, “For the medical only to be killed and their organs
Thereafter, “he started to slow down, team who carried out the transplant, it harvested.”
napping more and showing less interest in marks the culmination of years of research
food.” and could change lives around the world.” So how did religions react? Although
Jewish law forbids Jews from raising or
APOPO has been raising its animals – Surgeon Bartley Griffith said the eating pigs, receiving a pig heart is “not in
known as HeroRATs – to detect landmines operation would bring the world “one step any way a violation of the Jewish dietary
since the 1990s. closer to solving the organ shortage crisis.” laws,” said Dr Moshe Freedman, a senior
London rabbi who sits on the UK Health
One thing’s for sure: Magawa will now Pig hearts are anatomically similar Department’s Moral and Ethical Advisory
be playing away on the Other Side and will to human hearts, but not identical. Mr Group.
hopefully know by some means that he Bennett was bedridden for six weeks
probably saved hundreds of humans from before surgery and attached to a machine, “Since the primary concern in Jewish
death and awful life-altering injuries. law is the preservation of human life,
a Jewish patient would be obligated to
accept a transplant from an animal if this
offered the greatest chance of survival and
the best quality of life in the future.”

Islam took a similar line. Egypt’s Dar
al-Ifta, the country’s central authority for
issuing religious rulings, said in a fatwa that
pig heart valves are allowed if “there is fear
for the patient’s life, the loss of one of his

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NEWS

JEMIMA PACKINGTON, who reads the way asparagus falls, claims she is up to 90 per cent correct with “In 2019, she correctly predicted cricket
her predictions. (Photo: Stuart Purfield) success for England, Big Brother returning
to our screens and US romantic musical
organs, exacerbation or continuation of the including ‘scandals and worse.’ A Star is Born winning an Oscar.
disease or an overwhelming deterioration “She has also predicted Sir Keir Starmer
of the body.” “She also foresaw the closure of
will not continue as leader of the Labour household British businesses including
I suspect that Spiritualists will be Party and the unexpected demise of some Thomas Cook and Mothercare.”
divided on this issue and suppose that one showbiz legends.”
has to be guided by one’s conscience. Apart from a prediction that Boris
From Bath in Somerset, Jemima began Johnson will remain as Prime Minister,
As a vegan, the nearest I ever get to making predictions when aged eight and among a list of Jemima’s other forecasts
a pig’s heart is a plant-based bacon and inherited the gift from her elderly aunt are that:
tomato sauce sarnie as a Sunday morning who used to read tea leaves.
treat – and it will stay that way. • Covid and all its variants will be with
“My technique has not changed,” us forever, but everyone will learn to
‘Boris will remain’ claim Jemima added. “I still cast the asparagus adapt and not let it get the better of us.
spears and interpret the patterns in them.
WHILST writing this, the TV’s on in the • A brand new way of living will become
background as Boris Johnson braved “Seeing the patterns for me is the norm, such as working from home,
Prime Minister’s question time in a rowdy instantaneous. Possibly that is because but people will no longer accept bad
Commons. He faced fierce questions about I’ve had years of practice. service hiding behind the guise of the
attending a garden party at 10 Downing pandemic.
Street, thereby allegedly breaking Covid “I am usually about 75-90 per cent
restrictions. accurate with my predictions. I go through • Entertainment and sports venues will
my predictions each year and think, ‘Yep, find ways to progress whilst keeping
An unusually contrite Premier actually that’s happened; yep, that’s happened.’ everyone safe.
apologised several times, but refused
demands to resign. And it seems he is “Occasionally I get one slightly off, • The British economy will rally and
unlikely to do so according to a psychic where I haven’t quite read it correctly, but become a beacon of achievement
source. I’m never far off. amongst those countries unable to get
to grips with their own economies.
“Jemima Packington – better known “I predicted Boris Johnson would
as Mystic Veg – is the world’s only become Prime Minister about four years • Climate change will continue, but fewer
‘Asparamancer’ and claims she can peer before he did and everyone laughed their countries will be active in its reversal.
into the future by tossing spears in the socks off.”
air and interpreting how they land,” said • Croatia will win the football World Cup
Rebecca Shepherd on ladbible.com Jemima uses fresh Worcestershire 2022, but the competition will still be
asparagus grown in the Vale of Evesham, beset by controversy.
“If you needed convincing that the which is the UK’s main supplier of the
65-year-old is the real deal, it’s worth vegetable.  • England’s Women’s Rugby team will
noting that she correctly predicted Brexit, have terrific success at their World Cup
Prince Philip’s death, Theresa May being Rebecca said that “after tossing in New Zealand.
ousted as PM, and Harry and Meghan the greens, she predicted Christmas
stepping back from the Royal Family. celebrations would be modest affair, At the moment, Boris Johnson’s
which was the case in many households as future as Prime Minister looks decidedly
“Jemima believes that in 2022 Boris Omicron took hold… dodgy. Time, as they say, will tell whether
Johnson will continue as Prime Minister as Jemima’s asparagus got in a twist over that
well as more sadness for the Royal Family, “She predicted more royal births and prediction.
a bereavement, and was proven right
when the Sussexes announced Meghan Taken to book
was pregnant with their second child and
Prince Philip passed away. WHAT a treat it was last month to sit down
and read a printed copy of Psychic News for
the first time in ages. Pandemic permitting,
hopefully we can return permanently to
producing physical and digital copies.

We’ve all found various ways to cope
during lockdowns and restrictions during
which all our lives have been turned upside
down. But there’s always a bright side to
everything – and it seems that sales of
books about the supernormal have soared.

It’s just emerged that last year, book
sales in the UK were the highest for the
last decade. In 2021, over 212 million
printed books were sold.

The information was released by
Nielsen, which provides a range of services
to the book industry internationally.

Book sales were up five per cent on
2020 and clocked up a staggering £1.82
billion.

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DURING the pandemic, sales of mind, body and spirit books were up by 50 per cent to hit a lifetime high. ourselves.
“McDowall set out to write a fairytale
“The start of 2022 is unfortunately assistant.
looking a lot like 2021, with a new variant, “There she finds a strange, nameless, ‘that had actual consequences,’ taking
a rush to vaccinate and widespread something that appears to reside in the
uncertainty,” said Nielsen’s Jackie Swope. voiceless woman and takes her home, only realm of the fantastic and grounding it in
to discover that the woman herself has the real world.”
“But one thing we can be certain about: powers.
books are most definitely not a pandemic The play is currently running at
fad and have proved their lasting power “The premise is not wholly unfamiliar, London’s Royal Court Theatre in Chelsea’s
time and again.” but McDowall is concerned as much with upmarket Sloane Square until March 5, so
English myth and Arthurian legend as he best book quick if you want to go.
What’s really encouraging is that in is with the supernatural: how the past
non-fiction, the mind, body, spirit category remains with us in the present and how Sock it to me…
saw the biggest growth. It was up by 50 per we fictionalise history to make sense of
cent to hit a lifetime high of £18.7 million. FROM the stage to TV, and proving one’s
identity after passing on is not as easy as it
Another source stated, “Tarot cards seems.
and creative oracle and divination decks
packaged with guidebooks are increasingly Giving details like one’s name, address
popular for mind-body-spirit publishers, and phone number is all very well, but it’s
which reported impressive sales numbers unusual items that jigsaw together over
in those categories.” time which produce the best evidence.

Rules on Covid have been tough for For instance, who would have thought
everyone. However, maybe it’s made even socks would be meaningful? More of that
more people realise that life’s not only in a moment.
physical, but there are higher realities to
explore, consider and incorporate into our Actor Cherylee Houston received an
purely temporary physical existence. MBE in this year’s New Year Honours list.
From Morecambe in Lancs, she portrays
Get in the glow CHERYLEE HOUSTON, who plays Izzy Armstrong Izzy Armstrong in Coronation Street, a role
in “Coronation Street,” tells of evidence from her she’s played since April 2010.
HOPEFULLY it will receive a glowing “dead” mother. (Photo: ITV)
reception, for a new play about Last week, I heard from video and TV
Spiritualism has been written by Alistair senior producer and director Alan Howard
McDowall. that the award was foretold by medium
Marcus Day.
Having previously homed in on horrors,
thrillers and sci-fi odysseys, his latest Alan started 6ixth Sense with Colin Fry
play, which is called The Glow, features and also brought fellow medium Tony
Spiritualism in Victorian times. Stockwell to TV for the first time.

Featured on The Guardian’s website, “During a recorded reading with
Natasha Tripney wrote that it “transports Cherylee back in 2017, Marcus predicted
its audience back to the 1860s where Mrs that she would receive an honour from the
Lyall, a Spiritualist medium, is visiting an Queen,” said Alan.
asylum searching for someone to act as an
Marcus told Cherylee: “I’m going to put
my neck on the line here. It may not be next
year, it might not be the year after, but I
feel it happening.”

Alan added: “We’ve spoken to Cherylee,
who said it was the first thing she thought
of when she opened the letter about the
award.

“Marcus gave the information about the
award as I was setting up lights and they
were just chatting.

“During the same reading, Marcus also
connected with Cherylee’s mum and spoke
of the roses she was so fond of as well
as equally, if not more amazingly, telling
Cherylee that she had a sock belonging to
her mum which meant a lot.

“After the reading, Cherylee told us she
has a pair of her mum’s socks which she
puts on for important days or when she
feels she wants to connect.”

Marcus fronts The Medium Wave on
Facebook and has over 250,000 followers.
Covid permitting, he’s about to announce
his tour dates. ■

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NEWS

‘Aliens are preparing to
make contact’ says Uri

URI GELLER: “I think the Pentagon knows much more, but they’re not telling us.” (Photo: Thomas Chrisohoidis)

MOTIVATIONAL speaker and paranormal metal-bender Uri Geller security debate in the US.”
has gone public with his belief that aliens have been visiting Earth Mark Hodge said that US Congress
for thousands of years and are planning to make contact again.
has “passed a mammoth defence bill,
Now based in his native Israel, Uri, 74, THIS representation shows a popular impression which included provisions for a new UFO
told thesun.co.uk “there is no doubt in of what an alien might look like. investigations unit – a real life X-Files.
my mind” that extraterrestrials exist and
claimed to have had his own experience As Psychic News told in November, Uri “Uri also said his pal Mitchell told him
with UFOs. says he was shown a piece of a crashed he had experiences with aliens while
alien spacecraft by renowned German travelling through space.”
Journalist Mark Hodge continued: “His rocket scientist Wernher von Braun in the
wild claim comes as a bombshell NASA 1970s while he was using his gifts to help Mr Mitchell “did an ESP experiment
document revealed the space agency the CIA. on the moon,” Uri explained. “He saw
believes that aliens may have already something out of the spacecraft, but
visited Earth. The pair were introduced to each other couldn’t talk about these things openly
at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center by because of the credibility factor, NASA
“Uri has previously been acquainted mutual friend Edgar Mitchell, the American secrets and so on.
with UFOs through his work with the CIA astronaut, who was the sixth man to walk
and claims to have been shown alien crash on the moon. “He told me aliens exist. He knows it for
wreckage at NASA.” a fact because he’s seen things. That’s as
“After driving with Wernher von Braun,” far as I can talk.”
“I think they are studying us,” said Uri, Uri told The Sun website, “we took three
“but I don’t know what they really want. flights of stairs down into the building and Uri also maintains that various famous
But I think they are preparing us for were given orange coats like the ones for monuments on Earth were built by ancient
contact for the Steven Spielberg scenario Antarctic expeditions (with blue NASA aliens. He continued:
of landing and it’s going to be spectacular. embroidered badges).
“I believe extraterrestrials have
“They will probably land on the White “Heavy, thick freezer doors were been visiting our planet. Some of the
House lawn or somewhere. All our science opened. I could not believe my eyes, but monuments around the world such as
fiction films about alien encounter will I always knew it since I was five. To my Stonehenge were built with acoustical
come true. shocking surprise, he showed me a piece of energy by extraterrestrial knowledge that
a crashed UFO.” was given to the locals.
“I don’t think we are talking about
thousands or even hundreds of years. If I The Sun reported that UFOs “have “The Pyramids in Egypt and Easter
had to guess, a rational and logical guess, stepped from being the subject of fringe Island in Chile as well. There is no
I would say 60 to 75 years it’s going to conspiracy theories to a genuine national doubt that they were built with higher
happen.” knowledge.”

The website continued: “Uri referenced The website said that in the 1970s,
recent videos, filmed by US Navy pilots, “Uri was subjected to a series of secret
released by the Pentagon this year experiments that aimed to weaponise
which shows UFOs darting around at psychic abilities, CIA documents reveal.
speeds human-built aircraft are unable to
replicate. “During these tests, Geller sat in a
sealed and monitored room where he was
“He said the footage apparently asked to draw words and objects using his
showing this advanced technology proves psychic powers.
our alien visitors are not here to hurt us.”
“The researchers concluded Uri
Uri added: “There is no doubt in my ‘demonstrated his paranormal perceptual
mind that they are gentle and I’ll tell you ability in a convincing and unambiguous
why – if they weren’t, we would have been manner’.”
destroyed a long time ago.
Uri told The Sun he “did dozens of
“Their ability to move in such erratic missions” for spy agencies in Israel and
ways has never been seen before. It’s the US, but is unable to talk about the vast
simply unbelievable. I think the Pentagon majority of his work with governments
knows much more, but they’re not telling because the missions were “top secret.”
us.”
Uri’s latest book is called Use Your
Psychic Powers To Have It All. It is available
at watkinspublishing.com or bookshops. ■

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New film is planned on policeman’s
encounter with UFO

HOLLYWOOD is set to make ALAN GODFREY was warned not to speak of his Five months before Alan’s UFO sighting,
a film about a policeman who, UFO encounter to the media. (Photo: Facebook) Zigmund Adamski, a 56-year-old miner
after encountering a UFO, lost of Polish descent, was found “dead” in
his job and his wife, and ended “Was it an alien craft I saw or was it of mysterious circumstances in Todmorden.
up penniless. this earth I don’t know. To be honest, it’s Mr Godfrey was one of two officers who
such a long time ago that it doesn’t matter investigated the case.
Julia Lawrence’s lengthy account to me whether people believe me or not.
appeared in The Daily Mail. Setting the It happened.” Coroner James Turnbull, who dealt with
scene, she explained that PC Alan Godfrey, Mr Adamski’s death, commented later that
then 33, was on a wet road in Yorkshire in The paper said that the former it was the biggest mystery of his career and
November 1980. policeman was “ridiculed and hounded recorded an open verdict.
out of the job he loved.” Mr Godfrey
Nearly at the end of a night shift, he “slumped into alcoholism and his After Mr Godfrey’s account of his UFO
received a call from Todmorden after marriage broke up. encounter went national, one day he “was
residents complained that a herd of called into the inspector’s office. Sitting
cows had escaped from a field and were “It was the love of his second wife, there was a man in civilian clothing, who
wandering around their gardens. Kathryn, whom he married in 1995, that simply introduced himself as ‘the Man from
made him pick himself up and hold his the Ministry.’
Turning his Ford Escort panda car head high again.”
into Burnley Road at about 5.15 am, “He had a file on his lap which, when
Mr Godfrey saw what he thought was a Having been on the after-dinner it flipped open, I could see contained my
broken-down bus blocking the road. speaking circuit for years, Mr Godfrey’s drawing from the night and my sudden-
story appeared on TV throughout the death report on Zigmund Adamski.
“As I inched closer, driving at a crawl, I world. He published a book about the
saw a diamond-shaped object about 20ft encounter five years ago. “They cited the Official Secrets Act and
wide and 14ft high literally hanging in the ordered me, in no uncertain terms, not to
air about 5ft off the road,” he said. “Whatever your take on it, this is speak of it to the Press. After that, I felt they
a fascinating tale,” said Ms Lawrence, were out to get me. I left the job four years
“It was spinning slowly, and the leaves “which is why it is set to be turned into a later.”
on the road underneath were spinning in Hollywood movie.
the opposite direction. A sceptic, Dr David Clarke, associate
“Alan has signed a deal with producer professor at Sheffield Hallam University,
“It looked very real; real enough that if and screenwriter Michael Grais, best explained away Mr Godfrey’s encounter as a
I’d got out of my car and thrown a brick at known as the co-writer of the 1982 film possible hallucination. He added:
it, it would have made a clang.” Poltergeist.”
“Alan describes sitting, looking at this
Instead of getting out of the car, Mr “I met Alan and totally believed him, thing and then a blast of white light, after
Godfrey turned on his blue light and tried 110 per cent,” said Mr Grais. “I did not feel which he couldn’t remember anything until
to report the incident. Neither his car radio there was a dishonest word coming out of he found himself driving along the road. That
nor his personal set was working. his mouth. sounds exactly like someone describing an
epileptic fit.
After his policeman’s instincts kicked, he “I’m not a UFO guy who sees
“decided to make a sketch, just as I would conspiracies everywhere. I’m not part of “As for Adamski, he was most certainly
if I’d come across a road traffic accident that crew. abducted, tortured and killed – but not
to show the positions of the vehicles by aliens. His death was caused by human
involved.” “I’ll start writing the script in the beings.”
summer and approach film companies.
Next came a “brilliant, white, blinding UFO stuff is very popular in the When the Ministry of Defence released
flash – a bit like having your photograph US because, for the first time, the all its files on UFO sightings to the National
taken with the flash gun in your face.” government has just admitted that they Archives in 2014, Mr Godfrey’s report was
exist.” not in there. Dr Clarke commented:
The next thing Mr Godfrey remembered
was feeling stunned and driving in the Just a week before Alan’s encounter, “Alan sees this as a cover-up by the MoD,
opposite direction back towards the police three Halifax policemen looking for a but I think it wasn’t there because West
station, having lost several minutes of time. stolen motorbike saw bright lights moving Yorkshire Police didn’t send it to them. They
The object had vanished, but the patch of around in the sky. never received it; they were embarrassed.
road surface was bone dry.
“As for the ‘Man from the Ministry,’ that
Julia Lawrence commented: “When was clearly a man from Yorkshire Police
you meet Alan Godfrey, a plain-speaking, trying to get him to shut up.”
affable Yorkshireman with two police
commendations, he’s not the swivel-eyed Mr Godfrey dismissed the ideas that his
oddball one normally associates with sighting was caused by a fit or a hallucination
kooky UFO stories. He’s a dyed-in-the- and ended by saying:
wool beat bobby.”
“I do often think about that night, and
Revisiting the spot 41 years later, Mr what would have happened if I’d not carried
Godfrey said: “It was a factual event. It was along Burnley Road. My life would have been
real. very different.

“Would I have reported the incident if I’d
known what would happen? Probably not.” ■

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NEWS

Spiritualist centre is nominated
for historic status

AN American centre which HOME to 275 residents, annually around 22,000 people visit Lily Dale. Its dominant architectural style
is the largest Spiritualist dates from the 1800s. (Photo: Plazak)
community in the world looks
set to receive historic status. “Spiritualism also aligned itself with such place to dwell in our summer camp season.
causes as abolitionism, temperance and There are endless possibilities to engage in
In the town of Pomfret, near the women’s rights. the active faith of Spiritualism. A resident
village of Cassadaga, Lily Dale is one of can be as active or as quiet and serene as
21 properties that the State Board for “One of only four remaining Spiritualist you want to be.”
Historic Preservation has recommended camps in the nation, the Lily Dale
to the State and National Registers of community draws thousands of visitors Throughout the far end of Lily Dale
Historic Places. each year for workshops, lectures and are “beautiful forests to explore.” Those
demonstrations.” visiting them are urged to find “trails
Located in southwestern New York through them that start along their edges.
State, Lily Dale is one hour from Buffalo Erik Kulleseid, the Commissioner of the
and halfway to the Pennsylvania border. Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic “Look out for signs of beavers, deer, lots
Preservation, said: “Part of our mission of chipmunks and squirrels, bunnies and all
It was incorporated in 1879 as here at State Parks is to help preserve and types of birds.”
Cassadaga Lake Free Association, a camp promote the incredible range of history
and meeting place for Spiritualists and present in our state. At the top of the site’s South Street
Freethinkers. The name was changed to is Leolyn Woods, which “is thousands of
the City of Light in 1903 and finally to Lily “Securing State and National Registers years old and populated by centuries old
Dale Assembly in 1906. recognition for such places provides trees.
resources with potential incentives, such
Other nominations for historic status as state and federal tax credits, that will “Most common are ancient Hemlock,
include a former home and workplace of a help keep this history alive and vibrant.” Basswood, Maples, Red Oaks, White Pine,
pioneering 20th century social reformer in Black Cherry and Cucumber Magnolia.”
New York City, the residence of a lumber Daniel Mackay, the Deputy
baron who helped to create what is now a Commissioner for Historic Preservation at Other attractions are a dog park,
six million acre park and a former factory, State Parks, commented: children’s playground, butterfly habitat,
which was once one of America’s largest rain garden, museum and library. Lily Dale
manufacturers of car radiators. “These latest nominations continue also offers two hotels, guesthouses and
the Division for Historic Preservation’s facilities for camping.
The 21 nominations were announced by commitment to designating and supporting
Governor Kathy Hochul, who said: “New historic resources that represent the According to Wikipedia, each year,
York is home to so many historic gems histories of our state’s diverse population. around 22,000 people visit Lily Dale “for
of industry and culture. Through these It is an honour to be involved in such work.” classes, workshops, public church services
nominations, those places can truly be and mediumship demonstrations, lectures
recognised. On its website, Lily Dale says it and private appointments with mediums.”
comprises around 169 leasehold
“By including them in the historic properties “located within a three-mile The site adds that the “dominant
registers, it ensures resources are walking radius. architectural style in Lily Dale dates from
available to maintain these meaningful the 1800s.”
reminders of the past. “We are surrounded by 144 acres of
‘registered old growth forest’ adjacent to Amongst events at Lily Dale this
“New York is a global spot for tourism. the Cassadaga Lakes Region. A resident month are development circles, talks on
Bringing awareness to these 21 places will may walk the woodland trails, kayak, fish holistic nutrition, health and healing with
help draw even more visitors for years to or swim at our beach. complementary therapies, a spiritual
come.” discussion on suicide, discovering animal
“There are several year-round spirit guides, remote healing, a workshop
Reporting the nomination, www.post- churches, Healing Temple Wednesday for those with intuitive children and the
journal.com said: “Lily Dale Assembly night service, working committees, home tarot. All are available via Zoom.
Historic District is a religious camp circles, monthly Sunday brunch and daily ■ Quite by chance, on page 38 Graham
community that was founded on the gatherings at our Post Office.” Jennings features Cassadaga Spiritualist
shores of Cassadaga Lake. Camp, which is also in the USA.
The community “is a fun and festive
“Now a 160-acre residential hamlet
and home to 275 residents, it was created
as a summer camp by practitioners of
Spiritualism and includes a large woodland
with buildings, sites and structures meant
to provide inspiration for quiet reflection,
recreation and spiritual practice.”

The “largest and oldest continuously
operating Spiritualist camp in America,”
Lily Dale “remains an active setting
for Spiritualism, which is the belief
in continuous life based on the
communication through a medium with
those in the spirit world.”

In the 19th century, the site added,

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NEWS

Scottish witches may receive pardon

CAMPAIGNERS have said that a public apology to those accused
of witchcraft – some of whom were natural psychics or healers
– between the 16th and 18th centuries would send a powerful
symbolic signal.

“They said a statement from the Claire Mitchell QC, co-founder of CLAIRE MITCHELL QC: “What happened to these
Scottish government would help to right a Witches of Scotland, said a public apology people was a terrible miscarriage of justice.”
terrible wrong from Scotland’s past,” said would be an important first step towards (Photo: Witches of Scotland Podcast/Facebook)
David Cowan, Home affairs correspondent making amends.
for BBC Scotland. of years ago is happening now in many
“We’re seeking a pardon for all of those parts of Africa,” he said.
“It would also send an important convicted of witchcraft, an apology for all
message to countries where witch hunts of those accused and a national memorial, “People are accused of witchcraft when
still take place today.” so we can remember what happened in the there are misfortunes in their families –
past,” said Ms Mitchell. sudden deaths, accidents and other tragic,
The Witches of Scotland campaign unfortunate experiences such as loss of a
wants Scotland’s First Minister Nicola “We’re going to ask the Scottish child, divorce and marital difficulties.
Sturgeon to make a statement on government on this International Women’s
International Women’s Day next month. Day to make it clear that they accept what “People accuse most often vulnerable
happened to these people was a terrible members of their family, mainly women,
“The campaign, which was launched two miscarriage of justice and to apologise on sometimes children and people with
years ago, is trying to secure a legal pardon behalf of the people of Scotland. disabilities. They say they caused these
for the estimated 2,500 people, mainly misfortunes through magical means.”
women, who were convicted and executed “We think it would be important if
under Scotland’s Witchcraft Act,” said Mr Scotland stands up and says, ‘We accept Mr Igwe said such accusations came
Cowan. what happened was wrong.’ That would with serious consequences including
send out a powerful signal and hopefully lynching, mob attack and beheading. He
“It is thought that 4,000 Scots were help others.” added that the Scottish campaign would
accused of breaking the law, which was in send a message to those responsible for
force from 1563 until 1736. About 85 per Ms Mitchell said witchcraft trials were such acts, as well as giving hope to the
cent were women. still happening around the world and accused.
becoming more frequent because of the
“Witch hunts took place in many pandemic. “It will,” he ended, “send a message
countries during that period, but to our politicians who are enabling the
academics say Scotland’s execution rate David Cowan said the campaign was persecution of witches through their
was five times the European average. being backed by Nigerian human rights action or inaction.”
activist Leo Igwe, who campaigns against
“Confessions were secured under modern day witch hunts in Africa. Natalie Don, a Member of the Scottish
torture. The condemned person was Parliament (MSP), is planning to put
strangled and their body burnt.” “What happened in Scotland hundreds forward a private members’ bill to win
a pardon for those convicted under the
THIS illustration from a mid-19th century book shows a so-called witch being burnt at the stake. Witchcraft Act.
(Photo: Robert Benner on Flikr)
Ms Don she had the support of her
Scottish National Party colleagues,
meaning that the bill would only require
the votes of a small number of opposition
MSPs to become law.

“It’s essentially admitting that this
wasn’t a criminal act and that these
people shouldn’t go down in history as
criminals,” she said. “They should be given

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a posthumous pardon. LEO IGWE: “People are accused of witchcraft when “These were often the women
“The really positive messages I’ve had there are misfortunes in their families.” targeted as witches, like Geillis Duncan,
(Photo: Carissanv) a maidservant in Scotland, accused of
shows that this is important to a lot of witchcraft by her magistrate employer in
people. It’s symbolic and could be really little protection in law. 1590.
important going forward at home and “We will,” he added, “carefully consider
internationally.” “Known to have had a reputation as a
any proposal for a Members’ Bill in this healer, Geillis’ brutal torture sparked the
Historian and author Prof Sir Tom area.” North Berwick witch hunts in which 70
Devine supports a pardon, but questions people were tried for witchcraft. Healing
the relevance of an apology. He On a different website, Cali White, a and plant knowledge became a dangerous
commented: psychotherapist from West Sussex, cited occupation.”
the case of Geillis Duncan, a Scottish
“I am not convinced of the merits of an maidservant. In England, as late as 1944 famous
apology for the obvious reason that what Scottish medium Helen Duncan was one
happened to those poor folk was not in any “At a time before GP surgeries and of the last people convicted under the
way the responsibility of Scottish people the NHS,” said Ms White, “people were Witchcraft Act 1735, which made falsely
living in 2022. responsible for their own health decisions claiming to procure spirits a crime.
and might have consulted a local Cunning
“Pardoning has more attractions, but Woman who used herbs and intention or Sentenced to nine months’
also with some difficulties. What convinces magic to create healing potions. imprisonment, when she was convicted,
me, however, is that most of those found Helen cried out: “I have done nothing; is
guilty in Scotland gave ‘confessions’ there a God?”
delivered under torture.
Helen was the last person to be jailed
“There is also legal precedent for a under the act, which was repealed by
pardon. Those executed after the infamous the Fraudulent Mediums Act of 1951,
Salem witch trials in the USA were which gave Spiritualism legal status. This
declared innocent under Massachusetts followed a campaign by Spiritualist MP
state law in 2001.” Thomas Brooks.

A spokesman for the Scottish Born in 1897 in Callander, Perthshire,
government said it acknowledged that Helen toured Britain giving materialisation
those accused and convicted of the offence séances. She passed on in 1956 aged 59 in
of witchcraft, the majority of whom were Edinburgh. ■
women, faced discrimination and had very

Giving gifts ‘is good for the heart’

SCIENTISTS in the USA have reported that giving presents lowers psychological wellbeing. But the latest
volunteers’ blood pressure and heart rate, and keeps arteries study shows it’s also good for the heart.”
feeding the heart in good condition.
Reporting their findings, the researchers
“But,” said Daily Mail journalist Pat a gift card and send it to anyone they said: “Prosocial behaviour – or the warm
Hagan, “being the recipient of a gift did not wanted along with an e-mail message glow of giving – can have many benefits.
have the same powerful effect. expressing why they chose them. The
remainder were allowed to choose a gift “As well as reducing heart rate and blood
“The findings, by psychologists at card for themselves. pressure, it lowers rates of depression and
the University of California Los Angeles stress. We found it had a greater effect
(UCLA), suggest giving Christmas presents Published in the journal than self-rewarding behaviour.”
to friends and family may help to reduce Psychophysiology, results revealed that
the risk of heart attacks and strokes.” heart rate and blood pressure both Prof Cary Cooper, a psychologist and
declined significantly when stressed stress expert at Alliance Manchester
British consumers spend up to £80 students were allowed to send a loved one Business School, said: “Giving gifts or
billion a year during the festive season, a gift. The effect was much lower in those helping others makes us more sociable and
“the bulk of which goes on gifts. receiving a gift. less aggressive.

“Previous studies have shown the act Researchers said prosocial behaviour “Much of our normal lives are spent
of giving can benefit mood and mental – “where individuals do things for the earning money to look after ourselves and
wellbeing by improving self-esteem.” benefit of others rather than themselves our families, often in jobs where sometimes
– was already known to bolster you have to be ruthless with other people.
Researchers at the UCLA wanted to see
if it also benefitted the heart and recruited GIVING gifts to others can also “Giving Christmas presents is a chance
90 college students. lower rates of depression and stress. to compensate for that – and it’s good for
our health.” ■
First, they were exposed to a stressful
situation and told that they had just
minutes to prepare for a speech to deliver
to an audience. Monitors measured their
heart rate and blood pressure as they did
so.

Immediately afterwards, 50 per cent of
the students were told they could choose

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NEWS

Former scientist says unicorns
help her to heal

A FORMER cancer research scientist who quit her career to was a total reset.”
become a psychic healer has claimed that she uses visions of angels Having started to meditate on a regular
and unicorns to treat patients.
basis, Calista began seeing angels again,
In walesinline.co.uk journalists CALISTA MACGILLIVRAY: “Both angels and spirits who gave her guidance. Then she saw a
Harriet Bullough and Victoria Jones said came to me.” (Photo: Facebook) unicorn.
that Calista Macgillivray, 40, regularly
communed with spirit beings and angels pharmaceutical companies as a cancer “When I was running my herbal
as a child. researcher and really loved my job.” medicine company, I had a line of soaps and
wanted to create a unicorn soap,” she said.
After becoming “cynical” as a teenager, Having decided to dramatically change
Calista studied medical biotechnology career, Calista started to study reiki, “I literally sat down one day and said, ‘If
before working for major pharmaceutical though at that point “not many people I have unicorn guides, please come forward
companies. were practising it. and show me.’

Some years ago, Calista, who lives in “I felt like I could help another person “I wasn’t sure if they existed, but I
Perthshire, Scotland, became disillusioned more in a short session than I could being wanted to see if they were real. Then these
with her work. Having started a course in this small cog in a big pharmaceutical two massive unicorns came forward. They
reiki, she left the laboratory to become a company. basically harmonised my energy to theirs.
holistic healer.
“I left my research job for a “It was beautiful and that’s when
“I think people are surprised when I tell pharmaceutical company in Dundee in I started to bring unicorns into my
them I was a scientist,” said Calista. “But I February 2006. In the next ten months, I meditation.”
think it also makes them more open to my became a master teacher, got a diploma
techniques. in herbal medicine and started up my own Calista said that angels “gave me
therapy business. messages and every one they gave me was
“I never believe in anything I don’t so accurate and true… They guided me to
experience. I have experienced angels and “My former colleagues left my life at clients.”
unicorns, and so have the people in my that time, as they couldn’t understand. It
sessions. It’s really amazing.” The angels “also guided me to America.
HEALER says that two massive I kept seeing Maine written everywhere.
Growing up in rural Scotland, Calista unicorns appeared and “harmonised When I left and travelled to Maine I made
was surrounded by strong spiritual my energy to theirs.” incredible connections.”
women, like her great aunt and great-
grandmother. Angels helped Calista with her work and
started communing during reiki, “so I would
“I saw the angels physically come ask my client if we could do angel healing
towards me, but I didn’t really understand for their session instead.
it,” she said.
“From there, I just worked alongside
“Both angels and spirits came to me the angels to create this therapy system. I
from the age of six, but I didn’t know how think what energy medicine does is it goes
to receive this at that age. straight to the root issue.

“I saw angels and spirits regularly. I saw “Angels tend to work with us and send
a spirit at my grandmother’s house. He just us messages. They help us to be more
stood there and didn’t say anything. It did caring and compassionate, and just to see
scare me when I was young. the lighter side of life.”

“My family was a matriarchy. It was Calista, who has trademarked Unicorn
a really strong feminine family. Most of
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my ancestors.

“They were very open to the concept
of spirits. Living where we did, we often
talked about fairies and nature spirits.
That was really my bread and butter
growing up. It was a great childhood.”

Reaching her teens, Calista’s beliefs
wavered. She “went through a lot of
bullying at school and abuse. I just
thought, ‘If there are spirits and angels,
why is this happening to me?’”

After receiving an honours degree
in medical biotechnology from Abertay
University in Dundee, Calista “just got my
head stuck into science.

“I always wanted to help people.
I worked with some of the biggest

NEWS

Healing, insisted that unicorns exist, others have the same experience… but the main difference is that they have a
adding: “People see unicorns through this “Now, angel and Unicorn Healing is single curled horn…
fairytale filter, but these beings are real.
taught over six continents and we’ve got “No-one knows where the idea of
“As a trained scientist, I don’t believe over 1,000 practitioners worldwide.” unicorns came from. Many people in the
in anything until I can experience it. But I Middle Ages really believed that unicorn
have experienced unicorns and so have my Despite writing two best-selling books, horns could heal sickness.
clients. Calista “sometimes comes across cynicism.
Some people think my ideas are absurd and “However, many of the horns that were
“Unicorns have a higher, more expansive can mock them. shown off as unicorn horns actually came
vibration than we do. They often want from other creatures, like rhinos and
to connect with people who are on their “I don’t judge people and hope that they narwhals.
spiritual path. Unicorns are for the rebels don’t judge me. If someone doesn’t believe
and the change-makers.” in what I do, I don’t think it’s any of my “These strange mammals look like
business. unicorn whales. Narwhals are also known
Calista said that her background as the unicorns of the sea.”
in science “has been very valuable. I “Once people hear that I’m a scientist,
never just believe something. I have to they always become a bit more open, National Unicorn Day falls on Saturday,
experience it to know it’s real. though. I think it gives me a bit of April 9. It aims to raise awareness and
credibility.” celebrate the history of unicorns as a part
“If I experience something, like with of human mythology. ■
the angel healing, I then trial it and see if Of unicorns, a BBC website says: “These
mythological creatures are like horses,

Man’s best friend helps to
cope with Covid rules

SOMETIMES called “man’s best friend,” a new study has found that effects that come with significant life
events, were defined in the study as a
pets, and especially dogs, have helped humans to cope with Covid feeling of being cared for, knowledge of
being loved, esteemed and valued, and
rules and regulations. the sense of belonging to a supportive
network,” said Zakiyah Ebrahim.
“The benefits of owning a pet have
Assessing the results, researchers
always been clear,” wrote Zakiyah Ebrahim found that dog owners reported having
on news24.com significantly more social support when
compared with the control group.
“These advantages have come to the
“Not only does the current study show
forefront once again during the Covid-19 that owning a dog may help safeguard
pandemic, where especially dogs are pet owners from negative psychological
helping people cope with the stress impacts associated with the pandemic,”
and anxiety associated with the virus, said Zakiyah Ebrahim, “but they also add
subsequent lockdowns and isolation.” to existing scientific evidence that these
companions provide positive support to
For some, “the pandemic has led to their owners during hard times.”

a yearning for a furry companion. And In their conclusions, the researchers
wrote: “Taken together, our results suggest
according to a new study, the reason isn’t that dog ownership may have provided
hard to find. people with a stronger sense of social
support, which in turn may have helped
“The research, which mainly looked RESEARCHERS found that dogs “may positively buffer some of the negative psychological
at dogs and how they impact the mental contribute to the wellbeing of owners.” impacts caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
health of their owners, suggested that
having man’s best friend around resulted “Our results show that pet dog owners
were significantly less depressed than
in fewer depressive symptoms and better happiness scores between the two groups non-pet owners during the Covid-19
social support during the pandemic were noted. pandemic…
compared with the control group who did
not own dogs.” From Nestlé Purina Research in St Louis, “Our work adds to the corpus of
Missouri, researchers reported that dog scientific literature demonstrating that
The findings were reported in the owners “had a significantly more positive pet dogs may positively contribute to the
journal PLOS ONE. According to the attitude towards and commitment to pets wellbeing of owners during difficult times.
authors, “major life events, such as the than the control group.”
Covid-19 pandemic, can affect a person’s “However, more work is needed
psychological and physiological health, but For the study, they asked 768 pet dog to better understand the relationship
social support can mitigate these effects.” owners and 767 potential pet dog owners between pet ownership and social support
to complete an online survey. as modulators of owner wellbeing.” ■
Researchers wrote that dog owners
“reported having significantly more social This included psychometric scales
support available to them compared to that evaluate depression, anxiety and
potential dog owners. Their depression happiness, as well as attitude to and a
scores were also lower compared to commitment towards pets, and perceived
potential dog owners.” social support.

No significant differences in anxiety and “Social support, which can counter
psychological and physiological negative

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FEATURE
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FEATURE

NATALIE FARRELL: “I’m going to give you my top
tips for connecting with your intuition.”

Seek out your soul’s
purpose

Natalie Farrell is an intuitive coach and the author of “Light The Way.” As a B) Hello! I love a bit of change. I know
soulpreneur and business founder, in her own words she embodies “all the it is healthy for me and my business
to be open to new ways. I often sign
aspects of my raw, divine femininity while breaking conventions and creating up for courses and follow influencers
change, paving the way for others to follow.” within their field on Instagram.

Through her work as a writer and presenter, Natalie “empowers people to C) I find change hard. I’d rather stay in
push to their edges – to activate their intuitive voice and approach life and my soul cocoon space and hide from
business the unconventional way.” the world than take the steps to
change.
In this feature, Natalie, who lives between Andalusia in Spain and
Tunbridge Wells in Kent, presents a series of points for you to determine your 2 People say you are a go-getter
soul’s purpose. searching for something else to light
the way.
LOOKING for some guidance on life and 1 Setting the tone for your story. How
business? Yes? All you have to do to is take open are you to change? D) Yay. I hear this a lot from my peers at
part in this nine-question quiz. least three to four times a month.
A) Ka-ching. I am the change! I adapt
As well as that, I’m going to give you my to new environments and situations E) Nay. I am more of your slow burn
top tips for connecting with your intuition, super easily. I am the first in line type of soul-setter.
and reveal your soul colours and starseed to try something new and love to
source to gain clarity and make decisions explore new products and teach F) Uh huh. Never heard anyone say this
which serve your unique creative spark as myself how they work, so I can teach about me, but perhaps 2022 is the
a soulpreneur. others and grow my business. year.

DO you find that complete strangers confide in you and share their stories? 3 How do you choose your outfit for the
day?
16 PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2022
A) As soon as you wake up, you stretch
and feel into your body. You know
exactly what mood you are in and
how to shift it or lift it. You use your
clothes and colours to shine out the
message for that day into the world.

B) You plan the outfit the night before,
leaving it out ready as you are super
excited to go out in this magical way
weaving some high vibes into your
day and others.

C) Grab and go. Whatever shakes your
world that day is what makes its way
onto your body.

4 Which activity gets those “gut feeling”
juices flowing the most?

A) Ecstatic dancing. Call me “Venus
the vulnerable.” I am up for painting
the night with my soul ebbing

FFEEAATTUURE

and flowing with wild and free HOW you choose your outfit for the day gives valuable clues about your personality.
movement.
B) Falling water. This structure is fluid. the right thing will happen as you
B) Chanting/vocal toning. Call me I am slowly building my network dive deeper to discover your soul’s
“Aurora the angel.” I’m always open and have a bit of trouble still saying purpose.
to letting out heavenly tones and “No” to certain people within my
moving the vibration through my soul family. My business is a little B) Run to check your diary, go to the
body and soul. intermittent too as the flow of website to check out the itinerary
my uncertainty can impact the and who will be hosting the
C) Guided meditation. Call me “Ophelia motivation that filters into it. workshops, then start to map out a
the opulent.” Taking it slowly and plan for the day.
shutting out the external, following C) The Shard. This structure is new. I am
the voice of another to my soul still seeking and learning how it is to C) Initially you feel a bit scared and
sanctuary moves me to stillness. be with friends and colleagues who tentative, but then start to research
are reaching to the stars and bridging the teachers and feel excited to ask
5 How do you feel about your their worlds between the old ways questions and be with them. A few
imperfections? and the new ways. hours later, you book your ticket as
A) Feel fierce. Love fierce. Accept fierce. your intuition guides you to be brave
8 On the spot. You are given a task to and make a bold decision towards
B) Surrender. Soften. Let Go. complete in eight hours, but have no unearthing your soul’s purpose.
idea where to start. Do you:
C) Attached. Frustrated. Disgusted. It’s now time to count your answers. If
A) Jump right in and trust in yourself you mainly answered A, you are a “Rising
6 Complete strangers confide in you to feel totally revved up to navigate star – A cosmic soul elevator.”
often sharing their most intimate life the unknown and highly confident to
stories. utilise all your soulpreneur skills. Your soul’s purpose is to herald the
truth and bring all the lightworkers
A) Yes! I’m a beacon of light emitting B) Refer to your oracle deck for together and raise their vibration to
gentle rays of compassion and guidance and then allow channelling become the leaders they were born to be.
kindness for anyone to share in a safe to commence and move you on with
sacred container. the task. You are a rising star ready to shine so
brightly. You are fully awake spiritually
B) Not quite. I’m still the one seeking C) Start by meditating, then journal and ready to lead and carve new paths
the guidance as I slowly wake up and your thoughts and emotions before for fellow lightworkers and be a guide
unearth my soul’s purpose you begin to map out a structure and for others to build their soul-centred
fill in the steps as you slowly see how businesses.
C) No! I have a way with people for sure, you can complete the task.
but complete strangers tend to share As a soulpreneur, you are very open to
their troubles with others. 9 You are wishing to reclaim your fallen creative sparks – the advice you give out is
voice and ready to start your spiritual gratefully received from others. Yet know
7 You are feeling a little lost, as life is a awakening journey. It just so happens that this is worth so much. Your work is
bit overwhelming. How sturdy is your that the universe helps you to see a very subtle and less than easy to describe
soul support community? wellbeing event which is happening in yet alone pop a price on.
your area. Do you:
A) Taj Mahal. This structure is People are drawn to your light and
impressive and reflects both my A) Jump for joy. So happy to try new palpable presence. You have overcome
personal and business connections. things and be totally vulnerable as many obstacles to be where you are now
My cosmic soul is uplifted, fully you go without a plan and know that and are living the embodied blend.
awake and there for me before I even
know I need it. Now your work as a cosmic soul
elevator is to be bold enough to continue

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to elevate your pitch, so you can be in full connected with your sacred boundaries. Tuning in with the frequency of your
alignment with your values and continue Allow yourself “Divine me time rituals.” soul will bring an effortless flow of
to approach life and business in an abundance and a river of joy into your life.
unconventional way. Rest is vital even for super generator
manifestars like yourself. Your super soul saying is “Silence is
The knowledge you seek is how to stay golden.” Your soul colours are cream, gold,
grounded and illuminated simultaneously You resist seeking counsel, but in your copper, mustard, auburn, maroon and deep
and more importantly to slide and move heart you know that the greatest leaders blue.
freely between the two. More often now are always seeking guidance and learning,
you feel frustrated at the pace of others so spend some time calling in your soul co- If you have a good mixture of A, B and C,
and at the pace of the change which you connectors and co-working tribe. you are “Up and coming – A sonic soul
are internally manifesting. imprinter.”
You are an innovator – stay within your
Keep flexing and honing your intuitive unique and beautiful lane. Know it’s safe to Your soul’s purpose is showing up-and-
muscle. Tune in more with your souldar and explore those unknown edges and say “No” coming change-makers how to connect
get that intuitive antenna super sharp and to opportunities from now on that aren’t in with the resonance of their truth and build
receptive so you are ready to float into all alignment to your soul’s purpose. rituals which are meaningful and fill their
the abundance you are manifesting when lives with wonder.
it arises. Your super soul saying is “To infinity and
beyond.” Your soul colours are red, orange, You are the whispers they hear and are
Speak your truth. Be natural in the only yellow, hot pink, magenta and gold. being called to listen to now so they can
way you know how. The time has come for wake up their wise man or woman within
you to stop hiding, so be brave and know If you mainly answered C, you are a “Soul and begin to impact the world with their
that you are amazing. whisper – A soul sanctuary activator.” soul imprint.

Rather than living in fear of not being Your soul’s purpose is creating People call you “A tenacious doer” and
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deeper towards trusting your gifts. People call you an angel. You often hear work you are doing has great purpose. You
tones and see colours and orbs, as you love being a soulpreneur.
You are a rising star calling in your tribe are deeply connected to sound and the
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saying is “The only way is up.” Your soul them as roots to release you from the binds
colours are purple, amethyst, peach, red, You are sitting on the cusp of piercing of the past and weave you closer to the
orange, gold and white. through your own awakening. At times lightness of free-flowing abundance.
you feel tired and even exhausted as you
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DEBRA KILBY: “Spirit babies offer a unique
perspective of life; they have a lot to say!”

Ways to connect with
your unborn baby

BY DEBRA KILBY

A spirit baby medium, conscious conception specialist, channel, healer and “JUST because I am not in your arms does
spiritual guide, Debra Kilby supports women on their journey to motherhood, not mean we are not connected. There is
whether they are struggling to conceive, have experienced baby loss or a traumatic always a plan. Have faith.”
birth.
Welcome to the world of the spirit baby
Debra’s own challenging journey to motherhood through birth trauma, three and the messages of love they have to
miscarriages and a medical termination catapulted her into a spiritual awakening share with us.
and discovering her life’s purpose.
Spirit babies offer a unique perspective
“My soul’s contract is to bring women, their baby and future babies together, of life; they have a lot to say! This is not
and to heal the deep wounds of a mother within this lifetime and others,” she told just for their mums and future parents, but
“Psychic News.” for us all on the bigger picture of life and
creation of a new Earth.
Based in Tooting, SW London, Debra works alongside spirit babies to offer their
perspective on situations for individuals and the collective as part of creating a For just as there is life after death, there
new Earth. She is the author of “Rosa’s Choice: Healing the Wounds of the Mother.” is also life before life. Souls in the spirit
baby realm wish to support us in our vision
of a new Earth by sharing theirs. Welcome
to their world.

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The opening message to this article ONE of the “many gifts a spirit baby offers is the gift of reflection for you to see yourself more clearly.”
from a spirit baby was not received by
myself or any other intuitive therapist, but very long time and possibly lifetimes. energy what it needs and allow the first
one of the beautiful women on my “How Your spirit baby is fully behind you and word to come to mind. If this new energy
to communicate with your unborn baby had a colour, shape or form, what would
programme” for another member of the supporting you with your healing to find this look like?
group. you. “Find yourself, find us” is a consistent
message of theirs. With your imagination, allow this new
Her first experience of spirit baby colour and form to merge with the original
communication during the very first Much of your stories around these doubt and belief, and watch it transform.
session was deeply healing for this baby’s themes come from others’ opinions of
future mum. what is or is not possible for you. Your first Exercise 2.
step to communicating with a spirit baby Gaining clarity on who you are
Both women were surprised at the is to release any words and opinions from
clarity and depth of feeling in the giving others that create limitations. communicating with
and receiving of the message, but also not
surprised because we all know deep down I’ve set the intention for you to receive It also helps build more confidence in
of our powerful intuitive gifts and our own healing if you wish to as you practise the your intuition when you play with what it
“knowing” of the answers we seek. following. Once you feel clear of others’ feels like to connect with various different
opinions, it’s time to focus on your own energies. In this exercise, link with your
I believe spirit baby communication is beliefs around spirit baby communication. ego mind, higher self, guardian angel and
not something you teach. It’s a journey spirit baby.
to remembering – a journey of clearing Always be fascinated by yourself and
the doubt and beliefs that have cut you any doubts you may have. It’s going into Sit quietly with a question you would
off from your intuition and your gifts, and these shadowy places where you find your like an answer to. Set the intention of first
opening up to more of who you are. truth and ultimately your power. As Spirit connecting with Source energy to ensure
says to me, “Within the seed of doubt is the you’re in a held space of light.
You have, can and will be able to heart of truth.”
communicate with a spirit baby if you Firstly, invite your ego mind to be in
choose to. There are many ways of opening Take a moment to sit with your front of you. What’s the answer to your
up to a spirit baby – journalling, free awareness around your ears. Call on the question from your ego? Notice how it
writing, guided meditation, simply asking Source, Creator or your higher self to feels and the words used.
to connect, and so much more. release any thoughts, words and opinions
that aren’t yours. Thank it, and then call your higher self
In this article you’ll be guided through in front of you and ask the same question.
five beautiful practices to further opening Imagine an angelic magnetic energy on How does this feel and what answer do you
your intuitive senses, ease doubt and open the outside of your ears, gently drawing receive?
up your communication with a spirit baby, anything that’s not yours out of your ear
who is wishing to be seen and heard, and chakras and mind. Feel your mind clearing. Thank your higher self, then invite
welcomes you as you open your innate in your guardian angel to ask the same
gifts to communicate with them. Set the intention of easing any areas of question. Now invite in the spirit baby.
doubt or the belief “I can’t.” Identify where
Exercise 1. in your body you’re feeling the energy of By playing and getting used to the
Easing doubt around spirit baby doubt or “I can’t.” different feelings and responses, you’ll
begin to trust more the information you’re
communication Make this feeling more tangible by receiving, and which answers fill you with
being curious and asking, “If this feeling love and expansion. Spirit only ever speaks
One of the many gifts a spirit baby offers is had a colour, what would it be?” See or from love.
the gift of reflection for you to see yourself know the first colour that comes to mind.
more clearly and where the energy of Then ask, “If it looked like anything, if it had When you are more confident of what is
unhelpful beliefs or past hurts remain a a shape or a form, what would it look like?” and isn’t your truth, you’ll feel more open
little stuck. to receiving communication from a spirit
You’ll notice now that you are not this baby.
You probably know the saying that feeling; you are observing it. Next, ask this
“Children are our greatest teachers.” This is
the same before they even arrive or when
they’ve left. They shine a pure light of love
and confirmation that you are precious,
important and matter.

They also help to reveal those parts of
you that need more love – the parts that
say you’re not good enough or you’ll get it
wrong. Your baby sees you. All they see is
love. All they wish is for you to see and feel
yourself as they do: with love.

Thoughts of “I can’t,” “I shouldn’t,” “I’m
not good enough” and general doubt are
coming from another time and place of
hurt.

You are not feeling what you’re
experiencing because of what’s happening
now: these feelings have been there for a

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Exercise 3.
Keep it simple. Heart-to-heart
connection with a spirit baby

Spirit baby communication is happening all IF your attention is drawn to a particular flower, “hover your hand above it and feel its energy.”
the time, but it’s a matter of noticing those
little sparks of feelings and signs. You can access and develop all your senses. clouds. Perhaps a flower, an animal or a
Usually, there is one that feels easier and bird catches your attention. When you feel
Where you are, they are, whether more natural. that spark light up inside, this is the time to
that’s down at a pub or sitting in nature still your mind and body, and simply notice.
in conscious connection. You are and can A gorgeous way to connect with a spirit
connect with a spirit baby. Is it possible to baby is to go on a journey through the Pause for a while, and send out a
open yourself to this thought? senses with them. They have their own thought and an intention of receiving their
preference of communicating through message. Be curious. What is it that they
Intention and choice, being curious image, feeling or sound. wish to share with you today?
and building confidence and trust in your
intuition are great ways to open up. We Be curious as to both your own and their When your attention is drawn to a
often think we have to take ourselves out of preferred way of communicating. This can particular flower for example, get close
our bodies to connect, but I find that being be a guided meditation or sitting quietly to it. Hover your hand above it and feel
in your body and grounded is key. Give this with yourself. its energy. What energy is a spirit baby
simple exercise a go with an open heart and sharing with you today?
no expectation. Again connecting with Source energy
first, imagine a beautiful scene, your happy Smell the scent of the flower and notice
Wherever you feel comfortable, close place. Invite a spirit baby in and play with how your body responds or lean in to the
your eyes and imagine breathing all of your how you feel their energy. flower with your third eye and receive your
thoughts and energy back through a divine message.
filter of light. Give yourself permission to be Next, imagine them talking to you. See
present. how this feels and what you can hear, then Take a photo and zoom in close looking
ask them to show you how they wish to be for any images and shapes; you’ll be so
Breathe yourself into your body and seen today and notice what comes. surprised what you see. If you have cut
imagine a beautiful shaft of light from your flowers, hold one close to your heart and
heart being magnetised down your body Spirit babies don’t always reveal ask for your message, noticing any words
and deep into Mother Earth. themselves as babies, but of all ages in or images.
whichever way, or clothes of personality
Take a moment to reach into the they choose to wear that day. There is no “All we ask is that you notice” is the
possibility of feeling, hearing, seeing or right or wrong. Trust them, as they know message from nature and a spirit baby.
knowing that a spirit baby is close with you. what they’re doing. Offer gratitude back.

Focus on your breath, set the intention Exercise 5. There are so many ways of healing,
of connecting to the highest, purest light Spirit baby messages finding more peace and confidence in
of Source and be curious, asking, “If I could yourself and opening up your intuition to
feel a spirit baby with me, what would it are everywhere communicate with a spirit baby and all
feel like?” Connect with your heart energy living beings.
and be curious as to what colour it is today. You can receive messages from
everywhere and from everything. There I hope you’ve really enjoyed dipping
Next, imagine a huge, beautiful column can be a song on the radio with words that your toes into the world of spirit babies
of light out of front of you reaching from touch you, a piece of art, an image or a and the wealth of wisdom and healing they
heaven to earth. Smile and invite a spirit colour you keep seeing everywhere. offer.
baby in.
A post may pop up on your feed if you’re Imagine a world where you as a
Imagine them appearing in the column on social media or a friend might just say conscious being are parenting from your
of light. Likewise, imagine you can see the one statement that reaches a part of you self-aware adult self and not your hurt
colour of their heart energy reaching out to and stirs up a knowing. child self or your mum’s hurt and frustrated
meet your heart energy. child self. This is what baby souls waiting
One of my favourite ways of connecting to arrive and those already here are
Rest a while until you hear, see and to a spirit baby is through nature. Nature’s encouraging us to do.
feel a connection. As you spend these few signs are all around us communicating with
moments with them, notice how your body us and reflecting what we need to know. Also imagine a world where children feel
responds along with any words, images or safe to be them because they are already
feelings being given or received. Firstly, be still for a moment and ask known, seen and heard for who they are
a spirit baby for a sign they are with you. before and when they arrive. ■
When you feel complete, see a spirit Allow an image, feeling or knowing to grow
baby and the column of light dissolving. inside you. For further information about Debra
Remind yourself of your heart connection or to purchase her book, please visit
and grounding cord. Offer gratitude and Go about your usual day, keeping this debrakilby.com
write down any thoughts, feelings or words. sign in the back of your mind. Maybe you’ll
be drawn to look up and see a shape in the
Exercise 4.
Developing connection

through your senses

You may already be aware of your
clairsenses such as clairaudience (hearing),
clairvoyance (seeing), clairsentience
(feeling) and claircognisance (knowing).

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Grown-up advice on
psychic children

By Ceryn Rowntree

Continuing with the theme of CERYN ROWNTREE: “From as soon as I could talk, from Spirit in my early teens when boy
children, here medium Ceryn I saw and talked about spirit people that others bands and make up became much more
Rowntree offers some advice on could not see.” of a draw, it did mean that there were no
parenting a child medium. shameful beliefs or blockages to overcome
people that others often could not see. when I came back to working with the
WE’VE all heard tales of spiritually I’m not alone in that, but where my spirit world as an adult and I was able to
sensitive children, tales which are step much more easily into my work of
becoming more and more common as new story is less common is in having parents supporting others as a medium.
generations are born increasingly aligned and an extended family who were neither
with the spirit world. scared of my experiences nor tried to shut So what was it that my parents did so
them down completely. well during that time? It turns out there are
Who knows, some of us may even have seven key steps they took that the parents
been those spiritually sensitive children, Instead, thanks to a very spiritually of any child medium would benefit from
but that doesn’t make parenting such a open family my parents were able to implementing.
child any easier. support and nurture me throughout it all.
Don’t shut down your child’s
After all, there is enough to learn While that didn’t stop me turning away experiences
when it comes to parenting without also
contending with stories of long-dead This first step may be the most important
relatives, people in the bedroom that no of all and something my parents did
one else could see or previous lives and brilliantly.
death that sound more than a little creepy.
Many will ignore their children’s tales
However, as with anything on this of the unseen or simply tell them to stop
spiritual journey, there are ways to deal “making up” tales of past lives or spirit
with these – simple points that can help visitors, perhaps out of fear, disbelief or
any parent to not only get some sleep after uncertainty of what else to do. Yet this is
even the strangest of experiences, but also one of the worst things we can do. 
support a child medium along the way.
It immediately tells our children that
How do I know this? Because I was one they are wrong and that interactions
of those children who, from as soon as with the spirit world are to be hidden at
I could talk, saw and talked about spirit best or disbelieved at worst, setting them

Many will ignore their
children’s tales of the unseen

or simply tell them to stop
‘making up’ tales of past lives

or spirit visitors

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up for a much tougher journey when it and powerful experience for children and that doesn’t mean that Spirit is entitled to
comes to trusting in not only their spiritual adults alike, but only ever when it is done every moment of my life – something which
connection, but their deeper intuition later safely. certainly shouldn’t be the case for children
in life.  and teenagers either.
You can call in protection in whatever
A simple “OK” or “Oh really?” can make way feels right for you – through prayer We all need our privacy, our quiet times
the world of difference to a child who to whichever energies or deities you and our safe spaces, so don’t be afraid to
wishes to share their experiences with the personally feel connected to and by declare the boundaries that support your
most important people in their lives. calling in the elements for a sacred circle child in finding theirs.
of protection around your child, their
Don’t over-encourage bedroom or the whole house. Reminding your child of their
ability to effect change
There is no denying that children have You could also provide your child with
incredible imaginations or they so often like a charged crystal or another totem to act Of course, it’s not just you that gets to
nothing better than to please the people as a protector or even by working with set the rules that decide your child’s
who are most important to them, so while visualisation to place them inside a bubble relationship with Spirit; it’s important they
showing an interest in their experience is or cloak of protection whenever it is know from a young age that they have the
important, equally try not to encourage too needed.  power to do the same. 
much elaboration.
Whatever protective practice works Just as they would say “No” to strangers,
Taking this too far can lead your child best for you, trust in your ability to do this. they can tell a spirit being they don’t like to
away from Spirit and into a place of Your intention is everything. go away.
imagination.
Set boundaries  Likewise, just as a child can call for a
This is something that is definitely not trusted adult when they are scared and
a problem in itself – all children should be Remember the old adage about children uncertain, there are guides, angels and
free to create and imagine – but can again having to abide by your rules while they are helpers in the spirit world who are only
detract from the purity of their connection under your roof? That absolutely stands for too willing to step in and support them any
later in life and lead them to wonder if Spirit too, so never be afraid or reluctant to time it is needed. 
maybe it was all just their imagination. set boundaries.
A great exercise to do with your child
Take notes Even now as a woman in her 30s is in supporting them to find and connect
with over fifteen years of professional with those trusted spirit personalities for
Of course, your interest in your child’s mediumship behind her, I still have very themselves.
stories and experiences doesn’t have to end firm boundaries in place which state that
with an “OK” or “Oh really?” I for one am far Spirit are not permitted in my bedroom Alternatively, if you are someone
too nosy and interested to stop there! after dark and are under no circumstances who has your own spiritual practice of
allowed in the bathroom. connecting with guides and helpers, then
By all means take notes: keep a feel free to involve your child – regardless
notebook by your bed or a save a document While a new guide has occasionally of their own experiences with Spirit – in
where you record all of the weird and tested those rules from time to time, a that practice too.
wonderful things your child reports. simple laying down of the law has meant
that they’ve always been followed in the After all, what a wonderful gift to
This can be a great way to track their long run. remind your child that there is always
experiences for your own peace of mind, someone watching over and supporting
to validate any details they share around Working as a medium is one of the them even when you can’t physically be
your home or people you love or simply to greatest honours of my life and something with them.
reflect on later in their life when they bring that humbles me time and time again. But
this up.
We all need our
Believe me, they will bring it up. I wish privacy, our quiet times
my parents had kept track of all of the
“imaginary” friends I spoke to at home over and our safe spaces,
the years so I could reflect back when some so don’t be afraid to
were referenced in a Spiritualist church declare the boundaries
years later, particularly after our realisation that support your child
in my early 20s that my friend Janey looked
suspiciously like my great-grandmother in finding theirs
Margaret Jane.

Protect your child, your space
and yourself

Protection is key for anyone working
with Spirit, and none more so than child
mediums. If you or your children are ever
scared or uncomfortable, don’t be afraid to
call in protection.

In fact, even if the whole family is
comfortable with what your child is sharing,
a little energetic protection can never hurt.
Connecting with Spirit can be a beautiful

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WHEN you’re ready, “invite your child to close their eyes and imagine themselves in a bubble of beautiful bright light.”

Seek support if you’re unsure those connections tend to manifest around • When you’re ready, invite your child to
for the first time. close their eyes and imagine themselves
Finally, know that you never have to do in a bubble of beautiful bright light.
this alone. Despite my parents’ open- Equally, know that a child medium may
mindedness, they still sought support from not necessarily pursue that connection as • Ask them to invite a guide or helper
my grandma quite early in my life when my time goes on. who exists to keep them safe into that
public conversations with people no one bubble.
else could see became more than a little Many children are distracted from
awkward to explain to the world. Spirit as they get older or become less and • This is one time where you are very
less interested in their spiritual pursuits much encouraged to ask questions and
If you don’t have spiritually attuned as physical life and experiences open up praise the answers your child gives.
friends or family members don’t panic, as more fully to them. While some, like me, Whether they describe an animal, a
there are still other trusted people you can will return to the path, others may not, and person you recognise or someone new
reach out to. that is OK too. entirely, allow your child to give the
being they call in a name and to tell you
If you don’t know personally of anyone As with everything, our role as parents as much about them as they wish.
who could support you, then ask around: is never to push our children to follow a Remember this is an exercise to build
most spiritually aware people will know particular path or interest, but simply to that connection and allow the image
of at least one wise and trustworthy support their interests, encourage them and feeling of this helper to build up
individual who can share their insights and to follow what is right for them and keep within your child’s mind. 
experience or maybe even take time for a them safe at every turn. 
chat to put your mind at ease. • Encourage your child to check in on how
In the case of their childhood spiritual their spirit helper will let them know
If all else fails, Spiritualist churches can connections, one of the most powerful that they’re with them.
also be a great start, playing home to a host things we can ever do is simply to keep
of spiritually aware people who have all the door ajar by not shutting down their • Be sure to make a mental note of any
had their own experiences of awakening connection through our own fear or names or other details. Record these
and will likely be more than happy to uncertainty, ensuring that whatever they later, so you can go back to them
support you and your child through those do or don’t choose to do later in life the whenever you need. For now, let your
early days.  spirit world will always be waiting within child know that they can call upon that
their reach if and when they wish. helper any time they need.
Know that if your child is reporting
spiritual experiences this is actually pretty Supporting your child to • When you’re ready, encourage them
normal. We are all much more naturally connect with their guide to say “Thank you” and to wriggle their
attuned to the spirit world than we have toes and fingers, taking a few deep
often been led to believe. • Take some time to sit quietly and breaths before they open their eyes.
comfortably with them and begin by
Before we are distracted by the outside calling in protective energies around ■ For more information about Ceryn, please
world or told that our experiences are you both.  visit www.cerynrowntree.com
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How the Celts viewed
passing on

By Phyllida Anam-Aire

Through her decades of hospice work, Phyllida Anam-Aire has revived the ancient Celtic PHYLLIDA ANAM-AIRE: “We come from life: we
tradition of “watching” with the dying and travelling with the soul after death. return to life.”

This month sees the publication of her book “A Celtic Book of Dying,” which is subtitled, disappointment and despair for many of
“The Path of Love in the Time of Transition.” us is the realisation that we are not the
controllers of life; that life is, and always
Drawing on her Celtic background, she integrates the wisdom of her ancestors with modern has been, and is not dependent on whether
knowledge of the process of passing on. we are in earth form or spirit.

A psychotherapist for 40 years, Phyllida shows how a peaceful transition is possible and What Celtic consciousness has taught
how this process can be consciously supported for relatives or friends. me is that our individual soul is subject
to the guidance of spirit/life, as it is the
In her far-reaching, broadly-based book, Phyllida features various questions, exercises and messenger of spirit, which brings the
meditations. She also offers suggestions for Celtic rituals, prayers and blessings for support. abundance of energy to our natures. It
animates and vitalises form.
A former nun, Phyllida worked with Swiss-American psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, a
pioneer in near-death studies and author of the internationally best-selling book “On Death It is so deeply comforting really to
and Dying.” know that we as human beings, unique and
complex expressions of life, birthed from
Originally from Donegal, Phyllida is now based in Edinburgh and has worked extensively the vast expanse of life force itself, have
with the sick and dying. She offers “Conscious Living, Conscious Dying” retreats in Europe and something glorious in common with all
gives talks on children and dying to nurses and palliative care workers. other expressions of life whether they be
in a body or not.
CONTEMPORARY religious education unique ways in which life expresses itself in
concerning death does not make us more form and out of form. Our greatness is that our essence is life
conscious, so most of us spend time and itself. We come from life: we return to life.
energy avoiding this so-called intruder and, Consciousness is the opposite of This is all. We are forever in life and we
by whatever means, try to keep its stiff, icy avoidance. The more our awareness cannot escape this fact.
fingers off what is near and dear to us. widens into our psyches, the more we
will be able to see through the eyes of Whilst it would be quite naïve of me to
We seem to be of the opinion that this unconditional or impersonal love. think I can ever comprehend what earth
will make it easier for us to live our lives life and spirit life are all about, I would
fully without fear of the future. When life In other words, consciousness provides like you to join me as we ask for guidance
asks us to die the smaller deaths – i.e. to us with a new means of connecting, of from our Celtic wise old ones to look at
let go of someone or something in order communicating, of knowing. It enables us the subject of spirit life and see if we can
to move on in our lives towards fullness to see and hear the hidden or symbolic
– unwillingness to accept change will not messages in all we encounter.
facilitate this.
In consciously observing the changing
Ignoring the inevitability of death seasons of nature and applying these
will not help us to have a deeper respect changes to their own lives, the Celts were
for this life and live it more consciously enabled to live soulfully and die in the
moment by moment. Closing our eyes to same consciousness.
anything creates fear and fear keeps us
ignorant of facts and ignorance of the facts Celtic Christians sought to have with
keeps us unconscious. them “The mind of Christ” – i.e. where our
egos or earth minds become one with our
We are here in our earth bodies to essential nature, which is Spirit or life itself.
widen and deepen our consciousness so
that we will have eyes that can see and ears This mindfulness helps us to know more
that can hear, as Jesus the Christ advised. clearly the purpose of our lives in earth
form and we joyfully realise that life is not
Partial seeing shuts us down and blinds threatened by the loss of form.
us to a wider more all-encompassing
reality that accepts birth and death as the It is our ignorance of this fact that
has kept us from looking at death in a
more wholesome and holy way. The deep

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move from a place of either longing for it In Celtic consciousness, our life Celtic Christians, believed that life does
to come quickly – so that we do not have to experiences are seen as journeys towards not end. It cannot. Life has been and ever
deal with our wretched lives – or seeing it “Summerlands,” known as that place of will flow in and through us whether in form
as an empty space of darkness and an end forever birth, the land of agelessness. or out of form.
to all life. The American Indians called it the “great
hunting ground.” We have been forever and ever, and
Maybe we can just reach a more we will go on forever and ever. There is no
informed state regarding our relationship Here all our stories are gathered in and death, no ending and no getting out of life
with it. The belief that death will come as a we ourselves, together with the goddesses, whether we are on Earth or in Spirit.
“thief in the night” only makes sense if we gods and guardians of the upper worlds,
believe that we own life. access from a place of openness and We enter into earth as a material
expression of life; we leave this form
A thief only takes from us what we detachment what our next journey should behind at a certain time and enter into
rightly own. Celtic consciousness believes be. another way of life that is spirit.
that we do not own anything – in nature,
not our own souls, not the land or any This detachment from emotionalism is We are not only the offspring of life
aspect of creation. simplified when the earth mind has been itself, true images of our eternal mighty
integrated into Spirit and the human heart creator; this boundless force chooses us to
The Celtic idea was that we are the has been absorbed into the universal image itself on Earth and in Spirit.
custodians of the earth and our own lives heart of love itself, free from bonds and
on Earth. It is up to us to guard life, not attachments. Life is no respecter of expression. The
possess it. Celts believed that it breathes out and
Since time immemorial our tribal worlds of creation pour out, scattering
If we held this belief and truth, we ancestors, including the Celts and later particles of life everywhere.
would not so readily rape the earth for
gold, metals, crystals, etc. And we would If you take a walk in the woods you will
not kill the wild things for profit or so- see such a scattering – life in the trees and
called sport. life in the so-called dead leaves you walk
on. Life scatters clouds to dance the sky
The belief was that we cannot fully alive. The very air you breathe tingles with
understand the majesty of nature, but this powerful source.
can only live our lives in reverential
relationship to it. If we replace the word “death” with the
word “transition,” we may be better able
Our Celtic ancestors lived their simple to see the hand of the Great Magician all
lives carrying within their hearts and souls around without the usual connotations of
a sense of gratitude to life for the graces dreadful endings.
they daily received and the gifts so richly
bestowed by the great Mother/Father Life is the great transformer, the
Creator. great alchemist, with everything in its
own good time. This transformation or
I feel we have lost that sense of wonder metamorphosis is alive with the energy
and awe, that sense of deep thanksgiving of the Creator or Tobar beatha, from the
for the blessings we daily receive from life. Gaelic meaning “well of life.”

With our accumulated knowledge of Nothing is accidental and nothing
things seen and unseen it seems that we happens at the so-called wrong time. In the
will never be able to comprehend fully the spirit world, nothing is insignificant. Not
great mysteries of life and death in such even a sparrow falls without notice and
confined intellects and psyches because of even the hairs on our head are counted.
our limited earth consciousness.
With respect to birth, the exquisite

THE Celtic idea “was that we are the custodians of the earth and our own lives on Earth.
It is up to us to guard life, not possess it.”

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nature of spirit respects all expressions of – a natural state of life, not the end of a life, can experience its magnitude.
itself in all form. but the transforming of one type of being No one can truly describe what death
into another.
Regarding human form, it matters not is like, as there is no language for such a
whether the soul, which is the messenger ••••• miracle, and maybe that is just the way it is
of spirit, lives on the earth plane for many Being human is synonymous with meant to be from the beginning.
years or has contracted to come only to change, growth, instability and insecurity.
experience the confinement of the womb Psychologically, physiologically, mentally If there were no death, we could not
space and leave again. and emotionally the human psyche is continue our healing journey to ourselves.
forever in flux. We need a catalyst, a loving, non-
It may choose to remain on Earth Nature herself, who was the great judgemental catalyst to provide a space for
for some time in the limitations of a mentor for the Celts, is not static, but our story to continue.
handicapped body. ecstatic and her movements are always
towards balance and growth. The leaves The Celts had many stories relating to
All embodiments are graced with that fall in autumn provide nourishment death and the magical places one may visit
mystery and acknowledged as sacred in the upper worlds or lower worlds.
as each birth. Consequently, each death THERE are various meanings attached to the Celtic
carries within it the consciousness of the triskele symbol. One is that it represents the spirit In order to partake fully of the wonders
Divine, which is life itself. world, the present world and the celestial world. to be enjoyed in the upper worlds, one
had to do many earth trips so that with
Death was ever-present in the psyches for the earth. Nothing is wasted. Yet, we each trip one “could leave part of the old
of the Celts. They had an innate need to are so full of fear: fear of loss. garment behind and at last put on the
release whatever served them no longer cloak of gold.”
and to welcome the new as one would The Celts believed in the whole concept
welcome a guest. of sacrifice; it had a different meaning Reincarnation was a tenet of their
from the self-deprecation and the self- beliefs due to their Indo-European legacy.
The old Irish Seabheann or wise woman martyrdom with which we view it. They I believe that this rich inheritance also
used to say, “Welcome beginnings and saw it as one variable giving way to influenced their music, and the colourful
endings as neighbours to the house.” They another, a letting go in order to recreate. soul Sanskrit language formed a nucleus
seemed to be able to see the flow between They had no fear of death. for what we term the old pre-Anglicised
the worlds and because of their belief Gaelic language.
in the “story,” they were no strangers to It would seem that there is an art of
mystery and awe. dying as there is of living. As there is a Celtic Christians also held reincarnation
biology operating during life to ensure as a tenet of belief up until the sixth
Each season brought its own that the life force stays attached to the century. It is as if the spiral of life was
transformation and they coincided with earth body, so also there is a biology which a natural phenomenon evident in all
the internal changes within their own ensures that the same life force naturally creation.
psyches. This close connection with detaches itself from the body in the
nature helped our Celtic relations to see process of dying. •••••
that there was a “time for all things under The welcoming colours and hues of
heaven.” All the ancient teachings seem to insist autumn somehow help us to realise that
that a great drama takes place during the the summer is past and the shedding time
There was a time for warring and a last days of a life on Earth. is nigh, not only in external nature around
time for peace, a time to sing and a time to us, but also within our human nature.
mourn. They did not forget the earth that Theosophist Alice Bailey named death That time when we realise that the
connected them with their spirits. “the great adventure” whilst the Celtic, years are passing and there’s still much to
Egyptian and American Indian cultures realise, much to engage in before winter
The honouring of death as the releaser viewed dying as a preparation for a great turns everything around again. Ahh: how
of the past is seen in many Celtic rituals, journey. nature knows her inner timing. This I
especially their rituals around Samhain, believe is something we have almost lost.
which took place at the end of October I have certainly concluded that the There is a time to speak, time to be
and is now known as “Hallowe’en” or “Holy dying person is not just lying there with quiet, time to breakdown, time to build
evening.” nothing happening. It is undeniable that up, time to say “Yes,” time to say “No,”
the most profound and meaningful journey time for outer journeying, time for inner
This was the time when the harvest was is taking place and only the person dying journeying, time for love, time to feel fear,
safely gathered in and the old year was etc. (I am paraphrasing from the Book of
released with joy. Ecclesiastes.)
When we truly have reached our
Death was not the enemy. Our natural inner authority, we will not have
ancestors expressed their lives fully and to depend on others to dictate to us
ritualistically in the present. our timing of things… we will know the
changes within and be led by our inner
The springtime of their lives was tutor – intuition.
celebrated, as were the summer, autumn Nature depends on instinct to guide her
and winter. “Each season has her own transformations; we have intuition. Let us
story,” my grandmother would say, with a listen deeply and hear the voice of wisdom.
knowing in her eyes.
■ Published by Findhorn Press this month,
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When the future is
seen in a dream

By Nigel Peace

In the second part of his investigation into synchronicity, publisher time became completely irrelevant. The
Nigel Peace examines various angles including a prophetic dream mind was accessing what others have
which came true and an ancient book that has given pointers to the called “the infinite source of wisdom”
future for 4,000 years. or “a greater and more comprehensive
consciousness, which is unknowable.”
I HAVE had many vivid precognitive to mean more than “a new start,” so I got
dreams, alongside daytime experiences of thinking about time periods, which have Well, is this state of mind actually
déjà vu. This has happened so often that I always been represented by numbers in my unknowable? Certainly, traditional
have taught myself to record and interpret dreams, as I’m a mathematician. There was science has rejected all such psychic
dreams so I can prove they were true when also a reference to The Times supporting experiences as irrelevant or, at best, pure
a later event happened. this. chance, an attitude that Swiss psychiatrist
and psychoanalyst Carl Jung called a
In one example, I dreamed in early I worked out that just over 100 days “psychologically biased partial view” of
February that a new school year was about after New Year would be towards the nature.
to begin at New Year. I was being driven middle of April. I met the tall, attractive
in a car, but the driver got out and left the blonde woman five weeks later, recognising Indeed, in part one of this article we
controls to me just as we were about to her immediately, and our relationship saw that there are many weird events
cross a border. began on April 13. which are just “lucky hits,” improbable but
without any significance.
Single at the time, I understood This was a clear and proven case of
from previous interpretations that this precognition, seeing future events I could Jung described an evening outing
predicted a new and important relationship have no normal knowledge of and involving when his tram ticket had exactly the
for me. a person whom I wasn’t aware of. same number as the theatre ticket he
then bought, and when he received a call
I came to a tall building where a group It was an experience where space and later during which the same digits were
of people challenged me to get to the top; mentioned as a telephone number.
there were just over 100 steps and this THE song “Visionary” by Strangelove played a part
climb had never been done before. in a preview. (Photo: Sermon Records) There could be no possible causal
connection between these events, but the
A tall, attractive blonde woman teased experience didn’t really mean anything
me and ran up ahead, so naturally I either. This was coincidence.
followed. We got to the top with a great
sense of satisfaction and achievement, On the other hand, there are a multitude
and the people below were full of of cases in which not only do events have
congratulations. no connection – by any known physical
laws – but they also have a powerful and
Next day, The Times told the story on often deeply personal meaningfulness.
its front page, announcing that I had been
knighted in the New Year Honours List. In part one, for example, I described
I awoke with a hypnopompic song in my a double-exposed photographic film
head: Visionary by the group Strangelove. where two important family photographs
appeared superimposed one on the other
The repetition of “New Year” seemed having been taken two years apart (the

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AT one time, a random text from the Bible was used DURING a near-death experience, people often enter a tunnel of light.
to determine inconclusive legal cases.
states: the personal involvement of the Yet even the investigations of these
first film being assumed lost). observer can bring about altered states of powerful events are limited because of the
Despite many examples of astonishing mind that tap into a greater consciousness. restrictions built into the scientific method.

synchronicity in my life (described in my Synchronicity offers us a huge clue to Traditional science is based on
book Spirit Revelations), I can be just as understanding the “body-mind problem.” experiments that ask specific questions
feeble as the next man, my faith wavering and exclude or ignore anything that doesn’t
due to the utter incredulity at what’s If we can know things without using fit the prevailing theory. If you like, it
happening. When weird things happen, you our physical senses, instantly access imposes conditions on nature, who then
can’t help wondering about your sanity. information across vast distances and cannot give her best possible answer.
ahead of time and experience events in
One evening, feeling particularly fragile, our day-to-day lives that have no possible Suppose I ask you, “How are you feeling
I found myself watching an episode of cause yet carry personal meaning which today?” but you can only respond with
Cadfael on TV in which “trial by Bible” was can change the direction of our lives, then “Well” or “Unwell.” I’m not getting a useful
part of the story. This was a mediaeval we must reject the space-time continuum answer and you’re left feeling frustrated.
Church practice that sought the truth as a useful but ultimately incomplete view
in legal cases where the evidence was of nature. The other problem with our usual
inconclusive. methods of enquiry is that we want
There is surely a deeper, more our experiments to be repeatable, but
After prayer, a high churchman would fundamental shared consciousness at synchronicities generally occur out of the
open the Bible at random and the first text the heart of being human. Our universe blue, which is why they are called “spooky.”
he touched would be the judgement. I was runs on a vastly powerful form of energy
intrigued by this and “something” told me – if that is even the right word – that the Ah, if only there were a repeatable
to try it for myself later that night. psyche knows. More simply, the mind does phenomenon that can be examined
not depend on the body. statistically and which gives an holistic
My question was, “Am I on a proper answer to our questions rather than a
spiritual path?” The text I touched was the This theory of independence is snapshot…
Gospel of John, 12:37 – “In spite of the supported by the extensive reports of out-
many signs he had shown them, they still of-body experiences (OBE) and near-death Well, there is. However, we must ditch
would not believe him.” A thorough slap on experiences (NDE). our Western rationalism and turn to the
the wrist from my own unconscious mind! more intuitive approach of the Chinese
If we strip away the preconceptions mind, which always tries to grasp the
Are there certain people for whom this about these (because most people see whole situation and sees details as simply
kind of synchronicity is more common what they want or expect to see), the part of the issue within a much bigger
or more likely? Well, our personal bottom line is that conscious thought, backdrop.
circumstances may be different, but we judgement and perception can continue
all have a mind and if Jung’s collective without any causal connection to biological Only when we understand the whole
unconscious is real, we can all connect to processes. can we see how the smaller things fit
that “greater field of energy.” together.
The tunnel of light is actually only seen
So the key seems to be an attitude of by a fraction of NDErs. Many of these Imagine having to repair an old pocket
mindfulness, a recognition that everything experiences are dark and disturbing, but watch with an unfamiliar mechanism that
which happens could be meaningful as the point is that people suffering brain no longer works: first, we must take it
long as our minds are not so open that our death should not be able to experience apart – without any assumptions – then
brains fall out. anything. clean it and study the design before we can
see how the individual parts work together
We have seen that there are many
experiences – telepathy, precognition,
remote viewing and spooky personal
synchronicities – in which space and
time seem to become irrelevant. As they
disappear, so does causality, because cause
and effect belong to that world view.

The events described here are
genuinely acausal (not governed or
operating by the laws of cause and effect).

The relevance of space and time also
seems to be diminished by our emotional

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The “I Ching” has been in continuous publication random, so we are not controlling the answer.
for 4,000 years. outcome. Her hexagram was entitled “Possession

and which may need attention. Heads represents yang energy and in Great Measure”: the commentary
The I Ching (Book of Changes) is the tails is for yin. There are four possible speaks of success and personal happiness,
outcomes, each with its own meaning. along with urging a modest approach.
oldest book in continuous publication in
the world and has been used for some One head and two tails is thought to There were two moving lines: one
4,000 years, so it must be doing something be a balanced yang outcome whilst three suggested that “possessions should be
right. By the way, Carl Jung wrote the heads is unbalanced, a “moving yang” offered to the people” (a reference to
Foreword for the first English translation. force. publication?) and the other pointed to a
“rise in status.”
It is based on the belief that nature Similarly, we have balanced yin and
is one whole and numinous way of moving yin forces. We simply repeat the Sara was encouraged to persevere with
being. She expresses herself in both the process six times to arrive at a hexagram of her work and, within a year, through a
physical world and the world of the mind results, and the book has a key to help us fortuitous meeting that couldn’t possibly
simultaneously. look up its meaning. have been foreseen, her first novel was
published. It was modestly successful.
So our inner states of mind, even The hexagram describes our overall
unconscious to us, can be seen in our outer situation and the moving lines show us All too often, we focus on the minute
daily lives and vice versa. what is changing and, moreover, the likely details of our lives when it would be far
result of those changes in future. more helpful to have an overview of our
In part one, I described particular purpose on Earth and of how to be the best
examples of this, such as my response Over the centuries, philosophers human we can.
to a healing event coinciding with a car like Confucius and King Wen added
registration plate and my printer jamming comprehensive explanations of each What could be more helpful than
as I felt the emotion of the event it was answer. knowing, through an attitude of daily
printing off. mindfulness, that our minds are amazingly
The depth, compassion and accuracy powerful and can reach out across space
To make this way of thinking useful, of these answers can be truly astonishing, and time?
we need a method that will allow nature bringing to light hidden forces that are
to express our inner knowing in an outer shaping our lives and information which Synchronicity is a real thing. It is not
physical way. We must not impose any we could not possibly know consciously. the odd repetition of numbers. It is not
conditions on the answers and, of course, arriving at a wedding to find that two other
we rely on genuine synchronicity. That’s because again nature expresses women are wearing the same dress. It
herself both physically and mentally at is the meaningful coincidence of mental
Recognising also that everything in life the same time. At the risk of sounding and physical events that have no causal
is constantly changing, the sages of ancient connection.
China hit upon a method that mirrors the YIN and yang epitomise “the contrasting forces of
interplay of yin and yang, the contrasting nature.” Perhaps most importantly it is the
forces of nature whose movements create strongest evidence we have – if not proof –
all of life’s situations. transcendental, using the book feels like that we are not just physical beings.
talking to a wise and very kind old soul.
In case you’re thinking that this is all ■ Nigel Peace is the author of “Lighting the
a bit weird – yes, it is an unfamiliar way This is true synchronicity at work, Path,” a guide to understanding and using
of thinking for those brought up on the which is not only repeatable, but giving us the I Ching.
scientific method – the I Ching is incredibly genuine answers to our questions. Surely
easy for anyone to use. it’s all a bit esoteric and philosophical? It is available worldwide in paperback for
£9.50 and digitally on all platforms. Please
There are several possible methods, No: the reason for the I Ching still being see www.local-legend.co.uk for further
but the most common is to keep in mind in print today is that it works for every kind details.
the issue we want to understand and then of issue, not just the spiritual “How can I
simply throw three coins. This is entirely be of service to others?” but the mundane
equally important, “I’m frustrated in
my job, should I change it?” or “I’ve met
someone new; are they good for me?”

Sara was single and, so far, an
unsuccessful writer. She asked the I Ching
“How will my life develop in the next year?”
She had inner hopes, of course, but this
question put no conditions on nature’s

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SPIRITUALFEATURE ART

This month we feature the work of medium, reiki master and spiritual
artist Katie Curtis from Dorset, UK. Here, Katie tells her spiritual story
and shares some of her etheric and meditative artwork. Katie also
makes and sells hand-made spiritual items. (Photo – right – by Emily Curtis)

I GREW up near the coast with my parents and sister. I always ANGEL OF PEACE: This was painted on four canvases with acrylic
knew Spirit was around me from a very young age. I used to talk paint. I was guided by a female energy while painting this and really
to them and ask questions and they’d answer me by sending a cold pleased with how it came out.
feeling down my spine if it was a “Yes,” so if I felt nothing it was a
“No.” heavy breathing at night, a gentleman’s presence in the lounge and
a young Victorian boy with a smart uniform and cap. I also felt cold
Eventually, as time went on I gained confidence and knowledge atmospheres and experienced things being moved.
of mediumship and talking to Spirit. I have found healing helps to
make your connection to Spirit and nature even stronger. You see At the age of fifteen I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis
beauty in the simplest things.  in all my joints. This completely changed my life and what I was able
to do physically.  
I have had many spiritual experiences throughout my life.
Around the age of seven I remember I kept the lights on at night I started joining local healing and meditation groups. I took
because I was afraid of the dark. courses in tarot card reading and also studied reiki healing and
eventually passed my reiki master’s examination.
One night my parents were out and my cousin was downstairs
babysitting. I was in bed. Later that night I saw a tall white being of
light at the end of my bed. I froze, completely petrified.

When I was able to move I ran for the door. I told my cousin but
she didn’t believe me and I was sent back to bed. I was so scared it
might still be there in the bedroom, but when I opened the door it
had gone.

At the age of nine we were visiting the local graveyard. As we
were driving away I saw an old Romany gypsy woman sitting on the
side of the country lane. While I was watching her, the leaves from
the hedge behind her blew straight through her and she smiled.
When I looked back she was gone.

Some years later we moved to a different house and there was a
lot of spiritual activity that I felt. I came across many different spirit
beings and felt spiritual energy. For example, floating white mists,

ANGEL OF THE SEA: I really loved expressing the movement and how HEALING: This was painted in watercolours. The image was stuck in
powerful the angel is. I used acrylics on canvas. my mind until I put it on to paper.

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CHAKRA LEAF BOWLS: These bowls are made from air drying clay. I THE TREE OF LIFE: This is painted in acrylics. I got this idea when I was
thought they would be great for meditation with candles or crystals connecting to angelic and fairy energy. 
inside the bowls. 
mid-twenties, I was blessed with two beautiful children.
My connection to channelling energy and listening to Spirit grew I have always been drawn to create art and paint. When I am
and I started seeing more around people’s aura, like their power
animals and guides near to them. I did readings at some spiritual painting I feel a lot of spiritual energy around me, which inspires me
fairs and drew their power animals with any messages I received through emotions and feelings. I put on some music and feel guided
from Spirit.  to be expressive. Ideas then just come into my head, which leads to
the art that I create. Sometimes it’s like having a friend next to me
Then, in my early twenties, I got married to my husband, Richard, when I paint. 
who also is a medium. A few years later, I had a miscarriage and
now my spirit daughter Sophie helps me in my spiritual work. In my I feel that my inspiration comes from angels, spirits and nature,
with everything flowing in harmony connected to an invisible
rhythm that guides my heart. I find that creativity comes very
naturally to me and feel at home with a paint brush or pencil in my
hand.

I mostly use acrylic paint for my paintings and clay work. I love
bright contrasting colours and how they pop out or blend nicely
together. 

I am currently attending local craft and spiritual events selling
my artwork. I have set up a website recently and am looking
forward to getting my work out into the world. ■

WOODLAND MAGIC: This was painted in acrylics on canvas only You can see more of
using my fingers. I’m still not sure if it needs an extra something but I Katie’s work or commission
may be inspired at a later date to add more detail. something of your own at:

myartwithin.com

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FEATURE

Tiger represents Chinese
New Year

By Wendy Stokes

A London-based features writer and tutor, Wendy Stokes is also qualified first. The Jade Emperor saw how polite
Horse and Goat were, and ranked them
in therapy and counselling with a diploma from London’s Central School for seventh and eighth in the race.

Counselling & Therapy. Monkey had fallen behind, but he
As well as being awarded other additional therapeutic qualifications, jumped between trees and stones, and
came in ninth. Lastly, Rooster, Dog, and
Wendy holds a City & Guilds qualification in Further and Adult Education Pig finally arrived. All twelve became
esteemed guards of the Heavenly Gate.
Teaching and has taught relaxation in adult education institutes.
Each year is devoted to the twelve in
Many of her clients were victims of torture in their country of origin and this order. Added to these annual animal
benefitted from her expertise in healing and therapy. constellations are yin and yang polarities,
and five elements of metal, water, wood,
Also expert in other areas, below Wendy takes a look at Chinese New Year fire and earth.
celebrations. Metal: years ending in 0 or 1
Water: years ending in 2 or 3
FEBRUARY 1 is Chinese New Year’s Day. writing about 2,500 years ago and would Wood: years ending in 4 or 5
This year, it is symbolised by the tiger. have been taught in the caravans and Fire: years ending in 6 or 7
camel trains across Asia to Eastern Europe. Earth: years ending in 8 or 9
Amongst favourite foods eaten to mark
the occasion are dumplings, spring rolls, Like many astrology signs, there are Back to the moon, as these are lunar-
sweet rice balls, noodles, fish, steamed twelve annual Chinese constellations, related events. The Chinese New Year is
chicken, fruit and vegetables, and nian gao. which are all animals. a new moon festival and can fall any time
between January 21 and February 20 each
Sometimes translated as “Year cake” There is a traditional story that the Jade year.
or “Chinese New Year’s cake,” nian gao Emperor called for all the animals of the
is prepared from glutinous rice flour. country and told them they must race each A Lantern Festival will be held on
Though it can be eaten throughout the other to the Heavenly Gate in the sky. February 15. It heralds a full moon
year, traditionally it is most popular during and marks an end to the New Year
Chinese New Year. Rat awoke very early. On his way, he celebrations.
encountered a swiftly flowing river. Then
The event is a public holiday in China, he noticed Ox about to cross and jumped During the New Year celebrations,
as it is in various other countries such as onto his back. firecrackers are released and lion and
Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, dragon dancers emerge to perform.
South Korea and Vietnam. The lumbering Ox crossed the river
easily, so Rat jumped off and won the race This is a time of remembering ancestors,
Even though it is a totalitarian state, because he was cunning. Ox was second bringing friends and family together,
many North Koreans also celebrate the because of his diligence. cleaning and clearing, and giving gifts. The
occasion. number eight is the luckiest, and red is
Tiger came third, then Rabbit. Both worn as a sign of strength.
Last year, North Korea joined in by are fast and competitive, but Tiger was
beginning with a traditional show of loyalty a better swimmer. Rabbit got across by The current animal on duty in the
for the country’s former leaders. Citizens hopping on stepping-stones and a floating heavens is the tiger. This means that for
laid flowers and bowed at the foot of giant log. this year you will need vigour, daring,
statues of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il, courage, steadfast confidence, ambition,
which stand on a hill overlooking the The stunning Dragon came fifth and was enthusiasm and leadership.
capital of Pyongyang. immediately noticed by the Jade Emperor,
who wanted Dragon’s son to be sixth. You also need to take leaps of faith, be
China was one of the earliest a tireless pioneer, a freedom and justice
civilisations with many quality items, such Dragon’s son wasn’t there that day. fighter, enjoy adventure and keep your ego
as silks and fine pottery, which were traded Snake heard this and said Dragon was his
via the 4,000 miles of the silk route. adoptive father, so Snake ranked sixth.

Chinese astrology was first recorded in Horse and Goat then arrived because
they were kind and each let the other go

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FEATURE

KOI carp “bestow a free-flow of vitality and
strength.”

with not such a smiling face which holds a
broom and is sweeping troubles away.

How to celebrate

COINS and paper money are placed inside a wealth Red is the traditional Chinese colour of Find an attractive porcelain teapot and
pot to attract cash. (Photo: Facebook) royalty and denotes power and prestige. cups. Try green tea, jasmine tea, ginger tea
or lapsang souchong. The latter is a black
in check. Numbers are also important for tea consisting of Camellia sinensis leaves,
You might likewise need to curb your activating good energies, especially eight which are dried over fires of resin-sweet
for general luck, three for prosperity, five pinewood, a technique discovered by
wildness; do not be too brash. This is the for health, seven for balance and ten for accident back in the 16th century.
year of interpersonal relationships, so completion.
don’t disregard the feelings of others. Almond cookies or biscuits are a
Very often you see three lucky Chinese traditional accompaniment. Ask Amazon
Yin and yang coins tied with a red ribbon through a Alexa, better known as simply Alexa, to
central square of the coins. When placed play some Chinese flute music or find
Though representing dualities, yin and in the southeast of a room, they send out Chinese music and dance on YouTube.
yang are a united symbol that comprises protection and can be carried in a pocket
the opposing energies of the Universe, or purse. Back to food and you could also invite
such as light and dark, active and passive, friends for a dim sum lunch using these
black and white, negative and positive, hot There is something called a “wealth pot” traditional foods – steamed dumplings,
and cold, male and female, etc. which is where coins and paper money are rice, noodles, tofu bean curd, aubergines,
placed. This stash of money attracts cash white radishes, green leaf vegetables and
Contained within one of the dualities to come to you. root vegetables, all cooked in a wok.
is the other. When brought together, the
interplay of these two extremes creates a You might have seen a mystic knot Additions are chilies, coriander, spring
pivotal place of balance and harmony. hanging in Chinese restaurants and shops. rolls, bamboo shoots, water chestnuts,
Designed in red ribbon, it has spells woven onions and garlic.
This principle of uniting extremes into it. These are released to provide
influences Chinese astrology, divination, health and well-being when hung in your But what about something to drink?
medicine, art and philosophy. home. How about Chinese beers or wines, or a
Chinese national drink called baijiu, which
Superstitions If you are lucky enough to have a large dates back many thousands of years.
pond in your garden, the introduction of
The Chinese have always been very koi carp, which live many decades, will However, take care with the latter,
superstitious and especially at the start bestow a free-flow of vitality and strength. as it’s strong with an alcohol rating of
of the New Year when superstitions guide between 28 to 65 per cent!
them to have best and most auspicious If you don’t have the opportunity
twelve months ahead. to own a pond, you can buy beautiful These are nice ways to celebrate and
paintings of koi carp which are created in bring in the New Year of the tiger. If you’re
Many superstitions have ancient traditional Chinese style. feeling especially creative from a culinary
origins. Bamboo plants are a traditional point of view, you could bake some fortune
gift at New Year. Often displayed to There are many symbols for good luck cookies. Please see www.bbcgoodfood.
remove stagnant energy, they are which are placed on the front door for the com/recipes/fortune-cookies
affordable and enjoyable. fifteen days of the New Year celebrations
to welcome all who enter. These symbols Lastly, should you wish to give your
Colours are especially important at this are also seen on jewellery and charm guests a gift, here are three suggestions,
time, such as yellow, which is considered bracelets, and as tattoos. which should be wrapped in red crepe
the most beautiful hue, as it is close to gold paper:
and can be worn for good luck. Lastly, look out for a seated golden cat • Brand new coins and paper money in an
statue which sits in windows waving at
passers-by with its raised paw. This cat’s envelope.
constant motion transforms negativity
into positive energy. • An oracle card deck such as I Ching by
Lunaea Weatherstone.
On the other side of the statue is a cat
• A piece of green jade, which is reputed
to bestow a long and healthy life. ■

PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2022 37

Your paranormal and spiritual
questions answered

BY GRAHAM JENNINGS

Camp is ‘Psychic capital of the world’

I’ve heard that the Cassadaga Spiritualist HERE is just one view of Cassadaga Spiritualist He was granted 145 acres of land in 1884.
Camp is the largest Spiritualist community Camp. (Photo: RobArtVan) The Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp Meeting
in the south of America. What is its history? Association was eventually given the deeds
Does it have any connection with the more flourished in New York and Pennsylvania. to 55 acres.
famous Lily Dale? – Brian Kennedy. Seneca told George that he must travel
In 1894, a charter was formed for the
Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp is indeed to Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and sit with Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp. Many of the
the largest Spiritualist community in the another medium, Theodore D. Giddings. original members came from the recently
southern United States. It has even been The pair would then be contacted by a established Lily Dale Assembly in New
called the “Psychic capital of the world.” group calling itself the Congress of Spirits. York. They included E. W. Bond, who
provided much of the building material,
It is not a “camp” as we would George duly found Giddings and they and Marion H. Skidmore.
understand one. The term dates from held séances. They were instructed by the
an earlier period in American life when congress to travel to Blue Springs in Florida It was her idea to name the camp after
religious gatherings were known as “camp and found a new spiritual centre. the Cassadaga Lakes near Lily Dale. The
meetings.” name in the language of the Seneca tribe
The pair was told that they would be means “water beneath the rocks.”
It was founded by medium George P. shown the exact spot, which would be near
Colby, who was born in Pike, New York seven pine tree-covered hills overlooking Mrs Skidmore and Bond helped form
State, on January 6, 1848. His devout lakes. the original association and she became
Baptist parents, James and Elminia Colby, the Mother of the Camp. George was
later moved to Minnesota. In an extraordinary leap of faith, its spiritual leader. He also adopted and
George, who suffered from tuberculosis, educated children, and became a citrus
George’s psychic abilities became Theodore and his entire family travelled grower.
manifest after his baptism in 1860. He was southward. The railroad took them only as
immersed in a hole hewn out of a frozen far as Jacksonville and they then sailed by He said that a natural spring on camp
lake by his parents, which he later said had steamboat on the St Johns River to Blue land cured his tuberculosis. For the rest of
the effect of piercing the veil between the Spring Landing. his life, George divided his time between
physical and spiritual worlds. travelling America as a medium and
They completed the journey by lecturer, and running Cassadaga.
George was visited by the spirit of an wagon to Blue Springs through a tropical
uncle, who said that he would become a wilderness, later a national park, and He passed there on July 27, 1933. As
great medium and found a spiritual centre found the spot described to them, there is no cemetery in Cassadaga – wags
in the South. which Theodore had also been shown say the “dead” are never far away! – his
clairvoyantly. remains were interred in the nearby Lake
In his teens, George developed Helen Cemetery.
clairvoyance, trance and healing abilities, The mediums settled there and
and gave sittings. This did not please his Theodore filed for a land grant in 1880. In 1975, the main assembly building, the
strict religious parents, who punished Auditorium which was built in 1923, was
him. In 1867, he left home and the Baptist renamed the Colby Memorial Temple.
Church, and became what was known as an
itinerant “test medium.” The present community offers a number
of activities including church services, and
It meant travelling from state to state classes on Spiritualism and meditation as
giving private readings and group séances. well as counselling and private readings.
He accepted donations and undertook
other work to make ends meet. There are 55 residences where
members and mediums live. For visitors
George acquired a reputation for there is the Cassadaga Hotel.
accuracy. In 1875 in the town of Lake Mills,
Iowa, a new guide, a Native American Accommodation is also available outside
called Seneca, made himself known. This the camp. Many of the original buildings
was also the name of a large tribe which survive and Cassadaga was declared a US
Historic District in 1991.

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FEATURE

STORIES “abound the world over of the mysterious lights being the work of fairies, mischievous sprites or the souls of the departed who cannot find rest.”

Strange lights lured travellers astray

What is ignis fatuus? A friend told me she the wrath of a Pwca. Man was on sentry duty, but Mr Bexfield
thinks it is something to do with strange Job was walking home at night across ignored his friends’ warnings. He set off
lights, but wasn’t 100 per cent certain – for his boat and home. His body was found
Laura Cooper. a mountain when a thick mist descended three days later washed up on the banks of
and he became lost. Then he saw a distant the River Yare.
Your friend is correct. Ignis fatuus is a light that resembled a swinging lantern.
phosphorescent or luminous light seen He followed it and tried to catch up, but it In the Lincolnshire fens, it is the Will o’
hovering above marshy ground on dark, remained at the same distance. the Wyke with his lantern who misleads
moonless nights. travellers. The Jack o’ Lantern is another
After some miles, the light leapt some name for our Hallowe’en pumpkin with its
Although flickering and flame-like in 30 feet and become stationary. Job was carved face and flickering light. The custom
appearance, it does not burn anything and about to run towards it when the mist dates back to Irish and Highland Scots in
emits no heat. It appears elusive, receding suddenly lifted. The moon shone through a the 19th century.
when approached and disappearing, then cloud break and Job saw that he was on the
reappearing elsewhere. edge of a deep chasm (afterwards called They hollowed out turnips or mangel-
Cwm Pwca). wurzels with a grotesque face. Their
The Latin term ignis fatuus appears to function was to act as Hallowe’en lanterns
have been coined in the 16th century. Ignis On the other side stood a tiny, naked, to ward off evil spirits. Immigrants took the
is fire and fatuus is the same as fatuous in long-haired man with pointed ears. He custom to America.
English; in other words “foolish fire.” was gloating with anticipation. When
the horrified Job stepped back, the Pwca Dating from the same period, the last
Sightings are now rare in England scowled malevolently. He extinguished his Thursday of October in Somerset is called
because most marshes have been drained, “fairy fire” and vanished. Punkie Night. It is a children’s holiday when
but ignis fatuus is witnessed worldwide people parade with their Jack o’ Lantern
wherever there is swampy ground. In some places the light is personified pumpkins.
as either Jack o’ Lantern, a spectral figure
Scientific explanations include the with a lantern, or Will o’ the Wisp (Will In the West Country, tin miners of old
chemical reaction of living organisms, of the straw torch). In Cornwall, Jack found a practical use for anomalous fiery
decaying organic matter and the has a consort, Joan the Wad (torch), the light forms and used them to find veins of
combustion of volatile gases such as matriarch of the Cornish piskies (pixies). tin.
methane.
Joan will generally bring good fortune, The German translation of Will o’
Although in past ages scientists such especially if you carry her image, but she the Wisp is Irrlicht. It is believed to be a
as Sir Isaac Newton sought a rational and Jack are also renowned for leading wandering human soul rather than a sprite.
explanation, others looked no further than travellers astray. Alone on the Cornish In Swedish folklore, the ignis fatuus is
the supernatural. moors at night, you would do well to seek specifically the soul of an unbaptised child.
their aid, as in this plea:
Stories abound the world over of the It will entice travellers to water in hopes
mysterious lights being the work of fairies, Jack o’ the Lantern! Joan the Wad, of receiving baptism. Other Scandinavian
mischievous sprites or the souls of the Who tickled the maid and made her folklore includes the belief that following
departed who cannot find rest. mad; the lights will lead one to buried treasure.
Light me home, the weather’s bad.
It is probably the receding of the light In Norfolk, it was the Lantern Men who Of the host of names for ignis fatuus
which is responsible for the belief that its lured travellers to their death. On the dark, many are female. There is Peg-a-lantern,
purpose is to lure travellers off the beaten misty night of August 11, 1809, Joseph Gillian-a-Burnt-tail, Jemmy Burty, Kitty-
track. When travellers are sufficiently far Bexfield, a local wherryman, walked from candlestick and Kitty with the Wisp.
away, the light vanishes and they are lost. the White Horse Inn across Thurlton
Marshes, which he knew well. In Warwickshire, she was Mab, the
This is the modus operandi of the Pwca, Flickering lights meant that a Lantern Fairy Queen, hence the term mabled
the Welsh goblin. It happened to Job (pronounced mob-led).
John Harri, a farmer from the Trwyn in
Mynyddislwyn, who had already incurred

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FEATURE

Medium developed beneath
stage of famous theatre

Which famous medium, known as “the GLADYS OSBORNE LEONARD was entranced by a College of Psychic Science (as it then was).
British Mrs Piper” and “Sir Oliver Lodge's young relative who passed on around 1800. He recommended her to Sir Oliver and
medium,” developed her mediumship (File photo) Lady Lodge, whose son Raymond had just
beneath the stage of the London Palladium? been killed on the Western Front.
– Meg Cartwright. great-grandmother, a Hindu raised
by a Scottish family. She had married Through Gladys, Feda gave evidence
She was born Gladys Osborne on May William Hamilton, Gladys’s great-great- of Raymond’s identity. Lodge, a leading
28, 1882, at Lytham in Lancashire. While grandfather at thirteen, but died soon scientist and psychic researcher, had many
still a child, she was able to see beyond the afterwards in childbirth about 1800. evidential sittings with Gladys as well as
veil. other mediums.
When she spoke through Gladys, Feda’s
Gladys saw what she termed “Happy childish intonation was quite different He published the results in Raymond
Valley” after the happy people who dwelt from Gladys’s cultured voice. She had or Life and Death (1915). After this, she
there. In her autobiography My Life in Two an accent, ran syllables together and became known as “Sir Oliver Lodge’s
Worlds (1931) she writes: pronounced long words with difficulty. medium.”

“In whatever direction I happened to Gladys married Frederick Leonard, a In 1918, Gladys was investigated for
be looking, the physical view of the wall, fellow actor and Spiritualist, and became three months by the Society for Psychical
door, ceiling or whatever it was would Gladys Osborne Leonard. Frederick Research (SPR). Of 73 sittings, all but three
disappear and in its place would gradually provided extra power during sittings. To were anonymous.
come valleys, gentle slopes, lovely trees Feda’s dismay, because of professional
and banks covered with flowers of every engagements he could not always be William Henry Salter (1880-1970), a
shape and hue. present. barrister, reported to the SPR that the
sitters generally agreed good evidence of
“The scene seemed to extend for many Gladys gave occasional private sittings, surviving personality had been obtained.
miles, and I was conscious that I could see but it was not until March 1914 that Feda Moreover, the complete trustworthiness
much farther than was possible with the told her she must become a professional of the medium could not be questioned.
ordinary physical scenery around me.” trance medium.
The same year, Gladys was further
Her father William, a prosperous “Something big and terrible is going to investigated by Nora Sidgwick (1845-
yachting entrepreneur, found himself in happen in the world,” she said (the First 1936), the wife of the SPR’s first president,
financial difficulties. Gladys had to earn a World War). “Feda must help many people Henry Sidgwick.
living and became a professional singer, through you.”
but diphtheria ruined her fine voice, so she So-called book tests were conducted in
turned to acting. Among her first sitters that month was which Feda would describe something on a
James Hewat McKenzie (1869-1929), a specific page of a certain book, which was
About this time she was introduced to psychical researcher and founder of the placed on a shelf in a house the medium did
Spiritualism. From December 1910, Gladys not know.
practised table-tilting with two actress
friends beneath the stage of the newly- Nora recorded that of 532 such tests,
built London Palladium, which was then a 92 were successful, 100 approximately
music hall. so, 96 dubious, 40 all but failures and 204
failures.
Table-tilting was a popular though
laborious method of communication. Each Gladys was also investigated by
letter of the alphabet was called over, with psychical researcher and author Hereward
the table tilting until the required one was Carrington (1880-1958). He hailed her as
reached. Then it remained steady. “the British Mrs Piper.” (Leonora Piper was
the most tested of American mediums.)
They soon attracted the attention of Sir
Walter Gibbons, the theatre’s builder and For the Rev Charles Drayton Thomas
managing director. Instead of throwing (1867-1941), a Methodist minister and
them out, he took an interest, later became prominent member of the Society for
a Spiritualist and wrote several books. Psychical Research, she did more book and
newspaper tests.
After some two dozen sittings, a long
unpronounceable word beginning with the This involved successfully predicting
letter ‘F’ was spelled out. The three asked names and items which would appear in
if they might abbreviate it. Consent was a newspaper before it was typeset and
given and “F E D A” was agreed upon. printed.

At a subsequent session, Gladys Gladys gave nearly 50 years’ service as
appeared to fall asleep. When she awoke, a medium. She continued giving sittings,
the friends said that a girl calling herself but from the late 1950s, on Feda’s
Feda had communicated through her. instructions, she took on less and less work
and passed in her sleep on March 10, 1968
Feda said that she was Glady’s great- aged 85. ■

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(Illustrations by courtesy of Hay House)

Cards are based on gods,
goddesses and guardians

By Wendy Stokes

“Goddesses, Gods and Guardians Oracle Cards.” By Sophie Bashford. Present and Future, Your Soul Path, Five-
Art by Hillary Wilson. Boxed set of 44 cards plus guidebook. Hay card and The Gateway Star.
House. £15.99.
The box has gold lettering and would
PUBLISHED this month, the box lid states: SOPHIE BASHFORD: “Unlocking my own inner make a suitable gift for a young person
“I receive your wisdom with an open heart. feminine nature has brought me profound healing.” learning about archetypes and seeking
Thank you for revealing sacred truths that advice.
illuminate my soul’s path.” definitions and terminology, the inner
feminine and masculine, healing, growth The images have thought-producing
This deck has a cross cultural emphasis, and evolution. The cards encourage light colouring. The artist is Hillary Wilson,
with women and men of differing ethnicity, and clarity at times of need. who specialises in medical, visionary and
skin colour and age ranges, including non- commercial art, and has almost 25,000
binary and all genders. In the accompanying guidebook, there Instagram followers.
is a special invocation to be repeated when
Featured archetypes are presented in need of a particular goddess or god Raised by an adventure-loving family,
with messages from divine teachings with guardian energy. There’s a brief outline Hillary received a Masters in Medical
a name and subtitle, a few words of advice, of each card’s cultural, mythological and Illustration from the John Hopkins School
information and a message, additional geographical origins. of Medicine and divides her time between
meanings and a short invocation. medical illustration, portrait and fantasy
The cards focus on a key theme for art.
All are positive and uplifting messages personal and spiritual development, so you
that bridge the gap between daily life can better understand emotions, awaken Meanwhile, Sophie Bashford is a writer,
and walking a spiritual path. You can ask intuition, heal self-limiting patterns, healer, intuitive practitioner and an expert
questions of the cards and receive practical discover your true purpose and life on goddesses, who provides moon temple
and spiritual advice. mission, unlock your gifts and be open to retreats, and online workshops and classes.
the possibility of past lives.  This is her first oracle.
These cards don’t completely predict
the future and will not take away your free There is also a Welcome Ritual and a On her website, Sophie says she creates
will. They show possibilities yet you have creative visualisation to begin a reading. “high-vibration, intensive healing spaces
the power to change outcomes in your life. The cards are suitable for beginners or for people who are drawn to remembering
experienced readers, to read for oneself or sacred feminine energy: an ancient, deep-
The deck was designed with the for others. dwelling part of humanity and earth that
intention to develop a deepening has long been suppressed.
awareness with the divine feminine and There is information on how to prepare
masculine. the cards with a clearing and blessing, “Feminine energy is something that
dos and don’ts when reading, storage, you have in overflowing, jewel-encrusted
Earliest humankind worshipped performing a reading with an open goblet-fulls, but you’ve probably been
the goddess. Her wisdom draws on question and how to shuffle, draw and talked out of listening to, trusting and
receptiveness, intuition, emotional interpret. understanding it.
intelligence, healing, relationships, inner
stillness and caring. The night, nature, and Several spreads are suggested – One- “Unlocking my own inner feminine
lunar cycles provide connection to her card, Solar Return, Three-card, Past, nature has brought me profound healing
power. and shown me what I’m here to give. I
passionately believe it can do the same for
Some of the card titles are as follows: you.” She has around 90,000 followers on
Kali Ma (spiritual transformation), Hecate Facebook and Instagram.
(past life healing) and Oshun (sweet
success); Gods like Imhotep (visionary Also by Sophie in paperback and
gifts), Kane (life force energy) and Neptune ebook is You are a Goddess – Working with
(sensitivity); Guardians from the mystical the Sacred Feminine to Awaken, Heal and
worlds of Golden Atlantis, Lemuria and Transform.
Avalon.
■ The “Goddesses, Gods and Guardians
This deck is delightfully creative. We Oracle Cards” deck can be ordered direct
are given fresh perspectives on many soul from www.hayhouse.co.uk or any bookshop.
energies, with guidance on working with Sophie Bashford’s book on goddesses is also
the archetypes, explanations of symbols, published by Hay House UK at £12.99.

42 PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2022

Challenges of the
Covid crisis

By Lionel Owen

THE last two years have tested human ingenuity, patience and with accepting responsibility, power has
understanding, and thrown into sharp relief our powerlessness triumphed. China refused to allow a fair
against forces we do not understand. and open investigation into what started
the pandemic because of political dogma
Elevated scientists have risen to the UNTIL recently, wearing a face mask was and a basic insecurity that is unable to
level of saviours whilst tempting them into mandatory in certain situations. accept challenge and the possibility of
an arrogance far from justified by their error.
knowledge and shown the best and the to grasp every possible advantage for
worst of human behaviour. themselves. In the early days, some commercial
organisations did not disclose the
Additionally, statistics and often We’ve seen the use of compulsion, presence of infections because it might
dubious computer models have been used refusing to recognise that individuals are lead to financial losses.
to cow people into acceptance. capable of making their own decisions
when faced with great challenges. All in all humanity is not emerging from
Our perilous grip on dominance in the Thus free and open societies have the viral challenge with much to commend
physical world has rarely been challenged been transformed into little more than it. The exception, of course, is dedicated
so effectively as it has by the virus we call dictatorships. health care workers who have worked
Covid-19. tirelessly to help sufferers.
On a personal level, extortion and fraud
It is a challenge to us to work together have been manifested in taking advantage Instead of this pandemic being used
in harmony with a common aim, but it of emergency regulations and shortage of as an opportunity to re-examine our
seems instead to have demonstrated our supply. priorities on all levels and seriously
inability to bury self-interest in order to consider radical change, it has widened
conquer a common threat. Where political power has been at odds the gulf between the haves and have-nots
wherever one chooses to look.
Time and again, countries with power
and money have chosen to focus almost It has been seen by the most powerful
exclusively on their own citizens ignoring as an opportunity to extend their power
the fact that Covid is a universal enemy. and influence. Furthermore, commercial
interests have used the pandemic to
To provide vaccines for their vastly increase their profits instead of
populations they have done too little to sharing their expertise more freely for the
ensure the poorer nations are similarly common good.
provided for.
The spirit world tells us that we come to
Conquering the pandemic needs trust, Earth in order to learn lessons and grow in
co-operation and understanding on a spiritual understanding. Because our spirit
personal, national and international level. selves are subjected to domination by our
five senses, lessons can be learned here in
What have we seen? Those in power a way that is easier than it would be in the
almost everywhere ignoring the need for
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FEATURE

BORIS JOHNSON is seen at a vaccination centre in West London. (Photo: 10downingstreet/Facebook) physical beings who are victims of chance,
having been created accidentally in the
spirit world. I believe it is not too late to grasp the primordial mud in the far distant past.
The growth in materialism driven by opportunity presented by Covid to re-
examine our values to say: “Stop! There I say this despite official lip service paid
science and consumerism has undoubtedly must be a better way.” to religion and to everlasting life, subject
made our earthly task more difficult. to believing in a particular creed or dogma.
Conversely, it also provides enormous For instance, it is more than possible
opportunity to do better. the pandemic began as a result of a leak The truth is very different. Human
from a laboratory in China, which was beings are creatures of spirit spending a
Because our ingenuity has relieved experimenting with ways to genetically few years encased in physical bodies in a
us of many onerous and time-consuming alter viruses which are normally only physical world. We are everlasting spirits.
everyday tasks, modern humanity has present among animals and birds. Each spirit is a part of the Great Spirit, or
much more time to focus on improving the God.
comfort and living conditions of all people. We know also that such laboratories
pursue much more sinister experiments to This is true no matter what creed,
However, what we see is ever give their countries a military advantage in dogma, or none an individual professes.
worsening living conditions in poorer the international power game that typifies The spirit is vastly superior to any form of
communities and a burgeoning of wealth modern politics. matter however substantial that may be.
and power among a minority.
Should we allow fear, which is what Our spirit possesses powers beyond
This is especially the case in poorer often drives the military mind, to have such imagination. If only we would use our
countries where the political class has an all powerful influence? It was former minds to tap that power, materialism and
been so corrupted by power it has used it American president Franklin D. Roosevelt militarism would quickly disappear. To do
to increase its own wealth enormously at who said, “We have nothing to fear but so we need to accept who we truly are.
the expense of the general population. fear itself.”
Our mind is part of the spirit; it does not
Pandemics such as Covid-19 give us the The military arguments put forward for die when our physical body dies. Science
opportunity to re-evaluate our role both as the need to protect a country’s strategic has been able to make many incredible
individuals and as nations. interests with military might have been put advances in easing the physical burden
forward in nearly all societies for millennia. of life on Earth, but made no meaningful
During the first lockdown, there was attempts to investigate the mind.
much talk of the impact it was having The problem is that our inventiveness
upon our lives. People commented on the produces ever more sophisticated means This is due to the scientific obsession
sudden absence of noise, such as road and of annihilation such that we are urged to that the mind is part of the physical brain.
air traffic. increase our military might still further ad It refuses to countenance the existence
infinitum. of our eternal spirit. Until this attitude
Many claimed to be experiencing a changes, it is difficult to see us progressing.
healing calmness in their lives which they It is easy to see the futility of war as
had never known before. The need to rush an instrument of political policy and the However there is hope. Particle
everywhere was gone and they felt much foolishness of ever believing in an ultimate physicists have discovered the theoretical
better for it. weapon that will ensure peace, but the existence of several dimensions beyond
problem is trust. Disarmament needs a those we know of. It is only a matter
People began to question the system conviction that the other person will also of time before these dimensions are
that seemed to lead to an increasingly disarm. We are back to fear again. established as fact. In my view, they will
manic pace of ordinary life. As they lost prove to be spiritual.
loved ones to the virus, it also led many I believe the root of our inability to
to pose philosophical questions about the disarm universally is the same thing that What a revolution in thought such a
purpose of life. has led to the fear of death. We are looking discovery will bring about. It will be at
at it the wrong way around. least comparable to the impact Charles
Of course, it also caused severe Darwin’s On the Origin of Species had when
psychological problems, especially We see the problem from a purely it was published.
amongst the elderly, as they thought physical standpoint. Humanity labours
themselves abandoned by family and under the illusion that we are merely That is when people will be forced to
friends. look within and to seek the help of the
unseen world in order to create a new
way of life and a new understanding for all
humanity.

Spiritualism will have the opportunity
to come into its own and use our
experience to give people the tools with
which to fashion this new world.

In the meantime, Spiritualists can
use the power of the Spirit to shed more
light on the darkness with which we have
surrounded the Earth in the last 200 years
especially.

Never has the power of prayer and the
focus of our inner light been a greater
necessity. Spiritualism must become a
great deal more than the provider of
evidence that we survive death and
the giver of messages of comfort to the
bereaved, wonderful though they are. ■

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Apphaaruitnitoendsaairpfpieealdrsat

Seatbelts on! This month, John West takes a tour of more haunted airfields of voice inside his head told him to get out.
Lincolnshire and starts with East Kirkby. Fred shouted that he would not be

RAF East Kirkby closed in 1958. It is now brother Harold, set up the Aviation forced to leave until he had finished
the home of the Lincolnshire Heritage Heritage Centre, was one of those who painting. He got to the last step, saw that
Aviation Centre, a family-run museum witnessed the apparition one summer it had already been painted and fled the
and a living memorial to the 55,500 men evening. building.
of Bomber Command who lost their lives
during the Second World War. The figure was seen carrying a bundle of Some people were visiting the airfield
papers or paper bags. Fred thought nothing when they also saw a tall man wearing a
The control tower is haunted by a tall of it at the time, but later discovered that peaked cap and USAF jacket standing on
man in a USAF leather jacket and peaked the man matched the description of the the control tower balcony. The figure was
cap (in the 1950s the base was used by the ghost said to haunt the tower. looking down at them. A search of the
United States Air Force). building failed to locate him.
In 2003, Fred was repainting the control
Fred Panton, who, along with his tower steps. It was getting dark when a The sound of footsteps was once heard
climbing the external iron stairway to the
AT RAF East Kirkby, the control tower is haunted by a tall man in a United States Air Force leather jacket building. This should have been impossible,
and peaked cap. (Photo: Richard Croft) as the stairway had been removed for
repair and renovation.

Denis Brown was working in the signals
office in the control tower when he heard
the ground floor door open and someone
coming up the stairs and opening an
adjacent door. He called out, but no one
answered. Denis searched the building, but
found it empty.

The control tower’s switchboard
phones have been heard to ring despite
being disconnected.

The year 1994 saw a volunteer, an
ex-SAS soldier, spend the night alone in
the locked control tower. At midnight and
again at 5.00 am, he heard the sound of a
trolley moving across the floor. This was
followed by the sounds of tinkling cups,
saucers and spoons.

In 2004, Tony Gregory and his family
were visiting the control tower on a hot
summer’s day. Despite the heat, Tony and

46 PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2022

FEATURE

his daughter suddenly felt the temperature A LEADING aircraftwoman tractors a Lancaster Bomber at RAF Fiskerton.
drop in one particular spot as they were
listening to old wartime recordings of records put away before the hangar was where the airmen were seen to vanish.
communications between aircrews and locked up for the night. Sounds like Morse code were also heard
ground control.
The next morning the gramophone coming from the walls. Additionally, a
They moved a few feet from the spot was found open with a 78 rpm record smiling man wearing a blue jacket, white
and it was hot again. Tony’s wife and their called J’attendrai on the turntable. Other shirt and a dark coloured tie was seen
two sons did not experience the sudden records were found lying on the table as if standing at the bottom of a bed and also
temperature drop. someone had been going through them. sitting in a bedroom chair.

Medium and author Eddie Burks visited Elsham Wolds The figure of a man would also appear
East Kirkby in April 1994 after being through a wall and smile at the family
invited there by Fred Panton. Eddie went RAF Elsham Wolds closed in 1947. Sadly, before disappearing. Les Gregory also
to the control tower and told Fred that the haunted control tower, later used as heard the sound of a phantom aeroplane
several RAF officers were with them. a private dwelling, was demolished in the landing or taking off during the winter
1980s. mornings when leaving to feed his pigs.
He then sat down in a chair next to the
flight control desk and connected with a The Gregory family lived in part of the A possible earlier ghost sighting was
man wearing an RAF uniform, who asked control tower in the 1970s. The ghosts of recorded in January 1945 when the
Eddie what he was doing there. The spirit airmen were seen walking through one of airfield was still operational.
being then said, “There are quite a few of the walls.
us, you know.” Corporal Hilary, a WAAF MT driver, was
During redecorating, the wallpaper was lost on the base while driving a van during
The communicator then told Eddie that removed and a blocked-up door was found thick fog. She stopped and saw three
the station was fully manned, but not as airmen in flying gear, illuminated by the
busy as it had once been, adding that he headlights, suddenly appear before her.
missed the activity.
Cpl Hilary asked them for directions to
Eddie also picked up the impression of dispersals, but they ignored her, vanishing
several distressed children and women, back into the fog. No aircrews were flying
including one dressed in a WAAF uniform. that day due to the bad weather and the
identity of the men was never discovered.
The women were upset that the airfield
was being targeted by the Germans, thus
endangering the people of the village.

Fred then told Eddie that RAF East
Kirkby had been first established as a
dummy base to draw enemy attention
from other nearby RAF airfields.

Three balls of light were once seen
dancing on a path that leads into the
hangar.

A group of World War Two re-enactors
once left an old gramophone player in
the hangar. It had been closed and all the

AVRO LANCASTER of 49 Squadron RAF returns to RAF Fiskerton after bombing Berlin Fiskerton
in November 1943.
RAF Fiskerton closed for flying in 1945.
Between the 1960s and 1992, the
headquarters of 15 Group Royal Observer
Corps was located within the former
airfield boundary.

Voices have been heard in the
area of the control tower, which was
demolished in 1978. Apparitions in RAF
uniforms were also reported. After an
interdenominational prayer team held
a service there, the ghostly activity
apparently ceased.

A workshop occupied the former boiler
room and officer’s mess bar. One man
working there often smelt pipe smoke in

PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2022 47

FEATURE

Grimsby

RAF Grimsby closed in 1952. A headless
apparition in flying gear was seen one night

by an employee of E. W. Nickerson & Co,

who used a hangar to store machinery and

grain.

The form walked through the wall and

entered an anteroom. It then stopped for

a few brief seconds before walking on and

through another wall.

A man called Noel was looking around
the airfield when a man on an old bicycle

came up to him and started to talk about
the history of the airfield and pointed

out where the former Second World War

buildings had once stood.

Noel thanked the stranger and turned

away to continue looking around. When

he turned back a few seconds later, the

stranger and his bike had vanished.

BRITISH and American personnel hold up flags at the 496th Fighter Training Group base in Goxhill in Susan Shreeve told the author of
1944. (Photo: United States Army Air Forces) Haunted Second World War Airfields of the
time that a lady was walking her horse
the area where the boiler room and bar Goxhill one evening on the former airfield. She
met. This was always experienced between suddenly noticed a woman dressed in a
10.30 pm and 11.00 pm. RAF Goxhill closed in 1953. For part of the long brown dress and shawl, and carrying a
Second World War, it had been leased to wicker basket.
Once on Boxing Day in 2009, he felt the United States Air Force.
as if 50 people were staring at him. He The woman was walking across the
called out “Sorry chaps, won’t keep you a Cold spots have been noted at the middle of a ploughed field, which struck
moment” and then left in a hurry. airfield. One person who experienced the witness as being somewhat unusual.
these said that they were as cold as the
Others have sensed an officer with a lit inside of a refrigerator. The witness started to ride off and
pipe in a doorway. This apparition is also looked back a few seconds later only
reported to dislike women being in the A Mr and Mrs Jackson visited Goxhill in to find that the mysterious woman had
building. the 1960s. Mrs Jackson felt that she was vanished despite having still been in the
being watched and had to return to their middle of the field.
Victoria Webb was visiting the former car.
airfield one sunny day with her dog. It was Hemswell
about 1.00 pm and she decided to look at Mr Jackson saw a Lockheed P-38
a memorial when she suddenly noticed a Lightning flying at low altitude over the RAF Hemswell closed in 1974. It is
man in his 20s who was tying his shoelaces. former airfield before suddenly vanishing. considered one of the most haunted
airfields in Lincolnshire.
The figure smiled at her and came over Another visitor to Goxhill claimed to
to stroke her dog. He spoke with a London have seen two figures dressed as American Michael Bentine, the famed comedian
accent, saying it was a beautiful day and airmen walk through the side of a hangar.

asking if she was local to the area.
Victoria said she was from Sheffield and

glanced back at the memorial. When she

turned back, the man had vanished.

Victoria revisited Fiskerton with Paul,

her partner, in December 2010. They

parked their car and decided to walk along

the snow-covered concrete runway.

Paul suddenly shouted “Duck!” and
pushed Victoria to the floor. A strong gust

of wind blew over them, as if an aircraft
was flying overhead.

Paul could not explain why he had felt

impelled to shout the warning. The pair

decided to leave, as Vicky now had the

feeling that they should not be there.

The couple returned to the car and

looked back. There were three fresh sets

of footprints behind them. The third set

ended at the car’s bumper. It appeared that

a third unseen person had walked back A NOTICE at the entrance to RAF Grimsby pays tribute to those who passed on during the Second World
with them. War. (Photo: Ivor the driver)

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FEATURE

THE entrance to RAF Hemswell, which “is considered one of the most haunted airfields in Lincolnshire.” (Photo: Adrian S Pye)

and author, went to Hemswell as part A PLANE from 61 Squadron at RAF Hemswell the total darkness of the unlit road. The
of a documentary about his life. He starts its engines before a raid on October 1940. children also saw the aircraft.
was interested in Spiritualism and the (Photo: Ministry of Information)
paranormal for decades. Stuart, a contributor to an aviation
in the centre of the airfield followed by a forum, wrote of having visited Hemswell
Michael was standing on the old runway loud bang and the flash of lights and the one afternoon to see an old Austin K2/Y
when he heard the unmistakable sound sound of a truck that seemed to stop near ambulance that had been abandoned in a
of a Wellington bomber starting up and where he was standing. shed.
moving along the concrete.
Derek could also hear the sounds of Just before leaving, Stuart decided to
A caretaker informed Michael and footsteps, voices and laughter, but nothing look at some of the former RAF buildings
the film crew that his German Shepherd could be seen. before it got dark.
guard dogs refused to go near the former
officer’s mess after dark. He also admitted The A631 passes by the entrance to Stuart entered an H-Block, but
that he was reluctant to go there himself, Hemswell. The apparitions of airmen in encountered an icy drop in temperature
as he believed it to be haunted. Second World War uniform have been and felt that he was being watched.
seen crossing the road there.
Dave and Penny Kitchen and their He then had the feeling that he should
children went to Hemswell in May The Families Club building, the former not be in the building. A sense of being
1991. They stopped their car on the old sergeant’s mess, is haunted by the sounds asked why he was there and a feeling of
main runway and Dave and the children of footsteps and bangs in the cellar. being told to leave filled his mind. Stuart
wandered off while Penny stayed with the left immediately.
car. A man was working on some scaffolding
in a hangar used for grain storage when The most terrifying apparitions of
Penny suddenly heard a dog panting, he heard footsteps on the concrete Hemswell are those of a man seen running
but could see no sign of the animal when floor below him. This should have been across the runway with his flying kit on fire
she looked around. Two minutes went by impossible, as the floor was covered in and another man, his arm wrenched out,
and she heard it again. grain. who screams in agony. ■

Dave and the children returned, and He then heard someone say “Haaa” on John West is a writer, film producer and
they drove off after Penny described her the scaffold right next to him. The man left broadcaster. In 2018, he teamed up
strange experience. They then noticed a the hangar and refused ever to enter it with director Jason Figgis to produce
light shining through a gap in the former again. films and TV documentaries.
hangar.
 Another man claimed to have seen The pair have so far collaborated
The couple later told friends, who went the runway lights switched on at night, on several projects ranging from a
to look for themselves. They also saw the which would have been impossible, as all documentary on photographer Sir
light. It emerged that people using the the landing lights had been removed years Simon Marsden to a feature film called
hangar for storage often experienced a before. “Winifred Meeks.”
problem with the lights, which often could
not be switched off for some unexplained He also once saw an aircraft silently John’s first book on ghosts, “Britain’s
reason. circling the base at night after he stopped Haunted Heritage,” was published by
his car to allow his children to experience JMD Media in 2019.
It was October 1978 and Derek
Harrison was driving along the B1398,
which runs alongside Hemswell. It was
after 11.00 pm when he stopped the car to
relieve himself in a hedge.

Derek suddenly heard the sound of a
dance band playing the Missouri Waltz. The
music appeared to be coming from the
airfield.

It then stopped and the noise of an
aeroplane’s engines starting up was heard

PSYCHIC NEWS | FEBRUARY 2022 49

FEATURE

Live in the present moment

By Robert Brown

INEVITABLY, as the final weeks of 2021 rolled on, a number of world.
people I met asked a familiar question, “Have you thought of any We have to stop blaming others for
New Year’s resolutions you’ll make?”
what we do not have. We should also
I began reflecting on past years and doing make the world a better place. move away from expecting that everything
what I intended to do: lose weight, get Personal Responsibility – the fifth of the will be provided gratis and for no effort.
healthier, undertake some good work, In short, we have to be more mindful of
join a class, learn another language and Spiritualists’ National Union’s (SNU) Seven Personal Responsibility.
all the many other things we think of Principles – is often cited. The principles
that invariably we adopt with sincere are based on teachings given through the A responsible person makes mistakes,
enthusiasm and determination. mediumship of Victorian pioneer Emma but when they do, they take responsibility
Hardinge Britten. and put it right. The principle is that we are
Yet so often within two or three months responsible for our every thought, action
– if we last that long – we fail miserably, get It seems as if the world in general has and deed.
distracted, disillusioned and disappointed morphed into a needy, greedy place; we
(all those other words starting with dis!), are so quick to point the finger, complain, You are where you are because of who
not to mention depressed. blame, demand and expect. you are. Everything in your life is because
of you and your behaviour, words and
No wonder we often end up ill or work As nations, we are often eager to blame decisions.
through our resolutions feeling disgruntled, earthly problems on each other. One
to use another word starting with dis. country criticises another for excessive We each have freedom of choice, which
Disease can become a reality. If our mind pollution and a different one for being is the most precious of all gifts, but with
really can create such negativity, surely it dictatorial. Should we be wallowing in all that comes the ability to recognise what is
can also manifest the opposite? this name-calling or doing something about right and wrong for us.
it? If so, how?
Perhaps it is time for many of us to In our own lives and spirituality, we
reflect not so much on material goals, If we start by reflecting what Personal have to accept that it is not possible for
but on things that can make a positive Responsibility means and not only pay it lip any other person or outside influence to
difference in each of our lives and in so service but also live it daily, we can change interfere with our development unless we
ourselves as individuals and collectively the are willing to allow it.

What, then, can we do to adhere to the
fifth principle? First, let’s stop complaining

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