COMMENTARY:
DISINFORMATION AND DISCERNMENT Many
of us who have had the privilege of sitting repeatedly
with a genuine physical medium like David Thompson,
John Sloan or Leslie Flint, know, without doubt, that
they are able to provide the most amazing proof that
there is no death and that life is eternal.
But sadly, when it comes to the skeptics' attitude to
physical mediumship, it seems that things have changed
little in 150 years. Michael Tymn's description of the
treatment meted out to the Davenport Brothers in his
excellent article 'Were
the Davenport Brothers Mere Humbugs?' could well
apply to just about any physical medium of today or
yesterday.
Michael
Tymn writes: "Some esteemed men and women of
science observed a particular medium on hundreds of
occasions under conditions completely ruling out deception
of any kind. And yet, other scientists concluded that
fraud was the only explanation, primarily because everything
they observed defied known natural law. Their careers
would have been endangered had they subscribed to an
unnatural or 'unscientific' explanation."
"In some cases a magician was called
in to debunk the supposed medium, and usually these
magicians came up with ways they 'could have' simulated
the phenomena..."
"Journalists and historians, wanting
to appear intelligent and scientific, not as gullible
fools buying into ridiculous 'religious' superstition
and folly, usually aligned themselves with the debunkers,
completely ignoring the controlled studies by some researchers
and recording only the verdicts of the debunkers."
My experience is that the people who are in the best
position to give you feedback about the genuineness
of a physical medium are the men and women who are members
of the medium's home circle. Almost without exception,
they are people of integrity who devote years to developing
the mediumship and understanding its complexity.
Kudos to N. Riley Heagarty for ignoring the disinformation
of sources like Wikipedia and using his discernment,
in digging deeply into the evidence about the Davenport
Brothers in his new book, Wizards
of the North. Currently available at Lulu.com
and in eBook format It should soon be available at Barnes
and Noble, Abe Books, and Amazon.
WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM NEAR-DEATH
EXPERIENCES? We highly
recommend
Kenneth Ring's book Lessons
from the Lightto anyone interested in theology. After studying
literally thousands of NDEs he writes - on the basis
of evidence, not speculation -
"Everyone is loved infinitely, and with incredible
compassion. There is a plan or, a kind of blueprint
for everyone's life, and, while we each are free to
embrace it or reject it, the Light is there to help
us find it. If we can open ourselves to the Light, invoke
it into our lives, we will, in time, be shown our own
way - and we will recognize it as ours unmistakable
because it gives us joy. Joy in living is the truest
sign that we are living right. What kills is judgment;
what heals is love. The Light itself is only love, and
it never judges; it gently nudges you toward your essential
self. It wants you to realize that your core being is
this light - it is not something external to you."
See p.198.
WILLIAM BUHLMAN'S POWERFUL NEW
VIDEO "If people knew
what they were, there would be no wars, no poverty;
there'd be none of the ills that face humanity today;
they would all be eradicated. If people only knew they
were immortal non-physical species, evolving and using
matter as a tool, if they knew these things, all the
things on Earth would dramatically shift and change.
It's so critically important that people own their power.
And once you own that there's no limit to what you can
achieve."
AFTERLIFE
EVIDENCE CONSISTENT WITH QUANTUM PHYSICS "I
believe that the findings of quantum physics increasingly
support Plato, who taught that there is a more perfect,
non-material realm of existence. There is evidence that
suggests the existence of a non-material, non-physical
universe that has a reality even though it might not
as yet be clearly perceptible to our senses and scientific
instrumentation. When we consider out of body experiences,
shamanic journeys and lucid dream states, though they
cannot be replicated in the true scientific sense, they
also point to the existence of non-material dimensions
of reality." Physicist
Prof. Fred Alan Wolf (Dr. Quantum).
THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF DANIEL
DUNGLAS HOME - A KEITH PARSONS DOCUMENTARY Daniel
Dunglas Home (pronounced ‘Hume’) was a Scottish medium
who started having visions and contact with spirits
from a very young age. Brought up in the United States,
he was turned out of the house as a teenager since his
physical manifestations disturbed his religious aunt.
He became one of the most significant physical mediums
of all time and charmed the entire aristocracy of Europe
and many other famous people with his remarkable phenomena.
But skeptics could not abide this man and challenged
him. Was he authentic or not? This documentary will
help you decide.
THE GREAT PSYCHIC HISTORIAN,
ARTHUR FINDLAY He is
one of the most respected modern leaders of British
Spiritualism whose legacy is The
Arthur Findlay College. In 1918 Findlay attended
a direct voice seance with physical medium John Sloan.
Here is his description of what happened:
".......
for three hours, dozens of voices speaking to different
people, men's voices, women's voices, children's voices,
all of which I was told came from people called dead.
A woman's voice spoke to a man sitting on my left. It
gave a name and referred to happenings at his home.
It specially referred to Tom, who was giving his father
trouble, and then came advice as to how he should be
dealt with. Intimate family matters were discussed between
my neighbor and this female voice, and finally with
love it said 'Good-bye'
'That was my wife', he whispered to
me. 'I never come here but she comes back to me. She
always knows everything that goes on at home.'"
Findlay received highly confidential
information from his dead father - no one else knew
about. From that time onward, Findlay dedicated his
time to working to promote Spiritualism and prove the
afterlife. Read about Arthur Findlay's Experiences with
John Sloan in his book On
the Edge of the Etheric.
WAS PADRE PIO A PHYSICAL MEDIUM?
Medium Isabelle Duchene writes: "Padre
Pio and physical mediumship, his confession chair
was his cabinet, he spoke with spirits, talked with
the so-called dead. He spoke with the ministry of angels,
to the brother of men. Was he a hidden Spiritualist?
Phenomena were around wherever he went. Direct voice
and apports, and he was a healer and medium." Isabelle
talks about it in this month's Dutch magazine,Paravisie.
WHEN THE BODY SLEEPS
"...when
the body sleeps, the spirit body (which resides inside
the physical body) temporarily withdraws from it while
still remaining connected to it by a magnetic cord [silver
cord]. This cord is the veritable life-line between
the spirit body and the earth body. The spirit thus
situated will either remain in the vicinity of the earth
body, or it will gravitate to [go to] that sphere which
its earthly life, so far, has entitled it to enter.
The spirit body with all consciousness and mind will
thus spend part of the lifetime of the earthly body
in spirit lands, visiting our loved ones and others
we know." (Mons. Hugh Benson Life
in the World Unseen).
THE AMAZING DIVALDO FRANCO Thanks
to Alberto, who alerted us to this video about the wonderful
work of Divaldo Franco from Brazil. There are subtitles
in English and French, but the print of the English
ones is so small you may need to maximize the video
to read them. Most interesting is a segment showing
how a group of the medium's supporters sit around a
table generating energy when he writing (psychographing)
messages from spirit.
THREE EXCITING NEW AFTERLIFE
RESEARCH PROJECTS Michelle Szabo and Dennis
Grega PH.D., co-creators of AfterlifeData.com,
Afterlifelibrary.com,
and Voices
Across the Veil announce three ground-breaking
new afterlife research projects. In the first project, they are providing
one-to-one online training for people to learn how to
connect with their loved ones-in-spirit in one 90 minute
session. The process, developed and led by Jane Bissler
PH.D., has been tested and found to be highly successful.
In the second project, they are working
on a modern version of the Cross Correspondences. The third project involves comparing
the results of five high-level channellers connecting
independently with nominated spirits to obtain information
about the greater reality.
THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGING
FOR THE ZOOM GLOBAL GATHERINGS Our
Global Gatherings brings together afterlife
researchers in Australia, Europe, the UK, the USA and
South America. They are held every week at 7 a.m. Sydney
time. But next Sunday, 6th October Sydney will
start Summer time and put our clocks forward
an hour. This means that the meeting time in London
will go to 9 p.m
In New York to 4 p.m.
In Chicago to 3 p.m.
and in Los Angeles and Phoenix to 1 p.m.
Just click the link https://zoom.us/j/7595442928
These times will change again for the UK and Europe
when their Summer Time ends on the 27th October 2019
(back to 8 p.m. London)
They will also change for the USA when Summer Time ends
on
Sunday 3rd November (New York goes back to 3 p.m.)
THIS WEEK'S GUEST ON THE GLOBAL
GATHERING IS MULTIDIMENSIONAL MAN JURGEN ZIEWE Jurgen
Ziewe is one of the few out-of-body experiencers who
have reported spending extended periods in full waking
consciousness in the 'higher realms'. He will be talking
on the topic “Beyond the Summerland…and
what we can do now to assure that our own afterlife
will be a heavenly one."
Sunday 6th October at 1 p.m. Los Angeles and Phoenix;
3 p.m. Chicago; 4 p.m. New York.; 9 p.m. London; 10
p.m. Spain; 7 a.m. Monday Sydney. Just click the link
https://zoom.us/j/7595442928
AFTERLIFE ZOOM GROUPS NEXT WEEK
Saturday 5th
October 2019
'Love After Life' - must be a member of the Facebook
group 'Love After Life.'
Sunday 6th October 2019
Global Gathering: Jurgen Ziewe will
be talking on the topic “Beyond the Summerland…and
what we can do now to assure that our own afterlife
will be a heavenly one."
1 p.m. Los Angeles and Phoenix; 3 p.m. Chicago; 4 p.m.
New York.; 9 p.m. London; 10 p.m. Spain; 7 a.m. Monday
Sydney. Just click the link https://zoom.us/j/7595442928
Tuesday 8th October 2019
Spirit Art
Meeting for the purpose of creating spirit art with
messages.
No art experience required.
Every 2nd and 4th Tuesday at 9 p.m. New York time, https://zoom.us/j/8738817733 Coordinator: Dr. Susan B. Barnes, CSNU
susanbbarnes@gmail.com
CHANNELING MY SON FROM THE OTHER
SIDE
Is it possible to heal after the loss of a child? Joe
McQuillen has been married for 27 years and is a father
of three children, one on the other side. Joe was the
youngest of 10 children from an Irish-Catholic family.
Although Joe has had two successful careers, he is at
heart a blue-collar kid from Buffalo, NY. He is the
author of My
Search for Christopher on The Other Side.
SILVER BIRCH - DISINFORMATION
AND DISCERNMENT
"Do
not accept everything that is told to you. Use your
reason to test, to challenge all that we say and all
that will be said to you and all that you will hear.
If aught that we tell you offends your reason, reject
it. We make no claim to infallibility. We only say that
we can give you those truths which have been known to
the saints and seers for centuries, that have been forgotten
or buried beneath the debris of theology and creed.
We strive to rescue those ancient, eternal truths which
point the way to man's regeneration, to his spiritual
freedom, his economic and social liberation." Silver
Birch, A Voice in the Wilderness p. 30.
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INSPIRATIONAL MUSIC: CHRIS YOUNG
DROWNING
An emotional song that catches the common experience
that even though you know your loved one is in a "better
place", grief comes in unexpected waves and can
be overwhelming. Young describes the song as “very
heavy and emotional, but in a good way, kind of a cathartic
way.”
LYRICS
Still got your number in my phone
And even though you don't know I listen
I still call and wait 'til the tone
Just to hear you saying, "Leave a message"
Since you've been gone I've had to find
Different ways to grieve
There's days that I don't even want it on my mind
But tonight I'm weak
So, I'm gonna pull out pictures, ones with you in 'em
Laugh and cry a little while reminiscing
By myself
I can't help
That all I think about is
How you were taken way too soon
It ain't the same here without you
I gotta say, missing you comes in waves
And tonight I'm drowning
Yeah, I know you're in a better place
And one day I'll see you again
But it's killing me we can't be face to face
I miss my best friend
So, tonight I'm gonna pull out pictures, ones with you
in 'em
Laugh and cry a little while reminiscing
By myself
I can't help
That all I think about is
How you were taken way too soon
It ain't the same here without you
I gotta say, missing you comes in waves
And tonight I'm drowning
Yeah, tonight I'm drowning
I know it's a part of life
But I wasn't ready to say goodbye
So, tonight I'm gonna pull out pictures, ones with you
in 'em
Laugh and cry a little while reminiscing
By myself
I can't help
That all I think about is
How you were taken way too soon
It ain't the same here without you
I gotta say, missing you comes in waves
And tonight I'm drowning
Yeah, tonight I'm drowning
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