COMMENTARY : ARE YOU A SPIRITUALIST WITHOUT KNOWING IT?
Many people are not aware that there is a church/science/philosophy that teaches that there is life after death, looks for evidence through the work of mediums, rejects the concept of eternal punishment, has no specific beliefs, and encourages people to think for themselves.
The National Spiritualist Association of Churches (NSAC) defines a Spiritualist as "one who believes in the communication between this and the Spirit World by means of mediumship and who endeavors to mold his or her character and conduct in accordance with the highest teachings derived from such communication".
Spiritualism teaches that there is life after death but rejects the idea that we merge into formlessness. Based on evidence from years of spirit contact, Spiritualists have concluded that we retain the same personalities and characteristics, and change only through our own efforts.
It rejects the concept of an eternal hell, saying instead that "eternal progress is open to every human soul". But, other than that, Spiritualism doesn't tell you what you should believe or how you should interpret religious philosophy. It has no books that must be followed and no preachers whose word must be obeyed. Read more about Spiritualism.
A RATIONAL BELIEF IN THE AFTERLIFE Piero Calvi-Parisetti M.D. is a medical doctor originally specialising in Public Health and Disaster Management. He has worked extensively for the International Red Cross and the United Nations and was later a university lecturer for 17 years. In 2004, a simple anecdote narrated by his wife triggered an intellectual interest, at first, and then a true scholarly passion for researching the scientific evidence for the afterlife.
DEATHBED VISIONS: WHAT REALLY HAPPENS WHEN WE TRANSITION FROM THIS LIFE?
Psychic medium and medical intuitive Julie Ryan claims to be able to communicate with spirits, both alive and dead, scan animals, and access people’s past lives. She also claims to be able to tell how close to death someone is. Her book is Angelic Attendants: What Really Happens As We Transition From This Life Into The Next.
Time codes:
0:00 - Episode Teaser 1:09 - Julie's work journey 7:14 - Julie's story of becoming a medical intuitive
10:30 - What she claims are the 12 phases of transition 26:07 - Julie's first experience as a medical intuitive 28:44 - What are Spirit Guides? 36:06 - Do we come into life with skills to fulfill our destiny?
44:02 - What happens after the 12 transitions? 46:22 - When you die, your personality stays with you. 53:59 - Parallel Realities
58:19 - Past Life Story
1:02:37 - Living A Good Life
1:02:56 - Definition of God
1:03:00 - Ultimate Purpose of Life
1:03:08 - Julie's Work
1:03:55 - Final Message
FRENCH ANESTHESIOLOGIST TALKS ABOUT NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES
"Although I was a scientist and a highly technical medical specialist, I finally admitted that death is only an obligatory passage to an unknown destination. Unfortunately, the truth about the afterlife is not obvious to everyone." Dr. Jean Jacques Charbonier has written several books about the afterlife, one of which, 7 Reasons to Believe in the Afterlife, is available in English.
THE SELF DOES NOT DIE
A book by Titus Rivas (Author), Anny Dirven (Author), Rudolf H. Smit (Author), Robert G. Mays (Editor), Janice Miner Holden (Editor)
This book contains over 100 reliable, often firsthand accounts of perceptions during NDEs that were later verified as accurate by independent sources. The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences Paperback – July 6, 2016
VERIFIED PHENOMENA FROM NDES - TOP CASES THAT CHALLENGE MATERIALISM From the IANDS video "Analysis of the Self Does Not Die." 19:51 Inclusion criteria & verification levels Chapter Summaries & Cases 29:34 Ch.1 Immediate-environment AVPs (e.g., Al Sullivan surgeon arm-flapping)
32:50 Ch.2 Beyond-room AVPs (e.g., Maria’s shoe; Chester remote conversations) 37:37 Ch.3 Cardiac arrest AVPs (e.g., Lloyd Rudy case; Dentures Man; Pam Reynolds)
46:24 Ch.4 Telepathy (e.g., George Rodonaia; “unbuttered side” ICU lunch) 50:40 Ch.5 ADCs with unknown deceased (e.g., Viola Horton infant brother)
53:40 Ch.6 ADCs with familiar not-yet-known deceased (e.g., Eddie Cuomo)
55:50 Ch.7 Apparitional NDEs (e.g., Olga Gerhardt message & timestamp) 58:16 Ch.8 Healings & terminal lucidity (e.g., Anita Moorjani)
1:01:28 Ch.9 Post-NDE psi (e.g., Shirley Black, Tom Sawyer Flight 191)
HAVE YOU HAD A DREAM REUNION WITH A LOVED ONE? Dream communication is the most frequently reported method of after-death communication. Unlike normal dreams, contact dreams don’t fade with time. They are incredibly vivid and you will be able to remember details even years later. The person who has died usually looks much younger and in perfect health. They are smiling and telling you that they are fine and happy. They tell you that they did not suffer during their passing and that they are with family members. People wake up with a feeling of overwhelming love. Sometimes they are given information that they could not have otherwise obtained. Read more.
HE SPENT SEVEN YEARS TESTING PHYSICAL MEDIUMSHIP
A decorated officer of the British Royal Navy, Moore approached physical mediumship with the discipline of a naval investigator—not as a believer, but as a skeptic determined to separate fact from fraud. What followed changed his life forever. In this documentary, we explore the remarkable investigations that led to his classic work Glimpses of the Next State (1911), including extraordinary reports of materialization, direct voice mediumship, evidential communications, and carefully documented tests that convinced Moore he was communicating with people who had genuinely survived death.
FROM WHITE CROW BOOKS - A NEW EDITION OF "LIFE ETERNAL" BY W.T. STEAD William T. Stead was a famous British journalist who died on the Titanic in 1912. Soon after his transition, he made contact with his daughter Estelle through automatic writing. She published his description of his early experiences where he was taken to a reception station as The Blue Island, Experiences of a New Arrival Beyond the Veil. Estelle remained in contact with her father as he learned more about how the afterlife works, and in 1933 published Life Eternal which deals with her father's description of his conditions, how communication works, and what he had learned about reincarnation. White Crow Books has republished Life Eternal (including as an e-book).
CASEY CARTER: THE TEACHER WHO STARTED HEARING HER STUDENTS' THOUGHTS
When neurodevelopmental teacher Casey Carter began working with a 12-year-old nonspeaking autistic student named Jed, she quickly realized there was far more happening beneath the surface than others could see. After helping him communicate through typing, Casey says she discovered that Jed could read her thoughts.
Watch more videos in the Telepathy Tapes series.
THE ZETA CONNECTION
If you're interested to get up close and personal with ETs, a great start is the work of medium Paul Hamden and Canadian scientist William Treurniet.
Scroll down on the Zeta connection website for the following books, co-written by Paul and William available as free pdf downloads.
"The Primer of the Zeta Race"
"The Quick Zeta Primer"
"The Zeta Interviews"
"Extraterrestrial Cosmology and Technology"
"Zeta Science for Humans"
Paul has also authored, and co-authored many books and articles about the Zetas, energy work and different aspects of mediumship that are linked on the same page.
Paul and his partner Syann Hamden
have a monthly group running for those generally interested in E.T.s, disclosure, etc., and also running various E.T. Experiencer support groups for those wishing to connect with others. The contact details are via the website https://www.thezetaconnection.com/support--discussion-groups.html
SYDNEY NORTHERN BEACHES SPIRITUALISTS SUNDAY AUGUST 23rd 2026 Northern Beaches Spiritualists (Sydney, Australia) is holding a face-to-face meeting on Sunday August 23rd at Manly Vale Community Centre, Innes Road Hall. From 6 p.m. to 6.45 p.m., we will hold a healing circle. See location and transport details.
Our medium this week is Linda Usope.
For more information email paulhinson@gmail.com.
NEXT WEEK'S FREE AFTERLIFE ZOOM GROUPS - ALL WELCOME
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Friday 21st August 2026 7p.m.
Mediumship Demonstration with Donna Young
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Saturday 22nd August 2026/Sunday August 23rd Australia
Exploring Different Styles of Meditation with George Lockett
This month's meditation:
"A meditation on releasing past karma and raising our vibration.Do we get to a time when we have completed releasing all past life and ancestor karma? We are all creative beings, and if we can stay present in the now moment and focus on positive creative thoughts, we can change the karma we are creating. By raising our vibration through greater consciousness, we can stop attracting negative karma to us. It is also good to use forgiveness to release any negative emotions that we may be carrying. Through forgiveness, we can reclaim control of our life by stopping giving our power away to those who have hurt us."
George E. Lockett has spent 50 years practising Transcendental Meditation as taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, often in large groups of people meditating together. He has experienced transcending and having out-of-body experiences. Times:
Pacific Time 9.00 a.m. Saturday
Phoenix 9.00 a.m. Saturday
Mountain Time 10.00 a.m. Saturday
Central Time 11 a.m. Saturday
Eastern Time 12 noon Saturday
London 5.00 p.m. Saturday
Vienna 6.00 Saturday
Perth 12.00 a.m. Sunday
Sydney/ Melbourne 2.00 a.m. Sunday
New Zealand 4.00 a.m. Sunday Check time in your city
Co-ordinator: David Wright https://us06web.zoom.us/j/3334491615?
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Saturday, August 22nd/ Sunday August 16th Australia
Spiritist Literature: Directed Study (SLIDS)
A free Zoom group about Spiritism, Kardec, and Chico Xavier. See videos of previous meetings.
Times:
Pacific Time 1 p.m. Saturday
Phoenix time 1 p.m. Saturday
Mountain Time 2 p.m. Saturday
Central Time 3 p.m. Saturday
Eastern time 4 p.m. Saturday
London 9 p.m. Saturday
Rome 10 p.m. Saturday
Sydney/Melbourne 6 a.m. Sunday
New Zealand 4 a.m. Sunday
Check the time in your city.
Co-ordinator: Ana Castro
Just click this link to join.
Sunday, August 23rd 2026 / Monday, August 24th Australia
Mediumship Development with Dr. Susan Barnes CSNU Developing the skills of mental mediumship and blending with spirit.
Every 2nd and 4th Sunday
Note: If Dr. Sue is not there at the appointed time, it is probably because she is dealing with an ongoing health issue. She apologises in advance and will try to be back next time.
Times:
Pacific Time 10 a.m. Sunday
Phoenix time 10 a.m. Sunday
Mountain Time 11 a.m. Sunday
Central Time noon Sunday
Eastern Time (New York) 1 p.m. Sunday
London 6 p.m. Sunday
Rome 7 p.m. Sunday
Sydney/Melbourne 3 a.m. Monday
New Zealand 5 a.m. Monday
Coordinator: Dr. Susan B. Barnes, CSNU susanbbarnes@gmail.com Check time in your city.
Online in Zoom https://zoom.us/j/8738817733
Sunday, August 23rd 2026 / Monday, August 24th Australia
Global Gathering: Dr. Elizabeth Raver Elizabeth will talk about her
own mediumship and the discussion group she runs on the 4th Thursday of the month. She will also share the original research
she has been doing from documents/recordings she inherited about May Benzenberg Mayer (MBM) an early to mid 20th century spiritual teacher. MBM studied with Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud. Her teachings include the ancient Egyptian religion, Christianity/Biblical (from a very different perspective), Nordic, ancient China, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Chaldean, ancient Greece, etc.
Times:
Pacific Time 2 p.m. Sunday
Phoenix 2 p.m. Sunday
Mountain Time 3 p.m. Sunday
Central Time 4 p.m. Sunday
Eastern time 5 p.m. Sunday
London 10 p.m. Sunday
Amsterdam 11 p.m. Sunday
Sydney/Melbourne 7 a.m. Monday
New Zealand 9 a.m. Monday Check the time in your city Co-ordinator: wendyzammit@gmail.com https://zoom.us/j/7595442928
Monday, August 24th 2026 / Tuesday, August 25th, Australia
GOSH with Kim Parker When: Every two weeks on Mondays (UK EUROPE and USA) and Tuesday 7 a.m. (Sydney).
A small group that meets to share and explore the meaning of strange experiences like missing time, seeing scenes from another time, interacting with a person who suddenly wasn't there, bi-location etc. If it's something you cannot share easily with others, bring it to this group to get validation and speculate on its cause. See short video about GOSH
Australian-based Physical Mediumship Development Circle (Dark Circle) Every week participants interested in trying to develop physical mediumship sit in a darkened space in their own homes for 20 minutes, relax, and listen to music.
Times:
Pacific Time 3 a.m. Tuesday
Phoenix Time 3 a.m. Tuesday
Mountain Time 4 a.m. Tuesday
Central Time 5 a.m. Tuesday
Eastern Time (New York) 6 a.m. Tuesday
London 11 a.m. Tuesday
Rome 12 noon Tuesday
Perth/Singapore 6 p.m. Tuesday
Sydney Australia 8.00 p.m. Tuesday
Auckland 10 p.m. Tuesday Check time in your city
Co-ordinator: paulhinson@gmail.com Email paulhinson@gmail.com for more information.
Tuesday, August 25th 2026/ Wednesday August 25th, Australia
Receiving Messages Through Spirit Art
with Susan Barnes
We are meeting to create spirit art with messages.
No art experience required.
Every 2nd and 4th Tuesday
If Dr. Sue is not there at the appointed time, it is probably because she is dealing with an ongoing health issue. She apologises in advance and will try to be back next time.
Times:
Pacific Time 6 p.m. Tuesday
Phoenix time 6 p.m. Tuesday
Mountain Time 7 p.m. Tuesday
Central Time 8 p.m. Tuesday
Eastern Time (New York) 9 p.m. Tuesday
London 2 a.m. Wednesday
Perth/Singapore 9 a.m. Wednesday
Sydney/Melbourne 11 a.m. Wednesday
New Zealand 1 p.m. Wednesday Check time in your city
Coordinator: Dr. Susan B. Barnes, CSNU susanbbarnes@gmail.com
Online in Zoom https://zoom.us/j/873881773
Thursday August 27th 2026/ Friday August 28th Australia
Mediumship Development with Dr. Elizabeth Raver Every fourth Thursday/Friday of the month, gather in a group to discuss "anything and everything" related to mediumship. This will include personal experiences, famous mediums, different types of mediumship, mediumship research, what is channeling, trance, shamanism, etc. If there is time, we will also do a guided meditation. Come join us in the discussion.
Dr. Raver first studied evidential and trance mediumship at Camp Chesterfield with Louise Irvine and others. She has also studied with several teachers in the U.S. and Great Britain. She has a PhD in Psychology and is certified as a Spiritual Intuitive Life Coach and Reiki practitioner. She has her own private practice as a medium in addition to serving Connecticut spiritualist churches via sermons, platform work and healing.
Times:
Pacific Time 5.30 p.m. Thursday
Phoenix 5.30 p.m. Thursday
Mountain Time 6.30 p.m. Thursday
Central Time 7.30 p.m. Thursday
New York 8.30 p.m. Thursday
London 1.30 a.m. Friday
Singapore 9.30 a.m. Friday
Sydney/Melbourne 11.30 a.m. Friday
New Zealand 1.30 p.m. Friday Check time in your city
Contact: ravelizabeth516@gmail.com
ZOOM room: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82070590992?
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JURGEN ZIEWE'S DISCOVERY ABOUT THE "OM"
Out-of-body experiencer Jurgen Ziewe writes about an experience he had in 2012, when, during his regular meditation, he found himself out-of-body in a different dimension. He decided to continue his meditation, chanting the 'Om'.
He writes: "The moment I chanted the word, the ground around me began to reverberate, almost like a minor earth tremor. With the second chant, I was completely airborne and lifted into the most sublime sky one can imagine, with blessing in the form of luminous sparks raining down on me. I rose higher and higher and as I rose the chant assumed a life of its own. Very rapidly I merged with the sound, and, in no time I entered Samadhi. I was connected to and one with the core energy of this most amazing current."
Download a copy of the chant Jurgen recommends.
YOUR LIFE IS NOT ABOUT "LITTLE YOU" Neale Donald Walsch discovered that our lives are not about us as small, disconnected individuals. Instead, when we direct our energies to enrich the lives of everyone whose life we touch, we discover a much bigger version of ourselves and suddenly our lives start to "work".
WE COME HERE WITH A LIFE PLAN “Every soul knows before it incarnates into earth what it is that it will undertake. It is a free choice made by the larger self because it knows that its earthly journey is precisely the one needed to fulfill and obtain the necessary qualifications for the development of the larger self. You know the life that you are going to live. The hardships are chosen because to endure them, and to overcome them, will bring into play those latent qualities of the self which require development to add their quota to the real, the higher, the true self.” ('Guidance From Silver Birch' p.67).
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HIGHLY INSPIRATIONAL MUSIC
One of the most inspirational songs of all time: YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE!
The song was written by Oscar Hammerstein II and composed by Richard Rodgers for their musical Carousel, which was released in the USA in 1945.
"You'll Never Walk Alone"
When you walk through a storm
Hold your head up high
And don't be afraid of the dark
At the end of a storm
There's a golden sky
And the sweet silver song of a lark
Walk on through the wind
Walk on through the rain
Though your dreams be tossed and blown
Walk on, walk on
With hope in your heart
And you'll never walk alone
You'll never walk alone
Walk on, walk on
With hope in your heart
And you'll never walk alone
You'll never walk alone
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AFTERLIFE REPORT 
: ARE YOU A SPIRITUALIST WITHOUT KNOWING IT?
Dream communication is the most frequently reported method of after-death communication. Unlike normal dreams, contact dreams don’t fade with time. They are incredibly vivid and you will be able to remember details even years later. The person who has died usually looks much younger and in perfect health. They are smiling and telling you that they are fine and happy. They tell you that they did not suffer during their passing and that they are with family members. People wake up with a feeling of overwhelming love. Sometimes they are given information that they could not have otherwise obtained. 
William T. Stead was a famous British journalist who died on the Titanic in 1912. Soon after his transition, he made contact with his daughter Estelle through automatic writing. She published his description of his early experiences where he was taken to a reception station as 
Northern Beaches Spiritualists (Sydney, Australia) is holding a face-to-face meeting on Sunday August 23rd at Manly Vale Community Centre, Innes Road Hall. From 6 p.m. to 6.45 p.m., we will hold a healing circle. See 
This month's meditation:
A free Zoom group about Spiritism, Kardec, and Chico Xavier. See 
Developing the skills of mental mediumship and blending with spirit.
Elizabeth will talk about her
own mediumship and the discussion group she runs on the 4th Thursday of the month. She will also share the original research
she has been doing from documents/recordings she inherited about 
Every week participants interested in trying to develop physical mediumship sit in a darkened space in their own homes for 20 minutes, relax, and listen to music. 
We are meeting to create spirit art with messages. 
He writes: "The moment I chanted the word, the ground around me began to reverberate, almost like a minor earth tremor. With the second chant, I was completely airborne and lifted into the most sublime sky one can imagine, with blessing in the form of luminous sparks raining down on me. I rose higher and higher and as I rose the chant assumed a life of its own. Very rapidly I merged with the sound, and, in no time I entered 
“Every soul knows before it incarnates into earth what it is that it will undertake. It is a free choice made by the larger self because it knows that its earthly journey is precisely the one needed to fulfill and obtain the necessary qualifications for the development of the larger self. You know the life that you are going to live. The hardships are chosen because to endure them, and to overcome them, will bring into play those latent qualities of the self which require development to add their quota to the real, the higher, the true self.” ('Guidance From Silver Birch' p.67).