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Media Watch for October 2006 (Issue 59)
Materialization Séance: Victor Zammit reported on a David Thompson séance that he attend in June in Sydney Australia, in which he was asked to inspect the securing of the medium. The medium was securely tied to his chair (legs, hands and mouth gag) with one-way bands which could not be undone without pliers. The security bands had to be destroyed to free David after the séance ended. Victor called the phenomena incredibly powerful with materialized spirits moving around the room and touching sitters. There were Direct Voices as well as materialized spirits speaking directly to the sitters. One materialized spirit identified himself as Arthur Conan Doyle. Victor wrote that he was 100% convinced that the phenomena taking place was genuine.
Psychic Finds Missing Man: Lena McGregor, an Australian clairvoyant, located a missing elderly man after a large scale police search using dogs and a helicopter failed to turn up any clues as to his location. The police were about to give up the search when the psychic was called in by the ex-wife of the missing man’s son. Guided by a vision, she crawled on her hands and knees under thick brush and down a ravine to a creek bed. There, she found the missing man. Doctors at the Hospital advised reporters that the man would have only lived for another three hours. From: May 14th 06 The Sunday Telegraph NSW. Thanks to Victor Zammit, www.victorzammit.com/index.html Trapped Miner Communicates via Telepathy: In May, an Australian magazine, New Idea, published excerpts from the diary of trapped miner, Brant Webb’s father-in-law, Michael Kelly. The diary detailed his daughter Rachel’s belief that her husband was alive during a two week ordeal in which she communicated with him via telepathy. Brant was buried alive in a kennel-size cage 3,000 feet underground after an earthquake trapped him, along with another miner, under tons of rock in the Beaconsfield Gold Mine.
Mr. Kelly, 66, began detailing his family’s ordeal soon after news of the mine collapse reached him. “I scribbled things down as they happened because everything was such a blur that I hoped when it was all over, everyone would look back and remember what we had survived,” he told the magazine.
The day after the collapse Brant’s wife, Rachel, told the family that Brant had spoken to her and was alive and okay. Rachel’s mother thought Brant had passed and that this was a bad omen as it was Brant’s spirit connecting with Rachel. But Rachel insisted that he was alive. The day before the two trapped miners were found alive, the body of a third miner was sighted by a remote camera. Rachel insisted that it was not Brant.
The day after the two were found alive, Brant sent a note to Rachel telling her to take his car and empty his locker as he wanted his belongings as far away from the mine as she could get them. “She’s already done it, of course,” the diary read. “She said he’d told her to. And I can’t believe it; he’s got pains in his legs, just like she said.” Clairvoyant Dreams: Robert Downey Jr., the Ally McBeal star, insists that he dreams about film projects ten to fifteen years before they happen. “There have been times where I realized that my dreamscape is obviously being influenced by what I’m doing when I’m awake. I know for sure that I’ve had dreams and then realized that they were about movies that I was ten to fifteen years away from doing. From: ANI Yahoo News India paranormal.about.com/ Email Telepathy: A study done by Rupert Sheldrake and Pamela Smart investigating possible telepathic communication with emails was supported by grants from the Lifebridge Foundation, New York, the Bial Foundation, Portugal, and the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma, California. On each trial, there were four potential e-mailers, one of whom was selected at random by the experimenter. One minute before a prearranged time at which the e-mail was to be sent, the participant guessed who would send it. 50 participants (29 women and 21 men) were recruited through an employment web site. Of 552 trials, 235 (43%) guesses were hits, significantly above the chance expectation of 25%. Further tests with 5 participants (4 women, 1 man, ages 16 to 29) were videotaped continuously. On the filmed trials, the 64 hits of 137 (47%) were significantly above chance. From Testing for Telepathy in Connection with Emails by Rupert Sheldrake and Pamela Smart www.sheldrake.org/papers/Telepathy/email_telepathy.html
Ten-page introductory section that provides an overview of Spiritualism in Canada, including statistics about the number of incorporated organizations, registered charities and Spiritualist-owned church buildings, Forty-two-page listing of fifty-one Canadian Spiritualist organizations, and Eight-page listing of other Canadian organizations that share a common interest in mediumship or spiritual healing. Individual copies are priced at $6.00. The Institutes bank will accept personal checks payable to the Survival Research Institute of Canada in Canadian or US dollars. There is a break on orders of ten or more copies.
Send orders and inquiries to: Walter Meyer zu Erpen, President, Survival Research Institute of Canada, Post Office Box 8697, Victoria B.C. V8W 3S3, Phone/FAX: 1-250-386-4478, Website: www.islandnet.com/sric Depressed people are more sensitive to other’s emotions: Depressed people are often thought to be cut off from other’s but a study at Queen’s University in Canada found that mildly depressed students actually had a heightened ability to detect other people’s emotions. Kate Harkness and colleagues asked forty-three depressed and non-depressed students to identify people’s emotions from pictures that showed only the eye region of their faces. The sixteen students who were classified as mildly to moderately depressed performed significantly better (78% correct) to the twenty-seven non-depressed controls (69% correct). The depressed students didn’t take any longer over their answers and their superior performance was not due to their being more sensitive to negative emotions only. From: BPS Research Digest Issue 57, www.researchdigest.org.uk, Harkness, K.L., Sabbagh, M.A., Jacobson, J.A., Chowdrey, N.K. & Chen, T. (2005). Enhanced accuracy of mental state decoding in dysphoric college students. Cognition and Emotion Hearing Voices: People who hear voices are thought to need the help of a psychiatrist and are often given a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia. Dr Mark Hayward, at the University of Surrey in the UK, is studying whether or not some “voices” may have a positive impact on the hearer. To test this, a study of clinical patients is to be measured against other ‘voice hearers’ who neither seek nor need treatment. Some sixty existing patients drawn from National Health Service lists in southern England are being invited to answer questions about their unseen voices, which traditionally have always been considered to be negative. Their answers will be compared to non-clinical hearers who find their voices to be a positive benefit in their lives. Dr. Hayward states, “So much of our understanding is biased towards patients who are distressed and we can only guess about the characteristics of positive relationships with voices. We don’t want to guess. We want to know.” From: Psychic World, April 2006
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Directory of Spiritualist Organizations in Canada: In
July 2006, the Survival Research Institute of Canada published the sixth
edition of the Directory of Spiritualist Organizations in Canada.
First published in 1991, the directory is intended to help Spiritualists
locate organizations and foster contacts among those interested in evidence
of spirit survival. At sixty-pages, the sixth edition of the directory will
include a:
