The modern world often feels like a “perfect storm” of noise. As a friend recently noted, we are plagued by a toxic combination of fake news and information overload. For many of us, social media platforms have transitioned from tools of connection into “echo chambers”—digital spaces where we primarily hear voices that agree with us […]
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Hold onto your tea and biscuits, folks—Croydon Spiritualist Church is officially hitting the big 1-0-0! While our official “I’m with the Union” anniversary is March 14th, we’re saving the real debauchery—err, I mean celebration—for our summer party in June. A century is a long time. To put it in perspective, when we held our first
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We stand at the threshold of the New Year—a concept as arbitrary as a border drawn in the desert, yet one that carries the immense weight of our collective hope and our deepest anxieties. To look back at the history of our species is to see a long procession of people attempting to bargain with
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If we peel back the layers of our modern December—the frantic supermarket queues, the glow of LED lights, and the inevitable mountain of cardboard—we find a holiday that is less a single story and more a historical patchwork. It is a curious blend of ancient ritual, strategic calendar-keeping, and the legacy of a man whose
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In many ways this has been inspired by Spike Milligan as I heard a spoofed mashup version of Rudyard Kipling’s ‘If’ and ‘Gunga Din’ that may have been on the Goon show. It ended…If you can walk through a sausageWithout splitting it’s skinYou are a thinner man than me, Gunga Din This is my Christmas
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Taken From Psychic News, December 21, 1935 GUIDE TELLS OF OTHER-SIDE FESTIVAL XMAS “GREETINGS” BY A GUIDE Christmas is celebrated not only on this earth, but in the spirit world—though there it has a different significance. Twice every year, at Christmas and at Easter, those guides who belong to the older races on earth, such
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We were invited to see a remarkable Welsh medium, Terry Taylor. It was an inspirational evening. He was asked who he thought was the greatest medium from the past and he said Estelle Roberts. So that inspired me to find this reading. This is taken from the book by Estelle Roberts: Fifty Years a Medium.
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I want to share this story because it intertwines the rigorous world of science with the beautiful truths we hold. It’s the journey of Dr. Tara Swart, a distinguished neuroscientist and psychiatrist whose personal tragedy became a catalyst for a revelation that affirms the very core of our spiritual beliefs, especially the continuous existence of
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This extract is from Emma Hardinge Britten’s “NINETEENTH CENTURY MIRACLES; OR, SPIRITS AND THEIR WORK IN EVERY COUNTRY OF THE EARTH” written in 1884. This piece taken from page 53 has been rewritten as 19th text tends to be a bit flowery for our modern ears, whilst ensuring the original meaning and spirit remain intact.
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Raymond, or, Life and Death (1916) is perhaps Lodge’s most renowned spiritualist work, written after the death of his son Raymond in World War I. The book explores Lodge’s experiences with mediums and his belief in communication with the afterlife, but it also contains a good deal of philosophy. This is an extract from page
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