Important People!!!

Emmanuel Swedenborg: A Christian mystic. At the age of fifty-six he entered into a spiritual phase in which he experienced dreams and visions. This culminated in a spiritual awakening, where he claimed he was appointed by the Lord to write a heavenly doctrine to reform Christianity. He claimed that the Lord had opened his eyes, so that from then on he could freely visit heaven and hell, and talk with angels, demons, and other spirits.
He wrote many books, including: Heaven and Hell published in 1758. This book is a detailed description of the afterlife where people go after the death of the physical body. It deals with God, heaven, hell, angels, spirits, and devils, which the author claimed to have witnessed first hand. Some of the things he claims to have experienced are that there are Jews, Muslims and people of pre-Christian times ("pagans" such as Romans and Greeks) in Heaven. the fundamental issue that love of self or of the world drives one towards Hell, and love of God and fellow beings towards Heaven.



TO NOTE!!!! D. Michael Quinn suggests in his book Early Mormonism and the Magic World View that Heaven and Hell influenced Joseph Smith, Jr. in the creation of the Mormon view of the afterlife detailed in Doctrine and Covenants Section 76.

Leonora Piper: (1857 - died 1950) - probably the most famous trance medium in the history of Spiritualism, who allegedly provided - specifically through the so called cross correspondence experiment - the most convincing evidence for the reality of life after death or telepathy. Among those who studied Mrs Piper’s mediumship were prominent scientists: Sir Oliver Lodge, Dr. Richard Hodgson, Gardner Murphy, and professors James Hyslop and William James. All of them were converted to a belief in survival after death by the allegedly overpowering evidence she was able to produce.

William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910) was a pioneering American psychologist and philospher trained as a medical doctor. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religious experience and mysticism, and the philosophy of pragmatism. James interacted with a wide array of writers and scholars throughout his life, including his godfather Ralph Waldo Emerson, his godson William James Sidis, as well as Bertrand Russell, Horace Greeley, William Cullen Bryant, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Charles Peirce, Josiah Royce, George Santayana, Ernst Mach, John Dewey, Walter Lippmann, W. E. B. Du Bois, Helen Keller, Mark Twain, Horatio Alger, Jr., James George Frazer, Henri Bergson, H. G. Wells, G. K. Chesterton, Sigmund Freud, Gertrude Stein, and Carl Jung. He was a founder of the American Society for Psychical Research, as well as a champion of alternative approaches to healing. He challenged his professional colleagues not to let a narrow mindset prevent an honest appraisal of those phenomena. Also noted to be 14th most emminent psycologist of 20th century.

Eileen Garrett was an Irish medium, founder of the Parapsychology Foundation (PF) in New York City and an early leader in the scientific study of paranormal phenomenon.She was born in 1893. From an early age she exhibited psychic abilities, and throughout her life she sought to prove these abilities by volunteering for numerous studies as a test subject.

Gordon Smith (b. 6 July 1962), in the Gorbals, Glasgow, is a Scottish psychic medium and barber. He is commonly known as 'The Psychic Barber'.

Danielle Egnew is a psychic, musician, actress, media personality, and activist known in the areas of music, film, radio and television for both performing and producing in all four genres. Born in 1969, Danielle Egnew currently resides in Los Angeles. In 2007 she co-founded the paranormal investigation group, The Western Pacific Paranormal Alliance. http://www.danielleegnew-advisor.com/index.htm

Jack Webber (1907-1940) was a prominent physical medium who in his few years greatly impressed his fellow Spiritualists with his abilities. Webber lacked formal education and had been a miner in Wales who was brought to Spiritualism by his wife. He attended a home circle and discovered his own mediumistic abilities. He acquired several spirit controls. He began with table tipping and soon afterwards experienced the levitation of objects, including the famous trumpets which spirits reportedly used as a megaphone-like device. He also became a healer. As he developed, those attending his seances reported hearing spirit voices, both coming through the trumpets and independent of them. They also saw objects move and levitate. A book was written about him, called The Mediumship of Jack Webber, which writes of the more than four thousand persons who witnessed Webber's physcial mediumship.

Minnie Harrison: just take a look!!! http://uk.geocities.com/tmjones28/harrison.htm

Arthur Ford (1897 - 1971) was an American psychic spiritual medium, clairaudient (me too!!!) and in 1955 founded the Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship. Biographer Allen Spraggett called him American Spiritualism's near pope and society's clairvoyant, comparable with the 19th century medium Daniel Dunglas Home. After a sitting, William McDougall, then psychologist at Harvard University and the 1920 president of the American Society for Psychical Research, said Ford had supernormal powers on page 2 of Spraggett's book. Ford claimed he had seen every miracle performed by Jesus duplicated; except the raising of the dead. TO NOTE--- I SAW THE RASING OF THE DEAD, MAYISH OF 2008. I WAS LIVING IN ORLANDO, FLORIDA AT THE TIME.

Daniel Dunglas Home (1833 – 1886) was a Scottish Spiritualist, famous as a physical medium with the reported ability to levitate to a variety of heights, speak with the dead, and to produce rapping and knocks in houses at will. He was noted to be the world's greatest physical medium. At his seances the sitters would experience strong winds, phantom hands, music produced without instruments, levitation, materializations, and more.

Derek Acorah current fameous psychic/medium, experiences since youth, appeared on TV in Manchester.

Lydia Winterhalter Allison (1880-1959) a psychical researcher, helped open the Boston Society for Psychical Research in 1925. Served as a trustee of the American Society for Psychical Research, as well as a member of the International Committee for the Study of Parapsychological Methods, part of the Society for Psychical Research in London.

George Anderson: Very fameous psychic/medium who currently works at comforting the bereaved. Has been on mnay tv shows/radio shows. HE MIGHT HAVE THE SAME ABILITY AS ME!!!! TELEPATHY BETWEEN MEDIUM AND SITTER WHEN DOING SEANCE.

Mary Andrews one of the earliest materialization mediums who had both light-room and dark-room seances. In dark-room seances the sitters were answered by spirit lights and there was alot of physical phenomena during her seances, like playing of a piano, sprinkling of water into the faces of the sitters, the sound of spirit voices, and touching by spirit hands. In light-room seances, Mary sat in a cabinet. Hands arms and busts materialized outside the cabinet, and when a spirit face appeared, their lips were seen to move as they spoke and many of the sitters recognized departed relatives. Also, many times the scent of a perfume materialized, turing the sitters into clairalience.

Darryl Anka is a channeler for the entity Bashar. Bashar claims to be from the planet Essassani, which he describes as being 500 light years away.

Jose Arigo (1918-1971) as a child he had many psychic experiences, seeing lights and hearing voices that spoke to him in a variety of voices he didn't understand. When he was thirteen he discovered that he had a spirit guide who called himself Dr. Fritz. He would go into trance and help sick people.

Bangs Sisters (1859-1922) early 1900's paintings done in trance called automatic art. They became extraordinary spiritualist mediums.