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| Posted by: Roy Stemman |
9/4/2007 5:59 PM |
If spirit communication were as easy as some psychics claim, life after death would be proved beyond doubt.
I’m always amused with the way in which dead celebrities or famous historical people seem to be able to send spirit messages, and how totally lacking is the evidence they offer.
A British medium, Dilys Gater, has written a “psychic biography” of screen legend Vivien Leigh, who starred in Gone With The Wind as well as other cinematic epics. Having not read her book, I’m in no position to judge its merits, but I’m not encouraged by one report which says the actress is not happy with her after-life. Why?
“There aren’t any working men’s clubs or stand-up comics here.”
The easiest way to make headlines, of course, is to claim to have been “Princess Diana’s psychic” – as if it were a royal title – or better still channel her spirit.
This being the 10th anniversary of her tragic passing, it was inevitable that someone would claim to have heard from her recently. The medium in question is Kenny Kingston, described on the website www.contactmusic.com as “psychic to Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, Princess Margaret and Hollywood ‘royal’ Marilyn Monroe”.
So, what revelation has Kingston received from Diana?
After claiming that Diana would prefer her younger son Harry to be the future King, rather than William – an insulting suggestion that shows the psychic is clearly not in touch with the spirit of Diana – Kingston adds: “She wishes that one day soon actress Gwyneth Paltrow would play her in a film on the big screen.”
It gets worse.
Derek Acorah didn’t settle for speaking with a dead princess. He’s been to Egypt to chat with the mummified remains of famous pharoahs. Acorah, a British medium of Most Haunted fame, was accompanied by historian Tess Dunlop for a new TV series, Paranormal Egypt, the first episode of which was screened on Living TV in the UK on 4 September, 2007.
The purpose, apparently, is to shed psychic light on mysteries that have gone unsolved for millenia. The team, assisted by bemused Egyptologists, visited the Cairo museum which houses the mummy of Rameses III, the last great king of Egypt, and his tomb where the pharoah’s “energy” manifested to the medium.
Rameses’ helper in spirit controlled Acorah and explained in impeccable English how the king, his wife and son had died.
As if that were not dramatic enough, the flamboyant medium then collapsed – overcome, it seems, by the “energies” – and had to be carried out by his assistant Ray and others.
I assume his own spirit helper, Sam, had slipped outside the tomb for a quick cigarette at that moment, instead of protecting his medium.
It was, I have to say, one of the funniest TV programmes I have watched, and Acorah’s request, “Rameses, please don’t move about” as he tried to track the pharoah’s elusive spirit in the darkened museum, will live with me forever. We’re promised encounters with Tutankhamun and other Egyptian worthies in future episodes. I can’t wait!
But what damage these outrageous claims and charades do to the image of Spiritualism, I dread to think.
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