COMMENTARY: THE MAGNIFICENT SCOLE EXPERIMENT Last year was the 30th anniversary of the starting of The Scole Experiment (1993-1998), the longest-running, most extensive, and most rigorously documented demonstration of afterlife communication ever conducted. Now might be a good time to remind people about its spectacular achievements and re-evaluate its significance.
It began in Scole, a village in Norfolk, England, where a small group of people with decades of experience in mental mediumship began sitting together. The 'core' Scole Group comprised Sandra Foy and Robin Foy, the 'witnesses' and 'recorders' of the Scole phenomena; and two talented mental mediums, Diana and Alan Bennett.
Soon they began communicating with a spirit team through the Bennetts. Working together, the teams developed dozens of highly evidential experiments including messages and images from the other side impressed onto photographic film, audio and video tape, as well as physical apports in such a huge number and variety that they felt scientists would have to sit up and take notice. The Group traveled widely, taking their experimental sessions to many places and people worldwide. Over 1,000 hours of sittings were conducted in England, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Spain (Ibiza), Switzerland, and the USA.
During the five years of the Scole Experiment, hundreds of visitors, including a variety of scientists and engineers — as well as the four top investigators from the Society for Psychical Research — attested to witnessing an unprecedented demonstration of communications and physical manifestations across the veil.
THE SCOLE DOCUMENTARY Dan Drasin worked with Tim Coleman on the most comprehensive video about the Scole experiment of which the "Directors Cut" is titled "SCOLE: THE AFTERLIFE EXPERIMENT (2009). It brilliantly captures the energy of the team and of the wonderful open-minded scientists whose paradigms were forever changed by what they witnessed. Various versions of this documentary, as well as out-takes, can be seen on Vimeo and YouTube - just search on “Scole."
Dan Drasin and Nick Kyle, a former president of the Scottish Society for Psychical Research, will be speaking about their experiences and the significance of the Scole Experiment next Sunday 16th June at the Zoom Global Gathering - 5 p.m. Eastern time (see details below) WATCH "SCOLE: THE AFTERLIFE EXPERIMENT"
MONTAGUE KEEN PRINCIPAL SCOLE INVESTIGATOR Montague Keen was a brilliant psychic researcher, journalist, agricultural administrator, magazine editor, and farmer. He was also a member of the Council of the Society for Psychical Research for 55 years, chairman of its Image and Publicity Committee, and secretary of its Survival Research Committee. He was the principal investigator of the Scole Group of physical mediums, and author of The Scole Report, published in the Proceedings of the SPR (Vol 54 Pt 220) in 1999 with his co-investigators Professors Arthur Ellison and David Fontana.
MONTAGUE KEEN ENDORSES THE SCOLE EXPERIMENT - FROM THE AFTERLIFE
Three weeks after he died, Montague Keen materialized through the physical mediumship of David Thompson. He had previously investigated David's mediumship and had written a very favourable report. He was someone who from 57 years of research knew what to expect after death - but his words to her were: "It’s everything that I thought it would be, and so much more." He also confirmed that the Scole experiments were everything he had thought they were and asked that his communication be reported. Listen to the audio of Monty's first contact. [ 3 mins 37secs] Read the transcript
Four months after his transition,
Monty materialised again through David Thompson. This time he talked with Robin and Sandra Foy and Guy Playfair and dictated a speech to be read at his own memorial service. Tape 2 - Montague's speech [20 minutes 47 secs] Transcript
PROFESSOR DAVID FONTANA
David Fontana was a prolific writer and teacher in the area of parapsychology in England. He was also president of the Society for Psychical Research for three years and was very active in the field. His magnificent 496 page Is There An Afterlife published in 2005 contains a substantial first-hand account and analysis of the Scole phenomena (pp. 324-351)
GRANT AND JANE SOLOMON'S SCOLE WEBSITE Grant and Jane Solomon are the collators and curators of The Scole Files since 1998, administrators of The Scole Experiment Afterlife Research Association (SEARA or 'The Scole Association'), psi investigators and journalists, members of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR), writers, editors of The Scole Experiment diary ebook, and authors of the internationally best-selling book... THE SCOLE EXPERIMENT: Scientific Evidence for Life After Death
ATHEIST DIES AND FINDS THERE IS LIFE AFTER DEATH Nancy Rynes shares the story of her Near-Death Experience, occurring during surgery after a car ran her over while she was riding her bicycle. During her encounter on the Other Side, Nancy describes experiencing a spiritual realm where she encountered a guide who showed her the interconnectedness of all things.
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LIST OF MORE THAN 200 PSYCHIC RESEARCHERS
From the 1880s onward some of the world's greatest scientists, thinkers, and artists of all kinds (including more than thirty Nobel Prize winners) have investigated precognition, mediumship, telepathy, healing, seances, psychokinesis, and many other aspects of parapsychology and psychical research. This list of more than two hundred of them shows that those of us who take these things seriously are in good company. Read more.
AN EVIDENTIAL AFTER-DEATH CONTACT
In 2005 in Nashville, Tennessee, Faye Aldridge, lost her husband, Burke, to cancer. On the last day of Burke's life, he told Faye he would send her a fax from heaven to let her know he was all right. A short time after Burke's death, he made good on his promise by appearing separately to two of his doctors, who told Faye about their contacts in a fax.
A SON TALKS TO HIS MOTHER FROM THE AFTERLIFE
David Browning crossed into the afterlife and, several years later, carried on regular conversations with his mother and father through Leslie Flint, a direct voice medium. This is a very rare kind of mediumship, completely different from trance mediumship. Leslie's sessions were all held in the dark as the voices came through an artificial voice box made out of a substance called ectoplasm, which is sensitive to light. The medium and David's mother and father were the only ones in the room. In the recording, David, in spirit, speaks first. Listen (transcript provided).
A PSYCHIATRIST TALKS ABOUT AFTER-DEATH CONTACTS Dr. Daniel Benor used to think that people who had after- death contacts were suffering delusions until he read an article in the American Journal of Psychiatry in 1988 that claimed that two out of three people experienced them and that they are extremely helpful.
"MILITANT ATHEISM SHOULD COME WITH A HEALTH WARNING"
Rupert Sheldrake shows that science is now investigating and validating practices that form part of many religions. In Science and Spiritual Practices (2018), he looked at meditation, gratitude, connecting with nature, relating to plants, rituals, singing and chanting, pilgrimage, and holy places.
In his second book on the same theme, Ways to Go Beyond and Why They Work (2019), he looked at the spiritual side of sports, learning from animals, fasting, cannabis, psychedelics, powers of prayer, holy days and festivals, cultivating good habits, avoiding bad habits, and being kind. These two books are for anyone who suspects that, in the drive towards radical secularism, something valuable has been left behind.
NEXT WEEK'S FREE AFTERLIFE ZOOM GROUPS - ALL WELCOME
Saturday June 15th 2024 / Sunday June 16th Australia
Spiritist Literature: Directed Study (SLIDS) with Ana Castro.
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 8 a.m. Sunday
Check time in your city
Co-ordinator: Ana Castro
Just click this link to join.
Sunday June 16th 2024/ Monday June 17th Australia
Global Gathering: every Sunday/Monday
This week's topic is "The Significance of the Scole Experiment" with guest Nick Kyle, former President of the Scottish Society for Psychical Research. Nick attended sessions of the Scole Experiment and has had many other experiences with physical mediumship. The discussion will be led by Daniel Drasin, coproducer, writer, and director with Tim Coleman of the definitive film Scole: The Afterlife Experiment.
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
Vienna 11 p.m. Sunday
Sydney/Melbourne 7 a.m. Monday
New Zealand 9 a.m. Monday
Check time in your city
Co-ordinator: wendyzammit@gmail.com https://zoom.us/j/7595442928
Please note: We have had a recent problem with Zoom bombers. If we don't let you in because we cannot identify you from your login name, either answer the question we will send you in the waiting room chat box or email the Co-ordinator.
Monday June 17th 2024/ Tuesday June 18th Australia
Dream Circle with Kim Parker
When: Every two weeks on Mondays (UK EUROPE and USA) and Tuesdays at 7 a.m. (Sydney). A small group meets together to share and find meaning in their dreams.
Times:
Pacific Time 2 p.m. Monday
Phoenix 2 p.m. Monday
Mountain Time 3 p.m. Monday
Central time 4 p.m. Monday
Eastern time 5 p.m. Monday
London 10 p.m. Monday
Vienna 11 p.m. Monday
Sydney/Melbourne 7 a.m. Tuesday
New Zealand 9 a.m. Tuesday Check time in your city
Email: Kim at kmrainbow57@yahoo.com https://zoom.us/j/7595442928
Tuesday June 18th 2024
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 40 minutes, relax, and listen to music. This is a long-term project and participants must be prepared to sit in harmony without much seeming to happen on the surface.
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 p.m. Tuesday
Auckland 10 p.m. Tuesday Check time in your city
Email Paul Hinson Advall@iinet.net.au for more information and Zoom link.
Wednesday June 19th, 2024 / Thursday June 20th , Australia
Spirit Search and Rescue with Gordon Phinn
Gordon Phinn is an extraordinary medium, poet, scholar, writer, storyteller, and spiritual teacher. He has just released a memoir covering the last ten years of his out-of-body adventures called "Moving Through Many Dimensions" [check out the Contents in the READ SAMPLE]
We have persuaded him to share some of his more interesting experiences of helping people whose minds have not adjusted to the fact that they are dead.
Times:
Pacific Time 12 noon Wednesday
Phoenix 12 noon Wednesday
Mountain Time 1 p.m. Wednesday
Central time 2 p.m. Wednesday
Eastern time 3 p.m. Wednesday
London 8 p.m. Wednesday
Vienna 9 p.m. Wednesday
Sydney/Melbourne 5 a.m. Thursday
New Zealand 7 a.m. Thursday
Check time in your city
Co-ordinator: davidmonroewright@gmail.com https://us06web.zoom.us/j/3334491615?
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Wednesday June 19th, 2024 / Thursday June 20th , Australia
Automatic Writing and Mediumship ETC. Discussion with
Sheila Lowe
1st and 3rd Wednesdays
Share resources and discuss what participants are experiencing
With special guest Cheryl Page
Times:
Pacific Time 5.30 p.m. Wednesday
Phoenix 5.30 p.m. Wednesday
Mountain time 6.30 p.m. Wednesday
Central time 7.30 p.m. Wednesday
Eastern Time 8.30 p.m. Wednesday
London time 1.30 a.m. Thursday
Perth 8.30 a.m. Thursday
Sydney/ Melbourne 10.30 a.m. Thursday
New Zealand 12.30 p.m. Thursday Check time in your city
Coordinator: Sheila Lowe sheila@sheilalowe.com https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87248527074?
pwd=cXNNZERDbGtSc3VWU3hCQ05OSlFndz09
[if the room is not open email Sheila]
Wednesday June 19th, 2024 / Thursday June 20th , Australia
USA-based Physical mediumship development group Every Wednesday with Rob Blackburn and Craig Hogan. Participants sit in a darkened space in their own homes; the group has been going for some time and members are experiencing phenomena.
THIS GROUP IS CURRENTLY TAKING NEW MEMBERS
Email r.craig.hogan@afterlifeinstitute.org for meeting guidelines,
Times:
Pacific 6 p.m. Wednesday
Arizona 6 p.m. Wednesday
Mountain time 7 p.m. Wednesday
Central time 8 p.m. Wednesday
New York time 9 p.m. Wednesday
London 2 a.m. Thursday
Perth 9 a.m. Thursday
Sydney/Melbourne 11 a.m. Thursday
New Zealand 1 p.m. Thursday Check time in your city
Email r.craig.hogan@afterlifeinstitute.org for meeting guidelines.
Thursday June 20th 2024 / Friday June 21st Australia
August Goforth: Exploratorium.
August, a licensed psychotherapist in private practice in New York City, leads a participatory "Exploratorium" where readers of the book "The Risen" will be encouraged to offer ponderings and ideas on grief and growth. Free PDF copies of the book are available here.
This group meets on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of the month.
AN EVENING WITH SPIRIT Every month an excellent professional medium from the United Kingdom will be giving messages to people present in our Zoom Room, as evidence that life continues. This month's guest medium is Fredrick Haglund CSNU, a Swedish medium now living in London. The meeting will follow a normal Spiritualist Church service format with Fredrick providing a short address followed by a demonstration of spirit messages. After the meeting, there will be time to share spiritual experiences, ask questions and make new friends.
Times:
Pacific time 2 a.m. Friday
Phoenix 2 a.m. Friday
Mountain time 3 a.m. Friday
Central time 4 a.m. Friday
New York 5 a.m. Friday
London 10 a.m. Friday
Singapore 5 p.m. Friday
Perth 5 p.m. Friday
Sydney 7 p.m. Friday
Auckland 9 p.m. Friday Check time in your city
Contact Paul Hinson
Advall@iinet.net.au https://zoom.us/j/5562413788
The meeting is free of charge but donations are gratefully accepted to defray church running costs
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INTEGRITY- A SPIRITUAL QUALITY
As the teachings of the Universal Spiritual Brother & Sisterhood stress, poor indeed is the individual without integrity - uprightness, honesty, and soundness of character that nothing can impair.
Individuals may have the finest education or the advantages of wealth and fame; but without integrity they are spiritually poor, poorer than any homeless or penniless wanderer who exhibits that quality.
Integrity may be possessed by anyone, regardless of his or her circumstances. It is a trait one should strive for and, like other qualities, it develops with use: The more it is exercised, the more firmly is it established, until it becomes second nature to its possessor, as normal and as unconscious as the act of breathing.
Integrity is the root of a noble character: “It is as essential to nobleness of spirit as oxygen is to water” (Spiritual Light, published by USB Vision Press).
SLOWMO: THE MAN WHO SKATED RIGHT OFF THE EDGE
Dr. John Kitchin was a very successful doctor with all the trappings of Western success. However, he was working long days in work that gave him no joy with nothing to look forward to. So, when he had a health crisis he decided to quit his medical career to pursue his passion: skating along the boardwalk of San Diego's Pacific Beach - something that he sees as a spiritual practice.
WHAT HELPS SPIRITUAL PROGRESS MOST - LOVE OR KNOWLEDGE? "I would say, on balance, that it is love if I am allowed to define love as the love that embraces not only one individual but all humanity. If you have reached that stage where you feel that you can have love for all, not only for those whom you like or who are near and close and dear to you, then that is an indication that your feet are firmly planted on the road of spiritual progress and it shows that you do have knowledge of spiritual principles. So that love, I think, is the greater aid, because you can have knowledge without love, but you cannot have love without knowledge." (Silver Birch)
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HIGHLY INSPIRED MUSIC: To follow that lovely quote from Silver Birch what else can we feature but "My Love" sung by Stevie Wonder and Julio Iglesias. Enjoy the stunning visuals.
Lyrics
My love is warmer than a smile
My love gives to every needing child
If anyone should ask you who's my true love
Tell them my love true is ever letting all their love come through.
My love sees love with not a face
And lives to love through time and space
If all of everything about my love fits to the tune of you
Then you can say that you are my love too
Chorus: Let my love shine throughout the world
To every mountain top and steeple
Let it be felt by every soul
'Til love's all over.
Let it reach out to every heart
To every disenfranchised people
'Til it is present and no more
is pain all over.
Our love sees love's the key to peace
We'll pray 'til all world wars have ceased
Should you or anyone you know enough to say they feel as we
Then let our universal song be free.
Chorus: Let our love shine throughout the world
To every mountain top and steeple
Let it be felt by every soul
'Til love's all over
Let it reach out to every heart
To every disenfranchised people
'Til it is present and no more is pain all over.
Say words of love to all we see
To rich or poor for love is equal
Let us lift up humanity
Spread love all over.
Let all its forces join as one
So to rebuke all signs of evil
Through every valley, land and sea
Our love's all people.
Whilst we encourage and we publish many papers and reports by afterlife researchers, we are not in a position to guarantee the accuracy of all claims. We accept the imputed claim that the afterlife and paranormal research done by the researchers is done in good faith. ALL WORK IS COPYRIGHT BY THE CONDITIONS SET AT THE GENEVA CONFERENCE ON COPYRIGHT.
Last year was the 30th anniversary of the starting of The Scole Experiment (1993-1998), the longest-running, most extensive, and most rigorously documented demonstration of afterlife communication ever conducted. Now might be a good time to remind people about its spectacular achievements and re-evaluate its significance.
president of the Scottish Society for Psychical Research, will be speaking about their experiences and the significance of the Scole Experiment next Sunday 16th June at the Zoom Global Gathering - 5 p.m. Eastern time (see details below)
Grant and Jane Solomon 
THE AFTERLIFE 
Spiritist Literature: Directed Study (SLIDS) with Ana Castro. 
Every week participants interested in trying to develop physical mediumship sit in a darkened space in their own homes for 40 minutes, relax, and listen to music. This is a long-term project and participants must be prepared to sit in harmony without much seeming to happen on the surface.
Spirit Search and Rescue with Gordon Phinn 
Automatic Writing and Mediumship ETC. Discussion with
Every Wednesday with Rob Blackburn and Craig Hogan. Participants sit in a darkened space in their own homes; the group has been going for some time and members are experiencing phenomena. 
August Goforth: Exploratorium.
Every month an excellent professional medium from the United Kingdom will be giving messages to people present in our Zoom Room, as evidence that life continues. This month's guest medium is 
Integrity may be possessed by anyone, regardless of his or her circumstances. It is a trait one should strive for and, like other qualities, it develops with use: The more it is exercised, the more firmly is it established, until it becomes second nature to its possessor, as normal and as unconscious as the act of breathing. 
"I would say, on balance, that it is love if I am allowed to define love as the love that embraces not only one individual but all humanity. If you have reached that stage where you feel that you can have love for all, not only for those whom you like or who are near and close and dear to you, then that is an indication that your feet are firmly planted on the road of spiritual progress and it shows that you do have knowledge of spiritual principles. So that love, I think, is the greater aid, because you can have knowledge without love, but you cannot have love without knowledge." (Silver Birch) 
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