Pioneer: Volume 5

• 039 – Harold Sharp – Symbolic Drawings – Auragraphs - He Portrays the Soul in Colour
  

• 044 – Did Harry Houdini ever believe in Spiritualism?
  
          - Britten Museum & Library “Wax Spirit Hands” booklet — Reviewed by the SPR
          - Houdini & Wax Gloves — Joseph F Rinn
          - A Magician Among the Spirits — The Founders of Modern Spiritualism
  
  
• 060 – 2018 Research – Study dates now available to book
  

• 061 – Spiritualist Healers of the Past:
  

• 069 – The President's Badge and Farthings Again!
  

• 073 – Visit to the Society for Psychical Research
  
• 076 – Healing Mediumship by Harry Edwards
  
• 078 – Hunter Selkirk The Northern Trance Medium and Clairvoyant    
  
  
  
  •     -     Materialised Spirit Doctor Gives Healing    
    
  •      -     Alleged photographs of Selkirk’s materialisations    
    
  •      -     The Ascension of a Materialised Spirit
    
  
  
  
• 087 – 2019 Research – Study dates now available to book
  
• 088 – Harmony and Healing by Gordon Turner
  
• 090 – The Constitution of the Spiritualists’ National Federation
  
• 096 – Grace Boyers (Winifred Whiting Boyers)
  
• 099 – The Best of Both Worlds – Albert and May Saxon    
  
  
  
  •     -     History of Spiritualism in the Huddersfield Area
    
  
  
  
• 105 – Readers' response to: Spiritualist Healers of the Past: John Britnell – Father of Dutch Spiritualism
  
  
  
  All references to Psypioneer in this issue are archived at http://psypioneer.iapsop.com/
  

177 – Book Review: Magician to Mystic – A Mediumistic Path to a Spiritual Life
            by Brian Robertson and Simon James
178 – Part Two: Spiritualistic Phenomena of the Past
           - Luminous Phenomena
           - Florence (Florrie) Cook - Corner & Katie King Photographs
           - A further observation has now been made
186 – Britten Museum & Library Research – Study Weeks at the Arthur Findlay College
187 – Ann Harrison – Responds to the Jack Webber article in the last issue
188 – Spook Hall – Can It Be Done?
189 – Spiritualist Healers of the Past – Margaret Lyon – Psychic Trance Healer
195 – Direct - Independent Voice Phenomena – Could this be simulated by ventriloquism?
           - Ventriloquism, Considered as A Possible Explanation of ‘Independent Voice’ Phenomena
           - “Dead” Air Hero Gives Perfect Proof of His Survival
201 – Society to Church – Cardiff SNU Church, ‘Park Grove’
206 – Pioneer ends its fifth volume

Pioneer ends its fifth volume

Pioneer was launched at the Torquay A.G.M. 2013, replacing the SNU hardback magazine of
the same title; a special edited edition of the first issue was published for the delegates. Starting
as a quarterly electronic journal, from January 2015 it went bi-monthly and continues as such
today.

The front page noted:

The foundations of the Spiritualists’ National Union were laid over a long period of time, and its growth ensured by dedicated pioneers, many of whom have been forgotten. Most readers will be unacquainted with their names and the roles they so valiantly played in the building of the SNU, an organisation that today stands firm due to their bold efforts.

This journal is dedicated to those Pioneers.

To date it has published over 1,000 pages of researched materials; it is read in various societies,
such as the Society for Psychical Research. It is recommended reading for the SNU education courses; it is also used by universities and has attracted numerous students and on occasion their professors to attend the Britten Museum and Library Research – Study, as noted elsewhere in this issue.

In the last year individual subscribers have substantially increased, rising to 1,200; in addition, it is sent out to SNUi members and is available on the SNU website.

Extended thanks are due to David Hopkins, who sub-edited the early issues of the journal.

The present sub-editors are Leslie Price and former SNU General Secretary Charles Coulston.