Psychic News: A History

mac wrote:I'm a Spiritualist. I have been for just over 30 years. My early years were informed and guided by what I read in Psychic News. The weekly newspaper carried all the news relevant for Spiritualism and for Spiritualists. It once proclaimed it was the Spiritualist newspaper. The cover of the July 24 2010 edition saw 'The independent Voice of Spiritualism 1932 - 2010'. Nowadays it reads 'DEVELOPING YOUR MIND, BODY AND SPIRIT' with no mention of Spiritualism on its front cover.

Wonder what that tells those who know how things used to be?

• Beginner's guide to the Tarot
• The outstanding gifts of Darren Brittain (watching a most unusual medium at work)
• What is trance mediumship? (Nic Whitham explains what it should be, but too often isn't ... How to identify good trance mediumship)
• The Spiritualist who became a Tibetan Buddhist nun (Leslie Price explores the unusual case of Diane Perry)
• Psychometrising the Fox sisters (Medium Mavis Pittilla on a unique experience)
• A Wartime letter from a famous writer (Letter from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to his mother, referring to the moral support
he derived from his Spiritualist convictions)
• Scientists can 'read' our dreams
• Does dementia prove there is no soul?
• Telepathy
• Einstein and the Prophet
• A sceptic at Stansted
• The Naked Embrace (The final part of John West's investigations intothe Phantoms of Langenhoe)
• Understanding your dreams
• Conversations with history
• Don't just stand there - do something! (David Hopkins on standing up for your rights)
• Don't worry, doctor, I'm only dying (This month's feature from the PN archives)
• News on the return of TV's 'Most Haunted'

All that, together with a monthly round-up of News in the Spiritualist scene, Readers' letters, Editor's column, news of events, details of a Psychic Cruise, and a Competition to win a place for two at Colin Fry's psychic weekend'

Candlelight.kk wrote:

mac wrote:I'm a Spiritualist. I have been for just over 30 years. My early years were informed and guided by what I read in Psychic News. The weekly newspaper carried all the news relevant for Spiritualism and for Spiritualists. It once proclaimed it was the Spiritualist newspaper. The cover of the July 24 2010 edition saw 'The independent Voice of Spiritualism 1932 - 2010'. Nowadays it reads 'DEVELOPING YOUR MIND, BODY AND SPIRIT' with no mention of Spiritualism on its front cover.

Wonder what that tells those who know how things used to be?

How does that saying go .... "Never judge a book by its cover" ...
There's only so much that can be written about Spiritualism on one page.
The front page of October's edition highlights "Mind, Body and Spirit" because October is traditionally the month for the Mind, Body and Spirit festival held at Olympia in London, an annual event which takes place there every year since it's inception in 1977. (I was there on that very first opening date).

There are something like 60 odd pages in the magazine version of Psychic News - with it's fair share of content concerning Spiritualism:

For example, this month's contents includes:

• Beginner's guide to the Tarot
• The outstanding gifts of Darren Brittain (watching a most unusual medium at work)
• What is trance mediumship? (Nic Whitham explains what it should be, but too often isn't ... How to identify good trance mediumship)
• The Spiritualist who became a Tibetan Buddhist nun (Leslie Price explores the unusual case of Diane Perry)
• Psychometrising the Fox sisters (Medium Mavis Pittilla on a unique experience)
• A Wartime letter from a famous writer (Letter from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to his mother, referring to the moral support
he derived from his Spiritualist convictions)
• Scientists can 'read' our dreams
• Does dementia prove there is no soul?
• Telepathy
• Einstein and the Prophet
• A sceptic at Stansted
• The Naked Embrace (The final part of John West's investigations intothe Phantoms of Langenhoe)
• Understanding your dreams
• Conversations with history
• Don't just stand there - do something! (David Hopkins on standing up for your rights)
• Don't worry, doctor, I'm only dying (This month's feature from the PN archives)
• News on the return of TV's 'Most Haunted'

All that, together with a monthly round-up of News in the Spiritualist scene, Readers' letters, Editor's column, news of events, details of a Psychic Cruise, and a Competition to win a place for two at Colin Fry's psychic weekend'

Candlelight.kk wrote:

mac wrote:I'm a Spiritualist. I have been for just over 30 years. My early years were informed and guided by what I read in Psychic News. The weekly newspaper carried all the news relevant for Spiritualism and for Spiritualists. It once proclaimed it was the Spiritualist newspaper. The cover of the July 24 2010 edition saw 'The independent Voice of Spiritualism 1932 - 2010'. Nowadays it reads 'DEVELOPING YOUR MIND, BODY AND SPIRIT' with no mention of Spiritualism on its front cover.

Wonder what that tells those who know how things used to be?

mac wrote:I just received my new PN edition reminder from Magnus and guess what - it's still carrying the same message of 'Developing Your Mind Body and Spirit' as was the October/Olympia edition. I'm still wondering if there's a different thrust to the magazine....

Dear Subscriber,

Due to a server fault you may have had problems downloading the December issue of Psychic News.

The problem has now been rectified and we would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Best wishes,
–The Psychic News team

Candlelight.kk wrote:I have just received this notification from Psychic News - which explains the problem I had in downloading this month's issue of the publication.
Wasn't just me after all!

Dear Subscriber,

Due to a server fault you may have had problems downloading the December issue of Psychic News.

The problem has now been rectified and we would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Best wishes,
–The Psychic News team

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I'd wondered if it might not have been your computer at all but I don't know enough about them to have sufficient confidence I was correct. Glad it's been sorted.

I agree with your verdict on the print vs. the online version. I much prefer to have a publication in my hands and be able to scan a whole page at a time without the infernal scrolling that a .pdf file needs. I guess I'm just an old fart who's more comfortable with what he knows best!

Even then things would have to change on the spiritual scene (where's this huge change I'm constantly being told about?) before I'd be tempted to dip-in again to PN's view of the psychic/spiritual scene. Maybe I've done all the learning that was intended for me this time around?