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Halloween 1992: BBC1 scares the living crap out of those viewers who fail to understand that the PTSD-inducing Screen One billed drama presentation GHOSTWATCH was not an actual investigation of paranormal activity. It was cleverly staged entertainment, despite some pretty obvious acting by a cast of real-life presenters (including talk show legend Michael Parkinson) and jobbing thespians.
“One of the biggest criticisms was that familiar presenters, especially Sarah Greene from children’s TV, made parents think the show was safe for kids. It wasn’t. Near the end, Greene’s character gets trapped in a dark cupboard while a ghost howls nearby, and Parkinson appears to be possessed on live television.” Fiction Horizon
Courtesy of The Radio Times
50,000 calls to the BBC
Scripted by Stephen Volk (The Awakening) and directed by Lesley Manning (who also provided the voice of the ghoul), the show was part of the BBC anthology drama series Screen One. Recorded weeks in advance, the programme was presented as live. On the night of GHOSTWATCH’s only UK transmission, there were 50,000 phone calls to the BBC, a combination of terrified complaints and some praise from the less gullible. The number of calls was so heavy that the BBC recorded message saying the show was a drama, was blocked by the sheer volume.
Briefly, the story (inspired by the ‘real-life’ Enfield Poltergeist Haunting of 1977-79)
A suburban London house in the fictional ‘Foxhill Drive’. Pam Early and her daughters Kim and Suzanne are hounded by a spectre that Kim named ‘Mr Pipes’. Pam thought the disturbances were simply rumbling heating pipes but the sinister basement-dwelling Pipes eventually possesses and tortures young Suzanne.
Chat show giant Michael Parkinson presides over the show with Dr Lin Pascoe, as kids TV presenter Sarah Greene and TV crew spend Halloween night with the Early family. Outside, comedian/DJ/actor Craig Charles investigates the street's history and talks to the locals.
As the show progresses, increasingly strange phenomena occur in the house. Suzanne is first exposed for making up some of the past events, but speaks in an unearthly voice as scratches appear on her face. The house is revealed to possess a sinister history, previously home to Victorian child-killing ‘baby-farmer’ ‘Mother’ Seddons, who at first was thought to be an occupant at Foxhill Drive, now suspected of being an ancient evil entity who has dwelt in the spot for millennia, undergoing numerous evil incarnations.
Events become increasingly unhinged, as Suzanne disappears and Pipes takes supernatural hold of the broadcast. Greene attempts to rescue Suzanne from the basement, but is dragged through the door to a demonic realm. Back in the studio, Pipes’ hold increases, causing Parkie to attempt flight, but he is possessed by the entity, and addresses the watching masses, saying "Fee-fo-fum", the implication being that Mr Pipes is now present in every TV tuned to GHOSTWATCH.
The Fall Out
11 million people tuned in to see GHOSTWATCH, a very decent audience for the time.
The full BBC1 BARB rankings in millions of viewers for the week of 26th October - 1st November 1992:
1. EastEnders(Tue/Sun) (21.34) 2. Neighbours(Mon) (17.97) 3. Casualty (14.74) 4. Noel's House Party (13.39) 5. Birds of a Feather (12.41) 6. Last of the Summer Wine (11.32) 7. Waiting for God (11.20) 8. GHOSTWATCH (11.07) 9. Big Break (10.95) 10. A Question of Sport (10.92)
BBC TV Guide, Halloween 1992
The Broadcasting Standards Commission concluded that the BBC had made a mistake by not making it clearer that GHOSTWATCH was entirely fictional, but to me personally it was abundantly clear that the show was a Halloween leg-pull, admittedly one conducted with pitch-black humour and seriousness (aside from the jokey contributions of Craig Charles that is).
GHOSTWATCH was the first television programme claimed to have caused post traumatic stress disorder in children. In the March 12, 1994 issue of the British Medical Journal reported that two 10-year old boys were left traumatized by the show.
Father holds BBC completely responsible for his son’s death
GHOSTWATCH was also linked to suicide five days after transmission, of Martin Denham, an 18-year-old man with learning difficulties. Denham's home, where he lived with his mum and stepfather, had defective central heating, with the noise from the pipes made him believe the show’s poltergeist had now taken up residence there.
His mother and stepfather April and Percy Denham claimed Martin had become obsessed with GHOSTWATCH, directly leading to his death. Britain's High Court compelled a reluctant BSC (Broadcasting Standards Commission) to listen to the Denham's complaint and thirty-four others affected by the show.
April Denham: ‘I blame the BBC - it is all their fault. They said it was based on a true story but it was all a hoax.’
Percy Denham: 'He was a very nervous lad. He was really into it - he was just gone. I had to keep asking him if he was all right. He thought there were ghosts in our home. In my own mind I hold the BBC completely responsible for his death. But I won't be suing them - I can't afford it.'
Martin, who had a mental age of 13, hanged himself in a local park with a length of plastic hosepipe. Heartbreakingly, his farewell note read,“Please don't worry - if there are ghosts I will be a ghost, and I will be with you always as a ghost.”
Yes, indeed there was - Stephen Volk later wrote a short story called 31/10 aka GHOSTWATCH 2: Return to Studio One, using the same (surviving) characters and set 10 years after the original programme.
The ‘National Séance’
On the show’s 18th anniversary, in 2010, a live event took place where fans were asked to simultaneously play their personal recordings at 9:25pm (when GHOSTWATCH was originally broadcast) and then tweet about the experience as it played; it has since become a yearly tradition.
The Enfield Poltergeist documentary concerned alleged ghostly activity at 284 Green Street, an Enfield council house in outer London. Between 1977 and 1979, the supposed presence preyed on sisters Janet (11) and Margaret Hodgson (13).
284 Green Street, Enfield, London, location of the Enfield poltergeist
Mx. Granger, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
From the time:
And an earlier mockumentary - Anglia’s ALTERNATIVE 3 (June 1977)
An investigation into the UK's brain drain reveals a plot to make the Moon and Mars habitable for selected human beings in the event of nuclear war, climate change, and environmental collapse on Earth. Presenter/Tory MP Tim Brinton was the only non-actor in the put-on. All other characters were played by actors. Richard (‘Allo, ‘Allo!) Marner who played Dr. Carl Gerstein, said he deliberately did not learn his lines, making his delivery as natural as possible. Alternative 3 was made with film stock, making it appear as a ‘normal’ documentary of the era.
The Stone Tape
If the particular spooky vibe of GHOSTWATCH appeals to you, check out Nigel Kneale’s terrifying THE STONE TAPE (1972). A scientific team move into their new research facility, a renovated Victorian mansion rumoured to be haunted. Their investigations try to determine if the building’s stones have recorded past happenings there (the ‘stone tape’), but instead unleash a terrible malign force.
The League of Gentlemen/Inside No 9’s Jeremy Dyson said The Stone Tape, "strikes a note that it just circumnavigates your intellect and gets you on a much deeper level; it just has this impact on you, rather like being in the room itself. Extraordinary piece of work."
Before GHOSTWATCH was even a gleam in writer Stephen Volk’s eye, there was Orson Welles’ original War of the Worlds 1938 Radio Broadcast:
The 1957 live presentation on Studio One dramatized the War of the Worlds broadcast and its aftermath.
Welles talks to War of the Worlds author H.G. Wells:
The BBC appear to have rediscovered their taste for paranormal TV, as no less than four shows in the genre have appeared in 2025:
BBC Three - Paranormal
BBC Two - Hauntings
BBC Two - Uncanny
BBC Three - Charlie Cooper’s Myth Country
Prior to this, paranormal TV was mainly the preserve of the Most Haunted series of shows, which played on cable channels: Living, from 2002-10 and Really, across 2014-19. Incidentally, co-creator and host Yvette Fielding (1987-1992) was, like Sarah Greene (1980-83), a former presenter of BBC children’s show Blue Peter. The Most Haunted brand now resides on YouTube.
Stephen Arnell’s novel THE GREAT ONE, is available on Amazon Kindle:
After five years of fascinating dark occult research, I now regard the corporate world heirarchy as a giant Phonyland amusement park run by extremely arrogant people whose secret knowledge isn’t so secret anymore; perpetrators of an illusory, fraudulent, mass occultic deception. Fortunately, their arrogance is driven by fear, so fear not! We have everything to gain by becoming aware of how dysfunctional and broken the outgoing dark occult heirarchy really is. Let’s seize the opportunity to embrace our powerful divinity and focus on co-creating a flourishing, healthy and prosperous world for our children, families and future generations.
On a personal note, if it wasn’t for the 2020 Corona-turned-COVID (Certification of Vaccine Identification) virus (Virtual Integrated Repeated Unifying System) gatecrash and World Economic Forum Chairman Klaus Schwab’s beloved ‘great reset’, and crude invasion into my peaceful, healthy, private world, I may never have delved into the possibility of adverse, dark occult influences upon the top tiers of society - the media shy ‘unelected ruling club’. Thank you Klaus and Corona (1650s Latin meaning: crown; garland).
Special thanks also goes to genuine, recovering cult survivors, many from prominent generational cult bloodlines for speaking out publicly to warn the world that the shocking ritualistic mind control abuses inflicted upon them as children, are planned for all of humanity. Not on our watch, of course.
The long planned 2020 ‘reset’
With mind manipulation technologies, propaganda and the WEF’s synthetic, transhumanistic agenda being forced upon us like never before, in my opinion, we homo sapiens have the upper hand and always will. This is because Divine Law and Spiritual Intelligence are on our side. The AI technocracy and transhumanism fanatics do not enjoy this privelege. They are relying on some kind of AI God that needs data centres to survive. This was revealed by US military cult program survivor Arkheim Ra, who has been warning about the dystopian satanic/luciferian agenda for many years in between healing from the extreme childhood damages he somehow survived.
Most people would also be unaware that the long planned 2020 ‘reset’ was exposed in detail in 2000 by prominent cult survivor and prolific author Svali. Conceived in a Swiss genetics lab in the 1950s by an occultic group, Svali’s 'father' was Nazi SS doctor Joseph Mengele, dubbed the Angel of Death. In between being trafficked and ritually abused in many different countries by disturbed elitist perpetrators, and forced to traffick orphaned babies and young children to wealthy predatory families throughout Europe, Svali became one of the world's top mind control programmers/trainers and an Illuminati infiltrator. She also took the life-threatening risk of escaping from the cult and later sharing her harrowing story which I regard as an gift to all of humanity.
'In 2000 in my blog, I said that basically, the occultic societies had taken over the areas of government, finance, our banking system, education, media and were even infiltrating churches and religious organisations and that they were actually running them at that point but they just hadn't come forward. I said that 2020 would be pivotal, when they would start coming forward. And they have. They have become much more open since the pandemic...
A world government leader will be announced by 2030. I've met him... He is not Klaus Schwab or the person that a lot of people are mentioning but the person, I believe, is in preparation right now. If you read the Bible, God wins in the end, Satan loses. So even if this world leader comes on the stage, he will not win. He will be deposed.'
Secret Knowledge Oddities
My dark occult research travels revealed many curious things from a range of online chatterboxes who discussed topics like satanism, luciferianism, mind control, mockery, sorcery, slavery, black magick, masonic hoodwinking and child rape/murder, staged ‘loosh’ events, transhumanism, grotesque synthetic food, and a luciferian one world government that wants to enslave all of humanity. Strange but true. Some of the seemingly intelligent chatterboxes have turned out to be hoodwinkers but the knowledge they imparted was mostly true. Or was it? Please comment if you can prove any of the following revelations to be false.
Here are just a few of the occult oddities that I discovered:
~ Behind-the-scenes battles between various top tier occultic groups for world control includes a ridiculous expectation that all earthlings will submit to the luciferian ‘one world religion.’
~ Until 2018, I thought lucifer was a myth. Not so. Short definition of the luciferian belief system: On the altar of the devil, up is down, pleasure is pain, darkness is light, slavery is freedom, and madness is sanity. (Author unknown)
~ Freemasons purport to worship God. Their god is lucifer. All freemason oaths are intertwined with black magick, they rape and murder children and summon demons through rituals and mantras.
~ The Vatican folk believe that they ‘own your soul’ because your mother and father ‘registered’ you at birth in order to receive a birth certificate.
~ Australian wine producers who are practising dark occultists, chant black magic spells over the wine at midnight and summon low frequency spirits which energetically attach to the wine. Some of them also add blood to wine because they are blood drinkers and think it’s funny that nobody knows what they are doing to the community. These dark energies adversely affect all who drink the wine. Qantas Airlines allegedly serves demonic wines.
~ The music industry is also known to chant over music which infects millions of home environments with demonic energies - particularly families with young children who idolize the ‘stars’.
~ Cannibalistic, satanic mass produced food corporations use human remains in their ‘food’ and drinks. (Time to introduce luciferian/satanic food, alcohol and product labelling.)
~ Adelaide, South Australia is the globalist child predator cult headquarters of the world.
~ Many politicians are entangled in cult groups and compromised by a drug called Devil’s Breath or Scopolamine.
~ The cults want to make it hell on earth for all people except them - the ones with the most knowledge. They believe they can do this and get away with it
~ Cult perpertrators laugh at the police because they know that they have locked up so many innocent people that they have placed as patsies. They collect blood from people under Scopolamine who don’t realise that blood has been collected. The blood is used in murders where an innocent person’s blood is sprayed at the crime scene.
~ The word ‘legal’ is defined as the ‘undoing of God’s law.’
~ The Rockefeller funded Tavistock Institute’s long planned global government or one world collectivist state will allegedly have one little guy at the top, 13 seats at the table, and, I’m assuming, cascading levels of lower authority. Sounds uncannily similar to the current heirarchy with the Vatican top dogs and lucifer installed at the top.
This image provides an overview of the cult heirarchy. If this is inaccurate, please let me know.
Image creator unknown
Benefits of secret knowledge awareness
One of my earliest and most insightful ‘walk your talk’ dark occult educators was former satanic priest turned podcaster Mark Passio. He succinctly sums up my feelings about the benefits of understanding the fundamentals of the widely feared and misunderstood occultic realms.
“A small minority is discovering the real dynamics of control and power. It’s all connected to occult hierarchies that do not have the interests of the people at heart. We need occulted and esoteric knowledge to understand how natural law works and how our free will behaviours work with natural law and manifest what we want in our lives.
If humanity collectively does not align to our inherent natural law rights, and goes along with the enslavement system, then we will see more shut downs of human rights – from covert to overt slavery.”
Unaware that I was perceived as a slave by the cult heirarchy, further research led me to the website of Larry Hannigan who enlightened me about the original Australian Law publication of Elements of Roman Law, where Roman slaves were defined as a thing or a person. This particular entry has been removed from PDF copies that are currently in circulation.
Source: larryharrigan.com.au
This revelation tied in with claims about the Vatican’s fraudulent conversion of new born ‘free’ babies into incorporated ‘Vatican property’ through non-consensual, publicly registered Birth Certificates that are traded on the stock market. How does it feel to be viewed as mere ‘chattel’ by a constipated, tax guzzling, Vatican-serving corporation called government? Where masonic ‘men on high’ worship lucifer and behave like masters who grant unwitting tax paying slaves freedoms and privileges that were never theirs to begin with.
The ‘free-world’ is not free at all, it seems. But we are getting there.
Exiting the dreary matrix
Humanity has everything to gain, or as the Bible states, Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth (Matthew 5:5). After centuries of pillaging, programming, illusions, trickery, tyranny, rape, genocide and too many other horrors, the tide is now turning. Once you become aware of the various ‘control elements’ that have kept us unconsciously trapped in this man-made matrix, and build your secret knowledge library, it’s all systems go!
In more recent decades, the increasingly weaponized and corporatized mass media and entertainment ‘complex’ has played a detrimental role in shaping the world’s seemingly dystopian ‘narrative’. This insidious takeover has been perpetrated by cult driven billionaires, mega-corporations, blackmail rackets, technocrats and oligarchs who lack imagination, morals and heart. It has saddened me to see the industry I once worked in fall into line with absurd globalist agendas. It also shows how weak and subservient the current batch of order taking corporate mass media owners and their complicit board room executives are. Particularly post 2020.
As mentioned earlier, cult whistleblower Svali published her expose about the 2020 ‘overt cult takeover’ in the year 2000. This would never have happened without willing perpetrators in positions of high authority across thee globe together with a fully controlled mass media and internet censorship. And were you aware that key aspects of this nefarious plan was published in a 1989 book entitled The New World Order by A. Ralph Epperson? Beyond a Pale Horse by the late radio broadcaster, author and US Naval Intelligence Briefing Team member Milton William ‘Bill’ Cooper, also comes to mind.
The New World Order - Epperson
Widespread Covert Use of Mind Control Technologies
Whoever controls the media, controls the mind. - Jim Morrison
Mass media and entertainment (entrainment) control naturally gives hellbound globalists an unfair advantage in their desperate quest to digitally enslave and control everyone on earth except themselves. They clearly had messed up childhoods to grow into such hateful infantile adults. Fortunately, there are billions of us and only thousands of them.
Hand in hand with mass media programming is the long-term use of mass mind control programs such as MK-Ultra and Monarch, particularly in Australia, United States of America and United Kingdom. Sadly, many cult survivors describe Australia as a mass population mind control testing ground for the world and most governments seem to love this idea, especially when it comes to attempting to control annoying critical thinkers. Until I began to listen to cult survivor testimonials, and learned that their perpetrators all used the same insidious ritual abuse and mind control playbook, I had heard of mind control but didn’t take much notice.
We are seeing is MK Ultra rolled out through the media and education system worldwide which was part and parcel of the goals of the new world order that Cathy O’Brien recounts openly in her book ‘Trance Formation of America’. Jason Christoff, Specialist Programming and De-Programming Educator
Tavistock Institute aka Military Industrial Complex
It is well documented that the CIA’s MK Ultra mind control experiments started in the 50s and ended in the 70s. But if you listen to recovering cult survivors or read their books, mind control is still alive and unwell. A recent US congressional hearing was largely criticised by prominent survivors turned therapists, podcasters and authors as a mere appeasement process that is on a road to nowhere.
Another long term mind control player is the Rockefeller funded Tavistock Institute. Established in 1921 by the Royal Institute for International Affairs (RIIA) modern-day Tavistock has grown into one of the world's largest, most influential, occultic think tanks on earth. Some researchers and authors claim that Tavistock’s ultimate goal is to manipulate or force the world’s population into accepting a one world collectivist state or global government - hardline communist style. No thank you.
Tavistock is also accused specializing in (negative) social engineering, brainwashing and mind control by means of inducing trauma-induced fear to artificially create split states of mind, which can then be programmed to do whatever the programmers are instructed to do. Sadly, most of the people in high positions of authority and influence these days, all suffered from mind control torture and abuse in their childhood. Part and parcel of being groomed for future positions to play their insidious part in carrying out the anti humanity globalist agenda. Most of these people have freemasonry or other dark occult affiliations in the family bloodline. Yet another standalone article.
There are some excellent books about Tavistock should you wish to educate yourself further. My pick is Tavistock Institute: Social Engineering the Masses by Daniel Estulin.
Tavistock Social Engineering
Some researchers and authors have suggested that Tavistock even invented the ‘conspiracy theory’ label as a cover to hide behind while they perpetrated crimes against humanity, together with the added convenience of zero media scrutiny. Others claim it was invented by the CIA. Maybe the CIA collaborated with Tavistock on that one. Whichever way, these are the kinds of people and institutes that would prefer to keep secret knowledge all to themselves. Sorry guys. The secret knowledge cats are out of the trickery back and ain’t coming back.
Tavistock Institute Survivor Testimony Notes
I shall end this article with some notes from an interview with prominent UK-born Australian Tavistock Institute cult survivor Aishe Spark. She was born into a Druidic occult family, same as Churchill, Hitler and Mengele, and her grandmother was a grande dame with connections in high places. Aishe survived horrific experiments, mind control torture, was trafficked underground with many other children from Buckingham Palace to Westminster and trained as a mind control programmer.
Her life long mind control programming started to break down age 66 and she described it as feeling as though she was ‘coming back to life’. Over time, she has learned to live with a fragmented mind, body and soul and is a wonderful, courageous, compassionate woman who also supports other survivors on their respective healing journeys. Many critics accuse survivors of suffering from the ‘false memory syndrome’. That contentious topic will be addressed in a future article about mind control.
Here are some of Aishe Sparke’s concerning, often disturbing allegations:
~ Australia is the headquarters of all Rockefeller funded Tavistock institutes which currently control everything.
~ The occultic Illuminati’s New World Order headquarters is located in Australia’s capital city of Canberra. Their plan includes the complete takeover of Australia and its lucrative natural resources, plus full control of this great southern land’s energetic ley lines, grids and sacred sites where they have built Freemason buildings, obelisks and carried out massacres.
~ The whole of Australia is a big cult, a big experiment, with millions of Australians being covertly programmed. This includes mind controlled politicians and many other prominent authority figures who are told what to say but the hidden cult manipulators.
~ Australia’s police have a new communication system and are all ‘super controlled’ to a new frequency
~ Australia has about seven laboratories doing horrific things, including DNA experiments. Everything is masterminded by Tavistock – almost like the brain machine. (This is partly why this odd but beautiful little land down under feels like a subservient, inverted straitjacket.)
Aishe also had good news to share:
The answers to everything will come from Australia. They have kept it so secret for so long but now the truth is coming out.
Indeed it is. Please do your own research to make up your own mind about secret knowledge and what this world may or may not be. I am just sharing what I have learned because it has ultimately served to make me laugh out loud at not-so-secret cult shenanigans and form a mighty optimistic world view. Insiders like Max Lowen and Laura Worley are now claiming the the elitist cults are now running around like scattered, chaotic, headless chickens.
News interview with Australian cult whistleblower Jo Gillies
At the time of writing, Nugget’s News host Alex Saunders interviewed Australian cult survivor and whistleblower Jo Gillies who expanded on several of the topics raised by Aishe. Recommended viewing, especially for Australian media and political public figures. There is no need to believe everything she says. Just listen and be aware that the parallel cult world is real and needs to be fully exposed and extinguished.
A pair of obelisks, together named Cleopatra's Needles, were taken in the 19th century from the ruins of the Caesareum of Alexandria in Egypt; one to the London Embankment and the other to New York’s Central Park.
Inscribed by Thutmose III and later Ramesses II of the Egyptian New Kingdom, the obelisks were first moved in 12 BC to Alexandria, remaining there for over 1,800 years.
Cleopatra's needles and the Tower of the Romans, drawn c.1798,
Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Cleopatra’s Needle - London
Cleopatra’s Needle
Cleopatra's Needle and the Victoria Embankment by Oliver Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
The obelisk that was eventually re-erected in London was presented to the Prince Regent in 1819 by Egyptian ruler Muhammad Ali, a gift to mark British beating the French at the Battle of the Nile in 1798 and in 1801’s Battle of Alexandria.
The obelisk remained in Alexandria until 1877 when anatomist and dermatologist Sir William James Erasmus Wilson sponsored its transportation to London at the cost of £10,000, around £1,553,000 in today’s money.
The 224 ton artifact was encased in a iron cylinder, 92 feet long and 16 feet wide, dubbed Cleopatra, commanded by one Captain Carter, towed to London by the ship Olga, under Captain Booth. On October 14th 1877, a violent storm in the Bay of Biscay caused the Cleopatra to list uncontrollably, forcing the tow ropes to be cut. The Olga launched a rescue boat with six volunteers but the boat capsized, and all crew members died. Captain Carter his five shipmates aboard Cleopatra were eventually rescued though.
The paddle tug Anglia was then commissioned to tow the Cleopatra to London where it arrived in January 1878 and set up with some pomp at the Embankment on September 12th 1878.
Cleopatra's Needle is flanked by George John Vulliamy’s two faux-Egyptian bronze sphinxes, made at the Eccleston Iron Works in Pimlico in 1881. The sphinxes bear hieroglyphic inscriptions that say “netjer nefer men-kheper-re di ankh”, meaning "the good god, Thuthmosis III given life". Oddly, they are looking at the Needle rather than guarding it - or are they?
Possibly their role was NOT to stop harm from coming to the obelisk but rather to prevent anything supernatural from escaping, a task in which they appear to have singularly failed.The Embankment boasts other Egyptian touches, such as the well-endowed winged female sphinxes gracing the armrests of nearby benches.
A time capsule was concealed in the front part of the pedestal, containing twelve candid photographs of the most attractive English women of the day, hairpins, cigars, tobacco pipes, a set of imperial weights, a baby's bottle, children's toys, a razor, a hydraulic jack and some samples of the cable used in the erection, a 3-foot (90-centimetre) bronze model of the monument, and a complete set of contemporary British coins.
A rupee, a portrait of Queen Victoria, a history of the transport of the monument plans, a translation of the inscriptions, the Bible in several languages, a copy of John 3:16 in 215 languages, Whitaker's Almanack, a Bradshaw Railway Guide, a map of London, daily newspapers and finally, a twenty-four inch metal ruler, were also squirrelled away in the capsule.
It has been posited that the pictures of women and a razor amongst the items deposited beneath the monolith emitted waves of evil occult energy that eventually resulted in the crimes of Jack the Ripper decades later.
As The Ripper puts it in Alan Moore’s From Hell (1999): “They call it Cleopatra’s Needle. He who’d wield it would the BEST of tailors be, to do its work, increase the Sun God’s sovereignty … encoded in this city’s stones are symbols thunderous enough to rouse the sleeping Gods submerged beneath the sea-bed of our dreams.”
In 1977, my school Nower Hill High secreted a time capsule, which was (typically) forgotten about until accidentally rediscovered in 2013.
Cleopatra’s Needle: Shades of Ancient Egypt Gather
Soon, eerie unexplained events began to unfold around London’s Cleopatra monument, including the following;
The Spectral Seaman
The ghost of a naked man has been seen on a number of occasions, leaping from out behind the obelisk and throwing himself into the River without making a splash. The first sighting of this apparition occurred only a few weeks after the installation of the obelisk, leading many to conjecture it was the shade of one of the sailors who drowned in the Bay of Biscay. Or it was simply a ‘flasher’ with a taste for the theatrical?
Aleister Crowley Was ‘Ere
It is said that the notorious occultist Aleister Crowley performed dark rituals late one evening at the base of the obelisk in order to release the trapped spirit of the Pharoah Rameses. The ceremony supposedly involved animal blood and a human skeleton. Crowley failed in his endeavour, which was accompanied by the sound of Rameses mocking guffaws. File under: unlikely.
Suicide Isn’t Painless
Cleopatra’s Needle soon became a site associated with suicide. A policeman claimed a hysterical woman approached the officer, urging him to come to the banks of the Thames by the obelisk to prevent someone from hurling themselves into the water. As he left her and reached the area, he saw the same woman leap into the river, cackling as she did so.
The Laughing Man-Fish
In Elliott O’Donnell’s Haunted Waters (1957) he recounts, “the spot where Cleopatra’s Needle stands was well-know to be haunted. None of the outcasts would venture near it. Two of them told me that one night they saw a tall, nude, shadowy figure, with a pear-shaped head and a body covered with what looked like scales, suddenly appear by the needle, wave a long arm at them and leap over the wall into the river. They said that they sometimes heard unearthly groans and hellish, mocking laughter in the river.”
The Ancient World in London - Egyptomania in London
Near where I used to live in Islington:
Cleopatra’s Needle - New York
Greywacke Knoll, Central Park, New York
Ingfbruno, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
New York’s Needle was gifted in May 1877 to United States Consul General by Cairo Judge Elbert E. Farman, as thanks from the Khedive for the US remaining a friendly neutral as France and Britain vied for control of Egypt and the Suez Canal. Transportation costs were largely paid by the railroad magnate William Henry Vanderbilt, eldest son of Cornelius Vanderbilt.
The obelisk was transported seven miles to Alexandria and then put into the modified hold of the steamship SS Dessoug, which set sail June 12th, 1880. The Needle and its accompanying 50-ton pedestal arrived at the Quarantine Station in New York a month later. The ground was flattened so the obelisk could be rolled out of the ship and transported to an interim location off Fifth Avenue. Finally a steam engine pushed the object across a specially built trestle bridge from Fifth Avenue to Greywacke Knoll, just across from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
It took a mammoth 112 days to move the obelisk from Quarantine Station to its current location.
Jesse B. Anthony, Grand Master of Masons in the State of New York, presided as the cornerstone for the obelisk was laid in place with full Masonic ceremony on October 2nd, 1880. Over 9,000 Masons paraded up Fifth Avenue from 14th Street to 82nd Street. The official ceremony for erecting the obelisk was held January 22, 1881. A time capsule buried beneath the obelisk contains an 1870 U.S. census, a Bible, a Webster's Dictionary, the complete works of William Shakespeare, a guide to Egypt, and a copy of the United States Declaration of Independence.
A small chest was also placed in the capsule, but its contents remain unknown to this very day.
The wonderfully named Henry Honeychurch Gorringe, who supervised the movement of the obelisk, claimed the prime advantage of the Knoll was its "isolation", and it was elevated, with the foundation firmly anchored in local bedrock, supposedly preventing collapse if Manhattan suffered "some violent convulsion of nature."
The League of Shadows
In 1885 Gorringe died at the age of 43 as a result of injuries when he fell (or was he pushed?) from a moving train. 1885 was the year in which Gorringe published his book Egyptian Obelisks, which mainly explored his acquisition of Cleopatra’s Needle for Central Park. Gorringe was buried in Rockland Cemetery, Sparkhill, New York State. His memorial stone declares: “His crowning work was the removal of Cleopatra’s Needle from Egypt to the United States, a feat of engineering without parallel.” In 1886, his friends erected a replica of Cleopatra’s Needle over his grave, the unveiling drawing 500 people. Like the original obelisk in Central Park – it stands on its own knoll, overlooking the Hudson River.
There are far less stories of ghosts and curses linked to the New York obelisk than its London sibling, attributed by some to the elaborate Masonic ceremonies that prepared the plinth for the monument’s arrival, which may have pacified any unquiet ancient spirits.
In 2011, the pollution-blighted Needle was inspected by Zahi Hawass (Minister of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities) who declared: “If the Central Park Conservancy and the City of New York cannot properly care for the obelisk, I will take the necessary steps to bring this precious artefact home and save it from ruin.” The London obelisk is in a better condition, but in 2018 Hawass also weighed in, “I went to see it yesterday and I was ashamed … If they don’t care, they should return it.”
Note: The 50-foot granite walls of Manhattan’s now demolished Croton Reservoir (completed in 1842) were constructed in the Egyptian style popular at the time.
New York
unidentified illustrator of an article by T. Addison Richards, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Cleopatra (1999)
Kenneth Anger’s Lucifer Rising (1972); film director Donald Cammell was the god Osiris; Marianne Faithfull plays primordial she-demon Lilith:
The following statement was made by a prominent Australian psychiatrist during a televised discussion about Australia’s (spiritually blinkered) mental health system:
Patients who claim to channel spirits are immediately prescribed medication.
Given my interest in healing, mediumship and the afterlife, and the contentious topic of ‘spiritual crises,’ the psychiatrist’s opinion naturally captured my attention. I don’t channel spirits or hear voices but do have about 35 years worth of afterlife and mediumship knowledge, and personal spiritual experiences that I shall always treasure.
Perhaps the prominent Australian psychiatrist was a religious man who believes the bible narrative which condemns mediumship as an ‘abominable occult practice’:
In Deuteronomy 18:10-12 New International Version (NIV), God is explicitly clear about forbidding specific occultic practices.“Let no one be found among you who sacrifices their son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead. Anyone who does these things is detestable to the Lord; because of these same detestable practices the Lord your God will drive out those nations before you.” (Crosswalk)
I agree that murdering children and casting evil spells to harm and kill others would upset the Lord but don’t see anything wrong with responsible mediumship to assist the mentally disturbed/imbalanced and grieving. The Bible refers to ‘spiritual gifts’, does it not?
Most Bible translators are uneducated in the Gifts of the Spirit. They ignored Saint Paul’s directive to understand psychic science. It is this lack of understanding that caused errors in translation to appear in Bibles.Rev Sydney Schwartz, I Walk in Two Worlds, PDN
Can ‘schizophrenic’ people can make a full recovery?
The psychiatrist’s statement was made in 2017/18, around the same time I began to write and edit articles for Jock Brocas’s Afterlife Magazine. Brocas also happened to be a grief specialist and mentor, evidential medium, spirit interventionist, Paranormal Daily News Editor-in-Chief, Parawize founder, marketing and tech wiz, photographer, journalist, author, veteran, entrepreneur and president of the American Society for Standards in Mediumship and Psychical Investigation (ASSMPI), now ISSMPI (International).
But the pièce de résistance was the revelation that as a spirit interventionist, and in collaboration with mental health professionals, Brocas helped ‘schizophrenics’ make a full recovery. In simple terms, a skilled spirit interventionist is able to identify and resolve spiritually-based parapsychological disturbances such as ‘mediumship psychosis’ or ‘potential obsession from a misaligned spirit entity’. (Catholic exorcists are known to do similar work.) Compared to the mental health treatments on offer in the odd little land downunder, particularly in relation to Schizophrenia and spiritual crisis emergence, this was huge news to me.
The widely accepted belief is that there is ‘no cure’ for Schizophrenia and that schizophrenics need to be medicated for the rest of their life. Unsurprisingly, when I shared Jock’s relevations with various people who knew of long suffering families dealing with a schizophrenic loved one, my news fell upon glazed eyes and deaf ears. Blinkered indoctrination runs deep in Australia.
Is old school psychiatry and psychology failing your mental health?
After a disastrous experience with an Adelaide psychiatrist in early 1990 that nearly killed me and caused even more trauma, I was fortunate to have a session with a gifted spiritual practitioner in Sydney that a friend introduced me to. The practitioner helped her heavily medicated boyfriend recover from long-term and increasingly debilitating depression by identifying and removing negative entity attachments. Although he reluctantly agreed to see her, he was amazed at how much lighter he felt after just one session. Over time, he was able to wean himself off the medication and return to a balanced, productive life. During my session, the practitioner identified the root cause of specific issues that began in my mother’s womb and provided me with other helpful insights that all made sense and brought immense relief and clarity.
If your psychiatrist or psychologist is failing to help you resolve your issues, research the services of a skilled and qualified holistic practitioners, particularly in the fields of energy medicine, kinesiology, sound medicine and parapsychology. Skilled spirit interventionists are out there but often prefer to ‘fly under the radar’, but an experienced medium or shamanic practitioner should be able to assist. Reputable holistic practitioners are much easier to find these days than they were in the 80s and 90s. If you are prepared to do the work and commit to the journey, with the right support, you will successfully help you transform your inner world and your entire life. Drug free. And be sure to arrange an in-person consultation wherever possible.
Spiritually Blinkered Mental Health Systems
Inspired to write an article about spiritual crises, psychiatry, mediumship and mental health, I asked Jock to share some thoughts about medicating people who claim to channel spirits or hear voices. He kindly provided this response concerning one of many Schizophrenia cases he had dealt with:
‘I had an email from a distraught mother who requested help because her son was hearing voices. The medical community’s instinct was to medicate and I must say in my own perception – discriminate. They were convinced it was Schizophrenia.
The individual was referred to me because of a previous case involving another family member who was in a similar situation and being medicated to the detriment of her being. Investigations revealed that the individual was suffering what I consider as “mediumship psychosis” or “potential obsession from a misaligned spirit entity.”
After only one intervention, the issue was dealt with and to date, there have been no more interferences and nor is the individual under any medication or medical treatment. I truly believe that mental disturbances that have no foundation in physical or traumatic ailments should be investigated for a spiritual solution and that spiritual intervention should be a considered approach.
The problem, of course, is that you can’t have just anyone doing this type of work, as the responsibility is huge. This is why within our ASSMPI/ISSMPI organization, we are moving forward in research and development of protocols to investigate and deal with mental health issues requiring spiritual intervention.
While I have no foundation as a healer or indeed a psychiatrist, I do understand the spiritual efficacy of intervention by divine law and authority, and believe it goes some way to providing relief from spiritually-based parapsychological disturbances or psychosis.’
Mental health and psychotropic medication
To top things off, I also came across an extended TV news report featuring an Australian mental health nurse who expressed her concerns about the overuse of inadequately trialled psychotropic medications for schizophrenic patients. She claimed that the drugs were causing damage to patients’ physical health and that they were being cruelly used as guinea pigs. Horrifying stuff.
Who in their right mind would aspire to cause even more suffering to vulnerable people who need care and support? Nobody. Apart from profit-worshiping CEOs of pill manufacturing corporations, it seems. The ones that put profit before health; profit at any cost. An Australian politician who experienced traumatic events before entering politics revealed in a candid interview that the majority of politicians were medicated for depression and anxiety. Hasn’t anyone told them about safer and far more effective holistic health pathways, and the dangers of long term psychotropic medication?
You be the judge if the projected global billions from psychotropic drugs are being driven by profits at any cost or achieving optimal health and peace of mind.
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) defines Schizophrenia as a psychotic disorder characterized by disturbances in thinking (cognition), emotional responsiveness and behavior. It falls under the Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders Class. 5 to 6% of people with schizophrenia die by suicide, about 20% make suicide attempts on more than one occasion, and many more have significant suicidal thoughts. The incidence rate ratio for suicide among those with schizophrenia is about 20 times higherthan the general population (Med Central)
Approximately one in one hundred Australians live with schizophrenia, and according to the Results of the Global Burden of Disease study for schizophrenia: trends from 1990 to 2021 and projections to 2050study, Schizophrenia ranks as the third leading cause of disability worldwide. People with Schizophrenia also have a 10 to 25 year shorter life expectancy compared to the general population. Much of this mortality stems from unhealthy lifestyles combined with low income, limited medical care, physical and psychological changes and increased co-morbidities.
Mental health, trauma mediumship and self-care
A previous long-term relationship with a highly attuned medium taught me many things about mediumship, including the highs and lows of the ‘gift’, and the detrimental effects of undealt trauma - my own included. While the definition of trauma has changed over time, it is broadly defined as a disordered psychic or behavioral state resulting from severe mental or emotional stress, or a physical injury. The American Psychological Associationdefines it as any disturbing experience resulting in significant fear, helplessness, or dissociation, while the DSM-5specifically identifies trauma as exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence. (Psychology Today)
Trauma can also serve to heighten sensitivity and if dealt with, may activate a deeper sense of compassion for others, both of which are essential qualities for responsible and attuned mediumship. Undealt trauma that remains ‘buried’ and ‘energetically trapped’, inevitably causes intermittent havoc on all levels. Whether or not you are a medium or psychic practitioner, don’t be frightened of seeking professional holistic support, even if it’s just for a spiritual ‘tune-up and balance.’ Medication will block your mediumship and psychic abilities and adversely impact your livelihood. Ongoing talk therapy will just have you go around in circles or feeling stuck in a rut. For example, an acquaintance of mine has been counselled by a Catholic priest for about 30 years and still suffers from depression.
But rest assured, if and when you are ready, and with the right professional support and guidance, post traumatic stress can transform into post traumatic strength if you are willing to do the work. I speak from experience and consider myself to be a happy and productive work-in-progress.
Additionally, if a self-care protocol is absent from anyone’s life, especially mediums and other health/care-related practitioners whose role involves significant amounts of giving, it is bound to be detrimental to their health in the long term. By self-care protocol I mean simple things like preventative health awareness including nutrition, exercise, time out in nature, impromptu adventures, a creative hobby, laughter, fun times with friends and family, incorporating personal development with spiritual development, and refraining from working and/or drinking/drugging yourself to death. To name a few.
It really isn’t hard to care for ourselves as well as others, and the rewards are great. Health is by far our greatest wealth, after all.
Spiritually ignorant psychiatry is potentially harmful to mental health
Have you ever loved someone with all your heart and soul in your childhood or teenage years and they suddenly died, catapulting you into a state of shock and denial for several years? Does impossible grief ring a bell? Did you wonder why the world still turned when yours just crashed and burned, leaving you feeling like a heartbroken spirit adrift who refused to accept the finality of it all?
Perhaps you stumbled onto your spiritual path in search of answers when you were twenty-something, your only guide an obscure spiritual book or two. You eventually found yourself on a spontaneous inner joy ride that you couldn’t explain to anyone. A soothing, exciting sense of something far greater and more beautiful than you could ever imagine. Then your loved one in spirit reconnected with you in your dreams and/or waking life, providing reassurance and support when you needed it most. But just as you felt that you were finally emerging from your darkest days and that the proverbial stars were aligning in your favour, your immaculate ride was crudely interrupted. External events turned your newfound spiritual joy into something something akin to a confusing spiritual crisis, or attack, of sorts.
You innately knew that you needed spiritual counselling but back in 80s Adelaide, that was virtually unheard of; written off as gobbeldygook. In Australia, at least. You wound up in a room with a spiritually ignorant psychiatrist that bypassed your spiritual experiences and flatly ignored the criminal elements that smashed you off your happy perch. Her answer to your anger and grief was drugs. She started with a mild sedative and ended with debilitating psychotropics that nearly caused you to commit suicide. Even though you were never suicidal to begin with.
The ‘final’ drug nearly killed you within a matter of weeks but it wasn’t your time to die. You recovered enough to book one last appointment and told the psychiatrist what happened. Once again, she refused to listen and take responsibility.Instead, she consulted her notes and told you that you were a ‘highly creative type’ and threatened you with yet another toxic drug. You told her to stick her drugs and refrained from slapping her on your way out.
Soon after dismissing the psychiatrist’s abusive, incompetent services, you were informed that your abuser suffered a nervous breakdown. You limped out of town to start a new life. Many angry years later, you began to calm down and reconnect to your compassion. You hoped that the psychiatrist made it through the darkness without committing suicide because of her beloved psychotropic drugs. However, your traumatic experience left you with the biased opinion that psychotropics are a dangerous and debilitating bandaid. They just shut down the spirit and bypass the root cause of trauma or any other imbalance.
Thankfully, a spiritually minded friend and psychologist would eventually break the news that the broken psychiatrist completely missed your Post Traumatic Stress diagnosis. But this leaves you wondering how the psychiatry profession could be so incompetent.
All’s well that ended badly
I can say yes to all of the above. My dear father died without warning when I was 17. The external events that drove me into what I regard as a preventable spiritual crisis, primarily involved an unreported malicious scandal comprised of extreme character assassination, lying informants, attempted false imprisonment based on fabricated allegations and silver bullets blasted through my workplace window overnight. The bullets followed dreams of being shot in the back with a radio colleague and sent me into a tailspin. Intriguing material for a book and movie one day, perhaps.
And how’s this for a twist? Despite leaving that traumatic experience behind a long time ago and the shadowy perpetrators getting away with it, I had a lucid dream which involved three seriously looking men in suits. One of them told me the name of the political figure that ‘sent’ the bullets my way. It will be interesting to see how this plays out in time to come.
To this day, I am still thankful for an obscure paperback about a spiritual healer and seer called Edgar Cayce. It found me in the mid 80s when I was struggling to stay afloat in my ridiculously consuming TV job. It thankfully ended in 1988 and opened the door to a breezier writing job at a popular radio station. The book’s soothing words and afterlife concepts helped me breathe again and anchor myself, somewhat. Back then, topics like death and the afterlife were taboo. In Adelaide, South Australia, at least. A veritable chambers of horrors. But I was fortunate to have one solid friend with an open mind to the mysterious world of spirituality.
Mental Health Tip: Stop Watching the News
Whilst on the topic of the media and mental health, I highly recommend a book called Stop Reading the News by Rolf Dobelli. The core message is to limit your exposure to the constant barrage of generally negative, traumatizing and largely manufactured ‘news’. Be discerning in relation to where you source your news from and aim for information that is worthy of your time and attention. Here are some pertinent notes from Dobelli’s book:
~ ‘The way news is presented and the way that we access news has changed significantly over the last 15 to 20 years. These changes have been detrimental to general mental health.’’ Graham Davey, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Sussex University and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Experimental Psychopathology.
~ According to a study by the American Psychological Association, half of all adults suffer from the symptoms of stress caused by news consumption. One in 10 Americans check the news once an hour.
~ To the media, what’s relevant is anything that grabs attention. This is the racket at the heart of the industry’s business model. The news they supply us is irrelevant but is sold as relevant.
Holistic healing pathways Vs medication
In retrospect, the Adelaide psychiatrist did me a favour because she gave me an excellent reason to steer clear of Australia’s drug-driven system for the rest of my life. Over the years I have read hundreds of testimonials about psychiatric drug abuse for a myriad reasons and hope that everyone found their way out of their system-induced debilitating and suicidal darkness. For people who find it easier to take psychotropic medication, and it works for them, I wish them well. It’s important to make our own life choices, particularly in relation to health.
In early 2013, I took a twelve-month sabbatical from my job because I felt my old traumas stirring and decided to do something about it. My supportive GP respected my choice to explore holistic health pathways and I diligently found highly skilled holistic practitioners who collectively helped me find my way back to health on all levels. My GP was amazed by my rapid progress and recovery from acute stress and also commended me for having the resilience to confront my old traumas rather than bandaid them with medication. She also stated that:
~ Most people in the 50+ age bracket choose the medication option and that my chosen holistic path would terrify them.
~ Trauma and old wounds have a tendency to resurface in ten year cycles, because they need to be addressed and released - medication or no medication.
~ Long-term psychotropic medication often impacts the quality of life and can shorten the life span
~ Associated side effects can cause more health issues including chronic depression, that require more medication.
For anyone who isn’t aware, antidepressants are one of the five main classes of psychotropic drugs, alongside anti-anxiety agents, antipsychotics, hypnotics and mood stabilizers. Some of my former work colleagues have been in and out of Adelaide psyche wards to withdraw from one antidepressant and start on another. This was shocking to me, but like I said, we are all responsbile for making our own health choices.
Nutritional psychiatry
One of my most exciting health discoveries was ‘nutritional psychiatry’ and the vital role that balanced nutrition plays in maintaining robust health on all levels. A nutritional psychiatrist would be the perfect match for an attuned medium, should the client require spiritual intervention. My first nutrition teacher was Lyn Craven, an advanced naturopath and herbalist based in Bondi Beach, Sydney. Her guidance mirrors the following quote:
A lack of essential nutrients known to contribute to the onset of poor mental health in people suffering from anxiety and depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and ADHD. Nutritional psychiatry is a growing discipline that focuses on the use of food and supplements to provide these essential nutrients as part of an integrated or alternative treatment for mental health disorders. – Joyce Cavaye, Author & Senior Lecturer, The Conversation
Has deep nonsense really taken control?
Given my experience with a spiritually ignorant and negligent psychiatrist, I can’t help but wonder how many suppressed sensitive souls such as healers, artists, writers, musicians, mediums, visionaries and empaths are out there. This excerpt from unpopular Australian psychiatrist Niall McLaren’s Mad in America article Is Australia’s Psychiatric System Redeemable? bears repeating:
There is indeed something rotten in the state of modern psychiatry, and it is the artfully concealed absence of a formal, articulated model of mental disorder. When medical students vote with their feet in not choosing psychiatry as a career, they are showing that they are at least intuitively aware of this. All the money in the world, all the committees and research projects aren’t going to do more than rearrange the deck chairs just because deep nonsense has now taken control.
No doubt for daring to expose this, I will be subject to the usual barrage of secret complaints by anonymous authors, which will be investigated in camera by an unnamed committee considering evidence I am not allowed to see, who will reach a decision that favours the status quo, and for which there will be no effective appeal. Because that’s how psychiatrists operate. The one thing they will never do is have a fair, open, transparent and, above all, honest debate about the realities of being mentally disturbed in Australia.
Billions of Australian taxpayer dollars are spent on mental health each year and one would expect a happier, healthier and far mor productive population. Sadly, this is not the case. According to a Productivity Commission report released in November 2020, mental illness and suicide costs Australia a conservative $220 billion a year, or $600 million every day. The report was commissioned prior to the additional challenges and trauma caused by the COVID-19 episode, so this figure is now seen as wildly conservative when trying to estimate the economic impact of mental health. The Banyans & ABC News
Tidal wave of psychiatric drugging, including children
To shed even more light on the concerning state of mental health treatments in Australia, increasing numbers of children are now being recklessly and unlawfully treated with psychotropic medications. Little wonder this continent is viewed as ‘experiment island’ from afar. Talk about how to numb and dumb down a generation:
‘Australia is experiencing a tidal wave of psychiatric drugging. In a population of 27 million, there were 47.3 million prescriptions written for psychiatric drugs in 2023/2024. Over $13.2 billion is spent annually on mental health. Of great concern is the growing numbers of children and teenagers on antidepressants when no antidepressant is approved for use in children under the age of 18 for depression. There were 161,729 Australian children aged 0-17 on an antidepressant in 2023/24.’ ~ Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR)
Healthier Healing Pathways
Pearls of wisdom
In closing, during my travels to the Hopi Lands, Arizona in 2018, I noticed an announcement on a community noticeboard about their annual health conference. It included keynote speakers covering the four levels of health: Physical, Emotional, Mental and Spiritual. The spiritually ignorant and wisdomless western world health fraternity has some catching up to do, me thinks.
May you find the following excerpts from West African Shaman Malidoma Patrice Somé’s article What a Shaman Sees in a Mental Hospital as helpful and uplifting as I did:
‘In the shamanic view, mental illness signals the birth of a healer. Thus, mental disorders are spiritual emergencies, spiritual crises, and need to be regarded as such to aid the healer in being born. What those in the West view as mental illness, the Dagara people regard as “good news from the other world.” The person going through the crisis has been chosen as a medium for a message to the community that needs to be communicated from the spirit realm.
Mental disorder, behavioural disorder of all kinds, signal the fact that two obviously incompatible energies have merged into the same field. These disturbances result when the person does not get assistance in dealing with the presence of the energy from the spirit realm.
In the Dagara tradition, the community helps the person reconcile the energies of both worlds – the world of the spirit that he or she is merged with, and the village and community. That person is then able to serve as a bridge between the worlds and help the living with information and healing they need.
Thus, the spiritual crisis ends with the birth of another healer. Western culture has consistently ignored the birth of the healer.’
Here’s to a healthier, happier and far more enlightened future.
Don’t think of me as gone
Note: This updated article was originally published in the Afterlife Magazine by The Otherside Press which has since joined the PDN group.
If you live in Australia and feel that you, a family member or friend may need support from a spiritually aware psychologist, counsellor or community support professional, contact either of the following organizations:
Australian Insititute of Parapsychological Research (AIPR), founded in 1977. According to their Aims and Policies: AIPR provides support in matters to do with alleged or actual experiences of a paranormal nature that may require relief of suffering, distress, or helplessness (this support work is undertaken by AIPR members who are qualified psychologists, counsellors, and social-workers, and trained in (house) ‘clearing’ techniques.)
The Australian Parapsychological Research Association (APRA) is currently moving into a new phase of development and offers support for individuals wishing to discuss personal psychic or paranormal experiences and related trauma.
