The School for Mediums Can You Really Learn the Art of Communing with the Dead? American Author Mary Roach Finds Out
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ARTHUR Findlay was the president of the Spiritualists' National Union and a very wealthy man. Upon his death in 1964, Findlay bequeathed his enormous home, Stansted Hall, to the union to use as a college "for the advancement of psychic science". Accordingly, the upstairs portions of the building have been outfitted with two floors of dormitory-style bedrooms. These are arranged in six separate hallways, each reachable by one of two dozen possible combinations of interlinking stairways and obscured by fire doors and dead ends, such that a degree in psychic science is necessary simply to find one's bed in the evening.
My roommate is propped on her bed, reading a romance novel. "I foresaw that you'd be an American, " she says. "Blonde and chubby." I'm hardly blonde or chubby, but I feel it's too early in our relationship to mention this.See the full content of this document
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The School for Mediums Can You Really Learn the Art of Communing with the Dead? American Author Mary Roach Finds Out
The weekend Fundamentals Of Mediumship course begins on Friday evening, with an orientation led by head tutor, Glyn Edwards. His hair is arranged in a sweptback country'n'western style, with sideburns that are allowed to spread out and roam the wide, pale plains of his cheeks.
Over his turtleneck he wears a gilded medal strung on a ribbon, as though he'd recently taken first place in a swimming race. I find him unnerving and strange, but people here speak highly of him, at least as a medium. A sitting wit...See the full content of this document
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