“Tell him to look after my daughter,” the female spirit “Tiny” said to Florence Marryat during a séance in her own house. “She is falling into evil courses…” – It’s one of the many amazing true stories spiritualist author Florence Marryat recounts in her book There Is No Death (1891)…

The word occult is vague and mysterious and has negative connotations, possibly due to being associated with the word cult. But what does it actually mean?

“I looked in the mirror and what did I see…”
What does one see when one looks in a mirror? Is it merely as the song says “…A nine stone weakling with knobbly knees…” Or is there more to be seen in a mirror than one’s own reflection?
Mirrors have a certain mystique about them, which gives rise to beliefs, magic, myths, legends and superstitions.
Amongst many things they have been seen as a “tool of the devil”, a “catcher” of the soul, a harbinger of things to come, a portal to another dimension and a source of bad luck.
But what are these beliefs myths and superstitions and where do they come from?

In her book “There Is No Death”, Florence Marryat relates some “curious coincidences”, maybe “brain readings” or even encounters of a spiritual nature, that all took place in her “home circle”…

Charles Coughlan consulted a fortune teller to gauge his success as an actor. He was told that he would die at the height of his fame in a southern city, and that he would have no rest until he returned to the place of his birth. Here is one of my favorite “synchronicity” stories: the events are not causally related, and yet they are occurring together in a meaningful manner.

The end of debate…

It is the thing that Hollywood Horror films are made of. Even more particularly it is reminiscent of Oscar Wilde’s The picture of Dorian Gray.

An introduction to the various schools of thought that have been described as materialist.

That same evening, Bertha Day, the abbey’s catering manager, also heard the singing. “I knew that Mrs. Mears, a local lady, had died,” she said. Later both Sedgwick and Mrs. Day realized that they had heard the monks of Beaulieu Abbey singing a mass – their custom when one of the inhabitants of the nearby village had died. But no monks had lived in Beaulieu Abbey since 1538.

Sometimes Home was made to stand in the middle of the room back with another man for comparison as he shrank or stretched. At other times Home, closely watched by the observers, would walk around, elongating and shortening three or four times, until the trance state ceased and the spirit voice said “Good-night” to let those present knows that the evening had ended.