If you are new to healing, spiritual development or exploring faith alongside spirituality, there are some wonderful resources available online that can help you learn more in your own time and at your own pace.
Bible Gateway is a well-known online Bible resource where you can read, search and study scripture in a wide range of translations. Whether you are looking for comfort, guidance, inspiration or simply wish to explore the teachings of Christianity more deeply, it provides an easy and accessible way to spend time with the Bible from wherever you are.
We have also included a link to Christian Spiritualism, a website dedicated to exploring the connection between Christianity and spiritualism. (This will include the archives of THE ZODIAC MESSAGES ) The site shares information on spiritual healing, mediumship, churches, events and spiritual philosophy, helping visitors better understand how faith, healing and communication with the spirit world have been approached within Christian Spiritualism for many years.
Every week I share thoughts and experiences from over 50 years of working as a medium, answering many of the questions people ask about life after death, spiritual development and our purpose here on Earth.
If you’ve missed some of the recent blogs, here’s a quick look at the latest three articles.
What Is the Purpose of Life?
One of the biggest questions humanity has ever asked is, “Why are we here?”
In this blog, I explore why I believe our life on Earth is just one stage of a much longer journey. Through my work helping spirits move on and teaching mediumship, I’ve witnessed countless examples that reinforce the idea that life continues beyond physical death.
Rather than seeing life as something to simply get through, we can begin to understand it as a school—a place where we learn, grow and develop spiritually. Every challenge, every joy and every relationship has a purpose in helping us become who we are meant to be.
The Secret to Spiritual Progress: Help Others First
Many people spend years searching for spiritual growth, wondering how they can become more connected with the spirit world.
The answer may be much simpler than you think.
In this article, I explain why genuine spiritual progress doesn’t begin with seeking special abilities or extraordinary experiences. Instead, it begins with service. When we focus on helping other people, we naturally become more compassionate, less self-centred and more aligned with the qualities that allow us to develop spiritually.
It’s a lesson I’ve seen repeated countless times throughout my years of teaching and working as a medium.
Understanding Free Will: Why the Choices We Make Matter
If our loved ones in spirit still exist, why don’t they simply tell us exactly what to do?
This is one of the questions I hear most often.
In this blog, I explain the importance of free will and why those in the spirit world cannot live our lives for us. They can offer love, encouragement and reassurance, but the decisions remain ours to make.
Our choices shape who we become, and it is through making those decisions ourselves that we continue to learn and evolve.
Understanding free will helps explain not only how mediumship works, but also why personal responsibility is such an important part of our spiritual journey.
Whether you’re exploring the purpose of life, looking to deepen your spiritual understanding, or simply curious about what happens after we die, I hope these articles give you something to reflect on.
Each blog explores a different part of our spiritual journey, but together they reveal a simple message: we are here to learn, to grow, to help one another and to make the most of the choices we are given.
If you enjoy these articles, keep checking back as new blogs are added regularly.
We welcomed the wonderful John Morrow in Chawton on Sunday. We had such a lovely time. Thank you. Our Chair for the evening was the lovely Chris Shore!
After obtaining a hedgehog house at our Garden Party Auction on Saturday, I think I might need to brush up on my quill-osophy! Sorry, just had to.
These are the only creatures of their kind in the UK, and, in fact, can be found in Europe and Asia, but not the Americas. Although the Americas have their own spiky dude, the porcupine, he is from a completely different family.
Those spiky quills of a hedgehog are made of keratin and are a wonderful deterrent and defence system. Not many will mess with the hedgehog except the badger, who is able to unfurl him with his strength.
Summertime is busy, as the breeding season stretches from May to September, and those little hoglets will be nursed and hopefully get off to a good start. Strimming is always a worry in the garden, as a female hedgehog, whilst nursing, will likely abandon her brood if disturbed.
These very fast runners are quite quirky nocturnal creatures and, on encountering a new scent, will chew on the source of that scent, mixing it with their saliva, and then cover their quills. This is thought to be a form of scent “camouflage”.
Spare a thought for any hedgehogs that visit your space or garden, as dehydration can have them sighted in the daytime, circling in confusion. Some water, not milk, and some non-fishy cat food will do the trick and get him back on track.
He can be inspirational also in his character and simplicity. The Hedgehog Concept is a business plan developed based on his character, simplifying complex things into a single concept that guides all decisions, and his symbolism is that of obvious self-protection and healthy boundaries, a continual lesson for us all, especially when we are serving a spiritually focused life.
What a weekend! Amidst the football and Wimbledon, we had the continuing heatwave. Summer is in full blast.
Saturday we enjoyed our annual Garden Party!! A lovely afternoon of Pimms, sandwiches, cream tea and much laughter and conversation, followed by the famous Garden Party Auction led my Rob and Sue. We raised £235. Thank you to Chris Shore and all who prepared, and helped run the plates of food and keep us filled up with tea, amongst other things. Thank you to Rob for sharing his beautiful house for the occasion
On Sunday, so many made it into Chawton for our Divine Service, braving the heat, and we were glad to welcome John Morrow. And we did have such a lovely time, as John shared his journey towards Spiritualism and becoming a medium. So very interesting, and then he went on to share some absolutely lovely messages and information. Thank you so much! Our lovely Chris Shore chaired the proceedings with her usual ease.
Thank you to our readers. Thank you, Lisa, for the music. Thanks to our hospitality team, and yes, there was cake! We are growing our healing team, and so we were in full force for anyone wanting healing. Set-up and break-down were done so smoothly. Thank you, everyone!
Prayer of the week
Please pray for more love and kindness in this world. These simple ingredients could make such a vast difference in the lives of all who share this Earth.
There is a beautiful breeze today and some rain coming midweek.
We are most definitely getting a summer. Relish every moment. We gathered again, mid week for our Zoom service last night, and enjoyed the readings and prayers. Thank you. Healing continued on afterwards.
Please continue to pray for the vulnerable in this heat, not forgetting all animals who must be suffering also.
Rob Harvey explained and demonstrated just how close spirit can get last night in Chawton, with the help of those who sit in Circle. Thank you! A lovely evening chaired beautifully by our own gal Sarah Dorgan
I have been watching the bumblebees favour a particular wildflower growing through the cracks of my patio. She has been growing in complete wild abandon this year, I might add. The bees just keep coming and coming to her, and I found myself wondering why this flower, in particular, was so favoured.
The flower is Linaria purpurea, originally from Italy but brought to the UK in the 1700s. She also has the wonderful common name of Purple Toadflax. With a name like that, it was enough to entice me to search further.
Although originally introduced and cultivated in the UK, she, like so many others, became an escapee and can now be found growing in the poorest of soils and in the most unlikely places of wasteland, like my patio!
The bees love her, especially the ‘Bumbles’ because their weight allows them to press down the lower lip of the two-lipped bloom and reach the rich treasure of nectar that so many other pollinators simply cannot get to. Bees, in general, are also drawn to that beautiful purple-blue colour.
Folklore has had a field day with this flower. The two-lipped flower resembles a toad’s mouth, giving her common name. Of course, she is associated with the faeries and their hidden treasures, but she also carries symbolism of protection, resilience, and even the breaking of hexes!
She must indeed be a treasure, for I have watched the bumblebees visit her from dawn’s early light right through until dusk on these beautiful summer days.
We gathered again last night in Chawton after one of those glorious summer days. Rob Harvey, our President, gave an address on just how close spirit can be. He then shared a little clairvoyance, with education and demonstration, with the help of some of the people who sit in Circle. It is a wonderful way for the whole family to understand, at a deeper level, just how close and real the other realms truly are.
Thank you, Rob, and thank you to Sarah Dorgan, who chaired the evening so beautifully. It was such a lovely, relaxed evening.
Thank you to our readers and prayer people, who help to build the energy. Thank you, Carole, for another delicious cake, and thank you to everyone who helps with hospitality. Thank you, Julie, for the music, to our wonderful healers, and to everyone who helps with setting up and packing away afterwards.
Prayer of the Week
Another heatwave is on its way. Please hold in your prayers all those who are vulnerable, people, their beloved companion animals, and don’t forget our wildlife and all animals. Yes the bees and the little ones too. They all need hydration. Prayers for all. Thank you.
Calendar up tomorrow.
Drink before thirst, take care in the heat, and enjoy these beautiful sunny days and heavenly blue skies!
Alton Christian Spiritualist Church 