Harry Edwards

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia/Blogger Ref http://www.p2pfoundation.net/Multi-Dimensional_Science

        

Harry Edwards

Henry James Edwards (29 May 1893 – 7 December 1976) was a spiritual healer, teacher and author who had a career of nearly 40 years.

Contents

 [hide] 

• 1 Early years
• 2 Spiritual healing
• 3 Skeptical reception
• 4 Publications
• 5 Select Bibliography
• 6 References
• 7 External links

Early years[edit]

Born in London as one of nine children, Harry Edward's father was a printer and his mother a dressmaker. In 1905, aged 12, Edwards joined the London Diocese Church Lads Brigade. In 1907 he left school and began a seven-year apprenticeship to a printer. Dissatisfied with that career, he developed political aspirations and joined the local branch of the Liberal Party, for whom he campaigned.^[1]
On the outbreak of World War I in 1914 Edwards enlisted in the Royal Sussex Regiment and by late 1915 he was in Bombay en route for Tekrit, where he worked to build the railway track between there and Baghdad. He was commissioned in the field, and achieved the rank of Captain.^[2] In 1921 he returned to the UK and married Phyllis. The couple opened a stationer's shop and printing works in Balham, and Edwards tried to launch himself into a political career, standing for parliamentary and council seats as a Liberal candidate on several occasions, but with no success. By this stage he also had four children to support.^[1]

Spiritual healing[edit]

The Harry Edwards Spiritual Healing Sanctuary at Shere, Surrey

Edwards became a spiritual healer when he attended a meeting at a spiritualist church in 1936 and was told by the mediums present that he had healing powers. His early attempts at spiritual healing were met with success, and gradually his reputation as a healer spread and his services became more in demand.^[2] During the Second World War Edwards served in the Home Guard and continued to run his printing business alongside his now growing practice as a healer. Gradually, as his fame spread, his healing took over from his printing business, which was later to be run by a brother. He moved to Stoneleigh in Surrey just after the war, where he used the front room of his house as a healing sanctuary.
Eventually, because of the increasing number of patients visiting him Edwards outgrew this home, so in 1946 he moved his family and his healing practice to Burrows Lea, a large house with several acres of gardens and woodland in Shere, where he founded the 'Harry Edwards Healing Sanctuary'. As his fame as a healer spread he was receiving 10,000 letters a week asking for help and distance healing.^[1]
In 1948 Edwards held a healing demonstration in Manchester which was attended by 6,000 people. In September 1951 during the Festival of Britain he appeared at the Royal Festival Hall in London, where he demonstrated spiritual healing to a packed hall.^[2] In 1955 he founded and was the first President of the National Federation of Spiritual Healers (NFSH).^[3]
An 'Archbishops' Commission on Divine Healing' was set up in 1953 to investigate spiritual healing, and Edwards addressed the Commission in 1954, providing it with documentary evidence of a number of cases of successful healing for it to examine. At the same time he held a public demonstration in front of 6,000 people at the Royal Albert Hall to launch the '10 o'clock Healing Minute'. The Commission's report, published in 1958,^[4] stated that neither the Church or the medical profession accepted the claims of spirit healers that they were responsible for successful healings. Despite the fact that Harry Edwards had appeared before the Commission he was never sent a copy of the final report.^[2]
Edwards claimed that several deceased scientists worked through him, including Lord Lister and Louis Pasteur. The founder of the Aetherius Society, George King was complimentary of his healing powers.^[5]
Harry Edwards died in December 1976 aged 83.

Skeptical reception[edit]

A study in the British Medical Journal (Rose, 1954) investigated spiritual healing, therapeutic touch and faith healing. In a hundred cases that were investigated, no single case revealed that the healer's intervention alone resulted in any improvement or cure of a measurable organic disability.^[6] Edwards claimed he had cured about a hundred thousand people in Britain but Rose could not verify a single cure by Edwards. Rose visited a healing session held by Edwards and observed that an old lady had claimed to have been cured during the session and had walked without her sticks, but by the time the session was over was walking with two sticks out of the hall.^[7]

Publications[edit]

• Edwards, Harry Harry Edwards: Thirty Years a Spiritual Healer Jenkins (1968)
• Edwards, Harry A Guide for the Development of Mediumship Spiritualist Aszon, [n.d.]
• Edwards, Harry The Science of Spirit Healing Rider & Co, New York (1943)
• Edwards, Harry The Mediumship of Jack Webber Rider & Co, New York (1940)
• Edwards, Harry A Guide to the Understanding and Practice of Spiritual Healing The Healer Publishing Company Limited (1974)
• Edwards, Harry The Mediumship of Arnold Clare Rider & Co, New York (1941)
• Edwards, Harry Psychic Healing Spiritualist Press Ltd., London (1946)
• Edwards, Harry Life in Spirit : with a Guide for the Development of Mediumship Healer Publishing Co. Ltd (1976)
• Edwards, Harry The Power of Healing, Tandem Publishing (1967)
• Edwards, Harry with Paul Miller The Science, Art and Future of Spirit Healing Healer Publishing Company, Ltd (1975)
• Edwards, Harry, " The Healing Intelligence"
• Edwards, Harry, " A Guide for the Development of Mediumship"

Newman, F Terry, "The Spiritual Healer" journal, Editor.

Select Bibliography[edit]

• Branch, Ramus Harry Edwards : the Story of the Greatest Healer Since the Time of Christ Guildford (1982)
• Miller, Paul Harry Edwards, the Healer The Spiritualist Press, London (1948)
• Miller, Paul Born to Heal : a Biography of Harry Edwards, the Spirit Healer The Spiritualist Press, London (1962)
• Barbanell, Maurice Harry Edwards and His Healing The Spiritualist Press, London (1953)

References[edit]

1. ^ Jump up to: ^{a b c} Redwood, Dawn ‘’ The Harry Edwards Spiritual Healing Sanctuary’’ – brief biography
2. ^ Jump up to: ^{a b c d} Biography of Harry Edwards
3. Jump up ^ Harry Edwards Tribute website
4. Jump up ^ The ‘Archbishops’ Commission on Divine Healing’ in the National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives
5. Jump up ^ Jason-Lloyd, Len ‘’Insight into Harry Edwards’’
6. Jump up ^ Louis Rose. (1954). Some Aspects of Paranormal Healing. The British Medical Journal. Volume 2, No. 4900. pp. 1329–1332.
7. Jump up ^ John Sladek. (1974). The New Apocrypha: A Guide to Strange Sciences and Occult Beliefs. Panther. pp. 120–124.

External links[edit]

• Website of the Harry Edwards Healing Sanctuary
• Website of the Harry Edwards Healing College
• Edwards on Spiritualist Mediums
• Articles about Harry Edwards

[hide] v t e Spiritualism and spiritism History and beliefs Automatic writing Ectoplasm Materialization Mediumship Séance Spirit guides Spiritual healing Spirit obsession Spirit photography Spirit possession Spirit world Theism Spiritualists Derek Acorah Rosemary Altea Charles Bailey Eddy Brothers Bangs Sisters Stephen Braude Rosemary Brown Sylvia Browne Eva Carrière Doris Collins Florence Cook Mina Crandon William Crookes Geraldine Cummins Pearl Curran Frank Decker Arthur Conan Doyle Helen Duncan John Edward William Eglinton Colin Evans Fox sisters Leslie Flint Arthur Ford Colin Fry Eileen Garrett Kathleen Goligher Rita Goold Jan Guzyk Alec Harris Gordon Higginson Richard Hodgson Daniel Dunglas Home Elizabeth Hope William Hope Cecil Husk Swami Laura Horos Franek Kluski Gladys Leonard Oliver Lodge Heinrich Melzer Carmine Mirabelli Francis Ward Monck Stainton Moses Einer Nielsen Eusapia Palladino Leonora Piper Ethel Post-Parrish James Van Praagh Bert Reese Estelle Roberts Jane Roberts William Roy Rudi Schneider Maria Silbert Henry Slade Doris Stokes Rosina Thompson Stanisława Tomczyk Ena Twigg George Valiantine Jack Webber Etta Wriedt Organizations List of Spiritualist organizations Spiritualist churches Spiritist centres National Spiritualist Association of Churches Spiritualists' National Union Spiritualist Association of Great Britain Spiritual Church Movement Arthur Findlay College International Spiritualist Federation Skeptics David Abbott John Henry Anderson George Miller Beard Ruth Brandon Lionel Branson William Carpenter Milbourne Christopher Edward Clodd Edmund Smith Conklin Tony Cornell Millais Culpin Eric Dingwall Joseph Dunninger Henry Evans Chris French Martin Gardner G. Stanley Hall Trevor Hall William Hammond C. E. M. Hansel Carlos María de Heredia Carl Hertz Terence Hines Harry Houdini Joseph Jastrow C. E. M. Joad Stanley LeFevre Krebs Andrew Lang David Marks John Nevil Maskelyne Henry Maudsley Joseph McCabe Georgess McHargue Charles Arthur Mercier Albert Moll John Mulholland Fulton Oursler Joe Nickell Ernest Clephan Palmer Ronald Pearsall Frank Podmore Massimo Polidoro Harry Price Julien Proskauer James Randi Joseph Rinn C. E. Bechhofer Roberts Chung Ling Soo Gordon Stein Amy Tanner Ivor Lloyd Tuckett Lyttelton Winslow Richard Wiseman

Persondata
Name	Edwards, Harry
Alternative names
Short description	English spiritual healer
Date of birth	29 May 1893
Place of birth
Date of death	7 December 1976
Place of death

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Harry_Edwards_(healer)&oldid=624404767"

Categories:

• 1893 births
• 1976 deaths
• Spiritualists
• English spiritual mediums
• Supernatural healing
• British Home Guard soldiers

Bilocation

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

Blogger Ref Link http://www.p2pfoundation.net/Multi-Dimensional_Science

 

 

 

Jump to: navigation, search

Bilocation, or sometimes multilocation, occurs when an individual or object is located (or appears to be located) in two distinct places at the same instant in time.^[1][2][3][4] The concept has been used in a wide range of historical and philosophical systems, including early Greek philosophy,^[5][6][7][8] shamanism,^{[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]} paganism,^[11] folklore,^[8][12] occultism and magic,^[13][14][15] the paranormal,^[16][17][18] Hinduism (as one of the siddhis),^{[5][6][19][20]} Buddhism,^[21][22] spiritualism, Theosophy,^[10][15] the New Age^[23][24][25] and mysticism in general,^[26] as well as Christian mysticism^[6][27] and Jewish mysticism.^[28]

Contents

• 1 In religion and mysticism
• 2 In popular culture
• 3 See also
• 4 References

In religion and mysticism[edit]

Several Christian saints and monks are said to have exhibited bilocation. Among the earliest is the apparition of Our Lady of the Pillar in the year 40. In another instance, in 1774, St. Alphonsus Liguori is said to have gone into a trance while preparing for Mass. When he came out of the trance he reported that he had visited the bedside of the dying Pope Clement XIV. His presence is then said to have been confirmed by those attending the Pope despite his being four days travel away, and not appearing to have left his original location. Other Christian figures said to have experienced bilocation include St. Anthony of Padua, Ursula Micaela Morata, St. Gerard Majella, Charles of Mount Argus, St. Pio of Pietrelcina,^[29] St. Severus of Ravenna, St. Ambrose of Milan, María de Ágreda,^[30] and St. Martin de Porres, María de León Bello y Delgado, as well as Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria. St Isidore the Laborer was known to be praying or attending to mass in Church while at the same time plowing in the fields.
In the 17th century, persons accused of witchcraft were reported to appear in dreams and visions of witnesses. The trials at Bury St. Edmunds and Salem included this "Spectral evidence" against defendants. Matthew Hopkins described the phenomenon in his book The Discovery of Witches.
The English occultist Aleister Crowley was reported by acquaintances to have the ability, even though he himself was not conscious of its happening at the time.^[31]
Vladimir Lenin was seen in his Moscow Kremlin office digging through papers in October 1923 while he was critically ill in Gorki.^[32] Another mystical story involving a possible case of bilocation of Soviet author Yevgeny Petrov, widely known in Russia, has served as inspiration for the film Envelope (2012) starring Kevin Spacey. Paranormal author Rodney Davies has written a book on the history and practice of bilocation.^[33]

In popular culture[edit]

• In Season 2 of the 2005 U.S. television show Supernatural, Dean Winchester experiences bilocation and briefly explains its cultural significance to a startled incorporeal girl.
• In the thirty-first minute of episode 619 of the American television show Mystery Science Theater 3000 head writer Michael J. Nelson's character quips, "Hey, quit bilocating!" in reference to the incongruous editing of the featured film, Red Zone Cuba.
• In David Lynch's 1997 film Lost Highway, the character commonly referred to as "the Mystery Man" appears to be capable of bilocation.
• In the 1982 feature film thriller Poltergeist, the gateway to the afterlife is referred to as the "area of bilocation."
• Thomas Pynchon's novel Against the Day features bilocation as one of its major themes.
• In the novel That Hideous Strength by C. S. Lewis, John Wither, one of the main antagonists, appears to use bilocation on two occasions to deter Mark Studdock from defecting from the N.I.C.E.; the narrative indicates, however, that this may be either actual bilocation by Wither or some form of poltergeist activity.
• In the Tales of the Otori series of novels by Gillian Rubinstein the protagonist and other characters can 'be in two places at once' as one of their magical talents.

See also[edit]

• Kefitzat Haderech
• Apparitional experience
• Doppelgänger
• Etiäinen
• Flying saints
• Remote viewing
• Tay al-Ard

References[edit]

1. ^ "Bilocation" in the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia.
2. ^ McGoven, Una (2007). Chambers Dictionary of the Unexplained. Chambers (published December 19, 2007). p. 68. ISBN 978-0-550-10215-7 
3. ^ Spence, Lewis (2003) "Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology: Part 2", Kessinger Publishing, ISBN 0-7661-2817-2
4. ^ American Society for Psychical Research (1907) "An interesting case of Bilocation", American Society for Psychical Research, The Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, V44-45
5. ^ ^{a b c} McEvilley, Thomas (2002). The Shape of Ancient Thought: Comparative Studies in Greek and Indian Philosophies. Allworth Communications. pp. 102, 262. ISBN 1-58115-203-5. 
6. ^ ^{a b c d} Riedweg, Christoph; Steven Rendall (2005). Pythagoras: His Life, Teaching, and Influence. Cornell University Press. p. 4. ISBN 0-8014-4240-0. 
7. ^ ^{a b} Dodds, E. R. (2004). The Greeks and the Irrational. University of California Press. p. 145. ISBN 978-0-520-24230-2. 
8. ^ ^{a b c} Znamenski, Andrei A. (2004). Shamanism: Critical Concepts in Sociology. New York: Routledge. pp. 248–249. ISBN 0-415-33248-6. 
9. ^ Fenn, Richard K.; Donald Capps (1995). On Losing the Soul: Essays in the Social Psychology of Religion. SUNY Press. pp. 243–4. ISBN 0-7914-2493-6. 
10. ^ ^{a b} Gardner, J., Faiths of the Word, cited in Tylor Sir, Edward Burnett (1920). Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom. J. Murray. p. 448. ISBN 1-112-19097-X. 
11. ^ ^{a b} York, Michael (2005). Pagan Theology: Paganism as a World Religion. NYU Press. p. 41. ISBN 0-8147-9708-3. 
12. ^ Synge, John Millington; Tim Robinson (1992). The Aran Islands. Penguin Classics. p. 148. ISBN 0-14-018432-5. 
13. ^ Harris, Dean W. R. (2006). Essays in Occultism, Spiritism and Demonology. Kessinger Publishing. pp. 46–66. ISBN 1-4286-0202-X. 
14. ^ Olliver, C. W. Analysis of Magic and Witchcraft. Kessinger Publishing, 2003. pp. 117, 155–6. ISBN 0-7661-5699-0. 
15. ^ ^{a b} Olcott, Henry Steel (1895). Old Diary Leaves: The True Story of the Theosophical Society. G. P. Putnam's Sons. p. 388. ISBN 0-524-07951-X. 
16. ^ LeShan, Lawrence L. (2004). The World of the Paranormal: The Next Frontier. Allworth Communications, Inc.,. pp. 51, 121. ISBN 1-58115-360-0. 
17. ^ Ramsland, Katherine (2002). Ghost: Investigating the Other Side. Macmillan. p. 27. ISBN 0-312-98373-5. 
18. ^ Seymour, Percy (2003). The Third Level of Reality: A Unified Theory of the Paranormal. Cosimo, Inc. p. 146. ISBN 1-931044-47-3. 
19. ^ Yoga Sutras of Patanjali cited in Yogananda, Paramahansa. Autobiography of a Yogi. Diamond Pocket Books. p. 29. ISBN 81-902562-0-3. 
20. ^ Yoga Sutras of Patanjali cited in O'Brien, Justin (1996). A Meeting of Mystic Paths: Christianity and Yoga. Yes International Publishers. pp. 29, 140. ISBN 0-936663-14-6. 
21. ^ Comfort, Alex (1984). Reality and Empathy: Physics, Mind, and Science in the 21st Century. SUNY Press. p. 42. ISBN 0-87395-762-8. 
22. ^ Vetterling, Herman (2003). Illuminate of Gorlitz Or Jakob Bohme's Life and Philosophy Part 3: V. 3. Kessinger Publishing. p. 967. ISBN 0-7661-4788-6. 
23. ^ Prophet, Elizabeth Clare (2001). The Masters and the Spiritual Path. Summit University Press. p. 331. ISBN 0-922729-64-6. 
24. ^ Waterfield, Robin (2002). Rene Guenon and the Future of the West: The Life and Writings of a 20th-Century Metaphysician. Sophia Perennis. p. 72. ISBN 0-900588-87-X. 
25. ^ Hollenback, Jess Byron (1996). Mysticism: Experience, Response, and Empowerment. Penn State Press. p. 137. ISBN 0-271-01552-7. 
26. ^ Herzog, Johann Jakob; Philip Schaff, Samuel Macauley Jackson, Albert Hauck, Charles Colebrook Sherman, George William Gilmore, Lefferts A. Loetscher (1910). The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing Biblical, Historical, Doctrinal, and Practical Theology and Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Biography from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. Funk and Wagnalls Company. p. 69. 
27. ^ Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics. T. & T. Clark. 1917. p. 101. 
28. ^ Samuel, Gabriella (2007). The Kabbalah Handbook: A Concise Encyclopedia of Terms and Concepts in Jewish Mysticism. Jeremy P. Tarcher. p. 51. ISBN 1-58542-560-5. 
29. ^ Day, Malcolm (September 2002). "Blood brother: Padre Pio". Fortean Times 
30. ^ This holy virgin burned with a most ardent love for God and for the salvation of souls. One day, she beheld in a vision all the nations of the world. She saw the greater part of men were deprived of God's grace, and running headlong to everlasting perdition. She saw how the Indians of Mexico put fewer obstacles to the grace of conversion than any other nation who were out of the Catholic Church, and how God, on this account, was ready to show mercy to them. Hence she redoubled her prayers and penances to obtain for them the grace of conversion. God heard her prayers. He commanded her to teach the Catholic religion to those Mexican Indians. From that time, she appeared, by way of bilocation, to the savages, not less than five hundred times, instructing them in all the truths of our holy religion, and performing miracles in confirmation of these truths. When all were converted to the faith, she told them that religious priests would be sent by God to receive them into the Church by baptism. As she had told, so it happened. God, in his mercy, sent to these good Indians several Franciscan fathers, who were greatly astonished when they found those savages fully instructed in the Catholic doctrine. When they asked the Indians who had instructed them, they were told that a holy virgin appeared among them many times, and taught them the Catholic religion and confirmed it by miracles. (Life of the Venerable Mary of Jesus of Agreda, § xii.) Thus those good Indians were brought miraculously to the knowledge of the true religion in the Catholic Church, because they followed their conscience in observing the natural law. Muller, Michael. The Catholic Dogma: "Extra Ecclesiam Nullus omnino Salvatur"
31. ^ Booth Martin (2000) "A Magick Life: Biography of Aleister Crowley", Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, ISBN 0-340-71805-6
32. ^ "Strange but True". LIFE Books (Time Home Entertainment Inc) 12 (6): Page 56. April 20, 2012. 
33. ^ Rodney Davies. (2001). Doubles: The Enigma of the Second Self. Robert Hale Ltd. ISBN 978-0709061182

v t e Private revelation Revelations Apparitional experience Christian mysticism Locution interior Marian apparition Religious ecstasy Vision (spirituality) Visions of Jesus and Mary Miracles Bilocation Charism Gift of miracles Gifts of healing Glossolalia Interpretation of tongues Prophecy Word of Knowledge Word of wisdom Eucharistic miracle Miracle of Lanciano Levitation Lourdes water Miracle of the Sun Odour of sanctity Stigmata Tabor Light Thaumaturgy Weeping statue Discernment Documents Code of Canon Law Haurietis Aquas Normae Congregationis Tribus Circiter Magisterium Rule of Faith Sensus fidei Theology Bridal theology Christology Mariology Mystical theology Popular piety Acts of reparation Immaculate Heart of Mary Consecration First Saturday Devotions Miraculous Medal Seven Dolors Pilgrimage Rosary Rosary of the Holy Wounds Sacred Heart Divine Mercy Eucharistic adoration First Friday Devotions Holy Hour Saint Michael Chaplet of Saint Michael Prayer to Saint Michael Scapular Shrines Divine Mercy Sanctuary (Kraków) Marian shrines Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar Chapel of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fátima Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help Shrine of the Virgin of the Rosary of Pompei Sanctuary of Monte Sant'Angelo Portal

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bilocation&oldid=575296320"

Categories:

• Spiritual gifts
• Scholasticism
• Roman Catholic Eucharistic theology
• Catholic theology and doctrine
• Christian miracle narrative
• Eucharist in the Catholic Church
• Forteana
• Paranormal terminology