Spiritualist church

Until 2005.

The first spiritualist church in Norway opened in 2005.

It got closed down within a year.

And the next one opened in 2007.

To be honest, it's quite divided.

There are a lot more people that are open to spiritual things.

But after the Spiritualist Church got founded in 2007 in Norway, it's kind of gotten divided into three people who... trust the church and people who are mediums and say, I'm a medium, I'm not a spiritualist.

And you have the people who don't believe in it at all.

I hope you can spare me a moment.

I'm collecting money on behalf of your local spiritualist society for the preservation of your local spiritualist church.

Grandma Pat didn't know what to say to that, so the old woman kept talking.

It's the rotten council.

I was a teenager by then, and cynical about everything, and afraid of looking like an idiot.

But later on that day after school, I noticed my brother had picked up the leaflet, and had started reading.

What's a spiritualist church? he asked me, just before bed.

It's a church where they summon ghosts and talk to the dead, I said back.

did also worry about her time of passing and whether she had been in pain.

And I know you went to see a medium, I think at the Spiritualist Church?

Yes.

I'd been really worried, as any parent would be.

She'd been in a coma.

We had to turn off life support.

But I worried, was she in pain? Was it hurting at any point? And I was driving to the spiritualist church where there was a medium on the platform giving a demonstration.

Something else I said I wasn't going to do and had suddenly impulsively said, I'm just going to go to the spiritualist church tonight.

But her belief was pretty strong.

She did leave money in her will, which she did not have a lot of money, but it went to two places, the Humane Society and the Spiritualist Church.

Which Spiritualist Church do you know? It wasn't Plymouth.

It was the other.

I can't think of the name of it off the top of my head, but it was the other.

in spiritualist movement here in Hydesville and Palmyra, and she was very helpful with Mr. Drummond, who was the caretaker of the replica cottage of the Fox family, and was instrumental, was part of that core group to get that monument stone, and was such a supporter of maintaining the history not just as as you saw in her store where nothing's been touched but also the history of spiritualism wanting that to be valued

absolutely and

she did attend spiritualist church and she did and any other things that you think would be good for them to to know about

Everyone agreed that not all of the mediums practicing were in fact beyond corruption many became very wealthy because of their abilities now i have been

to st answers and i'll have to admit that if you're a ghost hunter you ought to go to one go to a spiritualist church.

There are still a few

around.

Well, when I first heard about this I thought, gotta be foggy baloggy.

Well, I was teaching a class on ghosts and haunted houses and I elected to do an experiment.

I took my entire class to Santa Barbara, where they have a spiritualist church called the Church of the Comforter.

Now, we went there unannounced, just arrived on a Sunday.

Yeah.

It's a, it's really beautiful, and I mean, you c- th- there's Spiritualist Churches all over the place, but, um, so y- you know, anyone listening who's, who's having mediumistic experiences, it's a beautiful way to just get started because they often have psychic development classes, and then obviously you're surrounded by people that believe in mediumship.

So if you are the black sheep, then there's somewhere where you can go-

We were talking about that earlier

I haven't in some time, but, you know, when I lived in Massachusetts, I had a, you know, my whole circle of friends were all mediums.

We kind of all grew up together as mediums at the Spiritualist Church.

And so, you know, having circled together or doing readings for each other was not an uncommon thing.

And, you know, it was quite fun because when you know a lot about a person and they are very mediumistic themselves, then the evidence is even more complex.

Yeah, so, of course, when it all came out and everyone was against me, my nan was the only love that I truly felt and I really wanted.

So I did go looking for a spiritualist church, actually.

And

that was because you thought you'd be able to speak to your nan again if you went to the spiritualist church.

That was the idea, wasn't it?

Well, I was hoping that she would come through, yeah, and she would talk to me.

Didn't a couple of the old ladies invite you round to their house for cup of tea? Yeah.

The ladies there were really welcoming and they wanted me to go around theirs for a glass of wine or a cup of coffee or whatever.