Afterlife; My Amazing Two-way Contacts with (in UK, NZ & AUSTRALIA)

Afterlife; My Amazing Two-way Contacts with

(in UK, NZ & AUSTRALIA)

A Psychic Psychologist’s Life Experiences

by

Dr Stuart R Rolls PhD

Learn my methods, you too can emulate

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SUMMARY

Herein is research around the author’s true life psychic experiences, yet cracking good yarn around England, New Zealand and Australia, from around the second world war toward the 21st Century’s exciting ‘New Age’.

It is written in an adventurous style – for instance, being chased by a wild pig up a mountain amongst sacred Maori burial caves, or being ‘spooked’ as in the case of the ghostly night stoker who caused suffering factory workers to get wintry cold.

The author recounts the well known facts of extra-sensory perception and spirit contact; personal experiences he cannot deny. In one instance he takes a hilarious romp over London’s Hampstead Heath, water-divining with incredulous scientists and para­psychologists.

Stuart (the author) eventually topped his grass-roots spiritual and psychic gifts career with a PhD, double majoring in psychology and parapsychology. In directing group psychotherapy he was able to look at the psychedelic experience which had led people into ‘tripping’. In such altered states-of-consciousness (nowadays led safely without LSD etc.) people not only get psychic, but make psychological and enlightened spiritual growth for themselves. Such is the author’s holistic mission, balancing psychologies, philosophies and grass-roots knowledge at the ‘New Age’ interface (leaving the question of religion and science open). All this ‘with a touch of genius’, writes one early reviewer.

The author pooh-poohs a lot of black-magic’s nonsense that can frighten people and he shows the fun side plus the warmth and the love of mystical or transpersonal experience. One critic has said that ‘Stuart, as in Hamlet, has shown that there are more things in Heaven and Earth then were ever dreamt of in our philosophy – and he does it in truth, in adventurous settings, touring this world and the next! His story reads profoundly philosophically, yet excitingly as any good ripping novel.’

INTRODUCTION

My writing, adventurously woven for first-band freshness and truth around the book title’s fascinating themes, is partial autobiography. As part of the fabric, profound discussion is interwoven, hopefully at cracking and entertaining pace for the general as well as serious, academic or scientific, even religious reader.

This is not a religious book; still it might evoke or support certain religious feeling, neither is it a scientific book, though it will finish open-endedly on certain scientific pointers for the future.

Hopefully the book will balance religious, esoteric and scientific views yet read like a thrilling story, gripping at times with love, poignancy and humour. It is a humanly true story and account. One early conclusion it can legitimately make, is that whereas churches once held sway, interest in the supernatural, or to put it more scientifically the ‘paranormal’, surges ahead. So too did the psychedelic revolution and the mystical ‘trips’ which triggered new wave transpersonal psychology, surge ahead. Indeed, ‘tripping’ and astral travels etc. become very much a part of this book, as does ‘survival’, post mortem.

Yet, we can go back to esoteric literature or religious books such as the Holy Bible, for timeless truths, which we, in our ignorance, think of as being paranormally beyond us! St. Paul (lst Corinthians, 12) wrote ‘concerning spiritual gifts brethren, I would not have ye ignorant’, and he listed those qualities which subserve parapsychology’s – ESP (Extra Sensory Perception) PK (Psychokinesis – movement by psychic energy), and paranormal healing categories etc. ‘Subserve’ is used rather pointedly here, for some so-called experts (though by no means all) think that these relatively rare phenomena are just waiting to hop into laboratory test tubes, figuratively speaking. The inference here is that they will be straightened out, slotted into a few simple mechanistic laws and that there will be no more spiritual thinking ‘kinkiness’.

Ironically, kinkiness and psychokinesis are not so far removed, anagrammatically. Ironically again, Heaven or ‘afterlife’ believers, or post mortem survivalists (to offer another description), might not find their hopes so wooden, – ‘Troy-like’ in the parapsychology camp. Parapsychologists might prove to be their saviours but increasingly Transpersonal Psychologists share this honour.

Lay thinking leads to such word and phrase usage in our language as ‘hunch’, ‘intuition’, ‘must have known’, ‘mind’s eye’, ‘took the thoughts right out of my head’, ‘second sight’, ‘fey’ or ‘fay’, ‘there in spirit’, ‘green fingers’, ‘healing touch’, etc. More sinisterly, ‘he or she willed me to do it’, ‘put the hex on me’, ‘spell’, etc. The generally accepted view is that a positive sunny approach dispels negative and dark powers eternally.

Whereas psychology is the study of human behaviour, whether in, say, therapeutic, industrial, educational or general social setting, parapsychology evidently studies the phenomena of more spiritual or psychic setting. ‘PSI’ is a neutral abbreviation for the phenomena, without commitment to particular theories – spiritualistic, evangelistic or whatever.

‘Psychical Research’ being the older term, interchanges with parapsychology and, as will be deduced, ‘Paranormal Healing’ interchanges with, say, ‘green fingers’ or ‘spiritual healing’ etc. ‘Clairvoyance’ (from the French, meaning clear seeing) seems more acceptable than ‘second sight’. For the purposes of this book and for variety’s sake, many other parapsychological and lay terms, if not coinciding, will be interchanged. In every case context should make all clear for the theme is autobiographical and authorial view changes chronologically. Everything evolves.

Whereas once there was for me youthful lay idealism and the spiritualist case, or Heaven behind the ‘spiritual gifts’, such survival is by no means under-written (though possible) in the PSI or psychic phenomena approach of parapsychology. There must surely come a point however, when PSI phenomena is all formerly noted but inexplicable and scientific theories expand into less material vistas. Mechanistic world view gives way to Relativity and Quantum theories, converging with a myriad of new scientific and old mystical perspectives, accepting less barriers to the frontiers of human consciousness. Transpersonal (psychology) implies across – beyond such barriers and material law and into spiritual aspects.

Language too, changes and expands. Sensitive can mean over touchy but in a psychic sense can better imply for the parapsychologist, one who is finely attuned. ‘Medium’ suggests spirit agency in many cases. Again the context should make all clear, whether it be ‘medium’, ‘psychic’, ‘prophet’, ‘sensitive’, ‘clairvoyant’, ‘seer’, ‘witch’, ‘wizard’, ‘oracle’, ‘mystic’ ‘channel’ or whatever. ‘Healer’ seems more straightforward – but ‘faith’, ‘spiritual’, ‘psychic’ or ‘paranormal’ healer? Contextual situation should show. ‘Phantom’, ‘ghost’, ‘poltergeist’, ‘astral-shell’, ‘spectre’, ‘soul’, ‘spirit’, ‘deceased’ or ‘loved one’, ‘apparition’, ‘wraith’, ‘spirit-double’ (or ‘doppelganger’) ‘astral body’, ‘spook’, ‘visitation’, ‘guardian angel’ or ‘angel’, again will be best categorised by context. Not all imply post mortem or after death spiritual existence or survival. Whether having a spiritual beginning or an open ended scientific or philosophical finish, a book might also have an entertaining or readable middle. A book such as this might also be an appetiser for more of its kind. (As author I will do my best).

Whatever the hypotheses – ‘survivalist’ or new search for scientific parameters, the book touches on profound questions for all. It is a personal story, as thematic part of one’s life that has echoes in all lives – indeed life per se and the meaning thereof, perhaps here and ‘hereafter’. This is not too grand a thing to say when one considers the ‘miracles’, or paranormal happenings that, truly documented here touch many lives including the author’s and his immediate loved ones (some hopefully or even assuredly, in the ‘hereafter’). Why should not all lives be so ‘touched’?

The events that unfold beg many questions and raise many moot points if not eyebrows! They are written in truth (respectfully, though occasionally humorously, for those ‘passed on’) and monitored hopefully with the scientific objectivity of an academic training, in the author’s maturity. Philosophy – it is said – leads science. The author, being well armed now with the British Open University Philosophy and Psychology Courses and beyond, hopes to ‘build bridges’ between lay movements and establishment psychology, transpersonally. Increasingly it is coming to be seen that mind, body and spirit are one (unitas, mentis, corporis, spiritusque).

Academics tend to doubt and deprecate the talents, and often philosophical leanings, of the lay movement, that cannot perform easily in unrelaxed, cold laboratory settings. Lay psychics or their supporters, take too critically investigative scientific objective sorting of wheat from the psychic chaff and are sometimes naive about the useful role of science. All too often gullibility and blind faith make the work of the medium or psychic too easy and sloppy, where scientific objectivity could stretch and expand the gifted one. Parapsychology as a science must by definition test and quantify slowly but transpersonal psychology as later chapters show, can afford more quantum leaps.

Parapsychology, especially by such instrumentation as biofeedback (physiological body state monitorings) could, and increasingly does, tease out altered states of consciousness in psychic awareness, that correlate to production of PSI. Trainees, in theory, attempt to emulate the ‘scores’ or ‘print outs’ of known sensitives for a given phenomena – say healing. EEG’s (Electro-encephalographs) give the most popular readings at the present state of research, but even if one can train to set one’s pulse, heart rate and even brain waves to match a top medium, one cannot yet, if ever, be sure of the same psychic results. He or she might claim to have another dimension – the aid of a particular ‘guide’ or ‘guardian angel’. There is so much research work yet to be done. However, there does seem to be much fertile ground for the gleaning out of parapsychology’s own ‘sensitives’. Spiritualism, or say, Pentecostism and the Charismatic movement does not find them all. Neither does ‘black magic’. The net should be kept wide however.

Dr. John Beloff of Edinburgh University and once President of the academically based and early pioneered Society for Psychical Research (SPR) states in the introduction to his book (p. 11)¹: ‘Parapsychology cannot disown its hybrid origins.’ Also, ‘All sciences have roots that go back into magic and occult belief and practices’, as well as ‘Spiritualist sources and religious movements supporting.’ Dr. Beloff further avers and advises parapsychologists not to ‘stifle creative elements’ and if necessary ‘do some intellectual slumming’, noting that ‘parapsychology is for those who have no other allegiance than to truth.’ Brave words! With Dr. Beloff’s words in mind, there should be much for parapsychologists in the anecdotal but sworn truths that follow. Naive beginnings, from ordinary hunches and intuitions, that the ordinary reader could relate to, lead on to personal development and coverage of many of the ‘spiritual gifts’ listed in St. Paul (1Corinthians, 12) or as perhaps categorised differently by latter day researchers.

The debate will continue as to the possibility of an afterlife (spirit-life), past and future lives (reincarnation) or extra-terrestrial powers within us now. Certainly if out of the body experiences (OOBE’s) reported here and elsewhere in the literature are accepted, all uncanny visitations are not ghosts from beyond our plane. Conversely, all reported ‘visitations’ are not ‘thought forms’, or, astral bodies of persons living now. There appears to be well documented evidence for each theory – that of spirit communication between ourselves now, and ongoing communication with those ‘gone on ahead’. By analogy, those spirits no longer with us have ‘emigrated’ and migrated spirits would not have the same intercommunicating facility as spirits ‘back home’ (except for astral communication, telepathy etc). More than this, they are not even in the same world, planetary system or time and space related dimensions, unless reincarnated. All the more reason for science and parapsychology notably, to advance the frontiers of ‘spiritual gifts’ knowledge, albeit coldly, calculatingly at times. For balance, we should retain the empiricism of earlier lay frontiers and practical research of others (especially the pioneer psychic research societies).

Philosophically, we could also remember that the early church (Western) accepted reincarnation and the cycle of re-birth, as does perhaps half the world’s population (mainly Eastern) to this day but religion and politics get enmeshed and truth often is suppressed. Finally, knowledge is greater than superstition, when any great force is tapped; or, expressed in the lines of the old Christmas carol, ‘Glad tidings of great joy’ do negate ‘‘mighty dread’ so ‘fear not’. There is much knowledge in these pages which in truth is laid out to allay the reader’s superstitions. Further, this knowledge should bring joy to those who perhaps see no point to life’s schoolroom and beyond but confirmation and joy too, to those who do.

One early critic of the book’s manuscript form suggested a re­ write in a more serious and specialised way but this would only reach a limited readership. A more technical approach at aiming to show bridges exist between body, mind, soul, spirit etc., or a more pious approach, would not have had the authenticity of personal experience. Nevertheless, from the grass roots and lay beginnings, progress along the way to an interchange with the latest in psychology etc., is carefully and chronologically recorded, without spoiling what should be a good true story.

Yet another critic did in fact promise ‘a cracking good read’ and ‘sufficient excellence of work evidencing’, that ‘there are more things in Heaven and Earth etc.’ (Hamlet). What more can an author ask?

The first critic asks ‘What were your life’s turning points?’ They were the different disciplines into which my psychic awareness took me, as sketched out in my sixteen chapters. These are not about my whole life for I have a life outside of my psychic interests, but the psychic pivot has been my enduring turning point. I hope that it will lead you on in your enlightenment too (dear reader).

Sincerely,

STUART R. ROLLS

CHAPTER I

Early Days (Naive Beginnings)

Nothing much in my early days could have predicted later freelance psychotherapy, parapsychology leanings and academic work, let alone a transpersonal psychic nature, development and, here again, freelance career. For these things I never sought fame and fortune and my life and stigma of earlier times left me rather wary of declaring my ‘spiritual gifts’, if so they be.

Freer social and religious changes and now parapsychological, transpersonal, scientific ‘new age’, have only recently begun. With a sense of mission I have sensed all coming, abandoned other careers, and had my good name at risk of being abandoned (?) along the way, also fortunes. If the reader is rewarded then my pen is a sword and the battle worthwhile. The ‘cause’ is my striven joy.

Father was a military man who forsook his soldierly cause toward the 1930s (until European war and civil defense reared again) for marriage and family, with eventually seven sons. No! I was not the mythical seventh son but the middle son, balancing the tensions between older and younger. (I’m an Aquarian, if that has significance to the astrologically minded reader.) This allegiance to ‘balance’ now philosophically seems to be the case with my bridging older lay-views with advancing parapsychology, transpersonal psychology, individual and group drama-action type psychotherapy.

Times had been hard and discipline the order of the day. There was very little to provide for the education of the under privileged children of an opted out soldier cum officer cum potential corps diplomat at outposts of the then British Empire. Mother would not join Father if he returned off furlough to India, it was said, so he gave up on Army College and the British Raj and became a civilian. To make matters worse, Father had suffered a motor car injury and could not keep his rather nice mortgaged house in the Midlands.

Instead of academic pursuits and attitudes (at a time when the Church of England was suppressing its report favourable to spiritualism and psychic research) my brothers and myself were weaned more on the life of the imagination. I like to think our minds, if not our militarily caned backsides, remained unbiased until the advent of freer systems and times. This is not to say that those of our times and destiny, better educated and privileged, became mere rubber stampers of knowledge and stereo types of the status quo.

No! There were other forces too, at play in our early family life, making us ‘freethinkers’. We had no religious, scientific or humanistic-rationalistic bias drummed into us. Favour, was for any church or chapel etc., then currently offering goodies such as potato and pea suppers as was the case at our local Salvation Army hall. Or we would chant and march, toddling along with political placards for any persuasion that offered toffee apples, baked potatoes or hot chestnuts etc., (in Australia it would be barbecues, sausage sizzles etc.,) as inducement. These were poor times.

I quickly became disenchanted with one of the aforesaid Salvation Army hall’s missionaries returning from overseas (they should have left him for Rommell and the Germans then fighting the Allies in North Africa!). He said he’d brought back a sunburnt half-crown for any bright boy who could answer his religious type question. I found that ‘brightness’ in answering the question but the burnt half-crown turned out to be a dull copper penny, same size but a cruel joke, I thought. Poor benighted and cheated me! Still, a penny would purchase a lot of tuck for a child in those days – so would our own British as well as German shrapnel dropping from the skies, used as ‘swaps’ currency.

The same shrapnel and war setting, unbeknown to my young soul, was further preparing the climate for secular and less sectarian approach toward a suddenly imminent hereafter. People were being killed. On each side warring factors were exhorting God to kill the other and spare themselves, as in John Betjeman’s (later Sir John, Poet Laureate) ironic but humorous poetry.³ Conventional faiths were failing, but dying and psychic/spirit return were in.

Meanwhile my lost two shillings and five pence (a half crown was two shillings and six pence) taught a valuable lesson to me, in that missionaries and other religious leaders are sadly mortal and very, very fallible (big fibbers I called them then!) and so I remained a free spirit, able to note the often elusive hunches and intuitions of life, without a lot of ‘Hail Mary’s’ or whatevers down my neck, or, as one kiddie used to put it, ‘How’s yer fathers’!

Cases of hunches and intuitions, telepathy etc., seem familiar to just about everyone. They seem taken for granted more often than not, remaining unsung and uncatalogued, mores the pity. Perhaps fears of ridicule or upsetting the ‘isms’ of one’s milieu or background go deep, though as far as our family was concerned witches (psychics?!) were only burned at the pictures. Our mother was always getting hunches and we never burned her! Now Father, with his soldierly aggressions and cane, would have made an excellent Guy Fawkes to send up in fun if not in flames!

One of my first memorable psychic experience occurred at about this time, bearing in mind that there were less dramatic psychic happenings all through my life. These might have been recorded if I had known the importance of monitoring them, but even a free-thinking young boy has to grow and find out that what is an accepted run of the mill norm for him, is not so, for only potentially interested others. Everything to him is a personal voyage of discovery and he is more likely to note the thrilling and adventurous than the subtle and elusive.

One early winter’s morning, upon hearing that ice on a nearby park lake was thick, I became ‘Scott of the Antarctic’ imaginatively, in my fearsome trek across it. Other children, all wrapped in their scarves and woolly headgear were disappearing off to school but had been venturing part way on the ice. Upon my reaching the centre and point of no return, a voice above me and a ‘presence’ with me seemed to command me to run for my life (chronologically this was how my senses reported but possibly this was a foretaste of my clairaudience, where psychic sounds appear to come from a different level or frequency, parapsychologically parallel to normal hearing.) A whip cracking noise followed the voice directing me to the far side of the lake (not the way I’d come) and as I leapt from the icy disintegrating platform, several feet of it bobbed down like a receiving slipway for my would-be drowning moments. The fog descended like a shroud. I left the deserted foggy park and ran off lonely and late to school in shock. The ‘presence’ at the lake, imagined or otherwise, seems later proved, linked to other incidents, (see on) including a brother’s funeral (Bruce). Could it have been this brother’s voice at the lake, compelling me safely to the opposite bank? Scientific objectivity and parapsychological insight will add to this as life and the book progress but my incredulity then, (and until later years) could not conceive that I truly was feeling Bruce’s direction away from the ice I’d obviously just cracked.

Bruce, my brother who had just passed on, was a little older than myself. Relatives had milled around his coffin and I was almost too small to see into it, where it had