The Unorthodox Website Blog

A Nelson Mandela statue is being unveiled today in Parliament Square. It was done by a friend of mine, sculptor Ian Walters. In his studio near here in Battersea High Street Ian has done sculptures of various leftwing figures, including a head of Mandela which stands outside the Festival Hall, a statue of Fenner Brockway in Red Lion Square and one of Harold Wilson.

Ian died last year, so will only be present to see the unveiling of probably his last statue in spirit. I knew his estranged wife, Sonia, as we were in the Battersea Communist Party together years ago. She was secretary, and I was the treasurer.  

I left the Party in 1976 due to disillusionment with the system (which was being abused in the Socialist countries by a new ruling class, still largely in power today even though the Socialist one-Party system has been overthrown).

This was my first Bank Holiday since retiring, so the first one which didn’t really mean much. But, exceptionally for a Bank Holiday, we had good weather after a week or so of bad weather.

We took advantage of it, and and I took my mother to St James’s Park on Saturday, down by the River near where we live in Battersea on Sunday, and to Kensington Gardens/Hyde Park today where I had probably my last swim of the Summer in the Serpentine.

We were today discussing the vermin problem in my mother’s sheltered accommodation, which has affected her flat, and one in my block which has affected the flat below mine. In my mum’s case it is mice, in the flat below mine it is rats. We both said we felt very uncomfotable about it, and couldn’t relax. The council Pest Control have been to treat both flats, and others which are affected. In my mum’s case, for the second time.

I rang a friend, Tom, this evening, and he told me that an old man he’d been looking after for years, who was suffering from terminal cancer, finally died in hospital yesterday afternoon.

Reg had been in  hospital for months, and his flat had been vacated ever since he went into hospital. He has no living relatives apparently. Yet Tom received three calls on his mobile from Reg’s home phone number around the time that Reg died in hospital.

The flat was vacated by Reg and the phone line disconnected, so nobody could have dialed Tom’s number from his home phone – except it seems Reg’s disembodied spirit around the time of his death!

IMPORTANT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS INCIDENT 

August 23rd: More information which makes this event even more remarkable:

The phone had indeed been disconnected ages before. Tom used to joke with Reg that nobody had ever phoned him from the Other Side to say they’d arrived safely.

What happens the very day Reg passed over?

A TV program on Five Life tonite investigated the case of a little boy, Cameron, from Glasgow who ever since he learnt to talk had persistent memories of a previous life on the Scottish island of Barra.

At the end of the program, after a visit to the island and tracing a surviving family member from his alleged previous life, there were some remarkable discoveries. The little boy correctly described how planes landed on the beach, the house he lived in, the name of the family (the Robertsons), the kind of phone they had, the gate to the beach, and the dog which lived next door. All this was 100% accurate, and there is no way the little boy could have known any of this.

Two things they were not able to verify. The boy claimed his father in the previous lifetime was named Shane or Sean Robertson (I’m not sure of the spelling) and that he (the father) was killed by a car.

An ironic title. You never see a policeman on the beat nowadays. They are either holed up in police stations, doing ‘paperwork’ so they tell us (in the computer age? Seems highly unlikely to me.) Or they are flying around in police cars/police vans so fast they can’t see what’s happening on the streets. (I speak as a member of a police family. My maternal grandfather and two uncles were police officers.)

Yet get a few peaceful demonstrators together, like the Environmental Camp at Heathrow Airport, and the police are there in droves, stopping and searching peaceful protestors.

Meanwhile gangs rule the streets, and teenagers are being stabbed or shot. 18 have been killed so far this year. Older people who, in the total absence of the police, have gone out of their homes to remonstrate with unruly teenagers have also been killed. The police then appear on the scene AFTER all these murders.

Note:

The following correspondence relates to those who seek evidence for life after death. These are divided into two main groups: Spiritualists, who take a religious approach, and Survivalists who are scientists, atheists, agnostics, etc. who take a completely rational approach but are convinced by the growing evidence of survival.

Tony

Email from a fellow Survivalist:

Tony, You sum up the destruction of the once scientifically minded Spiritualist movement very well. This is why our deadly enemies are having a field day. I shudder to think what Arthur Findlay must make of these religious fanatics who have successfully infiltrated the Arthur Findlay College.

Michael

My reply:

The thing that worries me is that we who are investigating survival thru mediumship and scientific experimentation in order to gather evidence, are now in danger of splitting up into small factions attacking each other. We should be trying to convince those who either believe that death is the end, or who base their belief in the after-life on ancient religious texts (the fabled 72 virgins, expectations of sitting at the feet of the mysterious Three-In-One, angels with harps floating on clouds and all the rest of it.)

I am reminded of the far left political factions which spend so much time attacking each other for heresy, they have very little influence on the general public.