The Paranormal

New EBook – The Coming of the Fairies by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

fwmedia — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 15:37:05 +0000

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930), best known as the author of Sherlock Holmes stories but also a devout spiritualist, was entirely convinced by a set of photographs apparently showing two young girls from Cottingley in Yorkshire playing with a group of tiny, translucent fairies. To demonstrate his unshakeable belief in the spirit world, he published The Coming of the Fairies in 1922. Doyle’s book lays out the story of the photographs, their supposed provenance, and the implications of their existence.
Featuring an original extract from a 1920 article from The Liverpool Echo about Doyle and the fairy photographs, this quirky and fascinating book allows us to get inside the mind of an intelligent, highly respected man who happened to believe in fairies.

G.N.M. Tyrell author of Apparitions

fwmedia — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 14:45:03 +0000

George Nugent Merle Tyrrell (1879-1952) was a famous English parapsychologist and he became president at the Society for Psychical research in 1945, he was also a student of the Guglielmo Marconi Foundation where he was a pioneer in developmental radio. Tyrrell joined the Society for Psychical Research in 1908 and in 1923 completely devoted himself to the subject, here he conducted experiments into precognition and telepathy and became very interested in spiritualism. He seemed sceptical about ghost’s and he believed them to be telepathic and only existed in regions of human personality and outside the field of normal consciousness.
Tyrrell was also one of the first investigators to introduce topics of a supernatural nature into mainstream psychology. He wrote books about science and psychical phenomena, well known books including, ‘The personality of man’ (1946) ‘Apparitions‘ (1953) which was often classified as a classic theoretical study of psychical research.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

fwmedia — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 14:41:38 +0000

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a British novelist and historian best known as the creator of Sherlock Holmes. His later decades were taken up with his advocacy of the new religion of Spiritualism, in which he was a devoted believer. He also wrote historical novels, including ‘The White Company’, which he considered his favourite.

Hereward Carrington author of ‘Your Psychic Powers and How to Develop Them

fwmedia — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 14:38:08 +0000

Hereward Carrington, Ph.D. (17 October 1880 – 26 December 1958) was a well-known British investigator of psychic phenomena and author. His subjects included several of the most high-profile cases of apparent psychic ability of his times, and he wrote over 100 books on subjects including the paranormal and psychical research, conjuring and stage magic, and alternative health issues.

Geoff Abbott author of Ghosts of the Tower of London

fwmedia — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 14:32:58 +0000

After thirty-five years in the Royal Air Force, ‘Bud’ Abbott became a yeoman warder of the Tower of London in 1974. He and his wife Shelagh – who wrote the Tudor style verses which precede each chapter – lived there for eight years ‘knee deep in history’ before retiring to the Lake District where he is now Mace Bearer to the Mayor of Kendal.

Wesley Downes author of The Ghosts of Borley

fwmedia — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 14:23:35 +0000

Wesley Downes has spent 60 years as a psychic investigator, checking out ghost sightings around Essex, and subsequently writing books about his experiences. Wesley saw his first apparition quite unexpectedly while cycling along a road at Ardleigh in 1946, that of a boyhood friend killed in the D-Day landings.

Don’t turn out the light! Dailymail.co.uk

fwmedia — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 14:12:53 +0000

Do you want to see more ghostly apparitions? Real spirits caught on camera by real people around the world?

The Daily Mail recently presented a collection of haunting photographs and terrifying film footage of the paranormal that will have everybody’s hair standing up on the back of their necks!

Check out this collection of frightening footage here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2188507/Dont-turn-light-Terrifying-photos-ghosts-night.html

And if you are still feeling brave check out our very own The Best of Ghosts Caught on Film!

New EBook – A Witches’ Bible by Janet and Frank Stewart Farrar

fwmedia — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:26:34 +0000

Everything is here in this most comprehensive and revealing work on the principles, rituals and beliefs of modern witchcraft, including: The Sabbats, Casting & Banishing the Magic Circle, The Complete Book of Shadows, The Great Rite, Initiation Rites, Consecration Rites, Spells, Witches’ Tools, Witchcraft & Sex, Running a Coven, Clairvoyance, and Astral Projection.

Frank Stewart Farrar author of What Witches Do

fwmedia — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:22:36 +0000

Frank Stewart Farrar (28 June 1916 – 7 February 2000), who always went by the name of Stewart Farrar, was an English screenwriter, novelist and prominent figure in the Neopagan religion of Wicca, which he devoted much of his later life to propagating with the aid of his seventh wife, Janet Farrar, and then his friend Gavin Bone as well. A devout communist in early life, he worked as a reporter for such newspapers as the Soviet Weekly and the Daily Worker, and also served in the British army during the Second World War. He was responsible for writing episodes for such television series as Dr. Finlay’s Casebook, Armchair Theatre and Crossroads, and for his work in writing radio scripts won a Writer’s Guild Award. He also published a string of novels, written in such disparate genres as crime, romance and fantasy.
After being initiated into Alexandrian Wicca by Maxine Sanders in 1970, he subsequently published one of the earliest books to describe this newly burgeoning religion, What Witches Do (1971). Within only a few months of being initiated, he had risen to the position of High Priest and founded his own coven in south London, with Janet Farrar, whom he would later handfast and then legally marry, as his High Priestess. In 1976 the couple moved to Ireland, where they went about founding new covens and initiating new people into Wicca – according to George Knowles, “some seventy five percent of Wiccans both in the Republic and North of Ireland can trace their roots back to the Farrar’s [sic]“. With Janet, he also set about writing books about the subject, most notably Eight Sabbats for Witches (1981) and The Witches’ Way (1984).
Because of his work in propagating the Craft, the historian Ronald Hutton compared him to Gerald Gardner and Alex Sanders as “the third and last of the great male figures who have formed Wicca”.

Janet Farrar and Frank Stewart Farrar authors of A Witches’ Bible

fwmedia — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 16:08:16 +0000

Janet Farrar (born Janet Owen on 24 June 1950) is a British teacher and author of books on Wicca and Neopaganism. Along with her two husbands, Stewart Farrar and Gavin Bone, Farrar has published “some of the most influential books on modern Witchcraft to date.”According to George Knowles, “some seventy five percent of Wiccans both in the Republic and Northern Ireland can trace their roots back to the Farrar’s [sic].”
Janet Farrar has been one of the most public faces of Wicca, having appeared as a model for book covers and illustrations in several of the best-read books on the subject. Farrar is a frequent guest lecturer on the subjects of Wicca, Neopaganism and witchcraft in North America and Europe.

Frank Stewart Farrar (28 June 1916 – 7 February 2000), who always went by the name of Stewart Farrar, was an English screenwriter, novelist and prominent figure in the Neopagan religion of Wicca, which he devoted much of his later life to propagating with the aid of his seventh wife, Janet Farrar, and then his friend Gavin Bone as well. A devout communist in early life, he worked as a reporter for such newspapers as the Soviet Weekly and the Daily Worker, and also served in the British army during the Second World War. He was responsible for writing episodes for such television series as Dr. Finlay’s Casebook, Armchair Theatre and Crossroads, and for his work in writing radio scripts won a Writer’s Guild Award. He also published a string of novels, written in such disparate genres as crime, romance and fantasy.
After being initiated into Alexandrian Wicca by Maxine Sanders in 1970, he subsequently published one of the earliest books to describe this newly burgeoning religion, What Witches Do (1971). Within only a few months of being initiated, he had risen to the position of High Priest and founded his own coven in south London, with Janet Farrar, whom he would later handfast and then legally marry, as his High Priestess. In 1976 the couple moved to Ireland, where they went about founding new covens and initiating new people into Wicca – according to George Knowles, “some seventy five percent of Wiccans both in the Republic and North of Ireland can trace their roots back to the Farrar’s [sic]“. With Janet, he also set about writing books about the subject, most notably Eight Sabbats for Witches (1981) and The Witches’ Way (1984).
Because of his work in propagating the Craft, the historian Ronald Hutton compared him to Gerald Gardner and Alex Sanders as “the third and last of the great male figures who have formed Wicca”.