| On September
4, 1969, Ena Twigg, her husband, Harry, and canon
John Pearce-Higgins sat in the living-room of her
home and suddenly a discarnate voice asked her to
switch on a tape recorder. The spirit voice
belonged to a missing Bishop, James D. Pike, who
had been reported lost somewhere in the
Palestinian desert. At the time of contact, and
unknown to anyone on earth, the bishop had
already been 'dead' for twenty-four hours, a fact
which was subsequently verified. The transcript
of Bishop Pike's evidence of survival is
presented in Ena's autobiography, Ena Twigg: Medium.
Ena was born just before
the First World War; and in childhood she had
numerous confrontations with what she called the
"misty people" who were visible only to
her.
Her visions and voices,
which she heard over her left shoulder, also made
some notable predictions. They foretold the death
of her father and of her husband's safe return
from combat in World War II - and both
predictions were fulfilled.
In her life story Ena
provides much evidence of an afterlife and of
reincarnation.
Critics of mediums often
claim that the clergy are firmly set against the
practice of mediumship, but this is not the case
in many instances. The foreword to Ena's
autobiography is written by The Right Reverend
Mervyn Stockwood, Lord Bishop of Southwark
Cathedral, and in it he writes:
"If we were to take
psychic studies seriously, we would learn to
appreciate that our experience in this world is
not the consummation; instead we live now sub
specie aeternitatis. There are other worlds
and dimensions, and this should be taught in our
schools as part of our general education."
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Ruth Hagy Brod, the co-writer of
Ena's autobiography, quotes many examples of the
medium's work, such as:
A Mrs
Serafina Clarke consulted Ena Twigg, who then
contacted this sitter's grandmother, who said to
her granddaughter:
'Tell
your mother she didn't fool me one bit. There is
nothing wrong with the tombstone, but I'm not
there - nobody is.'
Mrs Clarke
confronted her mother about her 'dead'
grandmother's statements and this is what she
reported:
'Granny was
right. She was not in the grave under the
tombstone marked with her name and date of birth
and death. Granny had died in the war and Mother
had had her cremated.
When the
war was over, Mother's brother (who had been
living in Africa) decided to come home for a
visit and he wanted to see "Mama's
grave".
Well, my
mother was in a panic because she had never told
him that his mother had been cremated, so she
rushed down to the village, got a stonecutter,
and added her mother's name and all the rest to
the tombstone.
It was
really very funny that we found out about this
through Mrs Twigg. I had never known a thing
about it before.'
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Ena Twigg: Medium, is co-written with Ruth
Hagy Brod
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