Handsel said something (and now he's deleted it) in another thread, about there being not Creator.

WARNING:
I love a good discussion and I realise that this subject won't be for everyone, so please just ignore this if you're going to be offended by it, don't even read it if it's going to upset you.

But this one is for those of us who are brave enough have our spiritual beliefs challenged and are not going to be offended, even if the subject matter may be offensive in nature to some. This is not, in any way, a personal attack, it is simply a discussion where intelligent people state their understanding and thoughts.

I have a firm belief in a Creator Being, God to some of us. However, as a scientist by qualification, I recognise that scientifically we cannot prove that there is a God, none of our spiritual beliefs can actually be proven, in fact, there appears to be more against our spiritual beliefs than for them.

I'd like to start this topic - which may prove to be fairly long winded, I know, but I think there may be some of us who may enjoy it.

Anyone up for it?

I enjoy what everyone has put on this thread.

I agree with TB that there is a huge difference between religion and spirituality.
I also like the information that he brought us from that site - there are many theories that are brought to us from spirit (which as I said before, we can't prove scientifically), but as a spiritualist and a spirit medium I can't help but believe in.

As I look back on the work that I've done as a medium, I am blown away by proof that I've been given over the years - where does it come from? Surely it can't come from me? While I can't prove that spirit exists and I can't prove that God exists scientifically, sure that information that I'm provided with must prove something?

On one occasion I was asked to help find a teenager who had gone missing. His parents had reported him missing at their local police station I had been told. All I knew what that I'd had a phone call from a woman asking me to help find this young man - she gave me no information - she just told me that he was missing. She asked me what information I needed and I said that I didn't need anything else. I knew also that the woman who had called me was from South Africa, because her telephone number had shown up on my cellphone.

The information that I got back after I'm prayed about it was that the young man was at his home, but that his life was in danger.

I called the woman back and, not knowing whether she was family or not, asked her at which police station he had been reported missing. She said that she would call the family and find out. She duly came back to me and told me.

I called the police station and asked to speak to the relevant officer in charge of the case. Fortunately, he was someone who was willing to hear from a psychic (as you can imagine, not everybody is) and he told me that the body was still on the "missing people" list and that although he was just about to go off duty, he would go round to the boy's home and asked if I wanted to go with him. (It turned out that the home and police station were in the vicinity where I lived. I declined.

The police found that the boy had never left home and the father had actually been keeping him tied up in a room.

The police removed him from the home and took him to a safe house. I never followed up after that - it became the police's business.

But it reminded me of the case of a woman who had been on tv in the USA, pleading for people to search for her missing children when it was found later that she had left them in the back of her car and pushed it into a river and drowned them.

But I have always found that case particularly interesting. Surely if that information had come from my mind I would have fabricated something else? How could I have decided (in my mind) that the child was still at home?

As a psychic you test yourself again and again - you're always wanting to know whether the information you get is just your imagination or whether it's real.
You don't want to lead people astray - you genuinely want to help them.

So when you say your prayer before you get help, you not only ask for protection (we never mess with the world of spirit without asking for protection) but you ask for guidance to AND the ability to distinguish between what is your own imagination and what is from a higher source than that.

I don't know, I can tell you lots of other incidents that still blow my mind.

So, I ask you as I ask myself, is there life after death? Are there spirits out there helping us? Or is there just some part of my mind that knows something that I just sometimes can access?