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January 2012 – Issue 4 SOuL Searchers Paranormal Magazine – January 2012 ‐ 1 The SOuL Searchers online magazine is produced on a bi-monthly basis and provides topical information to keep you up to date on news and the latest developments happening in the Australian Paranormal community. In addition to our announcements on upcoming activities and events, the SOuL Searchers Magazine will contain articles, photos and information on the paranormal, parapsychology, ghost tours, mysterious locations, psychics and mediums, etc. Your suggestions, comments and contributions are welcomed. Janine Donnellan is the founder of SOuL Searchers Investigations and the editor of the Paranormal online Magazine. Janine has been conducting house clearings and investigations for over 15 years and established SOuL Searchers Paranormal Investigation Team in 2006. Janine has a certificate of Advanced Achievement in Parapsychology (1998) Australian Academy of Applied Parapsychology and her interest in the occult was developed as a young child through her spiritualist Grandfather. The mission of this magazine is to include articles and information on our investigations and from the Paranormal community and to endeavour to provide logical explanations if applicable on environments and events that are associated with paranormal activity. SOuL Searchers Paranormal Magazine – January 2012 ‐ 2 SOuL Searchers Contents is a sub-group of Spheres Of Light (SOL) ABN 46 385 794 818 For general inquiries or to request an investigation and clearing in your home please contact our Case Welcome page 2 Manager at Note from the Editor page 4 [email protected] The Occult World of C G Jung page 5 To assist us in our investigations please answer our questionnaire to Paranormal Phenomena page 8 the best of your ability. Click on the link below to download the Stone Tape Theory page 9 questionnaire. Boreley Rectory page 11 SOuL Searchers Questionnaire The Duke Hotel Investigation page 15 The initial interview process is conducted by phone using our Questionnaire that goes over detailed Ghost Story – Part 1 page 18 questions with the client, including dates and times of occurrences, who Book Review page 24 was present, description of what was experienced, and location information Haunted Fremantle Gaol page 25 etc. All information received is kept strictly confidential. Paranormal Groups in Australia page 27 It is SOuL Searchers' mission to Workshops, Courses & Events page 31 provide the best service possible to our clients, by listening to their needs, providing solutions and being Friendly Businesses page 36 informative every step of the way. SOuL Searchers Investigations Page 38 SOuL Searchers are based in Australia, in the southern Sydney, SOuL Searchers Advertising & Deadlines page 40 Sutherland Shire & Illawarra areas of NSW. Website built by PackRat & Jenwytch. Design, content addition & site maintenance by Jenwytch. Unauthorised use of the Spheres of Light & SOuL Searchers logo is prohibited. Logo Copyright © 2006-2012 Spheres Of Light. All rights reserved. SOuL Searchers Paranormal Magazine – January 2012 ‐ 3 2012 is going to be another exciting community who is not ethical in their year for the Australian paranormal dealings and have their own hidden community. For starters we have agenda. Often their motives are Paracon Australia, our first paranormal counter productive to what the conference happening on 24 - 25th paranormal community as a whole is March at Oran Park featuring David trying to achieve, but fortunately they Wells, a well known UK Medium. are in the minority. I am pleased to advise that SOuL I guess in life you will meet all kinds of Searchers will also be commencing a people. There are those you meet that 12 week Parapsychology Certificate have integrity and a high level of Course starting on the 7th March (see professionalism, and they are the details on page 14). ones that we should be giving our focus and encouragement to. Through Sadly, 2011 ended with some the concept of supporting each other, unprofessional behaviour by a few the sense of 'all' grows stronger and people on Facebook which I hope will stronger. Those that create chaos and not be repeated this year. Facebook is division serve a purpose in that they such a wonderful medium for meeting give us the impetus to change what people and connecting to various needs to be changed. groups who share a common interest. I have met so many lovely people lately So if you come across some one that who are happy to share their is vitriolic and unprofessional on experiences. Facebook don’t take on their crap just unfriend or block them. Hopefully they Unfortunately you occasionally come will get the message eventually that across someone in the paranormal their behaviour is unacceptable. SOuL Searchers Paranormal Magazine – January 2012 ‐ 4 ‘Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart…..Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside awakens.’ SOuL Searchers Paranormal Magazine – January 2012 ‐ 5 I have always admired Carl Jung as a great various spirits from disturbing him while he psychologist and as an occultist. His life and was preparing his sermons. work has held a great fascination to me. Emilie was a trance medium, a skill she Throughout the years of his long-standing developed herself in her late teens. Emilie professional career, Jung repeatedly showed continued to enter trance states throughout great personal courage in his investigation of her life. The young Jung would often hear matters that no one else in the "respectable" her speaking in a different voice which gave psychiatric academia circles of his day would the impression she had a ‘split personality’. touch. Jung would later on experience his own ‘split personality’ experience at the age of 12. Jung Jung considered himself, first and foremost, a referred to this personality as the ‘Other,’ doctor and healer of the psyche, so when which he believed was a person from the Jung believed it necessary to explore a 18th century, who wore a white wig and certain tabooed avenue in order to gain a buckled shoes, drove an impressive carriage, better understanding of the psyche, then he and held Jung in contempt. Jung believed just "went for it." that he had been this character in a past life. Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) was a famous When Jung was 21, his father died and soon and influential Swiss psychologist and after his father appeared in two dreams psychiatrist, and founder of Analytical which changed his views on the possibility of Psychology. His approach to human life after death. During his life Jung psychology emphasized understanding the experienced other dreams which he believed psyche through exploring the world of were premonitions, one of his mother’s death dreams, art, the occult, mythology, world and later on his sister Gertrude’s death. religion and philosophy. At the time of his death Jung left a huge body of work on such In 1900, the 25-year-old Jung joined the topics as spiritualism, extra-sensory prestigious Burghölzli Mental Clinic in Zürich perception, witchcraft, dreams, mandalas, where he developed his theory of coincidences, astrology, divination, yoga, ‘complexes’, and initiated a successful flying saucers and even Zen Buddhism and ‘patient-friendly’ approach to working with the I Ching. psychotics and schizophrenics. It was at this juncture of his life that he developed a It is interesting to note that as a young boy, relationship with Sigmund Freud. Although Jung found himself drawn to the occult. Jung was a loyal supporter of Freud’s work Unfortunately this interest became the basis there were, times of dissension. One of his traumatic break with Sigmund Freud concerned Freud’s attitude toward which had a great affect on his life. Unlike parapsychology. The story goes that Freud Freud, Jung was interested in aspects of the was sceptical and dismissed the subject as unconscious that could not be attributed to an nonsense. Jung disagreed, he began to feel individual's personal development but derived his diaphragm glow, as if it was becoming from the deeper non-personal realms red-hot. A loud bang came from a bookcase. common to humankind – the collective Both jumped up, and Jung said to Freud: unconscious, whose contents he called “There, that is an example of a so-called "archetypes". catalytic exteriorisation phenomenon!”, Jung’s long-winded circumlocution for a poltergeist, Jung’s interest with the occult was fostered or “noisy spirit”. When Freud said “Bosh!”, as a young child by his maternal grandfather, Jung predicted that another bang would Rev. Samuel Preiswerk, who believed in the immediately happen. It did. Jung said that, paranormal, and had kept a chair in his study from that moment on, Freud grew mistrustful for the ghost of his deceased first wife, who of him. From Freud’s letter to Jung about the was said often came to visit him. Jung’s incident, one gets the feeling that he felt Jung mother Emilie was also had an influence on himself was responsible for it. his studies into the paranormal. Emilie was intially employed by her father to prevent the SOuL Searchers Paranormal Magazine – January 2012 ‐ 6 In actuality Jung did seem to have psychology due to its complexity and inherent numerous paranormal abilities. In one mysticism, episode while in bed in a hotel room after giving a lecture, he experienced the suicide of Unlike Freud and many other early theorists, a patient. The patient had relapsed into Jung believed that life did not merely end in depression, and shot himself in the head. death: it came to a point of completion, before Jung awoke in his hotel, feeling an odd pain crossing over into another experience of in his forehead. He later discovered that his expression and development via the death patient had shot himself precisely where Jung and release of the physical body. Carl Jung felt the pain, at the same time Jung woke up. himself completed his life on 6 June 1961 after a number of dreams portending a In 1920 Carl Jung also had a close and transition to a tower bathed in light on the personal encounter with a ghost which was "other side of the lake." reported in Fanny Moser's book Spuk (1950). Jung was spending a weekend at an English country house a friend had rented which had Recommended Reading a history of being haunted. The climax of the haunting occurred when the head of a woman Psychology and the Occult CG Jung. materialized on the pillow of Jung's bed close Includes Jung's Foreword to Phenomènes to his head. The ghostly head had one eye Occultes (1939), "On the Psychology and open, and it stared at the astonished Pathology of So-called Occult Phenomena," psychoanalyst. Jung managed to light a "The Psychological Foundations of Belief in candle, and the frightening spectre Spirits," "The Soul and Death," "Psychology disappeared. He later learned from the and Spiritualism," "On Spooks: Heresy or villagers that all previous tenants of the Truth?" and Foreword to Jaffé: Apparitions country house had terminated their and Precognition. occupancy in short order after a night or two Synchronicity CG Jung. A parapsychological in the haunted house. study of the meaningful coincidence of events, extrasensory perception, and similar In a hospital in Switzerland in 1944, Jung had phenomena. a heart attack and a near-death experience. The Archetypes and The Collective His vivid encounter led Jung to conclude that Unconscious CG Jung, Gerhard Adler, R. his experience came from something real and F.C. Hull. Essays which state the eternal. In this experience Jung saw the fundamentals of Jung's psychological system: Earth from a point of about a thousand miles "On the Psychology of the Unconscious" and above it. His accurate view of the Earth from "The Relations Between the Ego and the outer space was described in detail two Unconscious," with their original versions in decades before astronauts in space first an appendix. described it. Subsequently, as he reflected on life after death, Jung recalled the meditating References: Hindu from his near-death experience and http://www.near-death.com/jung.html read it as a parable of the archetypal Higher http://www.forteantimes.com/features/articles/ Self, the God-image within. Carl Jung, who 3847/the_occult_world_of_cg_jung.html founded analytical psychology, centred on the http://www.unexplainedstuff.com/Ghosts-and- archetypes of the collective unconscious. Phantoms/Ghostly-Beings.html http://www.nndb.com/people/910/000031817/ Unfortunately Jung’s theories have received limited acceptance within mainstream SOuL Searchers Paranormal Magazine – January 2012 ‐ 7 Paranormal Phenomena When things go bump in the night “When all the evidence is presented, and all the false clues have been eliminated, the story that is left, no matter how incredible, must be the truth.” ‐ Sherlock Holmes There is a high level of paranormal belief, in Power Drains and Equipment all societies around the world both Malfunctions geographically and historically. However we must ascertain that some events that we think When a spirit is drawing energy to become are paranormal might be misinterpreted and more visible they will often draw-in nearby conversely some events that we dismiss as energy; this energy can also come from coincidence might be actually paranormal. batteries in video cameras, and other devices. Often cameras, tape recorders, even SOuL Searchers gets approached on a lights will suddenly go haywire or stop regular basis regarding various types of working all together when a spirit is present. paranormal activity, the investigation that ensues often reveals some interesting During one case a lamp that was flickering results. Some of the time the problem relates and dimming on its own was responding to to geopathic stress, other times it can be the off peak water system coming on each difficult to give a definitive answer, night. The following information highlights some of Physical Sensations the phenomena that can be encountered during a paranormal investigation: Physical encounters can sometimes occur such as the sensation of being touched, Cold Spots pinched, slapped, etc. Often cold spots can indicate the presence of Sometimes in a paranormal situation fear can a spirit form. Either the room becomes cold or create a heightened sense of awareness and a spot in one area of the room will suddenly occassionaly one’s imagination can create a become cold. sense of being touched. In an investigation one should check the Smells condition of windows and doors to ensure the cold air is not a draft. These smells can seem to come from nowhere, and develop instantly and Rappings - Scratching – Knockings disappear just as quickly. The smells can vary from sweet floral smells, tobacco to One of the ways spirit can communicate is putrid rotten meat smells. through sound. Often strange knockings are an indication that a spirit form is close at Mists and Other Masses hand. Objects can also be dropped, moved or thrown. You may see other types of spirit manifestations in the form of strange Sometimes the rappings and scratching could shadows, black masses and wispy forms like indicate an animal presence. One of our smoke or the mist could be the breath in cold clients mentioned spirit activity in a particular air or cigarette smoke. corner of a room, it turned out to be a slightly open window that was causing the blinds to hit against the window. SOuL Searchers Paranormal Magazine – January 2012 ‐ 8 by Janine Donnellan Back in the 1970s I watched a film called the during the process of their investigations, Stone Tape which had a major impact on my they try several experiments to eradicate the concepts of paranormal activity. The Stone "haunted recording" only to reveal a darker, Tape is a television play directed by Peter more malevolent layer. Sasdy and starring Michael Bryant, Jane Asher, Michael Bates and Iain Cuthbertson. It Since its broadcast, the hypothesis that some was broadcast by the BBC. ghost's sightings are actual recordings of past events which have been absorbed by the Combining aspects of science fiction and natural environment has come to be known horror, the story concerns a team of scientists as the "Stone Tape Theory". Essentially the who move into their new research facility, a theory is based on the suggestion that renovated Victorian mansion that has a buildings and materials are able to absorb reputation for being haunted. Investigating, and store an impression of living beings who they learn that the haunting is a recording of are experiencing a highly emotional and a past event made by the stone in one of the traumatic event which then gets projected rooms of the house - the "stone tape" of the back into the environment under certain play's title. Believing that this may be the key conditions and or triggers. Current to the development of a new recording paranormal investigators generally refer to medium, they throw all their expertise and this paranormal energy as Residual Energy high-tech equipment into learning how the or Residual Haunting. The idea of past events stone tape preserves its recording. However, being recorded is far from new however, Sir SOuL Searchers Paranormal Magazine – January 2012 ‐ 9