The strange case of Helen Duncan combines paranormal
investigation with government conspiracy, a perfect blend for HPANWO. The case
manifests on several levels and there is a lot of contemporary research into it
still going on; it continues to arouse considerable controversy even though it
came to a head almost seventy years ago. Helen Duncan was a psychic medium from
Perthshire , Scotland
"Hellish Nell" got her nickname not from her
paranormal talents but from her tomboy personality and fiery temper, something
that she'd display her entire life. From cradle to grave she had psychic
abilities of the rarest kind. She was never very much good at school but she
found that if she placed her writing book under her desk for a while and took it
out later "somebody" would
have written in the correct answers. She also alarmed her classmates and
teachers by going into a trance and yelling portents of doom at them. No doubt
a Skeptic would say she was suffering from temporal lobe epilepsy, see: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9e2_1212867304.
However she proved very useful in other circumstances; once when a man got lost
in a snowstorm, Helen's remote viewing assisted a rescue party in finding him.
As she grew to adulthood she found a way to control these experiences. She soon
became a member of an elite order of mediumship, that of the physical medium;
somebody with the ability to produce physical effects in the world around them
via psychic means. A lot of nonsense had been written about the history of
Spiritualism; contrary to popular belief it did not begin with the Fox sisters,
but is something that has always been a part of the human world and probably
always will, see: http://hpanwo.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/paranormality-by-prof-richard-wiseman.html.
Helen Duncan was no more than the modern equivalent of the shaman or village
wise woman; what we today call the "supernatural" was once considered
as natural as the air we breathe. She came from a poor family and both she and
her husband were too sick to work so she decided to earn a living in the world
of seance Spiritualism. She induced "raps"- loud knocking noises,
spirit voices and telekinesis- moving objects without touching them. In 1929
she first channelled a spirit called "Albert", who in his last
incarnation on Earth had been a man from Sydney , Australia
By 1930 Helen had gained a reputation as a highly proficient
psychic and her business was booming. Then psychical researchers came knocking
on her door anxious to discover if her apparently miraculous powers could be
proven true scientifically. In October Helen jumped on a train to England
for an expenses-paid trip to the laboratories of the London Spiritualist
Alliance. This trip was to prove very troublesome for Helen; she was denounced
unequivocally as a fraud and numerous articles were published in the media
discrediting her abilities as no more than conjuring tricks. However it's
possible that these articles were biased due to personal issues because, being
a guinea pig for the LSA, she signed an exclusivity contract which she subsequently
broke, perhaps unwittingly. Maybe she didn't know it at the time but there was
a lot of rivalry in psychical research in those days. The LSA were in stiff
competition with a solo maverick in the field called Harry Price; here's his
official website: http://www.harrypricewebsite.co.uk/.
Price had initially tendered for the project to research Helen Duncan himself and
had been passed over in favour of the LSA. This infuriated him. However he
approached Helen privately and offered her a large sum of money to do some
sittings in his own laboratory, and to keep this secret from the LSA. Helen agreed.
When the LSA found out they hit the roof; Helen was staying in London
on their tab and was moonlighting behind their back with their arch-enemy.
There must have been some very heated phone calls ringing through to Price's
office and Helen was caught in the middle. It eventually affected her
relationship with Price and she had a blazing row with him one day in the
laboratory and even struck him physically and walked out. She later apologized
and the project continued. Skeptics have made a big deal out of this barney and
claim it blew up because Price wanted to have her medically examined and she
knew if she allowed this she'd be caught out as a fake; it was a textbook trick
of mediums in those days to hide props in their mouth, nose and "pelvic
region". The truth is very different; after Helen returned to the project
she agreed to have a full examination of her body, including x-rays. However soon
after she decided she had had enough of the entire business and began accusing
Harry Price, his assistant Molly Goldney, and even her own husband, of
manipulating her behind her back. This new argument centred around an employee
of Helen's business Mary McGinley. McGinley had "revealed" that Helen
was faking ectoplasm by swallowing and regurgitating cheesecloth to make it
look like ectoplasm, the first time this possibility had even been suggested. However
Price and the LSA wrote in their reports that this is exactly what Helen had
been doing all along, even though hardly any of this alleged cheesecloth was
ever obtained; Price claims to have taken a sample of it once which he says was
cheesecloth mixed with egg white and tissue paper. How Helen managed to swallow
this, keep it in her stomach, make it invisible to x-rays, bring it up in the
laboratory and then swallow it again without leaving vomit stains everywhere,
has never been explained. Skeptics have bent spoons, done cold reading and
performed bare-handed surgery, but none have ever swallowed, regurgitated and
then swallowed again, a six foot square piece of cloth, without using their
hands and making no mess. It turned out that McGinley was probably a mole
planted by the LSA, but the damage was done. Helen broke the agreement she'd
made with Price by unexpectedly returning home before completing the number of
experiments she'd promised to do. Price probably joined the LSA in their
dismissal of his subject because he wanted to beat them to the line over which
investigator had been humiliated the least by Helen. The 1930 study was used
later in Helen's career to blacken her name, but it was not nearly as
conclusive as its proponents state; it was not completed, either in its
official form at the LSA or in its unofficial form after Price poached her. It
was also catastrophically riven with personal animosity. What's more, as we'll
see shortly, distinctive political and legal reasons to blacken her name would
turn up a few years later.
Just when Helen may have wondered how things could possibly get
any worse, along comes a woman with a nature as sinister as her name, Esson
Maule. Esson Maule was a writer who approached Helen in 1932 with the professed
intention to write a book about her. Helen was reeling from the London
debacle and swiftly agreed in the hope that she could regain a bit of her
formerly good reputation. Helen arranged to meet Maule in Edinburgh
to conduct a seance with her at a Spiritualist
Church Spiritualist
Church
Over the following years, despite all the negative
publicity, Helen continued to practice as a physical medium. In 1939 the UK Germany Edinburgh
In 1941 Helen conducted a series of seances all around the
country in which "Albert" appeared to the sitters in ectoplasmic
form. The procedure for these seances was standard. The sitters would gather on
rows of chairs in the Spiritualist Church the 27th of May 1941 .
"Albert" appeared as usual and announced to the sitters: "I'm
sorry to have to tell you that a British battleship has just been sunk. I have
fourteen hundred spirits newly arrived who were among her officers and
men." There was a gasp from the audience; nobody had heard of any Royal
Navy battleship being sunk. Such an occurrence would surely have been in the
news, but it hadn't. Fatefully, one of the audience members was Brigadier Roy
Firebrace, a famous astrologer and spiritual researcher, but also an army
intelligence officer. After the seance he went straight to his office and made
some enquiries with the Admiralty. It turned out that, yes, a British ship had
been lost, HMS Hood, an Admiral-class
battlecruiser, had been destroyed by the guns of the German warships, Bismark and Prinz Eugen. One thousand four hundred and fifteen men had gone
down with her. Hood was the largest
and most powerful ship the Royal Navy had and her loss was a major blow to the
war effort. This came at a time when morale was very poor on the home front, it
was the height of the Blitz and just one year since the Dunkirk Evacuation,
people were expecting Hitler's forces to land at Dover
any day; therefore the Government decided to keep the loss of Hood top secret. Firebrace was astounded;
as a believer in Spiritualism himself he would have immediately understood what
was going on. It seemed Helen Duncan was able to reveal state secrets via the
testimony of the dead. You can bet this well and truly marked her card, in fact
Firebrace confirmed this after the war, see here at about 13.00: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ao0pmxxirpA.
In November that same year Helen went on a tour of southern England
and held a series of events in Portsmouth
at a small makeshift Spiritualist centre called the Master
Temple 4.30 PM Helen materialized a man who
identified himself as a sailor aboard the battleship HMS Barham which was currently fighting in the Mediterranean theatre of
operations. He told the audience that he had just been drowned as the ship
sank. Again the audience was dumbstruck; they had heard nothing of the sort in
the newspapers or on the radio. A woman in the second row recognized the
apparition as her son and broke down with grief. The news delivered during the
seance spread like wildfire all over Portsmouth
and beyond. The wartime intelligence services would probably have started
keeping an eye on Helen because of that, even if agents hadn't already been
planted in her audiences. As with Hood,
the Government chose not to publicize the loss of Barham; even relatives of the eight hundred and fifty crew members
killed had not been informed. What was being whispered in hushed voices in the
cabinet war rooms is not known, but Brig. Firebrace did confirm that he was
consulted by the security services about what could be done. However the
Government must have had a few Skeptics who spoke out against anybody who took
Firebrace seriously. It seems that they chose not to act immediately because
Helen was permitted to carry on practicing her mediumship for the next two
years. Everything changed in January 1944 when Helen returned to Portsmouth .
What happened next is one of the most unusual legal dramas in history; why you
think it took place will depend on your point of view. Helen was arrested and
prosecuted for fraud, as she had been in Edinburgh
twelve years earlier; however this time her accusers drove it all up to a
completely new league.
Helen was probably expecting to be sent to the local
magistrates again for another moderate fine or, at the very worst, a week or
two inside under the Vagrancy Act; this was the usual way the law dealt with
mediums, but to her shock her case was transferred to no less than the Central
Criminal Court of London. Here Helen stood trial under the Witchcraft Act of
1735, an archaic statute very rarely used in over a hundred years. However if
convicted the felon could be sentenced to as much as nine months in jail. The
arrest occurred on Wednesday the 19th of January; when one of her seances was
"busted" in the same way Esson Maule did it twelve years earlier. During
one of the sessions two of the sitters switched on torches, leapt forward and
"grabbed the fake ectoplasm". The two moles were a young naval
officer Lt. Stanley Worth, and a policeman, Rupert Cross. It was an organized raid,
a posse of policemen had been waiting outside and as soon as the two men
disrupted the seance they burst in. The photo above shows Helen walking to the
Old Bailey with her husband; I can imagine the confusion and distress that was
going through her head. Why had her charge been escalated the way it had? Why
was she appearing in a court that was usually used for trying lords, traitors
and serial killers? Why was she denied bail? As I said above, how you analyze
this event will depend on your opinions on the paranormal and how honest you
think the Government is. On one level it was an open-and-shut case: Helen
Duncan was advertizing herself as a psychic medium when all she was doing was
psychological tricks and sleights of hand, the kind of scam James Randi would
have exposed, if he hadn't been too busy at the time escaping from handcuffs
while hanging over Niagra Falls
Firstly, we need to look at the background of the personnel
involved in the trial and Robert Hartley, the author of Helen Duncan- The Mystery Show Trial has done some painstaking
research into their histories. Firstly the Crown chose John Cyril Maude KC to
be the prosecuting counsel. This was despite the fact that Helen was being
tried in Court Number 4 and Maude was simultaneously conducting another case
next door in Court Number 1; he was defending a man accused of murder in,
funnily enough, Portsmouth, the same place Helen has been arrested. One of the
key witnesses to that case was Chief Constable Arthur West, the same Chief
Constable who hammered home Helen's maximum sentence. As we shall see this was
not the only role Chief Constable West played in the imprisonment of Helen
Duncan. What's more the defendant in that other trial had accused West of
framing him, and he ended up being acquitted. Maude was constantly nipping
between Courts 1 and 4 as he juggled both cases. In his absence from Court 4
his assistant, Henry Elam, conducted the Crown's case against Helen. Why didn't
the Crown simply bring in another barrister to prosecute Helen, somebody who
could concentrate 100% on putting her away? Well, it's certainly true that John
Maude KC was regarded as one of the finest and most successful barristers in
the country, but could there be another reason for picking him? His education
is almost monotonously textbook elite, Eton
College Christ
Church College Oxford . He was also a member of the
Middle Temple Spain
and also had monitored the Moscow Show Trials in 1933, and the manner in which
Helen's trial was conducted indicates his influence. In a way Helen's
prosecution was a show trial, hence the title of Hartley's book. Fleming was
also very interested in the paranormal and occult. He was a member of the
Society for Psychical Research as well as a close friend of the famous purveyor
of Magick, Aleister Crowley. Like Firebrace, Fleming would have immediately
grasped the implications of Helen's activities. If Ian Fleming's name sounds
familiar to you, this is probably because he is today very famous for being the
author of the James Bond novels, which have of course spawned a very popular
series of films. Helen's defence counsel was Charles Loseby; he was not a
barrister, so was not a member of any of the furtive and slippery Inns of
Court, but he was a highly experienced solicitor and also an ardent
Spiritualist. He believed passionately in Helen's cause and wanted badly to win
the trial for her, but sadly he made some fatal mistakes; he thought that by
proving Spiritualism true he could get Helen acquitted. The most obvious
problem with that is that the indictment was against the personal machinations
of a particular medium, not mediumship in general; the second problem was that
he hinged his case on the false assumption that the court would give him the
chance.
The prosecution witnesses all reported that they had been
lured to the seance in Portsmouth
by promises of seeing something truly supernatural and had instead been
confronted merely with Helen Duncan herself covered in a white sheet pretending
to be ectoplasm. The only problem was that this white sheet was never found
even though one of the sitters reported seizing it at the moment the police
rushed in. It is odd that on every occasion people have lambasted Helen for
faking her act using white sheets or cheesecloth, they have never actually
produced said textiles; even though she had performed innumerable times in both
Spiritualist institutions and psychical research laboratories. The closest
anybody came to it was Esson Maule and the extra-small vest mentioned above.
Their case was centred around a series of witness testimonies; luckily for them
the principle witness was a highly respected pillar of the community, a young naval
officer called Lieutenant Stanley Raymond Worth. Worth is still alive and
living in New Zealand ;
he reports that he was invited to the Portsmouth
seances by some friends who regularly used to attend Spiritualist events, what
they called "the spooks", as a form of entertainment. As soon as he
saw Helen Duncan in action he could plainly see that she was a complete
mountebank and made it his "duty to bring her to justice!" He
reported her to the police and this is why the raid took place, and for no
other reason. Lt Worth's links to the police are interesting. He's the son of
one senior police officer and the nephew of another. He was also was a
part-time Special Branch constable himself; not to mention the fact that his
closest family friend was the aforementioned Chief Constable Arthur West he
also knew the police officer in charge of the raid. Perhaps the dodgiest factor
in the role of Lt. Stanley Worth is that he lied under oath when asked directly
by Loseby if he was involved with the intelligence services. His direct answer
was "no" and that he was simply "spying on his own
account", whatever the hell that means! In fact it has been revealed since
that he had been selected for detachment to the Naval Provost's intelligence
division. This could well mean he could be reporting to Fleming and Maude; how
strange considering the role of those two men in other parts of the trial. All
the personnel on the prosecution side of Helen's trial are distinctly starting
to look like some kind of secret cabal. Lt. Worth is further implicated because
it seemed one of his acquaintances tried to make some money off Worth's
clandestine campaign against Helen. One of the other regular sitters at Helen's
events made a bet with a friend of his in Oxford
that Helen Duncan would be arrested in Portsmouth
within two weeks and that her principle accuser would be named Stanley Worth;
he won the bet. The only way he could have known all this beforehand is that if
Worth knew in advance what was planned and had let it slip, either accidentally
or deliberately; did he even have a cut in the bet? The suspicious factors
stack up even further when back into Helen's life came psychic investigator
Harry Price; you'll recall they had met fourteen years earlier and he had
allegedly revealed her trickery to the world. The DPP asked Price to consult,
but he was not ordered to appear as an expert witness; his job was to brief the
prosecution witnesses! In other words Worth, Cross and the other prosecution
witnesses were coached. This is highly irregular and could be interpreted as an
attempt to pervert the course of justice.
Over the course of the trial all the sitters present at
Helen's seances in Portsmouth were
put in the witness box. The testimonies varied enormously between defence and
prosecution witnesses. For example, all of the Crown's witnesses report the
same basic effect: the curtains opened and a human figure that looked like
Helen Duncan moved around with a white sheet draped over her; the voices they
heard were all very like Helen's. Sometimes she revealed her face and it was
definitely Helen Duncan's face. Clearly Harry Price coached them well. As I
said above though, no white sheet was found by the police even though Worth and
Cross said they "grabbed it" and the police were on the scene too in a
matter of moments. When questioned by Loseby on this point Worth's answer was:
"Well, obviously somebody hid it just in time." Obviously? This is very much a circular argument fallacy: Nobody found any sheet because somebody hid
it- How do you know somebody hid it?- Well, how else could we have failed to
find it? Worth said that somebody sitting in the audience wore an arm sling
and that was where it must have been hidden. However it seems strange that the
police didn't think of that and search for it there, even if somehow the concealment
of a piece of linen big enough to cover a twenty stone woman could be secreted
quickly enough to escape their gaze by somebody with one a bad arm; in the
chaos of the raid too. Loseby's witnesses on the other hand, who received no
coaching that I'm aware of, tell a very different story; they report seeing
Helen sitting securely in a chair while a mysterious white semi-fluid substance
issued from her mouth and nose. The fluid morphed into the shapes of people,
dead people, whom some audience members recognized; for example, in the case of
the Barham sailor. "Albert"
and "Peggy" also appeared from time to time and were described in
detail that matched from witness to witness. These entities conversed with the
sitters, touched them and even in one case, kissed them. Another witness, Mrs
Anne Potter, saw her mother who spoke to her from just two feet away and she
was easily recognizable, down to the moles on the skin of her face. A parrot, a
cat and several other animals also materialized in ectoplasm. When the spirit
withdrew from the ectoplasm the witnesses report that it sank into the floor
and evaporated. The prosecution placed a great deal of emphasis on the seance
lighting. The seance room was a converted upstairs lounge above a chemists shop
at 301 Copnor Road , Portsmouth
"If Mrs Duncan is a materialization medium, then there
is a Spiritworld near her at this moment... and a guide right here... possibly
waiting for an opportunity to help her. Let us call him! Yes, here in the
Central Criminal Court of London. Why not? She requires a curtained off
partition and a red light; nothing more." So petitioned Loseby to the
court. The judge refused point blank. After an appeal by the defence counsel
Dodson agreed to let the jury decide. He polled them and they elected not to. I
wonder how close that poll was! Who on the jury did not want to see something
like that!? If I'd been there I'd have voted "yes" without a second
thought. Dodson's refusal is of course legally understandable on one level, for
the reasons I said above. The reality of Spiritualism was not on trial; a
particular self-proclaimed Spiritualist medium was; whether the true
manifestation of spirits was possible, or if it were even possible, whether
Helen Duncan herself was capable of doing that herself, was not relevant to the
case. She could have been the greatest medium the world had ever seen, spewing
out ectoplasmic entities left, right and centre at will... but if on just one occasion in Portsmouth she decided
to cheat with cheesecloth; that, and that alone, was the concern of the court.
But there is another level to the issue; if Helen had been allowed to
demonstrate her powers in court in front of the judge and jury it would
devastate the prosecution's case because they would be in a position in which
they'd have to prove that a woman who was provably capable of producing genuine
psychic phenomena would need to
cheat. Did she just have her off-days and had developed fool-proof illusionism
for those occasions? Maude and Elam
had spent the entire trial portraying Helen as a ruthless harridan who had made
a life-long career of double-dealing artifice; a successful demonstration to
the court would show her to be a very different kind of woman indeed. What's
more, if it were true that Dodson, Maude, Worth and all the rest were in league
with each other to put Helen away on the orders of their Government then
there's no length they would not go to the secure such an outcome... including
rigging jury polls.
On Friday the 31st
of March 1944 , the judge summed up and the jury retired to consider
their verdict; this took less than thirty minutes: Guilty. The following Monday
Chief Constable Arthur West gave her a such damning character assessment that
Helen could not have expected less than the maximum penalty: nine months in
Holloway Prison. As she was taken down poor Helen cried out in her broad
Scottish accent: "I ha' nae even done anythin'!... Oh God! Is there a
God?" In June she appealed unsuccessfully against the sentence and was
finally released at the completion of her term on Friday the 22nd of September.
Mr and Mrs Homer, the couple running the Master
Temple Portsmouth ,
were convicted as accessories and given a four month suspended sentence. On
June the 6th, while Helen was languishing in her prison cell, there was a massive
amphibious invasion of Normandy , France
by British and Allied forces in Operation Overlord, catching the enemy
completely unawares; history would come to know it as "D-Day".
The connection between the supernatural and warfare is
stronger than you might think. It has a long history; both Julius Caesar and
Alexander the Great used to consult soothsayers before going into battle. In 1429
a teenage peasant girl called Jeanne Roumée was put in charge of the French
army because the king believed she was receiving divine guidance. The advice
from Joan of Arc gave France
victory over England
at the Siege of Orleans. All through the Cold War both sides used psychic spies
to keep tabs on what their enemy was up to. In the modern world paranormal
powers are still a major part of government machinations, despite public
ridicule of the notion, for example see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYO-iABnQd4.
We are told that Helen Duncan's case was a simple and straightforward matter:
she was a cheat and she had happened to be caught cheating. She had a fair
trial and the outcome was that she was fairly convicted and punished for her
crimes. But based on the fact of paranormal intervention into matters of
statesmanship in the past, plus the other suspicious elements of her
conviction, let me offer an alternative hypothesis: Helen Duncan was a real
physical medium. The reason she was imprisoned was because her powers allowed
her to gain classified information about the War from those who had been
briefed into it and had subsequently passed away. She could then relate this
information to anybody who happened to attend one of her seances, including
Nazi spies. By 1944 preparations were underway for D-Day, a battle that was
absolutely crucial to the outcome of the War. Preparations for the Normandy
Landings included a massive top secret operation of training, logistics and
deception. A fake village was even built in Dorset which
you can visit today as a museum piece! The operation consisted of thousands of
people sworn to secrecy; it was, to use my own terminology, a dangerously
"top-heavy conspiracy". The planners knew very well how precarious
the whole endeavour was. Helen Duncan represented an unpluggable leak; it would
only take one of the people involved in D-Day to die before June the 6th, and
only one enemy spy to be in the seance room when that person appeared in
spirit, for secrecy of the whole invasion to be blown. Therefore the Government
concocted a plan to put Helen somewhere where she could not practice her
mediumship for the duration of the run-up to D-Day. They used intelligence
agents in the police and legal system to frame Helen and imprison her. In fact
in a way I'm pleased Helen was convicted and jailed because if that plan had
failed they would probably have killed her. It's clear that the Prime Minister
Winston Churchill was not cleared for the plan because he commented himself on
the case on the 3rd of April. He sent a memo to the Home Secretary saying: "Let me have a report on why the Witchcraft
Act of 1735 was used in a modern Court of Justice. What was the cost of this
trial to the State, observing that witnesses were brought from Portsmouth London Oxford
science fiction writer, Helliconia Winter,
the last book in a trilogy. The novel is set on an alien planet in which the
inhabitants all have mediumistic abilities and regularly commune with their
dead ancestors, a practice called "pauk" that is as common to them as
eating and sleeping. One day the government on the planet decide to outlaw
"pauk" because they're terrified that the spirits of the dead will
reveal state secrets. When you can't silence somebody even by killing them,
what do you do? Interestingly the government justified its policy by falsely
claiming that "pauk" causes the spread of disease.
Helen Duncan went back to Spiritualism after being released
from jail and had a few more brushes with the law, although none nearly as
serious as the one in 1944. She was the last person ever to be tried under the
Witchcraft Act; it was soon replaced with the Fraudulent Mediums Act of 1951,
which made life difficult for many Spiritualists until it itself was repealed
in 2008; there have happily been no equivalent replacements. However, in all
the years since and with new laws on their side, the UK Government have never
come down as hard on anybody as they did on Helen Duncan in 1944. Helen
performed her last seance on the 28th
of October 1956 at West Bridgford
Spiritualist Church Nottingham . The establishment was raided by the
police and Helen was badly injured. She had never enjoyed good health in all
her life; the shock of what happened in Nottingham probably aggravated her
condition and indirectly caused her death just a few weeks later on the 6th of
December, back home in Edinburgh. However, her supporters have not gone away;
here's their website: http://www.helenduncan.org.uk/.
They say that Helen has been in regular contact ever since.
Maybe there was a deeper issue at stake in the strange case
of Helen Duncan. Maybe it explains why Recorder Dodson blocked Helen's
courtroom demonstration and also why Esson Maule got her nailed in 1932. Maybe
there was a far more long-term and strategic goal involved than just D-Day. It
all comes down to the fact that the acceptance of the truth of Spiritualism
would inevitably result in the acceptance that there is such thing as
Life-After-Death. At a senior level of Government I think there are people who
know very well that the Afterlife exists; but they just don't want us to know. They've kept it secret for
much more fundamental reasons than merely the concealment of military attacks.
The official acknowledgement that when we die our consciousness neither ceases
to exist forever, nor is tossed into the merciless hands of some vengeful God
because you didn't put enough money onto the church collection plate, would
have a profound effect on every aspect of human society. Atheo-Skeptics like
Richard Dawkins and Andrew Copson claim that Life-After-Death would somehow reduce the value of our current life on
Earth; I've never understood why they think that. I speculate that the official
Governmental revelation that the Afterlife exists would probably have a very
positive effect on the human morale (unless your self-esteem is tied up with
being an MBA-er of course! See: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/dr-peter-fenwick-mba-destroyer.html).
It would probably eliminate the fear of dying; it would make grieving over the
death of a loved one far easier to endure because it would constitute only a
temporary separation, not a permanent loss; one which would eventually end with
a happy reunion. From what I've seen, the Illuminati-controlled authorities
guard the secret of spiritual reality closest of all. It's a bigger secret than
the UFO's, bigger than Free Energy, bigger than 9/11, bigger than Atlantis,
bigger than the Reptilians. This entails that its successful suppression must
be even more quintessential to the survival of the New World Order than any of those
other snippets of hidden knowledge. Why? I'm still not a hundred percent sure.
I know why the Church wouldn't like it; it would mean that they could no longer
control people using fear of Hellfire and damnation any more, but on a secular
level it's more complicated. I suspect that the cover-up is still a long way
from ending; in fact a few days ago I attempted to revise Helen Duncan's very
biased Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Duncan
and it was very speedily edited back. I think this is maybe the subject for
another dedicated article. Perhaps one day we will all know the truth about the
Afterlife and, who knows, in future court cases it may become perfectly normal
legal practice to subpoena a ghost in the way Loseby wanted to subpoena
"Albert".
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