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Trustees
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Ann Luck
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Trustee
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I am a member of the ISF and also Home Counties Healing Ass. I am semi retired but work voluntary for ISF. I run a small awareness group in Spain.
Http://www.isfederation.org
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Carole McEntee-Taylor
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Trustee (Gen. Secretary)
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I'm Carole and together with my husband David, were two of the original founders of the Spiritual Workers Association. Together with Ian and Ann we are now trustees of the SWA.
I am a spiritual healer, spiritual healer trainer, Reiki Master and massage therapist. I have had several articles published in the Psychic Press and used to produce and edit the United Spiritualist newsletter Unity.
In my day job I am a housing advisor, I have a MA in Philosophy and a BSc(Hons). Although I was due to start a PhD at Essex University in September, I have now deferred this as working on behalf of the Spiritual Workers Association and its members is more important at the moment.
Together we teach spiritual healing, spiritual philosophy and mediumship development at our centre in Essex and we had our first book published in May 2007.
The Re-Enlightenment is an introduction to spiritual philosophy and is part of a trilogy. The second part describes our spiritual journey and is almost finished.
The Spiritual Workers Association came out of the comments and contacts made whilst raising awareness about the proposed changes to the Fraudulent Mediums Act.
We had long believed that there should be an organisation to raise the profile of spiritual work and to raise standards and awareness but it was the determination to turn a possible negative into a positive that was the real motivating force.
We have been overwhelmed by the support and encouragement we have received. We look forward to an organisation that is flexible, progressive and representative of all spiritual workers and that offers the public a resource where they can find answers to their questions in the sure knowledge that all members of the SWA are committed to the highest standards.
Http://www.saahera-centre.org
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David McEntee-Taylor
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Trustee (Chief Exec)
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Hi
I'm David and together with my wife Carole, were two of the original founders of the Spiritual Workers Association. Together with Ian and Ann we are now trustees of the SWA.
I am a Spiritualist Minister, medium and spiritual healer counsellor and in my day job I am an employment consultant.
Together ith my wife I teach spiritual healing, spiritual philosophy and mediumship development at our centre in Essex and we had our first book published in May 2007.
The Re-Enlightenment is an introduction to spiritual philosophy and is part of a trilogy. The second part describes our spiritual journey and is almost finished.
The Spiritual Workers Association came out of the comments and contacts made whilst raising awareness about the proposed changes to the Fraudulent Mediums Act.
We had long believed that there should be an organisation to raise the profile of spiritual work and to raise standards and awareness but it was the determination to turn a possible negative into a positive that was the real motivating force.
We have been overwhelmed by the support and encouragement we have received. We look forward to an organisation that is flexible, progressive and representative of all spiritual workers and that offers the public a resource where they can find answers to their questions in the sure knowledge that all members of the SWA are committed to the highest standards.
Http://www.saahera-centre.org
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Ian Jones
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Trustee (I.T Rep)
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I'm the I.T person responsible for developing and maintaining the website. My interests are reading & writing spiritual philosophy. I have always known that there was something beyond the physical 3D world we find ourselves in. My spiritual path really unfolded in 2005 when my wife's mum died of cancer. This lead me to draw on all my experiences to help those around me, little did I know that that was going start me on an extremely intense spiritual journey.
I feel very passionate about spreading spiritual knowledge and supplying the means to do so. I love sharing knowledge that will allow others to find their own spiritual potential and be empowered. I believe we have a great opportunity to come together as a unified spiritual community where believers and non-believers alike can have faith in our field. My aim is to always work from the heart rather than ego.
I have been a computer programmer since the age of 15 with various commercial computer games published back in the eighties on the Commodore 64 & Amiga. This was a very exciting period for my brother and myself. Having had no previous computer experience or education in this field we both seemed to pick up computer machine code and assembly language without any training or teaching ( I wish it was still that easy now that I'm little bit older). This is a passion that has remained with me to this day. One of the greatest gifts we can give ourselves and others is to find our passion and work with it.
I feel that the knowledge I have gained spiritually combined with working as a programmer and in media has been extremely useful in getting spiritual web sites built and spreading the word. Please take a look at the TheSpiritGuides.co.uk website below, it aims to be a valuable resource for spiritual seekers and spirit workers posting events and articles.
Http://www.TheSpiritGuides.co.uk
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Officers
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Angie Simmons
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Officer (Commercial and Events Liaison)
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I am the proprietor of BSSK Events, an event promotions company promoting 12 - 14 largish Mind, Body and Spirit Events a year in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire. These are run on as ethical a basis as possible, with 'readers' having to agree to a code of conduct within the event and take part in a public 'reader feedback' scheme. Although this is a business, ethical practices are as important to me, if not more so, than profit!
Http://www.bssk.co.uk
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Barry Rathbone
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Officer (Ministry)
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I have been a platform Medium for 18 years now, having served both within the Spiritualists National Union and also the Spiritualist Association of Great Britain. I am currently Moderating Bishop of the International Community of St John the Divine, an inclusive multifaith body with membership in every continent on the planet. We believe in the principles of fraternal love, excluding no one who seeks to follow a divine and spiritual path. I would (if I had to) describe myself as an Old Catholic Priest with pagan learnings, wrapped in the 5th principle of Spiritualism! More simply, I embrace the culture of faithful learning and seeking that is rising amongst the people of the world who cannot simply ascribe to one singular pathway. God made us with many facets so it is only right that people would be curious when researching their own development.
But it isn't an easy path we tread. As Silver Birch himself says: 'Welcome the challenge of difficulty. There is no power vested in matter...or...in the churches, in newspapers, doctros etc that will be able to vanquish the power of the spirit in your midst.'
I am so very happy to be part of SWA's move forward for the next stage of our spiritual unity, and delighted to have been invited to sit on the Round Table with all my other brothers and sisters.
Http://www.icsj.co.uk
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Bill (william) Parkins
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Officer (Treasurer)
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I have been a Spiritualist since I was 21 years of age I am 59. I sat for a number of years in a development circle at my local Church , and first started out as a Spiritual Healer with my wife and we were asked to take over the healing service at the church which we did for 12 years during which time I was developing my gift as a Medium. I started working on platform and taking Church services in the early 1980’s . My work as a Medium has taken to many places around the world.
Working mainly as a Clairaudient which means that I hear the Spirit voices, which on occasions can be very interesting specially when I when in different countries and then I have to have a spirit guides translate into english for me to understand what has been said.
I also enjoy the teaching side of my work and conduct teaching courses on various aspects of Spiritual development . This includes Mental, and Physical Mediumship, Healing etc.
I enjoy my life as a Spiritualist trying to be of help to as many people as possible, spreading the word of Truth and Light , and that there in no such thing as death only life eternal.
I have worked as the International Spiritualist Federation Treasurer for the last 6 years and stepping down this year. Have been on several committees over the last 35 years, including being President of my Local Spiritualist Church, also Chairman of the Home Counties Association of Spiritual Healers for 13 years.
Bill Parkins
Http://www.williamparkins.co.uk
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Gary David Armstrong
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Officer (Legal Advisor)
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I am a Reiki Master Teacher and practising Druid. I am also an initiate into the Celtic Mystery Tradition.
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Lyn Guest de Swarte
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Officer (Media Rep)
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I am a working medium and healer serving the church. I am a writer and journalist. I am the author of Principles of Spiritualism now being re-printed with revisions, and extra chapter. I am a senior minister of the Corinthian Church and Healing Association. I am a healer trainer member of the Brighthelm Healing Trust. I am the editor of the new SWA paper "The Spiritual News" . I teach healing and mediumship and lecture on all aspects of Spiritualism.
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Margaret Challenger
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Officer (Minute Secretary)
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From the age of 2, so I am told, I have been communicating with our friends in Spirit
I have been an SNU member and a Church Committee member but at the moment am independent.
Best wishes to everyone, regards,
Margaret
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Sarah Tyler-Walters
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Officer (Teaching Coordinator)
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Hi everyone. I am a Trance Medium, Teacher, Healer (CCHA)
I trained as a mental medium at the London Spiritual Mission, then as a trance medium at The College of Psychic Studies and later as a Spiritual Healer with the Corinthians. I am a tutor and sensitive at The College of Psychic Studies where I teach trance mediumship and channelling. My work revolves around trance and bringing forward the message of Spirit. Having trained and worked as a mental medium I understand the principles and discipline involved and I aim to instil those in my trance students. Much of my work is about creating greater awareness and understanding of trance mediumship and channelling to remove some of the stigma and fear it evokes. I am looking forward to working with everyone at SWA in bringing about true understanding of who Spirit are and the purpose of their work with us.
Http://www.voicesofspirit.co.uk
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Partner Organisations
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ann love
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Partner Organisation
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The International Reiki Federation is a non profit social enterptrise with free membership and over 700 members. The aims are to initiate, train and accredit people into High Standards of reiki; To provide accreditation of prior learning to reiki people of different lineage on approval of work submitted and evidence collected; To promote and practise Universal and World healing for all life thereon; To establish ReiKi training as a recognised qualification nationally
Http://www.reiki-federation.co.uk
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Ashley Scoulding
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Partner Organisation
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The ICSJ was Established in 1992, by a small group of people in Bournemouth UK as an inter faith body comprising the rainbow spectrum of the human experience of faiths such as Christians, Jews, Muslims, Spiritualists, Buddhists Hindus, Pagans, Chaos Theorists and many others.
At present we have over 400 ministers in communion with us and many thousands of lay members working with us to support and uphold the aims and vision of the community worldwide.
ICSJ has a unique approach to our faith. We have stripped away the “traditional” faith structures (from which many of us have come from) back to their basics, and work together with others to advance our relationship which the Divine Creator, respecting our own individual backgrounds and traditions, and honouring each other's without exception.
This is not a new idea. In fact it is simply following the Divine plan as instructed by Jesus (and many other great leaders of spirituality in one way or another) i.e. Worship God as Parent and Creator, and love one another WITHOUT exception.
We are welcoming, empowering and our ministry leaders are fully trained to assist you in all aspects of your spiritual growth.
Our aim is to follow the Great Commission and to go out into the world and make disciples of ALL people, through inviting them to develop a person centred relationship with God without walls or divisions.
Http://www.icsj.co.uk
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Dennis & Rosalind Pearman
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Partner Organisation
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Zerdin Phenomenal the organisation represent physical mediumship trance and associated phenomena that is happening in the present time Zerdin the name was named after a gentlemen called Noah Zerdin who when alive in the 1930 was a great advocate of physical mediumship and was mentor to the great direct voice medium Mr Leslie Flint, When Noah passed to spirit he came through at a séance and asked for an orginisation to be formed to represent physical mediumship and the home circles developing physical mediumship in the present time.
Some year later Zerdin Phenomenal now carries through Noah’s work and we felt it appropriate to name ourselves after Noah Zerdin.
We now publish a by monthly magazine and a website where people can subscribe to which keeps everybody updated about what is happening in the now regarding Physical mediumship Trance and spirit manifestation. Subscribing to Zerdin is not just about receiving a publication it is about being part of a family passionate about spirit communication in a physical way, giving our members the opportunity to attend workshops, seminars, lectures and trance demonstration and séances (subject tom the suitability to sit).
We at Zerdin will never forget our history and our pioneers indeed you can read about them in the pages of our magazine or our website.
Our history is very important to Zerdin as often physical mediums and great advocates of physical mediumship from the past go on helping us from the other side often materializing in the séance room.
We are now some 800 members in number and growing each year not only in numbers but with the integrity of representing this rare form of mediumhsip.
We had a vision for Zerdin from the start and it has not changed It is our intension to always keep our existing medium safe when presenting their gift to the public. We intend to search worldwide for those rare individuals with the gift for physical mediumship and with love and encouragement to help them develop that gift. Zerdin wishes to help educate people on the nature of physical mediumship trance and associated phenomena and to bring to the world’s attention that we survive physical death and this can be proven in a physical way in the séance room.
Http://www.zerdinphenomenal.co.uk
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Gaynor Linnecor
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Partner Organisation
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Universal Learning has over 1000 members and gives participants the knowledge to re-align their energy to become more settled in their own skin.
http://www.universal-learning.co.uk
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Jameela Boardman
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Partner Organisation
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Promoting Peace through Religious Reform, Gender Equality, Spirituality and Spirit Awareness, Trance Healing and Physical Mediumship.
http://www.muslim-spiritualist.org
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Jane Booth
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Partner Organisation
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What is TABI all about?
* A place to learn, share and network with other UK Tarot Readers
* Tarot course + mentoring
* A chance to become endorsed
* FREE tarot readings
* Deck/Book exchange
* Regional meets
* Newsletter
* Reader/website listings
* Extensive and comprehensive Tarot Forums
Http://www.tabi.org.uk
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Margaret Sharp-Ladd
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Partner Organisation
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The Friendly Group are Spiritual healers representing 13 healing associations throughout Great Britain with over 2500 healers.
We are non-profit making, independant and autonomous.
Please see our aims on our web page www.friendlygroup.org.uk for further details and a list of all the associations that are members.
http://www.friendlygroup.org.uk
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Michael Baker
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Partner Organisation
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The European Confederation of Healing Organisations is an umbrella group that covers 4 countries and 6 main organisations. We have about 26,000 members. Our member organisations are: Dachverband Geistiges Heilen e.V., Reiki Alliance Deutschland (Germany), UK Healers, AHA, (Great Britain) , Anetecor (Rumania), BMSI (Austria).
Http://www.healing-echo.org
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Suzanne Willison
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Partner Organisation
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The International Spiritualist Federation is an International Organisation with members in many different countries. We hold a week and weekend each year for our members to get together. During this time we have teachings and lectures on many different spiritual aspects.our aims are stated in the byelaws
Http://www.isfederation.org
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Regional Organisers
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Adela Osterloh
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Regional Organiser
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Anne Mackriell
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Regional Organiser
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I am president and founder of the Linksclan International Healing Association. My husband Frank has agreed to be the representitive for "The Linksclan" in The S.W.A., which he has agreed to.
I am also the International Regional Organisor for The Spiritual Workers Association. If you are a member in another country and would like to run the Round Table Management where you live please email me at LinksclanHealer@aol.com God Bless you all.
http://www.thelinksclanhealers2.zoomshare.com
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Brenda Diskin
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Regional Organiser
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I am a natural clairvoyant / physical / trance medium and remote viewer and have been using my gifts for over 45 years. I was born into a family of psychics / clairvoyants, both my mother and grandmother had the gift. My grandmother was of Celtic descent and I believe she inherited the gift from her mother, a gift which has also been passed to my son
You can find out more if you wish at http://www.sacredearth.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
Http://www.brendadiskin.co.uk
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Colin Hall
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Regional Organiser
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Colin is a medium and class B member for over twenty years working in spiritualist churches doing demonstrations of mediumship.
He is also a Psychic Artist strongly influenced by Nature and the Elements his work takes him all over Europe doing workshops and demonstrations of Mediumship and Art.
Http://www.colinhallart.com
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David Bennett
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Regional Organiser
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Regional admin for North America.
I am co-founder of Lender Direct America, LLC. A Christian Based Company!
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Gerald Camborne-Paynter
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Regional Organiser
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My wife Shirley and I have worked very closely together for Spirit for more than 30 years. We moved from Milton Keynes to Plymouth three years ago, and now we serve most of the churches in Cornwall and Devon. Occasionally we cross over into Somerset to work for Spirit.
Other than Church Services, if Spirit want us to work in any other way, we do! We have, on occasion, been asked to move unwanted spirits from peoples homes.
We have run Healing courses and development circles and workshops.
Sometimes we have a free weekend when we can go to a different Spiritualist Church where we can see what it looks like from the front of the rostrum. We are not currently associated with any one church.
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Graham Solly
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Regional Organiser
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I have been involed in spiritual work for 8 years and have been been a trained hypnotherapist for 4 years
Http://equilibriumshop.com
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Helen Rankin
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Regional Organiser
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I look forward to being able to help all that need it and to promote SWA the best way possible.
If you have any queries, please email me personally or via the contact form and I will get back to you as soon as I can.
Http://www.thespiritualcentre.ephpbb.com
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Hugh Quigley
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Regional Organiser
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Hello everyone. I have taken on the role of regional organiser for Northern Ireland. I am a registered psychotherapist, counsellor, clinical hypnotherapist, supervisor and trainer. I also work as anenergy workier and am trained as a Chios, reiki and energy practitioner. I hpe to be able to take SWA forward for the community I work in here in Ireland and to promote good practice and support and training throughout this isle. So I would ask if anyone has high quality and if possible accredited training that might be worth advertising then let me know. Any suggestions or ideas would be most thankfully accepted and appreciated. I look forward to meeting with you all either online or in the physical world.
Http://www.drhughquigley.com
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James W Turner
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Regional Organiser
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I am a devoted spiritualist My family have been since victorian times. I'm also the RO for Israel
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Jose Joacir dos Santos
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Regional Organiser
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Regional admin for South America.
I am president of two Associations in Brazil, which I will also create membership for them and would like to be the regional representative for Brazil and South America. I work as psychotherapist for many years, also Reiki Master and work with energy healing for many years (Professor-Master Light Healing),Buddhist and Toaist initiations.I worked for the legalization of Reiki in Brazil and since January 2007 it is a legal profession in Brazil.
Http://www.joacir.com
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Kim Stanley
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Regional Organiser
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I'm the regional organiser for Canada.
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Marcus Lee-Crowther
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Regional Organiser
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Mediumistic all my life, medium for many paranormal investigation groups over the years, lucky to be brought up in a spiritual family attending spiritualist churches, private and open circles even while i was in my pram. Described by many as a natural healer with a healing Voice. Recently brought together and sealed with marriage with my now life soulmate and more important my twin flame which has now opened many new doors into the wonderful world of Animal Communication. Also still involved with paranormal investigations, Mediumship,Healing, oracle card readings to name a few and holding very rewarding workshops on various spiritual aspects from Spiritual development to the healing and communication with animals.
Owner of spiritual information website Spiritual Web online for 4 years now along with Animal Expressions our animal communication site
Http://www.spiritualweb.co.uk
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Maureen How
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Regional Organiser
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Our aim is simply to promote ethical, empathic quality working & to set high training standards for mediums & healers. We will do our best to help and assist with any problems. However, it must be emphasised that we cannot help with legal matters.
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Susan Carpenter
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Regional Organiser
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I have been in retail all my working life to various management levels. Through my frustration with trying to find relevant resources and information in my own area to develop my own spirityuality, I have set up Suffolk Circle of Light with my friend Linda. It is in its infant stages but our ultimate aim is to provide resources to other like minded individuals under one roof so that they may discuss and develop their beliefs and potential in all aspects of spirituality regardless of age, sex and religous beliefs. Consequently the principles and guidelines of the SWA in the current climate are very close to our hearts.
Http://suffolkcircleoflight.co.uk
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William McFadzean
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Regional Organiser
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I currently work all over the UK and abroad.
I feel that the most important part of my work is the Churches that I love to serve.
I teach as well as demonstrate and have a very down to earth attitude about my work as it is natural not supernatural.
Http://www.ayrshire-mediums.com
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Individual Members
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LEE GLENDINNING
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Individual Member (Youth Rep)
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I am Lee Glendinning, a 19 year old living in Scotland. I have been brought up in the spiritualist movement and i've discovered theres not much for young people, so I decided to start a discussion group conserning youths with a genuine interest for spiritualism where we can learn from each other. I bring the young peoples views to the round table of the SWA. I am currently studying at college doing computer games development and I am going to university after the summer in glasgow.
Http://www.spiritualchurch.co.uk
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