Brian
Edward Hurst - Spiritualist Medium and Author.
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L. to R: Retired education officer Roy Spencer (Brian's cousin), Brian Hurst and Ramesh Jani (Brian's financial advisor). In the background are some of Brian's colorful paintings.
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GENERAL ADVICE:
It is better to wait at least six months after a death before seeking contact with a loved one. Some may need a period of rest or orientation before they are ready to begin thinking about returning to earth for the purpose of proving survival. Some people may have no interest in returning and be glad to escape the earth and all its problems. That is why no medium on earth can ever guarantee results. Each group sitting has to be regarded as an experiment. Sitters should not expect to receive advice on business or material matters, although these may be referred to during the seance. The main purpose is to establish communication with deceased loved ones, enabling them to transmit sufficient information from their side of life to establish who they are, and therefore to demonstrate the continuity of life and the reality of communication with their world. At Brian's seances many thousands of clients have received information that was not in their minds but which was later validated by others. That is one of the tests of true mediumship.
Because Brian works only in a group situation he does not give individual private appointments at this time. He also does no telephone work. The great lesson from the group experience is the need to share with others and to prepare properly for receiving messages from spirit. Many people who attended the groups as skeptics changed their mind when they observed others receiving very detailed messages and information that could not be "looked up on any computer" as they had originally suspected. They testified to a complete change in their way of thinking and a strong feeling of inner peace and healing. Brian's excellent results have been documented in a number of books and many of his sitters are highly educated people.
Mediums exist
1. To COMFORT those who mourn,
2. To STRENGTHEN those who are weak,
3. To GIVE KNOWLEDGE of the life to come,
4. To HEIGHTEN AWARENESS of the bio-electrical energy body, which survives death,
5. To teach PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY for actions performed here on earth,
6. To increase the manifestation of LOVE TOWARDS OTHERS, regardless of race, religion or orientation,
7. To help us RESPECT ALL LIFE on the planet and to conserve and wisely use our God-given resources,
8. To UNITE HUMANITY in wisdom, tolerance and justice, so that evil, negativity, racism and violence may be cleared from our thinking,
9. To PROMOTE WELL-BEING through healing the spirit, mind and body by understanding these facts of survival,
10. To encourage personal development on a spiritual level, leading to complete FREEDOM FROM FEAR.The purpose of life on earth is to achieve spiritual growth through love, service and compassion. All life's dramas are sent as lessons and warnings, so pay close attention to them, and in the process acquire true wisdom!
FOR PRIVATE APPOINTMENTS Brian does recommend American medium TIM BRAUN at 626 308 1614.
HEAVEN CAN HELP (2nd edition - 2007) has been carefully revised with additional chapters and expanded material. It is an excellent guidebook for anyone seeking further knowledge about mediumship. Here you will find accounts of rare séance phenomena, psychic surgery, Indian mystics and amusing descriptions of people and events that helped form the author's philosophy of life. The book includes personal family photos and tributes to several famous mediums. HEAVEN CAN HELP provides valuable information for all those who have lost loved ones and who are seeking closure, comfort and peace.
TO ORDER: Call 1-800-288 4677
or visit www.iuniverse.com“HEAVEN CAN HELP is the best book I have seen on communion with the other world. Brian Hurst has a concise, witty, readable style. I recommend it unreservedly.” RICHARD COANDA Ph.D.
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION:
Brian Edward Hurst was born in Huntingdon, England. He attended Huntingdon Grammar School where he was known as a budding poet and actor, playing the melancholy Jaques in the school production of Shakespeare's AsYou Like It.
At the age of 19 he moved to London and won a Major County Award to study at The London Guildhall School of Music and Drama. There he appeared in a number of productions and also performed as a film extra and actor for the BBC Producers' Training School. He graduated with a Performer's Diploma in Speech and Drama.
Brian taught at a Junior High School in London for three years, prior to leaving for India, where he taught English in Ahmedabad, Gujarat State, for two years.
Returning to England, he was offered employment as a specialist remedial teacher by the Cambridgeshire Education Authority, and held that position until he left England for the USA in 1980.
Throughout this time, Brian was attending Spiritualist Churches as a speaker and demonstrator during weekends. For many years he was a Trustee of the Huntingdon Spiritualist Church in Cambridgeshire. In 1978 and 1979 he witnessed and photographed the amazing husband and wife team from Australia, David and Helen Elizalde performing bare-hand psychic surgery in the healing rooms at the back of the church. Later, he defended the healers on the front page of London's Psychic News. (At the request of David and Helen Elizalde, whose healing methods have now changed, the photographs and other information about their psychic surgery have been removed from this website)
Moving to California in 1980, Brian enrolled in California State College, San Bernardino, and was the prize-winning poet there in 1981. The Parapsychology Association of Riverside also certified him as a teacher and lecturer.
Later moving to Manhattan Beach, Brian was consulted by the young James Van Praagh. James received a message that he would one day be a well-known medium. James acknowledges this in his books.
In the early 1980's Brian worked for some time in a doctor's office and later began to do daily sittings where he established his reputation for providing detailed information from deceased personalities. At that time he also visited many hundreds of homes in Southern California, lecturing and demonstrating his abilities.
Left: Brian Hurst with Doris Tate, mother of murdered movie star Sharon Tate. Doris was a wonderful advocate for the Parents of Murdered Children. She has now passed to the higher life. Center: World famous London independent voice medium Leslie Flint with Brian Hurst, taken at Manhattan Beach about 1985. Right: Brian Hurst with James Van Praagh, taken in West Hollywood about 1996.
Soon Brian moved to Hollywood where he gave sittings to a number of movie stars and other celebrities. His friend Leslie Flint the well-known London medium came for vacations to Hollywood, staying at the house next door. Brian was invited in to witness a number of darkroom physical phenomena séances. In Leslie's séance room Brian experienced the amazing disembodied voices of Dame Ellen Terry, Sir Oliver Lodge, Lionel Barrymore, Maurice Chevalier and his own Uncle Henry who gave him a highly evidential message from his deceased mother. The spirits were perfectly audible as they spoke in the darkened séance room and were clearly recorded by Brian and by several other sitters who were present.
For those who are unsure how dead people might genuinely speak in a séance room please see the Dutch website www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/deathnoe.html
which has good information about Leslie Flint and the creation of 'ectoplasmic voice boxes.' These strange floating materializations have been photographed with special infrared cameras. French Nobel prize-winning physiologist Prof. Charles Richet was able to prove the reality of these floating voice boxes and also the reality of ectoplasm as a temporary materialization. (He coined the word 'ectoplasm') These voice boxes served as a vehicle for the energy beings we call spirits to resonate on our vibrational frequency and to be recorded in Leslie's séance room, in many instances as instantly recognizable personalities. Sitters also heard, in addition to family members, the voices of Dame Ellen Terry, Frederick Chopin, George Bernard Shaw, Queen Victoria, Amy Johnson, Leslie Howard, Maurice Chevalier, Lionel Barrymore, John Brown (Queen Victoria's medium), Oscar Wilde, William Randolph Hearst, Gertrude Lawrence, Sir William Crookes, Sir Oliver Lodge and many others. The medium's own throat was never used and these voices manifested independently through the floating voice boxes that were temporarily created in the air above Leslie's head. (See photographs on the Dutch website above)
All grieving people should know of this truth: Leslie Flint's mediumship proved survival beyond death and communication with another world. He was tested on numerous occasions by skeptical scientists from the British Society for Psychical Research and was never found to be fraudulent. We should not fear death. It is "the biggest illusion of the lot," as the beautiful voice of Dame Ellen Terry remarked at a séance in Hollywood in 1987. She died in 1928 and to prove her continued existence and excellent memory she quoted Portia's speech from the Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare: "The quality of mercy is not strained..." She was word perfect in spite of having been 'dead' for so many years!
Excellent photographs of these ectoplasmic voice boxes may also be seen in "THE MEDIUMSHIP OF JACK WEBBER" by Harry Edwards, published by The Harry Edwards Spiritual Healing Trust, U.K. Jack Webber was a Welsh coal miner who had a similar gift to Leslie Flint. Jack died as a young man in 1940 after several séance room injuries where ignorant people turned on lights, causing the ectoplasm to fly back to the medium's body too rapidly, producing shock. To some extent all physical mediums risk their lives and health when they sit for members of the public. Apart from the extreme rarity of physical mediumship, people with this extraordinary gift legitimately do not want to be injured by skeptics who may have negative personal agendas. That may be one reason why the average person does not get the opportunity to experience these things.
Leslie's autobiography: Voices in the Dark - My life as a Medium has now been reprinted and tells the story of this amazing medium who died in April 1994 aged 83 after sixty years' service to the Spiritualist Movement. The Leslie Flint Educational Foundation has been created to further the work of this dedicated medium. The Foundation offers for sale copies of some of the spirit voices received over the years in Leslie's London séance room. As some of the recordings are over thirty years old, the public should not expect perfect reproduction. Nevertheless these messages from the world beyond death are a challenge to all thinking people and offer valid proof of survival. To learn more about Brian's mentor see: http://www.leslieflint.com
In 1992 Brian bought his first American home in Reseda in the San Fernando Valley and conducted small group demonstrations there on a regular basis.
Physical Mediumship at Brian's home:
In 1997 the four members of the Scole Experimental Group visiting from England held eight highly successful physical phenomena séances in Brian Hurst's blacked out garage. Over 160 people witnessed the spirit lights that flew rapidly around the room and entered the bodies of some sitters who needed healing. There was also levitation of a small round table identified by luminous tabs. At various times spirit voices spoke rapidly from different corners of the room. Wind chimes that had a luminous paddle were also played loudly and then levitated around the pitch-dark garage, being ultimately placed back on a tiny hook in the rafters. Most impressive was the actual materialization of spirit arms and hands that moved around, touching people in the circle. One group also experienced the rapid footsteps of a spirit known as "the marathon man" as he circled the garage in partially materialized form, creating strong breezes that were felt by everyone present.
The four mediums, Robin and Sandra Foy, Alan & Diana Bennett, wore luminous armbands fastened with Velcro, and did not, at any time, leave their seats. Alan and Diana were in deep trance for most of the sittings, conveying messages from various spirit personalities who described with 100% accuracy the various phenomena as it occurred. Robin played background music on a small tape recorder, while his wife Sandra, a powerful and natural medium, spoke at intervals to the sitters.
One lady said: "I reached out in the dark and felt a warm man's hand. I shook hands with the spirit, then curiously I leaned forward to touch the elbow and then the shoulder. I was quite shocked to find that the warm, living arm had no body attached."
During one of the sittings people also felt the physical presence of an affectionate cat with a long furry tail that rubbed against their legs. On another occasion sitters commented that they could feel the presence of a friendly dog that wagged its tail and moved among them in a materialized form. From these very real experiences it can be deduced that animals also survive physical death and can manifest in séance rooms when there is suitable power and loving acceptance.
The fact that such amazing phenomena could be reproduced so far from the dark cellar in Scole, Norfolk where the sittings originally took place, greatly impressed researchers. The Scole mediums made psychic history by their successful visit to California and the powerful impact they made upon the delighted sitters. A full account of the first sitting in the darkened garage is included in Brian's autobiography "HEAVEN CAN HELP," now republished by iUniverse in a new revised format with additional photographs and chapters. The first edition had some good reviews and sold many copies. This version is even better and includes detailed information about rare seance phenomena and suggestions for personal development.
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BELOW: The Scole Experimental Group: L to R. Robin Foy, Diana Bennett, Alan Bennett and Sandra Foy. Taken at the home of Robin and Sandra Foy. ( A former rectory in Scole, Norfolk, U.K.)
For those interested in some of the best modern scientific evidence for life after death, see the Scole Group's new website at: http://www.thescoleexperiment.com/
TV Appearances:
Brian has appeared on Channel 4's The Other Side, Answers a Pasadena talk show, Hard Copy and Extra.
In a two-hour A & E Cable documentary entitled Beyond Death, first shown on April 30th, 2000, Brian was able to tell a Chinese lady the name of the exact dialect her family had used when on Earth. Beyond Death, (a Margaret Wendt production) received very positive reviews for its factual presentation of this subject. Examples of Brian's colorful paintings were also featured on several of the above programs.
Brian also had positive coverage in Best Kept Secrets of the Paranormal on The Learning Channel in February 2001. The excerpt, taped at one of the monthly group meetings, showed a skeptical widow challenging the medium to contact her deceased husband. With the assistance of spirit guide Dr. Grant, Brian was able to receive an excellent message from the 'other side' in which the 'dead' husband gave precise names and referred to the family dog Sophie. He also said they had adopted a Hispanic boy, although the family was Jewish by faith. Obvious recognition by the lady and her two sons proved dramatic and inspiring. One of the editors of the videotape commented that he found the subject matter "most moving," and it inspired him to research further into the psychic realm. The show has since been repeated a number of times because of public interest in the subject.
Brian wishes to thank the many people who called his home number to express appreciation of his appearance on Best Kept Secrets of the Paranormal. He regrets he could not reply to each caller individually.
A Testimonial from many hundreds:
"My own sitting was an amazing profound experience as Brian connected my brother and me to our father and my daughter, who had been murdered only 3 months earlier. Almost immediately Brian said, 'Who is Jenny?' My daughter's name was Jennifer, which he did not know. A few minutes later, he said 'I'm hearing Tom Tom the piper's son. Does this mean anything to you?' Tom was the name of Jennifer's killer. Brian went on to describe their personalities to a tee, and brought out many accurate and salient details. My father's sense of humor came across just as fine-tuned 'over there' as it was while he was here in a physical body. All in all, my brother and I spent an extraordinary ninety minutes with Brian, and I only wish we could do it again!"
Sheila Lowe: Author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Handwriting Analysis.
HEALTH INFORMATION FROM BRIAN:
Lyme disease - an alternative treatment when antibiotics don't work:
"Get six medium sized cloves (not heads!) of raw garlic, peel off the outer skin, crush the cloves on a board, put them in a kitchen blender with organic Aloe Vera juice and blend them together. Store the mixture in a sealed jug in the refrigerator. (This gives several days' supply) Drink a small shot glass of this mixture twice a day on an empty stomach. You can mix it with papaya, grape or apple juice to make the taste more palatable. Do this religiously every day for six months and don't take any more antibiotics.
To those who would cheat with garlic capsules: They do not work. You must use the actual living raw garlic to get results. After drinking the mixture, eat your food, brush your teeth and use mouthwash and the odor disappears. Spirit Guide Dr. Grant says that this treatment is also effective for chronic fatigue syndrome and related diseases.
I have given details of this treatment to a number of people suffering from Lyme disease and have had excellent feedback from them. I now put this information on the Internet, as I know it can help many that are afflicted. Antibiotics are not always successful in curing Lyme disease. God's natural plant juices work better! Dr. Grant has been one of my spirit helpers for a number of years. He once said 'I will grant you knowledge, therefore you can call me Doctor Grant. That was not my real name.' He obviously wishes to work anonymously, in common with many advanced souls."
Artificial Sweeteners:
With any neurological problems it is also advisable to avoid the use of NUTRASWEET or ASPARTAME (marketed as "EQUAL") as there is considerable evidence that this substance is dangerous for many people. Children especially are vulnerable to Aspartame and should NOT be given diet sodas or allowed to chew gum that contains this substance. Research has shown that aspartame can bring on epileptic seizures in those who are prone to these. Recent research has labeled Aspartame as a neuro-toxin and European health authorities are re-examining whether it should be withdrawn from use. The only truly safe alternative sweetener, which can be used freely by all, including diabetics, is STEVIA. STEVIA, a natural plant extract, used for many years in South America and Asia is available now from most Health Food Stores. Stevia does not affect blood sugar levels. See also the following websites:
www.dorway.com
www.holisticmed.com/aspartame
How Dr. Grant diagnosed a mysterious illness:
"While I was living in London, a Mrs. Kathleen Hendry of Leicester consulted me about her son who was employed in a government biological research establishment. He had come down with a mysterious disease and she was most concerned about her son's continued weakness and recurring fever. During the sitting I first became aware of this personality called Dr. Grant who spontaneously told me that Mrs. Hendry's son was suffering from 'Bruce - ill - osis.' I had never heard of such a peculiar disease. The sounds were broken up in my mind exactly as I have printed them. We managed to find a medical dictionary and rapidly discovered that Brucellosis or undulant fever, was a disease caught from drinking contaminated cows' milk, or from other contact with infected cattle. When Mrs. Hendry returned to Leicester and told her son about this extraordinary diagnosis, he immediately was tested for Brucellosis. The results were positive. He had been handling biological samples from animals and had obviously been exposed to the disease in this manner. This was, to me, a startling example of spiritual inspiration which helped heal a very sick person."
HERBAL TREATMENT FOR BRONCHIAL CONGESTION:
Always keep the following dried herbs in your kitchen:
Coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara)
Mullein (Verbascum thapsus)
Horehound (Marrubium vulgare)
Preparation: 1 tablespoonful of each in a large teapot. Fill the pot with boiling water and infuse the herbs for at least 10 minutes. Pour out half a teacupful through a strainer, sweeten with honey (Horehound is bitter) and drink this tea three times daily. Bronchial congestion should clear up in two to three days. If not, see your doctor. This formula has worked miracles for Brian and all his friends who have tried it. Get your herbs from a reliable source. People who live many miles from a doctor or hospital should keep this herbal combination as a standby in the event of a health crisis.
To read an interview with Brian E. Hurst and see excerpts from "Death - The Beginning" by Tatiana Elmanovich in which she documents the work of this medium (together with photographs)
see: www.tanika.com
Brian has an extensive write-up in GEORGE DALZELL'S excellent book:
MESSAGES - EVIDENCE FOR LIFE AFTER DEATH now published by Hampton Roads as a paperback at $13.95. George Dalzell is a licensed mental health worker. "MESSAGES" is his first book. In it George refers to Brian as "The Wizard of Reseda" and documents the excellent messages received from a deceased father and a close friend, Michael Keller killed on a German motorway.
See: www.georgedalzell.com
The 'Wizard of Reseda' has a complete chapter in Preston Dennett's thrilling and beautifully illustrated work "California Ghosts - True Accounts of Hauntings in the Golden State" Published by Schiffer. ISBN: 0-7643-1972-8. Available through B.Dalton & other bookstores.
Brian has yet another detailed write-up from a skeptic-turned-believer in "Widowed Too Soon - A young widow's journey through Grief, Healing and Spiritual Transformation" by Laura Hirsch - ISBN: 1-4184-2599-0. Published by AuthorHouse.com - See: http://www.widowedtoosoon.com
Cheryl Booth's beautifully written book: "Johnny Angel is my Brother - A Psychic Medium's Journey" gives constant credit to Brian's mediumship and prophetic ability. See http://www.cherylbooth.com Cheryl is at present based in Toluca Lake, Los Angeles, CA., where she gives phone readings and demonstrations. Toll free phone # is 877-271-8218.
Further links: See Judy Guggenheim's detailed Website at
http://www.after-death.com
for information about other psychics and mediums.
To browse through a large selection of online works about mediums and Spiritualism see the following web pages:
For those interested in parapsychological investigation and books on ghosts and haunted houses see Michael J. Koury's fascinating website at http://www.icghosts.com
Michael's phone number is 626 791 1129.
AUTOMATIC WRITING:
The following poem was completed early in August 2005, immediately prior to the Louisiana flood disaster and Hurricane Katrina. Was that a coincidence or a prophetic warning?
THE BALLAD OF NEW ATLANTIS
As earth rolled on around the sun, in its eternal way,
And darkness crept, and cities slept, and some awoke to day,
The golden host earth needed most showed signs of storm and change
And sunspots rose as gray mould grows, in a way both new and strange.
His thinking beams were sending streams of electrons into space.
Within his belt the planets felt the impulse of his face.
On earth men’s eyes showed keen surprise as they peered into the sky.
There was little hope that the telescope would help them rectify
The gross misdeeds. None intercedes when fools have fired too far
With forests gone from Amazon and rivers black as tar,
And human clones with brittle bones and crafty ones in power
Who quickly lie, send kids to die in foreign wars turned sour.
No longer clear, the atmosphere played havoc from on high,
With climate change, unusual range of weather, warmth, whereby
Dramatic price was melting ice from north and southern poles
And rising ocean’s endless motion brought floods, beyond controls.
Earth’s thunderstorms caused many forms of damage, far and near,
And rivers burst, and farmers cursed tornadoes stripping clear
Fine fertile land to desert sand that none could soon renew,
For treeless plains discourage rains and early morning dew.
So churches prayed, and strong states played their usual game of threat,
And marchers planned that war be banned as heads of countries met.
Distrust reigned strong as ages long made leaders hate to share,
Their worldly wealth with those whose health caused infinite despair.
For hope soon fades for babes with AIDS and starving mothers too,
And homeless folk, who wandering, broke, with little else to do,
Need shelter, care, and what is fair and guidance through and through.
Earth loves her own. Could she atone for the pain her children cause?
They took no heed that grab and greed flout nature’s subtle laws.
The days went by as disaster high attacked the lands and seas.
The daily shakes of major quakes caused panic, death, disease.
Long-steady earth at this rebirth rotated on her side,
And the tropics changed as the sun arranged, and countries screamed and cried.
Earth felt and throbbed, such lives were robbed, as climates rearranged,
And oceans shifted, islands lifted as all around was changed.
Not all the land was ocean sand when the mighty shift occurred.
Earth kept some back from the sea’s attack for man, and beast, and bird.
Scotland stayed, and Ireland prayed, and the deep Atlantic bed
Now rose up high to the wind-swept sky, in brown, and gray, and red.
Some fled to space. The frantic race to soar beneath the stars
Sent astronauts from several ports to journey far to Mars.
While those in space above the face of hurricane and storm
Recorded all, both large and small, attempting to inform
Any station of each nation where Nature’s wrath might fall.
But small and frail beneath the hail some had no chance at all.
Those lands where oil was drawn through soil, and pumps persistent ran
Now quickly found the solid ground collapsed. Their end began.
A mighty flood of swirling mud swept thousands in its way,
And water won! The day was done. The sea was there to stay.
Some made a stand on higher land, some lived on anchored yacht,
Some used the sun for power to run amenities they’d got.
When all was still in vale and hill and the earth was mapped again,
The sun shone calm, but the months of harm had changed the remaining men.
With broken pride once more they tried to tame the ravaged land,
To plough and sow, and reap and mow with what they had in hand.
When fierce storms abated soft winds created power for farmers to share,
And animal dung collected and flung grew corn that was healthy and fair .
No chemical brews and incredible stews and genetically modified wheat,
For Mankind had learned he got what he earned, and must pay what he stole down the street.
All this I dreamed, or so it seemed. Did it happen so long ago?
And can we sense long past events now hidden in time’s flow?
And what is time? To end this rhyme a question for a sage:
If I could quite speed up to light would I no longer age?
Where lies the suture with past and future when present is all the rage?
Will Shakespeare said in his wise young head: "All the world’s a stage."
This surely means the shifting scenes occur from age to age.
(Copyright Brian Edward Hurst 2005)
Don't forget to visit: http://www.leslieflint.com
http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/deathnoe.html
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