SEANCES WITH GOD: GOD THROUGH THE AGES BY DR JACKIE JONES-HUNT BA (Hons), PG DipCG, MPhil, PhD. This vital research is essential for any person enquiring into the science and religious basis underlying mediumship and amazingly shows mediumship is a unifying factor for all the spiritual religions of the world.
Dr Jackie Jones-Hunt BA (Hons), PG DipCG, MPhil, PhD	Available in paperback version for only: £9 inc p&p* * UK only USA: $27.52 inc p&p Australia: $43.24 inc p&p Europe: €21.25 inc p&p PLEASE NOTE: For an accurate exchange rate please use our currency converter below.   click here to order Available as PDF download for only: £7* * UK only USA: $13.76 Australia: $17.80 Europe: €10.60 PLEASE NOTE: For an accurate exchange rate please use our currency converter below.   click here to order   "...exhaustive survey of the literature... can thoroughly recommend this book..." Prof A Roy Former President of Scotish Society for Psychic Research & the Society for Psychical Research, Vice President for SPR, Astronomer Royale, Myers Memorial Medal for Psycical Research   A valuable and original work and a major contribution to the understanding of the complex subject of mediumship..." Prof Hassam, Senator & Minister Plenipotentiary for the International States of Parliament for Safety and Peace, Chancellor of Rutherford University, Canada   "A comprehensive survey of the history of relations between the psychic and the spiritual drawing on a vast range of sources and culminating in an evaluation of the 18th century scientist and seer Swedenborg." David Lorimer Vice President of the Swedenborg Society   "This is a remarkable and revolutionary book which sheds a new light on familiar religious traditions. It is comprehensive, thoroughly researched, and very thought-provoking." Professor Rupert Sheldrake   "Looks great! It is library material – the information is pure gold. It is really a lifetime reference book. Looking at mediumship /spiritualism in historical context – is something that will be most useful for me in my next book." Victor James Zammit, B.A.(Psych), Grad. Dip. Ed., M.A.(Legal Hist.), LL.B, Ph.D, lawyer, Euro-Australian, is an attorney-at-law, Solicitor of the Supreme Court of the New South Wales and the High Court of Australia (ret.), & Australian Psychical Researcher.

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1. The author, Dr. J. Jones-Hunt, in her exhaustive survey of the literature concerning the world’s psychic sensitives, has gathered together and discussed the most reliable studies made of every type of sensitive….One of the consequences of such a comparative study is that it highlights the "family resemblances" in the phenomena and their interpretations over the types of sensitive to be found around the world…I can thoroughly recommend this book as one of undoubted value to anyone who has an open mind…”

Professor Archie E. Roy Founding President of the Scottish Society for Psychical Research (SSPR), Former President of the SPR 1993-95 (London, UK) and Vice President of the SPR, Astronomer Royale. 

Professor Archie E. Roy graciously wrote the Foreword for Seances with God and he recommends it be read by any serious student of psychical research In 2004 he was awarded the Myers Memorial Medal for outstanding contributions to psychical research, this is not an annual award but given only when a suitable candidate has been found. The medal commemorates the work of Frederick Myers one of the founding fathers of the SPR and his book a classic today first published in 1903, namely, Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death. . He is Astronomer Royale and researches into celestial mechanics.

2. "Séances with God explores the scientific and historical basis of mediumship. It is well written, exceptionally well researched and offers extensive coverage of mediumship and related psychic phenomenon from both a historical and scientific perspective.

The first chapter is an impressive summary of the modern state of parapsychology, it offers salient definitions of the various terms used within the field and offers summaries of the various theories used to explain psychic phenomenon. These theories range from the Universal Archive Theory and Holographic Theory through to other less common explanations. Dr. Jones-Hunt while clearly sympathetic to spiritualism offers a balanced and objective examination of the scientific evidence.

Dr. Jones-Hunt then takes us on a journey through history to decode evidence of mediumship, arguing that not only mediumship is authentic but could be the foundation stone of the religious experience. She begins by offering a cross cultural overview of various forms and then focusing on Shamanism, which is considered by many academics to be the source from which later religious traditions and experiences evolved.

In later chapters she examines in some details biblical figures and events and decodes these in the light of mediumship, since our culture is still strongly influenced by the Bible and traditions of Judaism and Christianity, this is of great significance as it removes much of the prejudice and negative connotations that mediumship has had within these traditions. She then uses Emanuel Swedenborg, as a case study, to examine a specific example of spiritual mediumship from the 18th century.

Séances with God: God through the Ages is not an easy read, it is clearly condensed knowledge gained through many, many years of research and experience and needs to be read in bit sized pieces and digested. The scientific sections of Chapter One are especially relevant and the decoding of Biblical events and figures are insightful.

It is a highly recommended volume and is one of the only textbooks on mediumship that combines an academic and scientific worldview with an understanding of spiritualism “from the inside” in print today."

Although much of orthodox religion looks upon mediumship as the work of the devil, a strong case can be made that messages received through mediumship are the very foundation of organized religion.  In Séances with God (subtitled God Through the Ages),  Jacqueline Jones-Hunt, Ph.D., makes that case, offering an abundance of evidence suggesting that what today is known as mediumship went by different names in earlier times.  “Besides the term medium and the more recent channel, other names have included shaman, witch doctor, healer, and medicine man in native cultures,” she points out.  “They have also been called fortune-tellers, oracles, seers, soothsayers, savants, and visionaries.  In religious contexts, they have been known as priests, gurus, prophets, saints, mystics, and holy ones.”   She adds in light workers, initiates, teachers, adepts, and masters as names applied by esoteric schools.

Dr. Jones-Hunt, a member of the London-based Society for Psychical Research and the the Scottish Society for Psychical Research, begins with an overview of  mediumship and related paranormal phenomena.    She discusses fraud, cryptomnesia, the “game-playing demon theory,” possession, obsession, Super-ESP, clairvoyance, trance, automatic writing, psychical research, the cross-correspondences, and various other aspects of spirit communication or purported spirit communication.   She goes on to explore mediumship in ancient Egypt, Greece, India, China, and Japan.   It was interesting to note an ancient Chinese author quoted: “Among men the dead speak through living persons whom they throw into a trance; and the wu, thrumming their black chords, call down the souls of the dead, which then speak through the mouths of the wu.”  The author doesn't mention it, but one has to wonder if this is the origin of the modern “woo-woo” reference to things mysterious. 

Jones-Hunt points out that our ancient ancestors often bequeathed the status of god or gods upon otherworldly communicators.  The ancestor worship in Japan is believed to have resulted from such spirit communication.  The Greeks, including Pythagoras, Plato, and Plotinus, often deified their ethereal communications, the author adds, stating that  “they would progressively gain spiritual and eschatological knowledge from these communicators.  Their objective was to contribute to humankind's attainment of spiritual progress, thereby emancipating them from the endless wheel of rebirth and therefore ultimately restoring them to their rightful and original habitat in the Heavenly realm.”

In discussing shamanism in such diverse places as North America, Hawaii, Indonesia, Siberia, and Oceania, Jones-Hunt draws upon other researchers in showing how the shamanistic altered states of consciousness were much the same as those of more recent mystics and mediums as well as out-of-body experiencers and remote viewers. She devotes a full chapter to the Emanuel Swedenborg, the renowned 18th Century scientist and inventor turned seer and mystic, discussing the parallels between his apparent clairvoyance and out-of-body travel with shamanism and more recent mediumship.

Much of the author's research was devoted to investigating the apparent mediumistic phenomena in the Bible.  She suggests that much biblical terminology, such as God spoke, the lord spoke, the lord appeared, the angel of the lord was upon him, the gifts of the spirit, talking in tongues, enquire of the lord, can be interpreted as communication with spirits.  Moreover, Yahweh and “the Lord” may have been celestial messengers rather than an anthropomorphic deity.   “Modern observers of mediumistic phenomena are empowered not to perceive these narratives as subjective pictorial images but as objective experiences of communications.” Jones-Hunt writes, adding that various books of the Old Testament which appear to prohibit mediumship are likely the result of misunderstanding, misinterpretation and mistranslations and are inconsistent with New Testament passages saying that the spirits should be tested and their messages discerned.

Likewise, there appear to be frequent references to the mediumistic trance state in the Bible, such as in Job where it states when deep sleep falls on men and For God does speak - now one way, now another - though man may not perceive it, in a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men.  In the New Testament, we read in Acts that Peter went on the roof to pray…fell into a trance…then a voice told him.  Jones-Hunt suggests, as many other students of the Bible have, that Jesus chose his disciples based on their mediumistic gifts.

Jones-Hunt stresses that the stories of spirit contact through the ages do not offer absolute proof of survival beyond physical death, but they certainly offer strong evidence in that direction.  “The historically memorable spiritual biblical figures laid the foundation stones for spiritual and eschatological teachings,” she concludes. “The underlying unifying theme of these past and present mediumistic experiences, is that they teach that a God exists, that non-material existence occurs after death for all creatures, that forms of punishment do occur in keeping with perfect non-personal natural laws…that contact can be accessed during the material life and that these experiences can raise humankind's spiritual consciousness.”

The Foreword of the book is written by Archie E. Roy, professor emeritus of astronomy at Glasgow University. “In our superior wisdom we smile pityingly at those who still clutch at the drifting matchwood raft of religion in all its many worldwide forms and dare not learn to swim stoically in the ocean of truth, accepting the reality that we are simply clever animals, our minds but the brain in action, struggling to survive in an aloof, uncaring physical world,” Roy writes, going on to say that the “purest unmuddied stream of those teachings - the perennial philosophy - can be discerned as a consensus given by the highest of those teachers and sensitives - love one another; do unto others as you would have them do unto you; as ye sow so shall ye reap.”

If only orthodox religion would open its mind to what Dr. Jones-Hunt so clearly discusses in this book, perhaps we might see a true and much needed spiritual reawakening in the world.   If only…

Michael Tymn of The Academy of Spirituality and Paranormal Studies. (The Academy has 2 Publications The Searchlight & The Journal of Spirituality and Paranormal Studies.)  www.lightlink.com/arpr/  metgat.zaadz.com

4. "A comprehensive survey of the history of relations between the psychic and the spiritual drawing on a vast range of sources and culminating in an evaluation of the 18th century scientist and seer Swedenborg."

David Lorimer Vice President of the Swedenborg Society

5. "Looks great! It is library material – the information is pure gold. It is really a lifetime reference book. Looking at mediumship/spiritualism in historical context – is something that will be most useful for me in my next book. 'SEANCES WITH GOD': This is a very important book- A book by Dr Jackie Jones-Hunt. This is a fascinating book on spirits and mediums. It is exciting and an astounding shock for many people as it turns the tables entirely on orthodoxy and shows the mediumistic traits and practices of many eminent spiritual leaders, many of whom we hear about in the Bible. Early chapters deal with examples of mediumship from the ancient: Shamans, Egyptians, Chinese, Japanese, Middle Eastern, - 12th to the 18th centuries and beyond."

Victor James Zammit, B.A.(Psych), Grad. Dip. Ed., M.A.(Legal Hist.), LL.B, Ph.D, lawyer, Euro-Australian, is an attorney-at-law, Solicitor of the Supreme Court of the New South Wales and the High Court of Australia (ret.), & Australian Psychical Researcher.

6. "This is a remarkable and revolutionary book which sheds a new light on familiar religious traditions. It is comprehensive, thoroughly researched, and very thought-provoking."

Professor Rupert Sheldrake

7. "I recommend this thoroughly researched book to all those enquiring into knowledge about life after death. Based on my 50 years of personal experience with Psychoenergetic Phenomena and humans manifesting same, their origin is not in space-time even though they yield correlates that have space-time manifestations.  Over these years, I have had dozens of interviews/sessions with mediums and sensitives, about a half dozen of these were truly remarkable, perceptive and correct in the details of their predictions except in the area of timing of the events.  It makes one think that they were communicating with beings existing in realms beyond space-time and had no significant experience with time.  My working hypothesis is that the information derives from the hierarchy of spirit operating in "unseen" realms and the best of that hierarchy would not refer to themselves as "God", but would think of "God" as their "Source". From my personal experiments with these non-space time realms, the physics is real and lawful but it follows rules quite different than those of our traditional space-time physics.  Thus, it is extremely easy to misinterpret such information when one follows only the rules of space-time physics."

Prof William A. Tiller Prof. Emeritus of Stamford University (Author and Founder of the Tiller Foundation) USA

8.  "What particularly strikes me with this book is the sheer range of topics covered. Not only that, the author analyses the evidence for ancient and modern cases of mediumship from an interesting perspective seldom covered. This is definitely an important addition to the existing literature on psychical research."

Thomas Jones - Webmaster and co-founder of www.SurvivalAfterDeath.org

9. "Dr. J. Jones-Hunt's book ‘Séances with God' leads us through a fascinating exploration of the main sources of ancient wisdom, from shamans to more recent mediumistic communications. It is comprehensive and highly informative. I particularly appreciated the emphasis put on the essential connection between the contents of the communications and their spiritual implications as well as the concern of the writer for highlighting in her work the inseparable and interdependent aspects of all manifestations of life. The chapter on Emanuel Swedenborg is particularly interesting and achieves the difficult task of presenting this colossal figure to a wide range of the public in an easily comprehensible way. This book is a valuable tool for all those who wish to reach a holistic view of the meaning of life."

Dr Anabela Cardoso. Founder and Editor of the ITC Journal and Director of the ITC Journal Research Centre. (Electronic Voice Phenomena.)

10. “A valuable and original work and a major contribution to the understanding of the complex subject of mediumship. Dr Jackie Jones-Hunt's excellent book is likely to become a foundational resource for all students of psychical research and spiritual studies. This is a wide ranging, comprehensive work, which is valuable as a reference volume for students of psychical research and also of spiritual studies whatever their age. A very readable thought provoking book which helps the reader understand the possible unseen realms and how like might attract like in these landscapes.”

Professor Abdul S.Hassam PhD., DSc.(hon.), Senator and Minister Plenipotentiary for the International States Parliament for Safety and Peace, (ABMPP), Chancellor and
Dean of Rutherford University based in British Columbia, Canada, USA, Swaziland.

11. “This is a most insightful book which offers extensive detailed research to prove that mediumship is an ancient and on-going phenomenon. It explores the relationship of mediumship, spiritually orientated angelic-spirit communicators of the highest order – throughout the ages and global spiritual philosophies. It powerfully enhances the reader's understanding of humankind's evolving religious-spiritual maturation which still has a long way to go with respect to how we treat each other, other animals and the Planet.”

Dr Bahadur Manji, PhD., Author of Flowers of Divine Knowledge and researcher in religious studies, Canada

12. "This book should be read by anyone interested in the many facets of mediumship and, in particular, in evidence for the survival of the dead.”

Dr Crawford Knox. Former Trustee and Hon. Treasurer of the Alistair Hardy Research Centre (AHRC) Oxford, UK and former Council Member of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) London, UK.

13. “What I have read is exceedingly good and I am sure will be valued by all who read it…May I wish you every success…and trust that your hard work will be rewarded by the appeal it will have amongst those who are discerning!”

Eric Hatton. First and only Honorary President of the Spiritualist National Union, ( Arthur Findlay College , Essex , UK .) Minister of the SNU and the J.V. Trust Chairperson, UK .

14. "A comprehensive and well thought out work, correlating historical and biblical events with modern-day mediumship. A must for the serious student of psychic research."

Dr Robin P. Foy PhD - Psychic Researcher and Spiritual Scientist (Including the Scole Experiment-Involved as a participant sitter and investigator in the Scole Phenomena.)

15."This is an inspiring book that will enlighten all who have the good fortune to read it. Full of detail and fascinating subjects, Dr Jackie Jones Hunt has surpassed herself in the fluid and absorbing manner in which she captures the reader's attention. This book is a 'must read' for all those studying the paranormal and want to know more. I found it an enthralling read."

The Psychic Times, Simon Forsyth, www.thepsychictimes.com

16."Seances with God' is an important contribution to a debate which has continued through the ages: what is the source of "divine wisdom," and is there any difference between the religious visionary and the psychic medium? In an age where religious divides threaten the peace of the entire world, it is more crucial than ever that we try harder to see where all this originated. Placing religious visions into a new context, finding common ground between superficially separate faiths and building bridges between the traditional and the alternative may be one of the steps that could bring about a new, safer path of understanding. Dr Jones-Hunt makes an admirable effort to do exactly this, and her well-researched and very readable book is recommended to anyone seeking a new clarity on old problems."

17. "I was overwhelmed by the book Seances with God:God through the Ages as a whole, due to the depth and scope of the research contained in it. It is an encyclopaedic foundation stone book providing vital knowledge that has been compiled painstakingly by the author. Due to the comprehensive nature of this book it makes life easier for serious students who want to know everything to do with mediumship thoughout global history and the science indicating its authenticity."

Sonia Rinaldi Director of the Advanced Research Institute on Instrumental Transcommunication (Brazil) Author of 7 Books on ITC Research, Winner of 3 International Prizes from Switzerland & Sweden

18. "This book takes a giant leap towards synthesising evidential aspects of Psychical Research with evidence, which would appear to indicate a spiritual dimension....I would thoroughly recommend this book to anyone of an enquiring mind as almost compulsory reading."

Tricia Robertson Former President of the Scottish Society for Psychical Research, Glasgow.