A Visit to a Spiritualist Church

Back in the early 70's having recently moved to Duluth, I decided to accept an invitation to visit the local Spiritualist Church. The invitation was in the local newspaper and was very intriguing because I had never had the experience of hearing from the other side before.

My daughter came with me and we took a seat in the very back of the church. We witnessed the usual service and listened to a woman who spoke to the congregation while apparently in a trance. When she finished, she was a little wobbly until she fully emerged from the trance. I can't remember what she talked about. Nothing spectacular, I'm sure. Another lady sang a

lovely song or two. A child was presented with a red rose for some reason.

Then the minister of the church began to speak. A young couple seated close to us didn't say a word, but the minister assured them that their deceased child was well taken care of on the other side. The wife began to cry. She didn't audibly confirm she had lost her child, but you could see that the minister was right about her losing a child. He then pointed to a lady that I

knew slightly and said he saw that she was a healer. He was right! She was a chiropractor. I'm

sure she was a visitor just like me, not anyone that he knew.

Then he pointed to me! He said he wanted to talk to the lady in the light-colored raincoat in the back row. That was me! I had never seen him before, and he knew nothing about me. I squirmed a little, and wondered what on earth was going to happen now.

He went on to say that he saw two spirits behind me. One was a woman with her hair done in

braids coiled in back of her head. The other was a man who was having some distress in his chest.

We had been working on our family tree. My grandma who wore her hair in that fashion in the pictures we have of her and who died at the age of 29 had been on my mind a lot in the past few days, so she must have been one of the spirits. And the other spirit must have been my old boss who had been murdered by a bullet to his chest, and this was such a shock to me that he also had been on my mind much of the time. So this minister was either reading my

thoughts that had been hanging around my mind during this time, or he actually saw two spirits. He certainly had some kind of a gift. I didn't respond, but I still wonder what was really happening that day.

It was a very interesting experience!