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I didn't know it at the time, but I was born to search for spiritual truth. This is my destiny. It has brought me both joy and woe and, most importantly, shown me that at the end of the winding pathways of adversity and delight lies my spiritual homeland.

I suppose that I've always been psychic. I can remember that from early childhood I used to see things: figures in my bedroom at night, colours around people's heads and often had dreams that came true. Also, throughout my life I had an uncanny ability to read peoples thoughts and my telepathic abilities used to astonish, and sometimes frighten, my family and friends.

Of course, mediumistic abilities are more than just mind reading as I will endeavour to prove later. But psychic skills were most certainly with both my wife Jane and I from an early age. In my case they were at first haphazard and it wasn't until I met the medium and police sergeant Peter Close, the brother of England's cricket team captain Brian Close, who trained me in his circle, that the jigsaw puzzle fell into place. It was if I'd suddenly found what I was searching for all my life and my psychic skills developed at a remarkable rate. Now I knew how to turn the psychic switch on and off and was no longer at the mercy of sometimes unwanted clairvoyant insights.

Soon I could give clear and precise evidence of survival and was able to consciously develop my abilities. Teaching psychic self-development has become an integral part of my work today.

Jane's mediumistic development was quite different. "My grandmother realised that I was a very psychic child" says Jane "she was very interested in psychic things herself, although not a professional medium, she was able to guide my psychic progress. She would do this at first through guessing games and finally taught me to see pictures in a crystal ball which she helped me to interpret. In this way I was able to understand how to develop ESP from an early age"

By the time Jane and I met we were both mediumisticly advanced. It was Jane's dead grandmother who introduced us. I was giving a public demonstration of mediumship in Eastleigh and linked with Jane in the audience. I described and named her grandmother Barber in the spirit who insisted that we meet up. We did; fell in love and were soon married.

But the person who mainly partly responsible for our coming together was the late medium Doris Stokes

Thousands thronged to see Doris Stokes's public demonstrations of mediumship. She became the world's best known medium and in her simple, unassuming way popularised the knowledge that had previously been limited only to Spiritualists and other similar organisations. She was famous all over the world and could fill the London Palladium or Sydney Opera House to capacity.

When my sister Vivienne lost her husband from cancer soon after she was married, it was Doris Stokes who helped take the heavy burden of grief from her shoulders. I went with Viv to the sitting and was astonished at the things Doris also said to me.

She 'knew' about my problems as a single parent with a baby of 16 months to look after; she described my grandmother in the spirit world and made some predictions about my business, how I would travel and who and when I would marry.

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Two predictions came to pass almost instantly. At the time I was running my own Advertising Agency and she named a blue chip company that I'd be doing work for. A few weeks later, and out of the blue, the company rang me up with a big order that was to put me on a firmer financial footing- Doris had even given me the name of the man who would place the order.

She also said that I'd be going to America with my friend Stuart. Stuart Martin, a long time friend, was offered a temporary teaching job on an American 'camp'. Before I realised what Doris had said I found myself on the plane to LA ready to meet up with him.

But the most remarkable prediction that Doris made, although she always said that she couldn't see the future, was concerning my future wife. "Jane Wallis" she had said "You will meet your future wife Jane Wallis on the 6th of March" It took a good few years but it was the 6th of March that Jane and I met at a demonstration of mediumship I was giving to an audience in Eastleigh. I relayed a spirit communication to Jane sat in the audience with a message from her grandmother Barber and concluded by saying that she was telling me that Jane was mediumistic too and that I should have a consultation with her. I am not in the habit of asking members of the audience for a consultation. Heads turned when I made the request. It was a bit embarrassing but a meeting was arranged

We met, fell immediately in love and were soon married. Jane's surname was Willis, which was pretty close to Doris's prediction but her grandmother, who had pulled the strings from the spirit side, had the maiden name of Wallis. Doris Stokes had not only got the date of our meeting correct but all the associated names right as well!

The Stokes family were important to Jane also. "I got to know John Stokes after Doris Stokes had passed to spirit" says Jane "He originally came down to my home in Eastleigh to help a friend of mine who needed some spiritual healing- not many people know about John's healing gift. We got on with each other straight away and often used to meet up, together with his adopted son Terry, at his friend Terry Carter's house in Portsmouth. John was a lovely, kind man and I thought of him as a second father."

Jane's father had died some years ago and when we decided to get married it was John Stokes who Jane asked to give her away in church. We often wonder if Doris Stokes was there too- watching it all from the afterlife.

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