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Helen Duncan Says “Fight on!”

A service held in Southwick Community Centre’s ‘Alcove’ room was filmed by a team from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

After the service, that saw some well known and well liked mediums, healers and church officers from other Christian Spiritualist churches amongst the congregation, a private sitting was held for the benefit of the ABC presenter, Jane Hutchins, with cameracrew Sam filming the proceedings.

With an entranced Cathy Gibb seated at the table, the church committee began to sing the Battle Hymn of the Republic, the first verse being ‘John Brown’s Body’. The youngest member of the church, Joe Wyrill, was on the boom box as usual.

Only two verses and choruses later – Kate Hibberd, Denise Mascherpa and Teresa… had been summoned to the table by Cathy – the table took off towards the camera before circling the room.
Questions were asked and the table spun in response – or remained still for ‘no’ or tacit disapproval!
The helpers went back to their seats, and after half an hour of questioning, the table guided Cathy back to her seat and became still. The medium was still entranced and began to cry. The minister who was in attendance asked if this was ‘Emma’ – the medium shook her head.

“Helen”, she said, “You must fight on”.

Cathy then regained full consciousness with tears streaming down her face.

The heavily edited item – there will be only about four minutes shown in all – will be on Australian television in a programme looking at the impact changes in the law will have on Spiritualism.

On a lighter note, it was reported that on Valentines’s Day at a similar séance, a member of the congregation had asked if he would be a father again, and he’d been closely examined by the table used as a diagnostic tool on behalf of the guides there present. He was given the affirmative – a fact not reported, but nevertheless witnessed by the 30 odd strong gathering at the time.

As Mick was being given a message from his father in spirit during this church service, he announced that his wife Emma was indeed pregnant.

“How do they (the congregation) know they’re not being conned by you?” asked the ABC presenter in the interview that took place after everyone had left.

We will all fight on.