This volume contains four classic spiritualist works, three by W. T. Stead and one by his daughter, Estelle. William T. Stead (1849-1912) was a well-known British investigative journalist who became interested in Spiritualism in the 1890s. In 1892, through the gift of automatic writing, he began receiving spirit communications from the recently deceased American temperance reformer and newspaperwoman Julia T. Ames, describing conditions in the next world. He published her messages in Borderland, the spiritualist quarterly he founded in 1893, and later in book form under the title After Death, or Letters From Julia. In 1909, following Julia’s suggestions from beyond, Stead established Julia’s Bureau in London, where inquirers could obtain information about the spirit world from a group of resident mediums. During this time he wrote his personal account, How I Know that the Dead Return. On April 10, 1912, Stead boarded the S.S. Titanic bound from Southampton to New York, to take part in a peace congress at Carnegie Hall. On the morning of April 15 the ship struck an iceberg and Stead, along with hundreds of others, drowned. At that time his daughter, Estelle, an actress and also a spiritualist, was on tour with her own Shakespearean company. Amongst its members was a psychically gifted man named Pardoe Woodman, who foretold the disaster as they sat talking after tea. Through Woodman’s clairvoyant powers W. T. Stead was able to communicate the messages contained in The Blue Island, “experiences of a new arrival beyond the veil.” Estelle Stead carried on her father’s work after his death. In When We Speak with the Dead she explained the possibilities and limitations of communication as viewed from her own experience, which included messages from her father “across the border.”

The Blue Island: and Other Spiritualist Writings (Life on Other Worlds)

Religion & Spirituality

Stead, W. T.

Stead, Estelle

New Age & Spirituality

Square Circles Publishing

When on April 12, 1912, the British passenger ship, RMS Titanic, famously sank 400 miles off the coast of Canada, Estelle Stead was on a tour in the United Kingdom with her own Shakespearean drama company. One of the members of her group was a young man named Pardoe Woodman. According to Estelle, a few days before the tragedy Woodman told her over tea that there was to be a great disaster at sea and that an elderly man very close to her would be among the victims. Estelle's father, British newspaper editor and pioneering journalist, William Thomas Stead was a passenger on the Titanic and went down with the ship. Five years later in 1917 Woodman began receiving messages from William Stead by means of automatic writing. Having been discharged from the army Woodman was a guest of Estelle's and she began sitting with him and recording the messages. She noted that Woodman wrote with his eyes closed and that the writing was very much like her father's. Moreover, while writing he would stop at times and go back to dot the "i's" and cross the "t's," a habit of her father's which she was sure Woodman knew nothing about. Allegedly, Stead claimed that after he died he and other deceased passengers were taken to what he described as a Blue Island, presumably, somewhere in the so-called Astral Plane. This book is a record of what he gleaned in that post physical death state; an afterlife travel guide of sorts for anyone looking for directions.

The Blue Island: Experiences of a New Arrival Beyond the Veil

Stead, William Thomas

History

White Crow Books

What ultimately happened to the 1,517 men, women, and children who, on the night of April 14, 1912, met a tragic end on the RMS Titanic? Following his own untimely death on the Titanic, British journalist William Thomas Stead returned from the spirit world to relate this extraordinary account through the automatic handwriting of medium Pardoe Woodman.
In this modern presentation of Stead's classic work, author and medium Philip Burley presents additional material for the contemporary audience: * historical material and timelines, * illustrations, * and because of his very unique role as a spiritual medium able to communicate with entities in the spirit world, the testimony of his personal dealings with the spirit author, William T. Stead.

The Blue Island: Beyond Titanic--Voyage Into Spirit

Burley, Philip

Mastery Press

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