Author Archives: Sara MacKian

>Broadcaster Rosie Millard had a right bee in her bonnet this weekend, over the question ‘should money making mediums be banned?’ discussed on this week’s Sunday Morning Live. She had a double pronged attack: firstly, that charging by these ‘con-artists’ … Continue reading →

> At The Open University we pride ourselves on being at the forefront of developments in distance learning. In the early days, this meant late night television programmes with mad scientists wearing kipper ties – the hallmark of what our … Continue reading →

> ‘In a secularised Protestant society such as Britain, the living and the dead are separated not only physically, but also conceptually, with transgressors across the boundary (ghosts, prayers for the dead, appearances of the dead to the bereaved, spiritualist … Continue reading →

> The Corn King gives his life for the land We toast his sacrifice with ale in our hand, And eat the bread, from the harvest made, As sheaves of corn to the earth are laid. — It’s the harvest … Continue reading →

> Today is ME Awareness Day and people with ME everywhere (myself included!) are fighting to get wider recognition and understanding of this debilitating and often devastating condition. As a strange coincidence I am also writing a chapter on ME … Continue reading →

>Let me introduce to you my great grandmother – who was a practicing spiritualist medium at a time when she could still have been convicted under the 1735 Witchcraft Act. Police officers would regularly attend her seances undercover, trying to … Continue reading →

> “Do we really know anything and, if so, what? And how do we know it? And how do we know that we know it? And how do we know that we know that we know it?” (Jones and Wilson … Continue reading →

> One of my research participants had an interesting experience recently. Upon trying to get his Tarot workshop advertised he was excluded from a particular publication on the grounds that it did not cover anything to do with ‘spirituality’. Upon … Continue reading →

> In the summer of 2008 a beautiful stone circle appeared on the beach at Aberystwyth. As the days passed, people added to the circle, created baby circles alongside it, a pathway up to it, they washed the stones, photographed … Continue reading →

> Readers may be interested to see a recent feature I had published in February’s issue of Soul & Spirit magazine. It’s generated lots of interest, and hopefully will boost traffic to the blog too! www.soulandspiritmagazine.com