Helen Hughes was a superb medium
who conducted countless propaganda meetings
around the British Isles, in modern times when
mediumship was still subject to the antiquated
and outdated Witchcraft and Vagrancy Act (formed
in 1735).
Helen
Hughes was a dedicated Spiritualist whose public
mediumship and private seances - during which she
was often directly entranced by her sitters'
loved ones - greatly impressed countless
thousands of people. Her work was recognised to
be of the highest calibre, and the genuineness of
her gifts was never disputed.
Verbatim
records of her spirit messages make astonishing
reading. Along with Estelle Roberts and a few
other notable mediums of the late twentieth
century (such as the trance medium Lillian
Bailey) she commanded the stage at large halls
and conference centres across the length and
breadth of the UK, and her survival evidence was
startlingly accurate.
Maurice
Barbanell, the Founder editor of the popular
newspaper, Psychic News, wrote that the
spirit people who communicated with Helen Hughes
often referred to her as "Helen the
Beloved".
Helen
possessed great charisma, and her psychic
abilities were remarkably well-developed: Mrs
Hughes was a Clairaudient (i.e. she could hear
spirit voices).
Helen's
mediumship was considered instrumental in the UK
government's banishing of the old 1735 Witchcraft
and Vagrancy Act, and in its replacing of it in
1951 by the Fraudulent Mediums Act, which at
least recognised the existence of
genuine mediumship. Following this replacement
another British Act of Parliament was passed,
which officially recognised Spiritualism as a
religion in 1954.
Of her
clairaudient abilities and her contact with the
spirit people, Helen said, 'I hear quite naturally, as
though I were using the ordinary ear. The voices
sound quite normal. I can tell if it is the voice
of a man, woman, or child - or if it is a loud
voice or a quiet one. Listening to the voices
enables me to give the names, facts and details
that provide the evidence.'
The medium
heard her spirit voices 'in my ears, or in the region of
my solar-plexus...and they vary in clarity.'
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Here are
some verbatim snippets of Helen Hughes's
remarkable clairaudiently-received spirit
messages, which she delivered in the late 1930s: Pointing to a woman in the
auditorium, Helen began:
Helen: Is your name
Nellie?
Recipient: Yes
Helen: Well, then,
you knew a Mr Bramwell; and I have to tell you
that Mr Bramwell is here and he's brought Harry
and Mrs Wilson. She says she's all right now, and
thanks you for what you did for her. She suffered
from a weak heart. She tells me that your name is
Boynton.
Recipient: Correct.
For another recipient,
Helen Hughes received a message "from someone called Eva,
who was a musician." She then singled out a woman in
the crowd and added:
"You are Eva's
mother. She played the piano; and she had a
companion, Elsie, who has also passed over. Her
full name is Eva Huxley."
Recipient: Yes
Helen: (pointing to a woman in the
circle) There is a
Mrs Richardson in the gallery. I get the name
Jimmie Richardson. He worked in an office by
himself. He brings Robert and Lizzie, and also
Mary Bewick. He tells me that your godmother was
Mary McIntyre, and that she was in some way
connected with an off-licence for the sale of
beer when you were fourteen to seventeen years of
age.
Recipient: Quite
right!
In a private
consultation which was attended by a Mr Hogg and
his family, all of whom were perfect strangers to
the medium, Helen Hughes delivered the following
clairaudiently-received information:
Pointing to Mr Hogg she
said, 'There is a
young airman here. You are his Dad.' Turning to Mr Hogg's son-in-law
she added, 'This boy
calls you Ian: and he calls himself Douglas.' And to the two girls who were
present she announced, 'And you are his sisters, Isobel
and Mary.'
Each name and
tie-of-relationship was perfectly correct.
Further reading: find a copy of the long
out-of-print book The
Mediumship of Helen Hughes (Spiritualist Press
Ltd, 1945; by Bernard Upton)
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