"The first monthly meeting of the New Hope Metaphysical Society, (formerly the New Hope Channelers Support Group), was held August, 1990 in the living room of a house near New Hope, Pennsylvania. It came about as a result of a conversation I had with an angel named Raphael who spoke through the trance channel Kelly Sheehy of Lambertville, New Jersey. At the time, I had been interested in wanting to promote people with the unusual ability of going into an altered state to allow a higher consciousness to verbally communicate through a physical body. I saw myself as becoming the booking agent for Spirit.
Ever since my first private sitting with a trance channel which was in December, 1984 I had received spiritual guidance and insight from several trance channels who lived in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area. My relationship with Ann Marie Lodholz, Robin Velez, Amy Bortner, Kelly Sheehy and other gifted trance channels evolved from one of client to that of friend.
I felt I was given a deeper level of understanding to life's issues and challenges that had my name attached. And so I thought other people who are searching for answers to their most intimate questions could also benefit from this unconventional yet compassionate form of counseling.
For me, a channeling session became a healing modality. I call it spiritual psychotherapy. It was Raphael, in August, '90, who suggested I start a support group for the housewives and others who were experiencing this phenomena of channeling. These were the people who wanted to throw open the door to their spiritual closet and share what metaphysical experiences they were encountering without fear of ridicule. The New Hope Channelers Support Group, now called the New Hope Metaphysical Society, was born that same month.
During the first few years of its existence, The New Hope Public Library was home for the meetings and by the end of my tenure as facilitator, in December, 1996, The Life Center, across the Delaware River, in Lambertville, NJ was the venue.
Visionaries, like Carl Galletti, Amy Bortner with John Gialuco, and Tony Kenton, have subsequently taken over the leadership role of the New Hope Channelers Support Group. They invested their energies into expanding the Group's contribution to raising the awareness of communication with dimensions beyond our own.
Journalists, always looking for a unique story, discovered our Group, attended past meetings and interviewed a few of us. Articles were published in four different newspapers including an October, '92 issue of The Wall Street Journal. Receiving national attention was more than I had envisioned.If you are curious and want to know more about channeling or if you need to talk freely about your own evolvement with Spirit, I encourage you to attend a future monthly meeting. The New Hope Metaphysical Society welcomes you."
Bill Tomaszewski can be reached at billski@spiritsvision.com
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