Psychic Medium Jeffrey Justice

People have been looking for a way to categorize me… and it seems as though they have taken a note from socialite & Madame Ms. Biddle-Barrows, who was a scandalous woman of “blue-blooded” New England ancestry. Yes, there are Biddles in the family, my family. People have begun referring to me as the “Mayflower Medium.” Of course, Ms. Biddle-Barrows was also known for her lineage and descent from a Mayflower Family. She has been referred to as the “Mayflower Madame” and now I am being called the “Mayflower Medium.”

No matter, I am somewhat amused by the whole matter– and though I am descended from the first Anglo settlers of Massachusetts Bay… I make no secret of my families Irish roots. Though, they are– for the most part– not associated with Catholicism.

I write this now as Thanksgiving approaches. I do feel deep sorrow regarding the destruction my Puritan ancestors visited upon the lovely Native Americans. Atonement comes via understanding. I apologize for the misdeeds of the ancestors I am descended from who landed at Plymouth Rock and at Salem, Massachusetts and at Newbury, Massachusetts.

Have a Lovely ThanksgiviNG,

Jeffrey S. N. Justice, Psychic-Medium, the “Mayflower Medium.”

WHEN: OCTOBER 26, 2008

WHERE: HAWTHORNE HOTEL

SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS’ “ONLY AUTHENTIC SEANCE” IS ONE OF THE FESTIVAL OF THE DEAD’s MONTH LONG SERIES OF EVENTS WHICH CELEBRATE DEATH AND ITS VARIED CUSTOMS AS OBSERVED IN AMERICA AND ABROAD. HELD IN THE HISTORIC, HAUNTED HAWTHORNE HOTEL, THIS IS ONE OF THE FESTIVAL’S- AND SALEM’S- MOST ANTICIPATED HALLOWEEN HAPPENINGS. FESTIVAL OF THE DEAD IS THE BRAINCHILD OF CHRISTIAN DAY, WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ORGANIZING THE IMPRESSIVE ARRANGEMENT OF HALLOWEEN-THEMED EVENTS THE FESTIVAL IS KNOWN FOR. DRAWING PEOPLE FROM ALL ACROSS THE UNITED STATES AND FROM VARIOUS OTHER NATIONS, FESTIVAL OF THE DEAD HAS GROWN FROM BEING A  BUZZ-WORTHY ASSEMBLY OF PARTIES AND SERIOUS OCCULT-THEMED GATHERINGS TO THE STATUS IT HAS ENJOYED FOR THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS. IT IS AN ESTABLISHED AND ANTICIPATED EVENT SERIES  WHICH RESTS COMFORTABLY AS THE MOST ATTRACTIVE AND DIVERSE ATTRACTION TO THRIVE DURING THE MONTH OF OCTOBER IN “THE WITCH CITY,” SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS.

JEFFREY JUSTICE AND FESTIVAL OF THE DEAD:

Jeffrey Justice has a history with the festival and has worked as a psychic reader for Salem’s Festival of the Dead  each October beginning in 2005. As a reader at the Festival’s annual Psychic Fair, he has met many clients and forged enduring relationships with customers and colleagues alike. As the instructor of workshops on Spirit Guides, he has made lasting friendships with students from diverse backgrounds, some of whom have gone forth to pursue deeper studies pertaining to the world of Spirit.This October, Jeffrey will officiate at the festival’s storied seance– an evening event which has been held for many years in the elegant Hawthorne Hotel located on Salem’s City Common.

ABOUT THIS SEANCE:

Guests at the seance will enjoy a full evening, which will commence with a lecture, segue into a demonstration of the power of spirit communication which attendees may join in, and therefore experience firsthand– after which Justice will explain how one may hone his or her own inherent psychic abilities. The evening will conclude with a gallery seance, during which Jeffrey will address members of the audience with messages from loved-ones who have crossed over to the spirit side of life. All will hear his messages as they are delivered.

Ticket price includes hors d’oeuvres. There will also be a cash bar.

More information regarding this event may be obtained by following the link below to Festival of the Dead’s page:

http://www.festivalofthedead.com/spiritworld.html

I have some very exciting news for movie buffs and people who are passionate about the paranormal:

Visionary Hollywood film maker Alex “Monty” Canawati is offering a great privilege to Salem residents and Witch City tourists this October. He will be screening his artful, and very supernatural movie, “Return to Babylon” for the first time ever on October 31, at Midnight downtown at Cinema Salem– Inside the Museum Place Mall.

Canawati, also known for “Inevitable Grace” says of his film: “This is an homage to the Silent Movie Era which is screaming to be seen.” Yet, there is more to this movie than such an utterance would indicate. The film is riddled with “spontaneous morphings,” literally loaded with scenes where cast members take on the appearance of beings they have never resembled in life.

Alex “Monty” Canawati, had sent me a copy of this, his latest film, after we’d started discussing the inexplicable, bizarre phenomena which occur at several points throughout the film’s duration. The discussions were fascinating, as well as confounding. In certain scenes, actresses take on an appearance reminiscent of an Old Testament Father– and even that of Christ. Other frames display a more nefarious change of visage, as the faces of actors shift into those of unpleasant monsters.
After I had seen Monty’s picture, I knew that working with him in order to introduce “Return to Babylon” to the paranormal community was something I had to accomplish. We decided together that Salem would be a fantastic venue for the first screening of this movie– especially as a buzz is developing around it. Cinema Salem has proven to be a gem within the community, and was my first choice. Cinema Salem will be a bustling and exciting theater on Halloween at midnight, to say the very least.

Psychics seem especially taken with this work. When Alex “Monty” Canawati spoke with Sylvia Browne regarding “Return to Babylon,” she told him she felt as though Christ was working directly through the film. I am curious as to what others may say. In years to come, I am sure many will offer their opinions on this film.

A zealous and innovative director, Monty had initially gone to work on this project in order to make a silent film detailing the salacious scandals which shook 1920’s Hollywood. The subject matter is thus historical. The turbulent lives of Silent Film actresses such as Clara Bow are eerily reminiscent of today’s doomed starlets. This silent, black and white film would be worth watching simply for the elegance it does so skillfully emote.

This was an atypical project from the moment work on it commenced. It began with a serendipitous discovery of nineteen rolls of black and white film. Monty found these rolls of film while walking: “Plans to create a silent film had been circulating within my mind. The discovery by accident of these factory sealed film rolls were the impetus and inspiration to make this film I had been thinking about into a film I was actively engaged in creating.”

The cast assembled for the film is an impressive array of talent. The film stars Tippi Hedren, still well-known for her role in Alfred Hitchcock’s, “The Birds.” Maria Conchita Alonso and Ione Skye both have roles, as do Debby Mazar and Phillip Bloch, who is known to many as a Hollywood stylist. I mention Jennifer Tilly last, but not least.

Tilly was one cast member who sensed the presence of ghosts during the filming–Principally at the estate of Norma Talmadge. This property was used during the filming of certain scenes. Aside from the unusual manner in which the director obtained the film he would use for his project, there was little to suggest that this film would become such a mystery.

Monty has been forthcoming about a generalized, uneasy feeling which he states some of the cast or crew felt while filming “Return to Babylon.” He has also candidly revealed his former skepticism regarding supposed supernatural or paranormal occurrences. When he addresses the transformation he has experienced– from a total skeptic to a believer– his voice becomes charged and urgent in tone.

Speaking on the effect making this movie has had on him, he says: “It changed my life 180 degrees. I was profoundly skeptical until I was studying the film in preparation for the editing process.” He immediately began seeking out rational answers, and took the film to the Brooks Institute of Photography. At Brooks, he received no explanation for what he’d seen in his own film: “A Brooks Institute of Photography faculty member was just as perplexed as was I, and totally unable to account for these spontaneous morphings.”

Alex “Monty” Canawati will be in Salem, Massachusetts during the last week of October. He will be addressing the audience prior to the screening of his film and will then answer questions from the same audience at the end of the film. I will be very busy all month long, but will be organizing a reception for the film and for Monty, with (hopefully) a rather impressive guest list.

BE WELL, HAPPY HALLOWEEN
AND SEE YOU AT THE MOVIES,
JEFFREY JUSTICE

Jeffrey Justice on the best BTR show ever, Live with Annie and Burl

Jeffrey Justice is Live on Annie and Burl tonight at 10pm est

From BTR Annie and Burl: 
Psychic Medium Jeffrey Justice returns to The Cool Table to update us on some exciting new projects and also take some more listener calls for on-air readings! So if you think you’ve had a rough week already, grab a mid-week martini, get your pj’s on, duct tape the kids and snuggle up with a dose of A&B…shaken, not stirred. You’ll be cooler
just by tuning in!

THE PULSE MAGAZINE & NEWBURYPORT MAGAZINE TO FEATURE JEFFREY JUSTICE IN THE UPCOMING FALL EDITIONS: THE PULSE MAGAZINE’S STORY IS SET FOR RELEASE IN OCTOBER:

Newburyport Magazine is a new, glossy magazine which runs stories on people who are doing interesting things or whom have a degree of local, and even national, fame. The Summer Edition featured Andre Dubus, best known as the author of The House of Sand and Fog, which became an acclaimed major motion picture. Last week I went with one of the magazine’s reporters to Kent’s Island in Newbury, Massachusetts. Kent’s Island is a vast, densely wooded upland located in the midst of an extensive salt water marsh. The reporter had contacted me with the request that I visit the island in order to determine whether or not the psychic energy of John Phillips Marquand lingers there. Marquand was a Pulitzer Prize-winning author who lived in a sprawling home there until his death in 1960. He is best remembered as the author of The Late George Apley, Point of no Return and the popular Mr. Moto Series. The author spent his summers at the island. His home and four other buildings were destroyed in 1989.

The island today is wooded and lonesome, utterly isolated; not a summer paradise. It swarms with mosquitoes and vicious flies called greenheads, whose bite is painful. Marquand purchased the land in 1935. At that time, there was an unassuming farmhouse standing on the property, and a few scattered out-buildings. Marquand and his second wife made many additions to the originally humble home. When they were through they had created a haphazard and unusual mansion which housed the Marquand Family antiques collection. John Marquand and his wife entertained numerous notable guests at their country estate, including Jacqueline Kennedy.
John Marquand playing a game of cards with his son at Kent’s Island

The history of this island is unusual and rather marked by tragedy. There are certainly many more spirits and energies present at Kent’s Island other than that of John Marquand. The land was named for the family who owned it n 1600’s. The Kent’s kept the land until 1920. A series of homes were built on the island, one after the other. Some were purposefully destroyed in order to build larger, more contemporary homes. Fire destroyed at least one other structure. One of the houses which stood on the island was used as a Smallpox inoculation hospital over 200 years ago. No house, however, has ever managed to remain on the land for very long.

Originally, the land now referred to as Kent’s Island was the dwelling place of a Native American tribe which is extinct and has been for hundreds of years. Because of many other factors completely unrelated to John Marquand– including the tragic loss of these Native Americans, the grisly death of a Kent who was gored by a bull– and accounts of strange nighttime rituals being held in the woods around the rotting mansion during the 1980’s my work was challenging. It was important to stay focused, especially given my own very special connection to this unique and rarely visited piece of land.

While the Marquand House was still standing, I had been acutely aware of the once famed writer’s presence. By 1980, his sprawling mansion was vacant—totally uninhabited for years. By the middle 1980’s, vandals had removed the protective boards from doorways, and anybody could easily go inside. I did, frequently. Whenever I did, I invariably walked up one particular stairway (the home had several stairways) and turned left into a spacious room and felt an overwhelming, indescribable sensation. The sense, or feeling, was concentrated in part of the room. Later, I learned that this room was the bedroom in which the author died; and that his bed had occupied the spot where I had encountered that indescribable sensation.

The magazine is putting together a story for their fall edition which will focus on the legacy of this author and the controversial battle to save his home from destruction—and on the individual who started that particular cause, an eleven year old child. The scope of the story is now broadened and will incorporate any information regarding John Phillips Marquand which I receive psychically during my visit to this parcel of lonesome land hunched over the nondescript, nearly colorless marsh. I remember the controversy and turbulence the fight to prevent that house from destruction so well because I was the eleven-year-old child who began the campaign to keep the wrecking ball far from the Marquand house.

The last time I visited Kent’s Island the home was still standing, this was in 1989. Nearly twenty years ago, I stood before the house while a reporter asked questions as the photographer took shots of me. I already knew that the final decision to tear down the home and all of the out buildings had been made. In the picture chosen for the cover of that particular newspaper, The Lawrence Eagle Tribune, I appear to be sneering, disgusted. In reality, the sun was in my eyes and I was squinting. Internally I was displeased, even disgusted; I just did not intend on letting it show upon my face.

I became involved with the attempt to save the house because I understood the value of the structure, and what it meant to have had such an influential and respected writer living in the community. I was a very odd, somewhat precocious child who never felt like a child. So, I decided to write a letter to the governor about restorations being made to the home, it was well-worded and believed to be the work of an adult. I received an answer in the mail from the Division of Fisheries and Wildlife, which had control over the property, which stated that the only resolution was that this structure be torn down. My reaction, at that age, was to bring the letter to the local newspaper and demand to speak with the editor. The paper interviewed me and took a photo of me, standing at the front door of the Marquand home.

The picture and story were featured on the paper’s front page. Immediately, there was a strong reaction. Letters to the editor came pouring in. Other papers picked the story up, and then I was on television being interviewed. There was controversy from the start, but it grew as the story grew. The whole notion of saving that house was a divisive issue. Those who were opposed were vehemently opposed. Those who were for the preservation of the estate on Kent’s Island formed an alliance and had regular meetings in order to strategize the campaign for restoration of the structures on the desolate land. I was made an ex-officio member; my extreme youth made it impossible to vote at meetings.

John Marquand cover of TIME
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I have precious memories of that time. I loved being allowed to attend meetings at the State House rather than attend school. I remember receiving an invitation for the opening of a posh new restaurant in Boston named. I remember attending restaurant openings in Boston. I was constantly in the news and made it to television. That was all very exciting, but my fondest memory was when the author of The Cricket in Times Square, sent me an autographed copy of his book. I still have that book. When he autographed it, George Selden wrote: “To Jeffrey. I admire your taste in houses, and friends.”

Right before my return visit to Kent’s Island I couldn’t help thinking that things were coming full circle. After my visit, however, I never plan to return to that land. Did I pick up on something? Yes, I did. However, you will have to wait until the Fall Edition of Newburyport Magazine is released to learn more.

The Pulse Magazine plans to run an article about me for its October Edition. I have spoken via email with the wonderful editor and will be interviewed shortly for the story. It seems as if they are putting me in a “Cool Careers” category, and I have been told this will run with photos and be more than a one-dimensional look at who I am and what I do. I will be performing a reading for the reporter, as well.
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WHEN I was eleven years old I began a campaign to preserve the home of the late, Pulitzer Prize winning author John Phillips Marquand. I had written a letter to then Massachusetts Governor Dukakis, because I felt strongly that the summer home he occupied for many years, had gone into decline and was being vandalized. There had been State assigned caretakers who were supposed to look after the Mansion. These people lived in his studio– there were several out-buildings on the property– and the studio was one of these. One such caretaker was a crooked cop who housed a collection of  many, may stolen automobiles all over the wooded, 300-plus acre estate which the then-crumbling mansion sat upon (Kent’s Island, Newbury, Massachusetts).
 
J.P. Marquand  worked on his better-known books while esconced there. Marquand was a satirist who decimated the characters of his peers, many of whom were Beacon Hill Socialites and the heirs to fortunes of the Cbot, Lowell and Lodge families. Marquand is also remembered as the author of the popular Mr Moto series… He had graduated from Harvard around the turn of the previous century; and though he had come from money, himself, he did encounter a degree of criticism/discrimination while at Harvard due to the fact that his own family had lost money– though they managed to retain their estate, Curzon’s Mill, in Newburyport, Massachusetts. While at Hrvard he was poorly dressed and not as well-off as the Brahmin families with whom he attended school. He married into the prominent, and wealthy, Sedwick Family, and this provided more fodder for his satirization of these families. His major works were Point of no Return, Wickford Point and The Late George Apley–  which was perhaps his most zinging satire of the New England “Old Guard.”

I was a child when all of this happened and there was some degree of controversy regarding the preservation efforts. Many locals wanted nothing more than to see the property razed because they disagreed with his personal life, and with his biting and even caustic portrayal of his peers. He divorced C. Sedgwick and took a new wife, Adelaide Hooker, of the New York Hooker family– who lived at Beekman Place and were New York’s equivalent to the Brahmin set in Boston… I encountered a ton of undue criticism for spearheading this campaign– My tender age did NOT prevent me from receiving phone calls from his ex-secretary– and mistress– by then reliant on alcohol. When inebriated, she called my family’s home and lambasted me for my efforts. I was interviewed by several papers and by television news outlets in Boston. I learned an awful lot. Some of the lessons I learned– especially those about interviews and being interviewed; especially by television news journalists continue to serve me well to this day.

Imagine the editor’s surprise to find that I am now working as a psychic…
It was a fairly extensive interview and I had to revisit the disappointments I had felt when, at fourteen, the mansion was finally knocked down. Things– emotions– I had forgotton about almost completey. I am now much older. Certain people who had caused me trouble in 1985 are now dead. (I was, thankfully, defended by journalists who understood how smarmy and unseemly it was to knock down a child in the press).  I was able to address these issues and give a GOOD– solid and comprehensive– interview.

 The editor was very intereseted in what I had been up to since then, and a discussion about my current work will be included in the article.

I am excited about this– will keep you all posted regarding this and when it is time for this to hit the newstands, I will let you all know. One thing which was of extreme importance to me was that it was thoroughly understood that my current work not only revolves around working as a psychic and medium– but also that I am still dedicated to the cause of preserving the integtrity of these historic structures. The fair which I and my dear friend, Terry Milton, aka “The Stone Lady,” was a fundraiser to help the Hmmond Castle– another unique and historic property– continue to have ease with operations and to assist as much as we could with raising money so that this museum can remain operational.

Our past is a treasure. These properties should be maintained and kept intact. My parents were activists and I do recall being at demonstrations and protests to attempt to put a halt to the development of the Seabrook Atomic Power Plant from being built. The plant was built– and though I was only a three year old child when the 1977 demonstrations and protests were going on– I do remember being there. The notion that we can work to effect poitive change in our world by raising our voices was instilled in me by my parents at a young age. I am grateful for this.

My only wish is that the generation which is now coming of age will somehow become galvanized to go out, en-masse, and protest the ridiculous, frightening abuses of power we see now operating in our nation. We are SCREWED if these younger people decide to reamian idle and think not of the future. There is power in protest. We still have a chance.

VOTE. Question authority. Deny it when you feel it has run amok. Raise your voices. Your voices have POWER. Each voice does. A chorus however, is more formidable than one solo voice which decides to sing out against injustice and abuse of power.

BE WELL,
Jeffrey Justice

Psychic Readings, Workshops & More at Hammond

This blog is about the psychics who will be at the castle, working during the weekend of July 26 and 27. I would like to give anybody who does see this a chance to know who will be present and a thing or two about their background, and also to provide a list of the types of readings offered. Finally, I want you to know that the workshops presented over the weekend are offered at NO FEE! Below are three lists. The first lists the types of readings offered at the fair. The next list gives the names of all psychics scheduled to appear and an accompanying blurb regarding that psychic. The final list concerns the workshops scheduled to date- There is some chance that more will be added to the program, this reflects only what is decided upon as of July 12.

Readings Offered :
ANGEL READINGS
ASTROLOGY READINGS
AURA PHOTOGRAPHY W/ EXPLANATION
CHILDREN’S READINGS
CLAIRVOYANT READINGS
CRYSTAL READINGS
READINGS BY MEDIUMS
NUMEROLOGY READINGS
PAST LIFE READINGS
PALMISTRY READINGS
PSYCHOMETRY READINGS
RUNE STONE READINGS
TAROT READINGS

Psychics who will be present-
& some information about each.
-please note that these are not the detailed bios which will be made available at the Psychic Fair to every patron in a formal program of listed events, readers, types of readings available and information regarding workshops and instructors.

Liz Souza-
Liz is a very gifted psychic who manifests the power of Spirit through demonstations of physical mediumship. Hers is a great gift and she will be performing a wide variety of readings. As a psychic and medium, she offers the opportunity to assist persons who wish to connect with the departed, resolving issues from the past. Liz is an accurate psychic who can help those who seek information about their future circumstances. Souza is active within the Pagan Community and reads for many clients throughout New England.
Dorothy Morgan-
Ms. Morgan is an respected Astrologer and authors weekly forecasts for DARK STAR PHILOSOPHIA’S online newsletter. With over twenty years of experience working with and studying the influence the planets can impart on a human life, Morgan posesses the knowlege necessary to properly perform Astrological Readings. As a psychic, she blends her understanding of Astrology with her innate intuitive prowess to dole out well-rounded readings. Dorothy Morgan is also a Certified Angel Reader.
Phyllis Brown-
A psychic with a great ability to know details of her clients’ lives and one of the most impressive mediums I have yet met. Phyllis Brown is noteworthy for her fluidity while working- she easily shifts roles from that of a true conduit of Spirit back towards that of a reader who examines the client’s current situation. I have seen and heard her deliver messages of love from those who have crossed over which are sincere, vital and quite well-detailed. She will be available for readings as a medium, a psychic, or both. She also will be available for Tarot Readings. Brown is a Spiritualist Medium with the sort of firm background and understanding of mediumship which one would wish for if seeking the counsel of a medium.
Linda Weinbaum-
Affectionately referred to as “Auntie Linda,” this woman’s unassuming moniker underscores a dramatically sharp psychic insight. Her keen ability to sense medical issues/disturbances, and other life details is phenomenal. Ms. Weinbaum is one of three intensely innovative psychics on-board who have worked to develop their own methods of conducting psychic readings. She works most frequently with crystals- and her technique-which she calls “Crystal Scrying” is fascinating. Using this, she senses energy patterns and, more important to some types, picks up on details regarding career, finances and much more. Clear, direct and energetic in her reading style, Linda Weinbaum is a remarkable reader who is able to predict, look into what has transpired and what is currently affecting a person. She feels will feel physical and emotional concerns which you or a loved-one may experience. She then lays down solid and sound advice which is meant to guid the sitter towards a better reality. “Auntie” is also a medium and can connect you with those who have crossed over– She encourages you to bring an object worn or used by the person with whom you’d like to connect; if you have a photograph of the individual, this is also something she may use.
Lillee Allee-
Lillee is not merely a good psychic. She is a brilliant and caring woman whose work centers on addressing the client’s unique issues and active pursuit of their resolvement. Though she has displayed paranormal abilities since her childhood, Allee is ever-enhancing her life. Her intellect and psychic ability are profound and amazing. Highly educated, she is another innovative psychic and conducts readings as a “Tarot Therapist.” Allee has a Master’s degree in Psychology.
The Stone Lady-
Terry Milton, aka “The Stone Lady,” had studied the psychic sciences since 1976. She later developed her own highly unique and absolutely effective method of reading using an array of disparate stones assembled upon a Lazy Susan. I can attest to her very fine ability for using stones as a means and a method for conducting readings. Her readings are about healing; about finding those parts of the psyche which are in need of attention and repair. Amongst the most understanding and genuine people I have ever known, Terry’s compassion is not reserved for a few select people. She shares her empathetic nature with every person, and with every client, she meets.
Mara-
During her fifteen years on the West Coast, Mara was many things: Psychic, Witch, Pagan Leader, a woman deeply devoted to charitable work for A.I.D.S. patients during a time when many were too afraid of the virus to help the afflicted. She has read for large corporations, including Clvin Klein, at promotions. Now living once again in her native Gloucester, Mara is still a working Psychic and appears at various Psychic Fairs. A fantastic card-reader who also does channeling work.
Kelly Spangler-
Working with Tarot cards or a crystal ball, she is more than capable of diving into her clients’ worlds and telling them their truths. Kelly is full of enthusiasm and she displays this zeal as she reads. She is a very down-to-earth and compassionate reader. One who sees your stumbling blocks and skillfully advise and direct you around them.
Debra Freeman-
Freeman is a psychic who is on-point and brilliantly attuned to those who seek a sitting with her. Wearing a gentle expression on her face, and speakings softly in a dulcet voice; Debra truly connects with her clients. Perhaps this trait makes her an excellent choice for those seeking guidance based in truth but who avoid those who mete it out harshly. Make no mistake, however– Debra is a credible psychic who delivers meaningful and accurate information. An experienced Tarot reader who also may discern the energies of those who have crossed over.
Helene-
Helene is an exceptionally devoted and thorough Tarot Card reader and has many years of experience working with cards to help people. She is also a natural medium who focuses much of her attention upon the wisdom of Angelic Beings, from whom she receives wisdom and direction. She is able to deliver this same direction to those for whom she reads.
Sha Stafford-
Sha Stafford, aka “The Loon Witch,” will be at the castle taking Aura Photographs. She will also be interpreting the photos and offering her psychic insight concerning what the pictures show. This is an extremely comprehensive psychic reading which provides clients with both a physical representation– photo–and her second sight clarification of that photograph. Stafford is active within the Pagan community and has taught numerous classes and workshops.
Eric B.-
Working with runes, but by no means restricted to this method, Eric takes the time to psychically connect with his clients and then move ahead and reveal the nature of the clients concerns while providing sincere spiritual advice.
Lorrie Gibson-
Lorrie works chiefly with pendulums, and has a knack for using this simple tool in a manner which is far more effective at yielding positive results during a reading than one might expect. She works with Angel and Tarot Cards, and with an intuitive force which she has felt since childhood. Gibson has an admirable desire to impress upon her clients the validity of psychic power and owns a deep, abiding respect for her own paranormal ability, as well as for the psychic ability of those with whom she works.

Workshops

There will be ongoing, thirty-minute, FREE workshops held at the Hammond Castle Psychic Fair and Festival. These are all focused on paranormal or psychic themes and concepts and their practical application; with the possible exception of one class presented as a lecture by the curator of the museum– the subject of which is Mrs. Irene Fenton Hammond, who was a Medium and is said to have held many seances in the Great Hall of the castle.

ALL WORKSHOPS BELOW ARE FINAL–
TIMES/DAYS TBA

ROCK YOUR WORLD!-
This workshop is about the meanings and mystery of stones.
Taught by TERRY MILTON.

PALMISTRY: READING THE ROADMAP TO YOUR LIFE-
This workshop will focus on showing students what the lines, mounts, and other features in their hands mean to palmists. This workshop is taught by JEFFREY JUSTICE with LORRIE GIBSON.

SWINGERS: PENDULUM AND ITS’ MYSTICAL APPLICATION
This workshop will educate the student about the use of pendulums as means of prognosticating events, as well as a means of connecting with spirit. This workshop is instructed by LORRIE GIBSON.

TAROT ETHICS-
More information available soon. Taught by LILLEE ALLEE

MEET A MEDIUM-
A chance for people to sit down and listen to a real medium speak… Planned as a short lecture w/ time for a few questions and answers.
TBA. Is planned/intended for PHYLLIS BROWN to teach.

SPIRIT WRITING-
TBA.

THE LIFE OF IRENE FENTON HAMMOND-
Lecture will address the mediumship of Mrs. Hammond, the lady for whom the castle was built. Taught by JOHN PETTIBONE, CURATOR.

PHYSICAL MEDIUMSHIP: TABLES TILTING, SPIRITS SPEAKING-
More of a “Hands On” class, though there will doubtlessly be some degree of background info. presented. Class will discuss Table Tilting and a demonstration with full-participation of those in the class who wish to participate. Taught by LIZ SOUZA.

Food and Drink, Vendors, etc.

The Psychic Fair and Festival to benefit the Hammond Castle Museum will have food and drink prepared and sold by a caterer on-site. And a number of vendors present will be selling their wares… Crystals, Jewelry, Tarot Cards and other Magickal supplies will all be sold. Some vendors will sell indoors, some outdoors. Live drumming ongoing outdoors, where drums will also be sold. *The castle is located on the Atlantic and since there will certainly be a number of vendors set up outdoors, and because the grounds between the castle and the sea below are beautiful and something to appreciate, we recommend that anybody interested in attending arrive with sunscreen, if it is a sunny weekend.
The castle is located in Gloucester, Massachusetts at 80 Hesperus Drive.

Hammond Castle Museum presents…

Hammond Castle Great Hall Gallery Seance Night

When: Jul. 25th. 2008
Where: Gloucester, Massachusetts

Hammond Castle Gallery Seance

Event Details: Hammond Castle Great Hall
Gallery Seance Night:

An Evening of Mediumship
With Jeffrey Justice

Gallery Seance Nights, or evenings devoted to Mediumship, or Spirit Readings, are nothing new at Hammond Castle. Mrs. Irene Fenton Hammond, for whom Hammond Castle was originally built, was a well-respected medium in her own time; she is said to have conducted many séances in the Great Room of the castle.

Mediums are persons who serve as conduits between this world and the next who use their minds as “receivers” which enable them to hear, or sense, messages from the “other side of life” and to then deliver these messages to living people. Mediums frequently work through a combination of both hearing voices and seeing mental images which describe a loved one’s characteristics, such as: Height, build, likes, dislikes, mannerisms, and other identifying details. Mediums can be especially helpful to those who wish to validate what they already feel in their hearts: That life does go on, and that we are only a heartbeat away from those we love who are no longer with us on this material plane.

In a “Gallery Night” setting, Spirit Readings can yield astonishing results. Evidence for the continuity of life is brought together in a loving and heartfelt manner while individual and family relationships are also explored and explained by the officiating medium. The “proof” given of the afterlife in this manner can be quite convincing, yet it is still the individual’s choice whether to accept or dismiss the spirit medium’s opinions or advice.

Performed in a dynamic group setting, the upcoming Hammond Castle Gallery Séance Night will feature psychic-medium Jeffrey Justice, of Salem, Massachusetts. Justice is a fourth generation psychic and medium whose accuracy, sincerity and inimitable style and approach to his work have earned him a large following on the East Coast.

Jeffrey Justice explains that during a gallery seance, he “enjoys working with as many members of the audience as I possibly can. My galleries provide a warm, intimate atmosphere where attendees will hear messages from their loved ones who have crossed over, as well as messages delivered to other members of the audience. It is of paramount importance that I do approach as many members of the audience as is possible; in order to prove to these people that their friends and family members who have passed away are by no means gone, forever lost or inaccessable. My objective is to affirm to members of the audience that while there is no denying the reality of physical mortality, the personality and personal identity of individuals who have crossed over is not extinguished with the inevitable failure of the human body. My message is a positive, life-affirming communication to all who attend my events. That message is that there is no death– there is only life.”

Justice elaborates, “Dying does not mark the end of a person’s existence. Death is merely the end of the physical body which carried the soul and consciousness of a person. If we can believe that the soul survives and exists somewhere else, then we may be able to accept that perhaps it is possible to make contact with that consciousness. This allows us to understand that the emotions, sentiments and beliefs of those we perceive to be ‘dead’ are everlasting… My ultimate aim is to provide solace, healing and hope to all people who see me at work as a medium. The closure and comfort people may receive during a Gallery Session can serve as a catalyst for overcoming stubborn or painful grief. Other times, the messages from those who have crossed over are words of wisdom and practical advice which apply to a person’s everyday life issues and concerns.”

*Jeffrey Justice will be appearing at the Hammond Castle’s Gallery Seance Night on Friday, July 25th from 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. Please be aware that space at the Hammond Castle Gallery Night is limited, It is expected that the vast majority of people present at the Gallery Night will receive a message from a loved one who has crossed over. Admission is $30, and reservations are suggested. Please contact Terry Milton at (978) 283-7532 or Jeffrey@JeffreyJustice.com for reservations or additional information.

** Please note that as much as we would like it to be otherwise, Hammond Castle Museum being a very old historic structure is not handicapped accessible.

Event Location: 80 Hesperus Avenue in Gloucester
Event TIME Details: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Directions: Drive North on Route 128 until you reach exit 14. At the end of the exit ramp turn right onto Route 133 toward Gloucester. Stay on route 133 until the end of that highway. With the harbor in front of you take another right onto Route 127 South (Western Avenue) . About a mile and a half down Route 127 south look for a left hand turn marked Hesperus Avenue.
You can see the green street sign about a third of the way up a telephone pole on your left, but more importantly there is a large blue and white sign on a separate pole which says “Magnolia Center and Hammond Castle”. Turn left at these signs and the Castle Parking Lot is three quarters of a mile down Hesperus also on the left. Drive to the very end of the parking lot where you will see the entrance. Turn left very carefully as it is a blind turn for traffic coming toward you. Park and walk to the East end of the parking lot and walk down the stairs. The castle itself is straight ahead of you.

Phone: (978) 283-7532

Website: http://hammondcastle.org
Website II: http://jeffreyjustice.com

Words on Death, Dying and the Connection Between the Living and the “Dead.”..

Our ideas about death and dying are a jumble of conjectures based– sometimes loosely, other times firmly– upon religious notions, religious dogma, scientific fact, personal fears and personal experience. Thus, a catholic woman may spend hours praying for the soul of her deceased son. Or a dyed-in-the-wool man of science may refute the possibility of “life after death,” and label any belief system which posits or enforces an understanding of the soul as an immortal and essential part of a living person a hollow institution propagating a fiction. The questions concerning the concept of life after life are many. They are as myriad as are the notions people carry with themselves about the identity of God.

What makes Man so concerned with this particular concept? What drives him to continue to seek out answers for this question? Really, it is a matter of equal importance to clergy men and physicians, chemists and mystics. My own opinion is that mankind is collectively obsessed with the concept of death because we are the vainest of all species. We are the only animal which seeks to establish a legacy while we live, in order that we never die. Instead, we actively work to build a legacy and therefore to insure that our names are not only remembered, but are spoken in centuries yet to come. My own opinion is also that because human beings are habituated to earthly pleasures and pains, that we do fear death. For death is seen by many as the ultimate and most final finish to any life.

However, our anxieties about death have as much to do with our being quite largely left in a dim and dark space. Our apprehensions are allowed to expand in that same environment, where the unknown is the best catalyst for the persistence and the vitality of fear. If fear, unchecked, clogs the mind with frightening or futile thoughts—then death will quite easily seem like the most terrifying reality. And since bodily death is an inescapable reality for all women and for all men, then it is no marvel that human thoughts often revolve around death.

Many people live for long periods of time throughout which they never give death much thought. This is not usually a perpetual condition. Unless an individual is cut down in his prime, his thoughts will eventually become filled with questions about death. This happens quite naturally when people age and see friends and family members capitulate to their own mortality. Or it happens when a healthy person receives a diagnosis for a terminal illness from a health care provider. No person is able to walk through life and never see, hear, taste or be touched by, death.

Death looms over the beds of the ill. Death checks his wristwatch when the elderly awaken. Death may well be appreciated to be present at the birth of each new child.

For many people, death is darkness. Death is a “Black Angel” a ghost of terror, a “Grim Reaper. But is he really? Is this sort of characterization appropriate— or is it simply a portrait painted by the hand of a race of people whose fear concerning death is heavy, dismal and absolute?

I am asked by many people to offer them my own opinion on death. I am asked chronically about death. People feel at home discussing death with me… as at home as they might be discussing the same concept with a minister. It’s an unusual concept and reality to be questioned about so frequently. But, since my work does have much to do with death, I fully expect to be asked questions about death. In fact, I welcome them. But there is nothing I can tell anybody about death which has not been written about, broadcast, gossiped over or filmed. Again, the public interest in this topic is vast, and saturates all manner of human thoughts and productions. If one need question this, that death saturates human thinking to the point it manifests in human creation, one need only recall the immense popularity of the critically lauded cable television series Six Feet Under…

If I have not already emasculated my own authority by proclaiming the truth: That I have no more to say on this matter other than reiterating the sentiments of others—then perhaps you will want to finish reading this blog. Look, I may not be able to tell you something absolutely groundbreaking or new. However, I can offer with indomitable zest my many experiences as a medium and as a person who has been through his own Near Death Experience as the solid foundation for the beliefs I hold concerning this subject. They are not based on faith or on tradition I learned by rote in some Sunday School class.

I can tell you emphatically that there is no “death.” There is no death as perceived by most— there is no cease to the soul, or its smile– or the spark beneath it. Whatever lights that up, whatever animates the spirit is a material which is so utterly indestructible, so permanent, that it survives ultimately and forever. The concept of death as a period at the end of a sentence is a terrible folly. The fear which that concept generates is a wicked delusion, set upon others by those who regard it as bankable currency. In reality, or in my reality, the validity of that concept is nil. Other concepts of death, specifically those informed by religious texts are interesting to toy with and even challenge. I don’t at all wish to imbue any religious teaching with my own distaste for it. Like any other person, I have opinions about some systems of faith which are positive and others which are not. BUT, I will readily go on the record and voice my own disapproval of religious teachings which attempt to regulate human activity by enforcing any belief in damnation.

I do not believe in any “Hell.” I believe that we can make Hell out of our lives quite effectively while quite alive. So far as my belief in a “Heaven” goes, I have no issue with that concept. In fact, I often use that word to describe the place or state we arrive at when we die. But my own belief system is one which holds that the bliss of Heaven is a grace a human soul will know only after it “perfects itself” by living through as many earthly incarnations as is necessary in order to achieve the right and ability to experience.

I do, indeed, believe in reincarnation. Many are astonished by this, because they assume that I must live within the restrictive confines of rigid Spiritualist thinking— and therefore I must believe that following death every human soul enters into the realm of Spirit. However, I want to first say that while I do believe in the creed and principles or Spiritualism, that there is no despotic consensus amongst Spiritualists when the concept of reincarnation is concerned. Some believe in it, others do not. I also want to say that there exists no conflict between my identity as a medium (who speaks with the dead) and my belief in reincarnation.

In brief explanation: Our own ideas about time and space box us into a cell where we have difficulty comprehending why a soul which is supposedly moving on towards a new bodily incarnation would linger around long enough to speak with a spirit medium. In fact, I feel as though our capacity to think in terms of the tangible only is the most clumsy and staunch stumbling block which foils us when we try to make sense of what we are taught to believe is nonsensical. We do not know how many dimensions there may be and our very strict interpretation of time makes it far more simple to believe that if we reincarnate it must be something done immediately. This sort of thinking doesn’t allow much support for belief in things such as rest between lives.

But if we are able to communicate with the so-called dead, then how is that explained?

I believe that our dead are very close to us. This belief is built upon the idea that we are all “vibrating” at a certain frequency while we lead our lives. Those who we understand to be dead are actually vibrating at a higher level than is the human soul within a living body. When we do “cross-over” we then vibrate at that higher level. People such as me are naturally capable of making two-way communication with the spiritual essence of the dead because we naturally vibrate at a level higher than most people and lower than that at which spirit does. I also believe that each dimension of existence has a vibration which is peculiar to that dimension.

Those who have crossed-over to the next, most immediate dimension are the most accessible because the dimension occupied by those who have died more recently is one which is close to our own plane. (I use the word plane as a synonym for dimension). The essence of wise figures from the distant past or the spiritual material and cognition of angelic beings or “ascended masters” is more difficult to reach. This is why people attempting to communicate with ascended masters or angels— or even God— are often seen chanting or breathing rhythmically, or meditating. They must do something in order to raise their own vibration to a level high enough that perceiving and understanding these beings is facilitated. Of course, people talk to angels and to God every day without doing any such thing. I believe that they are heard by these spiritual forces. However, in order to hear the wisdom or guidance of such beings, then it becomes necessity to raise the vibration.

I do not do anything special in order to prepare for communication with the souls of “dead” people. Other than to respect the position I occupy as one who has been granted authority to live in a mezzanine, if you will, and to occupy this place in a responsible way— I do not go into an “Alpha” state or need to do anything out of the ordinary to prepare for work. When I do any channeling work, I will prepare. But, as a person with a natural, innate ability to sense and comprehend the thoughts and emotions of those who are not “with us” in any corporeal sense, I don’t need preparation. I have always heard “them” and I have never feared “them” or death.

Though I have had this ability for as long as I can recall, I do believe it was sharpened when I had a near death experience. I also do think that the time I spent in “development classes” also whittled away any sort of cumbersome matter which muddled my other sense. Yes, I do believe that all men and women are psychic. I do not believe that all men and women are mediums.

 I do believe that a medium is born and not made. Yes, I do teach classes in mediumship. I believe that anybody can develop a certain degree of ability in that direction. However, the life of a medium is a life which is, by definition and nature, a life led between two realms. The life of a medium is not a typical one. There is no getting around that fact. People always have a reaction when I answer the simple, conversational: “So, what do you do.” These reactions run the gamut from happy enthusiasm to disgust. There are many people who will gravitate towards me at parties and get-togethers because I am “unusual.” There are others who will steer clear of me because they feel I am engaging in some verboten wickedness. Then, there are those with whom I must sometimes contend who believe that people who call themselves mediums are nothing more than charlatans engaged in a ruthless and low chicanery which takes advantage of the bereaved. This last group is the one which I feel the most uncomfortable with— because there are now, and have been many fraudulent mediums. I can understand the contempt they feel. But I wish that they were at least partly receptive to the notion of true, authentic mediumship

My opinions about death and my beliefs are all based on my experiences. I have seen too many clients whose dead have “come through” with astonishing revelations and accurate information to be unconvinced. However, I also am a skeptic. I question myself and my ability. I feel that when people— when mediums— stop questioning and start feeling like oracles, they become very obnoxious and repulsive people. The hubris which one can easily develop when working at this is a very special and very toxic kind of pride. I think that a medium is born as a medium and that such an individual, upon recognizing what that means and entails, will most likely accept his or her role and then function in society.

Again, my life is atypical because of what I do. We are so reliant upon career to define us that it is ridiculous. In the next world, or dimension, what we did in order to make a living is not going to matter. What we do with ourselves, and what we let ourselves do to others is what will matter. I do believe that enlightenment is only attained after a soul “works off” its “Karmic Debt.” So, I do not believe in perdition, but I do believe that making poor decisions or acting in a wanton or outright cruel manner which harms or disturbs those we live by will slow the development of the soul.

BE WELL—

AND CARE FOR ONE-ANOTHER,

JEFFREY JUSTICE