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Materialisation medium 'disappears'
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  19 March 2007
UNITED KINGDOM. Visitors who have attended physical séances at Jenny’s Sanctuary, an Oxfordshire healing and psychic centre, have reported amazing phenomena, including the materialisation of a spirit guide in white light.
They have been promised that medium Warren Caylor, 37, will produce even greater wonders – including full-form spirit people who can be photographed and filmed. But those hopes may have been dashed for some by the medium’s “dematerialisation” – he has walked out of the centre after a dispute.
His plan, it seems, is to go it alone. And though this defection has been a blow for Ron Gilkes, the circle leader whose sanctuary is dedicated to his dead daughter, Jenny, he is also remarkably philosophical about what has happened.
He tells www.ParanormalReview.com that a development circle has sat regularly with Caylor to enable him to enhance his powers, which were first recognised during a séance at the sanctuary by another well-known British physical medium, David Thompson, who now lives in Australia.
In addition to the development circle, public séances have also been held so that others could experience the phenomena. On those occasions, to safeguard the medium from harm by inexperienced sitters, all visitors were searched with the thoroughness of airport security screening, prior to the session, and a metal-detector was used to be sure no one was carrying any hidden items.
However, the same precautions were not taken during the development circle because, Ron Gilkes explained, everyone was trusted. So he was surprised when, during a recent session, Caylor’s spirit guide Yellow Feather told one of the circle members: “Keep it in your pocket – don’t switch it on”.
When Gilkes questioned the circle members he discovered that one was using a dictaphone – for reasons that have not become apparent – and that Caylor (and his spirit guide!) knew that this was happening. Gilkes was understandably annoyed that the development circle rules were being flouted.
An innocent explanation could be that Caylor and the other person involved simply wanted their own recordings of the trance or direct voice phenomena that were being experienced in the circle. But Gilkes – who has always been adamant that stringent measures must be taken to rule out fraud – realised that sceptics could argue that the presence of such a device (which can play back as well as record) might explain some of the “voice” phenomena produced.
He therefore asked the person concerned not to attend the development circle on the following Wednesday, to give him time to think it over and find out more about what had been happening. The response was, “Then I’m not coming at all.” Gilkes said he couldn’t help that, but he was not standing for any deception.
The sitter then called the medium to convey what had happened, and Caylor responded by announcing to Gilkes that he wouldn’t be giving any more séances at the sanctuary where, incidentally, he had been living for the past two years. He has since collected his belongings and is believed to be living in Birmingham – though Gilkes does not even have a phone number for him.
Gilkes believes that the former forklift driver is motivated by material rather than spiritual considerations, having found that he can earn over £1,000 a week from his physical séances. Whatever the reason, Gilkes has removed all references to Caylor and his seances from the Jenny’s Sanctuary website, at the medium’s request.
Warren Caylor’s development as a physical medium has been rapid: from knowing little about Spiritualism and physical phenomena two years ago to apparently producing trance, direct voice and now materialisation phenomena. This development has been well chronicled on the Internet as well as in the pages of the monthly Spiritualist newspaper Psychic World.
With unfortunate timing, the latest issue of that newspaper (March 2007) carries a half-page advertisement from Jenny’s Sanctuary offering members of the public the opportunity to experience physical phenomena with Caylor, as well as a news report headlined, “Full materialisation in white light at Jenny’s Sanctuary on Valentine’s Day 2007”.
Written by a member of Caylor’s development circle, it reveals that “the full form of the North American Indian with whom we have spoken for the last two years and whose name we know as Yellow Feather, stepped out of the cabinet, bowed towards us, gave a dance and came within inches of us … and walked out 7-8 feet into the room….”
Sceptics, of course, will believe that this is the medium masquerading as a spirit guide, but the writer explains: “ In all our séances the medium is tied with cable ties around the arm of the chair to his wrists. His legs are tied together with rope and another rope around his middle and tied to the chair. He is then gagged with a ladies scarf… and a pillow case [placed] over his head. After the materialisation evening, all restraints, gag and pillow case were still in place as I had left them.”
But such impressive counter-fraud measures have to be weighed against the content of the séances and, in particular, the celebrity line-up that, increasingly, seems to be waiting in the wings of the darkened Banbury séance room. They include the spirits of comic magician Tommy Cooper, “Queen” lead singer Freddie Mercury (who sang along to his famous hit, It’s a Kind of Magic), jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong (who initiated the singing of When The Saints Go Marching In), Sir Winston Churchill and Princess Diana. They all put in appearances on the same night, at Warren Caylor’s first public physical séance at Jenny’s Sanctuary on 9 November 2005.
It is believed that medium Colin Fry, who began as a physical medium but is now best known as a platform medium and TV regular, is not happy that his spirit guide Magnus, who is presumed to work exclusively through him, is alleged to have spoken at Caylor’s seances.
The recent Psychic World report ends with the words: “Watch this space!”
We will, but the space in question for Warren Caylor’s next physical manifestations will not be Jenny’s Sanctuary (below). He has now launched his own website – www.warrencaylor.co.uk – on which he is advertising regular physical seances in Herefordshire and Oxfordshire and expressing an interest in demonstrating his mediumship at other venues around the country.
Photo credit: picture of Warren Caylor by courtesy of Frank Brown (www.the-voice-box.com).
For information about Jenny’s Sanctuary click here.
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Posted on Sunday, March 04, 2007
Category: Mediumship
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