Theos-Talk Archives (February 1998 Message tt00155)

>I think we have to be careful about painting the psychism issue with too
broad of
>a brush.  HPB did make a distinction between clairvoyance, spiritual
clairvoyance
>and mediumship.  It was the latter that she was against, because the medium
does
>not have control over the phenomena.  Psychometry is not in this category.
>

Jerry, I agree with you completely on this one.


>I think that there is evidence that Tingley did have psychic abilities, but
she
>since she did not show them off to the membership, recorded instances are
few and
>far between.  Tingley was also a very charismatic speaker and talented at
>organizing people together.  Whatever Judge saw in her, Tingley's abilities
went
>far beyond just being a good neighborhood psychic.
>

I find a fair amount of real mysticism in her writings (which are not very
many).

Jerry S.