Автор:Michael Cocks Год: 2011 Издание:Книга по Требованию Страниц: 322 ISBN: 9781907661921 Early in 1974, a small group of religious friends began gathering periodically at the modest home of Thomas and Olive Ashman in Christchurch, New Zealand. "We would reverently pray for protection, and be silent," says the Rev. Michael Cocks, an Anglican priest from Christchurch. "Tom would sit upright in a chair, relaxed. After two or three minutes he would begin to pale and to breathe deeply. Then his body would give a slight jerk as Stephen seemed to take over." In effect, Tom Ashman was a trance medium and was entering an altered state of consciousness as his body was being "taken over" by the entity called Stephen, who would then speak to the group using Ashman's vocal cords. Stephen would dialogue with the group, which, in addition to Cocks and Ashman's wife, Olive, also included a Liberal Catholic priest, a Buddhist, and other curious observers. But this was not just any Stephen; it was Saint Stephen, the first Christian Martyr. Cocks states that normally Stephen spoke through...
