VIctor Zammit in June PW

I should know I'm sure but don't.
Victor Zammit. Who he?
Writes in Psychic World.
June issue p 4...
'In germany,there is also another physical medium who has been unfairly attacked. It is sad this happens when this medium is surrounded by scientists who confirm the validity of his mediumship'.

Psychic World advertises lots of books published by a company, operating out of the same PO box number as the newspaper; called...
I am not making this up....
'Con-Psy Publications'

I've likewise heard the name, and likewise can't place it.

The best new small publisher in the field looks to be Tom / Ann Harrison's venture, Saturday Night Press Publications.

Entering his name in any search engine will bring up plenty of information about him. He has an interesting approach to presenting his views - if you agree with him you are a genius, if your views don't match his, then you are an idiot!

Professor Stephen Hawking is in the latter camp, and Zammit refers to him as "Silly", "Delusional" and "the greatest coward-scientist who ever lived"

Ha during some spats regarding Mr Thompson's mediumship Mr Zammit used some very colurful phrases once likening me to a Klu Klux Klan wizard, given my life time abhorrence of white supremacists I was mortally offended but it was one of his favourite phrases to use on some opponents. I have a long file of Zammitisms

Not the Swedish Chef surely

I refuse to acnowledge that Wes, anyway originally I believe he is Maltese. In honesty he tries hard but the bluster and agression gets in the way. On top of that he is a survivalist not a Spiritualist. I suppose that given he is from that country maybe no one should poke him in the eye with written commnts which he loved to call "Dirty".

He has now also committed his backing and expert empirical research to Karl Muegge so anyone commenting on the Felix Group can expect to feel the verbal weight of his ire.

He could be writing in English as a second or additional language. If not then the article does not read as a text reflecting something one would look for as the product of a graduate mind. 'Too declamatory, lacking evidence of considered reflection'.
Sort of thing I see regularly at work to append...
'Good start, check your lecture notes; go back to the sources then have another go'.
The piece is obviously written with feeling but whilst we all have feelings, sadly; intellect is less equitably distributed.
PW really is dire. Seems to chiefly be a vehicle for advertising vanity publications. The only two redeeming features of said periodical being the low price of sixty pence and its remarkable absorbency when applied under cat litter.
Our pussy, the Dowager Duchess Emillie Catte is a great fan

I will not argue with that Kk had a few fights with another contributor Rev Ray Jones, who was a Blackpool Prom Psychic then the Rev Of Way Memorial in Ohio. Absolute idiot, a friend sent me his latest and greatest article in PW
question ''WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN cHRISTIANITY AND SPIRITUALISM?" "

"Spiritualists basically believe in Christianity but have added the existence of ghosts etc.who travel on our plane of existence in some sort of limbo or purgatory."


I have been thrown off two groups Ray ran, years ago, because his knowledge of history was zero,

Woops KK I think the use you have for PW is appropriate, cheaper than training pads for animals too.

Our friend, Victor Zammit, was undoubtedly a lawyer in NSW, and if you believe his own rhetoric he was quite a whiz-kid in the courtroom, and he has all sorts of other highly intelligent, unique and special abilities not available to us mere mortals to enable him to discern the genuine from the fraudulent, and is, almost single-handedly, fighting to bring the truth of survival to the attention of the world. Now, I would be the first to acknowledge the good Victor can, with his weekly bulletin, give many an opportunity to catch up on what is out there on the internet that might be of interest, and I actually do not doubt his sincerity, however, I fear that what Zammit does not yet realise is that bombast and aggression, wild accusations and equally irrational attacks on others who perceive the world and the subject from a different perspective, really do little positive to build a belief in the reality of the afterlife and the survival of the human spirit.

As for championing that particular so-called physical medium in a certain European county, the less said the better!

Hi all,

The said lawyer 'VZ' certainly appears intollerant of any opposing views to the survival hypothesis. However I enjoy his 'Friday' reports, and a year or so ago made some comments regarding a spirit communicator who appeard in a circle he was attending. I knew the individual well and said it could well be him. ( So I was supportive of the possible communication).

To cut a long story short I was missquoted by the said Mr Zammit ( who STILL has not rectified the error !! ) and as a result subjected to vitriol by a number of highlly respected people who, naturaly, thought I had implied something of which I had not.

It caused considerable upset and great distress to myself. All in all I am wary of what the said Lawyer says, not becasuse I do not think he does his research, or that he is not passionately behind survival.

The problem is that on whatever side of the fence you sit, being blinded to any opposing views does not give a balanced picture. That is why I have increasingly found a well known site about 'physical mediumship' just too much to stomach.

LeroyC

May I ask if Germany is far behind us in the subject of spiritualism?
Sorry if I divert but 'chatting' to a German girl in another site she made a remark about how hard it was to find a spiritualist church in the area where she lives.
Apparently they are very few and hard to find throughout Germany itself.
Not only PM but the subject itself of spirit,is generally looked down on.
Is this correct?

Crikey this VZ guy sounds to be a bit of a legend in his own lunchtime.
Spiritualism wise tinternet is still a bit of a closed book to me but from what bit I've seen if more of those pontificating about it online would make shift and support their local Spiritualist cause or even have a go at starting one if there's none handy, then we'd see some proper growth.
Ray Jones I do know about. He seems to be getting a living. Don't think he worked the booths at Blackpool though. He'd be a wealthy man if he'd had one of those. It's all women and I'm related to most of em. Very much a closed shop anyone trying to set up on the Golden Mile as a reader would find themself feeding the fishies off Fletwood in double quick time.. Possibly he did psychic fayres and clubs.

There are some German members of SNUi and I seem to remember a German week at AFC not sure if that still happens. There's a nice living to be had in Scandinavia though Stage mediums can do well, few churches but lots of interest. Must be those long dark winters.
Your chum could do worse than joining SNUi Joan. It's not like SNU at all . Quite jolly sorts only twenty quid a year and member discounts on purchases can make up for that.
Link is on SNU homepage. She'd be able to link up with others in Germany and chat in her own language.

KatyKing wrote:There are some German members of SNUi and I seem to remember a German week at AFC not sure if that still happens. There's a nice living to be had in Scandinavia though Stage mediums can do well, few churches but lots of interest. Must be those long dark winters.
Your chum could do worse than joining SNUi Joan. It's not like SNU at all . Quite jolly sorts only twenty quid a year and member discounts on purchases can make up for that.
Link is on SNU homepage. She'd be able to link up with others in Germany and chat in her own language.

Think she actually lives in Bavaria. Nice young lass,speaks very good English.
I think someone suggested that to her,to join the SNU.
Must have another chat with her.
Thanks Pete.

NOT SNU Joan that would be a terrible fate to wish on anyone.
SNUi is SNU international. Seperate thing entirely.

KatyKing wrote:NOT SNU Joan that would be a terrible fate to wish on anyone.
SNUi is SNU international. Seperate thing entirely.

Sorry Pete,was rushing around,didn't notice that.
Must remember to let her know.
Off to the 'spugie' church tonight.....as my mother used to call it.
First visit in a long time.

petal34 wrote:

KatyKing wrote:NOT SNU Joan that would be a terrible fate to wish on anyone.
SNUi is SNU international. Seperate thing entirely.

Sorry Pete,was rushing around,didn't notice that.
Must remember to let her know.
Off to the 'spugie' church tonight.....as my mother used to call it.
First visit in a long time.

Hope you get a message, Petal!

KatyKing wrote:Have a good time Joan.
If right's right you should get a message.

It was an open circle,Pete!

Ray Jones I do know about. He seems to be getting a living. Don't think he worked the booths at Blackpool though.

Not the booths my informant met him doing readings on the beach there.

There is a parody site called:

VICTOR DAMMIT
A Lawyer Presents the Case for Burning Skeptics

http://www.aaskolnick.com/dammit/

That parody site makes as much, if not more sense than the VZ site I just looked at.
VZ does seem to be quite an angry little man doesn't he?

KatyKing wrote:
That parody site makes as much, if not more sense than the VZ site I just looked at.
VZ does seem to be quite an angry little man doesn't he?

He's quite calm on his youtube clips, which always show him sitting in front of an impressively stacked bookshel, presumably to add weight to his words

Agreed VZ is a bombastic idiot, but apart from that, as far as I know, the Felix Group with Karl Muegge does produce ectoplasm in red light at their seances, but up to now no survival evidence. They say "that's the German way" like the Schneider brothers in the past, but I see no point in that and still hope that they might develop further. The eternal optimist am I .....