Voices: A Doris Stokes Collection

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I was not surprised in the least when Doris Stokes came through to me on Ellen's show because she had already made an astounding prediction about my own life. I went to see Doris in 1982 when my first marriage had broken up. She told me I would meet a woman called Jane Wallis on March 6th who would become my wife and we would have a child.

Whatever the truth, on the most charitable assessment, Doris Stokes was not all she seemed, and the most serious question marks hang over her." Stokes was born in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England in January 1920. [3] In her memoirs she claimed that she started seeing spirits and hearing disembodied voices in childhood, and that she developed these abilities further once she joined a local spiritualist church after her son died in infancy. She was recognised as a practising clairaudient medium by the Spiritualists' National Union in 1949. [4] Doris gave me lots of support when I decided to start my business, Astro Angels. She told me as soon as I met her when I was dabbling with the tarot cards, that I would end up in this line of work and she says she is very proud. Without seeking to find them, I met a man who was told by Doris that he would become a medium, meet the woman who’d become his wife on March 6 and even gave her name. All these details were correct.They simply could not believe that she gave most of her earnings away. Knowing Doris, she would much sooner have had a Swiss roll than a Swiss bank account any day!” Doris died before our actual wedding, but I blurted out at the church, "Derek, we didn't invite Doris" because I was so used to having her around. He smiled and said, "She'll be here, she wouldn't miss this for the world". He was right about Doris - I felt her come through to me on my wedding day and she was very close. Fanshawe, Simon (17 September 2005). "I know what you're thinking There is, says the US 'mind reader' Marc Salem, no such thing as reading minds. But being able to read people's signs and signals, he tells Simon Fanshawe, can be elevated to an art form where science meets our enduring need for mystery". Financial Times. p.1. Doris was genuinely surprised that, as a song says, she became ‘the celebrity celebrities wanted to meet.’ She was good-natured throughout and would sometimes joke, ‘They’re taking me over to the Other Side bit by bit!’

Bob Couttie. (1988). Forbidden Knowledge: The Paranormal Paradox. Lutterworth Press. p. 42 ISBN 978 0 71 882686 4

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a b c d e f "Stokes, Doris May Fisher". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. June 2004. Linda continued: “As time passed, I thought I was walking further and further away from the Doris Stokes phenomenon only to discover years later that I’d been going round in a circle. Stories about the mystery of her missing millions kept appearing in papers. There were dark hints about secret Swiss bank accounts and offshore companies. Ellen Jameson, 46, best known for co-hosting a late-night Radio 2 show with husband Derek, is now a celebrity interviewer on Channel 5's Espresso show. Almost 20 years ago she met the famous celebrity stage medium Doris Stokes and witnessed her amazing revelations firsthand. She has been a firm believer in psychic powers ever since and has even set up her own astrology company, giving forecasts to business people. Ellen Jameson It was almost as if there really were voices everywhere, so I added that title to my list of suggestions and sent it off.

Both my parents are dead, but I feel Doris is my guardian now. I never feel alone. I recently challenged' another medium, Craig Hamilton-Parker, to demonstrate his skills live on my Espresso show. He knew nothing about my link with Doris, but she came through to him and he said, "Doris tells me you're a chocaholic, but you're doing well". I was astounded because nobody knew I had battled to give up chocolate two years earlier. If Doris hadn’t passed when she did, I thought, ‘I wonder what other titles they would have been able to think of using voices?’ Suddenly, into my head jumped the title Voices Everywhere.

I’m quite sure this is the book Doris wanted written and she’s been guiding – not to say pushing – me every step of the way. I think that the sub-title, The Mysterious Doris Stokes Effect, sums it up. I also met a woman who, at the age of eighteen, was told that she would be the next Doris Stokes. Later, she went on to win Channel 5’s series Britain’s Psychic Challenge.

Stokes was condemned by the Church of England and other Christian denominations, which objected to spirit communication as an offence to God. She countered that her work was done for God, [4] and in accordance with the Bible's injunction to "test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world" (1 John 4.:1). Six years later I met Jane on precisely that date, we married three months later and have an eight-year-old daughter. The only fact Doris got wrong was that Jane's maiden name was Willis, not Wallis. We talked about a dancing clown musical box I've had since I was a child that plays the tune Send In The Clowns. Mum was trying to cheer me up, and over the years the music box has started up several times of its own accord whenever I've been feeling tearful. Doris Stokes Death In her book, Voices in my Ear, Stokes claimed that she had solved two murder cases in England. However, Detective Chief Superintendent Wilfrid Brooks of the Lancashire Constabulary stated that Stokes made no contribution whatsoever to the detection of either murderer. [17] a b Plummer, Mark (1981). "Doris Stokes Wrong – Police" (PDF). The Skeptic. 1 (1): 1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 August 2006 . Retrieved 3 January 2007.As explained, people with unusual abilities – little echoes of Doris – kept crossing my path like beads on a string, each one unknowingly revealing another strand of the mystery.