Voices: A Doris Stokes Collection

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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. Innocent Voices in My Ear, Doris Stokes with Linda Dearsley (1983). Publisher: Sphere; New edition. 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.

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).

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 It was all press speculation. She gave away a lot to deserving causes. After she passed on, tax bills arrived and the family had to sell Doris’ modest house in SE London and auction off her personal possessions to pay the bills.

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.

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!” 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]

For instance, she was also genuinely surprised to be asked to appear on BBC Radio 4’s iconic Desert Island Discs. Nothing ever went to Doris’ head. Stories about the mystery of her missing millions kept appearing in papers. There were dark hints about secret Swiss bank accounts and offshore companies. Stokes co-wrote seven volumes of autobiography, but some of the events she describes in them have been questioned. She was good-natured throughout and would sometimes joke, ‘They’re taking me over to the Other Side bit by bit!’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. Craig Hamilton-Parker, 43, is a medium who works in partnership with his wife Jane, 46, from their home in Eastleigh, Hampshire. He says: Bob Couttie. (1988). Forbidden Knowledge: The Paranormal Paradox. Lutterworth Press. p. 42 ISBN 978 0 71 882686 4 Whatever the truth, on the most charitable assessment, Doris Stokes was not all she seemed, and the most serious question marks hang over her."