Lyn G de Swarte was editor of Psychic News until June 2003.

Follow thinkers not believers

Dear Lyn,

Peter Hobson is correct to describe the followers of Arthur Findlay as "survivalists". We do indeed regard the subject of survival after death as a branch of subatomic physics on a par with chemistry or astronomy. However, if Peter had added philosophy to this list then he would have covered his important point about "profound spiritual implications affecting our lives, our conduct, and our relations with one another."

Philosophy is the Greek word for seeking after knowledge - thinking about things, asking questions, checking facts, but most of all, never worshipping anything or anybody. Especially blindly believing in any supernatural mumbo jumbo invented by ignorant priests in the Dark Ages when men thought a red hot ball of fire went round a flat Earth every day.

Thomas Paine and Arthur Findlay's exposure of the great religious hoax on the human race is too painful for those within the one-god religion of Spiritualism to address. They just ignore the fact that Arthur Findlay makes it very clear that the one-god religions are the greatest curse ever to hit this planet. He says, "If you must have a god to worship why not have a whole stack of gods like the Greeks and Romans."

It's the religionists who are tearing the planet apart, not the philosophers - the believers, not the thinkers.

Yours sincerely

Michael Findlay Roll

The Most Valuable Englishman Ever - Michael Roll's article about Thomas Paine (1736-1809)
This outstanding tribute to Thomas Paine - "The Most Valuable Englishman Ever" - is taken from Arthur Findlay's suppressed history of humanity, "The Curse of Ignorance".

The Curse of Ignorance by Arthur Findlay (1947), published in two volumes, and details of some of Findlay's other works.

This is the true history of mankind, totally different to the pack of lies taught in a country where the Church and state are established. This passage sums up just how badly the British people have been deceived:

"Such, however, is still [the Church's] influence that this book, which tells the story of the past honestly and fearlessly, will be kept out of our schools and universities by the authorities, and consequently, only in later life will those with enquiring minds discover the truth."

Findlay finishes with a call to the people of the world to throw off the shackles of priestcraft, to make a choice between two paths:

"One is the Secular way (non religious) and the other is the Theological (religious); one is the Democratic and the other the Despotic; one is the sane and the other the insane."