George Chapman (healer)

George Chapman (4 February 1921 – 9 August 2006) was an English trance spiritual healer and medium. Active for 60 years, he was a medium for the spirit of "Dr. Lang", who conducted "spirit operations" on patients.

Life and work

George William Chapman was born in Bootle, near Liverpool on 4 February 1921, and was brought up by his maternal grandparents after the early death of his mother. After leaving school he took up various manual occupations, became a professional boxer, and, during World War II, served in the Irish Guards and the RAF. He joined the Aylesbury Fire Brigade after being demobbed, a post he held until 1956.[1]

Chapman married Margaret May Dickinson and they had a daughter, Vivian, in 1945, who survived only 4 weeks. The couple were devastated by her premature death, but started to receive "spirit messages" from her through the use of a ouija board.[1] This was the beginning of Chapman's development as a medium, and in those early years, he channeled spirit guides with names such Ram-a-din-i and Chang Woo;[2] however, his main spirit guide soon made itself known - a doctor called William Lang (1852-1937), who, it was later discovered, had been an ophthalmic surgeon at London's Middlesex Hospital up until 1914.[1]

Chapman's body, while in a trance, would be used by Dr. Lang to facilitate "spirit operations" on the etheric bodies of his patients, which would then manifest as healing of their physical bodies. He performed these operation with either no physical contact or a very light touch, and never promised that he could cure a patient.[3] In 1975 he was awarded "Spiritualist of 1975", the award being presented by Harry Edwards.[4]

Although physical healing was an important aspect of Chapman's work, he stated that the main purpose of Dr. Lang's manifestation was to convince people of the reality of life after death. He also stressed the importance of testing the spirit to ensure its authenticity, and cross-checking any claims made with information available from physical sources.[2]

George Chapman died on 9 August 2006.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Obituary (Daily Telegraph, 12 Aug 2006).
  2. 1 2 Joe Fisher, Colin Wilson; The siren call of hungry ghosts (Cosimo, Inc., 2001) p. 112 ff.
  3. ↑ Crosley, Reginald. Alternative medicine and miracles: a grand unified theory (University Press of America, 2004) pp. 103-4.
  4. ↑ The History of Spiritualism (www.psychics.co.uk).

Further reading

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