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There are glimpses of
another world.

“You can have what you
want in the spirit world. You
can have a garden, music.
It’s not a world where you sit
around on a little cloud and
play a harp.”

... Coral Polge is a_ very
pleasant, frank, unassuming
woman with a lovely sense of
humour who has an unusual
occupation. She is one of the
few psychic artists in the
world. She was in Van-
couver for three - weeks
recently, working with
David Young in demonstra-
tions for the Vancouver
Psychic Society. She left for

her home in Surrey,
England, shortly after a
demonstration for the

Psychic Society in the new
Masonic Hall in Vancouver.

While in Vancouver she
also' had private appoint-
ments or “sittings” (as she
refers to them) which were
all booked. She was here
previously in 1972 to do
demonstrations with David
at the Bayshore.

TUNING IN

In demonstrations she
works with other mediums
such as David Young
because it is difficult to both
draw a portrait on an over-
head projector and talk
before a large audience.

What happens in a demon-
stration? “I draw a picture
on an overhead projector.
David tries to tune into the
person I've drawn and then
they try to tell him which
person in the audience they
are there for — in order td
give evidence of their person
or others in spirit. You have
to find out who the picture is
for in the audience.”

How did she get started?

“As a child I was not
psychic though a lot of
mediums are. I was a
commercial artist in my

early twenties and out of
curiosity went to a spiri-
tualistic church. I got the
fright of my life when the
medium said ‘do you know
you are a psychic artist?’

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“You can’t listen unless the
person is broadcasting.”

“I didn’t know what a
psychic artist was, let alone
that I was. She told me I'd be
a world-famous medium and
travel here and there, and be
on radio and TV.

I thought she was quite
putty. Curiosity took me
back and somedne else told
me that as well.”

Coral set about developing
her gift which js very rare and
she has been practising it for
30 years. She started off with
a group of friends and
relatives and “got automatic
writing” which gave her
instructions as to what to do.
“Eventually I could work
without a group, but work by
impression.”

LIKE RADIO

How does it happen?

“I sit down and concen-
trate and just hope that I can
get a picture that someone
knows but itisn’t always one
the sitter, the person I draw
for, necessarily knows. But
they take the picture home
and grandmother will say
‘Oh, that's great uncle
Fred.”

David explains: “We don’t
call back the dead. We can't
make them come. All we can
give is what we receive if we
receive.”

Coral comments “It’s like
being a radio receiver. All
we can do is switch on but if
no one is transmitting on the
other end, there’s nothing.
You can’t listen unless the
person is broadcasting.”

If nothing does happen,
both David and Coral give
back the fees involved.

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wants to communicate. A
girl I had an appointment
with this afternoon wanted
her father to come. I got her
young brother and a lady 1
thought was her grand-
mother. I was conscious of
the father but he didn’t want
his picture drawn. I was very
aware of him but couldn't
draw him. But the deter-
mined grandmother pushed
herself in.”

Because Coral becomes
the person in spirit whom
she draws, she has had some
unusual experiences.

GUN FIRE

“The father of a lady who
came to see me had died of
T.B. He nearly choked me
when I was drawing him. He
was sO anxious to give me
the impression of how he
had died as evidence that he
was there. I
couldn't breath. They
normally don’t do that so
positively.”

There are other unusual
experiences.

“When I was in Holland
recently I drew a picture of a
little girl in a public demon-
stration. She took me back
to the moment of her death.
I was standing in a square
with a cobbled pavement. I
was standing there as this
child holding my mother's
hang. Everyone’ was
laughing and __ singing.
Suddenly there was machine
gun fire, with people

screaming and being killed.”

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When an_ interpreter
explained this to the
audience a woman
recognized the child and
“accepted it.” She told Coral
later that the people in her
town had all rushed out into
the town square to celebrate
the end of the war. But a
group of Germans holed up
in one of the buildings had
opened up with machine
guns and mowed all the
people down.

“I had never heard of this
incident but for a few
moments I was in_ that
square. I actually was that
child. They overshadow me.
Their spirit blends with mine
and then I can remember
what they remember.”

But those in spirit don't
always reveal themselves the
way a Sitter might think they
would. Coral remembers
when a friend of Dag
Hammerskjold, the late
U.N. Secretary-General,
came to her because “he had
been through to her from
spirit and told her to go to
Coral Polge and I will give
you a portrait of myself.
Normally you can't
demand.”

Coral drew a portrait of a
little girl around two years
old with long golden hair and
a dress on, sitting on the
mother’s knee. Later the
friend went through a family
photo album and found such
photo of Dag.

“It was clever of him,”
observes Coral, “because he
could easily imagine I had

seen photos of him and
might remember what he
was like.”

She finds that a great
number of people are in-
terested in spiritualism —
“from royalty down to the
dustman sort of thing.”

She cites Queen Victoria's
relationship with her “ghilly”
or manservant John Brown.

“People thought she was
having an affair with him but
he was a brilliant medium
and he kept her in touch with
Prince Albert.”

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