Home
Subscribe to Psychic News
About Psychic News
Spiritual videos
Issues of Psychic News
List of churches, centres and businesses who sell Psychic News magazine
List of churches, centres and businesses who sell Psychic News magazine
Advertise with Psychic News magazine
Advertise on this website
Contact us
 
Search this Site

Editor Tony Ortzen

 

Part of  “Two Worlds Are One                
 
A monthly feature By Psychic News Editor Tony Ortzen       
 

Author’s dogged search pays off

  

To share this story on your social media page click below:

 

ONE of Spiritualism’s major tenets is that we survive death and can communicate with loved ones still on Earth. Unlike some other religions, we also believe that the same applies to animals.

     
THIS wonderful illustration shows how much-loved animal companions are restored to full health in the Higher Realms, where they await their human friends.
     THIS wonderful illustration shows how much-loved animal
companions are restored to full health in the Higher Realms,
where they await their human friends. (Click to enlarge)

The reason is very simple: the spark of spirit within all living beings persists after passing on. Nothing can extinguish it.

However, it seems logical that some life forms, such as maggots and flies, return to a group soul.

Firstly, they are bereft of individuality. Secondly, there is no decay on the Other Side, so their services are not needed.

Though I dislike the term pets, animals such as dogs and cats have personality and individual characteristics. Because of enduring links of love, after passing on they also want to return to their human friends.

Throughout the years, millions of people have been comforted by a beautiful poem called Rainbow Bridge. Let’s remind ourselves how it reads:

Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge. When an animal dies
    that has been especially close to someone here, your pet goes to Rainbow Bridge.

There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable.

All the animals who have been ill and old are restored to health and strength. Those who were hurt are made better and strong again, like we remember them before they go to heaven.

They are happy and content except for one small thing – they each miss someone very special to them who had to be left behind.

They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are shining, his body shakes.

Suddenly he begins to run from the herd, rushing over the grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cuddle in a happy hug never to be apart again.

 
      

You and your pet are in tears. Your hands again cuddle his head and you look again into his trusting eyes, so long gone from life, but never absent from your heart, and then you cross the Rainbow Bridge together.

Don’t know about you, but the poem all but makes me weep whenever I read it. However, a mystery has persisted for years: who wrote it?

Edna wrote the poem 60 years ago in honour of her dog Major, a Labrador Retriever    
  

Now we know thanks to the dogged persistence of Paul Koudounaris, an art historian, author and cat owner in Tucson, Arizona.

Mr Koudounaris spent the past decade working on a book about pet cemeteries and frequently encountered references to the Rainbow Bridge.

To cut a long story short, starting in 1995, Mr Koudounaris found records of fifteen separate claims filed under the title Rainbow Bridge with the United States Copyright Office.

Mr Koudounaris compiled a list of around 25 names he found with any connection to the poem. He investigated each one and crossed them off as possible authors until he was left with someone called Edna Clyne-Rekhy.

And guess what? Edna is an 82-year-old Scottish artist, who wrote the poem 60 years ago in honour of her dog Major, a Labrador Retriever. The full story appeared in the US National Geographic magazine.

“What initially would have seemed like the most unlikely candidate turned out to be the most intriguing candidate and, of course, the actual author,” said Mr Koudounaris.

When he contacted Edna earlier this year and asked if she was the author of Rainbow Bridge, her initial response was “How on Earth did you find me?”

Aged nineteen, Major passed on in Edna’s arms in 1959. Distraught with grief, her mother suggested she should write down her feelings.

      boxer dog looks adoringly at owner

Sitting in the family’s lounge at their home near Inverness, Edna wrote a first line on a white sheet of paper – “Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge.” From there, the words poured out of her, filling the front and back.

“It just came through my head,” Edna added. “It was like I was talking to my dog. I was talking to Major. I just felt all of this and had to write it.”

Edna still has the original hand-written draft of the poem. When she showed it to Mr Koudounaris, he immediately knew it was real.

Though she never published the poem herself, Edna eventually showed it to a handful of friends.

“They were all crying,” she said. They asked for copies to take home, so Edna hand-typed duplicates for them, but did not include her name.

How wonderful it must be to know that one’s words have brought hope, reassurance and certainty to countless people and helped to heal broken hearts.

 


PSYCHIC • MEDIUM • TAROT Reliable • Informative • No-nonsense Psychic phone & written readings Elizabeth Francis www.elizabethfrancis.co.uk    
Can you make this into a website banner advert please.  The photo is attached but there is a better version on her website.The text is:  Barbara Psychic Medium and Author.  I give worldwide phone and email readings. I always give a timeline, and I record the reading for you.  On my website you will find free e-books to develop your psychic abilities.  I also offer a mediumship course with personal guidance.  First-time callers receive 5 minutes free when purchasing a half-hour reading.  My website is www.barbarathemedium.com  Follow me on Instagram: @bbpsychicmedium  Looking forward to connect with you!    
Speak to one of our many Live Readers now Mediums, Tarot, Psychics Seeking Guidance, Love, Happiness or Connecting to Spirit £1.50 per minute plus your network charge  www.psychicspotlightreadings.org Readings are for entertainment purposes only     Callers must be age 18+  Callers must have bill payers’ permission.  All calls are recorded      
PAST LIVES REVISITED  REMEMBERING WHO WE REALLY ARE Healing Karmic Trauma and Karmic Grief by Aurora Borealisz FACE YOUR FEAR LOVE YOUR LIFE  A mind-opening journey on the spiritual evolution of the Soul on earth and how this can negatively affect our lives, and how we can heal them. BUY NOW  amazon.com/dp/1916873464   MERCEDES GARCIA  Spiritualist Medium  for over 35 years  Phone, Skype or ZOOM  Readings available  Contact me for  further details   Tel: 07403 780 569 mercedes.garcia.medium@gmail.com        
PSYCHIC WENDY DOVE A Hand For You To Hold In Life    SPECIAL OFFER  A 30-minute reading for £30 - just quote 'Soul30' when booking    CREDIT/DEBIT CARD:  UK 0207 111 6126 EIRE 1800 719 347   UK TEXT DOVE  to 60016  (Just £1.00 per/text from UK)   PAY ON PHONE BILL:  UK 0906 7393 020 (0906 £1.00 p/min)  EIRE 1580 600 306 (PRS Charged at 2.50 per/min)  EIRE TEXT DOVE to 57777 (Just 2 per/text from Eire)   www.wendydove.co.uk   Wendy is available for pre-bookings Mon-Thurs 1.3 pm and 7-9pm. Please also check her website to see if she is available at all other times. However please call 02476 441063 to arange readings outside of these hours. Wendy's pin: 6400  We can take payments via PayPal at £1.00 per/min when you book a Reading with Wendy  GOOGLE REVIEWS 5* See Wendy's testimonials on the website  SMS cost £1/msg. max £2/reply +*your standard network charge 18+ STOP? 'Text, Stop' to 60016  SP: DSMS help? 02071116126. Eire SP: MTL. Helpline: 0766801002. 2EUR/msg +your standard network charge, 18+ To stop txt STOP to 5777 SP: DSMS help? 1800 719 347. Eire 1580 calls cost 2.50 per/minute. Must have bill payer's permision. Service for Entertainment only.     
Elstree Psychic Foundation  Tarot Course for Beginners  Starting Tuesday 12 September  10 week course (7.30 – 9.30pm)  Tutored by renowned  Psychic MediumsTarot Tutors J. Barnes & L. Vine  FREE introduction on Tuesday 5 September at 7.30pm  Limited spaces, call to reserve on 07931 846089  Venue Allum Hall, 2 Allum Lane, Elstree, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire  WD6 3PJ  For further information or details of our other courses, visit our website at www.elstreepsychicfoundation.co.uk       The Most Affordable Psychic Readings  Discover Your Own Personal Future Get Answers to All Your Questions Trusted Psychics  Over 400 World Class Psychic Readers Available Mediums, Clairvoyants, Astrologers & Tarot Readers Connect with Psychic Experts with Natural Abilities  Choose Your Psychic Today 	 Call Today 09040070663 (Call cost 45p per minute + network access charges apply)  www.trusted-psychics.co.uk  
Leaving Faith, Finding Meaning   A Preacher's Daughter's Search for God   The strange disappearance of a set of keys radically transformed Lynne Renoir’s life from suffering and disappointment to one filled with love and profound insight.   In her new book, Lynne reveals how the spirit world mysteriously intervened, connecting her with the extraordinary wisdom she now offers readers.   AVAILABLE AT AMAZON   Download a FREE EXCERPT at www.lynnerenoir.com  
My Soul Enslaved   Words and pictures from the abolitionists and enslaved peoples of the past through the medium of Psychic/Spiritual Art By Sheila Moore  Available through Amazon and bookshops or my website www.psychicartspiritualvisions.com  
Psychics Connections 03 MINUTES FREE    Speak with a live psychic now Find your way to love & happiness 3 minutes free for all new members From the US: 619-374-8181 From the UK: (001) 619-374-8181 www.psychicsconnections.com    
Ethel Post Parrish: Mediumship in America  by Gerald O'Hara    The first biography of Ethel Post Parrish, America’s most versatile materialisation medium and succesful business woman.   Using never before published sources, the author breaks new ground in research and looks at Ethel’s life in the context of the Spiritualist movement of the 1930s/1950s.   240 pages, 24 illustrations.   Available from Amazon in paperback and ebook for £12.01 and USA $15.00  Also available at ebay
     
How to view every issue of Psychic News ever published, from 1932 to the present day! Issues of it in newspaper format, from 1932 to 2010, are being made available online for FREE as a historic archive by the University of Manitoba at: https://libguides.lib.umanitoba.ca/psychicnews and every issue in its magazine format, from 2011 to the present day, can be viewed by online subscribers at www.psychicnews.org.uk for just £26 for 1 year or £14 for 6 months
  
The Spiritualist Society of Athens "The Divine Light" – en.divinelight.org.gr

The Psychic News logos are UK and Community registered trade marks of
Psychic Press Limited (Company Number 7806155)