Arthur Findlay College is a college of Spiritualism

Spiritualism

Spiritualism is a belief system or religion, postulating the belief that spirits of the dead residing in the spirit world have both the ability and the inclination to communicate with the living...

 and psychic sciences at Stansted Hall in Stansted Mountfitchet

Stansted Mountfitchet

Stansted Mountfitchet is a village and civil parish in the county of Essex, England, near the Hertfordshire border, north of London. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 5,533. The village is served by Stansted Mountfitchet railway station....

, Essex

Essex

Essex is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East region of England, and one of the home counties. It is located to the northeast of Greater London. It borders with Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to the north, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent to the South and London to the south west...

, England

England

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Stansted Hall was built in 1871, and the college was founded there in 1964. In accordance with Arthur Findlay

Arthur Findlay

Arthur Findlay MBE JP was a writer, accountant, stockbroker and Essex magistrate, as well as a significant figure in the history of the religion of Spiritualism, being a partial founder of the newspaper Psychic News and also a founder of the International Institute for Psychical Research...

's wishes, the college building and grounds are administered by the Spiritualists' National Union

Spiritualists' National Union

The Spiritualists' National Union is a Spiritualist organisation, founded in the United Kingdom in 1901, and is one of the largest spiritualist groups in the world. Its motto is Light, Nature, Truth....

 (SNU). The head offices of SNU at Red Woods are within the college grounds.

Subjects Taught

• Mediumship
• Spiritual Healing
• Meditation
  Meditation
  Meditation is any form of a family of practices in which practitioners train their minds or self-induce a mode of consciousness to realize some benefit....
  
  
• Hypnosis
  Hypnosis
  Hypnosis is "a trance state characterized by extreme suggestibility, relaxation and heightened imagination."It is a mental state or imaginative role-enactment . It is usually induced by a procedure known as a hypnotic induction, which is commonly composed of a long series of preliminary...
  
  
• Sound and Colour
• Philosophy
  Philosophy
  Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...
  
  
• Psychic Art and Auragraphs
• Qi
  Qi
  In traditional Chinese culture, qì is an active principle forming part of any living thing. Qi is frequently translated as life energy, lifeforce, or energy flow. Qi is the central underlying principle in traditional Chinese medicine and martial arts...
  
   and Prana
  Prana
  Prana is the Sanskrit word for "vital life" .It is one of the five organs of vitality or sensation, viz. prana "breath", vac "speech", chakshus "sight", shrotra "hearing", and manas "thought" Prana is the Sanskrit word for "vital life" (from the root "to fill", cognate to Latin plenus...
  
  
• Astrology
  Astrology
  Astrology consists of a number of belief systems which hold that there is a relationship between astronomical phenomena and events in the human world...
  
  
• Numerology
  Numerology
  Numerology is any study of the purported mystical relationship between a count or measurement and life. It has many systems and traditions and beliefs...
  
  

Rooms

• The Sanctuary
• The Library, used for physical mediumship. A portrait of Gordon Mons Higginson hangs here.
• The Blue Room
• Guest Accommodation
• Museum of Spiritualism

External links

• College website