CENTRE Transcending The Titanic 

Brian Taylor, quite possibly today’s foremost researcher into yoga and the psychic and spiritual sciences, has a new book out called CENTRE The Truth about Everything. Michael Tymn, quite possibly today’s foremost writer on 19^th century and early 20^th century Spiritualism, has a new book out called TRANSCENDING THE TITANIC.  

What both books focus on is the spiritual and transcendent elements of existence and its apparent continuation after physical death.  Michael Tymn uses anecdotal evidence communicated through mediums by a few of the deceased victims of the Titanic who survived in another dimension. Brian Taylor uses conscious access to the Centre to explore the different levels of reality.

The hero of Michael Tymn’s story is William Thomas Stead (1849 -1912). He was the most famous passenger on the Titanic; a British journalist, editor, author, spiritualist and pacifist —as a peace crusader he had been nominated for the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1903 and thought to have been the likely recipient in 1912.

Stead boarded the ill-fated Titanic for a visit to America to take part in a peace congress at Carnegie Hall. After the ship struck the iceberg, Stead helped several women and children into lifeboats and during the last hours of the doomed voyage, he was reported as appearing utterly calm, unfazed by the prospect of death, which he regarded merely as a transition to a better world.

Very soon after his death, William Stead began communicating through mediums. The account of his passing from earth to spirit life, he deliberately kept brief, describing the first part as naturally extremely discordant. His first surprise —and he reminds us that to our way of thinking he was dead— he found that from being in dire straits himself, he was able to lend a hand to others.  Just a moment of agitation, momentary only, and then the full and glorious realization that all he had learned as a spiritualist was true . He was still so near the earth that he could see everything that was going on there. He could see the wrecked ship, the people, the whole scene; and that pulled him into action— he could help.

A matter of a few minutes only in time, and there were hundreds of bodies floating in the water —dead—hundreds of souls carried through the air, alive; very much alive—newly thrust out of their bodies, all unwillingly. CENTRE describes this as the ‘astral body’ leaving the physical body, because it is dead. “The human body functions as a living being only as long as it is inhabited by, and impregnated with, an astral body which can provide a non-physical link between it and the origin of life which is the Centre.” 

Stead described how they waited until the disaster was complete. The saved—saved; the dead—alive. Then in one whole they moved their scene to a different land. He could not say how long the journey lasted, nor how far from the earth they were, but described it as a gloriously beautiful arrival, “...like walking from your own English winter gloom into the radiance of an Indian Sky.” He would not say that none were unhappy, many were; but that was because they did not understand the nearness of the two worlds; they did not know what was possible.

Brian Taylor tells us in CENTRE that there are many different worlds and planes of existence rising higher than ours —which can be accessed while one is alive. There are many worlds and planes of existence sinking lower too. The higher worlds, he says, are levels of increasing fineness and happiness. The lower worlds are levels of increasing coarseness and suffering. It is similar he says to travelling as a tourist to a foreign country and finding out what it is like there. When one returns to one’s present life, one will be able to see with new eyes the way karma is operating here.

CENTRE is a revelation and some will immediately recognise it as truth and be able to use the map, vocabulary and investigations to understand all the experiences described by William Stead who had believed in the afterlife —but didn’t have doubt removed until after his physical death. CENTRE enables one to fit spiritual experiences, like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, into the complete picture.

Having arrived at the new land Stead reported that they, who had come over from that ill-fated ship, parted company and went their separate ways —in accordance with their karma.  Some remained as astrals (ghosts), some found happiness in the Heaven worlds (which Stead describes in ‘The Blue Island’), experiencing the truth of “In my father’s house there are many mansions.” Stead described it as a land of freedom and happiness brought about through the real love of man for man. A land to work for—a land in which your place is made according to the knowledge you have had whilst on earth and the way you used that knowledge.

He communicated that Life here is a grander thing —a bolder thing, and a happier thing for all those who have led reasonable lives on earth, but for the unreasonable there are many troubles and difficulties and sorrows to be encountered. He emphasized the great truth of “as ye sow, so shall ye reap.” CENTRE’s core understanding illustrates this truth in the simple yet profound Universal Octopus diagram —the reality being all is One. “What you do to another, you do to you.”

Stead’s urgent message for those on earth is to understand the seriousness of our predicament ‘as you are now, so you will be after death’ and that same law still applies in the afterlife. He gives a brief outline of progressing from sphere to sphere —through making his own conditions. In each further sphere, he said, you become more and more self-contained, more detached. Some can progress to an impersonal state and become pure spirit people; others, he said, return to a new birth on earth.  This movement from sphere to sphere, form to form, moving steadily deeper and deeper into higher, finer and finer realms, is described in CENTRE as an inward journey back to Source.

Stead enabled another victim from the wreck, the multimillionaire John J Astor (who had conducted himself with dignity and courage during the crisis) to communicate how he found himself blind in the new land —spiritually blind. He told of coming to regret his earthly materialistic ambitions after being immersed in a higher spiritual reality. “Why are these things not taught in the world?” he is said to have cried through a medium. “Why did no one ever tell me these things?”

Spirits from the ‘other side’, Stead reported, have nothing more to add to what has already been taught in the world by those great Messengers who taught the way. Their role is more to “widen the chinks through which the same light may shine through a little more clearly...”

CENTRE is a fast track guide to the highest spiritual happiness with basic, intermediate and advanced levels and is an essential read for the student of life. ‘TRANSCENDING THE TITANIC Beyond Death’s Doors’ is a very interesting read; along with Stead’s ‘THE BLUE ISLAND’.  Having access through such publications to understanding “these things”, we can use it to reach the destination of our choice —here and now.

CENTRE The Truth about Everything by Brian Taylor (2012)
www.amazon.co.uk/CENTRE-TRUTH-about-EVERYTHING-ebook/dp/B005ZEIU1W  
www.amazon.com/CENTRE-TRUTH-about-EVERYTHING-ebook/dp/B005ZEIU1W

TRANSCENDING THE TITANIC Beyond Death’s Doors by Michael Tymn (2012)
www.amazon.co.uk/Transending-Titanic-Beyond-Deaths-Doors/dp/1908733020 
www.amazon.com/Transending-Titanic-Beyond-Deaths-Doors/dp/1908733020 

THE BLUE ISLAND Experiences of a New Arrival Beyond the Veil communicated by William T. Stead (1922) 
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