Betty Shine (1929 – March 2002) was an English author, opera singer and
Spiritualist
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. Shine claimed to be a psychic,
medium
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and
spiritual healer.
Career
Shine is best known for her "Mind" series of books including ''Mind to Mind'' (1989), ''Mind Magic'' (1991) and ''Mind Waves''. Together, the first two books spent 19 weeks in ''The Sunday Times'' Top 10 best seller lists.
Later, she claimed to have
foreseen the events of
9-11
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.
She started her global Healing Network, along with her daughter, Janet Shine who continues the network and continues to make Betty Shine materials available.
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Controversial claim
Shine had spoken with David Icke
David Vaughan Icke ( ; born 29 April 1952) is an English conspiracy theorist, author and a former Association football, footballer and sports broadcaster. He has written over 20 books, self-published since the mid-1990s, and spoken in more tha ...
when he went to her for a consultation, when she told him he was the Son of God
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among other claims.
It may be possible that in the Rosicrucian
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tradition that Betty Shine is referring to in relation to Icke, the term "Son of God" (or "Daughter of God") simply means someone who has purified themselves and developed such high levels of self-sacrifice that they have reached a level of consciousness that rises above bodily desires and selfishness to the greater good and the brotherhood of mankind. In his book ''The Great Initiates'', French philosopher Édouard Schuré
Eduard (Édouard) SchurĂ© (January 21, 1841 in Strasbourg – April 7, 1929 in Paris) was a French philosopher, poet, playwright, novelist, music critic, and publicist of esoteric literature.
Biography
Schuré was the son of a doctor in t ...
, indicates that Hindu, Egyptian and Ancient Greek initiation traditions use the description "Son of God" to mean "a consciousness identical with divine truth, a will capable of manifesting it".
Icke directly compared himself to Jesus Christ whilst being interviewed on Wogan
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in 1991.
Death
Shine died on 26 March 2002
Bibliography
* ''Mind to Mind'' (1989)
* ''Mind Magic'' (1991)
* ''Mind Waves'' (1993)
* ''Mind Workbook''
* ''My Life as a Medium'' (1996)
* ''The Infinite Mind''
* ''Clear your Mind''
* ''Free your Mind''
* ''A Mind of Your Own'' (1998)
* ''A Free Spirit'' (2002)
References
External links
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1929 births
2002 deaths
20th-century English women opera singers
English psychics
English spiritual mediums
English women writers