I, D R T Keeghan, first saw Diane in the Arthur
Findlay College in Stansted Hall on the Manchester week I attended. It was one
of the best demonstrations of Transfiguration I had seen. I have been lucky
enough to see her work in her own Home Circle in her flat in Blakeley,
Manchester U.K. I felt very privileged being asked. I also saw her demonstrating
her transfiguration in Edinburgh and again in Middleton Civic Centre, 23 August
2008, another excellent demonstration of the Spirit World proving life
continuing after life. Every time in her demonstrations the audience of
enquirers need the tissues, not a dry eye in the house when their loved ones
came through Diane.
Diane's Father was Jack [John] Kirkham, and Mother
Kathleen Kirkham, who saw Spirit all the time, but when Diane said to her to
mother
why don't you talk to them and ask them to tell you things, her mother said "it
is bad enough seeing them, I do not want to hear them as well".
Diane first visited a Spiritualist
Church when her friend said she had tickets for this funny church, do
you want to go with me to see to see the famous transfiguration Medium Queenie Nixon
do a demonstration of a thing called Transfiguration, this was at
Manchester's Moston church in about 1962. The both of them went and
held onto each as the demonstration progressed as in was very dark and
un-nerving for the young ladies at the time. After seeing the
Demonstration by Queenie, Diane said to her friend, "I would love to do that", and so
it came to pass for her.
It was
about five years later when John and Ella Warwick, neighbours of Diane
at the time, took Diane to Moston Church for Healing after having a
nervous breakdown. After going there and recovering from her
nervousness and anxiety, the three friends went to Halliwell Lane Church,
from there they join the Tuesday night Circle, as well as developing
her Mental Mediumship, Diane then trained as a healer. Over time she became the Booking Secretary
of Halliwell Lane Church, booking all the Mediums for the church
services and demonstrations, then as time went on, Diane became the
Vice President of the church.
Diane moved on to Collyhurst Church where
she again helped to build up a thriving congregation. After five years
she became the President of the church for the following four years.
Diane has said it
was Mavis Patilla who trained her as a Medium, that led to Diane taking her
first church service.
Mavis Patella
asked Diane if she could get sitters for a development Circle, so she did and
sat in that same Circle for a man every week for three years, then one week he
was ill, so Diane herself sat in the cabinet saying "I will sit in the cabinet
to keep up the energy until he comes back". The man did not return after his
illness so Diane kept on sitting in the cabinet for another 12 years developing
in that Circle. Mavis Patilla trained her for platform work in, starting in her
own church with the Sunday service, Mavis doing the philosophy and Diane doing
the Clairvoyance, this was some thirty years ago, one of many nerve racking
experiences.
Then one week she
was taken by Mavis down to Longton Church, Stoke on Trent [Gordon Higginson's
church]. the same format during the service with the double act of Mavis and
Diane this was the first outside church service that Diane had done, and it was
nerve racking for her.
Because Diane had
been telling others she wanted to know if she was doing things correctly,
Diane's friend from Iceland said she was going to Stansted [Arthur Findlay
College] for the week and there was a place spare, her own friend had dropped
out. When Diane got there she found out it was Physical Mediumship week with
amongst others Gordon Higginson tutoring, Diane ending up in his group in the
library. On the Wednesday of that week she was pointed at by Gordon and Diane
was asked to sit in the cabinet trembling as she did so [Gordon was a man who
was revered at Stansted because of his ability to produce human forms out of
ectoplasm]. Whilst sitting in the cabinet Gordon could see the potential of
Diane [and he was talking to the Spirit World and getting advice]. Next day he
he told her she must continue sitting for transfiguration as she was a
Transfiguration Medium and to never stop sitting. Diane said to him I did not go
anywhere I was still aware. Gordon said to her "You ARE a Transfiguration Medium
and you do not need to be completely out of it for anything to happen as you
have found out, all you needed yesterday was just an altered state".
One of the first
times she went to Iceland Diane said to her group I will show you what I am
learning in England so she sat in a cabinet that was supplied for her and all
sorts of family and friends came through for the Icelandic group. Next day they
said they had booked her for a demonstration of Transfiguration on her next
visit and that is when it all started. Previous to that Diane demonstrated only
Mental Mediumship.
Her Spiritual guide Mr Chan
Wa made his first appearance in Iceland
in 1987, he came out of the blue on one of her trips there. At the
time Diane was going there to demonstrate her clairvoyance and transfiguration
twice a year. One year whilst doing a transfiguration demonstration with an
Icelandic lady sitting beside her [which is normal as protection], Diane half
way through her demonstration went into a deeper trance state, on coming around
to her normal everyday state was told she had brought through a man who had only
been dead for a few hours, and he had been talking to his relations and friends
through Diane in his native language of Icelandic Diane does not speak any
of that language.
Diane
has also worked in Denmark, Finland and Germany until recently 2006 when
her trips
had to be put on hold until she had a Kidney Transplant.
In the
meantime it is three sessions of Dialysis per week at North Manchester
General Hospital. Diane was born with a deformed kidney, which was
removed just before her tenth birthday. Then, four years ago, in 2004, her other kidney
started to fail and she began having dialysis at North Manchester General three
times a week, this is where she met Dr Che the Urology Specialist ,who told her about
the plight of the people in the Cameroon in Africa who had no dialysis machines
and the fact Manchester Hospital had an old one just there, not being used.
Diane does nothing more than get her friend Keith Hilditch from Middleton on
board, and the pair of them set up the Diane Elliott Dialysis Fund to try and get
the machine to the Cameroon. Keith, her husband has offered his kidney for a two
way transplant. When one kidney is found for Diane, another person can have one
of his.
Alongside this
fund Diane being Diane, the way she was, being stuck in Britain and because of the
fact of Diane being on dialysis, it was felt that this was a
good time to set up a much needed Spiritualist Church in Middleton and
this came to fruition on the 11th April 2007. Then Diane Elliott became the First President of Middleton Independent
Spiritualist Church, which is now going from strength to strength.
While at the
hospital the nurse said Diane had a problem with the thyroid gland which was
swelling. After a few weeks, the nurse said I see you have had the operation on
your thyroid . "no I haven't" Diane said. "But you have, the swelling has gone
down and it does not happen on its own, what have you been doing?" asked the
nurse. I have been meditating on getting better said Diane. The nurse walked
away not really believing But there was no swelling at all at the base of her
throat.
Diane loves
travelling to other countries to demonstrate and do reading to prove that we do
not die.
Diane said her
Grandson Brian [now thirty] also sees Spirit and has been seeing them since he
was two, but he is not interested in doing anything about it. He would often
stay at Diane's house. About nine years old while there, Diane would have the
regular Circle and try to put him to bed, but he would talk in the, I want, can
I, aaAAH can I grandma sort of a voice that children have when they try to get
you to change your mind. He would say "can I see what goes on PLEASE Grandma",
Diane would invariably give in. "As long as you sit quietly and do as you're
told" she would say.
"What do I do", he
would ask, "just sit still and see what happens", Diane would say to him.
"One time that
stands out for me", said Diane, "he nudged me and said I can see some smoke over
there". "Then he said he saw a gentleman over there with a beard", Diane said
talk to him, Brian said "how do I do that". "Just talk to him in your mind" said
his grandma, Then Brian said, "he said he a publican, what is that grandma?" "He
said he was the landlord of the *** pub [he mentioned the pub but Diane had
forgotten the name of it]. Diane asked him what he was there for "he is here to
look after me", said Brian, she ask him if he had seen the man before, Brian
said "yes in my other grandma's house" then Diane saw Brian pulling tongues at
something over her shoulder, she asked what he was doing, Brian said he was
pulling tongues at the Chinese lady who was pulling faces at him, so he was
pulling one back. Aren't grandkids great.
Eileen
Mitchamson
Gerard
Smith
Glyn
Edwards
Gordon Smith
