I look back with interest at how I was to meet my Spiritual Teacher and Mentor Jack Corbett of Leicester; well in simple language this is how it all started.

I went with my Aunt Rowey to a Nottingham Spiritualist Church, and we even managed to get into an evening of clairvoyance held by the Spiritualist National Union, the meeting was held at the Nottingham University

The evening’s demonstration of clairvoyance was a part of the Spiritualist National Union’s Annual General Meeting. I remember there were four mediums on the platform, two women and two men. I was soon after to meet one of the mediums on a few very special occasions; this was the late Ron Baker - Minister of the National Spiritualist Union. But one medium in particular struck a note with me. After the meeting I felt drawn to speak to him. What a surprise, but a pleasant surprise! He proved to be different, very different to the person I had just seen on the public platform. What drew me to speak? Yes, his presentation, but more so; I was impressed by his humour and the happy style he had.

The medium was Gordon Palmer. I understand he came from the North East of England. Unfortunately, I never met him again. I was first introduced to Jack Corbett in the early autumn of 1981. It was a cold evening, the stars shone brightly, when I drove from my home town to Leicester accompanied by two ladies who had known him for some time. Jack was a man who had been involved in Spiritualism since he was a young boy, dedicating himself to a life to spiritual knowledge and understanding. Jack was an extremely easy man to get along with, and soon we sat face-to-face in his lounge.

Jack told me that I was privileged to be sitting in a special chair. Why, I asked? Because it is Gordon’s chair, Jack answered. I asked naively Gordon who? The answer was simple; Gordon Higginson the late President of the SNU. Jack laughed and told me that Gordon would often stay at his home, when he was in the area. Gordon Higginson’s chair became my resting place for spiritual teaching. It may have been for nine years – but it was always Gordon’s chair. Yet, the time for Jack to teach me had not arrived.

After an evening of so called ‘materialisation’ in a ladies home in Eastwood on Mothers Day 1982. I was very unhappy, to say the least, about spiritualism. I was so disillusioned and the following morning after some rather grumpy feelings, thought I must speak to Jack Corbett. I made a telephone call to one of the ladies who had taken me to see Jack in the autumn of the year before, got the number and one call; I was on the way to Leicester.

Even then, there were some demanding tests from Jack. One Sunday, Jack telephoned and asked if I could get over to Leicester that evening. Of course I got there. Jack told be about colours, the aura and how to make a spiritual presentations. Next it was my turn. It felt strange; I with so little spiritual knowledge, in front of the great man once billed the 'spiritual boy wonder'. I hesitated and made a hash of it; no worry said Jack take your time and “open up your mind and speak”. Again I started so when I sat down, I looked at Jack rather nervously and he said, now I can teach you!

You are unaware of what you said, but, you gave me a message. The message I was told I would receive from you over 20 years ago. The hard work was now to begin immediately. I sat for 'Spiritual Unfoldment and Development' under the guidance of Jack for nine years. My first public demonstration with Jack was in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire in late October 1982.

Jack was always a tough taskmaster. After taking a Public Demonstration Jack would tell where I had gone wrong, how to improve, whom I passed messages to, or whether there was a break in either the philosophy, or the clairvoyance. Seems simple, not so, when you think that at many of my meetings he could be in Leicester, I could be in Newcastle or Salisbury – Jack was a master and the most highly developed medium I have even had the privilege to meet. I travelled to Jack’s home every Friday evening for exactly nine years. 28 miles either way may not appear too much, but Jack would always said: “Even if you are gifted, you still need dedication, effort and you have to put the time in – if you do the spirit world will back you in abundance - never forget that the abundance, is for others and not yourself”. Jack Corbett trained me for the public platform handing over to me the Presidency of the unfoldment group 'The Golden Circle of Spiritual Light' in 1990. Golden Circle simply means 'The Sun by Day and the Moon by Night - Perpetual Light'. Jack passed through the gates of eternity and into the World of Light on Friday July 21^st 1991 - we had lost one of our truly greatest Spiritual Mediums and Healers.

It may seem strange, though I knew Jack’s Son Colin, his Daughter-in-Law Lil, and his Grandaughter. I know very little about his family apart from brief references to his brother or sisters. Jack had worked in the hosiery trade for most of his life, and served in the British Army during World War Two, particularly in France and Germany.

But, Jack generally only spoke on spiritual matters, philosophy and his work in Spiritualism – he was, and always will be, a man dedicated to humanity and through service helped to bring light into this World. Like Jack Corbett my philosophies are very simple based on “common-sense” that embraces an approach to combining the natural spiritual energy forces with the everyday problems of material life.

The irony is; I first sat for unfoldment with Jack on the 21^st of July 1982. Jack passed into the 'higher-life' on the 21st July 1991, exactly nine years to the day. Nevertheless, the teachings will last and last, and are passed on to others who pursue spiritual knowledge through the service of mankind.