Beyond.
A Magazine for Seekers and Thinkers / Devoted to the Higher Aspects of Spiritualism.
All You Need to Know About Life After Death
Other titles: Beyond Magazine
1930--1934 Monthly
London, England.
Editor: G.W.L. Day.
Publisher: Beyond Magazine; Guild of Spiritual Healing.
Succeeded by: The Seeker (1934-1937)-->The Seekers Magazine (1937-1942)
1/1, June 1930-May 1934.
32 pp., 7 shillings or $2.00 a year, 6d. a month.

The members of the Guild of Spiritual Healing (or The Seekers), who published this journal met in Harmony Prayer Circles to obtain healing from "Dr. Lascelles" and "Dr. Beale" and other healing spirits. Their leader was the Rev. C.A. Simpson, who wrote regularly for the journal. This was an undistinguished product of British spiritualism between the wars, with notable contributions by or excerpts from C.E.M. Joad, Lewis Spence, Harry Price and others, including "Dr. Lascelles," who wrote on topics like "The Science of True Prayer," and "Pacifist Angels." Unlike its successor journals which lacked them, this journal had extensive advertisements for products as diverse as Devon violets, new laid eggs, pedigree Airedales, John Harborne's Transcendental Magic, dry cleaners, and various spiritualist-friendly hotels and societies, and seems to have been intended for a more general spiritualist audience than just for the members of The Seekers. Charles Adam Simpson (1882-1958) was an electrical engineer who migrated to New Zealand in 1907 and while there became interested in spiritualism and spiritual healing when his wife became fatally ill and through her he realized he was a medium under the control of a "Dr. Lascelles." Lascelles was said to have been (under a different name) a court physician of Queen Victoria. Although his wife died, Simpson took his system of healing (diagnoses by Dr. Lascelles, prayer, and massage) back to England about 1925, where he appeared as a "Healer and Trance Medium" at St. George's Healing Centre in Westminster and then founded, under the direction of Dr. Lascelles, the Guild of Spiritual Healing (The Seekers), with Harmony Prayer Circles that promised absent healing through coordinated prayer. In 1933, The Seekers acquired a 276-acre Jacobean estate in Kent as their "country headquarters" and rural retreat under the ownership of the Seekers Trust Healing Centre, which continues today. University of Texas, Austin.

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