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Interview With the Osbornes, Part II, Charles

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In my last post, I published a brief obituary for Rev. Charles Osborne, rector of Light of Christ Anglican church in Marietta, GA. I got their contact info through Kathie Walters, an evangelist/speaker. In my last post, Myra Osborne told her own story. My first contact with Charles was an email in which he described a séance that he initiated just for fun. His brother joined him in that venture. Unfortunately, shortly after I interviewed the Osbornes by phone (and after I had digitally saved and transferred the interview) my hard drive fried, and that email was annihilated. What I gathered from the transcript of the interview is that Charles developed a psychic capability, while his brother became haunted in a terrifying way. Neither of them nor their parents were Christians at the time. Later in life, both received the grace of Christ into their lives. Myra has a gift of being taken “into the Spirit,” a meditative state in which spiritual realities become manifest. She claims