A scarce book “Find”
This scarce 1976 First Edition is a book about Ellen G. White, co-founder of The Seventh-Day Adventist Church. She wrote 5,000 articles and 40 books, and is credited as being “the most translated (non-fiction) author in history.”
She gained entry to this Psychic blog, since she reportedly received 2,000 prophetic dreams and visions during her lifetime (1827-1915). Her visions and predictions were largely in the realm of her religious beliefs (Jesus v Satan, End-times, and Natural Health) and they became a foundation for the Church.
THE BRIGHT LIGHT
In 1863, she had a vision of Vegetarianism as being beneficial to a healthy life. This information came as she was surrounded by a bright light, which also later led to a warning against using tobacco and alcohol.
She advocated a diet of grains, fruits, nuts and vegetables and worked closely with John Harvey Kellogg. Together they became key leaders in the early Seventh-Day Adventist Church, as they shaped its health message. They also worked together running the famous Battle Creek Sanitarium. (Kellogg and his brother later introduced Kellogg’s Corn flakes and other healthy cereals as part of the Adventist health message).
SHE STOPPED EATING MEAT
During this time, White also became a staunch advocate for compassionate treatment of animals, which was a daring, uncommon stance. She believed animals possessed intelligence and felt pain, and she had a spiritual awaking about animal sentience. She couldn’t understand how people could eat meat knowing the cruelty and butchery it caused animals.
A WOMAN OF INFLUENCE
Ronald Numbers, the author of this book about her, did a thorough study of her life. He believed her prophecies and visions about health and healthy food weren’t original, but borrowed from proponents of the Health Reform Movement during that era.
Numbers was a well-regarded historian, but his critique of White’s visions seems unfair. Just because others may have pitched health reform before her, doesn’t negate her own visions about the subject. She may have come to the very same conclusions, without having to copy anybody, but received through a Message. It’s just so much easier to accuse a Woman of Influence, I guess.
PARANORMAL ACTIVITIES
The later 1800s and 1990s, were the height of the Spirituality movement, when reincarnation and seances were popular paranormal topics and events. But back then, no one suggested White’s visions were supernormal or precognitive. They were seen as religious in nature; messages to her from a Higher Power. But they very well may have been “psychic” in some form, because they were messages from the Unseen.
A DRAMATIC CHANGE OF VIEW
If White were to have such visions today, she might not be working with a church. She’d probably have a long client waiting-list, a podcast and her 41st book pending publication.
The interesting thing about Visions is that anyone can have them, any time, any place, about any thing. Regardless, 1866 or 2026, visions remain very personal to the person who has them. Just because 10,000 other people might experience the same enlightenment, doesn’t mean your vision isn’t valid. It’s what you do about the vision that makes the difference. And, in Ellen G. White’s case, she co-founded a very large church.
Psychic Tell: I see an Underground Railroad that’s not a Railroad, but it is underground, and its mission is to save as much, and as many as it can, when the fall comes, as it surely will.