One spirit guide, “Mario,” appeared from the waist up and gave her a back rub for 15 minutes.Many group members defected. “The bulk energy to create the guide who comes to visit comes from us, the group. Jay Barham was the “channel” or “medium”.K?r-Ross alleged that guides took “actual molecules” out of Barham to clone a human being, in which form they appeared. Living at her centre near San Diego, she became closely connected with the “healers and spiritualists” Jay and Marti Barham.

A group of followers used to gather at the Barhams’ ranch to materialise spirit guides into human form. It takes channel energy.”In the autumn of 1979 a scandal involving K?r-Ross got national attention in the US media. “Salem”, a male guide, “materialised” and told her and others in a group that they “were chosen because they had worked together in Jerusalem 2000 years ago with Christ”. To materialise a guide, she said it takes “an enormous amount of positive energy, more energy than to shoot a rocket to the moon Then there are people who act as channels. But I’ve had some experiences, personally, that have just blown my mind.”In 1977 she joined in creating a “healing centre”, in the mountains of Escondido, California, near San Diego.

(Later, in the early 1980s, she transferred to a 300-acre farm in Head Waters, Virginia) Here she would have group sessions. She reported specific messages from her spirit guides and experiences with them. In the Playboy interview she said that in a near-death experience the body becomes perfect again: quadriplegics are no longer paralysed, multiple-sclerosis patients who have been in wheelchairs for years say that when they were out of their bodies, they were able to sing and dance. and totally blind people can report exactly what the scene looked like at the accident or hospital room.