Betty Shine - The Infinite Mind - The Mind/Brain Phenomenon

I would like to thank all those celebrities and sportsmen mentioned by name in this book, for helping me to end the unnecessary stigma suffered by people in my profession. They are all honest, courageous individuals, who long for a more understanding and kinder world for themselves and their families. I would also like to thank those of my friends who have allowed me to use their stories and names in this book. They also deserve their badge of honour, and that is what we should all be seeking – the honour of our respective professions.

I hope this book will make people think twice before they criticise others. I hope it will bring light into the lives of those who are suffering, and those who are terminally ill and fear death. My book is about hope, understanding and love, but most important of all, it is about the survival of the mind, when the physical body and brain have ceased to be.

There is no such thing as death. We have all lived before and we are all going to experience new lives. We simply cannot lose.

THE EXPERIENCES DESCRIBED in the first chapters of this book are quite remarkable. They concern the lives of famous footballers, past and present, and the way in which I have been used over the past twenty years or so to bring them all together. The experiences are especially amazing, when you consider that I know absolutely nothing about football!

It is well known that footballers look after their own. But through my mediumship and healing I have found that this closeness does not end when they die.

I was enjoying a casual telephone chat with my friend Anne McMenemy one day, when a man with blond hair materialised before me. Interrupting my conversation with Anne, he told me that his name was Bobby, and that he had died from a heart attack and wanted to speak to his wife. He was worried about her. When I repeated this message to Anne, she told me that it was Bobby Keetch, the footballer, who had died recently from a stroke and heart attack. Although Anne was shaken by this, she would probably have been more shocked if she and her husband Lawrie had not been given survival evidence by me when we had first met at a dinner party given by my publisher, Eddie Bell. Anne promised that she would get in touch with Bobby Keetch’s wife Jan, explain what had happened, and leave the decision to her as to whether she wished to contact me or not. I was happy about that because I had no desire to add to my workload unnecessarily.

Half an hour later Jan called me, there was an immediate response from Bobby, and a three-way conversation was soon underway. Bobby was so excited to be speaking to his wife that I mentally had to ask him to slow down, so that I could understand what he was saying. Much later, when the private messages were over, he told us that when he had died he had been met by Bobby Moore and by some of the Manchester United team who had died in the Munich air disaster in 1958. I could hardly believe it. This was the first time that Bobby Moore’s name had ever been mentioned, either during survival evidence or speaking to my friends connected with the football world. And what was he doing with the Manchester United team?

Bobby Keetch told me that Bobby Moore and the others were in fact looking after him, and that they had made it possible for him to contact his wife through me. He said that Bobby Moore and his Manchester United friends were going to change the face of football. I was given no clue at this time as to the method they were going to use. It will be interesting to note, for what comes later, that this happened in 1996.

Bobby Keetch also told us that Bobby Moore would like to send a message to his wife, telling her that he had the Afghan hound with him, and to give her his love. Then Bobby Moore actually appeared with his arm around his dog. At this point I had to laugh. When Jan asked me what I was laughing at, I told her that I thought an Afghan hound was the least likely dog to be owned by a footballer. Jan could not shed any light on whether or not Bobby Moore had indeed owned an Afghan hound but, as Stephanie Moore was a friend, she promised that she would ask her about the dog.

At this point Bobby Keetch returned to his conversation with Jan. He said, ‘I’m leaving now, but you must never feel alone. I will be with you always.’ Then he told her to look at his portrait at the top of the stairs whenever she felt sad. Jan did not understand this. Although there were many pictures of Bobby around the house, there was no portrait in that particular place. But here the messages ended. Jan and I spoke for some time after this, as I felt that I should reassure her that this kind of communication was, for me, an everyday occurrence. We decided to talk again once she had had time to come to terms with what she had been given.

I sat quietly for a while after Jan had rung off. It had been a very emotional, inspiring and informative session, and had come out of the blue, during an ordinary conversation with a friend.

Why had Bobby Keetch been inspired to contact me? The reason is quite simple. Bobby Moore has been in the other dimension for some time, since his death from cancer in 1993, and he had been drawn toward a fellow footballer because minds link with like minds. He would have helped Bobby Keetch by explaining the rather abrupt departure of his mind from his physical body, and how it had entered another dimension. No one could understand that more than the victims of the Munich disaster, so he had been surrounded by the best help that anyone can have when they die. They would have nurtured him and, to help him recover, had taken the opportunity to point him in the right direction when they realised how important it was for him to be able to speak to his wife. Bobby Moore had directed him to me for obvious reasons, and had achieved this by breaking into the conversation I was having with Anne McMenemy.

Since this contact with Bobby Moore I have had many conversations with him, and I have seen him quite clearly when he has manifested to me. He has given me clairvoyance on football matters several times, and on each occasion he has been proved to be correct. I have been able to pass messages on for him, but it is extremely difficult for me to pass on messages to people who do not know me, so some of them have to wait. I do not want to be caught up in sensationalist publicity, and neither do the recipients.

What I can tell you is that the ‘team’ are extremely concerned about a game that they loved, and obviously still do. Bobby Moore told me that greed is killing off the talent, and the game cannot survive in its present state. He told me that prominent footballers of the future will, because of their fortunes, carry a huge burden. Because of the enormous influence they will have on the next generation, they will have to be seen to be clean, to behave in a manner that will be a credit to their profession. No matter how good a footballer may be, he will be dispatched if his actions do not affect the fans in a positive manner. Bobby told me that the changes will be enormous and will completely alter the concept of football as he knew it, but that, in the end, it would be for the good of all.

He was particularly forthcoming about the future of the charities that would benefit from football. He believed that a new charity should be formed to help footballers who had hit hard times through injuries they received, either as a result of their careers or in general. As he put it, ‘When they are fit they give their all. Please don’t forget them when they need support.’

Bobby Keetch and Jan have had many conversations through my mediumship, and the love and advice that he has given her and their children has enabled them to deal with their grief in a positive, optimistic way.