Matthew's Story

 

 

Matthew Manning shot to fame in 1974 with the publication of his first book The Link. It created an international sensation and was published in 16 different languages, eventually selling one million copies.
The Link described the remarkable poltergeist activity that had occurred around Matthew since he was just eleven years old and told of the harrowing yet humorous consequences as he was almost twice suspended from the boarding school at which he was a pupil, was dispatched to the psychiatric unit of a local hospital, and finally discovered that he could control the physical phenomena around him by producing the most remarkable automatic drawings. By focusing on the name of an artist he was able at will to produce superb drawings sufficiently in the style of that artist to fool even art critics.


Example of an automatic drawing by Matthew Manning in the style of Albrecht Durer (taken from his latest book 'One Foot in the Stars").
In the same year Matthew had participated in a major series of tests at the New Horizons Research Foundation in Toronto, Canada, led by some of the world's leading scientists, including Britain's Nobel Prize-Winning physicist, Professor Brian Josephson. It was during these tests that psychiatrist Dr. Joel Whitton discovered that Matthew was producing a brain wave pattern never reported previously in anyone else; further tests showed that it was originating from a part of the brain which we all possess but which had, until that time, been believed to be dormant or inactive. It was the central, oldest and most primitive part of the brain, leading the researchers to speculate that perhaps Matthew's special gifts were something which we all at one time used but with the advent of technology were slowly lost.  
After the Toronto tests Professor Josephson stated:
"I think we are on the verge of discoveries that may be extremely important for physics. We are dealing with a new kind of energy. This force must be subject to laws. I believe ordinary scientific investigations will tell us a lot about these psychic phenomena. They are mysterious, but no more mysterious than a lot of things in physics already.
In times past, respectable scientists would have nothing to do with it. Many of them still won't. I think the respectable scientists may find they have missed the boat."

When The Link was published a couple of month later, Britain's foremost television interviewer, David Frost, devoted an entire show to Matthew and his remarkable story.

He was able to demonstrate some of his abilities on live television, leading one newspaper critic to write that
David Frost, normally a wily interviewer, had been reduced to a gibbering jelly by a teenaged psychic."
The international attention also brought unwanted scrutiny from the British security services and the late Lord Rothschild who, at the time, was head of Britain's security services quizzed Matthew extensively.

In 1977 his follow-up book, In the Minds of Millions, was published. It described the remarkable occurrences that had happened around the world as Matthew toured to promote The Link. An entire department store in Barcelona had been blacked out while he signed copies of his book; when he appeared on Japanese TV, poltergeist phenomena had occurred all over the country as viewers watched him demonstrate his abilities; in Britain he had been approached by two Roman Catholic Archbishops as Pope Paul VI lay dying.

Matthew also demonstrated a quite remarkable ability to influence cancer cells in plastic containers during his tests in Texas. Dr. John Kmetz, one of the scientists involved, commented: "The cancer cells were actually being killed by Matthew. In at least 60 per cent of the results were quite significant. when an individual who was not a healer tried to do the same thing, nothing happened. He has lectured and demonstrated all over the world, from Britain to Brazil, from Australia and Hong Kong to America.
However, in 1977, Matthew Manning turned his back on the sensational events that had made him almost a household figure in many countries. Driven by a powerful yet inexplicable experience high in the Himalayan Mountains, he vowed only to become involved in research which might possibly have a positive benefit to others. For about five years he underwent extensive and rigorous testing at the Mind Science Foundation in San Antonio, Texas, at the University of California, and at London University. These tests produced the largest number of scientific reports on healing ever produced from the work of one individual subject as he demonstrated under laboratory conditions his ability to influence the rate of degradation of human blood cells and enzymes, the growth rate of mould samples, the death rate of cancer cells, and the remote influencing of another person's brainwave patterns.  
After the University of California tests, Dr. James Mishlove wrote: "Our month-long experience with Matthew Manning has yielded sufficient evidence to refute the arguments of those who maintain that Manning is a fraud."

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