Karen Frances McCarthy

Can the dead communicate with the living? There is nothing like war or pestilence, such as our current pandemic, to bring such questions to the fore. Some people are hearing strange sounds while in lockdown and believe they are quarantining with a ghost. Others are experiencing lucid dreams in which the spirits of the deceased appear to offer comfort.
Across the State there has been an increase in the number of bereaved seeking out mediums for reassurance of their loved one’s continued and pe...

As Spiritualists today, we have benefited from the stories of those who have gone before us, but what stories are we leaving for future Spiritualists? Alv Hirst spoke to Karen Frances McCarthy, medium and author of Till Death Don’t Us Part: A True Story of Awakening to Love After Life (White Crow Books 2020), about the importance of storytelling for our own spiritual growth, as a tool to allow us to engage more fully in our lives and as a legacy for future generations.

If James Bond careening through Mexico City in Spectre tells us anything, it’s that the city is bursting with life on Día de los Muertos, the day it celebrates its dead. In macabre costumes and skeletal faces, painted and embellished with glitter and beads, locals take to dancing in high-spirited street festivals that pulsate with more gusto than Mardi Gras.
But not this year.
As is the way of everything 2020, Mexico City is moving its parade online, streaming virtual events from inside a sta...

People are usually curious about or uncomfortable with my choice to sit with the dying.

peeks through the millennia to light the secrets of Newgrange

to connect with ancient spirituality and druidic traditions

What my fiance's death taught me about the afterlife.

from the Celtic world — Irish Echo

Much has been written about what not to say to the bereaved and for good reason.

From Brazil

Going up in flames at the hand of villainous local youths, its ruins left to cast a long and sinister shadow over County Wicklow is a sad but perhaps fitting end to the haunted Fernhill House that once accommodated rampaging companies from the Catholic Guides of Ireland.

Karen Frances McCarthy is an author, public speaker and medium. Formerly a major media political journalist and war correspondent, she now focuses on writing and speaking about spirituality and belief systems surrounding death, dying and the afterlife.

Finding joy and wisdom in comforting others

at the Riverdale Senior Services (RSS)