In 2013, I was specifically invited by the then Chief Executive of the Mary Rose Trust, Rear Admiral John Lippiett CBE, to visit the museum and see the Mary Rose. In the BBC Southwest video footage available on this link, which appears to have escaped your eagle-eyed research, I can be seen being welcomed by him and then shown around the museum, as well as meeting with another member of the diving team Maurice Young:
Mary Rose locator from Cornwall visits ship for first time - BBC News
In locating wreckages, magnetometers are used in conjunction with sonar scanners. It was my magnetometer readings that first detected the presence of the Mary Rose, as explained on the video, and this eventually led to Edgerton's sonar scanner being employed to pinpoint the precise location. There is no fraudulent claim and no one suggested there was when they kindly invited me to see it.
I've no interest in their opinion of my spiritual work, anyone who claims to have spoken with the so called 'dead' will encounter scepticism. My late wife and I were specifically chosen to receive the truth regarding Jesus Christ precisely because our minds were free from religious bias. Your implication of my wife's supposed infidelity is in the poorest possible taste and merely a reflection of the low level of your thinking, as is your claim that my books were written 'to make a quick buck'. As several are available for free, this is laughable.
It is notable that you are happy to place complete trust in historians regarding the location of the Mary Rose, people who were not involved, yet in your misguided claim that Jesus Christ never existed you state: 'It's inconceivable that during the alleged time of Jesus no one bothered to write down anything about this most extraordinary person, yet the extensive historical record of that time makes no mention of Jesus.'
Yet, there are known references to Jesus Christ in non-Christian sources such as by the Roman historian Tacitus and Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews to name but two. Quotes from Wikipedia on the historicity of Jesus Christ:
'Michael Grant (a classicist) states that "In recent years, 'no serious scholar has ventured to postulate the non historicity of Jesus, or at any rate very few, and they have not succeeded in disposing of the much stronger, indeed very abundant, evidence to the contrary."[10]
^ "There are those who argue that Jesus is a figment of the Church’s imagination, that there never was a Jesus at all. I have to say that I do not know any respectable critical scholar who says that any more."[11]
^ Of "baptism and crucifixion", these "two facts in the life of Jesus command almost universal assent".[12]
^ "That he was crucified is as sure as anything historical can ever be, since both Josephus and Tacitus ... agree with the Christian accounts on at least that basic fact."[14]
^ "...The point I shall argue below is that, the agreed evidentiary practices of the historians of Yeshua, despite their best efforts, have not been those of sound historical practice".[16]
^ "[F]arfetched theories that Jesus' existence was a Christian invention are highly implausible."[18]
^ Robert E. Van Voorst, referring to G.A. Wells: "The nonhistoricity thesis has always been controversial, and it has consistently failed to convince scholars of many disciplines and religious creeds... Biblical scholars and classical historians now regard it as effectively refuted".[17]
Historicity of Jesus - Wikipedia
So, rather ironically, though you say I've made a misguided claim that is laughed at by historians, I could in fact say the exact same thing about you, with justification. The problem with your clearly biased, 'black or white' approach is that the truth is often very complicated and to be found in the grey areas between two opposing viewpoints. The better paranormal researchers understand this.
A contemptuous and sneering tone, ad hominem attacks, the 'black or white' approach to dealing with evidence, the tired informal fallacy of the 'appeal to ridicule' ("They're all laughing at you!" Etc.) are all hallmarks of the closed-minded sceptic and cynic, and people like yourself do nothing to further the legitimate aims of paranormal research.
The central message in my books is that karma, the law of cause and effect, should be taken very seriously as we are all held accountable for our own behaviour. Therefore, it would be downright nonsensical and absurd to fabricate untruths or in any way knowingly mislead people, knowing that it would only incur karmic retribution at a later date. In my book Why Believe, When You Can Know I heavily criticize Christianity as it feeds its followers misinformation about their spiritual existence and I state the following:
'There will be, no doubt, many pious and devout people who will rise up in anger at the invalidations of religions contained in this book but it is with the first law of karma very much in mind that I write these words. For me to have falsified just one item of information in this work will have exposed me to a retribution such as few will ever have incurred.
If I have, deliberately, made any false statements about God or Jesus Christ, or made any claims without full and total justification, then I stand indicted and can expect a future atonement commensurate with the magnitude of my error. By virtue of that which I teach, I would reap a most unpleasant harvest, having sown the seeds of calumny.'
One day, you will eventually realize, as Shakespeare wrote, that 'there are more things in heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy.'
