Arthur Ford (January 8, 1896 – January
4, 1971) was an American psychic spiritual medium, clairaudient
and in 1955 founded the Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship.
Born in Titusville, Florida he studied many religions
as a child and attended Transylvania College, a Disciples
of Christ school in Lexington, Kentucky.
He was ordained as a Disciples minister, and served a
church in Barbourbville, Kentucky. His psychic abilities
first presented themselves to him during the First World
War while serving in the Army he would "hear" the names
of fellow soldiers and within the next days they would
be on the casualty lists.
After the war he researched psychic phenomena and became
a Spiritualist around 1921. He would soon become a trance
medium, and "Fletcher," his control, would present himself
in these early trance sessions and remain with him for
his entire career. One of his lectures in Britain in 1927
was attended by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who the next day
said "One of the most amazing things I have ever seen
in 41 years of psychic experience was the demonstration
of Arthur Ford. He gained national attention when he was
believed to have contacted the dead son of Bishop Pike
in 1967 on network TV.
