Worrall, Olga
WORRALL, OLGA [1906–1985]
American clairvoyant who, along with her husband, Ambrose Worrall, became famous as a healer.
Like her husband, Olga’s psychic powers manifested early. She claimed to be able to see spirits of the dead from the age of three and by the age of five could see her own aura by looking in the mirror. By the age of 11 she was making precognitive predictions. Her healing ability also manifested early and as a child she found that she could banish headaches simply by placing her hands on people.
Olga met Worrall in 1927 and the two were married the following June. In December 1928 the couple moved to Baltimore in Maryland and lived there for the rest of their lives. Their only children, twin boys, died when they were a month old and their grief prompted them to devote themselves to healing, especially children by setting up a healing room in one of their bedrooms. They refused payment and insisted that their healing be accompanied by traditional medical help.
In 1950 Olga was asked by a Methodist minister, Albert E Day, to establish a spiritual healing clinic with him. The New Life Clinic ran for nine years from Mt Vernon Place Methodist Church before moving to Mt Washington Methodist Church.
Olga’s healing often involved communication with spirits of the dead and this came to the attention of parapsychologist J B Rhine. She had no medical training but was adept at intuitively knowing what was wrong with a person and how to help them. She believed that prayer, love and compassion and the desire to see a person healed were of crucial importance to the healing process. Like many other healers Olga never believed the power came from within herself but from a higher source. She said gifted healers are like battery chargers that take in the high voltage energy of God and transform it into healing energy that can be used for humans, animals, birds and plants.
Over the years the Worralls did have many spectacular successes, including tumours that shrank in size. Ambrose died in 1972 and almost immediately Olga began communicating with him in spirit. He confirmed to her that healers have an astral body that is perfect and healing energy flows through it. He said he would stay near her to help her in her work and when she placed her hands on a patient his hands would be placed on them too. Until her death in 1985 Olga continued to work and heal at the New Life Clinic.
Olga felt strongly that science needed to support spiritualism and agreed to numerous scientific experiments designed to see if some kind of energy does indeed flow through healers. During her career as a healer she was tested numerous times by parapsychologists, physicians, physicists and others. Biophysicist Beverly Rubik observed a unique transfer of energy when Worrall prayed or healed, which could energize water, speed the growth of rye grass and create wave patterns in cloud chambers.
In 1979 Olga underwent experiments at the University of California in Berkeley. Tests revealed that there were increases of energy flowing from her hands. They also showed that during healing her brain waves were at the delta level, the state of deep sleep – yet she was wide awake.
SOURCE:
The Element Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Hauntings: The Complete A–Z for the Entire Magical World: The Ultimate A-Z of Spirits, Mysteries and the Paranormal by Theresa Cheung