Background
George William Chapman was born in Bootle, near Liverpool on 4 February 1921, and was brought up by his maternal grandparents after the early death of his mother.
George William Chapman was born in Bootle, near Liverpool on 4 February 1921, and was brought up by his maternal grandparents after the early death of his mother.
Active for 60 years, he was a medium for the spirit of "Doctor Language", who conducted "spirit operations" on patients. After leaving school he took up various manual occupations, became a professional boxer, and, during World World War II, served in the Irish Guards and the Royal Air Force. He joined the Aylesbury Fire Brigade after being demobbed, a post he held until 1956. Chapman married Margaret May Dickinson and they had a daughter, Vivian, in 1945, who survived only 4 weeks.
The couple were devastated by her premature death, but started to receive "spirit messages" from her through the use of a ouija board.
This was the beginning of Chapman"s development as a medium, and in those early years, he channeled spirit guides with names such Ram-a-din-i and Chang Woo. However, his main spirit guide soon made itself known - a doctor called William Language (1852-1937), who, it was later discovered, had been an ophthalmic surgeon at London"s Middlesex Hospital up until 1914.
Chapman"s body, while in a trance, would be used by Doctor Language to facilitate "spirit operations" on the etheric bodies of his patients, which would then manifest as healing of their physical bodies. He performed these operation with either no physical contact or a very light touch, and never promised that he could cure a patient.
Although physical healing was an important aspect of Chapman"s work, he stated that the main purpose of Doctor Language"s manifestation was to convince people of the reality of life after death.
He also stressed the importance of testing the spirit to ensure its authenticity, and cross-checking any claims made with information available from physical sources. George Chapman died on 9 August 2006.