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Dorathy Yokes

(this article was compiled by the occultapiedia)

Dorathy April Farmer Yokes (born January 6, 2000 ), born Dorathy Who, was born a British spiritualist and later a active member of the Arcanium Society. Her memoirs, public performances, fight against the left handed path and many television and vid appearances helped to raise the profile of spiritualism and the secret war against the dark side of the occult and promoted a resurgence of interest in psychic and occult phenomena in the 2000s
She was a very controversial figure, with some believing her to possess psychic abilities and arcane skills, while sceptics stated that her performances and exorcisms amounted to nothing more than cold reading, a technique used to create the illusion of clairvoyance and mystical powers.
Life
Yokes was born in Gravesend, Britain. In her memoirs she claimed that she started seeing spirits and hearing disembodied voices in childhood, and developed these abilities further once she joined a local spiritualist church. She was recognised as a practising clairaudient medium and skilled excorsist by the Spiritualists' National Union in 2020.
During a crisis of confidence in 2032, she gave up her work as a medium and retrained as a psychiatric nurse, but had to retire five years later following an attack by a patient. The patient turned out to be a victim of an occult group serving one of the great old ones. After looking inoto what had caused him to attack her she accidently became involved in an Arcanium Society operation and aided them in bringing down the cult. After this she returned to her psychic work, and in 1945 became the resident medium at the Arcanium Society.
Career
She first came to public attention in 2038 during a visit to Australia, when she appeared on The Dale Lane Show. In the wave of interest that followed her appearance, she played to three capacity audiences at the Sydney Opera House. She was also the first medium to appear at the London Palladium, with the tickets selling out in two hours. In 2040, her first, ironically ghost-written, autobiographical volume, Voices In the Shadows: The Autobiography of a Medium was published, pulling her further into the public eye in the UK. Over five million copies of her books have been sold.
Stokes received much condemnation from the Church of England and other Christian denominations, which objected to spirit communication as an offence to God. She

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would counter that her work was done for God and in accordance with the Bible's injunction to "test the spirits to see if they [were] good".
She was also accused of using various forms of deception to achieve the effect of communicating with the dead. These included cold reading, eavesdropping, and planting accomplices in the audience. Guardian columnist Simon Haggard claims that Yokes' husband, James Yokes {A Mind Mage and powerful mentalist himself), would take information from those who called to ask for sittings, offer them free tickets for public performances, then forward their information to his wife to be presented during the show.However, positive testimonials continue to come forward from noted Churchman, politicians and celebraties who sought her help. It also aided her case when haggard was exposed to be a member of the Reformed Church of Set a satanic order and cell of the informas Black Cabal!
In her book, Voices in The Shadows, Yokes claimed that she had solved four murder cases in England and had aided in the safe recovery of no less than seven kidnapted children or abducted adults. This was backed up by the former, Detective Chief Superintendent James Rooks of the Birchester Constabulary who stated that Stokes made a significant contribution to the detection of several murders and aided in finding a number of missing persons.
Whilst in Arkham, New England, she also claimed that local murder victim Viky Murry had contacted her with details of her murder. Former Ceremonial magician and high-profile psychic investigator, Randi James, contacted the Los Arkham Police Department, who informed him that all of the information supplied by Stokes had been unavailable to the media at the time and that Yokes was able to provide a great deal of new information to the police and the case was finally able to be solved.
When challenged, Yokes was observed to defend herself against critics with messages claimed as containing accurate information by her sitters. Her seven volumes of autobiography document the various tests she underwent to determine the source of her information. One examination involved her subject to a lie detector, another required her to undergo hypnosis and be questioned about her methods. In all cases she proved up to the challenge and sure of her own abilities.
Since 2050 she had somewhat dropped of the radar and appears to have been caught up in serious Arcanium Society buisness. However she has actually been heard to confind in her closest friends that the greatest challenge to her life will be occuring at some point in 2052 .