** In Person service for Sunday, September 27th, 2026 is cancelled**

Sundays: September 20, 2026 (must attend first class)
September 27th, October 11th, October 18th (at least two classes must be attended)
3 weeks attendance required
12:00 PM Eastern Time
Donation
In person at The Journey Within

This class is for those interested in becoming a healer with the church for Sunday Morning and Thursday evening in-person healing services. You will learn the basics of anatomy, auras, and color interpretation. You will also be introduced to the concept and guidelines of spiritual healing.

**Please note that you do need to attend the first class on September 20th, and at least 2 additional classes.**

with Rev. Ana, Rev. Pam, Rev. Nancy, and guests

     
$25 per session
7:30 PM – 9:00 PM

Thursdays
7:30 PM – 8:30 PM Eastern Time
Donation
In person at The Journey Within

This is an in person healing and message service, led by the Ministers, Mediums, and Church Healers, of The Journey Within.
Approximately 1 hour in duration.

No registration required, Donations are welcome.

Sundays
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Eastern Time
Donation
In person at The Journey Within

Our Sunday service includes Spiritual Healing, a Homily, and a Mediumship demonstration. Our services are open to everyone regardless of past or current religious beliefs or affiliations.

with Rev. Ana, Rev. Pam, Rev. Nancy, and guests

     
$25 per session
7:30 PM – 9:00 PM

Thursdays
7:30 PM – 8:30 PM Eastern Time
Donation
In person at The Journey Within

This is an in person healing and message service, led by the Ministers, Mediums, and Church Healers, of The Journey Within.
Approximately 1 hour in duration.

No registration required, Donations are welcome.

Sundays
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Eastern Time
Donation
In person at The Journey Within

Our Sunday service includes Spiritual Healing, a Homily, and a Mediumship demonstration. Our services are open to everyone regardless of past or current religious beliefs or affiliations.

Sundays: September 20, 2026 (must attend first class)
September 27th, October 11th, October 18th (at least two classes must be attended)
3 weeks attendance required
12:00 PM Eastern Time
Donation
In person at The Journey Within

This class is for those interested in becoming a healer with the church for Sunday Morning and Thursday evening in-person healing services. You will learn the basics of anatomy, auras, and color interpretation. You will also be introduced to the concept and guidelines of spiritual healing.

**Please note that you do need to attend the first class on September 20th, and at least 2 additional classes.**

with Rev. Ana, Rev. Pam, Rev. Nancy, and guests

     
$25 per session
7:30 PM – 9:00 PM

Thursdays
7:30 PM – 8:30 PM Eastern Time
Donation
In person at The Journey Within

This is an in person healing and message service, led by the Ministers, Mediums, and Church Healers, of The Journey Within.
Approximately 1 hour in duration.

No registration required, Donations are welcome.

Sundays
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Eastern Time
Donation
In person at The Journey Within

Our Sunday service includes Spiritual Healing, a Homily, and a Mediumship demonstration. Our services are open to everyone regardless of past or current religious beliefs or affiliations.

Making Peace with Grief: A Heart-Centered Journey of Healing

Grief is not a problem to be solved or something to overcome within a specific timeframe. Grieving is an ongoing and deeply personal journey that presents unique challenges as we navigate the path forward to healing.

This four-month program is designed to provide meaningful reflection and a safe space in which to process one’s grief with love, compassion, and hope for the future along with others experiencing a similar loss.

Meetings will be held at the church on Sundays after service and will be facilitated by minister Jane Selinske and Journey Within ministers. Sessions will focus on the following topics. Participants will receive instruction prior to each class and should be prepared to engage in targeted activities.

Registration is required and provides access to all four sessions. *

In-Person at the Journey Within Church in Pompton Lakes

Their Light Still Shines: Honoring Those We Love
September 20
12 – 1 PM

Showing Up for Yourself: Practicing Self-Care
October 18
12 – 1 PM

Gratitude As Sacred Ground: Expressing Gratitude and Hope for the Future
November 15
12 – 1 PM

Light In the Darkness: Navigating the Holiday
December 20
12 – 1 PM

$20 for all four sessions. No refunds.

*Registered participants who are unable to attend an in-person session on Sunday will be
allowed to attend the corresponding online session on Monday evening. See the Online event
description for more information.

Sundays: September 20, 2026 (must attend first class)
September 27th, October 11th, October 18th (at least two classes must be attended)
3 weeks attendance required
12:00 PM Eastern Time
Donation
In person at The Journey Within

This class is for those interested in becoming a healer with the church for Sunday Morning and Thursday evening in-person healing services. You will learn the basics of anatomy, auras, and color interpretation. You will also be introduced to the concept and guidelines of spiritual healing.

**Please note that you do need to attend the first class on September 20th, and at least 2 additional classes.**

with Rev. Ana, Rev. Pam, Rev. Nancy, and guests

     
$25 per session
7:30 PM – 9:00 PM

Thursdays
7:30 PM – 8:30 PM Eastern Time
Donation
In person at The Journey Within

This is an in person healing and message service, led by the Ministers, Mediums, and Church Healers, of The Journey Within.
Approximately 1 hour in duration.

No registration required, Donations are welcome.

Saturday, October 24, 2026, 2:00 PM EST

$30

WITH NOTED SPIRITUALIST MEDIUMS

JOIN US FOR DINNER, ENTERTAINMENT, AND SPIRIT MESSAGES

Reservations Required

Sundays
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Eastern Time
Donation
In person at The Journey Within

Our Sunday service includes Spiritual Healing, a Homily, and a Mediumship demonstration. Our services are open to everyone regardless of past or current religious beliefs or affiliations.

October 25th, 2026
1:00 PM-2:30 PM

$20

IN PERSON AT THE JOURNEY WITHIN
Gather round. It’s Halloween, and we’re telling ghost stories. American ones. Because it turns out, American ghosts are different.

Every country has haunted castles and crumbling old ruins full of restless spirits. America doesn’t, so our ghosts and ghost writers had to create a new kind of haunting for a new landscape and history.

Join Dr. Karen Frances McCarthy for a Halloween gathering as we trace these tales of the uncanny from their beginning to today. From the frontier to the gothic to the modern, we’ll meet Washington Irving’s headless horseman, Edgar Allan Poe’s murderer, haunted by his victim’s beating heart, Henry James’s governess, tormented by ghosts nobody else can see, Shirley Jackson’s unhappy house that drives everyone mad, and Toni Morrison’s daughter, who comes back from the beyond in one of the most original ghost stories ever written.
And we’ll end somewhere nobody else has gone. Almost every ghost, in every country, in every century, has wanted revenge, justice, or forgiveness. But in modern American tales, the ghost has given up haunting entirely. It simply continues on its own journey through the afterlife in some of the strangest and most colorful stories around. Why is that only happening in American ghost fiction?  We’ll find out.

There will be chills. There will be a few laughs. And by the end of the night, you’ll see why the ghost story is still full of surprises.

Sundays
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Eastern Time
Donation
In person at The Journey Within

Our Sunday service includes Spiritual Healing, a Homily, and a Mediumship demonstration. Our services are open to everyone regardless of past or current religious beliefs or affiliations.

Sundays
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Eastern Time
Donation
In person at The Journey Within

Our Sunday service includes Spiritual Healing, a Homily, and a Mediumship demonstration. Our services are open to everyone regardless of past or current religious beliefs or affiliations.

With Dr. Karen Frances McCarthy and Rev. Pamela Meredith

November 14–15, 2026 at The Journey Within
$260
A powerful platform demonstration is about more than producing good evidence. It is about recognizing the communicator, following their story and allowing their character to emerge.

The Story of Spirit is a two-day intensive for intermediate and advanced mediums who are ready to develop greater depth, confidence, and ease in their platform work.

You will work with the skills that shape a strong platform demonstration: developing presence, working with evidence, recognizing character, following the communicator’s story, managing challenges, staying present when things do not unfold as expected, and regulating the nervous
system before you begin.

What you will explore

• Regulating the nervous system and building the power to demonstrate
• Working with evidence, character and story
• Allowing the communicator to take the lead
• Developing presence and your unique style
• Following memories, emotions and relationships
• Timing, pacing and presentation
• Working with uncertainty and the “no”
• Providing messages that are helpful, healing and meaningful
• Communicating with clarity, care and relevance
• Confidence, resilience and ethical practice

This is for you if…
➜ You have experience with evidential mediumship and want to develop greater depth, confidence
and ease in public demonstration.
➜ You want to move beyond disconnected evidence, following the communicator through character,
memories, relationships and story.
➜ You want stronger platform presence, greater confidence when faced with uncertainty or a “no,” and the ability to stay with the communicator rather than searching for the next piece of information.
➜ You know your mediumship has more depth than you are currently able to express in public, and want to communicate messages that matter most to the recipient.

Two experienced teachers. One intensive weekend.
Dr. Karen Frances McCarthy PhD CSNU is an internationally recognized medium, educator, academic and bestselling author. She has trained extensively at the Arthur Findlay College and holds Certificates of Recognition in mediumship, spiritual healing and public speaking from the
Spiritualists’ National Union. She teaches mediumship internationally, with a particular focus on evidence, presence, character, story and confident, ethical demonstration. Her approach brings together extensive practical experience with her academic work on consciousness, mediumship and
the stories we carry.

Rev. Pamela Meredith is an evidential medium, ordained Spiritualist minister, teacher and mentor. She received extensive training with Rev. Janet Nohavec at The Journey Within and has also studied with teachers at the Arthur Findlay College in England. Following the tragedy of September 11, 2001, Pam began receiving referrals from bereavement groups and surviving family members. She has since developed a substantial practice in mediumship and has mentored hundreds of students.

THE WEEKEND
Saturday, November 14 | 9:00 AM–5:00 PM: An intensive day of teaching, demonstrating, and practical development.
Sunday, November 15 | Sunday morning services + 1:00–5:00 PM: Further teaching and practical work, with an opportunity to experience platform mediumship within a Spiritualist setting.

Sundays
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Eastern Time
Donation
In person at The Journey Within

Our Sunday service includes Spiritual Healing, a Homily, and a Mediumship demonstration. Our services are open to everyone regardless of past or current religious beliefs or affiliations.

Making Peace with Grief: A Heart-Centered Journey of Healing

Grief is not a problem to be solved or something to overcome within a specific timeframe. Grieving is an ongoing and deeply personal journey that presents unique challenges as we navigate the path forward to healing.

This four-month program is designed to provide meaningful reflection and a safe space in which to process one’s grief with love, compassion, and hope for the future along with others experiencing a similar loss.

Meetings will be held at the church on Sundays after service and will be facilitated by minister Jane Selinske and Journey Within ministers. Sessions will focus on the following topics. Participants will receive instruction prior to each class and should be prepared to engage in targeted activities.

Registration is required and provides access to all four sessions. *

In-Person at the Journey Within Church in Pompton Lakes

Their Light Still Shines: Honoring Those We Love
September 20
12 – 1 PM

Showing Up for Yourself: Practicing Self-Care
October 18
12 – 1 PM

Gratitude As Sacred Ground: Expressing Gratitude and Hope for the Future
November 15
12 – 1 PM

Light In the Darkness: Navigating the Holiday
December 20
12 – 1 PM

$20 for all four sessions. No refunds.

*Registered participants who are unable to attend an in-person session on Sunday will be
allowed to attend the corresponding online session on Monday evening. See the Online event
description for more information.

Making Peace with Grief: A Heart-Centered Journey of Healing

Grief is not a problem to be solved or something to overcome within a specific timeframe. Grieving is an ongoing and deeply personal journey that presents unique challenges as we navigate the path forward to healing.

This four-month program is designed to provide meaningful reflection and a safe space in which to process one’s grief with love, compassion, and hope for the future along with others experiencing a similar loss.

Meetings will be held at the church on Sundays after service and will be facilitated by minister Jane Selinske and Journey Within ministers. Sessions will focus on the following topics. Participants will receive instruction prior to each class and should be prepared to engage in targeted activities.

Registration is required and provides access to all four sessions. *

In-Person at the Journey Within Church in Pompton Lakes

Their Light Still Shines: Honoring Those We Love
September 20
12 – 1 PM

Showing Up for Yourself: Practicing Self-Care
October 18
12 – 1 PM

Gratitude As Sacred Ground: Expressing Gratitude and Hope for the Future
November 15
12 – 1 PM

Light In the Darkness: Navigating the Holiday
December 20
12 – 1 PM

$20 for all four sessions. No refunds.

*Registered participants who are unable to attend an in-person session on Sunday will be
allowed to attend the corresponding online session on Monday evening. See the Online event
description for more information.

April 14th-April 17th, 2027

$799

April 23rd-April 24th, 2027

$299

Come and join us at the “Birthplace of Modern Spiritualism” as we deepen your connection with spirit, and share the wisdom and teachings of late, great, Mavis Pittilla, a world-renowned medium of the last 60 years.

Her knowledge and teachings are timeless, and through her recorded legacy you will have the opportunity to watch how she communicated, and blended, with the spirit world, acquire her knowledge and practice her techniques.

This is also a wonderful opportunity to absorb the atmosphere of this special area in this corner of Hydesville, where the story of Spiritualism began almost 200 years ago.

During this time there will be a special dedication ceremony where we honor Rev. Janet Nohavec, of the Journey Within, New Jersey, the visionary who created this special environment, through sheer drive, and imagination. Her desire was always to rekindle the flame of spiritualism in this special corner of the USA.

Mavis, Janet’s close friend, and colleague, contributed to her dream through fund-raising, alongside many others, and she will also be recognized on this occasion. The main room of the schoolhouse will be dedicated to her, as a healing sanctuary.

Over eight years ago, Janet had asked Mavis to dedicate the schoolhouse, when completed. Sadly neither saw the
completion whilst alive, so it is fitting that they share this special occasion with us, and in spirit together.

It will be our honor to officiate at this service, with reverence, respect and love they had for spirit, to celebrate these two remarkable women, and mediums, and of course Janet’s remarkable vision.