Darren walked into a Spiritualist Church at the age of 17 with the intention of going once and never again. What took him there was a desire to understand the 'lights' he had been seeing around people for the last 4 years which seemed to come on as a result of painful headaches that he had been having during that time. During that evening he joined in the open circle and watched various people (whom he admits to thinking at the time were all "mental"), talking to other people about their "granddad's rhubarb" and other such seemingly trivial pieces of information. He felt an urge to leave as it appeared that he wouldn't get any answers from what he had seen. It was at that point that a lady came over and proceeded to deliver a message to him about how psychic he appeared to be, how he 'saw' lights around people which she described as an aura, and how the Spirit World had work in store for him. She then made a prediction that within a year he would stand on the platform and do the work she did.