An Extraordinary Journey: The Memoirs of a Physical Medium

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Levitation is the phenomenon of an object or person floating in mid-air, defying gravity, with no visible support. The spirit, medium and sitter energies are known to create a ripe environment for this to happen. Sometimes objects are thrown and moved across the room. When the new protocol had been read, I said I could fulfil over 85 per cent of it but knew from past investigations that I could not fulfil the filming or night vision goggle requirements, due to the vibration that is emitted in infrared. Bubandt, N. (2009). ‘Interview with an Ancestor: Spirits as Informants and the Politics of Possession in North Maluku.’ Ethnography, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 291-316.But I cannot and should not go against the guidance of those I care for in the world unseen, and that is what has led me to this outcome. This was followed by a remarkable form of phenomena. The medium, still in trance, rose from his chair and walked across the room, with all the ropes remaining secured to his body. He shook hands warmly with Mr Turner and whispered a warning to him of things likely to happen in the séance which could spoil everything. Several of the sitters were sensitives and were judged to be giving way to their spirit controls and were thus sapping the power in the room which might easily bring chaos in the séance. Mr Webber returned to his chair and within less than a minute the guide requested that the lights be put on and the knots examined. This was the era of an invention called Infra-Red Photography which allowed that which was being produced in the dark of the séance room to be witnessed, as though being photographed in day light. Rogo, D.S. (1988). The Infinite Boundary: Spirit Possession, Madness, and Multiple Personality. Wellingborough: The Aquarian Press. Anthropology has had a long relationship with the social and psychological phenomenon known as ‘spirit possession’. As early as 1890, James Frazer, in his voluminous exercise in cross-cultural comparison The Golden Bough, noted that the belief that ‘certain persons are supposed to be possessed from time to time by a spirit or deity’ is a worldwide phenomenon, thus indicating an awareness of the near-universality of spirit possession. 3

However, as John Bowker 14 and Janice Boddy 15 have noted, although the functionalist approach does possess considerable explanatory power, it ignores both the significance of subjective experience for believers and also the possibility that genuine psi phenomena/spirits might actually exist, assuming as it does that the objects of supernatural beliefs are cultural constructions with foundations in misperception, delusion and fraud. 16 17 For the first time in its 50-year history the Arthur Findlay College (AFC) has issued a formal protocol governing demonstrations of physical mediumship (PM).Bowker, J. (1973). The Sense of God: Sociological, Anthropological and Psychological Approaches to the Origin of the Sense of God. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Hunter, J. (2013). ‘Numinous Conversations: Performance and Manifestation of Spirits in Spirit Possession Practices.’ In A. Voss & W. Rowlandson (eds.) Daimonic Imagination: Uncanny Intelligence. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press.

The medium or chairperson at a seance must give a pre-seance briefing to the sitters with details of what can and can’t be done during the seance, tailored to the individual medium who is working during the seance. Bourguignon, E. (1973). ‘A Framework for the Comparative Study of Altered States of Consciousness.’ In E. Bourguignon (ed.) (1973). Religion, Altered States of Consciousness and Social Change. Columbus: Ohio State University Press. pp. 3-38.If you're reading this -I want you to know you may not be going through a negative change, you may have a spiritual gift. My experience reminds us of how important thoughts are. In this blog post St. Germain is actually saying that thoughts not only create the circumstances of our lives, but they can actually be precipitated or manifest in a physical form or an image. How amazing is that! There was another name on the card and I asked about a spirit names Violet Snyder. He responded she was a lovely friend from a life in Ireland. He said, “You were in Ireland during its founding as a country with sovereign rights. Violet is all you need to say. She chose this name after arriving here. There is a connection with me and the Violet flame. Snyder was a previous name in another life. Goff, D.C., Brotman, A.W., Kindlon, D., Waites, M., & Amico, E. (1991). ‘The Delusion of Possession in Chronically Psychotic Patients.’ Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease,Vol. 179, No. 9. With today’s Photoshop technology the original 80 year old photographs have been given a little more contrast for this publication but absolutely NO other changes have been made to them. (AH Publisher)

Kilson, M. (1971). ‘Ambivalence and Power: Mediums in Ga Traditional Religion.’ Journal of Religion in Africa, Vol. 4, pp. 171-177. St. Germain replied, she was a doctor and was well known in her time in her physical body. She will help you with your work. A psychiatrist will bring a new perspective and when you encounter a soul with deep emotional trauma. Doris will be helpful. At the meeting I was met by David Bruton, Judith Seaman, Julia Almond, Simone Key and Tanya Smith, the general manager. Eileen and I were then handed the new protocol. David Bruton stressed that it was not a reflection on my mediumship but a way forward for the College. Another pathological interpretation of spirit possession that was, until relatively recently, popular in the anthropological literature is the ‘nutrient deficiency hypothesis’. This essentially suggests that instances of spirit possession, particularly in women, occur as a result of – and in response to – extended malnourishment. 42 Kehoe & Giletti write: All clutter to be removed and as much metal as possible as this depletes the energies being used. It is known that soft furnishing used to disintegrate over time in rooms used for physical seances, thus showing that everything in the room affects the conditions.

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Lewis, H. Carvill, et al. ACCOUNTS OF SOME SO-CALLED ‘SPIRITUALISTIC’ SÉANCES, Proceedings 4, 1886-7, pp. 338-80. Sceptical treatment of slate-writing séances with Eglinton. Reports considered convincing by spiritualists are shown to be inadequate by editorial notes. A letter and messages written by ‘spirits’ are compared and considered to be written by the same hand. slate writing/physical mediumship/cheating That said, mediumship, and the ability to incorporate spiritual entities, can undoubtedly provide women, and other socially-marginalized groups, such as homosexuals and factory workers 18, with significant social benefits that would not otherwise be available. Kilson 19 has written of the transformation in status that spirit mediumship brings about in Ga society in Ghana, for example. At the time of Kilson’s fieldwork, the Ga considered women to be innately inferior to men, which when combined with illiteracy, unmarried life and, potentially, an inability to conceive children, frequently resulted in a particularly low social standing. By becoming spirit mediums, women in Ga society were able to achieve a degree of status they could not have attained under normal circumstances, taking on a vital social role, and one imbued with supernatural authority.