Karyn

I think she is looking for an advanced sitter but I will give you her details and she your details and see what you work out. They are fair dinkum and commitment once per week is mandatory.

How fascinating Lance. Thank you for sharing that, I think many people have been shut down by those who fear what happens and lack of knowledge. So many children have their experiences reduced to, it is only their imagination and other such shut down statements.

Well done to you all.

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You are so correct many have not had the experiences or if they have they either have no frame of reference to embrace it or fall into a stereotypical response especially if around others.

"Analyze yourself, your desires, your hopes; and KNOW your ideal - spiritual, mental, material; not what you would like to have GIVEN to you, but what you desire to attain. Set your goal high. Use and apply yourself in beneficial and in helpful experiences."  (ECRL 2340-1)

Physicist Recalls Intriguing Physical Mediumship Posted on 16 August 2021, 8:59 When psychical researchers of the late 1920s and early ‘30s became frustrated at not being able to agree on the genuineness of various physical phenomena produced by several mediums, most notably, Mina Crandon, (aka “Margery”), George Valiantine, and Rudi Schneider, several of them formed a new field, called parapsychology. Its focus was on extra-sensory perception and psychokinesis and away from anything even alluding to spirits of the dead or life after death. To even mention spirits or survival of the consciousness at death was to invite professional disdain and discourage any funding for research. Nevertheless, physical mediumship continued here and there. We simply didn’t hear much about it and there was very little formal research in succeeding decades up to the present. All that didn’t stop Dr. Jan Vandersande, a physicist, from taking an interest in the matter. In his 2008 book, Life After Death: Some of the Best Evidence, Vandersande explores some of the most interesting cases of physical phenomena reported in the annals of psychical research while also reporting on his own observations of some genuine physical mediums. His interest began while teaching physics at the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa, during the 1970s, when he and his wife were invited to attend a séance with mediums Mickey and Sara Wolf. “We experienced trance mediumship, direct voice and trumpets flying around the dark room,” Vandersande said when I interviewed him in 2008, adding that they then sat with the two mediums every two or three weeks for about eight years. “Every time we sat with them their main guide (control), Brian, would speak through either Sara, who was in trance, or through the direct voice. His characteristic voice was always the same and easily recognizable. Also, the trumpet, with luminous paint spots on it, flew around the totally dark room quite rapidly, up to the ceiling then to the walls and then it would slow down and gently touch each of the sitters (usually between four and eight) on the knee or on the head. Special sittings were held before Christmas, and ectoplasmic spirit children played musical toys that had been placed in the center of the circle and also unwrapped presents (which were also in the center of the circle). Then the children would touch the sitters who could feel their small fingers and hands.” Maintaining an interest in the subject over the years, Vandersande arranged for Australian trance medium David Thompson and his partner, Christine Morgan, also a medium, to visit them in Southern California in 2012 and again during January 2014, giving three demonstrations each time. Because darkness is required, precautions were taken to rule out fraud, including a thorough search of Thompson before binding him to chair with leather straps and zip-lock ties, as well as gagging him so that he could not talk. All of the sitters, including Morgan, were required to hold hands, and Morgan wore a luminous broach which Vandersande, sitting across from her, could see, just in case someone claimed she was the real trickster. “David has a band of spirit entities many of whom regularly materialize at his séances,” Vandersande’s notes read. “His main spirit control is William Cadwell, who materializes first at all his séances and appears to control what happens during the séance. After materializing, William started talking to the sitters while walking around. He spoke loudly and in a distinctive British accent that I found difficult to understand at times. William stepped on the piece of plywood (two feet by two feet), that we had placed at the center of the circle, making a distinct sound indicating that he was wearing heavy-soled boots (meanwhile David was wearing sneakers). He then started to answer questions of a general nature about the spirit world and about life. After answering each question he would most of the time walk over to the sitter who had asked the question and ask if he could touch them. After the sitter said that he could, he put his hand on their head. The sitters who had that experience (from four to seven per sitting) described a very large hand (meanwhile David has very small hands). After he had answered a number of questions in each of the three sittings he walked back to the cabinet.” Vandersande noted that as Cadwell got back to the cabinet, a red flash light was turned on so that the sitters could see Thompson still securely tied in his chair in the cabinet. “This unexpected event clearly shows that it was not David pretending to be William, walking around the room and answering questions as some skeptics have maintained,” Vandersande explains in his notes. “There is no way David, if he had been walking around, could have rushed back to the cabinet and re-tied himself in such a brief period of time. Also, the only way he could have seen in the dark would have been with night vision goggles and they were definitely not in the room (I checked that myself, as did the independent checkers).” Next, an entity known as Timmy (Timothy Booth, who died in 1902) materialized and spoke with a very young, Cockney voice. Timmy then gave a demonstration in which the trumpets (with luminous paint on them), flew around the sitters. He explained that he had manipulated the ectoplasm exuded by Thompson to move the trumpets. “The trumpets (two in the first séance, three in the second séance and only their single trumpet in the third séance) flew at great speed and with considerable precision, performing aerobatic patterns such as large and small circles, flying to the ceiling (from 10 to 12 feet high in a hotel conference room), the corners, all around the room and tapping each other in mid-air while I had the CD player play an Irish jig,” Vandersande’s report continues. “…Never at any time did the trumpets bump into any sitter or anything else in the room. There is absolutely no way any human, assuming they could see in total darkness, could move a trumpet in those random patterns, that fast and at that those heights, as all the sitters observed in the three séances.” As the three trumpets were flying around the conference room during the second séance, Vandersande heard a thud to his left and leaves were touching his head. That was followed by a thud in front of him and then one to his right. As he was to discover, Timmy had moved three artificial trees, each about five-feet tall and in pots weighing 6-8 pounds, from three different places in the room to in front of him. “One tree was originally behind a large table so the table had to be moved by him in order to bring the tree to me,” Vandersande explains. “The other two trees were originally in two different corners of the room. Some sitters in the circle actually heard something fly over their heads. My two trumpets ended up in one of the trees between the branches… This phenomenon of moving heavier objects using ectoplasm is extremely impressive and in no way could have been done by anyone in the room in the pitch dark…” Louis Armstrong, the famous musician known for his trumpet playing who died in 1971, materialized in all three séances. “His voice sounded exactly like the very characteristic voice so often heard when he was alive on earth (a deep distinctive gravelly voice),” Vandersande notes, adding that he then played a harmonica for several minutes. “You could hear him take a deep breath occasionally while playing. After that he left. I always get skeptical and nervous when famous people materialize but I now have a better understanding why they do it. To prove survival after death it makes more sense that someone who is well-known, has a characteristic voice and/or mannerisms, that just about everyone can recognize, materializes rather than an anonymous person.” Timmy was followed in the third sitting by a Native American named White Soaring Bird, said to be Thompson’s gate-keeper or protector, who materialized and gave a blessing to the sitters, first speaking in his native tongue and then in English. Much more was reported by Vandersande, but space does not permit it here. As mentioned in the prior blog about levitations, near the end of the second sitting, Vandersande and the others present heard a loud thud. Thompson had been lifted over the sitters in his chair and deposited outside the circle, a distance of 15- to 20-feet from where he had been sitting. “The red flashlight was turned on and the tape on the door was removed and the door opened,” Vandersande’s report continues. “We all saw David sitting in his chair, tied up exactly as he was at the beginning of the séance except for the fact that his cardigan had been reversed. The cardigan was still buttoned and the five zip-ties were still in place exactly as when we placed them there. There is no way that David could have reversed the cardigan. [This] shows that the spirit entities have tremendous strength (using ectoplasm from David and likely the sitters as well). While the reversal/removal of the cardigan shows a de-materialization/re-materialization capability (or whatever technology the spirits used) that is way beyond the current laws of physics as we know them. It was truly an amazing phenomenon to have observed.” Vandersande stresses that he carefully examined how Thompson was tied to the chair and is absolutely certain there was no way to remove himself, carry out the various phenomena, then return to the chair and tie himself back to the chair. Victor and Wendy Zammit, authors of A Lawyer Presents the Evidence for the Afterlife, estimate that they sat with Thompson at least 300 times between 2005 and 2014, before Thompson moved from Australia to New Zealand. “In relation to his being levitated, it happened with David still unconscious at the end of every public séance,” Wendy informed me in a recent email. “He’s not the only one though – I’ve seen it happen with several other physical mediums. It seems that the spirit teams like to use up any remaining energy that way.” Wendy Zammit mentioned that, according to Ron Gilkes at Jenny’s Sanctuary in the UK, Thompson was turned upside down in the chair while being levitated. The “spirits” then moved the chair so that Thompson’s head was in Gilkes’s lap before turning him right side up and depositing him some distance away. “We were also present on at least two occasions where they levitated David, conscious and strapped into his chair, so that his head was almost touching the ceiling,” Wendy further explained, adding that, although it was dark, Victor was able to confirm the levitation, at the request of David, by reaching up and feeling the four chair legs and David’s feet. Vandersande recalled that one of the women in attendance at the 2012 sittings happened to be a clairvoyant medium and refused to believe it was real, apparently not understanding that whatever is required for her kind of mediumship is not the same as that required for physical mediumship. I recall talking with a clairvoyant at a conference some years ago and she reacted in much the same way. As she saw it, all that physical mediumship of yesteryear was just so much bunk. It brings to mind the reaction of Sir David Brewster, a renowned British physicist, who observed D. D. Home being levitated. Although seemingly quite impressed at the time, he later concluded that the only explanation was a trick he did not understand, or a delusion. “Spirit is the last thing I will give in to,” he was quoted. Such a mindset continues to exist. Michael Tymn is the author of The Afterlife Revealed: What Happens After We Die, Resurrecting Leonora Piper: How Science Discovered the Afterlife, and Dead Men Talking: Afterlife Communication from World War I. His latest book, No One Really Dies: 25 Reasons to Believe in an Afterlife is published by White Crow book

Physicist Recalls Intriguing Physical Mediumship Posted on 16 August 2021, 8:59 When psychical researchers of the late 1920s and early ‘30s became frustrated at not being able to agree on the genuineness of various physical phenomena produced by several mediums, most notably, Mina Crandon, (aka “Margery”), George Valiantine, and Rudi Schneider, several of them formed a new field, called parapsychology. Its focus was on extra-sensory perception and psychokinesis and away from anything even alluding to spirits of the dead or life after death. To even mention spirits or survival of the consciousness at death was to invite professional disdain and discourage any funding for research. Nevertheless, physical mediumship continued here and there. We simply didn’t hear much about it and there was very little formal research in succeeding decades up to the present. All that didn’t stop Dr. Jan Vandersande, a physicist, from taking an interest in the matter. In his 2008 book, Life After Death: Some of the Best Evidence, Vandersande explores some of the most interesting cases of physical phenomena reported in the annals of psychical research while also reporting on his own observations of some genuine physical mediums. His interest began while teaching physics at the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa, during the 1970s, when he and his wife were invited to attend a séance with mediums Mickey and Sara Wolf. “We experienced trance mediumship, direct voice and trumpets flying around the dark room,” Vandersande said when I interviewed him in 2008, adding that they then sat with the two mediums every two or three weeks for about eight years. “Every time we sat with them their main guide (control), Brian, would speak through either Sara, who was in trance, or through the direct voice. His characteristic voice was always the same and easily recognizable. Also, the trumpet, with luminous paint spots on it, flew around the totally dark room quite rapidly, up to the ceiling then to the walls and then it would slow down and gently touch each of the sitters (usually between four and eight) on the knee or on the head. Special sittings were held before Christmas, and ectoplasmic spirit children played musical toys that had been placed in the center of the circle and also unwrapped presents (which were also in the center of the circle). Then the children would touch the sitters who could feel their small fingers and hands.” Vandersande & Thompson Maintaining an interest in the subject over the years, Vandersande arranged for Australian trance medium David Thompson and his partner, Christine Morgan, also a medium, to visit them in Southern California in 2012 and again during January 2014, giving three demonstrations each time. Because darkness is required, precautions were taken to rule out fraud, including a thorough search of Thompson before binding him to chair with leather straps and zip-lock ties, as well as gagging him so that he could not talk. All of the sitters, including Morgan, were required to hold hands, and Morgan wore a luminous broach which Vandersande, sitting across from her, could see, just in case someone claimed she was the real trickster. “David has a band of spirit entities many of whom regularly materialize at his séances,” Vandersande’s notes read. “His main spirit control is William Cadwell, who materializes first at all his séances and appears to control what happens during the séance. After materializing, William started talking to the sitters while walking around. He spoke loudly and in a distinctive British accent that I found difficult to understand at times. William stepped on the piece of plywood (two feet by two feet), that we had placed at the center of the circle, making a distinct sound indicating that he was wearing heavy-soled boots (meanwhile David was wearing sneakers). He then started to answer questions of a general nature about the spirit world and about life. After answering each question he would most of the time walk over to the sitter who had asked the question and ask if he could touch them. After the sitter said that he could, he put his hand on their head. The sitters who had that experience (from four to seven per sitting) described a very large hand (meanwhile David has very small hands). After he had answered a number of questions in each of the three sittings he walked back to the cabinet.” Vandersande noted that as Cadwell got back to the cabinet, a red flash light was turned on so that the sitters could see Thompson still securely tied in his chair in the cabinet. “This unexpected event clearly shows that it was not David pretending to be William, walking around the room and answering questions as some skeptics have maintained,” Vandersande explains in his notes. “There is no way David, if he had been walking around, could have rushed back to the cabinet and re-tied himself in such a brief period of time. Also, the only way he could have seen in the dark would have been with night vision goggles and they were definitely not in the room (I checked that myself, as did the independent checkers).” Next, an entity known as Timmy (Timothy Booth, who died in 1902) materialized and spoke with a very young, Cockney voice. Timmy then gave a demonstration in which the trumpets (with luminous paint on them), flew around the sitters. He explained that he had manipulated the ectoplasm exuded by Thompson to move the trumpets. “The trumpets (two in the first séance, three in the second séance and only their single trumpet in the third séance) flew at great speed and with considerable precision, performing aerobatic patterns such as large and small circles, flying to the ceiling (from 10 to 12 feet high in a hotel conference room), the corners, all around the room and tapping each other in mid-air while I had the CD player play an Irish jig,” Vandersande’s report continues. “…Never at any time did the trumpets bump into any sitter or anything else in the room. There is absolutely no way any human, assuming they could see in total darkness, could move a trumpet in those random patterns, that fast and at that those heights, as all the sitters observed in the three séances.” As the three trumpets were flying around the conference room during the second séance, Vandersande heard a thud to his left and leaves were touching his head. That was followed by a thud in front of him and then one to his right. As he was to discover, Timmy had moved three artificial trees, each about five-feet tall and in pots weighing 6-8 pounds, from three different places in the room to in front of him. “One tree was originally behind a large table so the table had to be moved by him in order to bring the tree to me,” Vandersande explains. “The other two trees were originally in two different corners of the room. Some sitters in the circle actually heard something fly over their heads. My two trumpets ended up in one of the trees between the branches… This phenomenon of moving heavier objects using ectoplasm is extremely impressive and in no way could have been done by anyone in the room in the pitch dark…” Louis Armstrong, the famous musician known for his trumpet playing who died in 1971, materialized in all three séances. “His voice sounded exactly like the very characteristic voice so often heard when he was alive on earth (a deep distinctive gravelly voice),” Vandersande notes, adding that he then played a harmonica for several minutes. “You could hear him take a deep breath occasionally while playing. After that he left. I always get skeptical and nervous when famous people materialize but I now have a better understanding why they do it. To prove survival after death it makes more sense that someone who is well-known, has a characteristic voice and/or mannerisms, that just about everyone can recognize, materializes rather than an anonymous person.” Timmy was followed in the third sitting by a Native American named White Soaring Bird, said to be Thompson’s gate-keeper or protector, who materialized and gave a blessing to the sitters, first speaking in his native tongue and then in English. Much more was reported by Vandersande, but space does not permit it here. As mentioned in the prior blog about levitations, near the end of the second sitting, Vandersande and the others present heard a loud thud. Thompson had been lifted over the sitters in his chair and deposited outside the circle, a distance of 15- to 20-feet from where he had been sitting. “The red flashlight was turned on and the tape on the door was removed and the door opened,” Vandersande’s report continues. “We all saw David sitting in his chair, tied up exactly as he was at the beginning of the séance except for the fact that his cardigan had been reversed. The cardigan was still buttoned and the five zip-ties were still in place exactly as when we placed them there. There is no way that David could have reversed the cardigan. [This] shows that the spirit entities have tremendous strength (using ectoplasm from David and likely the sitters as well). While the reversal/removal of the cardigan shows a de-materialization/re-materialization capability (or whatever technology the spirits used) that is way beyond the current laws of physics as we know them. It was truly an amazing phenomenon to have observed.” Vandersande stresses that he carefully examined how Thompson was tied to the chair and is absolutely certain there was no way to remove himself, carry out the various phenomena, then return to the chair and tie himself back to the chair. Victor and Wendy Zammit, authors of A Lawyer Presents the Evidence for the Afterlife, estimate that they sat with Thompson at least 300 times between 2005 and 2014, before Thompson moved from Australia to New Zealand. “In relation to his being levitated, it happened with David still unconscious at the end of every public séance,” Wendy informed me in a recent email. “He’s not the only one though – I’ve seen it happen with several other physical mediums. It seems that the spirit teams like to use up any remaining energy that way.” Wendy Zammit mentioned that, according to Ron Gilkes at Jenny’s Sanctuary in the UK, Thompson was turned upside down in the chair while being levitated. The “spirits” then moved the chair so that Thompson’s head was in Gilkes’s lap before turning him right side up and depositing him some distance away. “We were also present on at least two occasions where they levitated David, conscious and strapped into his chair, so that his head was almost touching the ceiling,” Wendy further explained, adding that, although it was dark, Victor was able to confirm the levitation, at the request of David, by reaching up and feeling the four chair legs and David’s feet. Vandersande recalled that one of the women in attendance at the 2012 sittings happened to be a clairvoyant medium and refused to believe it was real, apparently not understanding that whatever is required for her kind of mediumship is not the same as that required for physical mediumship. I recall talking with a clairvoyant at a conference some years ago and she reacted in much the same way. As she saw it, all that physical mediumship of yesteryear was just so much bunk. It brings to mind the reaction of Sir David Brewster, a renowned British physicist, who observed D. D. Home being levitated. Although seemingly quite impressed at the time, he later concluded that the only explanation was a trick he did not understand, or a delusion. “Spirit is the last thing I will give in to,” he was quoted. Such a mindset continues to exist. Michael Tymn is the author of The Afterlife Revealed: What Happens After We Die, Resurrecting Leonora Piper: How Science Discovered the Afterlife, and Dead Men Talking: Afterlife Communication from World War I. His latest book, No One Really Dies: 25 Reasons to Believe in an Afterlife is published by White Crow book

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Maurice Grosse was born in London, England in 1919 and was educated at the Regent Street Polytechnic. He was an apprentice learning commercial art and design when WWII began. He left his appointment and joined the military, becoming part of the Second Artillery. In 1944, he met and married Betty Yasny and they had two daughters and a son. He turned to inventing after the war and filed many mechanical patents, including a rotating advertising billboard. By 1961 Grosse founded his own design and engineering consulting business. Grosse’s life changed after his daughter, Janet, was killed in a motorcycle accident in 1976. He and his family witnessed psychic happenings that led him to join the Society for Psychic Research and The Ghost Club. He soon became an investigator. The next year he was called to record the poltergeist activity in a house in Enfield, North London. It was the home of single mother Peggy Hodgson and her four children, Margret (12), Janet (11), Johnny (10) and Billy (7). The activity began in August. Peggy woke to her daughters screaming. When she entered their bedroom, she witnessed the chest of drawers moving away from the wall all by itself. That was followed by shaking beds and disembodied voices. When the police were called in, one witnessed a chair moving across the room. In September, Grosse arrived to investigate the activity. He stayed at the house for long periods and collected hours of cassette and videotape evidence of the phenomena. As time passed, Peggy’s daughter, Janet, began speaking with the deep, gravelly voice of an old man. Sceptics claimed that the voice was a trick. Grosse offered £1,000 to anyone who could duplicate the voice but there were no takers. The voice eventually identified himself as Bill. Grosse discovered that Bill Wilkins was the former owner of the house. He had passed away in the living room, blind and alone. Grosse was joined by psychical investigator, Guy Lyon Playfair, who wrote the book This House is Haunted (1980) based on their experiences. Grosse became famous for his Enfield House recordings, but he also investigated many other cases. He served as a member of the Society for Psychical Research’s Council and was the Chairman of its Spontaneous Cases Committee. In 1995 Grosse was investigating Charlton House when he witnessed a piece of crockery materialize and shatter. In 2000 he recorded poltergeist knockings on videotape at another home in London. He also investigated numerous claims o precognition and compiled an extensive collection of examples of psychic photography. He continued working right up until the summer of 2006. He died in October of that year. Further Information: https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/maurice-grosse Videos: https://www.historyvshollywood.com/video/the-enfield-poltergeist-images/ (quite interesting video above)

Know that a smile will rally many to your cause, while a frown would drive everyone away."  (ECRL 2448-2)

I admire your quick work, Andres. Impressive indeed. Happy to see you used almost 100% eco water. Perhaps you could come to Australia. Under my house is an unlimited supply of recyclable materials, even down to the silver flashing that was "kept in case" when we removed the fireplace. (It is silver and heavy). My daughter was the DIY, and she must have got it from a sperm donor. He was a University-trained engineer. When Emma mentioned "my hoarding," I told her I considered it a precious asset or two - well, actually more than two for her future. As she was the major ecologist in our home, who wished we could go back to Amish values/living and regularly clean the sides of the roads we did on our walk, the apple, I can say, did not fall far from the tree, lol.

Note: Reprinted without corrections of modern 2021 editing standards. Karyn Highlights of this issue: 39 William Crookes biography - Barry Wiley Comments 43 Mesmeric Mediumship: The case of Emma - Dr. Carlos S. Alvarado 52 Autobiographical Sketch – Ernesto Bozzano 52 1930s Scottish medium photographed in infrared 54 The origin of Allan Kardec’s “Spirits Book” – Anna Blackwell 55 What was the first Spiritualist Newspaper? Leslie Price 58 Reminiscences of a remarkable medium – H. A. Dallas 59 Mr. W.H. Terry: - A pioneer Australian Spiritualist – Banner of Light 67 Books for sale 68 How to obtain this Journal by email =============================================================================================================== In the last issue,we changed from Psypioneer Newsletter, to Psypioneer Journaland introduced our new logo.Unfortunately, some subscribers received their journal with the wrong Psypioneerest. date, stating it as 2005; this should have read est. 2004 WILLIAM CROOKES – ANNA EVA FAY BIOGRAPHIES further reading https://www.academia.edu/352734/_2009_Mesmeric_mediumship_The_case_of_Emma_Psypioneer_5_44_51_Online_http_www_woodlanway_org_PDF_PP5_2February09_pdf_?email_work_card=abstract-read-more

THE IMPACT OF THE SPIRITIST PHENOMENON ON19TH CENTURY SOCIETY AND HISTORY  Ana Maria DUCU Historical, anthropological and social studies regarding the spiritist phenomenon started to appear in the second half of the 19 thcentury and reached a peak at the beginning of 20th century. This paper’s purpose is to discuss the most importantliterature on the spiritist phenomenon, as well as to dig into the way in which thepress covered one of the most important events of 19 th century, namely spiritistséances. The central debate covers the manifestations of spiritism in the social,political and historical domains. Spiritism is defined as a “science which has as itspurpose the experimental demonstration of soul’s existence and its immortality,through communication with dead people.” 1 Belief in the immortality of the souland the possibility of communication between the dead and the living was a featureof many ancient cultures, even though the practice of communicating with thesouls of the dead was often the prerogative of the priests who officiated at suchceremonies. Spiritism became a central issue in the 19th century, due to a numberof factors which relate to history, religion and modernity. 2 In France, the term“spiritism” was used to designate all related practices which had been born in theUnited States in 1848 and arrived in Europe around 1852. These practices werebased on the phenomenon of “table-turning” or “table-tipping,” as well ascommunication with the spirits of dead people. Spiritism as a movement spreadacross America after the 1848 rappings which began in the Fox sisters’ house andsoon became a catalyst for social radicals, particularly for abolitionists andsupporters of women’s rights. 3 When trying to analyze the success of the spiritist phenomena, one cannothelp but notice Allan Kardec’s contribution: systematizing old ideas into new ones, while showing support and understanding for those whose relatives had died. The word “spiritism” was invented by Kardec in 1857; before then, the only termsbeing used were “American spiritualism,” “modern spiritualism,” “magneticphenomena” and “table-turning phenomena.” 4 Before Allan Kardec ordered  This paper has been prepared with the financial support of the project “Quality EuropeanDoctorate-EURODOC,” contract no. POSDRU/187/1.5/S/155450, project co-financed by theEuropean Social Fund through the Sectoral Operational Programme “Human ResourcesDevelopment” 2007-2013.  PhD Student at the “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, Romania; e-mail:louvsal@gmail.com. 1 Delanne 2012, p. 227-235. 2 Berge 1990, p. 37-39. 3 Braude 1990, p. 25. 4 Hardinge-Britten 1870, p. 45-59 Ana Maria Ducuť spiritist ideas into a coherent system, similar beliefs had started to appear; althoughthe word “spiritism” did not exist before 1857, the spiritist phenomenon hadalready started to take shape. In 1830 in Germany, there was much discussion ofpsychic Frédérique Hauffe and her communication with dead people. Sixteen yearslater, in Normandy, Angélique Cottin caused strange phenomena that wereassociated with the spirits of the dead. Not long after this, the two women wouldbecome the subject of research for doctors of the Academy of Science. 5 By themid-19th century, the spiritist phenomenon was beginning to spread among groupsand individuals who were admiring of magnetic phenomena, which had becomefashionable once again after reaching a peak in 1820. Although we do not know exactly when interest in psychic phenomenaentered Europe, we know for sure that England, through its cultural links with theUnited States, was the main binding agent in importing the overseas movement. American spiritualist practices found supporters in cities such as Bremen,Hamburg, Strasbourg and Paris. In mid-1853, the spiritist phenomenon reached itspeak: in June “turning-tables” became “talking-tables.” From this moment, themovement was no longer simply about parapsychological experiments, but aboutclear communication with dead people. Within weeks, the phenomenon hadattracted major attention in most European cities. In France it had a particularlystrong impact, with repercussions in all francophone countries, such as Canada andBelgium.Following the winter of 1854, spiritism began to lose its popularity - theCrimean war was a major contributor in this shift - and fashionable spiritistphenomenon became regular fact, yet not to be completely ignored. In thiscontext, we must delimitate two main channels: the American mediums and thescientists investigating the spiritist phenomenon. Often considered as oppositedimensions, they complemented each other and represented a point of referencefor the followers of this school of thought. In the first instance, spiritism stood fora set of ideas about the nature of life and death, as well as the purpose of spiritistcommunications which came to be implemented by mediums, and later to spreadat the level of the entire society where they were practiced as a game, a curiosity, oras a means to answer various questions. American spiritualists, such as DavidHome and the brothers Ira and William Davenport were responsible for themassive popularization of the phenomenon through tournaments in Europe, basedon spectacular performances. Spiritualist periodicals describe in detail the activities of mediums andspiritist speakers, as well as publicity for a wide range of services offered bymediums. In Braude’s article News from the Spirit World: A Checklist of AmericanSpiritualist Periodicals, 1847-1900 , Ann Braude offers an inventory of spiritualistperiodicals, mentioning their title and their lifespan. Periodicals such as Banner ofLight (1857-1907), Religious-Philosophical Journal (1865-1907) or World’s Advance Berge 1990, p. 27. Home 1883, p. 26-32. Guillard 1853, p. 7-9. Braude 1990, p. 36-53. continue https://www.academia.edu/26462445/Ana_Maria_DUCUŢA_The_Impact_of_the_Spiritist_Phenomenon_on_19th_Century_Society_and_History?email_work_card=reading-history

Archibald E. Roy was born in Yoker, Glasgow in 1924. He originally wanted to be architect, but while recovering from TB as a teenager, he was attracted to the night sky and astronomy. He graduated from Hillhead High School and went on to earn a bachelor’s degree at Glasgow University, followed by a PhD in 1954. He became senior lecturer in 1966, and a professor in 1977. He also married, and he and his wife Frances had three sons. As a Professor of Astronomy at the University of Glasgow, he was a consultant for NASA in the 1960s during their Apollo moon program. He wrote textbooks, over 70 scientific papers, and novels. His topics included everything from astronomy to psychic phenomenon to the mind. He was the world authority on orbital mechanics in the days before computers could do the calculations. He even had an asteroid, Archieroy, named after him after its discovery in 1986. Along with his many interests, Roy had a lifelong attraction to the paranormal. He founded The Scottish Society for Psychical Research in 1987. His son, Ian, said that Roy wanted to apply scientific thoroughness to the study of psychic phenomenon. He wasn’t interested in it as a mystical or religious study. He thought it could be explained in a scientific way. He was open to including paranormal events in scientific study. Nothing was off-limits when it came to research and testing. Roy’s psychic research dominated the last 10 years of his life. He tested the claims of local clairvoyants hoping to solve the mystery of how mediums could know so much about strangers. There must be some scientific explanation. Along with his books, Roy appeared on TV and radio, which popularized psychical research and phenomena. His interactions with haunted houses and mediums were popular with his scientific colleagues. He was also a consultant on the 1970s BBC Scotland drama, The Omega Factor, and inspired the series Sea of Souls. Roy continued to teach at Glasgow University and held evening classes in psychical research well into his 80s. He would never definitively say that he believed that there was life after death. He did comment that “if I die and I find out I have not survived, I will be very surprised.” Roy died at age 88 of pneumonia in 2012. Additional Reading: Archie Roy Obituary The Guardian Feb 3, 2013 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/feb/03/archie-roy Academic and writer Archie E Roy dies aged 88 BBC News Dec 28, 2012 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-20858029 https://oisf.org/portfolio-items/a-great-man-of-science-professor-archie-e-roy/

Thank you Alberto what an instructive example of unconditional love and remaining true to his word under adversity.

Just a heads up I am not sure how long this will be available.

Fantastic Marie, I have not found a way to make it more appealing visually but the way it is set up it is tricky. Glad you found it interesting. Steve one of the editors also many years ago interviewed William Buhlman which I have also put up with his permission of course.

The World of Ted Serios: “Thoughtographic” Studies of an Extraordinary Mind (SECOND EDITION) Jule Eisenbud, M.D. BACK IN PRINT, WITH A FOREWORD BY STEPHEN E. BRAUDE. In this second edition of The World of Ted Serios: “Thoughtographic” Studies of an Extraordinary Mind by Jule Eisenbud, a Denver based psychiatrist and psychical researcher, examined anomalous “thoughtographic” phenomena ostensibly produced by Ted Serios, a Chicago hotel elevator operator who claimed he could mentally produce images on unused Polaroid film. Because “instant” Polaroids were developed immediately, skeptics could not easily attribute success to darkroom chicanery. Eisenbud, a seasoned investigator of anomalous phenomena, conducted thousands of trials with Serios over a three-year period between 1964 and 1967. Hundreds of images were produced as well as so-called blackies and whities—Polaroids that were massively under or overexposed, produced either when the film hadn’t been unwrapped or under other conditions clearly ruling out under or overexposure. Eisenbud and multiple witnesses tested Serios in different locations, often under conditions that seemed clearly to rule out fraud—for example, separated at considerable distance from the film or camera. Nevertheless, the images continued to appear, and sometimes they bore striking similarities to sealed “target” images Serios had been challenged to duplicate with his mind. Magician and debunker James Randi, as expected, claimed it was all fraudulent. But despite Eisenbud’s substantial financial incentives to magicians to produce the same phenomena under the same conditions, neither Randi or others accepted the challenge. More than fifty years on, Jule Eisenbud’s investigation into Ted Serios’ thoughtography is one of the most intriguing cases in the annals of anomalous phenomena. About the author Jule Eisenbud was born in New York on November 20, 1908. He received his M.D. in 1934 from the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, and his D.Med.Sc. in 1939 from Columbia University. In 1938, he began private practice in psychiatry and psychoanalysis, and for 12 years served as associate in psychiatry at the Columbia University Medical School. In 1950 Eisenbud and his family moved to Denver, where he was appointed Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado Medical School. Eisenbud also continued his private practice, and he was the first psychoanalyst to establish a private practice in Denver. Although he published extensively on psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and hypnosis,1 Eisenbud is perhaps best known for his pioneering investigations and theoretical writings in parapsychology, many of which explored the subtle manifestations of ESP in both clinical and everyday contexts. Eisenbud also conducted an extended series of careful experiments with Ted Serios, a Chicago bellhop who apparently projected his mental images onto photographic film. Continued at Psi Encyclopedia( https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/jule-eisenbud ) Stephen E. Braude discusses Ted Serios with Jeff Mishlove on New Thinking Allowed “The message these voices hold for me is confirmation that there is life after death.” ~ The Very Rev. Fr. Pistone, S.S.P. “Extensive experiments have shown that the paranormal origin of the voices is highly probable.” ~ Prof. Hans. Bender, Director, University Institute of Psychology, Freiburg “I have succeeded in reproducing the phenomenon. Voices which did not come from any known source have appeared on a tape.” ~ Dr. Brendan McGann, Director Institute of Psychology, Dublin