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They Walked
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is the full story of how a young man, sceptical of all things psychic,
became one of the world's most brilliant materialisation mediums.
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Denne
boken omhandler kontakt til den eller de dimensjoner eller nivåer som
LIVET/mennesker forflyttes til når de/vi såkalt dør. Ordet ”død” er i
seg selv er misvisende, da det normalt, særlig for ikke troende, koples
til total livs-utslettelse, og fordi folk flest tror at livet ”oppstår”
i hjernen. På samme måten som strømmen ikke ”oppstår” i ei lyspære, så
gjør heller ikke livet/livsstrømmen det i hjernen, men mer om det
senere.
”Etterlivskontaktene” som denne boken beskriver, er
selvopplevde materialisasjoner av både familiære og andre avdøde
mennesker som normalt da befant seg i et helt annet stoff-nivå - og for
den jordiske "materievitenskap - enda UKJENT ”tilstand av ”materien”
eller stoffet.
Slik
som vi vet at det ikke bare er en radio-eller tv-kanal
vi kan se på, så er det det tilsvarende ”mange kanaler” som livet
oppleves gjennom - hver på sin egen materielle vibrasjon eller frekvens.
Bokens tittel ”They Walked
Among Us” er ut fra det at de via mediet, delvis materialiserte
legemer kunne gå rundt blant tilhørerne i enten
sine eteriske, og sett fra vårt jordiske plan- florlette legemer, eller
for kortere tidsrom å være helt materialiserte, slik at de kunne tale
vokalt. Og på flere forskjellige språk faktisk, som de hadde brukt mens
de ”levde” på det fysiske planet.
Louie Harris har som mediets kone, skrevet boken om deres
liv som viktige budbringere for en ny tid- der bevisstheten eller
rettere; KUNNSKAPEN om livets fortsettelse i andre plan eller
”verdener” -gradvis skal bevisstgjøres for massene.
Paret
Harris ble ført sammen av tilsynelatende tilfeldige impulser i England
for ca 100 år siden, og de på andre siden styrte dette ”prosjektet” som
var viktig for visse grupper av søkende sjeler. Men det dukket noen
ganger opp folk som slett ikke forsto dette med materialisasjoner, og
livets fortsettelse. Folk som skulle bevise at slike ting bare var løgn
og bedrag.)* En gang på en seanse under en reise til syd-afrika tidlig
på 60tallet, angrep et par journalister de materialiserte mennesker.
Disse ”eksisterte” kun fordi de kunne låne energi eller eterisk stoff
fra mediets (åndelige-) kropp. Og dette angrepet skadet derved mediet -
Mr.Alec Harris - mer enn de materialiserte former. Etter dette ble
mediets evne til å være redskap for slik materialisasjoner i den grad
svekket, at han aldri mer klarte å fortsette med disse
eksperimenter slik som før dette skjedde.
.)* mer om faren ved slike "angrep" fra
skeptikere - angrep på de materialiserte former; i utdrag fra
Martinus-boken - småbok 22- 'den sekundære og den primære
opstandelse'
Boken
som dette er et resyme av, kan leses online på engelsk – bl a her
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They Walked Among Us',
is the full story of how a young man, sceptical of all things psychic,
became one of the world's most brilliant materialisation mediums.
Alec and Louie Harris were married for 46 years and 40 of those years,
until Alec's passing in 1974, were devoted to bringing, as the Rev
George May says, 'hope, comfort and enlightenment to countless people'.
Louie tells here of the development of trance, direct voice, healing
and, after 6 years' work with their Spirit team, solid form
materialisations in red light. Included are wonderful accounts of
families reunited across the 'veil of death' and old friends conversing
in many languages unknown to Alec. Nine of the Spirit team are shown in
the book, and in colour on the back cover, in drawings and paintings
done by Alec Harris. His son, Bradley Harris has affirmed that his
father's hand appeared to be controlled as he drew them and the
pictures are as he, Bradley, remembers the Spirit Guides when they
materialised.
continues with more on this man/book below
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| Michael E. Tymn ved Academy
for Spiritual and Consciousness Studies, wrote this about Alec Harris |
Dr. Bernard J. F. Laubscher, a highly-respected
psychiatrist, anthropologist, and psychical researcher from South
Africa, witnessed some amazing phenomena during his many years of
psychical research, which spanned most of the 20th Century, but it is
unlikely that any of it exceeded what he observed with Alec Harris,
a British materialization medium.- picture below
Dr. Bernard Laubscher
Laubscher sat with Harris during 1965 and
witnessed a number of full materializations. He described the sitting
in his 1969 book, In Quest of the Unseen. Harris, who spent most of his
life in his native Wales before moving to South Africa in 1956,
discovered his mediumistic gift in 1932, at age 35, but he did not
develop the ability to produce materializations until 1940. ”
After having the opportunity to thoroughly inspect the room
and rule out trap doors or other possible means of fraud, Laubscher sat
with eight other people, including another doctor, an engineer, and
some businessmen, and their wives, in a half-moon circle in the room,
which had only one door and was locked behind them. Harris sat in a
corner in a curtained-off “cabinet” in which there was nothing but a
chair.
Because ectoplasm is sensitive to white light, the séance
was conducted under several red lights and Laubscher could easily
distinguish the faces of the other sitters and detect any movement in
the room. After a while, the curtains, which permit the ectoplasm to
condense, opened and Laubscher could see the Harris in his chair
apparently in a deep trance and unconscious of all around. “Then a
white cloudlike column formed within the opening of the curtains and
began to assume the outline and figure of a person,” Laubscher related.
“It occurred to my mind that unseen hands were covering an unseen
personality with some doughlike substance, namely ectoplasm, drawn from
the medium as well as ourselves.””
Dressed in flowing garments and a veil, all of ectoplasm,
the figure moved and spoke in a female voice. “She moved among us and
appeared quite solid and was recognized and greeted as the deceased
mother of Mr. Harris, the medium,” Laubscher continued the story. He
recognized that the skeptic would believe that Alec Harris was
impersonating his mother or that a confederate had been smuggled into
the room, but said that neither was a possibility, mentioning that he
could see Harris in the chair and that the red light permitted him to
any movement.
After she spoke a few words, the woman disappeared and a
fully materialized male spirit appeared. “Speaking quite distinctly, he
moved freely amongst us, inquiring after our well-being with words of
comfort and good wishes,” Laubscher went on. “Then, turning round, he
vanished slowly into the floor.”
A short Cockney man then materialized and spoke. He walked
up to Laubscher and permitted him to touch his nose. Then a spirit
known for his healing powers appeared and was greeted by others in the
room who were familiar with him. “His materialized body was draped in
free-flowing veils of ectoplasmic chiffon-like material,” Laubscher
noted. “The whole effect was most ethereal and beautiful…But the most
amazing spectacle of all, concerning this being, was the radiation of
luminosity from the solar plexus in an area of about twelve inches in
diameter. It was a light in the nature of radiance like phosphorescence
shining without heat or without any known source. It seemed to be
pulsating.”
H The spirit walked from sitter to sitter, holding the hand
of each person. When Laubscher held his hand, he further observed the
light and felt a radiating sensation from the spirit’s hands. After the
spirit spoke to everyone, his form also evaporated into the floor as he
approached the curtain.
A small boy of about 10, named Sonny, then materialized and
walked about the circle. He was followed by a tall Red Indian with a
majestic appearance known as Black Feather. Both Laubscher and the
other physician were allowed to examine Black Feather thoroughly. They
counted his pulse rate and felt his naked chest. Black Feather told
them that he was there to prove to them that spirits could condense
ectoplasm until it was flesh and bone. “This solid being with a clearly
defined personality, who came to give Dr. Williams and myself a
demonstration of how ectoplasm could perform miracles by means of laws
manipulated by thought, stood there before us and then melted away into
the world which our physical senses could not penetrate,” Laubscher
wrote, noting that Harris was clearly visible the entire time and there
was no way that he could have been impersonating spirits as the
skeptics claim.
A girl of about five years also formed in front of them and
roamed about the circle, not speaking or responding to questions from
the sitters. She was followed by a tall woman. The girl embraced the
woman and then both vanished before the eyes of the sitters. Several
other spirits materialized and one of them gave a demonstration of how
ectoplasm could be used. “…we watched a small white mass forming about
three feet in front of me,” Laubscher described the scene. “It
gradually rose higher and higher and, growing broader, assumed the
shape of a marble column. It rose to about seven feet or more, a plain
white column. Then it gradually began to shrink towards the floor until
nothing visible remained.”
Laubscher stressed that fraud, self-deception, or any other
illusionary explanation was out of the question. As he understood the
materialization phenomenon, the invisible astral or soul body would
reduce his or her rates of vibration to attract to them sufficient
matter energy to produce ectoplasm. The thought forms of their former
selves would then mold the ectoplasm to give the replica of the former
body.
Harris died in 1974 and his death may have been hastened by
two reporters flipping on the lights in an attempt to “unmask” him
during a séance. The disturbance left Harris sick and weak for some
time. His biography, They Walked Among Us, was authored by his wife,
Louie Harris, and published in 1980. In the book, Louie Harris mentions
that Mr. A. G. Fletcher-Desborough, a professional stage illusionist,
attended a séance and had several of his loved ones, including a
deceased brother, materialize. He then wrote about his experience for
the Liverpool Evening Express. “No one there knew I had a brother,”
Fletcher-Desborough is quoted from the article. “So who learnt his
name, and that he hobbled when walking in life? There certainly could
have been no deception in this case.”
Then Fletcher-Desborough’s third son, killed on the
battlefield in 1916, emerged from the cabinet, walked to Mrs.
Fletcher-Desborough and embraced her. “He turned to me after embracing
his mother,” Fletcher-Desborough continued, “and put his head against
mine. I recognized his voice.”
In 1952, T. J. Haarhoff, professor of classics at the
University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, sat with the
Harris circle and had a spirit materialize and speak to him in ancient
Greek, a language which Haarhoff understood but of which Harris knew
nothing. Haarhoff noted that modern Greek is pronounced differently
than the ancient Greek and this materialized spirit clearly pronounced
them in the ancient Greek language. “The ectoplasm which issues in
abundance from [Harris’] body and which the etheric entities use to
make themselves visible, streams like a mist and assumes all sorts of
shapes yet can be compacted into something absolutely solid while the
power lasts – and what amazing power it is!” Haarhoff is quoted from an
article in Psychic News.
Putting “T. J. Haarhoff” into a recent Google search yielded
a site called “Beachcombing’s Bizzare History Blog,” where it is stated
that Haarhoof (1892-1971), a “gifted classicist and Afrikaner, believed
himself to be in communication with several spirits of dead luminaries
from the ancient world,” including Heraclitus and Virgil.
Ernest Thompson, the editor of Two Worlds magazine, sat with
Harris and reported that 15 spirits materialized before him. They came
in all sizes and shapes, including an American Indian who stood
seven-feet tall. Thompson described the process: “First of all, there
appeared what seemed to be a white rod which thrust itself along the
floor from under the cabinet curtains. It moved as if it were alive and
stopped about a yard in front of the curtains. The end began to enlarge
into a ball until there was a mass of moving, pulsating ectoplasm about
the size of a large stone. It became elongated vertically until it was
the height of a human being. Gradually, as if it were being sculptured,
there appeared a face and then a head. Soon the form was completely
human, clothed in ectoplasmic draperies.
“The materialized spirit began to walk about the room and
was able to speak to us. As the power waned we saw the spirit dissolve
and collapse into empty space.”
Michael E. Tymn has written/collected a book on many
soldiers from WW1 - telling back throught mediums - of their new life -
here a
powerpoint made as intro to this book
another form of materialization of "Diana- claiming from
Venus" link
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From the book 'THEY WALKED... (audio)
The Spirit team know the best way
of working
Alec always disliked having to go into the cabinet and
sitting apart from the rest of us. "Why can’t I sit with you?" he
protested, one night. "Why must I always sit in that wretched cabinet?"
I explained that was what the Guides had requested: "It's the way they
want to work," I said. "Well I want to sit with the others,"
he grumbled. He seemed so put out and discontented with the present
arrangement that I thought "Why not? Let’s try letting him sit with us
in the circle tonight and see what happens."
So we all sat round in a complete circle, I with my back
to the cabinet, while Alec sat by the wall, but close to the cabinet,
eyes closed, in trance. We opened the circle as usual, and I found
myself wondering what, under the present conditions, could possibly
happen. Suddenly the cabinet curtains parted behind me, and I could see
my little Guide, Fiji, standing beside me. I thought, "It works just as
well without Alec being inside the cabinet! I’m so glad for his sake."
So we all sat round in a complete circle, I with my back
to the cabinet, while Alec sat by the wall, but close to the cabinet,
eyes closed, in trance. We opened the circle as usual, and I found
myself wondering what, under the present conditions, could possibly
happen. Suddenly the cabinet curtains parted behind me, and I could see
my little Guide, Fiji, standing beside me. I thought, "it works just as
well without Alec being inside the cabinet! I’m so glad for his sake".
Fiji was smiling and made as if to step into the circle of sitters when
her little form just seemed to close up. It crumpled up and fell to the
floor like an empty sack.
Quickly, an ectoplasmic arm, or rather a rod with a
forked prong on the end of it, protruded from the cabinet and lifted
the entranced Alec with his chair into the cabinet. I was so taken by
surprise that I could only gape! When I recovered from the shock of
seeing Alec removed from our midst, I realised that the Guides were
displeased with the new arrangement which interfered with the
conservation of the power. They had tried to oblige us by materialising
little Fiji, but she could not hold the form as she was unable to draw
on any concentration of ectoplasm. Without the enclosed area of the
cabinet the energies were easily dissipated, so they had to put the
medium back where they wanted him. It certainly was a spectacular
though frightening way of doing it.
After Alec had done this disappearing trick I glanced
down at the floor in the centre of the circle of sitters and saw, what
I thought was Alec's handkerchief lying there. I bent and picked it up.
As I did so I was horrified to hear a groan from Alec inside the
cabinet. At the same time I realised that what I was holding was a
piece of his ectoplasm, moist, and rather solid, and I hastily put it
into the cabinet, where I knew it would be returned to Alec's body.
The experience left me shaken. The Scientist's voice
then gave me a firm rebuke. "Let that be a lesson to you! You must
never touch anything without first asking permission as this has a
deleterious effect upon the medium." We bore that in mind in future,
and were always meticulously careful after that.
The dog in need of healing
Wogs was a strong healthy dog and a fine swimmer.
Nevertheless, when he was five years, he contracted a virulent skin
disease which covered his whole body from head to tail. Despite
prolonged and dedicated treatment by a competent vet, it failed to
respond to all medicaments. We were advised to have him mercifully put
to sleep. I was loath to terminate the life of our dear friend. I would
lie awake at night enduring much heart-searching, trying to decide what
was best for Wogs. One Tuesday, the dog's condition seemed to have
deteriorated, and he was particularly unhappy. He would not let any of
us go near him. When we had our circle that night the Austrian Doctor
came out of the cabinet and spoke to me, "I hear your little dog is not
well."
I told him how very worried I was about our pet. The
Spirit Doctor turned from me and went towards the door, as if to open
it. I was immediately concerned, knowing that Wogs' temperament was
extremely tetchy that night because of his distress and pain. I
wondered how he would react to the presence of a Spirit being beside
him. As if reading my thoughts, the Spirit Doctor turned around and
said, "Don't worry about the dog. We have attended to him." He then
opened the door, and we could see Wogs stretched out on the landing.
The Doctor went out and bent over the animal. It was a long way for a
materialised Spirit to be from the cabinet, but this did not seem to
deter him.
It was a moonlit night, and the pale beams of light
streamed in through a landing window touching the Spirit’s robes with
silver so that they seemed to shimmer and glisten as he worked on the
dog. He remained thus for a couple of minutes bent over Wogs. He came
back into the room and said, "Your little dog will be quite well." Then
he calmly returned to the cabinet.
The next morning we found that all the suppurations had
dried up. Within the week there was healthy skin covering the little
body, new hairs were starting to grow, and Wogs was a different dog. He
was never troubled again with this distressing complaint.
The Spirits speak in different
languages
In 1944 we had a most unusual visitation from Spirit. A
tall, extremely thin man materialised. He left the cabinet, walked to
the end of the room where there was an extra chair, and seated himself
on it. The figure spoke to us, quickly and urgently, in a tongue of
which we had no knowledge. I dearly wished that I could understand the
words and phrases that fell from his lips.
Unexpectedly, a young Belgian man, sitting on a chair
near the materialised Spirit, suddenly spoke up saying that he was a
linguist, and that he understood what was being said by the Spirit in
the chair. Conversation flowed freely and easily between them. They
switched into several different languages, and still conversed with one
another with ease. Alec was certainly no linguist. English was the only
language he knew. This was a very evidential point in favour of the
authenticity of his mediumship. No medium could get away with a
situation such as this, unless of course he was a fluent linguist.
It appeared, from the conversation that took place, that
the tall thin materialisation was an Austrian Jew who had been a
university language teacher. He had been rounded up by the Germans,
along with others of his race, and interned in the much dreaded Belsen
concentration camp in Germany, where he had been submitted to the most
ghastly torture. The last diabolical session of Nazi sadism went far
beyond his endurance. Mercifully he died while undergoing the ordeal.
Leaving his broken, emaciated body and tormented mind
had been an overwhelming relief. Yet he still suffered bouts of mental
torment when memory flooded his mind with pictures of the horrifying
atrocities committed on defenceless men, women and children for no
other reason than they had been born Jews. After talking for some time
the man seemed relieved of some of his tension. He rose from the chair,
quietly returned to the cabinet and vanished from sight.
Rohan emerged and explained that the Guides had
purposefully brought the teacher to the circle in an attempt to erase
the suffering that still lingered in his mind. We sent him on his way
with our blessings and promised to keep him in our thoughts.
At this same circle was a man I did not much care for.
As he came with a group, I did not question his being there. I knew the
group held themselves responsible for all newcomers they introduced. As
a precaution, I placed him at the back of the circle. A Hindu came for
this man, and pointing at him said, "I belong to you." "How can you
belong to me?" this sitter asked sarcastically, but the Spirit was not
disconcerted. "I became attached to you when you lived in my country,"
came the calm reply. The Spirit then commenced to speak to him in
Hindi. This seemed to make a profound impression on the rather
unpleasant sitter. He suddenly became quiet and thoughtful.
Afterwards, when the circle was over and we all met in
the lounge for tea, he came up to me and said, “Mrs Harris, I am a
police officer. We know about your activities. I thought I would come
along and see what it is all about. Frankly, I am amazed at what I have
witnessed here tonight. First, that Austrian communicator spoke five
different languages!”
"You counted them?" I enquired, surprised. "I counted
them, yes. There were five. Then this Hindu chap coming for me. No one
knows that I spent many years in India," he said. "This fellow spoke
the dialect of the place where I lived. Fantastic! Quite unbelievable!
I just can’t understand it." He shook his head, still puzzled.
"I'm glad you were impressed," I smiled. "Rather I
should say that I am happy you believe it all to be true, and not a
fake." "A fake," he exploded. "How could it be? What about all those
Spirits forms who were recognised by people in the circle? No, this is
the genuine thing all right," and he nodded vigorously.
I was relieved we had convinced the police. That was
quite something. I felt sure our beloved Spirit friends had known of
the officer's intentions, and specially arranged manifestations to
enlighten and convince him. Otherwise he might have proved to be
difficult for our circle in the future.
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the book to be read online:
https://rune.ws/spesBoker/Louie%20Harris%20-%20They%20Walked%20Among%20Us.pdf
or audio
E. B. Duffey, Heaven: Revised. London. (Original work
published 1889)
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One of the greatest
sources of afterlife information ever was the British -
-direct
voice medium LeslieFlint (1911-1994). | ref.om hans liv på norsk litt lenger ned under her
book
pdf.
His seance sessions were well documented and
recorded. During any seance, voices would resonate out of thin air
around the medium.
Throughout all the decades of his mediumship, no one could find any
evidence of fraud or any sort of trickery. Leslie Flint was perhaps the
most tested and verified medium who ever lived. According to his book,
Voices in the Dark, Leslie Flint himself once said, "I think I can
safely say I am the most tested medium this country has ever
produced... I have been boxed up, tied up, sealed up, gagged, bound and
held, and still the voices have come to speak their message of life
eternal."
Leslie Flint was perhaps the most tested and verified medium who ever
lived. Read his book, Voices in the Dark, to download
here as a "heavy pdf-file" -because this is in a format like scanned
pictures, not gone thru a txt-req.program/ocr-program, so it will take
a time to download it:
see also this/much more on this medium, Leslie Flint, as an intro; http://www.gotsc.org/documents/LeslieFlint.pdf
and
boken fås også på svensk;
'Röster i mörkret'
link var (som ikke lenger ser ut å være aktiv i -21 - så prøv heller her
(eller svensk lydbok
utdrag og hele i lyd her
)
eller
prøv bruktsøk på denne boken)
pris var ca 130,00 kr pr 2013
Det världsberömda mediet Leslie Flint berättar här om sitt sällsamma
liv och sin unika förmåga till “direktröst”, dvs. röster från den andra
sidan kom och förmedlade sina budskap genom honom.
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Leslie
Flint ble født i London i 1911 og nådde toppen av sin berømmelse fra
1930 til 1960. Moren hans overlot ham som lite barn til hans bestemor,
som ikke kunne skrive, og der han vokste opp i stor materiell
fattigdom. Flint hadde hatt sett ’sin første astral-besøkende fra andre
siden’ i en alder av syv da hans døde onkel viste seg for ham i hans
hjem. Dette skjedde sommeren 1917, skriver han sin memoarbok. (link to download
the book i txt-format. +sv.).
Hans bestemor trodde ikke på ham, da han fortalte om sine syn av disse
’besøkende’- så han holdt tett om dette videre.
Han
var ikke noe skole-ess, men likte heller de pratiske fag, der hans
formingslærer ble en farsfigur for ham, da han jo var vokst opp uten en
far. Eneste adspredelse som barn ble ellers noen kinobesøk med sin
bestemor.
I
sin senere barndom jobbet han nettopp som kino vakt og som kirkegårds-
gartner /graver.
Han
gjennomførte sin første seanse i en alder av 17 år. Ved den tiden hadde
han tenkt nøye gjennom dette om de døde lever videre. Men han ville
VITE og ikke bare TRO, hvilket besøk i flere lokale kirker
stimulerte ham til.
En
notis om et møte i en lokal teosofisk gruppe, tiltrakk hans
oppmerksomhet, men bare noen få kom på møtet. Men han gikk til møtet
der både trance og klarsyn ble demonstrert. Bl a snakket en mann med
dyp stemme gjennom en kvinnelig medial. Senere ville ”andre siden” gi
en melding til nettopp ham selv!. Det var hans tidligere
elskede og tidlig avdøde lærer som ga ham et budskap som da overbeviste
ham om at kontakt til andre siden faktisk var mulig. Og mediet sa også
at ham selv ville bli – etter hvert - et kjent medium!
Samme budskap fikk han også i et brev – der et medium i tyskland ba
ham åpne seg og begynne som medium, for de som ville nå gjennom
og gi noen budskaper fra andre siden.
Slik
ble det da også gradvis åpnet opp, og et av de første trinn i dette var
at han falt inn i ”ubevisst/sovende” transe, der andre siden talte
klart gjennom ham.
Men
senere kom han ut for en latterkrampe i en slik ”sitting- krets”,
hvilket medførte at han ble ekskludert fra kretsen, og med dette tenkte
han å avslutte sin mediale vei. (ut kap.3)
Samtidig
sa han opp kirkegårds-gravejobben, men fikk snart ny jobb på kino i
St.Albans.
En
tid deretter var han danse-instruktør, men hans faste
dansepartner-dame ble sjalu på henne han bodde på hybel hos, og som
også var tilknyttet samme seanse-gruppe, der de fra andre siden tok
kontakt iblant. Han måtte derfor bryte med denne sin dansepartner som
han dog hadde hatt mye glede av, men samtidig vokste hans evne til å
formidle eller være redskap for den meget sjeldne ”direct-voice”
mediale kontakten til andre siden.
Han
merket for eksempel at da han var på kino, ble han beskyldt for å sitte
å småprate, enda han var helt taus. Det som skjedde, var at der han
selv og flere personer var samlet i en avslappet atmosfære og ROMMET
VAR MØRKT, der kom disse ”stemmer” lett gjennom, hvilket han
ikke selv styrte bevisst. I mørke rom - der mange slik var forsamlet,
kunne det lånes eller ”tappes” små mengder eterisk livskraft fra de
forsamlede )*, og med dette kunne de fra andre siden, materialisere
stemmebåndene, som det kunne formidles budskaper gjennom.
(https://www.martinus.dk/da/onlinebibliotek/kosmos/kosmos/1997/parser.php?fil=kos1997-06-118&nr=10"-
eller les utdrag på
https://www.martinus.dk/da/onlinebibliotek/dtt/oversigt.php?bog=22
*)hvordan og hvorfor dette skjer er
beskrevet i første delen av denne boken:
eller hør de 2 første lydfiler av denne her alt.eng.
Han
lærte her at det fantes flere nivåer av ’etter-livet’ – og at de
lavere ikke nødvendigvis var å stole på.
Han
ble altså kjent for å kunne ha kontakt til døde, kjente folk, og spilte
ofte (etter hvert) inn sine sesjoner i lydopptak. Han hevdet at hans
åndelige medhjelper, Mickey, - var sjelen/den fin-fysiske (åndelige)
kroppen til et barn som døde i 1910, og som var med å "kople opp"
forbindelsen fra andre siden. (mer)-
mer
i lyd
Flint var militærnekter og tjenestegjorde som ikke
stridende i andre verdenskrig.
Han
ble sammen med andre mil.nektere sendt til en camp for disse i Ilfracombe, men
fikk permisjoner, og under den første av disse så giftet han seg. I
denne permisjonen var han igjen med i sin mediale gruppe, og de
understreket sterkt at de gjorde ALT fra andre siden, for å sørge for
at ”ingen skulle bli gående i forvirring etter sin død” - når de forlot
sine kropper på slagmarken i denne grusomme krigen.
Den
første offentlige seanse av Flint var i 1955, like etter at han dannet
foreningen kalt ’Temple of Light’.
Flint var en ivrig fan av den ital. Stumfilm-skuespilleren Rudolph
Valentino og kjøpte det eneste kjente eksemplar av opptak fra The Young
Rajah. Flint ble etterhvert velstående og bodde i et herskapshus på
Westbourne Terrace nær London Paddington stasjon. Huset hadde vært
tidligere okkupert av skuespilleren George Arliss.
Stilen av hans
’mediumskap’
Når de tok del i seanser med Flint, ville deltakerne rapportere å høre
stemmene til de døde som omgav dem i rommet. Flint utførte dette også
som bundet og kneblet – dette da i et forsøk på å bevise at det ikke
var ham selv som brukte sin egen stemme. Ved flere anledinger ble han
filmet med kameraer som tok opp ”uten lys”/infrarødt – for å
bevise at han selv ikke brukte sin egen stemme. Han forklarte at han
var i stand til å frigi ”ectoplasma” ('od-energi' eller 'A-stoff' som
Martinus benever det )– og utfra denne lettformige materie kunne
hjelperne på andre siden materialisere stemmebåndene, som de snakket
gjennom eller med.
Og
Flint insisterte alltid på å utføre sceansene i totalt mørke, slik at
seanse -'sitterne' ikke var i stand til å se ham under forestillinger.
Han kunne også noen ganger utføre dette inne i et avlukke eller ’et
skap’. Dette hadde med det eteriske stoffet å gjøre, som ikke tåler det
fysiske lysets strålings-frekvenser. (mer om dette i
første deler av denne boken)
Blant de som Flint hevdet å ha kontaktet var bl a :
Archimedes
Helena Blavatsky
Frédéric Chopin
Winston Churchill
Arthur Conan Doyle - om ham på svensk:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle kommer tillbaka (pdf-link)
Elizabeth
Fry
her
i lyd om dette med DIREKTE STEMME mediale sceanser, eller
samme i tekst.
and
more on link here about how
these 'live-speaking-contacts' happen.
more on
youtube on him
(Flint svensk lydbok
utdrag og hele i lyd her
)
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fra del 3- kap.7 av småboken "Den sekundære og den primære
opstandelse" af Martinus
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7.
KAPITEL
Hvorfor
materialisationer er så sjældne og kun forekommer i intime
lukkede kredse eller cirkler
"Når ovennævnte cirkler
er så intime og lukkede, så fremmede meget vanskeligt får adgang til
seancerne, skyldes det den omstændighed, at materialistisk indstillede
skeptikere har tendens til, i misforstået nidkærhed efter at "afsløre
bedraget", at gribe i de materialiserede skikkelser eller ånder,
hvilket kan være overordentligt farligt for mediet, da åndens
materialisation netop består af mediets A-stof og øvrige psykiske
materiale, som midlertidigt er udlånt til ånden. Hvis dette materiale
bliver udsat for vold under materialisationen, ødelægger eller hindrer
det ikke blot åndens koncentration og A-kraft i at komme til
udfoldelse, hvorved materialisationen bliver umulig, men mediet kan
også ved en sådan brutal indgriben komme alvorligt til skade.
Sagen er nemlig den,
at når der først er opstået en forbindelse og fuldkommen kontakt
imellem åndens A-kraft og mediets A-stof, kan materialisationen
efterhånden blive af et sådant omfang, at den til en vis grad kan
bevirke en begyndende dematerialisation af selve mediets fysiske
legeme. Dettes celler begynder da at opløse sig i A-stof og bliver
derved tilgængelig for åndens koncentration og A-kraft og opgår som
materiale i den ny materialiserede skikkelse.
Under en sådan seance
er en del af mediets fysiske og psykiske legemes partikler altså
placeret i den materialiserede skikkelse. At mediet derved kan svæve i
den frygteligste livsfare, hvis ikke der er foranstaltet behørig
beskyttelse under seancen imod uvidende menneskers brutale indgreb, er
selvfølgeligt. Hvis det af mediet udlånte legemsmateriale kommer i
uorden eller bliver iblandet fremmede kræfter under seancen, vil det
ved tilbagematerialisationen til mediets legeme udvise en tilsvarende
uorden.
I samme grad som
cellerne eller materialet her ikke befinder sig i sin normale struktur
eller organisation, i samme grad vil mediets legeme de pågældende
steder udvise beskadigelse. Materialisationsseancer er derfor ikke
noget, man kan lege med som en behagelig underholdning. Det er en meget
alvorlig proces, som absolut kun bør foregå i overværelse af virkeligt
kyndige og forstående personer, der er indviede i alle faremomenter.
(dette var utdrag fra småboken
nr22 og dette over er også samme innhold som artikkelen på link
| mer om dette tema med hvordan den
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her skytes inn flg.om dette
tema, oversatt ca.fra 30% inn/ned i boken
Communication with The
Spirit World of Johannes Greber
(det som foranlediget dette var spørsmålet om
hvordan kan "døde"
påvirke/flytte på den fysiske materie, når de tilsynelatende ikke
lenger er i fysisk kropp, jf. progr. som Åndenes Makt og
Det okände.)
(oversatt fra
johGreber_VerkehrMit_der_Geisterwelt_1932.pdf)
(link på både mp3-
lydbok, og nederst der, er pdf-lese-utgaven av den engelsk
oversetttelsen, samt ren-txt, av denne samme bok. Norsk link under)
LIVSKRAFTEN eller "den
Od-iske kraften"
"På grunn av deres forskjellige naturer, kan ånd og materie ikke virke
direkte på hverandre. Ikke engang din egen ånd er i seg selv (direkte-)
i stand til å aktivere et lem eller organ i kroppen din.(Han, den
åndelige guiden/kommunikatoren på andre siden som taler dette; 'Ikke
engang jeg som har tatt denne gutten "i besiddelse" (som komm.redskap)
, kan få kroppen hans til å sitte opp eller heve hendene eller
produsere en lyd med hans taleorgan ved min egen innsats alene).
For å gjøre disse tingene krever din egen ånd så vel som jeg, også
en kraftstrøm.
"På samme måte krever funksjonen av en maskin, en konstant
tilførsel av strøm, eller energi fra damp - hvis maskinen skal fungere.
Hvis forsyningen mangler eller er utilstrekkelig, står maskinen stille,
stopper opp.
"I vårt tilfelle er ånden maskinisten.
Maskinen er kroppen eller materien, stoffet. Hvis
stoffet/materien skal settes i gang av ånden, er det nødvendig med en
kraftstrøm.De gamle lærde, kalte denne kraft-
strømmen i menneskene for 'Sjel', adskilt og forskjellig fra 'ånd' og
'kropp'.
Dermed lærte de ganske riktig, at mennesket består av ånd, sjel og
kropp.
"Bibelen kaller denne 'strømmen' eller 'vital energi" for "livets
ånd" ... ("og Gud pustet inn i mennesket livets ånd; Slik ble
mennesket et levende vesen. 1. Mosebok 2: 7)
Dagens forskere (dvs i gamle dager, nå- vet nok ingen
vanlige leger hva man snakker om dersom man kommer inn på dette.
rø-anm.) - kaller denne livs-strømmen
i mennesket for od- kraften. Denne "ods- eller livskraft eksisterer i
og rundt alle ting som er "skapt av Gud".
Hvert menneske, hvert dyr, hver plante, hver stein, hvert mineral, alt
vann, hvert himmellegeme, enhver ånd og alle andre eksisterende ting
har slik en "odisk kraft", dvs det som kan sees av enkelte klarsynge
som 'auraen'.
Det er ingenting grov- materielt, men er
åndelig og alltid forbundet med en ånd. Det er livets åndens
livskraft, som derfor alltid dens "transportør". Derfor; hvor det er
liv, er det od, og hvor det er od, er det ånd. Siden denne ods-kraften
eksisterer i og rundt alle ting som er "skapt av Gud" og derfor alltid
forbundet med ånd, følger det at det er en ånd i alt skapt.
"Det høres nok utrolig ut for deg, men dette er sannheten."Enhver ånd
knyttet til en materiell kropp har først og fremst den (fin-)odiske
kraften som kreves for sin egen eksistens som ånd, og så tilstrekkelig
ekstra odisk kraft for å indusere liv, vekst og aktivitet i
den jordiske kroppen.
For å gjøre bruk av et utilstrekkelig jordisk eksempel:
et lokomotiv krever en viss mengde dampkraft for å sette seg selv i
bevegelse, og en viss mengde ekstra damp som gjør det mulig å trekke
vognene som er koblet på det. Vognen som er koblet til din ånd er
kroppen din, og til kraft for denne, trenger ånd en særlig ekstra
odiskraft.
Den ods (eteriske-)livskraft som er beregnet til ('drift av') kroppen,
adskiller seg imidlertid fra den som er beregnet for (drift av-) ånden,
siden alt som skal påvirke materien må assimileres og tilpasses den til
en viss grad.
Derfor er "od" av det jordiske legemet, mindre åndelig enn for den ånd
som bor i dem."
Den fysiske od ligner deres jordiske kraftstrømmer
(kraft/magnetlinjer), som verken er rent materielle eller rene
åndelige. Deres sanne natur er ukjent for dere, selv om dere opplever
deres effekt på daglig basis.
For å lede deres jordiske kraftstrømmer, bruker dere materielle
ledere/kabler, som er beregnet på å lede en strømmengde som er
tilpasset deres last, behov.
Dere har maskiner og utstyr av alle slag, og fabrikker, hvis drift
krever strøm av en viss styrke. Hvis strømmen er for kraftig, vil den
ødelegge utstyret. Hvis den er for svak, stopper maskinene/utstyret
"På samme måte strømmer den odiske strømmen i alle fysiske vesener, via
ledere, gjennom hele kroppen, med alle dens fantastiske systemer, som
dere kaller organer, - med den nødvendige styrke. Hvis strømmen har en
for kraftig styrke på et gitt organ, vil det skape forstyrrelse. Hvis
den er for svak, vil organets funksjon opphøre.
Blodet er leder av ods/livs-kraften. Hvis
lederen blir ødelagt ut av tap eller nedbrytning av blodet, stopper
ods-strømmen også, akkurat som kraftstrømmen stopper når (høyspent-)
ledningene deres blir skadet av ytre ting eller ved korrosjon.
Fordi blod er leder for ods-kraft, er dermed fysisk liv umulig uten
blod, og i Bibelen kalles blodet for "livets opphav ": "the seat of
life" (5. Mosebok 12: 23)
Den fysiske odskraft er ikke skapt av den
respektive kropps ånd,men er avledet fra føden/maten som bli tatt inn i
kroppen.
(slutt
utdrag/oversettelse av denne interessante bok om
temaet. Lydbok
eng.av samme. Og norsk oversettelse
av samme bok finnes også
samt:
*lydbok
av samme på norsk og delvis dansk
og denne boken forklarer hva som skjer når den eteriske energi- i
boken kalt OD-energien, blir samlet og
materialisert synlig på dette grovfysiske planet kalt "jorden", særlig
ut fra de gamle-testamentiske tilsynelatende 'diktninger', som altså
Greber får en ånds-vitenskapelig forklaring på. Siste halvdel av denne
boken er ikke så interessant i mine øyne. Rø.
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In a seance with the Medium Florence Cook
a Spirit formation almost fully materialised.
Notice the very fine see through
ectoplasm at the edges, gossamer like.
<more info by clicking the picture. Audio, on this
case here
og txt: From the book, There Is No
Death, written by Florence Marryat.
intro-video on the
after-life from a fantastic good book on the theme. (or
life between physical incarnations life) on the fine-matter levels/
astral levels of Earth.
This is the story of the "spirit" of a 20 year old British
soldier (James Legget) who died in the battle of the Somme in ww1.
Legget - faced with insurmountable technical difficulties - contacts
Turoff, a psychic surgeon living in the UK, to ask his help in
communicating the story to us.
At first Legget is not aware that he has died, merely that
his pain - and his wound - have gone.
He finds that he is tethered by a cord-like structure attached to a
dark lump on the ground. It's not until two of his comrades appear and,
ignoring his entreaties for help, carry off the lump - dragging him
with them - that he begins to suspect that something is wrong. (this is
the "silvercord" or the etheric energyline that conects the
coarse/physical body to the astral, and this take some time to
loosen/break when dying young and life-stong)
To his surprise, he finds that death has not severed his
connection with the military. There are astral officers, and astral
barracks where he and many others are taken to recover from the trauma
of their recent decease. Soon his spirit guide - an oriental called
Chan - makes his appearance and introduces him to the wonders of astral
living, including battles with dark entities who are (were)
instrumental in encouraging the inhumanities inflicted in two world
wars upon so many on the physical plane.
Legget learns that commuting is easier on the astral plane -
"where man thinketh so is he" you might say. He's also shown two ways
of cleansing the Aura . At one point he attends a lecture, given by an
astral philosopher, which throws new light on the subject of
reincarnation and which he, Legget, remembers verbatim. https://vimeo.com/20361909
same
introvideo on youtube | book-extract
| all
this 'Turoff-book' pdf
some similar to the 'Turoff
book' is this book Afterlife
else this timeless wisdombook:
INITIATION -author/taken down though
Elisabeth Haich, to download in pdf on:
http://rune.ws/spesBoker/Elisabeth_Haich_Initiation.pdf
audiobook mp3 of this up english
lyd-samtale om boka denne boka; INNVIELSE på norsk-mp3
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| more on LESLIE FLINT down below | book/+audio about mediums in brasil - t
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Alec Harris: Die Geschichte eines groβen
Materialisationsmediums
Erstmals liegt hier in deutscher Sprache ungekürzt die Geschichte
eines Mannes vor, der zu einem der großartigsten Materialisationsmedien
seiner Zeit wurde, nachdem er in seinen Jugendjahren alles Paranormale
skeptisch beäugt hatte: Alec Harris. Zunächst erschien im Original eine
geraffte Fassung unter dem Titel "They Walked Among Us", und erst 35
Jahre später, 2009, gab es "Alec Harris" auf Englisch zu lesen.
Alec und Louie Harris waren 46 Jahre verheiratet, und 40 Jahre davon
– bis zu Alecs Ableben 1974 ― widmeten sie der Arbeit mit der
Geisterwelt. Sie brachten, wie Reverend George May schrieb, "zahllosen
Menschen Hoffnung, Trost und Erleuchtung", denn bei ihren Séancen
materialisierten sich teure Verstorbene. Louie, die 1989 starb, erzählt
in dem Buch, wie Alec allmählich zum Trancemedium wurde, das
Direktstimmen von Verstorbenen produzieren konnte und mit Hilfe von
"drüben" auch Heilungen bewerkstelligte. Nach sechs Jahren intensiver
Arbeit kam es endlich zu Vollmaterialisationen von Verstorbenen im
roten Licht.
Ergreifend sind die Berichte von Teilnehmern, die durch den
"Schleier des Todes" hindurch mit ihren Lieben für kurze Zeit vereint
wurden. Andere Geistbesucher kamen und konferierten in fremden
Sprachen, die dem Medium unbekannt waren.
Neun Mitglieder des "Geisterteams", das Alec und Louie Harris half,
sind auf dem hinteren Umschlag des Buchs abgebildet, wie sie das Medium
selbst porträtierte. Sein Sohn Bradley Harris, Zeuge bei vielen
Séancen, bestätigte, dass die Geistführer so aussahen. "Alec Harris"
ist ein packender Bericht über das Leben zweier mutiger,
außergewöhnlicher Menschen, die Trauernden so viel Trost spendeten.
Seine Botschaft lautet: Der Tod ist nicht das Ende.
Die hintere Umschlagseite des Buches
Zunächst in einer verkürzten Fassung in englischer Sprache als They
Walked Among Us veröffentlicht, liegt uns nun, dreißig Jahre
danach, in gedruckter Form die ganze Geschichte eines Mannes vor, der
erst alles Paranormale skeptisch betrachtet hatte und später eines der
brillantesten Materialisationsmedien der Welt wurde. Alec und Louie
Harris waren 46 Jahre verheiratet, und 40 dieser Jahre – bis zu Alecs
Tod im Jahr 1974 – widmeten sie der Passion, "zahllosen Menschen, die
einen geliebten Menschen betrauerten, Hoffnung, Trost und Erleuchtung"
zu spenden, wie Reverend George May schrieb.
Louie schildert hier, wie Alec zum Trancemedium wurde, wie sich
Direktstimmen meldeten, Heilungen geschahen und wie nach sechsjähriger
Arbeit mit ihrem Geistigen Team in rotem Licht vollständige
Materialisationen möglich wurden. Der Erzählung beigegeben sind
Berichte von Familien, die über den "Schleier des Todes" hinweg vereint
wurden und von alten Freunden, die sich in vielen verschiedenen
Sprachen unterhielten, die Alec nicht geläufig waren.
Neun Mitglieder des Geister-Teams sind auf dieser Seite abgebildet,
wie sie Alec Harris in den 1950-er und 1960-er Jahren gezeichnet und
gemalt hat. Sein Sohn Bradley bestätigte, dass die Hand seines Vaters
augenscheinlich kontrolliert wurde, als er die Porträts anfertigte, die
im übrigen nach Bradleys Erinnerung genau so aussehen, wie die Geister
bei den Séancen materialisiert auftraten.
Die Arbeit wächst – und unser Geisterteam mit
Nach und nach arbeiteten diese Zahnräder in der Gestalt freundlicher
Geistführer reibungslos und wie geölt zusammen. Wenn einer auftrat,
stellte er sich vor, erläuterte den Grund seines Hierseins und widmete
sich methodisch der Aufgabe, Alecs Medialität weiter zu entwickeln.
Jeder nächste Schritt erfolgte zu seiner angemessenen Zeit. Nichts
wurde überstürzt in Angriff genommen. Selbstverständlich wuchs mit der
Ankunft der neuen Führer unser Vertrauen in unser Helferteam
außerordentlich.
Eines Abends meldete sich eine ruhige, sympathische Stimme mit den
Worten "Ich bin Rohan“, und wir waren sehr glücklich, einen weiteren
Geisterfreund willkommen heißen zu dürfen. Das warme Timbre dieser
neuen Stimme begeisterte mich: Sie strahlte so viel Liebe, Frieden und
Harmonie aus. Ich fragte ihn, was er in seinem Erdenleben gewesen sei.
"Was ich war", kam sanft als Antwort, "spielt keine Rolle. Wichtig ist,
was ich bin und für welche Arbeit ich hierhergekommen bin. Das
beschäftigt mich am meisten. Ich bin hier, um euch darin beizustehen,
der Welt die Wahrheit über das Leben nach dem Tod zu verkünden. Meine
Arbeit besteht darin, der Menschheit zu einem besseren Verständnis
dessen zu verhelfen, was als Tod bekannt ist. Von heute an", fuhr er
fort, "werde ich mich immer in der Nähe des Mediums aufhalten, um ihm
zu helfen und ihn zu beschützen, um seine Anstrengungen und eure
entlang dem verfügten Pfad zu lenken."Rohan versprach, in Zukunft bei
jedem Zirkelabend anwesend zu sein. Er war es, der als erster die
Teilnehmer begrüßte und ihnen am Beginn jedes Zirkels Hinweise gab.
Ich hatte das Gefühl, dass Rohans schöne Stimme auch zu einer
schönen Gestalt gehören müsse. Diese Vermutung stellte sich später, als
wir Ganzkörper-Materialisationen erreicht hatten, als richtig heraus.
Rohan war ein innig geliebter Geistführer und wurde von uns allen im
physikalischen Zirkel im höchsten Maße geschätzt.
Als Konzession an Alecs Abneigung, im Kabinett zu sitzen, wurde ihm
gestattet, daneben und etwas abseits von uns anderen Platz zu nehmen.
Christopher sagte uns, wir sollten die Trompete außerhalb des Kabinetts
aufstellen. Wir taten, wie er uns geheißen hatte und waren sehr sicher,
dass es Stimmenphänomene geben würde. Doch sollten wir enttäuscht
werden. Einige Wochen lang weigerte sich das Sprachrohr, sich auch nur
einen Zentimeter zu bewegen, von irgendeinem Flüstern daraus ganz zu
schweigen. Während wir noch debattierten, was nun zu tun sei, wurden
wir mit neuen Anordnungen konfrontiert. Man wies uns an, beim nächsten
Dienstags-Zirkel die Trompete in das Kabinett zu legen. Leider vergass
ich das und legte sie wie zuvor außerhalb hin. Kaum hatten wir
angefangen, erhob sich die Trompete selbst und schwebte eigenständig
ins Kabinett! Später kam der fällige Vorwurf von White Wing: "Faithful,
du willst Stimme. Du musst alle Anweisungen ausführen, wenn du Erfolg
willst. "Es war offensichtlich, dass die Führer nie vergaßen, was bei
den vorherigen Sitzungen geschehen war. Sie wollten, dass man ihnen
gehorche. Bald wurde ich zu einem richtigen Hauptfeldwebel, der darauf
hielt, dass die Anordnungen peinlich genau befolgt wurden.
Um diese Zeit kam ein reisendes Medium nach Cardiff. Ich wollte gern
Alecs sinkendes Interesse an dieser Art der Medialität wieder beleben
und dachte, mit Erfahrungen aus erster Hand könne dies gelingen. Also
nahm ich am Theater einen Abend frei. Murdo, Betty, Alec und ich
besuchten eine der Stimmen-Séancen, die angeboten wurden.
Die Prozedur lief nicht anders als bei uns ab, außer dass neben der
Trompete noch verschiedene Spielzeuge, Waldhörner und Tamburine
herumlagen, die mit Leuchtfarbe gekennzeichnet waren. Offenbar sollten
sie alle beim Zirkel von Geistwesen bewegt, gebimmelt oder geblasen
werden. Da wir noch nie bei einer solchen Séance dabeigewesen waren,
herrschte große Vorfreude. Es war dann jedoch nicht so spektakulär, wie
wir gehofft hatten. Echte Direktstimmen gab es keine, nur Stimmen durch
den Mund des Mediums. Einige kleinere physikalische Phänomene traten
auf. Faszinierend fand ich das schon, weil das Medium keinesfalls dafür
verantwortlich zu machen war. Es war durch Murdo und andere vor der
Sitzung gut festgebunden worden.
Dann sagte der Führer des Mediums, er wolle mit der "Dame am
Fenster" sprechen. Da ich der einzige weibliche Teilnehmer in dieser
Position war, amüsierte es mich zu sehen, dass viele andere Damen auf
diese Ankündigung reagierten. "Nein", wehrte der Führer ab, "ich
wiederhole, ich will die Dame am Fenster." Ich antwortete also, und er
deutete an, dass ich die Person sei, die er gewollt habe. "Lady", sagte
er, "Sie haben in Ihrem Heim jemanden mit weit größeren Kräften, als es
das Medium besitzt, dessen ich mich heute bediene." Ich dachte: "Er
kann nur Alec meinen, aber kann ich ihm vertrauen?" Wie als Antwort auf
meine zweifelnde Frage sagte der Führer: "Hier bei mir ist ein großer
Häuptling, ein nordamerikanischer Indianer. Von ihm stammt diese
Botschaft. Er verlässt sich auf Sie, dass die begonnene Arbeit zu Ende
geführt wird. Er fragt: ‚Willst du mir das versprechen, Faithful?' "Ich
war erstaunt, dass White Wing bei diesem Zirkel anwesend war und gab
meine klare Einwilligung. Indem er den Namen verwendete, den er mir
beigelegt hatte – Faithful –, konnte es keinen Zweifel daran geben,
dass es sich um ihn handelte. Dass er sich durch ein Medium meldete,
das nicht Alec war, bedeutete einen weiteren Beweis dafür, dass es ihn
gab (wenn es dessen bedurft hätte), vor allem weil dieses Medium uns
ebenso unbekannt war wie wir ihm.
Nun folgte eine Demonstration physikalischer Phänomene. Glocken
läuteten, Tamburine rasselten, Gegenstände glitten in der Luft herum
und um uns her, und wir wurden von unsichtbaren Händen berührt. Es war
ein wunderbares Erlebnis. Ich hoffte, dass Alec ähnlich empfand, aber
er war unbeeindruckt und schimpfte nur über "all diesen Unsinn". Er
behauptete, dass wir nichts gesehen hätten, was nicht auch ohne die
Hilfe einer Einwirkung aus dem Geistigen Reich zustande kommen hätten
können. "Alec!" rief ich aus, schockiert von seinem Skeptizismus. "Wie
kannst du so etwas sagen? Was ist mit der Botschaft von White Wing? Wie
konnte das Medium wissen, dass er mich immer Faithful nennt? Bitte, wie
erklärst du dir das?" Ich forderte ihn heraus. Alec konnte das aus
seiner Sicht nicht erklären, bestand aber darauf, dass die Phänomene
mit physischen Mitteln erzeugt worden sein konnten. Betty und Murdo
beteiligten sich und widersprachen Alec. Der Streit wurde hitzig, aber
Alec gab nicht nach. "In Ordnung!" stieß er hervor. "Ich sage euch was:
Ihr bindet mich, und ich zeige euch, dass ich alles das tun kann. Die
Geister werden es nicht sein, die die Dinge hin- und herbewegen! "Ohne
Vorwarnung fiel Alec plötzlich in Trance. Die hohe Stimme unseres
fernöstlichen Führers Chang richtete sich an mich: "Kleine Lady", sagte
er, "mach es so, wie Medium sagt. Bei eurem nächsten Zirkel bindet ihn
fest. Er wird eine große Überraschung erleben. Ihr werden alle große
Überraschung erleben, großen Schock." Chang schien sich zu amüsieren,
fuhr dann aber in ernstem Ton fort: "Ärgere dich nicht über Alec. Er
hat die Gedanken von anderen aufgenommen und sie als eigene gesprochen.
Nicht seine Schuld. Das ist nicht, was er selber denkt." Er schwieg
einen Augenblick, als müsse er nachdenken und ergänzte dann: "Du tust
wie er sagt. Binde ihn und schau, was passiert."
Die Polizei schaltet sich ein – Fünf Sprachen
in einer Séance!
An diesem Zirkel nahm ein Mann teil, für den ich nicht viel übrig
hatte. Da er mit einer Gruppe kam, nahm ich an seiner Teilnahme keinen
Anstoß. Als Vorsichtsmaßnahme setzte ich ihn jedoch in die hinterste
Reihe. Für diesen Mann kam ein Hindu, der auf ihn deutete und sagte:
"Ich gehöre zu dir." "Wir kannst du zu mir gehören?" fragte der
Teilnehmer abweisend, was den Geist aber nicht aus der Fassung brachte.
"Ich war bei dir, als du in meinem Land lebtest", kam selbstbewusst als
Antwort. Der Geist sprach dann auf Hindi mit ihm. Das schien den
ziemlich unsympathischen Teilnehmer tief zu beeindrucken. Er wurde
still und nachdenklich.
Später, als der Zirkel zu Ende war und wir alle beim Tee im Salon
saßen, kam er zu mir und sagte: "Mrs Harris, ich bin Polizeioffizier.
Wir wissen von Ihren Aktivitäten. Ich dachte, ich komme einmal vorbei
und schaue mir das an. Offen gestanden bin ich erstaunt über all das,
was ich heute Abend miterlebt habe. Dieser österreichische Kommunikator
sprach ja fünf verschiedene Sprachen!""Sie haben mitgezählt?" staunte
ich. "Ja, ich habe sie gezählt. Es waren fünf. Dann dieser Hindu, der
für mich gekommen ist. Niemand weiß, dass ich viele Jahre in Indien
verbracht habe", sagte er. "Dieser Bursche sprach den Dialekt der
Gegend, in der ich lebte. Fantastisch! Ganz unglaublich! Ich kann es
einfach nicht begreifen." Immer noch verwundert, schüttelte er den
Kopf. "Ich bin froh, dass Sie beeindruckt waren", lächelte ich. "Oder
sollte ich sagen, ich freue mich, dass Sie dies alles für wahr und
nicht für Betrug halten." "Betrug?" fuhr er auf. "Wir wäre das möglich?
Was ist mit diesen ganzen Geistformen, die von Leuten im Zirkel erkannt
wurden? Nein, das ist echt im besten Sinne", bekräftigte er und nickte
energisch. Ich war erleichtert, dass wir die Polizei überzeugt hatten.
Das war schon etwas. Ich war gewiss, dass unsere geliebten Geistfreunde
über die Absichten des Offiziers im Bilde gewesen waren und besondere
Phänomene arrangiert hatten, um ihn zu überzeugen. Im andern Fall hätte
unser Zirkel eine ungewisse Zukunft gehabt.
Ein Großvater materialisiert sich und drückt
seinen Enkel ans Herz
Unser Enkel wurde von Reverend George May getauft und erhielt den
Namen Anthony Samuel Alexander. Die Tauffeier in der
Spiritualistenkirche Park Grove war beeindruckend. Der Priester May
hielt das winzige Bündel in seinen Armen, sagte, dass der geistige Name
des Jungen Harmonie sei und dass er diese überallhin bringen werde,
wohin ihn sein Pfad führe. Das war eine wirklich liebevolle Botschaft.
Wie gewohnt hielten wir am folgenden Dienstagabend unseren Zirkel
ab, allerdings früher als üblich: Ich hatte das Prince-of-Wales-Theater
nach 15 glücklichen Jahren verlassen, denn ich konnte auf Engagements
bei der BBC und weitere freiberufliche Aufträge bauen. Wir konnten nun
zu einer günstigeren Zeit sitzen, und Doney konnte dabei sein. Sie
wollte das Baby nicht aus den Augen lassen, und so brachte sie es zum
Zirkel mit.
Unser Abend fand im Wohnzimmer statt, das ein stattliches
Erkerfenster aufwies, und in dessen Aussparung stellten wir das
Kinderbettchen. Dann fingen wir an. Während wir sangen und redeten,
schlief der Säugling, weil ihn die Führer offensichtlich schlafen
ließen. Es materialisierte sich Sam Peimer, ging zu dem Bettchen, hob
sanft das Baby hoch und hielt es im Arm, und unerhört stolz sprach er
über seinen Enkel. Es war ein außergewöhnliches Ereignis, den
Geistgroßvater zu sehen, wie er seinen irdischen Enkel betreute. Wir
sahen vor unser Augen, wie nahe uns unsere Lieben sind, für alle Zeit.
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The Mediumship of Leslie Flint
'I need no trumpets or other
paraphernalia. The voices of the dead
Speak directly to their friends or
relatives and are located in space
a little above my head and slightly to
one side of me. They are
objective voices which my sitters can
record'. Leslie Flint. (1)
more on link here about how
these 'live-speaking-contacts' happen.
A full and very readable account of
Leslie Flint's life and mediumship is to be
found in his autobiography, Voices in
the Dark. Writing in 1971, Leslie begins by
advising the readers: 'In spite of a
childhood which would give any modern child
nightmares, or perhaps because of it, I
have reached the age of fifty-nine without
falling prey to neurosis, psychosis or
even the screaming meemies. I am a happy
man'.(2)
When Leslie's unmarried mother realized
that she was pregnant, she left the
home shared with her widowed mother in
St Albans, and gave birth to Leslie in a
Salvation Army home in Hackney, in 1911.
On returning home, she married
Leslie's father. However, the marriage
was unsuccessful; Leslie's mother enjoyed
the 'bright lights', while his father
'drank most of his wages and put the rest on
horses which never seemed to win'. When
war broke out in 1914, Leslie's father
was one of the first to enlist, 'simply
to get away from the domestic hell he lived
in'. From this time onwards, his mother
would go out each evening and deposit
the young Leslie with the wife of the
local cinema manager; therefore, each
evening, he would spend his time
watching whatever film was being shown. This
situation came to a sudden end when
Leslie's mother eloped with one of her
many admirers and Leslie reports that
she 'disappeared from my life'. He was
then brought up by his grandmother who
could not read or write, and took in
washing to feed the extra mouth that she
had taken in.(3)
Leslie relates his childhood ponderings
regarding God and the afterlife, and
records his bewilderment when hearing of
a boy who attended three Sunday
Schools. On realizing this provided the
boy with three Christmas treats, 'a magic
lantern show followed by a glorious
feast of jam sandwiches, ice buns and cakes,
with lemonade to drink', Leslie promptly
did the same and notes: 'I felt vaguely
sinful, but quite determined to repeat
the maneuver the following year'.(4)
It was during this period when Leslie
had the first realization of his psychic
abilities. He saw a soldier who then
'vanished', and on being later shown a
photograph of his uncle who had been
killed, he told his aunt and grandmother
this was the same person whom he had
seen. But the response for saying this,
as Leslie recalls, was 'I got a good
clout from Gran'.(5) After a similar experience,
he, somewhat wisely, said nothing about
the people that he saw and invariably
disappeared. Shortly after reaching
thirteen, he left school and worked as a
gardener in the local cemetery.
Leslie recalls that it was a
conversation in the cemetery potting shed between his
atheistic, Darwinian boss, and a man who
had become 'saved' through the
Salvation Army, that aroused interest in
the purpose of life. Leslie sided with the
latter and told him of seeing his dead
uncle, but his boss warned him that such
talk would cause him to end up in the
lunatic asylum. Time went on although this
exchange remained in Leslie's mind and
his work in the cemetery prompted him
to think that death might indeed be the
end of personal existence. Becoming
increasingly anxious about the question,
Leslie began to enquire at different
churches but was left unsatisfied; he
then saw a notice about a meeting of the
local Theosophical Society and decided
to attend. Unfortunately on doing so, and
listening to the guest speaker, Leslie
says that 'most of his discourse passed
right over my devoted head'.
Nonetheless, the speaker mentioned the subject of
life after death, but warned the
audience to avoid Spiritualism and the activity of
communicating with the dead. Leslie was
fascinated by such an idea: 'Obviously
my next step was to find these
Spiritualists'. Leslie kept asking people about how
he could find Spiritualists, but due to
the negative response, he came to the
conclusion that he was trying to
infiltrate 'some sinister secret society'.(6)
It was only when his boss was in the
midst of another tirade against the concept
of survival, that Leslie discovered that
the local Spiritualists met at the local
Friends' Meeting Place. Leslie went
along and Mrs. Johnson, the medium,
referred to a Mr. Lewis; before his
death, he had been Leslie's art teacher and
someone who had become a father-figure
to him. The medium described him
accurately, and went on to refer to
Leslie's guide. In view of what he was being
told, Leslie began to become confused:
'He was a Guide, said Mrs. Johnson, and
he was not really an Arab, he was
someone dressed as an Arab. This seemed to
me to get more involved by the
minute'.(7)
The experience baffled Leslie and he
therefore continued to attend the meetings
to investigate the matter further. In
doing so, he often became angry at the
blatant 'fishing' by some mediums, and
the gullibility of those present. Those who
claimed the 'messages unclaimed by
others', whom Leslie called the 'Body
Snatchers', at least provided some
amusement for him. During these meetings,
he nevertheless received messages, including a number from 'the young
Arab'
and the call to develop his own
mediumship.(8) One of those who was present at
the meetings invited Leslie to her home
circle and he agreed to attend. This was
followed by the receipt of a letter from
a woman in Munich who said that
someone calling himself Rudolf Valentino
had made himself known in her circle.
He had asked that a letter be sent to
Leslie, supplying his address, saying that he
must develop his mediumship; the
communicator added that he had being trying
to communicate this request through
various mediums whom Leslie had seen,
but without success. Leslie therefore
wondered if Valentino could possibly be 'the
Arab who was not really an Arab': Leslie
knew of the actor through his cinema
attendance and that Valentino had
appeared in different films as an Arab. Leslie
replied to the writer and asked whether
the communicator could make himself
known in a convincing way.
In the meantime, Leslie began to attend
the home circle to which he had been
invited. This consisted of
table-tipping, and one of the messages received was
from someone calling himself Valentino,
and it, 'was exactly the same message
contained in the letter from Munich'.(9)
The circle members were delighted with
what had occurred and asked Leslie to
return. Leslie left promising to do so,
although doubts began to appear but he
received another letter from Munich with
another message from Valentino saying
that he wanted Leslie to persevere. It
was the distress of a widow that he
later saw at a funeral in the cemetery that
prompted Leslie to return to the circle.
He did so and it was highly successful with
Leslie becoming entranced and several
communicators speaking through him to
some of those present.
The circle members thanked Leslie for
making this possible and told him that one
of those who spoke was Valentino, who
once again said that Leslie must
continue with his development.
Unfortunately, despite this momentous advance,
Mrs. Cook, the medium who organized the
circle, claimed to have an Egyptian
high priestess as a guide, called
Shu-shu, and at a subsequent circle meeting,
Leslie's downfall occurred. Leslie's
account was that: 'Shu-shu said she would
demonstrate through her medium one of
the rituals she used to perform when
she was a high priestess in the temple
of Isis...Mrs. Cook was...broad in the
beam and her bosoms were of Earth Mother
proportions...She gyrated her hips
and weaved her arms, the while chanting
what sounded gibberish to me but was
acclaimed enthusiastically by the others
as ancient Egyptian. The bounteous
bosoms flopped alarmingly as the dance
grew more energetic...the arms kept
weaving like the tentacles of a busy
octopus. I wanted to look away...but try as I
might my eyes were glued to the
spectacle'. At this point Leslie could not stop
himself from laughing, 'until the tears
streamed down my face'. Not surprisingly,
when the meeting ended, Mrs. Cook
suggested that Leslie did not return. Leslie
departed, having made up his mind to 'have nothing more to do with
Spiritualism'.(10)
After having given up his job in the
cemetery, Leslie secured employment at the
local cinema. Unfortunately, this came
to a premature end when he managed to
extinguish its electricity supply, and
he consequently became unemployed. On
being offered work as a barman in
Barkingside, he duly accepted the offer and
also occupied himself with dancing, a
pastime that he had taken up while in St
Albans. However, his mind returned to
the messages from Valentino and after
much thought, he decided to return to St Albans to try and develop his
mediumship; he did so and took a job in
a tailor's shop. In the case of his
mediumship, no progress was made until
he met Edith Mundin, a member of the
local Spiritualist church, who invited
him to her home circle. Leslie began
attending the circle, and many weeks
passed with no obvious development in his
mediumship. This was until one night
when he fell into trance and a number of
communicators spoke through him, including Edith's late husband. Further
development occurred with him becoming
clairvoyant when he could describe the
next-world visitors. by this time,
Leslie was not only being kept busy with his
mediumship, but also with his dancing
and developing a friendship with Edith. At
this point, Leslie recalls, 'my
development as a medium was entering its last and
most important phase'.(11) He had
already noticed that he could hear voices
near him, albeit only a few words; when
this happened during a film that he was
watching at the cinema, he realized this
was not his imagination as, 'other
members of the audience could also hear
them because I was constantly being
told to shut up or thumped angrily on
the back by those sitting behind me...This
happened so often that I had to give up
going to the cinema altogether'.(12)
After moving into Edith's home as a
lodger, Leslie had a quieter and happier
environment in which to develop his
mediumship and the voices became clearer;
furthermore, much to Leslie's delight, becoming entranced was no longer
necessary. Torn between his desire to
become a professional dancer or to
continue the development of his
mediumship, he chose the latter. He soon
discovered that he had made the correct
decision as it was not long before
Valentino was making himself known at
the circle; his voice being audible to all
those who were present. At this time,
Edith decided that Leslie should train
himself for public work. His first
public demonstration at a local Spiritualist
church, while in trance, was a success.
Edith and Leslie then decided that his
ability for independent direct voice
mediumship should be made available for
others and a church should be opened
where this would be possible. After Edith
and Leslie saved all the money that they
could collect together, the day came
when they could advertise services at
their Watford Spiritualist Mission: the
church was in fact an unfurnished room
over a shop with a few dozen chairs. For
his own living costs, Leslie began to
give sittings in Edith's house, but aware
there were people who could not afford
the one guinea fee, he began an open
circle one evening a week at the
Mission. Many of these circles produced
startling evidence; one being when a
local woman, who had been murdered,
communicated and gave a considerable
amount of information about herself and
the circumstances of her death. The
circle members scanned the news reports
in the local newspapers and information
that she had given was subsequently
confirmed as being correct.
Noah Zerdin, one of the founders of the
Link Association of Home Circles,
attended one of Leslie's circle meetings
and warned him of the danger of
allowing simply anyone to attend these.
He supplied further information about the
dangers and problems, and it was agreed
that Leslie sit in Noah's home circle.
Of his meeting with Noah, Leslie
recalls: 'I had been moved by his burning
sincerity and the compassion which urged
him to share his own conviction with
as many people as possible'.(13) Leslie
continued his work in the Mission, and
while sitting with Noah's circle, the
quality of the voice phenomenon improved. By
this time, Mickey was Leslie's guide and
worked with the developing medium to
facilitate the voices. In view of
Leslie's continuing development, Noah Zerdin and
the Committee of the Link decided to
hold a large demonstration in London on 16
May 1935, at Bloomsbury's Victoria Hall,
with Leslie as the medium. Leslie
recalls his deep fears about what faced him, although the voices of
communicators were heard despite his
considerable apprehension. However, it
was found that the light was causing
difficulties and after Leslie was shielded
from these, the voices improved. Noah
suggested that Leslie use a cabinet at
demonstrations in future, with a
microphone on the outside.
The next significant event in Leslie's
life was deciding to move to Hendon, this
being made possible by renting the
property from one of his sitters. And so,
Leslie, Edith, Owen (Edith's son) and
Rags, the family mongrel, moved to
Hendon and another phase in Leslie's
life was about to begin. At the new
location, Leslie's mediumistic work was
now undoubtedly a full-time occupation.
He continued to work with the Link and
give demonstrations in some of the
largest halls in London to which coaches
full of people would come: 'The voices
came and addressed friends and relatives
in the audience to give their proof of
continuing existence and many thousands
were given conviction and their lives
changed for the better'.(14) Some
examples of the evidence given in Leslie's
public demonstrations are detailed by H.
Porten.(15)
In addition to this activity, hundreds
of letters were being sent from all over the
world to Leslie about his mediumship. At
this time it was also attracting attention
from those interested in testing the
phenomena. One of these was Dr Louis
Young who had been a frequent sitter
together with his wife. He had tested, and
exposed, many mediums in America and was
anxious to prove the genuineness
of Leslie's mediumship. Leslie remarks:
'The tests he conducted with me made
fraud impossible'.(16) One of these was
filling Leslie's mouth with coloured water
for the duration of the séance while the
voices manifested themselves and spoke
to the sitters.
In addition to the independent direct
voice phenomenon, Leslie's mediumship
was able to facilitate materializations
who participated in the events of the
séance. In a dim red light: 'These
materialisations were quite firm and solid and
they could be felt as well as seen. They
would move round the circle and
sometimes they would speak to the
members'.(17) Despite this success, it was
discovered that materializations
diminished Leslie's independent direct voice
mediumship and it was decided to
concentrate on the latter. Although his
mediumship was clearly developing, he
admits that it was not always successful;
there would be occasions when sitters
would sit in the dark for an hour or so, and
nothing would occur. One of the many
examples of Leslie's successes was when
Shaw Desmond, an Irish novelist,
attended a séance. Shaw was accompanied
by a woman, although Leslie did not know
the names of either sitter. Shaw's son
spoke to his father at length, and
Valentino spoke with the woman sitter and had
clearly known her at one time. It later
transpired that she had indeed known him:
during the séance she had asked where
they had last met and she later told
Leslie that the communicator's reply was
quite correct.
Furthermore, she advised Leslie that
Valentino was passionately interested in
psychic matters and used to spend much
time discussing the subject. Leslie was
also tested by The Confraternity; he
refers to these people as 'a group of brave
clergyman', i.e. they accepted the possibility of communication through
mediumship.(18) Leslie's sitters also
included those from the royal household. A
sitting was booked by a 'Mrs. Brown and
Mrs. Smith', and good evidence was
supplied, e.g. one of the women spoke
with her late husband. After this, another
communicator spoke and it transpired
from this that the two sitters were attached
to the royal household. By virtue of
their visit, Leslie gave a sitting to John
James, who was steward to Princess
Louise at Kensington Palace. James was
so impressed with the evidence, that he
arranged regular sittings with Leslie to
be held every month. James then received
various messages from different
communicators that were duly passed on
to those members of the royal family
for whom they were intended (Leslie
comments that he waited until all those
concerned had died before giving this
information.(19)) It was not long before
Leslie was invited to Kensington Palace
to speak with the Princess. On arriving
at the Palace, they had a lengthy and
pleasant conversation about survival and
the afterlife.
Shortly after this time, various
countries were becoming caught up in the Second
World War and Leslie noted that he began to have problems with his
mediumship, and he was advised the
reason was because 'the atmosphere
surrounding the earth was so filled with
fear'.(20) As other mediums during this
bleak time, Leslie worked to provide
assurance of survival to those who had lost
their loved ones in the fighting. As
Leslie heard more and more communicators
express their bewilderment and distress
at suddenly being thrust into the next
world, and seeing the grief of those who
mourned, this caused him to reflect. The
result was: 'I made up my mind that when
the time came to stand up and be
counted I would be a conscientious
objector'.(21)
Leslie continued to give sittings, but
eventually the time came when he had to
explain his refusal to fight. Standing
before the panel, Leslie explained that he
was a Spiritualist to which one of the
panel, whom Leslie described as being like
a 'petulant walrus', retorted, 'This
fellow's a crank of some kind'.(22) After much
intense questioning, the President asked
Leslie to provide a brief account of his
beliefs, which he duly did. While Leslie
affirmed his refusal to kill, he stated that
he was fully aware that the war effort
against Nazism was a struggle against evil,
and he would gladly assist his country -
but he would not kill. It was agreed that
Leslie would be called into a
non-combatant role in due course. It was not long
afterwards that Leslie was called up and
went to lfracombe to undergo training.
On his first leave, he returned home for
a sitting arranged by Edith. During this,
an air raid began and many people were
killed nearby. Leslie recalls: 'Mickey at
once returned to speak to us...He went
on to say that hundreds of spirit people
were already at the scene of the
disaster to help the victims over the border
between this life and the next....That
evening, he talked to us very seriously and
as he talked his treble boy's voice
changed its timbre and became more adult,
more cultured, more resonant'.(23) After
the séance, Leslie proposed to Edith
and two days later they were married.
On returning to barracks, Leslie's
presence caused upset as one of the other
non-combatants, a Christian, refused to sleep in the same hut 'as a
necromancer'.(24) However, not all of
Leslie's colleagues adopted this stance. It
was reported how he held circles for
fifty of his army colleagues on a regular
basis although, 'they have to take it in
turns to attend séances because there is
not enough room in the hut for them
all'.(25) On one occasion when Leslie's
colleagues asked him for a demonstration
of his mediumship, he did this, and a
sister of one of the men began to
communicate; however, this was abruptly
ended by a sergeant barging in whereupon
the ectoplasm rushed back, causing
Leslie considerable discomfort. He then
recalled Noah Zerdin's warning years
before and decided never to hold a
séance in such circumstances again. After
moving to a new camp, Leslie felt guilty
about his non-combatant role, and
volunteered for bomb disposal duties and
was moved to Cardiff. When local
Spiritualists discovered that he was
nearby, they asked him to give sittings and
he says that: 'it was a joy to
experience again the satisfaction of giving help and
reassurance to those in need of it'.(26)
After a while, the bomb disposal unit was
disbanded and Leslie returned to London
to undertake different work. He was
therefore able to resume regular séances
both at home and elsewhere. In these,
excellent evidence was forthcoming, some
of which related to parents hearing
from their children who had been killed
while fighting in the war. The next stage
in Leslie's life was, as he says,
'rashly' responding to the call for miners. After a
period of working underground, he
laboured at Liverpool moving crates to be
shipped out of the docks to the forces
overseas. There he remained until V.E
Day.(27)
The war having finished, regular séances
resumed and at one, Air Chief Marshal
Lord Dowding was present. During this, Mickey made himself known and
mentioned a young airman wishing to
speak. He did so and gave his name as
Peter Kite, his address and a message
for his parents: he was particularly
concerned about his mother as the
distress of his death was causing her ill-
health. He then mentioned that he knew
Mr. Turner, one of the sitters, and told
Mr. Turner that he had visited him for
dental work. Leslie remarks: 'None of the
other sitters knew Mr. Turner was a
dentist nor did they know his name. Mr.
Turner said he remembered Peter Kite
coming to him for treatment...but he did
not know he had been killed nor even
that he had joined the R.A.F.'(28)
The airman's parents were contacted and
invited to a séance. Arthur Conan
Doyle was the first to communicate and
took the opportunity to explain to the
parents what had happened to their son,
as they had no knowledge of the
subject. The son then spoke and referred
to practical jokes that he had played on
them before his death and what he had
seen them doing since that date. Leslie
recalls: 'For close on forty minutes the
voice of Peter Kite went on piling
evidential detail on detail, details
trivial in themselves but in the aggregate giving
his parents incontrovertible proof of
his identity and his continued existence'.(29)
One of Leslie's sitters, a Mrs. Barrat,
was so impressed by the evidence that she
received about her son who had been
killed in the war, that she arranged and
paid for sittings for other mothers who
had suffered similar losses. On one
occasion, one of these women did not
arrive and the séance had to begin without
her. A young man's voice then
communicated and asked for his mother, and Mrs.
Barrat recognized the speaker as the son
of the woman who had not arrived. He
then told the sitters that his mother's
train had been delayed and she was sitting
outside the séance room. It was
explained the door could not be opened as this
would allow light inside. Leslie relates
how: 'Then a wonderful thing happened.
As a rule the voices...speak from a
point above my head...but as this spirit spoke
his voice moved right away from me
across the room to the door where he called
loudly for his mother, From outside the
door the mother answered him and the
dead boy and the living mother talked
together through the door'.(30) Another
example of Leslie's spectacular
mediumship shortly after the war was when
Edgar Grant attended a séance and spoke
with his wife, 'for some minutes in a
perfectly ordered and natural manner'.
After this, he recorded that: 'I then felt
fingers take my pen and notebook from my
hand and heard the pen moving
across the paper'. On examining this, he
declared the 'writing obtained at the
séance and his wife's normal handwriting
[before she died] is indisputable'.(31)
Leslie mentions how he was anxious to
provide quality demonstrations to the
public. In one at the Kingsway Hall in
March 1950, Leslie was able to provide
marvelous evidence of survival when a
young man referred to his death by
suicide, giving details of this. Mr.
Shead, a member of the audience recognized
the communicator, a son of a friend,
with whom he had only met a short time
earlier and had mentioned his son's suicide. Shead later said the
information
given by the communicator, 'had been the
same, almost word for word, [as] told
by the father'.(32) This demonstration
also saw various other communicators
recognized by members of the audience,
including instances of sons who had
died in childbirth or killed in the war,
with their mothers.
The pressure of the public
demonstrations had an effect on Leslie's health. In
one article headed 'Voice Medium
Collapses at Public Séance', it recorded how
Leslie had 'collapsed and had to be
carried from the platform': this was at the
Kingsway Hall in July 1950.(33) Nonetheless, Leslie was still able to
demonstrate his mediumship and at one
large public séance at the Kingsway
Hall, he used a specially-designed
cabinet. This was seven feet high and four
feet square. The cabinet was covered in
tarpaulin and the audience could
therefore see all that was happening in
the area outside. In this demonstration,
various communicators spoke and
convinced their loved ones in the audience of
the continuing existence.
It was interesting to note how they
confirmed what is repeatedly stated by
communicators, i.e. they are 'more alive
than ever'. In the case of Jim, a boy,
who spoke to his mother, he confirmed
that he was still very much alive; Mickey
interrupted and said to the mother:
'Jim's a darned sight more alive than you are
lady, I'll tell you!'.(34)
In the course of time, Leslie received
so many requests to demonstrate his
mediumship, that a committee was formed
to deal with the administration and
other related aspects. One of the
members of the committee was the Rev’d
Drayton Thomas, who had, through his
tireless efforts, gained excellent evidence
of survival through the medium, Mrs.
Gladys Leonard, and had also served on
the SPR Council. He was aware that some
were suggesting that Leslie heard the
voices clairaudiently, and then gave the
messages himself through his own
mouth. Thomas therefore arranged a test,
details of which were reported in
Psychic News (14 February, 1948); in
this, a strip of elastoplast was placed over
Leslie's mouth with a scarf then being
tied over this, with cords being used to tie
his hands and restrict head movement. In
this situation, the voices were heard
and 'Mickey emphasized his ability
several times by shouting loudly'. At the end
of the séance, with twelve people
present, the cords and plaster were intact and
had not been disturbed.
A further test was conducted in the
presence of Dr West, the SPR Research
Officer; after Leslie had his mouth
firmly taped with the position of the plaster
marked with a pencil, and his arms
strapped to the chair, the voices manifested
themselves and both Thomas and West held a conversation with the
communicators. Leslie found the
experience to be extremely uncomfortable, i.e.
having great difficulty in breathing,
and he had to cancel appointments for the
next few days in order to recover.
However, West then advised Leslie that as one
of the plasters was not in line with one
of the markings when the test ended, he did
not view the experiment as conclusive: West took responsibility for not
taking
sufficient care in fixing the plaster.
In view of the discomfort experienced,
and the unsatisfactory manner in which
the test had been conducted, Leslie,
understandably, declined West's invitation
to submit yet again. It appears that not
even Leslie was allowed to escape the
muddled and bungling efforts of
researchers, many of whom, throughout much of
the history of physical mediumship, have
continually requested 'more' due to their
lack of care and attention. In time,
Leslie discovered, much to his distress, that
while he originally thought that by
demonstrating his mediumship to scientists
and researchers, they would therefore
join the chorus of those proclaiming
survival, this was not to be: 'All too
soon I learned the hard way that many of
those who call themselves researchers
have immutable values of their own
which preclude belief in...the
possibility of life after death'.(35)
In an attempt to provide irrefutable
evidence of Leslie's mediumship, the Rev’d
Drayton Thomas contacted an electronics
expert who had an interest in psychic
matters and provided various devices to
use that would verify the voices were not
coming directly from Leslie. In the
presence of experienced researchers, Leslie
underwent tests in which his lips were
sealed with plaster, a microphone was
attached to his throat, and there was an
infra-red telescope that allowed the
researchers to monitor the events in the
dark; furthermore, Leslie's hands were
held by the sitter on each side of him.
Leslie reports that the result was: 'Voices
spoke at many of the tests under these
conditions and on more than one
occasion a researcher viewing through
the infra-red telescope was able to see
the ectoplasmic larynx through which the
discarnate speak forming on my left
side some two feet distant from me'. One
of the researchers later wrote to Leslie,
confirming what had happened and saying
this had been 'impressive'.
The actual content of Leslie's
independent voice mediumship was itself indicative
of the external sources responsible: as
he points out, 'literally thousands of
different voices...speaking in different
dialects, in foreign languages unknown to
me'. And this was apart from the 'mass
of personal detail and reminiscence'.(36)
The success of tests made on Leslie is
noted by Guiley: 'Flint was extensively
tested - he called himself "the most
tested medium in England" - but no evidence
of fraud was ever found. The most
dramatic test was done in London and New
York in 1970. Flint's lips were sealed
with plaster, and a throat microphone
showed no evidence of use of his vocal
chords, despite the manifestation of
ghostly voices'.(37) Leslie corroborates
this when he says: 'I have been boxed
up, tied up, sealed up, gagged, bound
and held and still the voices have come to
speak their message of life
eternal'.(38)
Notwithstanding, we nevertheless learn
an important lesson here, relevant at this
time. Leslie graciously submitted to
being monitored through infra-red apparatus,
apart from a host of other modes of
tests, and while no evidence of fraud was
evident, the tests had little or no
effect on scientists and sceptics, and added
nothing meaningful to the field of
knowledge. Yet again, this provides an example
of how the filming, recording and/or
monitoring of mediums has no value, and if
anything only serves to minimize the
phenomena.
The full scope of Leslie's mediumship is
surely demonstrated by the judgments
given by other mediums. Jessie Nason, who supplied so much excellent
evidence to so many people and appeared
on British national television to
demonstrate her ability, attended a
séance with Leslie in 1965. After receiving
remarkable evidence for herself and
witnessing this occurring with others, she
declared Leslie's séance as
'fantastic'.(39)In 1970, Leslie spoke to the Spiritualist
Task Force and referred to how physical
mediums had been 'hounded out' of
Spiritualism. When asked why he had not
suffered the same fate, he replied with
his usual dry humour, saying, 'Perhaps
I'm a little more intelligent and a little
more careful'. He also remarked on one
sad fact that still prevails nearly forty
years later: on commenting on how much
effort and time he had devoted to
developing his mediumship he remarked on how, 'You have to find self-
sacrificing sitters. And believe me, I haven't found many among some
Spiritualists'. He also spoke about the
dangers that sometimes exist and recalled
how someone had once turned on a light
while he was in trance and he was 'ill
for weeks afterwards'.(40)
Leslie's mediumship resulted in him
traveling abroad and this clearly had no
effect on the quality of the evidence
supplied. One example was the séance at
the W. T. Stead Centre in New York when
Mickey announced that a Carl
Schneider wished to speak. None of the
sitters responded, but Mickey was
adamant there had to be someone there
who knew him. One sitter, a Robert
Bolton, spoke up saying that he knew
Schneider, but believed that he was in fact
alive. The communicator nevertheless
spoke and said that he had died a year
earlier; moreover, Bolton recognized the
voice as Schneider's. The following day,
Bolton telephoned the number that
Schneider had given him at an earlier time,
and was told by the person answering
that Schneider had died a year earlier,
having committed suicide. Bolton was so
impressed by the evidence that he
wrote an account of the experience in
Psychic News. Leslie then left New York to
give successful séances and visit
Chicago, Los Angeles and Hollywood; during
which time he was entertained by Mae
West and her husband, and visited
Valentino's grave and placed flowers
there.
Demonstrating that the pain of losing a
loved one is still very much present,
despite an intimate awareness of survival, Edith's death after a lengthy
deterioration in health caused
considerable heartache for Leslie. He recalls that
after the funeral: 'A wave of desolation
swept over me as I realised I had yet to
come to terms with the loss of her
physical presence...I wondered if I could go on
living in a house filled with memories
of past happiness'.(41) Following this, Leslie's guides told him that he would
soon be moving into a flat in central
London, and despite his doubts, a few
months later he was there.
It was at this time that Leslie became
anxious about the pressure being placed
upon him and he decided to retire from
public work. He then gave all his energy
to private séances that continued to be
successful, and often eventful; one was
when a Mr. and Mrs. Newton attended and
Leslie was perturbed that they had
brought an Alsatian dog with them as he
did not allow animals in the séance
room; but he then suddenly realized the
dog was not physically present. When
the séance began, Mr. Newton's father
communicated and said that 'Rex' was
with him and his wife. Leslie records: 'At this point to my surprise and
embarrassment I heard Mr. Newton
sobbing'. It transpired that Mr. and Mrs.
Newton had once had an Alsatian dog
called Rex, and Mr. Newton was deeply
distressed by the circumstances in which
the dog had died. Of the séances, of
which there were a number, when this
type of evidence arose, Leslie states: 'I am
convinced that the love we give to our
animals on this side of life lifts them on to
a higher plane of existence...and that
when we die we shall find them waiting to
greet us'.(42)
Leslie mentions the many séances that he
conducted for George Woods and
Betty Greene. In these, a positive
wealth of information about the post-mortem
existence was revealed. A wide range of
people communicated and no matter
what their background had been, their
statements had remarkable uniformity.
This was made apparent with one
communicator, Rose Hawkins, who had been
a street flower seller before her death
and had an 'earthly voice, strident,
cheerful, with a Cockney twang even more
pronounced than Mickey's. She said:
'You want me to describe our world in
your material language! I don't know which
way to start. I suppose if you could
think of all the beautiful things in your world
without all the things which aren't
pleasant, you'd 'ave a vague notion of what it's
like...The only things you get 'ere is
by character and the way you've lived your
life and how you've thought and
acted'.(43)
In view of the valuable information
imparted when the two were there, Leslie
admits: 'I began to look forward more
and more to my sittings with George
Woods and Betty Greene'.(44) Details of
some of these were detailed by Neville
Randall in his book, Life After Death,
that makes truly fascinating reading as it
records much of the detail provided in a
number of these sittings.(45) The work of
Woods and Greene became public news resulting in Leslie appearing on
television, and having the opportunity
to expound the reality of everlasting life
and the possibility of communication
between the two worlds.
A number of communicators joined the
Woods/Greene séances attempting to
undo the wrong done in their earthly
life: one was Lord Birkenhead who, having
died, realized the immoral nature of
capital punishment that he had once
supported. Leslie records how he 'spoke
eloquently and urgently for almost an
hour on the necessity for the total
abolition of the death penalty'.(46)
Another communicator was George Bernard Shaw. When the tape of his
communication was played to the writer
Laurence Easterbrook, O.B.E, who had
known Shaw for a good number of years,
he declared: 'I found the G.B.S.
recording interesting indeed. The more I
think about it, the more impossible it
seems for none but himself to have been
responsible'. When the tape was played
to George Bishop, the dramatic critic of
the Daily Telegraph, who was a close
friend of Shaw but also someone who had
no interest in the paranormal, he
agreed, 'The mind and the mood are
Shaw's'.(47)
One person who communicated and is
well-known to Spiritualists was Dr Cosmo
Lang, who had been Archbishop of York
and had suppressed the report of a
church commission investigating
Spiritualism; he voiced his regrets regarding his
behaviour. A tape of his communication
was played to Conan Shaw, who had
known Lang and he stated: 'Yes, I have
every confidence it is Dr Cosmo Lang
who is the communicator as he claims to
be on the tape'.(48)
The Rev’d Allan Barham, a member of the
SPR and Churches' Fellowship for
Psychical and Spiritual Studies, wrote
about Leslie and states: 'I have been
present many times at a Leslie Flint
sitting, when voices have spoken which have
been recognised as the unmistakable
expression of the personality of someone -
a relation or friend - who has
died'.(49) It was in fact Barham, who played the
Shaw tape to Bishop, as mentioned above;
he reports that after listening to it,
Bishop 'was deeply moved'.(50)
Despite the well-known personalities who
communicated through Leslie, he
continued to provide evidential séances
to 'ordinary people'. One such instance
was when a Mrs. Dunk attended and Robin,
her son who had died in a car
accident in 1968, communicated. She
noted how he continued using a term of
language about which she always
corrected him before his death. He gave a
considerable amount of personal evidence
about what had happened in the
family since his death, even thanking
his mother for 'the two roses bushes she
had planted in his memory'. Mrs. Dunk's
own mother also communicated and she
reported how the voice was
'unmistakable'.(51)
Following the usual Spiritualist
tradition, Leslie held Christmas tree séances.
One, that took place in 1972, was
described by a sitter, who recounted the usual
dry humour that occurred, e.g. when
Leslie asked Mickey to hurry up, the guide
replied: 'I wish you'd shut up!' A
number of children were able to communicate
successfully and it was noted 'the
voices seemed to be manifesting directly
above the Christmas tree. Occasionally they moved as the spirit children
examined presents' and that, 'the
children's different personalities were marked'.
Then, 'towards the end of the séance,
presents on and under the tree were
thrown about the room. Though the
proceedings took place in pitch darkness,
nobody was hit'. Noteworthy was the fact
that 'Leslie was heard coughing several times while the voices spoke. As
Mickey said, "We've been having
trouble with old Flint lately"'.(52)
A number of NAS members have also
related their experiences when sitting with
Leslie and provided a fascinating insight into the marvelous quality of
his
mediumship.(53) One of the accounts
reveals something of the extent of Leslie's
abilities: George Cranley describes a
Christmas party when numerous children
spoke, each with their distinctive
personality, although this resulted in two of
them arguing over one of the toys:
'Mickey would break in saying, "Ere, pack it in
you two" so that three voices would be
heard simultaneously'.(54) The NAS
Newsletter has also featured a lengthy
interview that took place with Leslie in
1993 concerning his mediumship, and
mediumship in general.(55)
Leslie died on 16 April 1994: previously
the Vice-President, he became the joint
Vice President (in spirit) of the Noah's
Ark Society with Noah Zerdin who
accomplished so much in directing
Leslie's course. A tribute to Leslie appeared in
NAS Newsletter, No. 47, (56) and it is
surely fitting to conclude with the words
included in this: 'For many, Leslie had
the quality of a Columbus, opening for us
the portals into a new world that gave
hope, that enlarged our vision of life, and
deepened our values...He was a rare
soul, who served us well'.
book to read
(1)L. Flint, Voices in the Dark
(London: Macmillan, 1971), p.9.
(2)Flint, Ibid., p.9.
(3)Flint, Op. Cit., pp.10,12.
(4)Flint, Op. Cit., p.14.
(5)Flint, Op. cit., p.15.
(6)Flint, Op. cit., p.25.
(7)Flint, Op. Cit., p.30.
(8)Flint, Op. Cit., pp.32-33.
(9)Flint, Op. Cit., p.35.
(10)Flint, Op. Cit., pp.43,44,45.
(11)Flint, Op. Cit., p.73.
(12)Flint, Op. Cit., p.73.
(13)Flint, Op. Cit., p.85.
(14)Flint, Op. Cit., p.93.
(15)H. Porten, The Miracle on the Wall
(Eastbourne: Porten, 1954),
pp.79-81.
(16)Flint, Op. Cit., p.94.
(17)Flint, Op. Cit., p.95.
(18)Flint, Op. Cit., p.97.
(19)Flint, Op. Cit., p.104.
(20)Flint, Op. Cit., p.108.
(21)Flint, Op. Cit., p.112. (22)Flint, Op. Cit., p.118.
(23)Flint, Op. Cit., pp.125-126.
(24)Flint, Op. Cit., p.128.
(25)Psychic News, 17 January 1942, p.4.
(26)Flint, Op. Cit., p.134.
(27)Flint, Op. Cit., pp.138-139.
(28)Flint, Op. Cit., pp.141-142.
(29)Flint, Op. Cit., p.143.
(30)Flint, Op. Cit., p.145.
(31)Psychic News, 2 March 1946, p.3.
(32)Psychic News, 11 March 1950, p.1.
(33)Psychic News, 22 July 1950, p.1.
(34)Flint, Op. Cit., p.148.
(35)Flint, Op Cit (London: Macmillan,
1971), p.169.
(36)Flint, Op. Cit., pp.168,170.
(37)R. E. Guiley, Harper's Encyclopedia
of Mystical and Paranormal
Experience (San Francisco, CA:
HarperCollins, 1991), p.150.
(38)Flint, Op. Cit., p.169.
(39)Psychic News, 16 October 1965, p.1.
(40)Psychic News, 25 April 1970.
(41)Flint, Op. Cit., p.186.
(42)Flint, Op. Cit., p.190.
(43)Flint, Op. Cit., p.193.
(44)Flint, Op. Cit., p.200.
(45)N. Randall, Life After Death
(Ealing, Corgi: 1980).
(46)Flint, Op. Cit., p.202.
(47)Cit., Flint, Op. Cit., p.205.
(48)Cit., Flint, Op. Cit., p.213.
(49)A. Barham, Life Unlimited (Hythe:
Volturna Press, 1982), p.43.
(50)Barham, Ibid., p.48.
(51)Psychic News, 10 July 1971.
(52)Psychic News, 23 December 1972,
pp.1,8.
(53)NAS Newsletter, No.7, p.9. No.28,
pp.24-25. No.29, p.13. No.52,
pp.18-19.
(54)NAS Newsletter, No.29, p.13.
(55)NAS Newsletter, No.30, pp.12-15.
No.31, pp.6-9. No.32, pp.7-9. No.33,
pp.13-15. No.34, pp.22-23.
(56)NAS Newsletter, No. 47, p.25.
NB. This article appeared in the Ark
Review of April, May and june -98.
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