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Hi Rasputin and Eddie,
I haven’t been on the forum for a while for various reasons, but was ‘catching up’ a bit last night and saw your post. ...
Now ... this is going to be a long one, so kick off your shoes, make a cup of coffee, Eddie - nip out for a smoke, etc., etc.,
In the 1990s we sat in some physical séances where Stewart Alexander was the Medium. I certainly experienced some very interesting things, which would not convince a sceptic in the slightest!
One of the problems with ‘prooving’ physical Mediumship is that physical séances usually take place in the dark. You may know that an accepted reasoning for this is that ‘ectoplasm’ produced by the medium and often also by the sitters, is harmed by ‘white light.’
In these physical séances with Stewart Alexander a few things stick in my mind. At one of the séances I was positioned in the back row of two rows, on the end, nearest to where Stewart was sitting. (We were sort of arranged in a horseshoe shape with the open bit of the horseshoe where the Medium was sitting) During the séance a figure had apparently materialised – I say apparently at this stage because I couldn’t see anything – it was pitch dark. Then I felt my hands stroked by what felt like a young child’s hands. There was certainly no room between my knees and the chair in front for a person to stand. I think I would have been aware if the person in front had stood up, as it was very quiet, and their chair was actually touching my knees. Neither a child nor indeed an adult could have reached over the person in front and touched my hands in my lap without being a contortionist, or the person in front of me being aware of this. Of course, this isn’t actually proof, as the person in front of me could have stood up, or they could have been ‘in on it’ in some way. I will say that I knew and trusted them and trusted that wasn’t the case – but I accept that my trust is not actual proof! ‘They’ then moved on to Paul who was sitting on my right. First they traced their finger gently along his moustache and then picked up his hands – he could feel the tiny fingers and even the nails. We were both sure that no-one was leaning across over the front row, and certainly no physical body had climbed over me to get to Paul. As an experiment when we got home we tried to recreate the ‘moustache tracing’ in complete darkness to see how easy it was. It was actually a lot more difficult than I expected. I tried to trace his moustache with my finger whilst standing in front of him. After several attempts we weren’t successful – but I did poke him in the eye, and give him a sore nose!!
Another incident was at a separate séance in Dorset. We were in a large cellar, (probably about 30 feet long) and above us the central heating pipes ran along below the cellar ceiling – approx 18 inches down, with several pipes running alongside each other and at different heights. The ceiling was very high – it’s quite a few years ago but I would guess around 12 feet. The article you linked to mentioned the trumpets moving. On this occasion there were two aluminium trumpets (for anyone who doesn’t know these are not actual trumpets – they are a bit like a large cone, made of aluminium – probably around 18 – 20 inches high). They had luminous tape around the bottom and the top – the idea being that you charge up the tape by holding it under a light before you start, and you can then see the two lines of tape once the lights are out. The trumpets often move, and are used to direct the voice of the Spirit to a sitter – sort of like a funnel you could say. The reflective tape on the trumpets showed them lifting off the table they were on, and initially sort of swaying to the classical music which was playing gently. They gradually got faster and higher, and eventually they were weaving in and out of the area where the pipe-work was above us, and weaving around each other at the same time – sometimes incredibly fast, other times ‘dancing’ – they sort of reminded me of dolphins (although that is a bit poetic I know!) At one point they stopped ‘dead’ – no pun intended! While they hovered in the air you could see from the glow of the tapes the edge of the pipe next to them. They then nipped through the gaps between the ceiling and the pipe-work, and started the ‘dancing’ again. Several times they sped from one end of the cellar to the other – crossing past each other in the middle. They occasionally moved down and tapped people lightly on the head – I think that Alan Crossly, who is mentioned as a Spirit in the report, was one of them, although he was living at that point. When this happened you could hear the noise of the trumpet hitting their head! Before the séance started Stewart Alexander had been tied in his chair with cable ties and masking tape over the cable ties that had been signed by one of the sitters. He also had some of the luminous tape on his knees to indicate where he was. At the end of the séance when the lights were raised, his jumper was folded neatly by his feet, and the cable ties and tape still intact.
So, is this proof of Physical Mediumship? Well I have to lay my cards on the table and say that I am a ‘believer’ but those who know me will testify that I am not prone to attacks of the vapours, and I have also sat in my fair share of séances with supposed physical mediums where nothing of any consequence (in my opinion) has happened, and where I have sadly been convinced the person was deluding themselves. The trumpet movement was hard to explain – the way that the trumpets moved in and out of the pipes was fascinating, and I can not see how this could effect could have been reproduced by other means. I did wonder about lasers – but apparently there would be a visible light source, and there was none, and a laser would not tap you on the head! They certainly weren’t on long poles, strings, elastic or magnets! So I would have to conclude that ‘something happened.’ Does it prove that a discarnate Spirit source caused it to happen? Well even as a believer I would have to acknowledge that by itself it doesn’t actually prove the existence of Spirit – even if we could categorically prove that the trumpets moved totally independently of any other physical means, by itself it doesn’t prove that Spirit moved them. There were other things that happened in both séances with people receiving accurate messages, and for me, this is more ‘proof’ of the survival of a spirit than the trumpet moving. At the time, and still now, I am of the opinion that the séance was genuine. However I acknowledge that my opinion is not proof.
This isn’t an answer as such to your question, just my observations.
Regards,
Pat
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