An Extraordinary Journey: The Memoirs of a Physical Medium

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In a series of experiments in London at the house of William Crookes in February 1875, the medium Anna Eva Fay managed to fool Crookes into believing she had genuine psychic powers.

Mediumship gained popularity during the nineteenth century, when ouija boards were used as a source of entertainment. The Seybert Commission was a group of faculty at the University of Pennsylvania who in 1884–1887 exposed fraudulent mediums such as Pierre L. The defence witnesses described incidents of individuals who appeared, with their speech and actions, which her accuser, Lieutenant Worth, either described differently or could not remember. In a report they claimed that genuine supernatural activity had occurred in the séances, this report became known as the Feilding report.By the mid-1920s the couple were receiving requests for sittings from all over the country, many of which were recorded in the London Spiritualist journal Light. The medium Swami Laura Horos was convicted of fraud several times and was tried for rape and fraud in London in 1901. Channeling Mediumship is much like Spiritual Mediumship, except rather than connecting with many Spirits, the Medium connects with only one spirit or the same group of Spirits time and time again. In a true trance mediumship state, the essence of the spirit communicator will be felt by those watching and listening. The practice is associated with several religious-belief systems such as Shamanism, Vodun, Spiritualism, Spiritism, Candomblé, Voodoo, Umbanda and some New Age groups.

Many infra-red photographs showing the ectoplasmic phenomena not considered good enough for inclusion in Harry Edwards' original book are included here as well as uncropped versions of others showing the sitters in the séances at the time the phenomena occurred.

Some mediums hear as though they are listening to a person talking to them on the outside of their head, as though the Spirit is next to or near to the medium, and other mediums hear the voices in their minds as a verbal thought. Clairvoyance is the ability to see other people’s energy in the form of an aura or fuzzy field of color surrounding them.

The lights were once again turned down and some old melody was sung, Mr Webber's coat was taken off his person, but the ropes around him were found to be still unbroken and the jacket was later found to be upon the lap of a sitter several yards distant from the medium. For this reason, we advise aspiring mediums to begin by developing their psychic awareness, which you will do in our beginner courses. The more skilled a medium is at interpreting these symbols, the more adept they are at delivering meaningfulmessages from Spirit. During the séance a spirit face materialized which Home claimed was the son of Browning who had died in infancy.Evans was later discovered to be a fraud as a cord leading from a device in his hand has indicated that it was himself who triggered the flash-photograph and that all he had done was jump from his chair into the air and pretend he had levitated.

Channeling can be seen as the modern form of the old mediumship, where the "channel" (or channeller) purportedly receives messages from "teaching-spirit", an " Ascended master", from God, or from an angelic entity, but essentially through the filter of his own waking consciousness (or " Higher Self"). After the exposure of the fraudulent use of stage magic tricks by physical mediums such as the Davenport Brothers and the Bangs Sisters, mediumship fell into disrepute. Clairsentience or "clear sensing", is the ability to have an impression of what a spirit wants to communicate, or to feel sensations instilled by a spirit.Physical mediums are believed to produce materialization of spirits, apports of objects, and other effects such as knocking, rapping, bell-ringing, etc.