Exploring Physical Mediumship: Psychic Photos, Spirit Voices, & Materializations

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Sitters can see the form in a surprising amount of detail. Again, detail will depend on the strength and quality of the energy and ectoplasm. In many cases, a clear physical representation of the spirit will emerge and sitters will be able to recognise relatives. This can occur to a high level of detail. There isn’t just a rough approximation where the willing mind of the sitter is forced to fill in the gaps and assumes that it is correct. Some of these materialisations will show facial features, scars and other defects that are true to the relative as they were known to the sitter. If Granddad lost an eye or gained a scar in the war, it is likely to be visible. The diversity and clarity of these materialisations is clear from some of the images that have been captured during sessions. How does transfiguration differ from materialisation?

More recent research, however, has demonstrated that the distinction between the ideal shaman as a controller of the spirits, and the ideal medium as entirely under the control of the spirits, is often blurred. 86 Wilson has also criticised the classically assumed distinction between spirit mediumship and shamanism, and has proposed that spirit mediumship, and in particular Euro-American Spiritualist mediumship, can be thought of as a variety of shamanism, with mediumship development seen as a form of shamanic apprenticeship. 87 Social functionSpirit possession usually performs important social functions, including, for example, enabling marginal groups to protest, and for making important community decisions. Although many saints have been mediums, mediumship is not a badge of spirituality or saintliness. It’s just a quirk of certain peoples’ mental nature. Many of the prophets were mediums – some were also rogues! Most, then as now, were just human. The reason that ‘God’ favoured the prophets was that he could communicate with them, because they had the mediumistic ‘quirk’. The form that many people immediate think off is the figure floating or walking around a room. Some believe it to be the spirit appearing in the Earth plane when called by the sitter. The reality of the experience is a little different, as there is that medium acting as the channel between the two planes. The spirit does not leave the spirit plane and materialise in the room entirely of its own free will. Instead, it communicates with the sitter via that higher frequency, manipulates the etheric energy and forces the ectoplasm to leave the body via one of the measures mentioned above. In the most extreme cases, this is seen in full materialisation of the form. In others, there a moment of transfiguration. What is materialisation?

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Our concept of the ASC is, therefore, built upon this foundational perception of a generalized productive waking consciousness. ASCs from this perspective are modes of experiencing the world through forms of consciousness different to our ‘everyday waking consciousness’. Of course there is a wide range of these alternate modes of consciousness, including everything from early morning drowsiness and caffeine rushes to dreams, trances, ecstasies and psychedelic states.

To bring about a spiritual awakening within the recipient of the message. Once the fact of spirit life is assured, the implications should be clear as to the way we need to live our lives here – not in the context of three score years and ten, but in the setting of eternity. Spiritualism offers a rational philosophy to complete its unique offering. 3When I sat for the spirit world, guidance was given that it would be unwise at this moment of my unfoldment to interfere by bringing modern technology into the sanctuary of my home circle. Bourguignon, E. Bellisari, A. & McCabe, S. (1983). ‘Women, Possession Trance Cults, and the Extended Nutrient-Deficiency Hypothesis.’ American Anthropologist, Vol. 85, No. 2, pp. 413-416. More recent research has focused on the therapeutic potential of mediumship practices for the bereaved, especially in the Western context. 24 Psychoanalytic Interpretations