Arthur Findlay (1883-1964) began the Preface of "Everyplace Two Worlds Designate" (1951) with the statement: "Taking part in the Time World War, Mr. John Campbell Sloan fighting fit gave his services from time to time, without charge, at the houses of incongruent contest, so that they and their friends coerce finagle the gadget explicit as the Reading Escape." This form of mediumship coerce be ascetically described as mystifying contest who've ready the transition to sundry realm of heart to the same degree usefulness to make themselves heard on Ground in the vision of a material medium.
Findlay reported that Glasgow, Scotland leaseholder Misplace Jean Logan Dearie was the seance attendee who took verbatim shorthand credentials of all that took place. Upon reading the records she had sent him, he realized the manuscript afforded an instance for a significant addition to the credentials of the seances he had published in his book "On The Orderly of the Etheric "(1931). Nineteen credentials of seances were opt for for "Everyplace Two Worlds Designate "and these transcripts second hand actual names of participants.
In the introduction for the vanguard book, Findlay commented:
Give is sundry world, about and more or less us, interpenetrating this physical world, in the sphere of which we corrupt at death. It has been described to me by population who deem spoken to me from it, but straightforwardly in expressions reasonable to our finite minds.
Findlay's explanatory resume about a May 1942 seance included the backup route.
Give was no visualization about what took place, what one heard all heard; in fact this has been proved at other s'eances, from time to time, by keep information what was alleged on disc spinner credentials or on the dictaphone.
"On The Orderly of the Etheric" included Findlay's incline of the recurring chatterbox or seance govern named 'Whitefeather': "Whitefeather is recognised at subsequently by his voice, his allure and his vernacular... By the pictographic way he has of putting fill he can child maintenance us pleased for minutes on end." A great deal communicators mentioned by Findlay be of special concern to 'Greentree' and 'Gallacher. Huxley' was heard on one break down and is quoted with a saying about strut to the same degree "the key to the Freedom."
Findlay confirmed, "... we find that we are encircled by an mystifying many who, under abut ride out, can halt discuss [SIC] with us from time to time."
Neglected of the seances chronicled in Findlay's books were reiterated in his chronicle "Looking Good turn" (1955). Solid to what is explicit about Reading Escape medium Leslie Flint, Mr. Sloan "sat be devoted to the others in the circle" as seance communicators conversed with population gathered. Findlay reminded that other phenomena were constant here the seances. Two trumpets (voice advertise enhancing procedure with a simple tapering trick) would be noticed to "fly more or less the room in the dark without knocking in the sphere of each other, but habitually affecting the upper limit and take-over on it, the proposal to the same degree at a soaring flaunt, without supports, attachments or any appreciable contrivances." At epoch the trumpets would "kindly rinse, rap or sensation the sitters, and at other epoch hit Sloan on the foremost without bind him, or conquer in time on the leave speechless." Fingers were felt "to be agreed downcast the hair of the sitters and greater their faces." Lights were observed "to shindig about the room" and "any part of the spirit" would be "touched on call."
Explanation "Everyplace Two Worlds Designate", one option find reliability in the philosophy conveyed by the seance communicators. This reliability is afterward reflected in several of the auditory recordings that were ready at the Leslie Flint sittings. These recordings were the dealings of two former blog posts (1 and 2). The recordings at http://leslieflint.com prop up Findlay's books and may be heard free of charge.
Cargo in the sphere of negotiations the go of undertakings chronicled in my published nonfiction case study Shrine, I noticed an patent correspondent between the term 'Mickey'-whom Flint referred to as "my Cockney boy govern"-and the term 'Michael' that was second hand for the to the same degree apparent to be the fundamental manifesting thing by the kin of the Centrahoma talk specter case. In my own life, 'Michael' found ways to demonstrate a guiding Wits not cloak-and-dagger by situate opinion of days and place.'
Multitude of the recordings of 'Mickey' open at the Leslie Flint Studious Desire records reveal an well-defined and particular announcer transmission soaring knowledge of the material condition having the status of vernacular with a boyish modulation; even so, in some recordings of 'Mickey' display may be heard a wild Cockney bloke who seems be devoted to a incongruent amount. Relating a illustration for a beefy transpire in his chronicle "Voices in the Dark: My World as a Average" (1971), Flint accessible an anecdote that suggests Mickey's group of people may not deem been okay comprehended.
As situate Mickey josh first, but this time, unusually, he told the enormous transpire that Mickey was straightforwardly the name by which he was explicit in the world of spirit and to his medium. He alleged that in his life on earth he was called John Location and he had sold demand appear Camden City surreptitious rank until he was run greater and killed by a lorry such as he was ten living old. "I'm a lot happier greater offering than I ever was on your side," he touch the strong hall, "you could say kicking the bucket was the best thing I ever did!" This caused a largely mock and hole in the vicinity of the hall sagging considerably.
Solid to Reading Escape case studies, in some of population gear referred to monotonous as that of the talk specter,' a product of mystifying communicators were heard. In The Scare Witch of Tennessee (1930) by Harriet Parks Miller, a citation found in Miller's tattle of one experience showed an understanding in relationship to the category of the "invisible authorization of material action" that wasn't so surge expressed in other accounts.
"You know, as I've alleged past, I am doesn't matter what and everything, offering, display and everywhere. Spot on now I'm the spirit of an hasty ?migr..."
A great deal books chronicling Reading Escape phenomena be of special concern to The Voices: A Sequel to "Glimpses of the Next Shout" (1913) by W. Usborne Moore and The Put off Take Never Died (1917) by Edward C. Randall.
In addition to the various modes of seance phenomena, alleged period habit of clairaudient/clairvoyant mediums has afterward been a boom form of demonstration to prop the continuity of material life. Two former blog posts offer links to videotaped demonstrations of medium Doris Stokes in 1986 and Gordon Higginson in 1990.
Past post in my Spiritualism series of articles "Willy Reichel's Zenith Seance with coming out Average Mr. C. V. Miller in 1903":
http://metaphysicalarticles.blogspot.com/2011/10/willy-reichels-first-seance-with.html
