In parapsychology, mediums are people who have the gift of making contact with the inhabitants of the other world, who are considered souls or energy-informational essences of deceased people.
Not every person who claims to be a medium is actually one. There are very few real mediums. You can distinguish them by one very simple feature: a real medium can communicate such information that he could not have known before.
News from the subtle world from Vanga
Orthodox science categorically denies this phenomenon. But real life confirms it.
The famous Bulgarian seer Vanga was also a very powerful medium. “I can see the silhouettes of those people who have died a long time ago, and even what they are wearing - but as if through the water column,” she said. "They come on their own, because for them I am the gateway to this world … When a person comes to me, his deceased relatives gather around, ask me questions and answer themselves, and I only tell the living what I heard."
Here is what the famous Soviet writer Sergei Mikhalkov told about one of such cases: “On August 22, 1979, I wrote:“For several days now, I have been impressed by visiting Vanga … I arrived in Petrich at 11 am, accompanied by an interpreter. Vanga was warned of my arrival, was waiting for me in a small room - the reception, sitting on a couch covered with a carpet.
- Oh, this Russian will live a long time! - Wang exclaimed when I crossed the threshold of the room. This exclamation alone took the tension off me …
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- I see your mother, - said Wang. - She is behind you, she is angry with you for the fact that you stopped celebrating your birthday. You should definitely celebrate your birthday. This is your lucky number. - (I really did not celebrate the day for two years in a row
birth.) - Your sister is here now …
“I don’t have a sister,” I said.
- I see her, - Wang repeated.
- I have no sister…
- Who, then, is this little girl? - Wang exclaimed irritably. - It's your sister!
And I remembered that I really had a sister who died at the age of five …"
In the same year, 1979, the famous actor Vyacheslav Tikhonov met with Vanga. As soon as he crossed the threshold of her house in Petrich, the clairvoyant unceremoniously told him: “Why didn't you fulfill the wish of your best friend Yuri Gagarin? Before his last flight, he came to your home and said: “I have no time, so you yourself buy an alarm clock on my behalf and keep it on your desk. Let this alarm clock remind you of me."
After these words, Vyacheslav Vasilyevich had a heart attack. Indeed, Tikhonov and Gagarin were friends. When Gagarin died, the famous actor was very upset by the death of a friend and completely forgot about the alarm clock that he promised to buy.
Even more interesting is the story of the meeting with Vanga of Academician Natalya Petrovna Bekhtereva, who for many years headed the Institute of the Brain in Leningrad: “She is blind, her face is twisted, but as you look at her, her face seems more and more attractive, pure, sweet, although at first she was unhappy with me … “Why did you come? What do you want to know? " “Nothing special,” I replied. - I wanted to meet you. I am researching the properties of the human brain, and I wanted to talk to you myself. " - "For science, then yes."
After a pause, Vanga leaned back in her chair, muttered something dissatisfied (it seems about science) and suddenly leaned slightly to the left, her face became interested: “Now your mother has come. She's here. He wants to tell you something. And you can ask her."
Knowing that Vanga often speaks about the dissatisfaction of relatives who have gone to another world, that they are angry because of the children's inattention to their graves, I, expecting the same answer, told Vanga that my mother was probably angry with me. (Mom died in 1975, I was with Vanga in 1989. After my mother’s death, I only went to her grave for five years in a row.) Vanga listened, listened and suddenly said: “No, she’s not angry with you. It's all disease, she says, it's all disease. " And then, at the same time showing me with my own hands: “She had such a paralysis … Mother has two requests to you: go to the monks and order to be remembered. To the monks. " - “In Leningrad? I asked. - In Moscow?" - "No, to the monks." - "In Zagorsk?" - “Yes, yes, Zagorsk. And the second request - go to Siberia. " - "Forever and ever? When? Where?" - “Where told you, to Siberia. Not forever. When? You yourself will understand, soon. " - “And what is this - Siberia? - (Vanga laughs.) - City? A place?" - “Yes, I have no one in Siberia. And why am I going there? " I say. Wanga: “I don’t know. Mother asks."
Quite unexpectedly, upon arrival in Leningrad, I received an invitation to Siberia to read about my grandfather, academician V. M. Bekhterev …"
Natalya Petrovna finished her story as follows: “There are a lot of people who claim to be able to see the past, present and future. It is not my task to evaluate them, to compare them, or to separate the pure from the unclean, the true prophets from the charlatans. It was important for me to see a person whose special properties have really passed the test of time … Vanga's example absolutely convinced me that there is a phenomenon of contact with the dead. Vanga talked to my late mother, mentioning facts known only to the two of us …"
What to do with common sense
Since it is impossible to tell about all mediums, here are just a few examples from the 20th century. And let's start with American Arthur Ford. For four decades, he demonstrated the phenomenon of informational communication with people about whom it is reliably known that they have died. Moreover, sometimes he conducted his sessions on television in front of millions of witnesses.
Fame came to Ford in 1929. He learned that the famous American illusionist Harry Houdini, who did not believe in mediums and was engaged in exposing them, before his death in 1926 agreed with his wife Bess that he would try to send her a message from the other world: "Rosabella, believe." It will be conveyed in cipher words that they used in showing the mind reading trick at a distance. Moreover, Houdini promised a reward of 10 thousand dollars to the medium who will transmit this encoded message.
In January 1929, medium Arthur Ford, in a trance state, said: "Rosabella, answer, say, I beg … answer, look, tell, answer … answer, tell." Then he spelled the words that meant "Rosabella, believe." Shocked Bess confirmed their correctness.
The future famous medium during the First World War was drafted into the army and ended up in France. There, Ford showed extrasensory abilities: when his company got to the forefront, Arthur discovered that he had the gift of hearing the names of soldiers who would die within the next few days and appear on the lists of victims. Moreover, their names were in exactly the same sequence as he wrote down for himself the day before.
After the war, Ford began to study parapsychology and in 1921 began speaking in public sessions as a telepath. He received sealed envelopes with notes and unmistakably read what was written in them. Once during such a session in 1924, Arthur fell into a trance and, to the surprise of the audience, slowly spoke in a strange voice, often stumbling. Moreover, he did not disclose the contents of the notes, but spoke about something incomprehensible.
This state began to take possession of Ford every time he tried to read other people's thoughts in public. For example, Arthur would ask, "Is there someone named Melton John in the audience?" When the man raised his hand, he said, "Your brother Albert is here now." The man said he never had a brother, Albert, but Ford insisted, giving convincing details. In the end, the viewer recalled that he had a brother, Albert, who died in early childhood.
“I had not yet learned how to control a trance, but I already knew that it was a kind of semi-hypnotic waking state in which I could describe the invisible present and receive from them something that they wanted to convey to the participants of the session … The generally accepted 'common sense' of my time could not explain what is really happening to me, - later recalled Ford.
Soon he realized that he had turned into a medium, and during public sessions he began to establish informational contact with specific deceased people whom he was named.
“For some time, from the moment when I first discovered with alarm for myself that my body could be used for a kind of telephone communication with the“other world”, I could not be quite sure every time that my next session would really take place - says Ford. - People in the "disembodied sector" of the spectrum of being are in all respects similar to the people of our world: they remain people. If they want, they will come; if they want, they will not come. Indeed, they often did not show up for a call.
Skeptics argued that Ford, when establishing contacts with the dead, uses his telepathic gift and receives reliable information directly from the brains of those people with whom he contacts. However, the facts refute this. The medium revealed to the man that his friend had acquired an oil-bearing area for joint ownership, but did not manage to complete all the documents, as he died from a gangster's bullet. We contacted the previous owner, who confirmed the legality of the transaction. The case was considered in court, which recognized this person as the owner of the purchased land.
“My own experience over the last forty years of my life has left me no alternative so that I could challenge the continued existence of a person's personality after his death. Day and night, for forty years, I have lived amid incontrovertible evidence of this phenomenon,”writes Arthur Ford in his book Life After Death.
A cure for fear?
One of the first mediums who actively collaborated with scientists in the study of this phenomenon was the Englishman Leslie Flint. He was born in London in 1911 and at the age of seven found that in many ways he did not resemble his peers, because he saw the ghosts of dead people.
Subsequently, Leslie worked hard to develop his psychic gift. In 1935 he gave his first public performance and soon became a fairly well-known medium. Up to 2,000 spectators gathered for his performances, who were invariably shocked by the communication with the spirits of the dead that took place before their eyes.
From this time on, Leslie Flint actively collaborated with scientists. It has been studied by psychologists, psychiatrists, parapsychologists, computer scientists and electronics specialists and many other researchers. The medium's mouth was taped with adhesive tape and a microphone was attached to his throat to detect possible vibration of his vocal cords. But for more than half a century of practice, Flint has never been convicted of fraud.
Beginning in 1946, George Woods provided invaluable help, and in 1953, Betty Green joined him. During seances they recorded on a tape recorder the voices of the "spirits" with which Leslie established a communication channel. Then Woods and Green copied the tapes and provided them to everyone. On these cassettes, the voices of ordinary people sounded, telling about their transition to another world.
But there were also recordings of audio contacts with famous personalities such as Shakespeare, Frederic Chopin, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Mahatma and Indira Gandhi. Moreover, Chopin said that he writes music in the next world. Bernard Shaw and Shakespeare admitted this: they, too, continue to work after death.
Aviation pioneer Aimee Johnson complained that she could no longer indulge in her favorite pastime - flying an airplane.
In 1956, the medium managed to "call in contact" the famous English actress Ellen Terry, who died in 1928. In her well-known voice to many people, with distinct diction and intonation, without hesitation and stops, she uttered a rather long monologue:
“You have a great opportunity to communicate with us. And I advise you to maintain these contacts and use them regularly to strengthen this communication channel. The tapes on which you record the voices of the dead give us the opportunity to connect with many people in different parts of the world … We will give you the opportunity to hear the voices and stories of deceased people who were involved in a variety of activities during their lifetime. We really need volunteers from your side."
This message says that information about events in our earthly world goes to those who dwell in the subtle world.
Over the years of his psychic practice, Leslie Flint, who died in April 1994, hosted several thousand people in his London home who wanted to hear "otherworldly" voices. In the vast majority of cases, the medium gave them this opportunity. And they left in full confidence that they had communicated with their relatives and friends, who had passed to another world and were there in "complete health."
Summing up, we can say that mediums prove one fact: the soul, or the energy-informational essence of a person can stay outside his body. However, contacts of mediums with the departed do not provide any information about the nature of the immaterial world and about the further state or conditions of the soul's existence after death. As Arthur Ford said, the whole mission of mediums like himself is to "use all the special gifts given to me to eliminate forever the fear of death from earthly minds."