Communication with the afterlife
Since the middle of the 19th century, an epidemic of ghost vision has appeared all over the world. Many of the famous scientists, writers and politicians, and there is no need to talk about ordinary people, began to stubbornly claim that they see strange extranatural creatures - ghosts or simply spirits of dead acquaintances or complete strangers. People-mediums began to appear, learning to summon spirits at will, and in the presence of the public. This kind of phenomenon has received various names - spiritualism, poltergeist, ghost vision, vision of ghosts or ghosts, etc.
Belief in such phenomena is based on the fact that most people believe in life after death, believe in transmigration of souls, karma and reincarnation, believe in "parallel worlds", "fourth dimensions", etc.
The founders of spiritualism are the sisters Focke, Kat and Margaret, who lived with their family in the North American city of Haydeville, New York.
1948, March 31 - 15-year-old Margaret and 12-year-old Kat at night suddenly heard a rather strange noise and some kind of knocking signals in their house. The sisters were not frightened, but decided to answer the invisible creature with a knock. And suddenly they heard the answer. Then the sisters came up with a knock code and established a signal connection with the invisible one. Soon the sisters learned that they were being tapped by "the spirit of Mr. Silitfoot," who was once killed in their house, as the parents said.
The younger sisters in the morning told everything to their older 34-year-old sister Lie. And the next day the whole district knew about what happened in the Fox house. And soon all of America began to engage in establishing contacts with spirits. In speed, the fashion for communication with the other world has rolled over to Europe. When she reached Russia, a special commission was created under the leadership of the great Russian scientist D. I. Mendeleev, who was instructed to deal with this incomprehensible and mysterious otherworldly phenomenon. DI Mendeleev after lengthy experiments and studying the essence of the problem came to the conclusion that all the facts of contacts with spirits, etc. - all this is nothing more than a game of imagination!
However, all over the world, facts began to be discovered that spirits, in addition to tapping, are capable of rotating tables, moving objects, writing letters, appearing in the form of ghosts, talking and setting fire to various objects, etc. In the end, circles for spiritualism began to appear everywhere, where mass sessions of communication with spirits were held …
A contemporary of the Focke sisters, Andrew Jackson Davis, the Poughkeepsie Sage, lived in New York State. Being poorly educated, he nevertheless wrote puffy works on philosophy and other sciences, explaining that in a state of trance he was talking with great thinkers of the past, such as the Greek physician and philosopher Galen (130-201 BC) or Swedish mystic Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772). In 1847, he published The Sacred Revelations of Nature, in which he argued for the existence of life after death.
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Weir Mitchell, President of the American Medical Association, said: “One day after work I lay down on my bed to rest and read. A blizzard broke out on the street. Suddenly the bell rang at the front door. Who could it be at such a late hour? I got up, put on my robe and went down to the hall. Outside the door was a strange girl, dressed very lightly for winter time - she was without a coat, only in a green dress and a Scottish shawl: “My mother is very ill. She needs urgent help. I beg you, come with me and help my mother! The girl asked tearfully. I agreed, dressed quickly, and together we set off through a blizzard towards the poor neighborhoods. They walked in silence, eventually came to a small house, entered, and I saw on the bed a seriously ill middle-aged woman who was in a critical state of severe pneumonia.
After examining the patient, I turned to the girl to ask for another blanket for my mother, but there was no one else in the room. Only on the back of the wardrobe were her green dress and shawl, which should have been wet after the blizzard, but they were dry. "These are my daughter's clothes!" The patient said to me. "But where is she?" I asked. Then the patient began to cry and replied: "My daughter has died for a month already!" I was even more surprised, because for the first time I encountered with my own eyes an incomprehensible and mysterious phenomenon …”.
1930, October 4, evening - the 237-meter R-101 airship, the largest in the world, left England for its first non-stop flight to India. On board, as an inspector, was the Air Force Secretary of England Lord Thomson, who, like many at the time, believed that the future of the air force of the fleet would be in the airship.
Over the English Channel, the airship suddenly got into a gusty wind, the weather turned badly, and on October 5 at 2 hours 5 minutes the "R-101" being watered by pouring rain fell on a wooded hillside near the French town of Beauvais. A few seconds later, 142,000 m3 of hydrogen filling the airship's cylinders ignited, killing 48 of the 54 people on board.
Two days later, at a session of spiritualism at the National Laboratory for the Paranormal in London, the female medium Eileen Garrett (1893-1970) tried to establish contact with the spirit of the recently deceased Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, known for his spiritual addictions. Suddenly she began to speak in a staccato male voice full of anguish: "Engines are at the limit.. lift is falling.., check the oil line …" A mysterious voice from another world listed more than 40 malfunctions in the systems of the R-101 airship that led to the disaster. Moreover, technical details were mentioned that went far beyond the limits of Mrs. Garrett's modest knowledge of aeronautics.
"The Voice" introduced himself as "Irwin". It probably belonged to Air Fleet Lieutenant Irwin Carmike, one of the P-101 officers who died in the crash. In the following sessions, "Irwin" through Eileen Garrett answered the questions of aeronautics specialists, and although not everyone believed that they were talking to the deceased pilot, everyone nevertheless admitted that Mrs. Garrett could not have mastered the enormous special terminology of the airship design and operation so quickly. But what is most striking, the official investigation of the R-101 death, carried out in 1931, officially confirmed that all the facts reported by Irwin were correct.
Even more surprising, Irwin's wife and himself knew that Irwin would die. Irwin's wife, when she heard about the disaster, said: "We both knew that Irwin would not return." Another family, the family of the deceased mechanic Walter Radcliffe, also had a premonition of the R-101 disaster. Before leaving, his little son suddenly began to cry heavily and lament: "I no longer have a dad." There were many other premonitions and incredible coincidences. The R-101 disaster is similar in its mysteriousness to the Titanic crash, where surprising and inexplicable facts of communication with the otherworldly reality were also revealed.
Some mediums use a special tablet - a small wooden frame with wheels and a hole for a pencil, reminiscent of a recorder carriage. The result can be the most unexpected: from meaningless scribbles to coherent messages, often written in a handwriting that clearly does not belong to a medium. Their content, as a rule, turned out to be very vague, but sometimes there were lengthy descriptions of the afterlife, clearly beyond the scope of the literary gifts of the medium. There were even works of dead writers and composers, etc., which these authors did not have time to write during their lifetime, but now tried to transmit them to our world. So, for example, it took the Brazilian medium Chico Xavier 50 years to rewrite books dictated to him by dead writers. Over the years, he has accumulated more than 100 volumes. Moreover, the not too educated Xavier complained that he understood little about them.
In "automatic writing" sessions, mediums often work not only beyond their own knowledge, but also at incredible speed. There are cases when a medium recorded several texts at the same time: the priest Stainton Moses (1839-1892) reproduced two messages simultaneously with both hands, and in different languages! Moses repeatedly witnessed strange knocks, levitation, telekinesis and other inherent phenomena of a session with spirits during his sessions.
One of the most mysterious types of "automatic writing" should be considered the "principle of co-authorship", when two different mediums, independently of each other, receive different parts of the same work. For example, when Chico Xavier wrote The Evolution of Two Worlds, only the odd chapters of this book came out from under his hand. Soon, the spirits told him to contact Dr. Waldo Vieir, who confirmed that he "receives" all the other missing chapters of this book from the same spirit. Rosemary Brown, a housewife from London, is fruitfully communicating with the spirits of the great composers - Beethoven, Liszt and others. At the beginning of her career as a "spiritual mediator," Rosemary played tunes on the piano, leaving her hands to the "souls of deceased musicians", but over time she switched to "automatic writing."In her usual state, Brown is not able to compose music, but in a trance she writes it easily and in large quantities, each time in the style of the composer with whom she has "spiritual contact."
There are many mediums in the world who regularly receive "new" works from late artists and writers. The phenomenon of unconscious or automatic art is possible only thanks to the exceptional ability of mediums to "give" their hands to the "alien will" with which they came into contact, often not even in a trance state.
1970 - English teenager Matthew Manning, born in 1955 as a result of premature birth due to an electric shock from his mother, discovered the ability to "automatic painting". All he had to do was concentrate on the personality of some great artist, from Leonardo da Vinci to Beatrice Potter, so that he could immediately start painting in the style of this master with great speed and without preliminary sketches. “It's not mine - I just turn on the energy.” “Maestro of Trance” Luis Gasparetto from Brazil makes “spiritual painting” with even greater speed, often two paintings at the same time, working with both hands and using his legs. He can do this work with his eyes closed and even hanging upside down. British television made a film about him, during which he wrote 21 pictures of the "new" Renoir, Cézanne and Picasso in 75 minutes. Curious,that without a trance, Luis Gasparetto cannot paint at all, and in a trance he is able to create highly professional paintings in more than 30 different styles. Louis complained about the spirit of Picasso that from time to time he was so temperamental “that he rips the paper prepared for the session from the easel.” 1905 - jeweler Frederick Thomson from America felt a strong desire to paint a landscape that suddenly appeared in his mind's eye. A year later, Thomson visited an exhibition of works by the late artist Robert Gifford and suddenly heard Robert's “inner voice”: “You saw what I did. Maybe you can help me finish my work? " Later it turned out that the landscapes painted by the jeweler actually existed on earth, although they were not known to him, but they were well known to Robert Gifford, who, however,never wrote one before.
1882 - the world's first official scientific Society for Psychical Research was created in London, and already in 1886, the founders of this Society, E. Gerney, F. Myers and others, published in London a book: "Lifetime Ghosts", in which researchers have placed more than 600 cases of meetings with spirits and ghosts.
The word "poltergeist" was first used on May 5, 1713 in the house of the German Berthold Gerstmann from Dortmund, when noisy communication with spirits took place in his house for 25 days. Someone threw stones into the house, inside the spirits broke all the dishes. Objects flew strangely through the rooms, household items and cupboards moved by themselves. Strange knocks and voices were heard … Since this spirit behaved incredibly noisy and scandalous (in addition to everything, it also cursed, tore the owners' clothes, etc.), it was decided to call it a separate term - “noisy spirit” or “poltergeist".
1914 - in St. Petersburg, a book by the famous English researcher "Research in the field of human psyche" was published, in which the author talked about many cases of noisy behavior of some spirits.
In the middle of the 20th century, the most famous perfume researcher was the Englishman Harry Price (1881-1848), who published the results of his research on perfume in two books - The Most Restless House in England (1940) and Poltergeist Over England (1945.). And after his death, Price began to appear in the form of a ghost to many researchers and in different countries.
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