In The History of Spiritualism, Arthur Conan Doyle (by the way, Doctor of Law, Medicine and President of the British College of Psychiatry) testified to the receipt of such a cast by the medium William Denton. Experiments are also mentioned by other mediums who made casts and plaster casts on them.
William Okeley from Manchester obtained a cast of hands with wrists so narrow that "it was obvious that the wax shackles could only be left by dematerialization." This session was held for scientists, and it was attended by such well-deserved scientific figures as Maxwell, Lombroso, Flammarion. On it, Dr. Crookes (who won the gold medal for his scientific works) took forty-three photographs.
Similar experiences are described in other books. For example, Reina Owel's "Life on the other side of the curtain", K. Crowe "The Hidden Side of Nature".
The casts were also received by Epes Sargent, who nevertheless expressed such a doubt to the columnist of the weekly "Star": "… I am burdened by a problem … Is the result, contrary to reason, the basis for deep scientific research?"
The observer, being an extreme materialist, certainly did not burden the mind with such a problem. “If the materialized hand took off my hat from the hanger so that I wouldn't go far for it!.. If,” he wrote sarcastically, “the rotation of the table could turn the coffee grinder, and not just click!.. If the medium instead of as if shaking hands with someone invisible - "let me know, sir, how are you?" - I would find out how the pound exchange rate will change on the stock exchange … Then, gentlemen, mediums, it would not be like clicking knee joints without any sense under the table."
The scientist Gustav Gelei (with the help of the medium Kluska) conducted a series of experiments to create casts from materialized hands, and the sessions were very well prepared. The doctor recalled in his monograph that even special chairs-scales were made, and they showed that each of those present "with some of their own particle" took part in the materializing forms of "living matter". The monograph was called "How was it done?" And it was done like this.
Melted wax bath. We added cholesterol to it to exclude fraud … We were afraid to miss the moment when the emerging hand would plunge … A slight splash in the twilight - the hand plunged into molten wax. It “emerged”, covered with wax … It disappeared, leaving the “glove” that retains the forms of living matter not yet studied. The thin wax gloves were smaller this time than a normal hand."
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Dr. Gelei showed these casts and plaster casts made to sculptors, molders, and castors. He sent out one hundred twenty-three photographs. And no one pointed out the way in which the same casts that were obtained during the sessions could be made.
This new form of matter undertook to study the French doctor Richet, known for his extraordinary mindset, he called it "ectoplasm". But neither he nor Gelei advanced further than that summary - that this is a decentralized energy, an education capable of changing with effort, take different forms, and the effort that forms them is "an unknown spiritual force."
In 1922, they managed (with the medium Kluska) to make "paraffin gloves" - so narrow at the wrists that only a child's hand could put them on, and at the same time the results of their experiments were demonstrated in London, the Museum on Victoria Street, Ebbihaus, and also at Holland Park College. The experiments were repeated.
Professor Bottadzi: “… Something hazy formed by itself, then a semblance of milky-white vapor and - corporality: a palm of natural flesh color appeared! I twirled my cane around. Possessing mobility itself, this "materialized substance" came into contact with the usual forms of the surrounding matter, influencing it, was of such density that casts were obtained, and I, shaking my hand, felt her fingers."
From the book "Secrets of Nature" by A. Denton: "Materialism implies that thought and spiritual force are derived from matter. But a hypothesis arises whether matter is the result of the work of spiritual force, thought. Of course, with this hypothesis of the disembodied mind, we seem to be looking at the end of a book we haven't read yet. However, even the Russian scientist Mendeleev said - that without a hypothesis one cannot notice a fact."
Twenty-seven French academicians, initially very skeptical, assured after the session that they reject any falsification: "wax gloves" not only cannot be forged, made in advance, but they could not have been made without the obvious forgery. In addition, if soft clay was laid out on a tray in the corner of the room, then sometimes impressions would appear on it by themselves, and this was no less surprising.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle agreed that he had exhausted the evidence for those who were skeptical about taking a cast from a hand - which he shook with surprise, faithful to Her Majesty's Science. But even Fa-radei asserted: "There is nothing more amazing than the truth."
Tissot's famous engraving "Apparition Medianimique" ("Medium ghost") captured the session of materialization. And this is not a hallucination and not a disorder of the mind, and the engraving reveals the old truth that beyond the limit of all the ideas of our mind there were manifestations of a kind of rational entity, which could not be scientifically explained, and since then they have not only not been explained, but not must have realized the full extent of such manifestations.
The human mind is not universal. However, Berdyaev once said: "… The book, perhaps, does not claim to be scientific, but it claims to be true."