Medium Eileen Garrett UK
Click here to return
Eileen Garrett Medium
March 17, 1893 – September 15, 1970
Eileen J. Garrett was an
Irish medium, founder of the
Parapsychology Foundation
(PF) in New York City and a leading figure in the scientific study of
paranormal phenomena during the mid 20th century.
Ireland
She was born in Beauparc[1], County Meath, Ireland.
Shortly after her birth her parents Anthony and Anna as well as an uncle
(Charles) committed suicide, as a result of an interfaith marriage. She was
then adopted by an aunt and uncle who ostracized her not only for her
parent's deaths but also for the apparent psychic abilities she exhibited
from an early age. Illness plagued Eileen Garrett's younger years.
Tuberculosis and other respiratory conditions flared up frequently, and, at
age fifteen, she left Ireland for the milder climate of England.
Garrett married three times in her life, her first
marriage to Clive Barry, produced three sons, all of whom died young, and a
daughter, now Eileen Coly, who after her mother's death succeeded her as the
president of the PF.
Following her divorce from Barry, Eileen opened a hostel
for convalescent soldiers who had been wounded during The Great War (World
War I). Many of the soldiers who recuperated at her home would later return
to the trenches and she had precognitive visions of which ones were destined
to die, presenting those poor doomed souls with a white flower to signify
that she knew they would die, those who left her care without flowers all
returned from The Great War.
One of her patients proposed marriage to the clairvoyant
young woman shortly after she had presented him with his white flower,
(probably as a last act) one month after the wedding Eileen awoke to a
premonition that he and several others had been killed in an explosion, she
wrote to the families of those killed and only later was it confirmed that
they had all died. In 1918 just before the end of the war she married J. W.
Garrett, a wounded soldier in her care. The marriage did not last long,
ending in 1927 after which she remained single for the rest of her life.
In 1919, Garrett met a writer and social activist named
Edward Carpenter who was a profound influence on her life, convincing her
that she should share and study her gifts, Carpenter told her that she had
been born to a state of "Cosmic Consciousness" that others would spend their
lives searching for in vain. It was at this point in her life that she began
to see her gifts not as a series of pathological hallucinations but rather
as true premonitions. This marked the moment when she realized that she was
living in two lives, as two women, the "normal" woman, "an average Irish
woman" as she would later call herself, and a "medium" who she later
described as "being outside myself a truly spiritual being." It was around
this time when she became entranced by a spirit; an Arab soldier called
Uvani who expressed his interest in helping her to develop her abilities, he
would remain at her side as her friend, companion and protector for the rest
of her life, Garrett had four trance spirits; Uvani, a fourteenth-century
Arab soldier, was in primary control of her mediumship. Abdul Latif, a
seventeenth-century Persian physician, dealt primarily with healing and
would often cause her to speak in unknown dialects, very seldom she was
contacted by the two final spirits who spoke only on spiritual matters,
Tahotah and Ramah were their names, they claimed no earthy incarnations
however several other mediums felt that they had a Native American
connection.
In 1931, she was invited to America by the American
Society for Psychical Research (ASPR) to participate in a series of
experiments under the direction of Hereward Carrington over that period she
was studied at Duke University where again she was brought into a circle of
mediums that had been arranged by William McDougall who was impressed and
later said of her that she was "one of the finest mediums I have ever met".
In 1943 she founded Tomorrow magazine employing Mercedes
de Acosta as an associate editor.
She pursued a lifelong study of her own in the United
States in the Field of parapsychology, identifying
ghosts and spirits, working with the
publishing company H.S. Stuttman & Co. she collaborated on several books on
the subject. She established a moderately successfully Publishing House of
her own the "Creative age Press" in New York city, New York. and published a
less than successful magazine called "tomorrow" which specialized in very
accurate horoscopes and the topics of parapsychology. Neither venture is
currently in operation.
In 1951 Garrett founded the Parapsychology Foundation
using her own money as well as a number of federal grants and international
conference fundraisers. she encouraged others with gifts to develop them
into mediumship and to pursue paranormal sciences and made strides socially
in bringing real science into the Field.
In the 1960s, Garrett worked with psychologist Lawrence
Le Shan in his studies of alternate realities, her contribution was to
describe the "clairvoyant realities" in a number of his papers and books.
She continued to write, participate in studies and research projects and
identify ghosts and demonic spirits until her death on September 15, 1970 in
Nice, France where she was investigating the appearance of a series of
ghostly apparitions, this particular investigation left her exhausted and
she told her friend Uvani that she worried the apparitions were the direct
cause of her period of declining health.
In addition to her numerous contributions to the works of
others and her work to advance the science of parapsychology, Garrett left a
total of seven nonfiction books of her own, the Parapsychology Foundation
which operates to this day, 11 popular short manuals on the expulsion of
demons and spirits, and a number of novels under the pen name Jean Lyttle.
References
Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits (second edition) by
Rosemary Ellen Guiley
Adventures in the Supernormal (1949) by Eileen J. Garrett
(autobiography)
LeShan, Lawrence, The Medium, the Mystic, and the
Physicist, Ballantine Books, 1966, pp. 28-32, pp.211-222
In her autobiography,
Medium Eileen Garrett recalled her first trance state,
which occurred in London during 1926 as she was sitting with a group of women
during a table-tilting seance. She drifted off into a “sleep,” and upon
awakening was told by the others that she began to speak of seeing the dead
relatives of those at the table. She was informed that an entity calling himself
“Uvani” claimed to be her control and that she would be working in the capacity
of Trance Medium for a number of years.
As later observed by psychical researcher Hereward Carrington, Garrett would
pass into a deep trance and, after a short wait, Uvani would begin speaking
through her mouth, addressing the sitter and inviting questions. Generally,
after a brief conversation with the sitter, Uvani would find or attempt to find
deceased loved ones. Uvani would frequently allow the deceased entities to speak
directly through Garrett (rather than relaying their words as other controls
often do). At the conclusion of the seance, Uvani would again take over her
organism, give a few parting words and say a short closing prayer. A secondary
control, calling himself “Abdul Latif,” would also manifest, primarily for
healing purposes.
Uvani claimed to be the surviving spirit, Yasuf ben Hafik ben Ali, an Arab
who had lived in Basrah during the early 1800s, dying at the age of 48 in a
battle with the Turks. He said he had been a member of a noble merchant family.
Carrington conducted many tests with Garrett, attempting to determine if Uvani
was a secondary personality arising out of Garrett’s subconscious. He noted that
Garrett was not spiritualistically inclined and was “on the fence” as to whether
Uvani was who he claimed to be.
“I have never been able wholly to accept them as the spiritual dwellers on the
threshold, which they seem to believe they are,” Garrett wrote of her controls.
“I rather leaned away from accepting them as such, a fact which is known to them
and troubles them not at all.”
Garrett went on to say that Uvani is nearly always detached, “the doorkeeper
cloaked in the personality of the guardian,” while Abdul Latif was more
universally oriented to outer events and therefore more positive in his
pronouncements and judgments.
Carrington had a number of personality and psychological tests administered to
Garrett and Uvani, believing that if Uvani were a fragmented personality of
Garrett’s subconscious the tests would pretty much be the same. As it turned
out, they were quite different. For example, Garrett scored in only the 21st
percentile on a measure of neurotic tendency, while Uvani scored in the 87th
percentile. On a test designed to measure introversion - extraversion, Garrett
scored 24, indicating a fair amount of extravertive tendency, while Uvani scored
80, very much on the introversion side.
In a test giving an indication of the number of schizoid traits an individual
possesses, Garrett had a normal 15 traits, but Uvani had 36, a score which was
far beyond normal and psychotic individuals, suggesting a tendency to daydream
and withdraw from “reality.” In a test asking them to list their four best and
four worst traits, Garrett listed “generous, honest, forgiving, and
conscientious” as her best traits. Uvani gave “honesty, physique, vigor, and
swordsmanship” as his best. Garrett listed “indifferent, too sensitive,
unsocial, and over-critical” as her worst traits, while Uvani gave “desire to
wander away from responsibility, desire for bloodshed, desire to rule his
household, and inability to forgive and forget easily” as his worst.
Carrington also tested Abdul Latif and deceased entities who were allowed to
take over Garrett’s body and communicate.
“The conclusion to which we seem driven, therefore,” Carrington summed it up,
“…is that ‘Uvani,’ and especially the other alleged entities, represent some
sort of independent entities, with no strong emotional or memory connections
with the normal Mrs Garrett, or with any getatable portion of her
subconscious.”
As might be expected, other researchers took issue with Carrington’s finding.
Carrington pointed out to them that even if Uvani is a secondary personality, it
does not explain how others, known to have existed as humans, are able to do the
same thing as Uvani, nor does it explain how they obtain information clearly
outside the scope of Garrett’s knowledge and experience.
Carrington interviewed Uvani as to his nature and methods. Uvani told him that
he had always been in close contact with Garrett during the uncharted years of
her life. He said that the moment he would see the wanderings of her
under-consciousness, he would be drawn to her.
“As the time draws near, I am able to impress upon the under-consciousness not
only my presence, but others, and I control that under-consciousness,” Uvani told
Carrington. “Of the conscious mind I have no control at all, nor would I find it
right.”
Uvani further told Carrington that Garrett’s conscious mind “is permitted to go
into the Cosmos, to renew itself, where it receives strength and is purified,”
just as in the sleep state for everyone, during the time he and others are using
her organism.
When Carrington asked how Uvani influences her brain and body, Uvani responded
that he does not influence either. “I use a ‘figment’ - the fabric of the soul -
which is stimulated by my thoughts; this stimulates the fabric and produces
automatic expression,” he explained, adding that it took him many years (of
earth time) to learn to subdue the conscious mind.
Asked how he knew when Garrett was ready for him to come, Uvani said he gets a
“telegraphed” impression that the “Instrument” is ready, explaining that the
moment that the conscious mind becomes very low, the soul-body becomes more
vibrant and that serves as a “telegram” for him to operate.
As for language, Uvani said he does not speak English. He simply impresses his
thoughts upon that “figment” with which he works and his thoughts are converted
to English automatically.
References:
Carrington, Hereward, The Case for Psychic Survival (New York: The Citadel
Press, 1957).
Garrett, Eileen J., Many Voices (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1968).
Source: Michael E. Tymn, vice-president of The Academy of Religion and Psychical
Research.
Source (with minor modifications): An Encyclopaedia of Psychic Science by Nandor Fodor (1934).
Source with some minor addtions survivalafterdeath.com
Eileen
J. Garrett
(1893 to 1970)
Eileen J. Garrett is, perhaps, the most respected medium of the twentieth century. Her contributions to the investigation and understanding of mediumship and allied phenomena remain immeasurable.
As a sensitive, she was very much aware of people's moods and feelings. As a psychic researcher, she recognized the need for a scientific and an open-minded investigation of paranormal phenomena. As an author, lecturer, and publisher, she sought to share her ideas and experiences with the public. As an administrator, she had a keen mind and a sense of perception for the more mundane aspects of life.
Any one of these undertakings would certainly be a career, in itself, but there was something quite remarkable about this woman which allowed her to pursue all four with amazing zest, integrity, and effectiveness.
Eileen Garrett was born in 1893, in Beauparc, County Meath, Ireland. From the beginning, her life was riddled with tragedy. Her parents both committed suicide shortly after her birth; she was, then, adopted by an aunt and uncle. In her autobiography, she writes:
"Once I heard my aunt refer to them as 'poor Anthony and Anna' in a tone that held both pity and disapproval, and a sympathy for them stirred within me . . . It was explained to me later that Anna and Anthony were my dead parents. I was glad then that I had given their names to many living things that I had cherished."
Psychic experiences were a part of Eileen Garrett's life from the moment she saw an infant for the first time. She sensed and saw around people, animals and, even plants, various forms of light and energy which she initially termed "surrounds". She said that she had imaginary playmates, whom she called "the children". She claims that their appearance was a very normal part of her life and that she "did not have to go to them in any particular place, or make any adjustments" in order to see them.
One day, while quite young, she saw her favorite aunt, who lived about twenty miles away, walking up the path carrying a baby. As the aunt approached, she said to young Eileen, "I am going away now and I must take the baby with me." Eileen quickly ran into the house to relate this to her adoptive aunt, who immediately punished her for making up stories. The following day she learned that her aunt Leone had died in childbirth, along with the baby.
This unfortunate introduction to death had its impact upon young Eileen. She had many questions concerning birth and death, none of which anyone, least of all her aunt, cared to discuss with her. As a means of protest, and in response to some undeserved punishment, she drowned some ducklings of which her aunt was very proud. She recalls, "The little dead bodies were quiet, but a strange movement was occurring all about them. A gray, smoke-like substance rose up from each small form. This nebulous, fluid stuff wove and curled as it rose in winding spiral curves, and I saw it take new shape as it moved out and away from the quiet forms." Thus she became aware, at a young age, that there was more to life than the physical form, and that this "more" separated itself from the body, at the time of death.
Illness plagued Eileen Garrett's younger years. Tuberculosis and other respiratory conditions flared up frequently, and, at age fifteen, she left Ireland for the milder climate of England. She stayed in England with relatives and, very soon thereafter, was courted by an older gentleman named Clive, whom she married within a few months. She gave birth to three sons, all of whom died at very early ages. The eldest and second-born sons both died of meningitis within weeks of each other. The third died a few hours after birth. Eventually, she gave birth to her daughter, Eileen. Once again her health deteriorated, and, by the time she recovered, her marriage had ended in divorce.
During World War I, she opened a hostel for convalescent soldiers. It was during this period that she met and married her second husband, a young officer who was immediately called to the front. She had a premonition that this marriage would be short-lived. In her memoirs she wrote:
"I knew that my young husband was . . . suffering. In order to find release from the depression . . . I gathered several friends together and went out to dine. That evening . . . I had a vision of my husband, dying."
Two days later, he was listed as missing in action, and, shortly thereafter, he was stated as having been killed in Ypres.
Again she fell ill, and, while recuperating, she became friendly with a young man whom she eventually married, one month before Armistice. She readily admits, "I drifted into my third marriage without any thought of its being permanent." It was at about this time that Mrs. Garrett began investigating psychic matters. Despite all this unhappiness and tragedy, she was obviously being prepared for her major role in life: that of a sensitive.
One day, during a table rapping session, she became drowsy and started falling asleep. When she awakened, she discovered that dead relatives of others in the room had communicated through her. In spite of her husband's warnings never to attend such meetings again, she sought the advice of one Mr. Huhnli who took it upon himself to guide Eileen in her understanding of what was happening to her. At one such meeting, she was entranced by an Arab soldier called Uvani who expressed his interest in helping prove survival.
Mrs. Garrett's mediumship had finally come to the surface, but fear, ill health, and the break-up of her marriage delayed its development. Despite this delay, she eventually came to meet J. Hewat McKenzie, founder of the British College of Psychic Science. It was under his careful guidance, at the College, that her mediumship blossomed. Mr. McKenzie and his wife, Barbara, were keenly aware of the need for mediumship to expand well beyond that of messages from the spirits. They recognized that mediumship could provide a tool whereby the investigator could delve into the various dimensions and levels of perception and consciousness. Mr. McKenzie was probably the most powerful influence upon Eileen Garrett, as well as her attitudes concerning the process of communication. She continued studying and developing her mediumship at the College until Hewat McKenzie's death in 1929.
Marriage was once again in the offing, and, once again, after a premonition, it ended in tragedy. Both she and her fiancé became ill on the same day. He died of pneumonia, and she barely survived a mastoid operation. Confused about what to do, convinced that her mediumship resulted from nothing more than a split personality, and quite fed up with the message game, she decided to come to the United States and seek help from the scientific community.
In the United States, she was able to make some astounding connections with many noted scientists and parapsychologists. She subjected herself to intense physiological and psychological experimentation, hoping that such testing might shed some light upon the processes of mediumship and psychism. She traveled to and from the States, searching, studying, and experimenting. When the Second World War broke out in Europe, she was in France working with children and refugees. She remained there until the end of 1940, when in a "wholly spontaneous and of external origin" flash she knew she should leave and seek other work. Quite miraculously, she arrived at Lisbon and found passage on a refugee boat to New York.
Her life now took a definitive course. Within a few months of her arrival in New York, she started Tomorrow, a monthly magazine of literary and public affairs. She also started the publishing firm, Creative Age Press.
Eileen Garrett's greatest achievement was the founding of the Parapsychology Foundation, in 1951. Her honesty and acumen for business affairs helped make this one of today's most respected foundations of its type. Over the years, the Parapsychology Foundation has published several fine journals, newsletters, and reports, many under the presidency of Mrs. Garrett herself. In the autumn of 1952, Tomorrow was re-instituted as a quarterly journal for the study of psychic science. In January, 1955, the Foundation began publishing its bimonthly newsletter, followed, in 1958, by a series of Parapsychological Monographs, and, in 1959, by the very prestigious International Journal of Parapsychology. In March, 1970, the Foundation began publishing the Parapsychology Review, a bimonthly review of articles, news, and books. Unfortunately, the Parapsychology Review suspended publication a few years ago. The Parapsychology Foundation has hosted twenty-eight Annual International Conferences on parapsychology and allied sciences.
Eileen Garrett had four trance communicators. Uvani, a fourteenth century Arab soldier, was the control of the mediumship. Abdul Latif, a seventeenth century Persian physician, dealt primarily with healing. Speaking very seldom and on more philosophic and spiritual matters, were Tahotah and Ramah. These two claimed no earthy incarnations.
One of Eileen Garrett's more memorable communications, as a medium, was the case of the R101. Here is what Nandor Fodor says about this in his Encyclopedia of Psychic Science:
"In a sitting at the National Laboratory of Psychical Research on October 7, 1930, two days after the explosion of the R101, Flight Lieutenant H. C. Irwin, Captain of the airship, suddenly entranced Mrs. Garrett, announced his presence and gave the listeners a highly technical account of how the airship crashed. The narrative was taken down in shorthand and a copy was submitted to the Air Ministry. According to the opinion of experts, a number of observations in the message tallied in every detail with what was afterwards found in the course of the official inquiry. E. F. Spanner, the well-known naval architect and marine engineer, came to exactly the same conclusions in his book, The Tragedy of the R101."
Despite the wealth of information and evidence of survival which came through Eileen Garrett, she was never quite convinced that her mediumship stemmed from a separate source; an attitude which, in our opinion, made her mediumship so profoundly wonderful. She was always searching for more information concerning the secrets behind the consciousness of the mind and its relationship to the physical organism. She was a prolific writer and the author of: Adventures in the Supernormal; Telepathy; Awareness; The Sense and Nonsense of Prophecy; Life is the Healer; and Many Voices.
In the preface to her autobiography, she wrote:
"I have a gift, a capacity - a delusion, if you will - which is called 'psychic'. I do not care what it may be called, for living with and utilizing this psychic capacity long ago inured me to a variety of epithets - ranging from expressions almost of reverence, through doubt and pity, to open vituperation. In short, I have been called many things, from a charlatan to a miracle woman. I am, at least, neither of these."
This statement best sums up Mrs. Garrett's point of view concerning her work. On September 15, 1970, Eileen J. Garrett passed to Spirit after one final and very painful struggle with bone cancer.
The First Spiritual Temple is very proud to have hosted Mrs. Garrett on the following dates, for public lectures and private sittings: December 2, 1955; May 2, 1956; November 13, 1957; and May 13, 1959. Furthermore, whenever Mrs. Garrett was in Boston, she would stop in at the Temple to bid her greetings.
We remember her as a fine medium, an astute researcher, a productive writer, and a hard-working businesswoman.
Two days after the huge British
airship, the R 1 0 1, had crashed in flames on a hillside in Beauvais,
France-killing 48 of its 54 passengers-the hesitant, anxious voice of a man
claiming to be its captain spoke through the lips of a medium in London. In
short disjointed sentences he deseribed the horrifying last moments before
his incineration. His account of the crash included a wealth of technical
information that was confirmed six months later by an official lnquiry. The
disaster, which occurred on October 5, 1930, included two high ranking
aviation officials among its victims. It shook the government"s confidence
in diriglbles, and ended British efforts to develop the lighter-then air
airaft for commercial use.
The seance in which the dramatic
communication was received took place at the National Laboratory of
Psychical Research set up four years earlier by Harry Price, a well-known
psychic investigator. Price, his secretary, and journalist Ian D. Coster,
had arranged a sitting with the talented young medium Eileen Garrett. The
purpose was to attempt a spirit contact with the recently deceased writer
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the report of which was to be published in a
magazine. Sir Arthur, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, was also a
Spiritualist.
Shortly after the sitters had
gathered in the seance room, Elleen Garrett went into a trance. Instead of
making contact with the novelist, however, the sitters heard a voice
announcing himself as Flight Lieutenant H. Carmichael Irwin. In anguished
tones, the voice sald: "I must do something about it ... The whole bulk of
the dirigible was entirely and absolutely too much for her engines'
capacity. Engines too heavy. It was this that made me on five occasions have
to scuttle to safety. Useful lift too small. Gross lift computed badly
inform control panel. And this idea of new elevators totally mad. Elevator
jammed. Oil pipe plugged ... Flying too low altitude and never could rise.
Disposable lift could not be utilized. Load too great for long flight ...
Cruising speed bad and ship badly swinging. Severe tension on the fabric
which is chafing ... Engines wrong-too heavy-cannot rise. Never reached
cruising altitude-same in trials. Too short trials. No one knew the ship
properly. Weather bad for long flight. Fabric all waterlogged and ship's
nose is down. Impossible to rise. Cannot trim. Almost scraped the roofs of
Achy. Kept to railway. At enquiry to be held later it will be found that the
superstructure of the envelope contained no resilience and had far too much
weight in envelope. The added middle section was entirely wrong ... too
heavy, too much overweighted for the capacity of engines . . . ."
The reporter who took this
amazing communication in shorthand at first resented the intrusion of Irwin,
captain of the R101, when he had expected the volce of Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle. But he was soon to realize that he had unwittingly been part of
a dramatic moment in psychic history. He published the story, and it was
read by, among others, a Mr. Charlton, who had been involved in the R101's
construction. Charlton asked Harry Price for a copy of the seance report.
After studying it he and his colleagues described it as "an astounding
document," containing more than 40 highly technical and confidential details
of what occurred on the airship's fatal flight. "It appeared very evident,"
sald Charlton, "that for anyone present at the seance to have obtained
information beforehand was grotesquely absurd."
Charlton was so impressed by the
evidence that he began his own psychic investigation, and ultimately became
a Spiritualist. The only hypothesis that he could put forward to explain all
the evidence was that "Irwin did actually communicate with those present at
the seance, after his physieal death."
Before the official enquiry into
the crash, Major Oliver Villiers of the Ministry of Civil Aviation
participated in a seance with Eileen Garrett. Through the medium he heard
the testimony of others who had lost their lives in the disaster. Here is
part of the verbatim account of the conversation during the seance between
Villiers and crew member Scott, one of the victims:
"Villiers: What was the trouble?
Irwin mentioned the nose."
"Scott: Yes. Girder trouble and
engine."
"Villiers: I must get this right.
Can you describe exactly where? We have the long struts numbered from A to
G."
"Scott: The top one is 0, and
then A, B, C, and so on downward. Look at your drawing. It was the starboard
of 5C. On our second flight after we had finished we found the girder had
been strained, not cracked, and this caused trouble to the cover . . ."
Later Villiers asked Scott if the
girder had broken and gone through the airship's covering:
"Scott: No, not broke, but
cracked badly and it split the outer cover . . . The bad rent in the cover
on the starboard side of 5C brought about an unnatural pressure, forced us
into our first dive. The second was even worse. The pressure on the gas bags
was terrific, and the gusts of wind were tremendous. This externat pressure,
coupled with the fact that the valve was weak, blew the valve right off, and
at the same time the released gas was ignited by a backfire from the
engine."
The Court of Inquiry
report showed that practically every one of these statements was correct;
none were incorrect.
One important aspect of Elleen
Garrett's work is that she respected psychical investigators and actively
encouraged their work. In fact, she founded the New York-based
Parapsychology Foundation, which was financed by a wealthy woman politician,
Congresswoman Frances Payne Bolton of Ohio. On Elleen Garrett's death in
1970 at the age of 77, Archie Jarman, a researcher and wrlter who had known
her for nearly 40 years, paid tribute to her in the eolumns of Psychic
News. He revealed that she had asked him to "dig into the famous RIOI
airship case as deep as I could delve." He agreed to do so and pledged he
would take nelther fee nor expenses, so that ' whatever his investigation
diselosed, it would be seen that he had worked "without fear or favor." He
continued:
"The completed saga, so often
briefly mentioned, turned out to be a pretty massiva affair. It look nearly
six months and finally filled 455 pages of typescrlpt and blueprints. It
involved two trips to France, seeking the few remalning witnesses at
Beauvais where the R101 crashed. There were conferences with aeronautieal
experts, such as the designer of the R101's heavy diesel engines (which were
partly responsible for the fatal crash), and with the aging but active
captain of the sister-ship, R100.
"Technical witnesses were
interrogated; ordonance maps scrutinized; Eileen's own aeronautical
knowledge investigated (result, nil, she knew hardly enough to float a toy
balloon). At close range I became familiar with meteorology, geodeties, with
prewar political maneuvering and with certain conspiracy at a Ministry, with
aerodynamics and with scandalous decisions which took nearly 50 brave men to
their deaths.
"It was the technieal aspect of
this case which makes it unique in psychic history-and I mean unique
... My opinion is that greater credulity is demanded to believe that
Elleen obtained her obscure and specialized data by mundane means than to
accept that, in some paranormal manner, she had contact with the remembering
psyche of the 'dead' Captaln Irwin to the moment of his incineration with
his vast airship."
No one materialized in Elleen
Garrett's presence. There were no physical manifestations such as raps or
levitations, so beloved of early Spiritualists and psychical investigators.
Why, then, is the R101 case so important to the Spiritualist case? The
reason is that many of the scientists who risked ridicule by declaring their
belief in materialized figures were equally adamant that these seance
phantoms were not proof of an afterlife. They felt that mental mediumship
might provide the proof.
Click here to return to
Any photographs or extra information about this medium
o
We need to put
as much inf
Let the individual think and then decide for themselves away from any indoctrination which is blinkered.
Indoctrination is the cause of all the conflicts in the world. Especially where religion is involved.
Throw away your blinkers. Look at everything before you criticise anything, read with your mind open.
There are many other sites on a similar vein but different pages click below or onto links pages.
Written by and © copyright of
D.R.T.Keeghan