It always amuses me when I hear people say there are not many TRUE GENUINE Physical Mediums around now. We do not hear of any true genuine Physical Seances happening; yet years ago there were lots. They then add, well there was many Physical Mediums written about.

Stop and think for a minute.

There are hundreds of millions of people on this earth. Now try to name all the TRUE GENUINE Physical Mediums of the past and while you do that; starting at the approximate birth date of the earliest one, think about the hundreds of thousands of millions of people that have passed along the earth plane and gone further to their destinations in the higher life in the world beyond, remember if you only begin to start from the time you are thinking of, look at the reality, the figures, it must be about 100s of millions of ordinary people and about a few dozen, give or take a few, physical mediums who regularly practiced their physical mediumship.

Now think about things again.

If you were a Physical Medium and you read about all that went on in times past would you come out and show your gifts to all around you. Would you take a chance of being ridiculed. Would you take a chance at doing a seance and the chance of being killed by some unscrupulous sceptic who might grab out at the ectoplasm you were producing, or, being given a shock by people who could underhandedly interrupt the seance, so the ectoplasm being produced with the help of Spirit World shoots back into your body at neck breaking speed causing internal burns and bleeding [as happened to Helen Duncan just before she died, also look at the write up of Alexander F Harris]. Wouldn't you keep your gifts hidden from the general population and keep it for the small circle of caring, sincere, understanding people? Well now, tell the truth to yourself.

The percentage of Physical Mediums to the general population still, as far as I can see, remains the same or similar, about point.0000009%, and may be less, of the population as a whole; yes miniscule.

A Physical Medium needs time to develop their gifts by dedicated meditation, many sitting weekly in Circles, some some sitting alone, and for the most of them taking as much as twelve years of constant sitting to achieve any sort of good provable physical phenomena.

 Levitation or Transvection 

Please remember Levitation is not a new phenomena, it has been happening to people from all walks of life throughout the centuries. It is well documented in many religious books, one notable one is the Christian bible. Jesus levitated by walking on the water, this is just one I have picked out because many people know the stories. There are many monks who have been documented in recent times that have levitated also. The Christian church recognized that the phenomena of levitation does happen and have from that day name it “transvection”.

Others in the Christian church are documented to have levitated are St Ignatious Loyola. He had the added gift of being lit up like a luminous object at different times and when he levitated. As is documented so did Donald Dunglas Home but he was pilloried by the Christian church.

There have been a number of incidences of levitation among both Saints, in the Roman Catholic Church, noteworthy Christians and over 200 Catholic Saints.  See the page on levitation where I have placed just a few.

You can as an amateur enquirer have the experience of physical phenomena if you are willing to try with some like minded friends look at the testing of Mediums and have a go yourself; try the way they did it in the past century, read and learn. Yes people who tried to see if raps and moving of furniture by the Spirit World was genuine, and not being performed as a hoax show.

 Physical Spirit Formation or Materialisation 

Materialisation is a phenomena that the doubters and sceptics will not admit exists, yet it has happened many times in GENUINE seances. The doubter only want to be convinced by seeing it for themselves. They dismiss many photographs: BUT I must admit I can in some way go along with this school of thought because it is so easy to doctor any photograph to convince the amateur photographer and amateur enquirer.

It remains as fact that the Spirit World can with the help of the human catalyst, namely the Mediumistic person, a Physical Medium, produce a human form that can be seen, heard, and with the permission of the Spirit World,  touched, a pulse felt, and clothing and/or regalia that is draped around this Spirit form also felt.

There are many such incidents.

I have a book (Phenomena of Materialisation by Baron Von Schrenck Notzing) from the early part of the last century in which has all sorts of photographs of alleged Spirit formations with the Medium  Eva C. Probably the Medium did produce Spirits in the physical, but this person, the Baron, in his enthusiasm to let the public know, has for me done the worse damage possible in placing unfolded drawings or the drawn Spirit form to be photographed for his book, they are so false. I was even at a lecture in a place of mediumistic learning and mediumistic teaching that I still hold dear to my heart, Stansted Hall [The Arthur Findlay College]; when a male lecturer [and he is one of the newer of the old school and still there lecturing] was holding up this book to the world as an example of the evidence of the physical production of the Spirits in seances. In my opinion he should have looked a little closer at the photographs themselves, that is if he had ever seen them properly. Perhaps just to have opened the book itself in my opinion would have done enough to convince. I have no doubt what so ever the seances were genuine, but many of the photographs in my opinion are set up for the camera AFTER the real happenings. I now come back to the need for the Spirit World to have infra red cameras in the physical seances as evidence for the outside world. 

I have been recorded, with a guests hand held infra red video camera at twelve o clock at night [nothing planned], while sitting around the table in low white light with company socialising, talking about the spirituality of the area and drinking, in the main room Hafan-y-Coed Spiritual Centre, Abercraf, Swansea in South Wales, when my eyes started watering and I was beginning to yawn frequently [about once every few seconds], a sign that the Spirit World wanted to come to use me and I gave permission, I went into an altered state and then they pulled my face outwards away from my bone structure into a contortion [transfiguration] I could not have done myself. I had no ill effect except the manipulation took it out of my body as a whole, as any physical phenomena does, and the link left me drained for a while, I went to bed after and woke up refreshed.

I have proved for myself time and again that infra red video cameras can be used in a physical seance without harming the Medium or the phenomena. This was done with Judith Seaman. I have twice recorded seances in Stansted Hall [Arthur Findlay College], BUT the unfortunate placing of the four infra red video cameras in the main hall by me did not get the photographs I wanted, that was the actual producing of the apports or asporting. Another tutor who was sitting besides Judith inadvertently blocked the view of the actual happening because she wanted to see it first hand herself. [We were holding the physical seance in dull red light]. I am now beginning to believe and becoming more convinced that it is only the weak strength physical mediums or the pretending Physical Mediums [put kindly, delusional Mediums, perhaps fraudulent Mediums] that do not want infra red video cameras in their blacked out or very low red light seance rooms. Work out what that implies for yourself. BUT and a big BUT, it should be done with the permission of the Spirit World. AND AGAIN WORRYINGLY, BUT, this could be a get out clause for the fakes. "The Spirit World does not want me to use the infra red lights" syndrome. This is where the testing of Mediums who want to go to the public is so necessary. If they do not get tested, that could leave them open to all the allegations of fraud.

In the past the Spirit World allowed still, time lapse, infra red cameras in seances to record what was happening. What is wrong with using them now in the modern form, which is infra red video camera. The optimum word here is RED. Most of the top Physical Mediums sat in ordinary RED light; why don't the modern day ones do exactly the same and use infra RED light ? Those Mediums of old sat in gas light by which a book could be read; Why not now? AND some allowed, with the permission of the Spirit World, the use of magnesium flash photography to record the happenings.

Could it be that these modern day Physical Mediums are frightened to lose the money that most of them get for their seances. The Mediums of old DID NOT CHARGE for their Physical Seances. [I have been to many Physical Seances when I was taking the courses on the physical weeks in Stansted Hall [Arthur Findlay College] and the students were not charged an entrance fee. Lets hope it comes back sometime in the future, so that many more people can see the wonders of the Spirit World come through the human catalyst we call a Medium. BUT mediums have to eat and some need to charge for their time to survive.

It is exactly the same as the new comers to the Spiritualist movement who have tried to bring us all up to the modern times, tried to bring different things into the seance rooms [using cheap metal chairs instead of wooden ones in churches and seance rooms, read the aids that Spirit and Mediums use sections] without asking the Spirit World about what to do and how to go about it; also saying the Spirit World are now getting things quicker because life is going so fast they have to keep up. DO NOT BELIEVE IT ALL. The Spirit World have NEVER BEEN ASKED AS FAR AS I KNOW. This is new people who have not done their research, or read the books of the last century that the libraries hold in their reference sections, nor have they learnt from the good older teachers at the Spiritual Colleges.

Look at the Mediums of the past if any more information is wanted, starting with Alexander Frederick Harris of Wales. UK.

Infra red photograph in a dark room seance.

Medium Jack Webber is seen here in this photograph tied up in the Carver Chair while in a deep trance state, sitting in a Home Physical Circle. Jack's coat is being taken through his body by the Spirit World to eventually be removed completely from the Medium himself. The Spirit Worlds proof that in a truthful, harmonious seance, where the conditions are correct for the Physical Medium, they can pass matter through matter.

Infra red photograph by Leon Isaacs

What should be taken into consideration this seance is taking place in the dark. Notice there are two trusted people either side of the Medium Jack Webber  holding his hand to make sure he does not move out of the chair to manipulate any of the aids that are in the Circle for the use of the Spirit World, like the two trumpets or table, that can be seen in the photograph.

What is going on here in the INFRA RED photograph :- While the Medium is tied to the chair by his legs and arms, from the lapel to skirt, the previously stitched up coat is passed through the Medium's body, illustrating the process of dematerialisation and the passage of matter through matter.

In this darkened locked room seance, the Medium Franek Kluski goes into trance and the Sprit World brings forward a hairy ape-like Spirit Form that sometimes got frisky and became a bit too boisterous in some of the seances, so much so that some of the seances had to be cut short because of some of its antics with the sitters.