Some mediums are able to go into a deep
trance. They are completely unconsciousness and unaware
of what is happening while a spirit person speaks through
them. In psychic research this person is then called the
"contol" because they are in control of the medium's
body.
In the video below the medium David Thompson
is completely unconscious and unaware of what is taking
place. The spirit talking is William, someone who died more
than one hundred years ago. His voice, vocabularly and personality
are completely different to David's.
MRS LEONORE PIPER in America
and England did a great deal of research with deep trance
mediums, especially Mrs Leonore Piper.
Professor William James, Professor of Psychology at Harvard
University, personally organized test sessions for her for
a year and a half. Then Professor Richard Hodgson, Professor
of Law, the greatest and most notorious debunker in the
world took over. And finally Professor James Hyslop, Professor
of Logic and Ethics from Columbia University took control
of the investigations.
Together they brought hundreds of sitters
to her under false names, they hired detectives to follow
her and intercepted her mail. She was taken to England where
she knew no one and arranged for her to stay with members
of the British Society of Psychical Research where she could
be constantly monitored.
She would go into a trance, then a control—an
intelligence from the afterlife —would take over and
start to give a great deal of accurate information and messages
from those who had passed on.
Over several months Hodgson introduced over
150 sitters at séances to Mrs. Piper. Thirty of these
had known the control while he was alive--the others had
never met him. The control was able to correctly identify
all of the sitters whom he had known. Most of them sat and
talked and reminisced with him, speaking through Mrs. Piper,
as if he himself was there in the flesh. His only mistake
was to fail to identify a person whom he had not met since
the person was a very small girl!
These meetings were so absolutely impressive
that Richard Hodgson wrote his report explaining in detail
why he was wrong in his earlier reports and that now he
accepted the existence of the afterlife. He claimed that
he had communicated with intelligences from the afterlife
and he couldn't wait to get there himself.
MRS EILEEN GARRETT
Another well-known and very much investigated trance medium
of last century was Mrs Garrett. Originally from Ireland
she travelled to the USA in 1940. There she allowed herself
to be tested by many noted scientists and parapsychologists
and in 1951 founded the Parapsychology Foundation.
One of Eileen Garrett's more memorable
communications, as a medium, was the case of the airship
the R101 which crashed on October 5, 1930, in France, during
its maiden overseas voyage, killing 48 people.
It took place on October 7th 1930, two days after the crash,
Mrs Garret was being tested as a medium at the National
Laboratory of Psychical Research when she suddenly fell
into deep trance. Flight Lieutenant H. C. Irwin, Captain
of the airship, suddenly spoke through her 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 experts
the information that came through Mrs Garrett was 100% accurate
in every detail.
