Posted on 18 November 2024, 7:29

I wouldn’t call the detailed “vision” of a Christian pastor of the assassination attempt on former United States President Donald Trump a few months before it took place as “religious madness,” as a friend termed it. I can accept the likelihood that many people subscribing to religions have psychic abilities, even though most of them seem to assume that their abilities should be suppressed, because, they are told, that is all the work of the devil.

A brother-in-law once told me of the strange thing that happened to his mother. As she is still in this realm of existence, I’ll call her Harriet. When I saw Harriet at a Christmas dinner, I asked her about it. She said that sometime around 1981, while watching television, she had a sudden urge to start writing a story – one having to do with outer space. She had no real interest in the subject and no prior interest in creative writing. “But I felt compelled to write,” she explained.

Words began flowing from Harriet’s pen, including many technical words that had no meaning to her, including “black hole.” Her husband retired for the night and when he awoke the next morning Harriet was still writing. “I had lost track of time,” she continued. “I had no idea it was already morning.” She did not know what she had written, and when she read it she didn’t completely understand it.

Over the next few months, the urge to write would continue to come upon her. She would resist until it became too strong. “It was frightening,” Harriet recalled. She had written hundreds of pages when one day she felt compelled to visit an observatory in the Tucson, Arizona area. There, she encountered many of the terms in her book, terms which previously had no meaning to her, including “black hole.”

When Harriet mentioned her strange experiences to her fundamentalist pastor, she was informed that whatever was happening to her was demonic and that she should immediately cease and desist, which she did. I suspect that a spirit communicator, perhaps a deceased astronomer, was left frustrated. I recall reading somewhere that the supply of good mediums is far short of the demand on the Other Side and I recall the case of author Frank R. Stockton and medium Etta De Camp as discussed in my blog of September 13, 2021, which sounds much like Harriet’s experience.

Harriet’s “mediumship,” if that’s what it is, did not end there. Around 25 years ago, at about age 60, she suddenly discovered that she had artistic ability. Although I am no judge of art, her paintings certainly indicate talent. Harriet decided to polish her painting skills by enrolling in some art classes. However, when she realized that the classes were negatively affecting her artistic ability, she discontinued them. Could it be that a discarnate artist was using her hand and did not like the changes?

I suspect there are many other good religious people who have similar abilities but suppress them and say nothing of them because of the stigma imposed by religious authorities and their “sane” friends. On the other hand, there are exceptions. If the religious person says the messages came from God or Jesus, they are sometimes accepted by more open-minded religious people. Consider Brandon Dale Biggs, an Oklahoma pastor, who appeared on a March 15 podcast saying that the “Lord” told him it is a “time of acceleration” and would include, among other things, 1) strong tornadoes with microbursts reaching 150 miles per hour; 2) An assassination attempt on the life of Donald Trump – “The bullet flew by his ear and came so close to his head that it busted his ear drum, and I saw him fall to his knees,” Biggs said in that March podcast. 3) Trump would win the election; 4) there would then be a great economic crash and dark times, but Trump and the rest of the country will turn to Jesus and be revived. View the video from 8-13 minutes.

Religious madness? Perhaps on the revival aspect.  Good guesses?  I don’t think so on number 2.  Seeing the bullet “grazing” Trump’s ear, even if it didn’t result in a “busted ear drum,” and going to his knees, seems to go beyond guessing or coincidence. If he had simply predicted an assassination attempt before the election, the odds might be 20 to 1 or so, but, as I see it, the odds on that much more specific forecast, including going to his knees after the bullet grazed his ears, are off the charts, about what they would be in a football game for a team overcoming a 35-0 deficit with two minutes left in the game.

A tornado is not quite the same thing as a hurricane, but both involve strong winds and the destruction is much the same. I can understand that mistake. Based on past years, predicting a hurricane or two could very well be a safe guess, but I recall a news report in which it was said that the winds from Hurricane Milton were reaching 180 miles per hour and that there was no record of anything exceeding 150 mph.  I wonder how Biggs got the number 150 in his vision.  If he sees strong winds blowing things down, does it come with a wind gauge?  Does he hear it?

Humbug or Bosh

The skeptics point out that Biggs has been wrong many times.  My search for his other predictions or premonitions was brief and I was unable to find any wrong ones, only comments by skeptics that he was often wrong. I assume that Biggs is giving his own interpretations to visions, just as mediums and the spirit controls of mediums were often wrong in their interpretations of mediumistic phenomena. William James often made mention of the “humbug,” “bosh,” and other wrong or confusing information coming through the mediumship of Leonora Piper and other mediums, apparently assuming, as religions had assumed, that spirits of the dead are all-knowing or have complete access to truth.  It was researcher James Hyslop who concluded that much of confusion was a result of the medium’s spirit control having difficulty interpreting the messages from the communicating spirit and then struggling to relay it on through the medium, sometimes giving misinterpreted messages.

It further became clear that spirits are at many levels of advancement and that the lower level spirits were closer to the earth vibration and thus had an easier time of communicating with those on earth. Spirits at a higher vibration often had to relay their messages through lower-level spirits and this often resulted in distortion of the messages. It could be that Bigg was not hearing from God or Jesus, but from some intelligent but spiritually unadvanced low-level spirit pretending to be God or Jesus, not realizing how little he really knows.  On the other hand, few communicating spirits have offered such prognostication. 

I don’t know whether to call Biggs a visionary, prophet, seer, medium, clairvoyant, clairaudient, psychic, remote viewer, or religious crank, nor do I know how much overlap there is between all those abilities. I have no doubt that something paranormal was going on with Harriet, that she was not attempting to fool anyone.  And surely, many people called saints by the Catholic Church had one or more of those abilities and were not charlatans.

Trusting Spirits?

Keith Parsons has just released his latest video, titled “Spirits Talking: Can They Be Trusted?”  I asked Keith for his thoughts on Biggs.  “I agree with you that all [his]  predictions coming true is startling and really uncanny,” he responded “…..
Where these predictions come from is pretty much a mystery since my own understanding is that a personal God capable of communicating with humans is a mistaken idea, even though Biggs asserts that is where his information is coming from. My own interpretation is that there is probably an incomprehensible intelligent agency, or cosmic mind, that does not need to be worshipped or talked to but which is involved in the design of life on this planet but not with sending personal messages to Biggs. You are right to raise the question of whether his predictions might have come from some other spirit, possibly wishing to pass themselves off as ‘a God person’. But while my doc does not dispute that in the afterlife there are spirits who communicate with this side, let’s not forget - as mentioned in my previous video Why Was Willie Weird? - that on multiple occasions mediums in contact with communicators on the Other Side also asserted before it began, that there would be no World War 2. This is partly what encouraged MacKenzie King to visit Hitler for such an assurance just before the war actually started. And yet these medium’s messages were incorrect.” (Keith’s video can be seen at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-eaqftiCQs)

Hurricane season will be over on December 1, but I’ll predict that there will at least be a hurricane or two somewhere next hurricane season, beginning June 1.  I wouldn’t be surprised by an assassination attempt, and I feel we are in the early stages of an economic depression right now, one that I foresee getting much worse over the next three to six months due to what I interpret as a crisis in the insurance industry that doesn’t seem to be fully recognized by politicians or the media.  I won’t be shocked if it is worse than the Great Depression of 1929-32.  My wife has started a vegetable garden just in case. But to predict a failed assassination attempt before the person is elected and seeing the bullet graze the intended victim’s ear and also seeing him go to his knees, is beyond anything I might predict. I don’t know what to make of it. I do hope that the prediction of an economic crisis is pure humbug, bosh, or religious madness.

Michael Tymn is the author of The Afterlife Revealed: What Happens After We Die, Resurrecting Leonora Piper: How Science Discovered the Afterlife, and Dead Men Talking: Afterlife Communication from World War I.
His latest book, No One Really Dies: 25 Reasons to Believe in an Afterlife is published by White Crow books.

James Paul,

Thank you for that last comment.  I gather that #5 is a very recent discovery.  It was shown on a TV program a month or so ago.  It was greatly magnified to show the two people in the eye of the Blessed Virgin Mary, but I don’t think it was explained whether what was shown was photo-shopped somewhat to make it clearer or that was the actual result.  I’ll be doing a little more checking on the Internet for this. All I have from my 1953 visit is a photo of the cathedral.  I don’t think they allowed photos of the painting inside the church. 

Although I parted ways with the Catholic Church many years ago, I’m pretty sure that Guadalupe and other miracles associated with the Church contributed to my later interest in paranormal phenomena.

Subject: Reflection on the Psychic’s Remark and the Guadalupe Visionary

Dear Mike,

Further to my earlier comments about the psychic I mentioned, I’d like to share a brief addition that may relate to the Guadalupe visionary. I’m bringing this up now because you mentioned having visited Guadalupe in 1953.

In 1998, while in a trance, the psychic described seeing an “Aztec spirit” shining behind me. He described the spirit as very holy and looking at me lovingly and glittering, which left me somewhat puzzled at the time.

At that point, I happened to purchase a tapestry of the Guadalupe Tilma, which depicted the key events of the Guadalupe apparition. Although I was devoted to Mother Mary, I was not particularly drawn to Guadalupe at that time. However, my interest in the subject grew, and I began to read more about it, including scientific analyses.

Around the same time, a priest gave me a beautifully framed picture of the Guadalupe Tilma, which further deepened my curiosity.

I began to wonder if the “Aztec spirit guide” the psychic referred to might have been Juan Diego, the visionary of Guadalupe. As you know, Juan Diego was of Aztec descent, and thus, of Indigenous heritage. Given that psychics often present their impressions in unique ways, this connection seemed worth considering. The psychic was not of Christian denomination, and of Jewish descent.

I’ll leave the judgment of this connection to you.
The image of Our Lady of Guadalupe displays several extraordinary and scientifically unexplainable attributes. Five key features, tested in the 20th and 21st centuries, stand out:

1.Timeless Preservation: Despite being exposed to the elements for over 400 years—subjected to soot, candle wax, and human contact—the Tilma’s chemical and structural integrity remains remarkably intact. No scientific explanation accounts for this unprecedented preservation.

2. Unique Creation: The original image appears to have been painted in a single, uninterrupted session, with no sketches, corrections, or visible brushstrokes, a technique highly unusual for painted artwork.

3. Unidentifiable Pigments: Nobel Prize-winning biochemist Richard Kuhn discovered that the pigments used in the image cannot be traced to any known natural source—be it animal, mineral, or vegetable—posing a significant mystery regarding their origin.
4. No Deterioration: While elements such as gold leaf have deteriorated over time, the original image itself has remained free from cracking or flaking for more than 500 years. This anomaly continues to defy scientific explanation.

5. Miraculous Eyes: The Virgin’s eyes contain reflected images of people, including Bishop Zumárraga, and display the Samson-Purkinje effect—a phenomenon that was unknown at the time of the image’s creation. These reflections follow the curvature of the human cornea with remarkable precision, a feat that current technology is unable to replicate.

Most importantly, utilising the known technology of 1531, three remarkable features of the eyes of the Virgin cannot be explained. These observations would be difficult to replicate with today’s technology of computers, ophthalmologic knowledge, and digital photography. At a magnification of 2500 times, the pupils of the Blessed Virgin were amplified by Engineer Jose AsteTonsmann. Also, Tonsmann claims that he can identify the image of Bishop Zumarraga as well as the reflections of several other witnesses involved in the Guadalupe miracle. The Purkinje effect (triple reflection), a phenomenon used to describe the adjustment of the pupil of the eye to light intensity, is also revealed in the images in the pupils. At the time of formation of the image, this phenomenon was totally unknown. The image in the eyes of the Virgin is comparable to the normal human eye and not that of an artistic picture. These features continue to inspire awe and intrigue, offering no clear explanation and fuelling ongoing debate among scientists, historians, and theologians alike.

Juan Diego, the visionary associated with the Guadalupe apparition died in 1548. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1990 and canonized as a saint in 2002. These extraordinary attributes of the Tilma continue to intrigue and inspire faith in me.

Best regards,

James Paul
1-12-24

Paul..

Many thanks for the extensive excerpts from the Barnes book on “Long-Distance Calling…”. Nothing surprising there, but good confirmatory material to the many other sources.

As an FYI to anyone who might be interested in picking up a copy, a reprint is available on BookFinder.com…it’s from one of those Indian “Leather-bound” vendors, so use your own judgment…

Paul Smith,
I am overwhelmed by “Long Distance Calling” by Mary Stephenson Barnes which you kindly gave the link.  I think this is a seriously overlooked book which I intend to spend some close review time.  Today I read through (skimmed) several chapters and see that in one chapter “Moliere” made some reference to a “Mrs. Curran.”  When he said that “Find someone like Mrs. Curran who hears sounds, who gets audible speech.” (p. 38) Of course I am wondering if he was referring to Mrs. Pearl Lenore Curran who transcribed conversation, poems, plays and novels from a purported spirit “Patience Worth.”  It was difficult to follow the time line of Mrs. Barnes but I see that some or a lot of what she is documenting occurred in the 1930s if not before, the time period of Pearl Curran. 

The chapter on “Poetry”, some of it purported to have come from Shakespeare’ as well as other poets,  was of special interest to me because of Patience Worth’s many poems which she dictated to Pearl Curran and her effort to mimic the writing of Shakespeare in her play “An Elizebethan [sic]Mask”  The poetry coming through Mrs. Barnes is not too dissimilar to the poetry coming through Mrs. Curran from Patience Worth except for the lack archaic words used by Patience Worth and in fact, I think it is of equal quality and except for the rhyming which Patience Worth and Shakespeare rarely, but occasionally did use.  In meter, thought and beauty I find the poetry transcribed by Barnes to be exquisite.

It is too bad that so much of the documented material from mediums of the past has been forgotten or intentionally ignored. 

Thanks for bringing the book by Mrs. Barnes to my attention. -AOD

James Paul,

Your last comment was read just after I read in this morning’s paper that 23,000 runners are expected to compete in the annual Honolulu Marathon next Sunday. One has to accept a certain definition of “running” to know the truth or untruth of that statement.  Based on many past observations, the vast majority will be walking the 26.2 miles. Some will be plodding and walking.  Some will be jogging, which is something slower than a run. I’d estimate that fewer than 100 of those 23,000 “runners” will be actually “running,” the event. Yet, anyone who finishes will likely say he “ran” the marathon and be referred to by his friends as a “marathoner.”  I think it is the same with mediums and psychics, there are many degrees of abilities among them.  Only a very small percentage have abilities we can trust in.

Paul,

I have a copy of the Barnes book, even signed by her. According to my little stamp in the book, I read it in October 1999.  I don’t remember much from it, but her “truths” were no doubt weighed and factored and filtered into my overall worldview. I’ll have to reread it.  Thanks for calling it to my attention.

Dear Michael,

The following is something of a follow-on to my comment dated Thu 21 Nov, 06:20, itself a follow-on regarding Keith Parsons’ recent documentary posing, in part, the question as to whether spirits can be trusted.  The posthumous or discarnate literature is considerable and it’s very difficult to have a fully comprehensive grasp of it without the work of many years. One of the excitements of this kind of engagement, which you know well enough from your experiences as a younger man frequenting bookshops in England, is coming across a new volume which promises to be of potential interest. Of course, each new volume also has to be weighed on its own evidentiary merits.

Such is my own recent situation, having just come across a highly obscure volume, long out of print and unavailable on the used book market. Despite long and careful forays into the literature, I had never come across this work in any bibliography or other reference. The book, Mary Stephenson Barnes, “Long Distance Calling: A Record of Other World Communications Through Automatic Writing” (1945), was digitized by Google in 2016 and put up on HathiTrust this year [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951000835057l&seq=1], if only available for download a single page at a time.  As a service, I’ve uploaded the complete document to Scribd: [https://www.scribd.com/document/798055873/Mary-S-Barnes-Long-Distance-Calling-A-Record-of-Other-World-Communications-Through-Automatic-Writing]

That aside, what to make of it?  If one were skeptically minded or unfamiliar with either posthumous literature generally or automatic writing literature more specifically, it would be extremely easy to brush it aside as a curiosity and nothing more.  However, with such familiarity, it may be seen to fit a pattern, cast in light of other volumes in the genre of automatic writing literature such as:

Geraldine Cummins, “Travellers in Eternity” (1948) [and other books]
Helen Greaves “Testimony of Light” (1969)
Grace Rosher, “Beyond the Horizon” (1961) and “The Travellers’ Return” (1968)
Jane Sherwood, “The Psychic Bridge” (1942) and “Post-Mortem Journal” (1964)
Charles Fryer, “A Hand in Dialogue” (1983)
Harry Homewood, “Thavis Is Here” (1978)

and others besides, including earlier major examples such as those of William Stainton Moses and Leonora Piper.

The author, long passed from this world and her book nearly so, all I have before me as a reader is the book itself. The author narrates that she was introduced to the possibility of automatic writing by an acquaintance at a dinner engagement and, having subsequently attempted it, found herself eventually in contact with her deceased father, who, as it were, took charge of her instruction, providing her with evidentiary material and eventually introducing to her through her hand a series of discarnates, famous in life, who offered brief commentary upon their interests. Toward the latter portion of the narration, she found herself increasingly being put to service to provide contact between living and deceased loved ones, in order to provide solace, peace of mind and cessation of grief.

The author comes across as open yet appropriately cautious, particularly concerning the possibility that what passes through her hand may be a product of her own unconscious. The largest sticking point for myself as a reader and for her as an author were the various famous discarnates who her father introduced to her hand. It is not inconceivable that such might have been the case, particularly if, from a discarnate perspective, an ‘open line of communication’ such as her own represented a somewhat rare possibility of communicating back.

In all, the book is something of a mélange, lacking a consistent thread of narration or narrative arc as one finds, for example, in “Post-Mortem Journal” or “Testimony of Light”. For myself, the portions that I found of greatest interest were the comments offered by her deceased father on various topics of concern, comments that carried, at least to my eye, a real measure of wisdom and insight and that comported well in the context of the larger literature.  A few notable examples:

In response to the author’s criticism of creeds, he replied “Let the churches alone. Whatever helps anyone to be better than he is is all right for that person.” (p.5)

In response to the author’s wondering whether Nirvana “implied the ultimate absorption of the Personality in Perfection” she queried “is it the deviation from perfection that constitutes individualization?” To which her father replied, “No. Individuality is one-sidedness but not imperfection. God is all imaginableness of development in all directions. We are splinters of God, you might say, conscious splinters. As we develop, so God himself is developed. As we grow, does He grow. We can hardly be submerged in Him without eliminating Him. His growth is our growth, our growth is His growth. All of us growing in Him. [N.B. I would understand this as referring to the Divine in Its aspect of All-Possibility: “God is all imaginableness of development in all directions.”] We are attributes of God. Do not be afraid of losing your identity. The Diamond has many facets. God’s brilliance depends on the maintenance of the facets. If one were lost, the Diamond’s brilliance would be diminished. If one facet were absorbed into the Diamond, the brilliance of the Whole would fade. The facets are individualities exuded by God.” (p.13)

On another occasion, “There is no sin. There is only lack of growth. All come at last to the fullness of their possibilities and their constructive desires and work out their own plan in the beauty of perfection.” (p.16)

On another occasion, “Yes, it is beautiful here. It is a real world. We miss those we have left but we have real, congenial friends here. We work and wait and wonder but about things a little farther on. We have settled certain doubts and problems but new ones appear, just as new ones come to us on earth as we grow. We maintain our interests in your problems. We are alive – have trees and gardens. We labor. We work in laboratories, too. We know our future is secure. We work for the delight of accomplishment. We think about God according to our various understandings. Some still think of Him as having arms and legs.
I have given you my understanding of the Infinite Source and of the Unity of Life. There are not two worlds; only one.… God is Spirit. Our bodies are condensations of spirit. Their decay is a diffusion and return to spirit essence. Always, there are finer bodies… As we progress, we become finer in body as well as personality.” (pp.17-8)

In response to the author’s query regarding reincarnation, “If it suits some people to believe that God’s purposes can be worked out only on the earth plane, that all development must be through the physical instrument, that is no present concern of yours. It is a point that can be postponed to the future to settle. … Many people in their noble frenzy to reincarnate for their own advancement, give cause for concern on the part of teachers and helpers on this plane. Some in their delusion become obsessing spirits. Others delay their development on this side, thinking that this can only come through incarnation… The point in earth existence is earth experience. Do not shrink from it but welcome it and grow through it.” And, following the author’s social exposure to Theosophists, he eventually commented “I have met many representatives here of the occultist and Theosophical Societies. None of these can recall any of their incarnations except their ‘last’. They do remember that.” (pp.24-5)

On another occasion, “Please know that we are real. Swedenborg’s explanations while difficult reading for the modern, are after all the simplest. We have ‘correspondences’ here to the phenomena, the physical phenomena on the earth plane. There are higher and higher planes; that is, more and more rapidly vibrating planes of existence.
God is. We are simply extensions of Universal Purpose into time for the purpose of development-beginning. Our progress goes on here. We have aims – purposes and work toward their fulfillment with less hindrance here because perception here takes the place of limited sight and, seeing consequences, we stumble less making – what shall I say – fewer hindrances in our own paths.” (p.27).

Finally, the author’s father provided the concluding statement of the book as follows: “God, being the source of all Law can create new Causes. Being Love, He desires the happiness of each fraction of Himself. In that fraction, Man, he has developed free Will. Only that free Will can shut a man from the Creative Source and limit his creative ability. To the extent that this individual fraction of God uses this free Will in accordance with Love and Law, to that extent will he succeed as a factor in the ever infinitely form-evolving Source or God.
There is no death. Life changes day by day, each change being a rebirth or transition. Know that only your own desires, controlled by your own free Will, govern your destiny.
Once more. There is no death. We survive and…call you on Long Distance.” (pp.113-4)

Best,

Paul

Dear Andrew,

As per your request, I have uploaded Robert Crookall’s “Life - ‘A Cheat’ or a ‘Sacred Burden’” to Scribd.  It may be found here: https://www.scribd.com/document/798034880/Robert-Crookall-Life-A-Cheat-or-a-Sacred-Burden

Best,

Paul

Michael,
My appologies for the link to the background of the Mandeville Collection. It was a good article about how Mandeville created a psychic library but the access proved troublesome. I have contacted Nancy who looks after the Mandeville Collection.  Nancy wrote this
“It would be great if you could share information about our collection to a wider audience, such as the one you mentioned. The link to our webpage for the collection is a good starting point for anyone interested.  https://www.library.illinois.edu/sshel/specialcollections/mandeville/
James,
I was delighted to see your reference to Ervin Laszlo’s work. I have many of his books as I love systems thinking (control systems engineer with The Limits to Growth (Club of Rome) training in 1970s). From the Laszlo Chronicle by Gyorgyi Szabo “A global thinkers journey from systems to consciousness and the Akashic Field.”

I might ask for your understanding of the sublimation of the thymus as I believe it is a lever for psychic activity.I think that we are both looking for clues.

The first chapter of any standard psychology textbooks is Abnormal conditions such as mediumship. The study of it is discouraged. I am impressed that you have an open mind to accept psychic phenomena when the standard training is to reject people exhibiting such strangeness.

The article you referenced (Modern Physics and Subtle Realms: Not Mutually Exclusive) has the dual wave and particle basis of nature. There are experiments in which nature behaves in odd ways choosing to act like a particle or a wave. How does a particle know how to act? “ DeBroglie’s discovery of the wavelike nature of matter changed that perspective dramatically. Today, physicists regularly deal with wave functions of leptons, quarks, photons, and the like, which overlap and share identical regions of space and time.”  Those particles which are “spooky at distance” are another matter.

If you explain to people that you hear voices of dead people they usually leave very quickly. (Mention it to your average psychiatrist then you are really asking for trouble). If you give them a message from a loved one who has passed they are a bit stunned. How did you know? Is this a trick? Are you in league with the devil? Give them the message and leave. Joseph Campbell is quoted “The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.”

Most mediums use the same techniques to camouflage their gifts/curses (I will explain this later) as the gifted and talented children. My friend has two gifted daughters (Phd at 20 etc). They needed to place them in university special care. Most gifted girls disappear in high school as smarts in girls affect them more socially. They hide their gifts with the same techniques as mediums.

My gifts are mediumship (we consider psychics as different), precognition and telepathy. Basic talking to dead people.Psychometry was where I did not feel comfortable. The hit rate is high but not infallible. These gifts can act as a curse as they disrupt my logical thinking. Seeing the future is the problem. You see impossible events lock in to place to create the future. The odds for each event is an outside chance but yet they happen, over and over. So you see, in my one such case was a disaster of a wedding. Was seeing my wedding day a warning or a promise of things to come? Only after the event can you see the implications but the question is why? The event meant a lot of hard learning to me but the rest of the world was not that impacted. Sure I get the high impact events but why see terrible things twice and not be able to change things.

I suspect that you are searching (like I did) for the sources of intuition. I funded high technology projects and looked at many CEO for their techniques. Is intuition psychic in nature? Does it operate all the time or only under certain conditions? Myers used an analogy for subliminal consciousness. He explained  in his book Human Personality Vol 1 Subliminal page 14  “The threshold must be regarded as a level above which waves may rise, — like a slab washed by the sea, — rather than as an entrance into a chamber. “

I suspect that with mediums those on the other side can raise the level on a temporary basis in order to communicate. I further suspect that the thymus is the slab mentioned above. I was delighted that you met a medium with gifts but sad to hear of anxiety affecting others. Mediums in Spiritualist Church do platform work (giving readings to the audience) much the same as we teach presentation skills in management. Anxiety affects both types of presenters. I have met many mediums over the years, one told me of my successful marriage with a Maypole. We thought impossible. A few years later by the advent of a terrible storm our service had to shelter and we were in a columned bandstand (rotunda) and the ribbons on the bridesmaids and flower girls dresses flowed around the columns as we dodged the rain making an aunt remark Just like a Maypole.

Thanks,

Bruce Williams

Andrew,

To answer your question about whether I have ever been to a medium, the answer is yes, but not in the last 25 or so years. I have never felt a need to communicate with deceased loved ones, but I visited six or seven of them out of curiosity during the 1990s.  Only two of them were really meaningful, one in London reported as Chapter One of my book, “No One Really Dies.  It is too long to relate here.  The other was here in Hawaii. 

Many people seem to think that Hawaii is a hotbed of psychic activity, but most of it has escaped me. I sat with one fairly good medium here during the 1990s. Some of her ‘hits’ were very evidential and beyond guessing, coincidence, muscle reading, etc., but I haven’t felt a need to search for or visit a medium in the years since. 

Thanks for your comment

Dear Mike,
In response to the question of whether any visitors to this blog have consulted a medium, I’d like to share my personal experience with a psychic who demonstrated extraordinary abilities.

I believe a genuine psychic possesses talents such as mediumship, clairvoyance, telepathy, precognition, and psychometry. For instance, the psychic I worked with exhibited these abilities from a young age, even diagnosing his aunt’s carcinoma before it was medically confirmed. As I mentioned in a previous comment, “There may be something in these individuals’ physiologies that is intricately linked to one or more otherworldly forces” (Klauber D. Robert, Modern Physics and Subtle Realms: Not Mutually Exclusive, Journal of Scientific Exploration, 2000; 14: 275-279).

Of the 20 statements this psychic made to me, 19 have since proven to be accurate. I believe that psychics often work with spirit guides, accessing information from them on behalf of their clients. Much like those at the top of a hill having a clearer view of the valleys below, individuals in discarnate dimensions may possess a broader understanding of the incarnate world. This is the mediumistic aspect of their work. This particular psychic became well-known, and I encountered several people who could attest to his remarkable abilities. However, I must also point out that I have met individuals in this field who, despite claiming psychic abilities, were less impressive. For this reason, I advise caution and discourage accepting anyone in this field at face value.

Psychics may also face additional personal mental health challenges like gifted children.  One of the most difficult cases of anxiety disorder I encountered in my clinical practice involved a well-known psychic who struggled to distinguish her paranormal perceptions from her negative automatic thoughts, which only heightened her anxiety. In this case, what was believed to be a gift ultimately became a curse. I found that my awareness of parapsychology was particularly helpful in working with this client. In fact, I firmly believe that a foundational understanding of parapsychology is essential for mental health professionals. It provides valuable insights that enable them to better support those who may be navigating experiences within the subtle realms.

Reductionist neuroscientists might also consider developing a conceptual model that borrows ideas from the realm of AI to explore the extra-cerebral components in relation to the brain. AI challenges us to think beyond the confines of the brain, prompting exploration at the intersection of artificial intelligence, quantum mechanics, consciousness, and Jungian psychology. In this context, the concept of a universal “Wikipedia” serves as a metaphor for both the brain’s information-processing system and the collective unconscious. AI can be viewed as a Self-Limiting, Self-Learning, and Self-Editing Wikipedia. Behind the scenes of AI, we might envision a quantum, invisible “Wikipedia” that symbolizes the Jungian collective unconscious—a universal repository of knowledge, archetypes, and experiences shared across humanity. This “Wikipedia” is not a static entity but a dynamic, fluid system of knowledge, probabilistic in nature, interconnected, and accessible only under certain conditions. By framing both AI and the collective unconscious in quantum terms, we propose that both represent systems of knowledge capable of evolving, adapting, and remaining hidden until specific “collapses”—moments of insight or experience—bring that knowledge into conscious awareness. This quantum perspective provides a bridge between mind, consciousness, AI, and the deeper unconscious structures that shape human experience.

Regards,
James Paul Pandarakalam

James Paul,

I think you summed it perfectly in your last comment. I guess the problem is the media. They continue to feel that “mainstream science” has the last word on it.

Mike

Michael, this letter is prompted by a number of issues and people you’ve covered in recent blogs. I’ll try and keep my comments and observations as brief as possible recognizing the ton of letters you get and the high quality of so many of them.

I’‘ll start with the responses to Professor Hyslop. I have read much of his work in particular a series of articles he wrote which I found very compelling.  I was actually reassured by his admonition to the skeptics so just to let your readership know I didn’t find it arrogant or overbearing just informative and convincing.

Moving on I appreciated the reference to Dean Radin’s utube series. I had read a couple of his books a few years ago and this was a nice refresh.Funny how Professor Brian Cox who does a fine job of explaining the Universe in a tv series is so dismissive of all the evidence of the Afterlife. Calls it ‘’ Woo Woo’’ rather disparagingly even tho.‘I’d bet he’s never reviewed a scintilla of the increasing amount of Scientists observations to the contrary. Shame.
For those readers who haven’t read ‘‘the Blue Island ‘’ and’’ Life Eternal’’ by William Stead I’d highly recommend they do so.I’ve re read both recently and understand more that was almost unfathomable at my first reading. Two other books I’ve recently read and are first rate are’’ What comes next’’ by Michael Schmicker and ‘’ The Elemental Mind ‘’ by Nick Herbert. The latter is a true mind bender but for those who enjoy Particle Physics it’s a Science Masters revelation of consciousness and matter. He can be viewed on podcasts for those who prefer watching to reading.

I’d like to end by thanking you Michael as well as your very erudite subscribers including AOD,  David Chilstrom, Stafford Betty, Keith Parsons and many others for the high level of insights and contributions to the general readership.I’ve certainly benefited from the discourses.

One final question. Have any of your esteemed readers actually been to a Medium or directly encountered Spirits beyond the drinking kind ???

PS I’d like the addendum to Robert Crookall’s book “The Supreme Adventure’’ if anyone has the link. Thanks

Dear Mike, Your statement highlights an important perspective on the philosophy of science, emphasizing humility, caution, and awareness of the limitations of scientific inquiry. A “true scientist,” is someone who recognizes that science is a tool best suited for understanding the observable, measurable aspects of the world. This means that science excels in studying phenomena that can be perceived through the senses, measured with instruments, and tested with repeatable experiments.

However, when it comes to the “invisible” aspects, like metaphysical or spiritual dimensions, science may not be the most appropriate method of exploration, as these often cannot be quantified or directly observed. The researcher must make sure that he/she has a correct mental concept and necessary intellectual tools to study the phenomenon he is targeting. A true scientist is someone who understands that the methodologies, assumptions, and frameworks of science are tools that work within specific boundaries.

A true scientist keeps science “close to the heart and not over the head” suggesting that a true scientist remains grounded, staying practical and humble in their approach. They recognize that while science can reveal much about the natural world, it has limits and cannot answer all questions—especially those beyond its scope, such as moral, ethical, or existential inquiries. This perspective calls for a balanced view, where science is respected for its achievements, but not elevated to a place of unquestionable authority over all forms of knowledge. In essence, a true scientist appreciates both the power and the limitations of science, using it wisely without overstating its reach. This humility fosters a more thoughtful, responsible approach to discovery and exploration.

Regards,  James Paul Pandarakalam

Thank you, Dr. Pandarakalam, for your interesting comments and attachments.  We are constantly told that “mainstream science” prefers the reductionist/materialistic explanation, but I wonder if there are any recent polls or studies to confirm this or at least give a percentage breakdown on it.  The polls were significantly wrong on our recent U.S. election and one of the explanations has been that some people supporting the supposed-minority view are reluctant to take part in such polls because they expect a negative reaction to it. In effect, they only think they are in the minority because the majority of the media opposes their views.  I wonder if that might be the case with mainstream science, i.e., there are many scientists supporting a spiritual explanation but they are reluctant to express their views on the matter and so we just continually assume that the reductionist/materialist explanation is subscribed to by the “mainstream.”

If the “mainstream” has ever been defined, I missed it.  An argument can be made as to who gets to qualify as a “scientist” taking part in the poll or study. Only those who wear lab coats? Only those who practice exact sciences?  Would social scientists qualify?

Dear Mike,

Mainstream science generally assumes that the future is unknowable and that human cognition is constrained to the present moment. Nonetheless, numerous studies have been conducted by cognitive scientists to investigate whether precognition might be real, often falling under the umbrella of automatic thoughts. Despite its long history, the phenomenon of precognition has been met with skepticism by the scientific community,
particularly by the specialty of psychiatry and I must confess that my footings are still in that specialty.  I have been courageous even to use the term intuition in my rendering. Intuitional experiences are the vehicles of spontaneous ESP experiences. Psychiatry is still focused on amygdala and hippocampus, two almond shaped structures in the brain. Psychotropic drugs work on the brain, giving good results and we are carried away. All along my career in psychiatry I have been cautious not to fall into the net of ultra-reductionism. Study of paranormal and mystical phenomenon protected me. The Oklahoma pastor’s spontaneous ESP experiences with all the psychological editing as indicated by Mr. Brian Antony Kraemer is worth noting. Accepting the very existence of intuitions would be a stepping stone for cognitive scientists to liberate themselves from reductionism. In this respect, your blog has been highly helpful. Currently, I am focusing on immunopsychiatry which is even going to dethrone the supremacy of brain-schizophrenia and bipolar disorders are autoimmune disorders.

By the by, in the last October, Vatican has given a cautious endorsement to Medjugorje Marian apparitional occurrences which are going on uninterrupted for more than 43 years.

Dr. James Paul Pandarakalam

Dear Michael,

Under the ‘Trusting Spirits?’ section of your post, you reference again Keith Parsons’ most recent video, titled “Spirits Talking: Can They Be Trusted?”  As an aside in praise of his efforts, every time I watch one of his documentaries, I invariably learn a number of fine points I wasn’t previously acquainted with.  His documentaries may be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9t-wgNZZDxW7GZsFX4D7oAjIHo9SVaQh. His intelligent, no-nonsense approach has much to recommend it.

To enlarge on his recent documentary title, in questioning whether ‘spirits talking’ can be trusted, there is a larger challenge of not just trusting a given ‘spirit’ but also everything involved in the delivery of, say, the written claims of a given book in front of oneself.  There is much to be gained by considering such a source by the analogous lights of how one would, in ordinary terms and as a third party, evaluate what someone (call her ‘Jane’) had reported having heard from yet another individual (call him ‘Bill’).  There is a ‘chain of trust’ that needs to be – however partially and approximately – established.  First, is Jane generally reliable accordingly to either personal knowledge or general reputation?  Second, do Bill’s words sound too much like the sort of thing Jane might know or say, or do they strike one as truly independent?  Third, does Jane have an at least plausible line of communication to Bill, one that has been demonstrated in other contexts.  Fourth, can Bill’s bona fides and reputation be established? (here, a ‘known’ individual such as Myers has a real advantage over an ‘unknown’ individual such as Imperator or Seth).  Fifth, can the communications through Jane be shown to broadly match those known to be from Bill in other, more established contexts?  Sixth, do the communications through Jane claimed to be from Bill have significance and value, whether intellectually, morally, spiritually or similarly?  If all of these may be at least partially and approximately established, then it is reasonable to given significance to the communications in question.  [Here, ‘Jane’ and ‘Bill’ might be taken in reference to Robert’s book, “The Afterdeath Journal of an American Philosopher: The World View of William James,” a work at least as interesting as the Seth material.]

Even with such a precautionary ‘art of judgement’ – to the degree that such a ‘chain of trust’ can be reasonably established – the communicating spirit can still be mistaken, as Keith points out.  Thus the critical need for cross-correlating discarnate testimony.

Brian,

I’m in full agreement with you, although I prefer to call myself an “Unorthodox Christian.”  As for the word, “graze,” I did not mean to imply that Biggs used that word.  It was my choice of words to describe how I interpreted it. Since DT apparently did not lose any part of his ear and yet was bleeding, I thought “graze” was the proper word to use there, not “hit,” as the media continually used. In my use of the words, a “hit” would have involved the point of the bullet striking his ear and probably more than that, taking part of his ear with him. while a “graze” suggests the side of the bullet came in contact with his ear. Without viewing the video again, I recall that Biggs motioned a “graze” when he ran his hand by his ear in explaining his vision. 

Many thanks for your participation in this and other discussions.

Thank you for the explanations of intuition, James Paul, but I must confess my ignorance in not seeing the link to precognition or premonitions. I can see some overlap in there, but the time element seems to be missing. As you know, I am well aware of your research and writings on the Medjugorje phenomena and two of your books are a valuable part of my library. The Medjugorje children had many “visions” of the future, as I recall.  I will have to refresh my memory on them.

Dear Mike,  I have to add a few more comments in your blog regarding the coincidence of Mr Trump’s assassination attempt on July 13th 2024 falling on the date of 13th July 1917.Both days are recognized as Fatima Days. I am also sending two of my papers on Fatima apparitional experience published in the website of RCPSYCH. . Kindly find the email attachments.

Regards, Dr James Paul Pandaraklam

Hi Mike,

Humans have spirits with access to information from the spirit world in various ways.

Directly or indirectly while awake, or people can receive knowledge of the future, when they sleep. Their spirit enters the spirit world and it is in contact with all types of spirits, situations, and can receive all manner of information.

Many if us seek information out.

Knowledge acquired of future events then can be spontaneously recalled once one is in the material world.

Also, Kardec speaks of prophetic mediums where this happens more frequently to those individuals.

I have found it happens to many regular people with great specificity, but most people don’t generally talk about it.

It has happened to me with very specific information spontaneously, and also by way of very vivid dreams.

Like most people it usually pertains to family,  friends or personal matters, much rarer having to do with specific societal or world events.

Respectfully,
Yvonne Limoges

Ron, thanks for your comment.  I fully agree on the McEneaney book.  I discussed it in Appendix A of my 2011 book, “The Afterlife Revealed.” I was going to mention it in this blog, but it got too long.

Michael,

I suspect this man, Brandon Biggs, was able to “see” a future event, in this case the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. He interpreted what he “saw” in a way that was different from the reports. Brandon did not say that the bullet grazed Trump’s ear, but does say that the bullet burst Trump’s eardrum. I don’t think Trump has claimed damage to his eardrum.

I’m not trying to dismiss the impressive visual of a near assassination of the former President, but only point out that oftentimes when a “seer” or clairvoyant observes something, s/he adds some interpretation to it as well as what s/he sees.

Going on, Brandon says the president fell to his knees in worship of God. There isn’t any evidence that he did any worshiping of God, but the visual is certainly accurate that he fell to his knees.

I personally don’t think any of this is evidence that we need to become Christians so we can “be saved” and “go to heaven” or avoid “hell.” I think it is more evidence that some people are able to access information available in the universe before it happens and this is a rich and wonderful detail about the universe in which we live.

I also think he is correct in seeing a major financial meltdown, but this is not because of any clairvoyant abilities I might have, but simply my own following of the stock market daily for many years and watching the development of a major market bubble of terribly overpriced equities.

I hope he’s correct that Donald Trump has some major spiritual awakening, but I doubt this and I also find it ironic that he and the pastor and the female “prophetess” interpret Trump’s four indictments and multiple felony charges to be persecution of “God’s man” rather than our justice system trying to prove what we’ve always said to our children that “no one is above the law,” that “we are all equal before the law.” I think we’ve pretty well done away with that ideal.

Michael, your articles are always fascinating. Thank you for bringing this to our attention. I have shared it with a minister friend of mine. I do not personally call myself a Christian anymore and do not intend to ever do so. I identified as a “born again” Christian for many years and then was capable of looking at all these ideas much more objectively and with much more delight and fascination with reality rather than be offered some other man’s idea of reality.

I start with the simple statement, “There are at least a hundred billion galaxies. This is considered a minimum estimate. There are at least a hundred billion galaxies.” If someone comes to you and says, “I have some good news. If you believe what I’m about to tell you, you will live forever in infinite bliss, but if you refuse to believe what I tell you, you will suffer an eternal damnation in a fiery place of torment.” I would recommend you walk away. Instead, hug a tree or follow a small bird hopping across a fallen tree trunk.

There are at least a hundred billion galaxies…

Gratefully,

Brian Anthony Kraemer
1310 Arbutus Ave. Unit 2
Chico, CA 95926-2632

Dear Mike, Your discussion on intuition has been interesting. Humans are basically intuitive creatures, rational mind is a development of evolutionary process. Ervin Laszlo introduced ‘spontaneous apprehension’ as intuition, described by the Oxford Dictionary as the immediate apprehension of an object by the mind without the intervention of any reasoning process. It represents a direct-intuitive-nonlocal mode of perception that is physically real and experimentally demonstrable.

Although classical physics assumes locality, implying that measurements at one point in space cannot influence events at another beyond a fairly short distance, photon experiments reveal that the universe is not locally real.

For intuition to occur, the brain must access information present in a nonphysical space.  Laszlo’s hypothesis posits that the unified field, a fundamental physical domain, contains not only universal fields and zero-point energies but also information. Laszlo argues that the object’s presence excites the field’s ground state, deforming it and creating information. The radiation emitted by objects forms expanding wave fronts, also containing information. When these wave fronts meet, they produce interference patterns, similar to those in ordinary holograms. Holograms contain information at nodes on these entities and events that created waves that constitute the interference pattern. However, these patterns in the unified field are quantum holograms, carrying information on events from the quantum domain. Whether human brains can access this information at the nodes of these interference patterns in the unified field is a captivating question. Laszlo proposes that recent exploration in quantum physics, quantum biology, and quantum brain research indicates the possibility of spontaneous access to interior information.

Laszlo asserts that sustained research on the spontaneous nonlocal mode of perceiving the world beyond the brain and body is both defensible and evocative. Positive results would confirm that the human brain can directly access information from beyond the physical realm. Laszlo emphasises that sustained exploration of this nonlocal mode of apprehension would hold significance, reinforcing the belief in subtle interconnectedness among human beings and nature, beyond sensory stimulation.

However, the   mysteries of the unconscious cannot be explained fully by quantum physics, especially given our limited understanding regarding the subject.

Although there is no consensus on the definition of intuition, it is typically considered as unconscious information processing distinct from rational thinking (i.e. conscious, critical, and deliberate) rooted in reason, logic, and substantiated facts. As per the dual process model of human cognition, these two thinking modes are complementary and vital in clinical decision-making. Intuitive thinking is rapid and may improve with experience. This mental state is often observed upon waking when the mind is highly pliable. Practices such as relaxation techniques or mind-altering substances can enhance intuitive thinking when the brain is in a less active state. Some individuals inherently possess higher intuition levels. Drawing from particle physics, Klauber argues “Something in these peoples’ physiologies may be somehow coupled, in presumably delicate fashion, to one or more other worldly force fields” (Klauber D.Robert: Modern physics and subtle realms: not mutually exclusive. Journal of scientific exploration 2000; 14:275-279).I personally think that Klauber makes great sense.
William Myers described intuition as a tacit and experiential capacity for immediate insight based on subjective reality, whereas the rational mind is linked with objective actuality. Hogarth shares a similar view, emphasising that intuition or intuitive responses are characterised by their effortless nature, typically occurring without conscious awareness or deliberation. However, strong intuition requires both wisdom and guidance from the rational mind. The feeling of déjà vu, often triggered by various sensations, such as sights, smells, sounds, and tastes, is universally experienced in a similar manner by everyone. 

People who think intuitively possess minds that remain constantly vigilant and focused, allowing them to notice details that others may miss. Although this one is a beneficial trait, it is suppressed in cultures focusing on scientific facts and logical reasoning. However, we all possess capacity for intuitive thinking in all its different forms, including mental, emotional, psychic, and spiritual, which is posited to occur in the right brain because it is more visual and creative.

Intuitive thinking is pragmatic, objective, ingenious, parallel, analytical, and independent of general intelligence. Emotional intuition refers to the capacity to rapidly discern someone’s personality traits and emotional state. Conversely, psychic intuitive thinking involves extrasensory perception and mainly deals with crisis-driven or challenging problem-solving, all achieved without deliberate mental exertion. It has been argued that human beings have one brain but two minds, analytical and intuitive. Science has overlooked the significance of intuition and underexploited the possibilities of intuitive mind. In reality, intuitions can facilitate swift decisions in complex, uncertain, and time-sensitive situations.

Empaths can absorb the emotions, energy, and pain of those around them, directly sharing and experiencing others’ feelings. Spiritual intuition is the ability to connect with the spiritual realm. Intuition and insight are two distinct phenomena. Intuition refers to the ability to immediately comprehend without requiring conscious reasoning, often described as the ‘gut feeling’ regarding the wrongness or rightness of a place, person, situation, object or temporal episode. Insight can be understood as the capacity to obtain precise and profound insights into a problem, frequently associated with movements beyond the existing paradigm.
            -Dr James Paul Pandarakalam

I remember some time after 9/11, being told by a coworker that his sister had had a very vivid dream of the Twin Towers being destroyed the night before it happened.  I didn’t know what to make of it, but not being a believer in any of this stuff I essentially disregarded it.

Fast Forward a few short years later, after having afterlife experiences with my father and grandfather, and other experiences, I slowly came to accept all of this as being possible.

During that transitional period I also read a pretty incredible book:

“Messages: Signs, Visits, and Premonitions from Loved Ones Lost on 9/11”, by Bonnie McEneaney.

Mike

Well, done, balanced, interesting blog. Meanwhile, if your prediction of an eminent economic crisis in the next six months out to be true. I will truly view you as a psychic. My rational, non-psychic self says that it will certainly not happen.  How about the loser owes the winner a lunch at CPK? 😄🍷

Michael and Paul,

I suffer from precognition and ask myself God’s work or a glitch in the universe? Seer or prophet - an occupation with high risk. Get it wrong and people in power have adverse reactions. I know that finding a good medium by the other side is hard.  Getting a good prophet is even harder.

I might relate Arthur Fords words from the book “Arthur Ford, the man who talked with the dead”.by Allen Spraggett 1973
https://archive.org/details/arthurfordmanwho00spra/page/47/mode/1up
Page 47

None of Ford’s friends or associates, it seems, ever communicated with Fletcher’s family. When asked about the family’s whereabouts Ford usually replied that they lived somewhere in Quebec.
Ford had what he said was a photograph of Fletcher sent to him by the family; it shows a handsome, boyish individual of serious mien. Wherever Ford was living, this picture hung in his room.
Why had Fletcher chosen Ford as his medium?
Presumably, the fact that they were said once to have been friends had something to do with it. But apparently, a more important element was the matter, as they say, of vibrations. Ford’s energy pattern meshed nicely with Fletcher’s, is how the medium often put it. The astral chemistry was right. Fletcher’s choice, then, was not arbitrary, since a control can only manifest through a medium whose energy pitch, to express it a little differently, is on the same frequency as his own. (Even Ford admitted that the whole business remained pretty esoteric to him.)

By and large, once a control picks a medium he sticks with him, or her, until death does them part. Occasionally, however, a control may manifest through mediums other than his primary one. These spirit peregrinations are a curious phenomenon. “Walter,” the guide of Boston’s celebrated medium, Margery, often popped in on the Winnipeg seances of Dr. Glen Hamilton and his circle, as also did “Feda,” the child control of England’s grande dame of mediumship, Mrs. Osborne Leonard.1 Sometimes a medium will borrow, so to speak, another’s guide, as the English Mrs. Guppy is said to have borrowed the famous phantom “Katie King” from a medium named Frank Herne.2 There also have been cases wherein, on a medium’s death, another inherited his spirit guide.

On at least one occasion, which occurred in October, 1927, and was reported by Nandor Fodor, Fletcher communicated through a medium other than Arthur Ford. Fletcher acted as spirit master-of-ceremonies at a “direct voice” seance in Ford’s New York apartment, featuring a trumpet medium named William Cartheuser. Fodor related that Fletcher’s disembodied tones were heard in the darkness with several other purported spirit voices. Though Ford was present, he was not in trance; Cartheuser, described as a cadaverous Hungarian with a harelip, per- formed as the medium.3

(This seance had a humorous sequel. Author Fulton Oursler, then editor of Liberty magazine, was among the sitters and, writing under the name Samri Frikell, one of his many unlikely pseudonyms, he stated that the seance had been held at Arthur Ford’s apartment, and that the medium had a harelip and was a fake. The one thing Oursler didn’t mention was that Ford was not the medium. When Ford read Oursler’s account he wrote him with mock anger: “I don’t mind being called a fake but I do not happen to have a harelip.”)

Paul,
I trust the document arrived by our mediums Jon and Michael. I had sent it a few times but you know that sending and receiving are two different things. I more than suspect that your insights are appreciated by the Other Side. The above quote is based on your interest in vibration. 
Thanks,

Bruce