From this material also the spirits formed a throat, mouth, and part of a face, and connected with this curious formation was a long tube coming from the medium. She saw how the spirit lights were produced, and how the spirit hands, arms, and faces were formed from this substance. She also saw the spirit circle formed a little above the one in the natural world, and the spirits collecting the emanations from the sitters, and surrounding the medium with this luminous and comparatively solid substance.
Everitt knows that she has not finally left her natural body, by the luminous blue life-cord, which goes from the back of her head, to the back of the head of the natural body. The controlling spirit comes, takes the medium by the hand, and the medium leaves her natural body, and goes to her spirit home, where she is soon surrounded by her friends. Everitt, and the manner by which a circle of spirits appears and accompanies the circle of sitters: Here, the author describes a seance performed by a medium named Mrs.
REAL SEANCE FULL
Everitt’s No.42, December 15th 1872, click on the image to read the full issue. The first manifestations will probably be table tiltings or raps. The first symptom of the invisible power at work is often a feeling like a cool wind sweeping over the hands. Belief or unbelief has no influence on the manifestations, but an acrid feeling against them is a weakening influence… People who do not like each other should not sit in the same circle, for such a want of harmony tends to prevent manifestations, except with well-developed physical mediums it is not yet known why. Sit round an uncovered wooden table, with all the palms of the hands in contact with its top surface…īefore the sitting begins, place some pointed lead-pencils and some sheets of clean writing paper on the table, to write down any communications that may be obtained… Let the circle consist of four, five, or six individuals, about the same number of each sex.
REAL SEANCE HOW TO
Instructions for how to form a spirit circle to “obtain manifestations” adorn the final page of many issues of The Spiritualist. * * * How to Form Spirit Circles No.40, November 15 1872, click on the image to read the full issue. It is AMAZING! There’s a full run of it on JSTOR, so click on the images below and dig in. In it, you’ll find accounts of seances, ghost stories, inspirational spirit poetry, and apparitions of long-dead relatives. From there, it made its way to the UK, where the London newspaper The Spiritualist was published beginning in 1869. Spiritualism, “the belief in and practice of communication with the dead” by way of a medium, saw growing mainstream popularity in America during the last half of the 19th century.
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