Otherworldly experiences by the departed

7 gifted wife and with her help noticed that some of his psychiatric patients were in a sense not really medically ill, but possessed . This means that their mental confusion and delusions were the result of alien paranormal influences, produced by otherworldly entities who attached themselves to some of his psychically gifted patients. Dr. Wickland saw his assignment in helping terrestrial people as well as otherworldly entities to extricate themselves from their fateful associations. He wrote an extremely valuable book about his 30 yearlong activity titled “Thirty Years amongst the Dead”, Los Angeles 1924. It was translated into German in 1952 under the title “Dreissig Jahre unter den Toten” (Otto Reichl Verlag, Remagen 1952 and further editions) and due to the plethora of its material really worthwhile reading. Wickland reports in this book (P. 43): “We found that my wife was an excellent medium and that disembodied entities could easily take possession of her. Answering her question of whether it was alright to ‘disturb the rest of the deceased’, these entities asserted that we here had a completely false concept of the condition after our demise. They assured us that there was actually no such thing as death, but only a completely natural transition from the visible to the invisible world and that highly evolved spirits constantly look for opportunities to communicate with us human beings in order to instruct us about the undreamt-of opportunities awaiting us on the other side in regards to our further development as spirits! – But the dying process, the separation of the spirit from the body, takes place so simple and natural that most will not be immediately aware of the change. And as they were never informed about the spiritual side of their being, they continue to hang around the places of their terrestrial activities after their demise out of ignorance!” 5. The departed influence terrestrial people “They further assert that a lot of spirits are attracted by the ‘ magnetic aura’ of people, they then enter it to besiege or possess their victims whilst neither the spirit nor the affected person must necessarily be aware of such intrusiveness. These sapient spirits, without actually being aware of it – but naturally often also with hostile intensions – do turn into the originators of unutterable mischief and misery by causing physical infirmity, moral inferiority, crimes and reputed madness! The spirits say that to attack this evil by its roots from this angle would bring great dangers for the neophyte in the field of psychic research with it; but it is even more dangerous to persevere with this in ignorance, particularly so for the sensitive neurotic. These spirit entities also explain that through a planned ‘transference’, that is to say, by luring such possession spirits from their victim to enter a medium, the correctness of this hypothesis and the real facts as they stand can be demonstrated. • Through the transferences of patients mental disorders to a medium, the ill could be freed from their tormenting spirits, the last mentioned must however be introduced to the influence of progressed spirits who can then continue to care for them and teach them higher laws of life. They alleged to have found a suitable instrument for such attempts in my wife and suggested that they demonstrate the correctness of their allegations, if I was willing to work with them. I was supposed to deal with these ignorant spirits and teach them, whilst these spirits were allowed to temporarily take complete control of the body of my wife and this without her suffering any damage in the process. Keen to find out whether these extremely important allegations were actually correct or not, we agreed to participate in such a seemingly risky suggestion. If we found the disclosures to be accurate they would be of great importance in regards to solving a lot of the mysteries of the inner life of criminals as well as otherwise psychically afflicted patients.” Wickland used the following words to report about his other experiences and insights (P. 31): “The change or transition called ‘death’ – this word is the wrong denomination – is generally associated with fear and horror, takes place in such a natural and simple fashion that the majority of people are not even aware of the transition after leaving their physical body. And in as far as the deceased are unaware