Contact with the Hereafter

• We tried to repeat this strange experiment by only using our index finger. The slightest contact sufficed to make the chair move again. We were perfectly aware that it is impossible for anybody to cause a chair to perform such vehement and circular movements when simply touched by two index fingers. None of us initially believed in the involvement of spirit entities. We assumed that we must be dealing with a strange magnetic FORCE we were not familiar with. But we wanted to track this FORCE down. We then placed a bowl of water under the chair. The chair circled without touching the bowl. We then took an iron trivet, the kind used during the war to sole shoes. The chair continued to circle, but cleverly avoided the trivet. When we let go of the chair, it lost all its ENERGY within a fraction of a second. But we had to admit in spite of this that the said chair possessed a certain degree of “intelligence” because it was able to cleverly avoid the bowl of water and the trivet. The same experiment was repeated during the following days whereby the vehemency gradually increased . We began to contemplate whether we might be dealing with otherworldly FORCES after all , FORCES that utilised this wooden, upholstered chair. We removed the seat cushion so that only the frame of the chair was used in our experiments. The chair was now a lot lighter. It performed movements as if it wanted to fly against the wall with great force. We initially didn’t dare to let go of it, because we believed that it would be dashed to pieces. But when we finally did, all its inherent ENERGY was immediately taken away in the midst of its most vehement movements. One evening at around 7pm, we attached a pencil to one of the legs of the chair and then placed the leg of the chair on a large piece of paper. We then grabbed the back of the chair and waited patiently to see what would eventuate… Whilst the chair had always reacted immediately before, it made us wait for quite some time this time around. After about 15 minutes, the chair started to twitch slightly . With jerky, laborious little movements it drew a large Latin “W” and a “V” 1 next to it. We initially didn’t know what to do with this sparse result. But this was much too interesting for us to think of abandoning these experiments. Instead of the chair, we took a wooden, slightly polished board from the library. We sat opposite one another and grasped this flat side up with both hands. We found to our amazement that this board was suddenly charged with considerable ENERGY. It began to perform circular movements and then even recoiled, something we had not expected. We followed this ENERGY with our hands. We allowed ourselves to be willingly guided right to a point where we could no longer twist our wrists any further. The board slowly dipped to one side to then suddenly move in the opposite direction with increased energy. The movement always caught us by surprise and we got the absolute impression that the board wanted to dupe us, because it was teasing us. March 1962 As we had talked about the phenomenon we had discovered with other people, somebody lent us an old book by the French spiritist Allan Kardec one day. It was now possible for us to learn particulars 1 “W” and “V” turned out to be for Walter Vogel.