- 2 - of people still living on Earth, people we call psychics. According to experience, the control centre or their human will can under certain circumstances be deactivated to a lesser or higher degree to be replaced by an alien will. This is in certain cases possible with living human beings, namely through the process of so-called hypnosis2. The deceased, so-called “spirit entities”, can in specific cases deactivate the will and the waking consciousness of predisposed people to a lesser of higher degree. In pronounced cases, they are able to utilise the voice boxes and the limbs (for instance the hands) of accordingly talented people (one talks of mediumship = psychic ability) as if they were their own. They can then convey their whole personal knowledge and their linguistic peculiarities to other, living people in this way. According to the level of the deactivation, one talks of a full-trance, semi-trance3 or inspiration. The exact physical and psychological processes taking place during these paranormal events are still unknown to this day. But the English parapsychologist and researcher Findlay4 reports what otherworldly entities could tell him through his medium Sloan (5, P. 214): “Question: What actually happens when you put the medium under your influence and when you use its vocal cords?” (Refers to trance utterances and not to direct voice) “Answer: “When the medium is under control and we want to speak through its vocal cords, we place it in a passive state. It finds itself in this state when it is in a trance. Its spirit has momentarily left the body and it is outside of it. When it is in this condition, we are able to have an effect on its larynx and its vocal cords, its tongue and the muscles of its larynx. We do however not enter the medium but we stand behind it. We can place ourselves into a state or we can harmonise with the medium to a degree where, when our vocal cords move, the mediums also move accordingly. An ethereal or psychic link eventuates, whatever one likes to call it, that has the same effect on the muscles of the medium as one tuning fork has on another tuning fork, when both of them are attuned to the same pitch. This is how the two voice systems work in accordance with one another. There is no question that the messages are somehow influenced by the spirit of the medium, because its spirit plays no role whatsoever in this. We do not work through its spirit, but directly through its vocal cords5. Everything that is transmitted is exactly the way it is formulated by the spirit of the ethereal being. The spirit and the brain of the medium are momentarily deactivated and the spiritual organiser supervises the muscles of the medium’s vocal cords.” The external processes of trance-speaking and trance-writing (often called automatic writing) and those of full and partial materialisations have already been extensively dealt with in the two books “Der Tod, die Brücke zu neuem Leben” (17) and “Aus der jenseitigen Welt” (18). These narrations deal with the appearance of the varied influences that flow from the after death realm of existence to our Earth. They show that our physical world is not the only form of existence. These apparitions provide the experience based proof that terrestrial death is certainly not the end of life and they indicate that a subsequent, ethereal life in another, differently constructed world exists. Ever since people existed here on Earth, large portions of mankind have been convinced that an exchange of information between the two spheres is possible and that one can receive advice and even physical help from deceased ancestors or higher spirits from the other world. Native tribes in particular make ample use of this when hunting, during warfare and when solving crimes. This made it possible for them to better master their fight for survival. The knowledge of these things was largely lost by Europe’s more civilised people. The modern spiritism that appeared in the 19th century as a practical application for making contact with the world 2 Hypnosis (Greek hypnos = sleep) is the effective deactivation of the normal waking consciousness and the decision-making ability through the persuasion of another person, ergo a comprehensive subjugation under the will of the hypnotist. 3 Trance: (Also called “Trans” by many authors, Latin trans – beyond) is a specific state whereby the control of one’s will over one’s body is suspended and one’s waking consciousness is deactivated. 4 Arthur J. Findlay: 1883 – 1964, English author, justice of peace and parapsychological researcher who worked with the English medium John C. Sloan (1870 – 1951) through direct voice. 5 This doesn’t generally apply. Other forms of trance utilise the spirit (the brain) and not the muscles of the medium.
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