- 84 - All of a sudden, all spirits, phenomena and such like now only played a subordinate role due to the overwhelming impression of this memorable demonstration; I felt secure beyond imagination; the tormenting stopped and the spirits could not approach me without my permission. My depressed mind uplifted, the blind was pulled from my eyes and I realised that I had been exposed to a hollow and unworthy double play. I realised that it was impossible to receive reliable explanations from a world where maliciousness reigns in its crassest form and how impossible it is for our loved ones, once they are over there, to entertain an unhindered and constant contact with us. I saw how hopeless it was for good spirits to transmit advice and hints, if they were actually allowed to do so, through spirit messages under such insecure conditions and interference with the free will that is surely of primary concern – but last but not least it became clear to me how useless and damaging contact with spirits is and the wrong turn I had taken when I decided to reach my goal via Spiritism.” One cannot blame Carolsfeld- Krausé for turning his back on the practical pursuit of psychic contact with the hereafter after these disappointing experiences and that the damaging aspect predominated the possible advantages in his mind, because he never got to experience them. It is rather tragic that it did not enter his mind much earlier to ask God and His son Jesus Christ regularly for help and protection and asked them to send him messengers from their realm. Because he was not aware that one had to ask spirits to swear in a solemn and strict form whether they served only God and Jesus Christ and not by chance the antagonist Lucifer, deceptive spirits could settle around him for such a long time. But he could indeed count himself lucky for not having suffered permanent physical or mental damage. This wasn’t so in the following case. It is reported by the American parapsychological researcher Professor Hans Holzer (born 1920). After narrating a couple of examples, he writes (8, P. 154): “I heard about a considerably more serious case soon after wherein no positive result ensued. It deals with the wife of a well-known publishing director. She wrote, painted, was a beauty, very witty and well liked within society. She was not physically ill when these events took place. She drank a glass or two now an again, but she was no alcoholic and she didn’t suffer from depression. She had no problems and also no interest in the occult, something she regarded a superstition. This Mrs. K. was at the cottage of a relative whose hobby was ‘moving tables’. She was in good spirit and she allowed herself to be talked into participating, not out of curiosity, but to oblige her host. A friend of the host was also present and she carried out the function of convenor. Mrs. K. had hardly placed her hands on the table when she found the whole thing too boring and she got up. One then produced a Ouija board and Mrs. K. joint the group again. The board seemed to completely concentrate on Mrs. K. and to such a degree that she became frightened and wanted to stop, but the host talked her into taking a piece of paper and a pen and to write if the spirit wanted her to do so. Mrs. K. thought that this was unlikely and she was very surprised when the pen started to doodle something on the paper that seemed to be a distorted face, maybe the face of an insane young man. The writing was arranged around the drawing and it stated: ‘I have killed the ones that I love.’ The word ‘killed’ was written with such force that the paper underneath was torn. Mrs. K. jumped to her feet, screamed wildly, something that filled the others with fear, and went into such a deep trance that she didn’t seem to be back to normal for a long time. Afterwards, she was deeply distressed about her first experience of being thus controlled. She was now no longer as sceptical as before and she swore to never ever challenge the eerie ever again. But the door that she had opened did not want to close again. She became the instrument of a whole series of disembodied personalities that used her as a medium in order to make themselves known after years of disappointed oblivion. They were soldiers, the architect of the house, a gentleman from the 18th century and the violent murderer who had open the psychic door. He had been a painter and he began to control Mrs. K. to
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