The reliability of psychic transmissions and the testing of the spirits

- 2 - 1. Introduction Ever since modern scientific parapsychology has shown over the last 150 years through manifold evidential experiences that the survival of human beings in an otherworldly, ethereal world after their terrestrial demise exists, many people on Earth have tried during their terrestrial existence to make contact with the world of the hereafter, ergo with deceased relatives. A series of methods were and are on offer: The method of the rapping table , the psychic pendulum , the utilisation of a planchette , psychic writing and speaking and of late the utilisation of electronic apparatuses like tape-recorders, television, computers or specifically developed apparatuses. But all of these methods only bring the desired result if the participating terrestrial human beings have a characteristics or a predisposition we call “mediumship”. The motivation that compel people to establish contact with the world of the hereafter can be various: • It is often pure sensationalism, the curiosity into something extraordinary without a serious notion. The otherworldly interlocutors are asked the most primitive questions in the process: What is my next girlfriends name going to be, will I earn a lot of money, will my next school assignment be alright or similar nonsense. • The death of a close relative or friend is often another motivation. One finds it difficult to deal with the loss and one wants to know how they are. One naturally hopes to receive favourable information. • The third motivation can be out of scientific interests. One wants to furnish further evidence of the personal survival after death and one wants to explore the world of the hereafter whereby one has to ask the inhabitants of that region. • The fourth motivation can be to render further assistance to unhappy, deceased people that have not yet found their way in the world of the hereafter, through advice, elucidations and prayers. Because they did not believe in life after death during their life on Earth, they quite often do not realise that they have actually died. As they are, even if often quite restricted, able to think they hold the opinion that they are still alive. As life after death does not exist as far as they are concerned, they believe that they are still on this old Earth. It is often quite difficult to convince them that the opposite is true. All of these methods of communicating with the hereafter are not harmless or without risks , the way driving a car here on Earth is also not without risks. No sensible human being sits behind the wheel of a car without having learned to drive at a driving school and without having become familiar with road traffic regulations. • But most communications with the hereafter are tried by people that have not informed themselves about the nature and the dangers a priory and therefore have not taken the required precautions. In order to establish contact with otherworldly entities on has to call them and open oneself up to them. This is however as if someone opens their front door at night in a big city here on Earth and shouts: “Why don’t you all come in, I want to talk to you!” Those that then enter might turn out to be rather disagreeable and might even refuse to leave. Numerous people have been robbed or murdered after