Element Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Hauntings, The by Cheung Theresa

Author:Cheung, Theresa [Cheung, Theresa]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Harper Element
Published: 2010-06-02T16:00:00+00:00

Many of the successful sittings with Gladys arranged by the Society for Psychical Research were not attended by grieving friends or relatives hoping to contact a loved one but by proxies who knew nothing about the people or subjects involved in the communication. This made the likelihood of the medium obtaining information directly from the sitter via ESP or fraud much less likely.

On occasions when Gladys’s control Feda had trouble understanding a communication, sitters claimed to hear a voice from somewhere else in the room – a phenomenon called direct voice mediumship. Sometimes Feda and the direct voice would talk to each other.

Psychical researcher Charles Drayton Thomas had more than 500 sittings with Gladys and it was with Thomas that Feda first suggested the book test (see Survival tests). In this test a communicator would tell a sitter to go to a certain room, take a book from a certain shelf and on a specific page there would be something of interest to the sitter. Later tests included the newspaper test, where the sitter would predict what would appear in the newspapers before they appeared on sale.

The mediumship of Gladys Leonard was so superior to that of other mediums that it was investigated a number of times. The philosopher C D Braud did a major study on the subject in his Lectures on Psychical Research (1962), and concluded that Feda was not an independent entity but an aspect of Gladys’s personality. In the great majority of cases, though, like her American counterpart Leonora Piper, Gladys’s mediumistic ability defied explanation and impressed her investigators.

Towards the end of the 1950s Feda instructed Gladys to take on no more new work and to cut back on the amount of work she did. She died at her home in Kent on 10 March 1968 at the age of 85.

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