Is There an Afterlife by David Fontana

Author:David Fontana [Fontana, David]
Format: epub
Published: 2005-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

12 PHYSICAL MEDIUMSHIP: MATERIALIZATIONS AND OTHER PHENOMENA

In the context of mediumship, the term "physical phenomena' refers not only to the independent voices covered in the last chapter, but to supposedly paranormal lights, movement of objects, raps on the walls and tables, levitations of objects, apports (inexplicable arrival of objects such as flowers and jewelry), ringing of bells, and materializations (sometimes visible, sometimes purely tactile) of what are said to be spirit forms. At one time, following on from the raps and other manifestations at the house of the Fox sisters (Chapter 5), physical phenomena of this kind comprised the stock in trade of many mediums. The medium, usually in a state of trance, was said to release a substance known as "ectoplasm," a semi-physical material that may derive from the vivifying energy body said to permeate the physical body and to leave it at death (see Chapter 18), and the claim was that this substance is then used by the spirits to build up their materialized forms and to allow them to interact with physical matter.

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