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Reincarnation On Trial Two of the world's best direct-voice mediums
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On the “direct-voice mediumship” page we were introduced to two of its greatest practioners. The achievements in this area astound us. A direct-voice medium has the ability to facilitate the hearing of voices from the other side. These voices do not arrive through the mouth of the medium but are simply heard in the room in an unrestricted way. Direct-voice mediums Leslie Flint and Emily French provided their services over some decades and, by their agency, facilitated many thousands of “open room” voices. In their day, their work was somewhat well known and, as such, they were thoroughly investigated. See the above referenced article. For our purposes at hand, however, I would like to focus on an important distinction between the voices brought forth by each medium. Elsewhere in this series of articles, we’ve discussed how the belief-system of a medium might affect messages received. Leslie Flint believed in or accepted reincarnation as a common feature of the other side. As such, possibly due to the principle of “like attracts like,” nearly 100% of the voices of spirit-persons “coming through” also believed in reincarnation. Very significantly, though, Emily French, who did not accept the validity of reincarnation, made possible the entrance of voices - essentially, 100% - who also denied the existence of “R.” Editor’s note: To offer but one example from Mrs. French, the following “voice” emanated from a woman who had died as an infant and had grown up in Summerland. In all of her years on the other side, she had never met anyone who would even consider returning to the sorrowful Earth: “Let me impress upon you the charm of our land by saying that I have never yet found a single one who had emerged and come up out of the earth conditions who wanted to go back, inhabit a flesh garment again, and live among you, — and this, regardless of earth ties”; meaning, regardless of the closeness of love-relationships left on the Earth. Again, we are talking about, for each medium, many thousands of voices coming through over decades. In other words, this “split decision” could not have happened by accident. In the article “the 500 tape-recorded messages from the other side,” I offered extensive discussion on the Leslie-Flint voices. Somewhat impolitely, I referred to this group as “the insane 500.” My impertinence was supported by the testimonies of the “voices” which, in many different ways, exhibited, what Eric Hoffer described as, a tendency to “be rid of oneself.” It’s all quite dysfunctional, but the “insane 500” become posterkids for this malady. You’ll want to read the entire article as it is far too lengthy even to summarize here. The great throng of voices surrounding Emily French, however, did not, in my opinion, display these unbalanced psychological drivers; there was no attempt to “be rid of oneself.” All of this, I find to be extremely noteworthy. A belief in “R,” if born of lack of knowledge, if caused by falling victim to one-sided propaganda, is understandable; but those who obsessively crave to believe in “R” as a kind of de facto "religion" reveal something else going on down below; something unhealthy.
postscript The direct-voice medium, John Campbell Sloan, was featured as on the afterlife page.
As with French's mediumship (above), there were no believers in "R", it seems, coming through over the years. Investigator Arthur Findlay reports this concerning Sloan's voices: Once I put the straight question, "Do we reincarnate again on earth?"- to which I received this reply from the Etherian to whom I was speaking, "I have known no one who has been re-incarnated on earth. I passed over many years ago, and I have round about me those who lived thousands of years ago on earth. That is all I can say, because my knowledge does not permit me to say more." Another equally unequivocal reply on the same subject was given by a different Etherian some years later. He said, "We cannot come back and go through the same again." Editor’s note: We underline the word “cannot”. We cannot come back. As discussed in another article, “R” is not a choice, not an option for us, just as it’s not a possibility to become Peter Pan or the Easter Bunny. We are not granted unlimited choice in terms of personal ontology. The only real and substantive choice open to us is to discover the “true self” deep within and to become more and more like Mother-Father God. But those steeped in New Age religion do not like to hear this, prefer their cultism, as they blithely insist on their “choice” to return, as if it were something real. People say all sorts of things in this world, almost all of it is error. How will this be sorted out? If we shut down our critical-reasoning faculties we invite to ourselves a mental darkness; and this is why 75% of all those who cross over find themselves in a dark place, unable to see or hear. Read dozens of case histories on the "Sensibility" page. What they talk about is progress, and never have I heard anyone on the other side speak of coming back to be born again on earth. The butterfly cannot return to enter the cocoon. Remarks like the following were quite common: "I was an Indian Chief in the old days. I have now been on the spirit side of life for many years as you know time". Editor's note: in other words, the people who spoke via Sloan, often seasoned veterans of Summerland, know nothing of "R", even those in residence for thousands of years. They've never encountered it, have no clue where all this true-believer faith in "R" is coming from.
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