In the book The History of Spiritism, Arthur Conan Doyle (incidentally, Doctor of Law, Medicine and President of the British College of Psychiatry) testified to the receipt of such a cast by medium William Denton. The experiments of other mediums who made casts and gypsum castings on them.
William Okely from Manchester got a cast of his hands with wrists so narrow that “it was obvious: you could leave the wax shackles only with dematerialization. “This session was held for scientists, and It was attended by such distinguished scientific values as Maxwell, Lombroso, Flammarion. On it is Dr. Crookes (for scientific gold medal) took forty-three photographs.
Similar experiments are described in other books. For example, Reina Owell “Life Beyond the Curtain,” C. Crowe “Hidden Side” nature. ”
A photo from open sources
The castings were also received by Epes Sargent, who nevertheless expressed a columnist for Star has such a doubt: “… me burdens the problem … The result, contrary to reason, is is the basis of deep research? ”
The observer, being an extreme materialist, of course, does not burdened the mind with a similar problem. “If materialized a hand would take off the hat from the hanger so that I would not go far for it! .. If, he wrote sarcastically, the rotation of the table could to turn the coffee grinder, and not just click! .. If the medium instead in order to shake hands with someone invisible – “let to know, sir, how are you? “- would find out how the pound will change on the stock exchange … Then, gentlemen of the medium, it would not be that click without any sense with the knee joints under the table. ”
Scientist Gustav Geli (with the help of the medium Klusky) conducted a series experiments to create casts from materialized hands, and the sessions were very well prepared. The doctor recalled in his monographs that even special weight chairs were made and they showed that each of those present was “some kind of his own particle” took part in materializing forms of “living matter”. The monograph was entitled “How was this done?” And it was done like that.
A photo from open sources “Tray with molten wax. We added cholesterol to it to prevent fraud … We were afraid skip the moment when the appearing hand sinks … Easy a splash in the twilight – the hand plunged into molten wax. “Emerged” covered with wax … Gone, leaving the “glove”, preserving the forms of unexplored living matter. Thin wax gloves “were this time smaller than a normal hand.”
Dr. Gels showed these casts and made plaster castings – and sculptors, and molders, and fillers. He sent out a hundred twenty three photos. And no one indicated the way in which make the same casts obtained in the sessions.
This new form of matter was taken to study by the French doctor Richet, known for his extraordinary mentality, he called her “ectoplasm”. But neither he nor Gels advanced further than that resume. – that it is a decentralized energy, an education capable, mutating with effort, take different forms, and forming them effort is “unknown spiritual power.”
In 1922 they managed (with the medium Kluski) to make “paraffin gloves” – so narrow at the wrists that only a child’s hand could put them on, and then the results of their experiments on display in London, the Victoria Street Museum, Ebbhaus, and also at college in holland park. The experiments were repeated.
Professor Bottaji: “… Of course, something foggy formed, then a kind of milky-white vapor and – physicality: a palm appeared natural skin color! I drew a cane around. Possessing herself mobility, “materialized substance” this came into contact with the usual forms of the matter surrounding it, acting on it, was such a density that the casts were obtained, and I, shaking my palm, felt her fingers. ”
From the book “Secrets of Nature” by A. Denton: “Materialism implies that thought and spiritual power are derived from matter. But a hypothesis arises whether matter is the result of spiritual work strength, thoughts. Of course, with this hypothesis of the etherealness of the mind, we while it’s as if we are looking at the end of a book that has not yet been read. However even the Russian scientist Mendeleev said – that without a hypothesis notice the fact. ”
Twenty-seven French academics, initially tuned very skeptical, after the session, they assured that they reject all falsification: “wax gloves” not only cannot be faked, made in advance, but they could not have been made without evidence of fake. In addition, if in the corner of the room laid out on a tray soft clay, sometimes on it sometimes turned out to be themselves prints, and it was no less surprising.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle agreed that he had exhausted evidence for those who are skeptical of receiving an impression from a hand – which in surprise he shook, a faithful servant of Her Majesty the Science. But after all, Fa-radei claimed: “There is nothing more surprising than true”.
Tissot’s famous engraving “Apparition Medianimique” (“Medium Ghost”) captured a session of materialization. AND it is not a hallucination or a disorder of the mind, and in engraving that old truth is revealed that beyond all ideas of our mind there were manifestations of a kind of rational essence, which it was impossible to scientifically explain, and since then they have not only not explained, but also did not realize, must be, the whole volume of such manifestations.
The human mind is by no means universal. However, Berdyaev somehow said: “… The book may not pretend to be scientific, but it claims to be true. ”
