“If dying is not oppression, my knowledge that I am going to die will no longer oppress me. Instead of making me feel melancholy it will expand and deepen me.” ~ Johann Christoph Hampe
THE HEYDAY OF MENTAL MEDIUMSHIP: INVESTIGATORS, MEDIUMS AND COMMUNICATORS by ALAN GAULD
There have been important mediums and researchers throughout the history of psychical research in many parts of the world, but the period from the 1880s to the 1930s saw a coming together of outstanding scientific minds in Europe and the USA who probed the phenomena of mental mediumship with a diligence, intellectual discipline and degree of enthusiasm not encountered on such a scale before or since. Read more...
Feature articles
Dying Before We Die by Johann Christoph Hampe It happens at some time or other to everyone who is wide-awake and aware. We are overwhelmed by it on a particularly fine spring day perhaps, and at the latest when we reach middle age. We always knew, but now it’s gunpowder: there in front of us is the big black pit into which all life is ultimately going to disappear. It’s not only all the other people—the people in the ‘deaths’ column. I am going to have to die myself. Who knows when? But because I don’t know, death is already part of the present.
The Orpheus Motif in North America: The Comanche tradition To give the reader a general idea of the form taken by the Orpheus tradition in North America, I reproduce the version of the Comanche Indians, here published for the first time. It was communicated to me orally by the late Dr Ralph Linton, who noted it down in the course of his field-studies among the Comanche (1933). Particular interest attaches to the Comanche narrative, for it is the first recorded Orpheus tradition from the more easterly Shoshonean groups. No account is given of it in Wallace and Hoebel’s Comanche monograph, which is otherwise a valuable source for the religion and folklore of this tribe.
Joan of Arc and Winston Churchill: Charmed Lives and Higher Power The description of somebody as ‘bearing a charmed life’ has long lost its impact, but it certainly applied to Churchill. He knew it, and he attributed it to a protector. ‘I sometimes have a feeling - in fact I have it very strongly - a feeling of interference, ’ he told a gathering of miners in 1943. ‘I want to stress it. I have a feeling that some guiding hand has interfered. ’
Canadian Physician Informed: “We Do Not Die” by Michael Tymn: Due to failures of certain researchers to grasp the anomalies of mediumship, including the research involved with the mediums Mina Crandon, aka Margery, George Valiantine, and Rudi Schneider, during the… Read more
Boggled Spirit Minds & Messages – Part II by Michael Tymn: “When we converse through a medium and with a medium or automatist we become, as it were, dependent on her thoughts, words and images, and we go wrong, we stray in that tide. It can be a River of Forgetfulness… Read more
Why Spirit Messages are Sometimes Twisted, Garbled, and Distorted by Michael Tymn: Although the evidence for spirit communication is overwhelming, it seems well established that messages from the spirit world coming through mediums are often distorted by the medium’s subconscious mind.… Read more
How An Evangelical Discovered Mediumship was Not Demonic by Michael Tymn: As an ordained Baptist minister, Charles Mundell believed that mediumship was the work of the devil. However, he gradually became more liberal in his thinking, especially after reading Sir Oliver Lodge’s… Read more
