DIRECT VOICE 

Direct Voice as it implies, is a voice direct from the Spirit World. NOT THE MEDIUMS VOCAL CORDS OR VOICE BOX BEING USED. It is a voice that is formed by ectoplasm into an etheric amplifier [a name the Spirit World prefers rather than a voice box which it is NOT], or directly through the air, the etheric waves, similar to the way the radio and TV waves are harnessed and are used by earthly man but on a different wavelength or frequency through the ectoplasm. Many times in the past the Spirit World have used powerful linking Mediums to prove there is life after life and to give messages of hope to those who are in a muddle with mental anguish over the passing of a loved one or loved ones. The Spirit World are very accommodating when a person is genuine in their search for the truth.

Yes a lot of naive people, inexperienced Mediums and egotistical Mediums think that direct voice is a Mediums using their own throat voice box,  THIS IS TRANCE SPEAKING or INSPIRATIONAL SPEAKING with the help of the Spirit World. Many times during this process, it can be the MEDIUMS THOUGHTS ONLY, while they the Medium are speaking in a light trance or even what they [some fraudulent Mediums] call a deep trance. Even the genuine Mediums own mental thoughts can get mixed up within the speech of the Medium while they are talking whilst in that trance state. Look at it in more in detail in Meditation Oneness.

This is the reason for the use of infrared cameras in blacked out seances is so necessary to prove whether or not the Medium is doing what is being portrayed by the helpers in the Circle. Whether they are producing ectoplasm to produce an etheric amplifier or whether they are fooling the sitters in the physical seances in the darkness. In 2008 infrared security cameras are now only £40 which when connected to a recorder of about £45, can take away any doubt of fraud.

A lot of alleged Mediums in the past have used a strange voice coming from themselves out through their own voice box that they pass off as coming from the Spirit World, they pass it off as direct voice. TRUE DIRECT VOICE IS INDEPENDENT OF THE MEDIUM and should be shown as such. I have heard of some alleged Mediums in the 1980's using the technique as used by ventriloquists, and others using a similar method as actors do. I have attended two such seances so I can speak from experience, and both of those Mediums claimed it was direct voice that was coming through there was NO PROOF WHAT SO EVER that it was.

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 Physical Medium Leslie Flint producing an ectoplasmic etheric amplifier. Many times during his seances he was awake and talking to the Spirit World in a two way conversation, as did the sitters in his Circle. He proved he was not a fraud by being photographed with infrared light in his no light seances.

Sadly in this day and age NOT MANY of these modern Physical Mediums will allow cameras to be used in their no light seances. Are they so insecure or scared of being found out that they are a fake, it certainly makes you wonder. REMEMBER YOU ARE PAYING GOOD MONEY OUT to see these Mediums in the dark BUT YOU DO NOT SEE THEM. would you go to any show in a theatre and close your eyes all the way through.

Physical Medium Jack Webber tied up in deep trance. Spirit using ectoplasm to form etheric amplifier and also use and levitate the trumpet and tambourine, taken by an infra-red light sensitive camera.

The Physical Medium Leonard Stott in deep trance during a low red light seance where he is levitating the trumpet.

A sitter is touching the umbilical ectoplasm connection to the trumpet with permission of the Spirit World. Notice the ectoplasm within the trumpet in this photograph is luminous and brighter than the other sections of ectoplasm.

The Medium Mina Crandon in deep trance, where the Spirit World are using her to produce an ectoplasmic etheric amplifier from the ectoplasm, which is coming from her nose.

The Medium Minnie Harrison Spirit producing etheric amplifier in the trumpet ectoplasm is coming from her mouth, solar plexus and lower orifices during one of her  Middlesbrough Seances.

In a red light seance and infra red photography the Physical Medium Mina Crandon showing the beginnings of an etheric amplifier being produced with ectoplasm coming from the Mediums nose.

Medium Mina Crandon again with the Spirit World link producing an etheric amplifier under her chin with ectoplasm being produced out of her nose, the sitters are holding hands to keep the energy in the Circle and to prove the Medium herself is not faking anything..

More information about Direct Voice can be obtained in the following publications.

• Barbanell, H.: The trumpet shall sound (1933)
• Bayless, Raymond: Voices from beyond (1976)
• Bayless, Raymond: Experiences of a Psychical Researcher (1972)
• Bird, J.M.: My psychic adventures
• Bradley, H. Dennis: The wisdom of the gods (scan)
• Champion de Crespigny, R.: The dark sea
• Crossley, A.E.: The enigma of psychic phenomena (1974)
• Conacher, Douglas: Chapters of Experience(1973)
• Duncan, V.G.: Proof (scan)
• Edwards, Harry: The mediumship of Jack Webber (1962)
• Emerson, H.: Listen my son (1945)
• Findlay, J.Arthur: On the Edge of the Etheric (1931)
• Flint, Leslie: Voices in the dark (1971)
• Foy, Robin: In pursuit of physical mediumship (1996)
• Funk, Isaac: The psychic Riddle (scan)
• Hack, G.Kelley: Modern psychic mysteries (1930)
• Harris, Louie: They walked among us (1980)
• Randall, Edward C.: The dead have never died (scan)
• Randall, Neville: Life after death (1975)
• Remmers, J.H.: The great reality (1967)
• Rogge, IJsbrand: Dood geen Einde (Amsterdam 1978, with gram.record)
• Romme,Prof.Dr.M.A.J. & Escher: Stemmen horen, accepteren (1990)
• Scott Rogo & Raymond Bayless: Phone calls from the dead (1979)
• Sewell, M.W.: Neither dead nor sleeping (1921)
• Wilkinson, A.: Voices from the Southern Cross (195?)
• Usborne Moore, Vice-Admiral W.: The Voices (1913)

Mrs. Mary Marshall (died 1875), who was the first English Public Medium, was the channel for voices coming from John King and others. In London in 1869 Mr. W. H. Harrison, editor of THE SPIRITUALIST, conducted exhaustive tests with her. As the early Spiritualists were supposed to be people who were easily imposed upon, it is interesting to note his careful scrutiny. He says,* speaking of Mrs. Mary Marshall:

* THE SPIRITUALIST (London), Vol. 1, p. 38.


Tables and chairs moved about in daylight, and sometimes rose from the ground, whilst at the dark seances voices were heard, and luminous manifestations seen; all these things purported to come from spirits. I therefore resolved to be a constant visitor at the seances and to stick at the work till I either discovered the assertions to be true, or detected the imposture with sufficient accuracy and certainty to expose it in the presence of witnesses, and to be able to publish the facts with complete sectional drawings of the apparatus used.


The voice calling itself "John King" is backed by an intelligence apparently entirely different in kind from that of Mr. or Mrs. Marshall. However, I privately assumed that Mr. Marshall did the voice, and by attending a few seances found that it was a common thing for Mr. Marshall and John King to speak at the same time, so I was obliged to throw over that theory.


Next I assumed that Mrs. Marshall did it, till one evening I sat next her; she was on my right-hand side, I had hold of her hand and arm, and John King came and talked into my left ear, Mrs. Marshall being perfectly motionless all the time, so over went the other theory. Next, I assumed that a confederate among the visitors to the Circle did John King's voice, so had a seance with Mr. and Mrs. Marshall alone; John was there, and talked for an hour.


Lastly, I assumed that a concealed confederate did the voice, so attended two seances where Mrs. Marshall was present among strangers to her, in a strange house, and again John King was as lively as ever.


Finally, on Thursday evening December 30th, 1869, John King came and talked to eleven persons at Mrs. C. Berry's Circle, in the absence of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall, the Medium being Mrs. Perrin.


While Mr. Harrison satisfied himself in this way that no human being present produced the voices, he does not mention what was the case that the voices often gave internal proofs of identity such as neither the Medium nor a confederate could have supplied. Signor Damiani, a well-known investigator, in his evidence before the London Dialectical Society, declared * that voices that had spoken to him in the presence of unpaid Mediums had subsequently conversed with him at private seances with Mrs. Marshall, and had "there exhibited the same peculiarities as to tone, expression, pitch, volume, and pronunciation, as upon the former occasions." These voices also talked with him on matters of so private a nature that no one else could have known of them. At times, too, they foretold events which duly came to pass.

* Report of the London Dialectical Society (1871), p. 201. S.P.R. JOURNAL, Vol. IV, p. 127.


It is natural that those who come in contact for the first time with voice phenomena should suspect ventriloquism as a possible explanation. D. D. Home, with whom these voices occurred often, was careful to meet this objection. General Boldero, describing the seance when Home visited him at Cupar, Fife, in 1870, writes:

Then voices were heard speaking together in the room, two different persons judging from the intonation. We could not make out the words spoken, as Home persisted in speaking to us all the time. We remonstrated with him for speaking, and he replied, "I spoke purposely that you might be convinced the voices were not due to any ventriloquism on my part, as this is impossible when anyone is speaking in his natural voice." Home's voice was quite unlike that of the voices heard in the air.


The author can corroborate this from his personal experience, having repeatedly heard voices speaking at the same time. Examples are given in the chapter on Some Great Modern Mediums.


Admiral Usborne Moore testifies to hearing three and four Spirit voices simultaneously with Mrs. Etta Wriedt, of Detroit. In his book "The Voices" (1913) he quotes the testimony of a well-known writer, Miss Edith K. Harper, formerly private secretary to Mr. W. T. Stead. She writes*:

* "The Voices," pp. 324-5,

After considering a record of about two hundred sittings with Mrs. Etta Wriedt during her three visits to England, of which the notes of the general Circles alone would fill a huge volume, were they written IN EXTENSO, I will try to relate, in brief, a few of the most striking experiences my mother and I were privileged to have through Mrs. Wriedt's mediumship. Looking over my notes of her first visit in 1911 the following details stand out as among the principal features of the seances:-

(1) Mrs Wriedt was never entranced, but conversed freely with the sitters, and we have heard her talking to, even arguing with, some Spirit person with whose opinions she did not agree. I remember once Mr. Stead shaking with laughter on hearing Mrs. Wriedt suddenly reprimand the late editor of the Progressive Thinker for his attitude towards Mediums, and the evident confusion of Mr. Francis, who, after an attempted explanation, dropped the trumpet, and apparently retired discomforted.

(2) Two, three, and even four Spirit voices talking simultaneously to different sitters.

(3) Messages given in foreign languages-French, German, Italian, Spanish, Norwegian, Dutch, Arabic and others-with which the Medium was quite unacquainted. A Norwegian lady, well known in the world of literature and politics, was addressed in Norwegian by a man's voice, claiming to be her brother, and giving the name P-.


She conversed with him, and seemed overcome with joy at the correct proofs he gave her of his identity. Another time a voice spoke in voluble Spanish, addressing itself definitely to a lady in the Circle whom none of the sitters knew to be acquainted with that language; the lady thereupon entered into a fluent conversation in Spanish with the Spirit, to the evident satisfaction of the latter.


Mrs. Mary Hollis (afterwards Mrs. Hollis-Billing) was a remarkable American Medium who visited England in 1874, and again in 1880, when a presentation and address were given her in London by representative Spiritualists. A fine account of her varied mediumship is given by Dr. N. B. Wolfe in his book, "Startling Facts in Modern Spiritualism." Mrs. Hollis was a lady of refinement, and thousands obtained evidence and consolation through her powers. Her two Spirit Guides, "James Nolan" and an Indian named "Ski," talked freely in the Direct Voice. At one of her seances, held at Mrs. Makdougall Gregory's house in Grosvenor Square on January 21, 1880, a clergyman of the Church of England* "had the thread of a conversation taken up by a spirit where it had been broken off seven years before, and he professed himself perfectly satisfied with the genuineness of the voice, which was very peculiar and distinctly audible to those sitting on either side of the clergyman who was addressed."

* SPIRITUAL NOTES, Vol. I., p. 262, iv.


Mr. Edward C. Randall gives an account of another good American voice medium, Mrs. Emily S. French, in his book "The Dead Have Never Died." She died in her home in Rochester, New York, on June 24, 1912. Mr. Randall investigated her powers for twenty years, and was convinced that her mediumship was of a very high character.


Mrs. Mercia M. Swain, who died in 1900, was a voice medium through whose instrumentality a Rescue Circle in California was able to reach and do good to unprogressed souls in the beyond. An account of these extraordinary sittings, which were under the control of Mr. Leander Fisher, of Buffalo, New York, and lasted for twenty-five years, from 1875 to 1900, will be found in Admiral Usborne Moore's book, "Glimpses of the Next State."


Mrs. Everitt, a very fine non-professional Medium, obtained voices in England in 1867 and for many years after. Most of the great Physical Mediums, especially the Materializing Mediums, produced voice phenomena. They occurred, for instance, with Eglinton, Spriggs, Husk, Duguid, Herne, Mrs. Guppy, and Florence Cook.


Mrs. Elizabeth Blake, of Ohio, who died in 1920, was one of the most wonderful Voice Mediums of whom we have any record, and perhaps the most evidential, because in her presence the voices were regularly produced in broad daylight. She was a poor, illiterate woman living in the tiny village of Bradrick on the shore of the Ohio River, on the opposite bank of which was the town of Huntingdon, in West Virginia. She had been a Medium since childhood. She was strongly religious and belonged to the Methodist Church, from which, however, like some others, she was expelled on account of her mediumship.


Little has been written about her, the only detailed account being a valuable monograph by Professor Hyslop.* She is said to have been repeatedly tested by "scientists, physicians and others," and to have submitted willingly to all their tests. As, however, these men were unable to detect any fraud, they did not trouble to give their results to the world. Hyslop had his attention drawn to her by hearing that a well-known American conjurer, of many years' experience, had become convinced of her genuineness, and in 1906 he travelled to Ohio to investigate her mediumship.

* PROCEEDINGS of the American S.P.R., Vol. VII (1913), pp. 570-788.


Hyslop's voluminous report describes evidential communications that occurred.

He makes this not unusual confession of ignorance of ectoplasmic processes in the production of voice phenomena. He says:

The loudness of the sounds in some cases excludes the supposition that the voices are conveyed from the vocal cords to the trumpet. I have heard the sounds twenty feet away, and could have heard them forty or fifty feet away, and Mrs. Blake's lips did not move.


It still remains to get any clear hypothesis to explain this aspect of the phenomena. Even to say "Spirits" would not satisfy the ordinary scientific man. He wants to know the mechanical processes involved, as we explain ordinary speech.


It may be true that Spirits are the first cause in the case, but there are steps in the process which intervene between their initiative and the ultimate result. It is that which creates the perplexity more than the supposition that Spirits are in some way back of it all the scientific man cannot see how Spirits can institute a mechanical event without the use of a mechanical instrument.


Nor can anyone else, for that matter, but the explanation has been given again and again from the Other Side. Professor Hyslop's want of knowledge of the link existing between the sounds and their source would be less surprising were it not for the fact that the Spirits themselves have repeatedly supplied the answer to the questions he raises. Through many Mediums they have given almost identical explanations.


Dr. L. V. Guthrie, superintendent of the West Virginia Asylum at Huntingdon, Mrs. Blake's medical adviser, was convinced of her powers. He wrote:*

* OP. CIT., p. 581.


I have had sittings with her in my own office, also on the front porch in the open air, and on one occasion in a carriage as we were driving along the road. She has repeatedly offered to let me have a sitting and use a lamp chimney instead of a tin horn, and I have frequently seen her produce the voices with her hand resting on one end of the horn.


Dr. Guthrie gives the following two cases with Mrs. Blake where the information supplied was not known to the sitters, and could not have been known to the Medium.


One of my employees, a young lady, whose brother had joined the army and gone to the Philippines; was anxious to receive some word from him, and had written letters to him repeatedly and addressed them in care of his Company in the Philippines, but could receive no answer. She called on Mrs. Blake and was told by the "Spirit" of her mother, who had passed away some several years, that if she would address a letter to this brother at C-- she would get an answer. She did so and received a reply from him in two or three days, as he had returned from the Philippines, unknown to any of his family.


The next case is even more striking.

An acquaintance of mine, of prominent family in this end of the State, whose grandfather had been found at the foot of a high bridge with his skull smashed and life extinct, called on Mrs. Blake a few years ago and was not thinking of her grandfather at the time. She was very much surprised to have the "Spirit" of her grandfather tell her that he had not fallen off the bridge while intoxicated, as had been presumed at the time, but that he had been murdered by two men who met him in a buggy and had proceeded to sandbag him, relieve him of his valuables, and throw him over the bridge. The "Spirit" then proceeded to describe minutely the appearance of the two men who had murdered him, and gave such other information that led to the arrest and conviction of one or both of these individuals.


Numerous sitters with Mrs. Blake noted that while the Medium was speaking, Spirit Voices were heard at the same time, and further, that the same Spirits pre served the same personality and the same intonation of voice through a course of years. Hyslop gives details of a case with this Medium where the voice communication gave the correct solution for opening a combination lock to a safe, when it was unknown to the sitter.


Among modern Voice Mediums in England are Mrs. Roberts Johnson, Mrs. Blanche Cooper, John C. Sloan, William Phoenix, the Misses Dunsmore, Evan Powell the Welsh Medium, and Mr. Potter.


Mr. H. Dennis Bradley has given a full account of the voice mediumship of George Valiantine, the well-known American Medium. Mr. Bradley was able himself to secure voices in his own Home Circle, without any professional Medium. It is impossible to exaggerate the services which Mr. Bradley's devoted and self-sacrificing work has rendered to psychic science. If our whole knowledge depended upon the evidence given in these two books, it would be ample for any reasonable man.*

* "Towards the Stars" and "The Wisdom of the Gods."
 

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