Stanislawa Tomczyk. Poland.
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Stanislawa Tomczyk
POLISH MEDIUM, the subject of Dr.
Julien Ochorowicz's experiments in 1908-9 at Wisla, Poland. She was regularly
hypnotised by Dr. Ochorowicz for therapeutic purposes and was controlled by an
entity "Little Stasia." She could produce movements without contact, stop the
movement of a clock in a glass case and influence a roulette to the extent that
the numbers chosen by the medium turned up more often than justified by chance.
Dr. Ochorowicz concluded that the physical movements are performed by rigid rays
projecting from the fingers of the medium.
Little Stasia was a mischievous entity who played many tricks on the medium. She
said herself that she was not the spirit of any dead person. The medium
considered her, at first, as her double. This was Dr. Ochorowicz's opinion, too,
until he was shaken in this view by having obtained Little Stasia's photograph,
as announced by her, in an empty room, with all light excluded, while the medium
in a normal condition was with him in an adjoining room.
Prof. Theodore Flournoy witnessed a séance in Paris in 1909. It left him "in no
doubt as to the reality of simple telekinesis." At. a later series of séances at
Geneva to which, besides Flournoy, Professors Clarapede, Cellerier, Batelli and
Flournoy's son were invited, the expectations of the sitters were not fulfilled.
In 1910 Stanislawa Tomczyk was investigated at the Physical Laboratory in Warsaw
by a group of scientists. She produced remarkable physical phenomena under
strict test conditions. Baron Schrenck Notzing described experiments in his
Physikalische Phenomene des Mediumismus, Munchen, 1920. Prof. Richet quotes his
own observations in Thirty Years of Psychical Research.
Source (with minor modifications): An Encyclopaedia of
Psychic Science by Nandor Fodor (1934).
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n a large gathering Seance the Physical Medium Stanislawa Tomczyk is being used to produce the beginnings of ectoplasm, The faint images in the darkness are sitters of the circle, not Spirit images on the print.
Non-professional Polish medium, the subject of the experiments of Julien
Ochorowicz in 1908-9, at Wisla, Poland. Tomczyk was regularly hypnotized by
Ochorowicz for therapeutic purposes, when she became controlled by an entity
called "Little Stasia." She could produce movement of objects without contact
(telekinesis), stop the movement of a clock in a glass case, and influence a
roulette wheel to the extent that the numbers chosen by the Medium turned up
more often than justified by chance.
Ochorowicz hypothesized that the physical movements were performed by rigid
"rays" projecting from the fingers of the Medium. The medium's hands were
thoroughly examined and washed before each séance. A small object, such as a
ball, cork, matchbox, or scissors, was placed before her on a table. The Medium
then placed her fingers about six to eight inches from the sides of the object.
The object would move and eventually rise in the air, floating between the Medium's fingers on each side.
Sometimes investigators claimed to feel a subtle "thread," but it was a psychic
line of force, not a material thread. Ochorowicz stated: "I have felt this
thread on my hand, on my face, on my hair. When the Medium separates her hands
the thread gets thinner and disappears; it gives the same sensation as a
spider's web. If it is cut with scissors its continuity is immediately restored
… it is then seen to be much thinner than an ordinary thread." These
observations have a strong resemblance to the od, the claimed "odic force" of
Baron Karl von Reichen-bach, which sensitive individuals claimed to see in a
darkened room issuing from the fingertips. However, Tomczyk's phenomena took
place in good light.
"Little Stasia" was a mischievous entity who played many tricks on the medium.
She said herself that she was not the spirit of any dead person. The medium
considered her, at first, as her double. This was Ochorowicz's opinion, too,
until he was shaken in this view by having obtained Little Stasia's photograph,
as announced by her, in an empty room with all light excluded, while the medium
in a normal condition was with him in an adjoining room.
Theodore Flournoy witnessed a séance in Paris in 1909. It left him "in no doubt
as to the reality of simple telekinesis." However, at a later series of séances
at Geneva to which, besides Flournoy, Professors Clarapède, Cellerier, Batelli,
and Flournoy's son were invited, the expectations of the sitters were not
fulfilled.
In 1910, Tomczyk was investigated at the Physical Laboratory in Warsaw by a
group of scientists. She produced remarkable physical phenomena under strict
test conditions. Baron Schrenck-Notzing described the experiments in his
Physikalische Phenomene des Mediumismus, München, 1920. Charles Richet quoted
his own observations in his book Traité de Métapsychique, (1922) (translated as
Thirty Years of Psychical Research, 1923).
In 1919, Tomczyk married the distinguished British psychical researcher F. H.
Everard Feilding (1867-1936), and seems to have discontinued séances.
Sources:
Berger, Arthur S., and Joyce Berger. The Encyclopedia of Parapsychology and
Psychical Research. New York: Paragon House, 1991.
Feilding, Evarard. "Note on the English Sittings with Miss Tomczyk." Journal of
the Society for Psychical Research 17 (1915).
Richet, Charles. Traité de Métapsychique. N.p., 1922. English edition as Thirty
Years of Psychical Research. New York: Macmillan, 1923. Reprint, New York: Arno
Press, 1975.