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Reverend Warren Smith
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Reverend Warren Smith
This, my first materialization seance, was conducted with about twenty sitters
in a room illumined by red light. Although gifted clairvoyants in the audience
reported that they could see Spirits, their features and their clothing, in the
dark, for most people the red light was necessary to make the spirits, clothed
in ectoplasmic bodies and garments, visible to their purely psychical vision.
Spirits appeared, stayed briefly, making warm conversation with their loved ones
in the flesh and then withdrew into the cabinet---i.e., behind the curtained area
within which sat the entranced Medium.
With twenty or more people to serve, Miss Firefly, Warren Smith's
internationally famous door-keeper, organized things with a totally competent
and sprightly efficiency. The door-keeper's task is to admit the spirits, place
them in order, clothe them in ectoplasm, and introduce them to the audience. She
begins the seance, after a prayer has been led by the cabinet attendant, by
greeting each person individually, and then leading a song or two, sometimes
singing at the top of her lungs an aria from light opera. Miss Firefly also is
constantly watching to see that the etheric energy is flowing strongly enough to
keep the materializations going. So sometimes she will break into the
proceedings to ask for another song. She also coaches each sitter in how to
speak up warmly and loudly when their own visitor from spirit comes, and to be
totally silent at all other times. It became clear that a seance is not just the
result of a good medium in good form, but depends on the doorkeeper and her
assistants, on the visiting spirits themselves, and to a noticeable extent on
the cooperation and wholehearted support from the sitters.