I mentioned a few weeks back that I was writing a book about overcoming the fear of dying. I think you’ll love it! Here’s just a part of one of the chapters which will give you some idea of the depths and breadth of what I want to express.
A related topic to ghosts or apparitions, and probably more comforting, if it were not so difficult to believe, is the topic of fleshly manifestations. By that I mean the appearance in this world of entities from beyond death that appear alive and communicative with humans.
These living manifestations can be touched, feel solid and anatomically complete. Sometimes only a body part shows up, but witnesses have been very emphatic: it feels real, a hand has bones and skin and can pick up objects in this reality.
As I said, it’s almost impossible to believe—even for me—when it is perfectly credible within my own model of primary consciousness. If consciousness did truly come first, then matter and energy are created by it, along with space and time. It should be possible.
But that doesn’t mean it’s easy. The discarnate beings involved report that it is very hard to generate enough energy to manifest a whole person. But such events have occurred, been witnessed and fully investigated before and after, to exclude any possibility of fraud and, in the end, it’s up to you whether you believe the accounts or not.
One particularly outstanding individual, capable of such manifestations, was the Icelander Indridi Indridason. He was associated with various light phenomena, levitation of objects; sometimes levitation of his own body; knocks on walls; clicking sounds; materialization of hands and forms; invisible playing of musical instruments; independent voices in the room (definitely NOT coming from Indridi’s own larynx); dematerializations and apports (physical objects which appear from nowhere).
Indridi Indridason (1883–1912)
This amazing individual was investigated and tested by several heavyweights, including Einar Kvaran, a well-known writer and editor; Haraldur Nielsson, professor of theology at the University of Iceland; and Bjorn Jönsson, a newspaper editor and later prime minister of Iceland. Together they formed the Experimental Society, specifically to study Indridason.
His seances were documented in numerous reports and it was the practice of the society to write up what was observed in a book of minutes immediately after the event and this was signed off by a second person each time, who checked the documents for accuracy. From 1908 to 1909 Indridi’s powers were also scrutinized by a well-known skeptic Gudmundur Hannesson, an outstanding scientist who received many honors, in Iceland and abroad and who later became professor of medicine at the university of Iceland.
Gudmundur is quoted as saying “The physical phenomena are unquestionable realities”. He was no longer a skeptic.
One of the common manifestations of Indridason was direct (disembodied) voices and even singers sometimes showed up. The voices came from various parts of the room. Gudmundur reports on occasion more than one voice was heard at once. That effectively neutralizes the pathetic attempt to discredit Indridason by claiming he was somehow casting his voice (while in a near coma) and fooling the investigators present.
Erlendur Haraldsson, was professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Iceland. Earlier he had studied at the Universities of Copenhagen, Edinburgh and Freiburg. His PhD was from the University of Freiburg. He took it upon himself to re-investigate the claims surrounding Indridi Indridason and all that is written here is from his paper in Leslie Kean’s book Surviving Death (chapter 23).
Kean’s book (Three Rivers Press, New York, 2017) is an amazing compilation of investigations, events and personalities related to psychic and mediumship phenomena of all kinds. She gives an account of her personal experience in 2015 and 2016 in the presence of a modern British super-medium called Stewart Alexander.
Buckle up and hang on to your hat. This is going to be a rough ride if you don’t believe in the supernatural and contacts from beyond the grave!
Paring it down to the bare basics, as a preliminary, Leslie investigated the seance room and found nothing that could permit of any fraud. In addition, Alexander was strapped to a chair, with his wrists held tightly by the plastic cable ties used these days by police, instead of handcuffs. These could only be removed by a wirecutter, which would be heard. In addition, Stewart had glowing markers attached to the knees of his pants. There was no chance of him doing ANYTHING, never mind staging an elaborate hoax!
The lights went down. Once Stewart was in a trance, three voices manifested, one of which was a male charmer called Walter, who took control of the séance. As a “warm up” he pulled Stewart’s wrist right through the plastic tie and then pulled the plastic tie through the chair arm, all while Leslie was hanging onto Stewart’s arm! He gave Leslie the tie (still locked in a loop) as a memento, to take home.
But the séance got really interesting with the manifestation. With Stewart on one side of the table—left arm refixed by another tie—and Walter the discarnate voice, asked Leslie to place her right hand on the table. Her book shows an easy-to-grasp graphic of what followed, which I got AI to re-arrange into horizontal mode:
A mist formed at the opposite side of the table, which gradually became dense and started to spread across the table towards her. It soon took the form of a hand, moving on its own, which crept towards her. I think a lot of people, thanks to the movies, would have been terrified at this point and maybe even broken off the proceedings. But Leslie held her ground and in fact describes feeling an astonishing joy beyond her ability to describe. The spooky hand finally took hold of her own; a touch from beyond the grave!
The thing is, it felt like a normal hand. She could feel the bones, muscles and fingernails as it moved. That is the crucial difference, of course, between an apparition and a full manifestation.
Leslie was present later for a full manifestation, meaning a complete human being (Dr. Barnett) appeared to the sitters. He walked among them, spoke and touched them.
I won’t go further into this. If what I have laid before you gives comfort and security that there is life beyond death; that we survive as conscious thinking entities; then by all means explore these phenomena. Leslie Kean’s book is a great starting place. Erlendur Haraldsson wrote an account of his investigation: Indridi Indridason: The Icelandic Physical Medium. Stewart Alexander has written an autobiographical book titled An Extraordinary Journey: The Memoirs of a Physical Medium.
I admit, some people may feel baffled by the weirdness, maybe even a little scared of the implications of it all. But if you are brave and want to get rid of the fear of dying, once and for all, you need to be open to the many comforting truths out there that are simply suppressed or ignored by mainstream scientists, who “know” it is all rot (even without investigating!)
To your good health,
Prof. Keith Scott-Mumby
The Alternative Doctor
