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Experiment with the trance

Psychic master — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:50:20 +0000

You may experiment with your own trance condition profitably in the following manner:
Sit with pencil in hand for Automatic-Writing, and induce one or more friends of yours to do the same thing at the same time. See whether there is any connection between your writings, when they are compared the next day. In many instances, where this has been tried, striking coincidental messages have been received, partly through one medium and partly through another. They thus tend to confirm each other and show that the same spirit intelligence is active and manifesting through both mediums at the same time, almost, or one directly after the other.

Somnambulism and trance

Psychic master — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:23:39 +0000

The difference between somnambulism and the medium trance seems to be that, in the former, we remain en rapport with ourselves and in the latter we are in touch with the Spirit World. Many mediums who give inspirational messages or lectures from the platform are in a condition of light trance, and children have been known to pass into this condition and give a large amount of valuable information, unknown to their seniors, and which certainly could not have been known to themselves.
Properly managed, the trance condition is not harmful, though it may become so in the hands of blundering persons. “The Spiritualist’s Manual” gives four chief reasons why the trance state should not be harmful to those who enter it. These are:

(1) The intelligences acting upon them (the mediums) are almost invariably of a superior character and therefore must mould the organism by constant use for the expression of higher forms of thought.
(2) The relation of the medium to the manifesting intelligence is that of pupil to teacher, sometimes that of a child to a wise and loving parent, and sometimes both these relations combined with a subtle and ennobling spirituality.
(3) There is always a mutual spiritual relation, even though the medium is not humanly conscious of it ; and no one can be a medium for the perfect expression of spiritual messages or discourses who does not consent to the procedure and co-operate with the manifesting spirit.

(4) As the master musician improves the instrument he plays upon, so also a spirit controlling a human organism for the purpose of expressing wholesome thought, imparts a greater power both to the brain and spirit of the medium. It is often difficult for spirits to control a medium sufficiently to manifest in any way through him.

Light and deep trance

Psychic master — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:17:47 +0000

There are all grades and degrees of trance, from the very light stage, in which there is but little difference from the ordinary waking consciousness, to that degree of deep trance where the medium is totally unconscious of everything that passes around him. Very deep trance of this character is rare, but many of the most famous mediums have got their best messages while in that condition. The famous Mrs. Piper of Boston had almost to die, to all outward appearances, before she could enter this deep trance, and at the end of two hours or so, during which the trance lasted, the only signs of life were slow respiration and heart beat. The only signs of consciousness were manifest in the right hand and arm which did the automatic-writing.
Many test-mediums and sensitives, on the other hand, pass into a stage of trance so light, that no one but an expert could detect any trance at all. Yet, in many such cases, no memory of the condition remains after the trance is finished. These light trances differ but slightly from cases of day-dreams, absent-mindedness, etc., when we say to a person, half in joke: “You are in a trance!” By shades and degrees this becomes deeper, as the state becomes more profound and lower and lower layers or strata of the subconscious mind are reached, Mrs. Piper had three distinct “layers” of this character. The first differed slightly from the waking state. In this condition she talked. The second condition was far deeper trance and in this stage spirits were seeu instead of human beings. In the third or deepest stage speech was usually absent and automatic writing occurred.

In trance, we may assume that there is a gradual and fluctuating control of the medium’s mind and body by the communicating spirit, and that, as one vacates or is driven out by the invading intelligence, the latter is able to control, more and more effectually, the medium. Just as “two solid bodies cannot be in the same place at the same time,” so two spirit intelligences cannot occupy and control the same body at the same moment.
When once the fact of spirit control is granted, the nature and character of this control remains to be solved. How does the spirit manipulate the brain and nervous mechanism of the medium, to bring about the desired results. What parts of the brain are used, and how? These and many similar questions remain to be answered; and it may take many years of scientific research before we are enabled to answer queries such as these with any degree of confidence.

Trance and Catalepsy

Psychic master — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:10:32 +0000

Trance is a condition into which certain mediums enter in order to receive messages and give them in the form of speaking or writing. No one knows, at the present time, what the medium-trance is, or for that matter, any other kind of trance ! Dr. George Moore says: “Trance is a state of body sometimes produced in man a condition utterly inexplicable by any principle taught in the schools.” Prof. William James stated his belief that the medium-trance was different from any other trance of which we have any knowledge, and this seems to be borne out by the fact that spirit-messages are given in this condition, as well as telepathic, clairvoyant and premonitory messages of all kinds.

Both trance and catalepsy occur spontaneously; both may also be induced artificially by hypnotism. Both are mistaken for death, and in many respects they are very similar. In catalepsy the body is rigid, whereas in trance this is very rarely the case this forming the chief mark of distinction (external indication) between the two states. What the internal differences are we do not know. Various attempts, however, have been made to define them. Dr. Franz Hartmann, e.g., thus distinguishes them: “There seems hardly any limit to the time during which a person may remain in a trance but catalepsy is due to some obstruction in the organic mechanism of the body on account of its exhausted nervous power. In the last case the activity of life begins again as soon as the impediment is removed or the nervous energy has recuperated its strength.
When a hypnotist places bis subject under hypnotic control, the subject remains en rapport with the operator. The influence comes from a living person. In the medium-trance it seems probable that the operator is not a living but a deceased person, and that it is a kind of telepathic influence from spirits which induces this state. In fact, it is brought about by influence from the “other side.”

How to become spiritual healer

Psychic master — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:34:37 +0000

Now let us suppose that you are a medium, and that you are treating some one else. You desire to gain this power and to obtain assistance from the spirit world. This is how you should proceed.
You must first of all see to it that you are in good physical health. If you are not, your vital magnetism is apt to be tainted and injure the patient. Further, as you often draw the patient’s ills from his body into yours, you must be in good health to do this. Next, your mind must be receptive, sympathetic and in an attitude of kindly helpfulness. If you feel selfish this at once sets up a barrier or wall, which you will be unable to break through. Finally, your psychic sensitiveness and mediumship must be developed, to a certain extent, to enable you to practice this “phase” with any hope of success. The methods which you must follow to increase your mediumistic power.
Now, assuming that you have your patient before you. Place your hands on his forehead, and make gentle strokings. Then place one hand on his forehead and one on his solar plexus. Take a number of deep breaths, asking your patient to close his eyes and breathe with you, in perfect rhythm. In this way you get into unison and sympathy. Then make yourself negative, and ask the Spirtual Power to come and help and assist you in your process of cure. Make yourself a channel for it. You will feel tingling sensations in your arras, and the patient will feel them in his body. This is the beginning of the process. Try to find just the right mental and spiritual attitude, and power will certainly come. From day to day, your ability to draw upon the great Cosmic Energy will increase. You will get greater and greater power, and as this develops, you will be able to handle and control it more and more. Your power as a spiritual healer will in this manner increase from day to day.

Your power

Psychic master — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:47:02 +0000

The mind should be exercised in all healthy channels.
Do not “introspect” or reflect too much on your own inner, mental conditions. You must learn to live outside your head, so to speak, in the outer world. Do not constantly wonder what is going on within your own brain. If you do, you will surely lead yourself into difficulties later on. In short, you should lead a healthy, active life, and, between those times when you experience phenomena, you should think about them, as applied to yourself, as little as possible.

If you desire to obtain certain manifestations, it is not advisable to sit for them or try and obtain them for longer than twenty (20) minutes to half an hour each day. At first five or ten minutes would suffice, and this time can gradually be lengthened as you progress. This is especially important; and the neglect of this rule is one of the great reasons for the dangers which mediums experience later on in their development. Suppose, for example, that some one appeared to you and gave you certain advice as to your course of action. It would certainly be unwise for you to follow this advice in every ease, without inquiring whether or not it would be just and sensible, and without using your own judgment when the advice was given.

Even supposing that the person who appeared to you were really the spirit it claimed to he, there is always the possibility that this spirit may be mistaken, and the further possibility that some malicious and lying spirit was coming to you, pretending to give advice, while in reality it was only leading you astray. There is this further possibility that the figure you saw was not really a spirit at all, but merely the product of your own subconscious imagination. Often this is the case, and yet the figure has given true and sound advice I All that we are stating now is that the judgment of the individual who receives such messages, or advice, must always be exercised upon the message received. If you do not cultivate this habit, you will find that messages often become more and more insistent, when they are not followed, and I will sometimes give untrue or lying information.

They may even urge you to do certain things which are against your own welfare. All this can only be settled by the exercise of right judgment, and by asking the advice of those who know how much to believe in these messages.
It is for this reason that the counsel and help of one who has had long training and experience in this subject is most desirable, during these early stages of mediumship.