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AA-EVP ParaNews for March 2005

Direct Voice Medium Lislie Flint: Paranormal researcher James Ellis has spent over sixty years of his life documenting spiritualist Lislie Flint’s work. Through a donation from Ellis, thousands of hours of audio tape, books and transcripts of séances from the famous British medium, who received direct voices from the likes of Winston Churchill and Mahatma Gandhi, have found a permanent resting place at the University of Manitoba.

Flint who crossed to the other side in 1994, underwent experiments in which his mouth was taped shut and a throat microphone was place on him to detect vibrations of his vocal cords. Direct Voice’s were still heard and vibrations from his vocal cords were not detected. During séances, Leslie would sit quietly while a voice box made of ectoplasm was formed in the air a little above and to the side of his head. The spirits used this voice box to speak to the sitters.

The collection was offered to European facilities but eventually landed at the U of M, partly because it already housed the paranormal T.G. Hamilton Collection. As you may recall, the Hamilton collection contains amazing pictures of faces emerging out ectoplasm and tables floating in mid-air.

From: the Winnipeg Sun, “The real X-files, Spooky tapes at U of M” by Katie Chalmers, staff reporter www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/WinnipegSun/News/2004/05/20/465985.html

Recorded Lislie Flint Trance Sessions: Tom Harrison, the son of materialization medium, Minnie Harriso, and Tom’s wife Ann, are caretakers of 120 Woods-Greene-Leslie Flint direct voice audio recordings. Ann is working on converting them to Windows Media 9 wma sound files and David Duffield is putting them on his survival e-book site. The direct link to the page : www.freewebs.com/afterlife/flint/flintrecordings.htm

Bioenergy Fields: Valerie Hunt, a professor of kinesiology at UCLA, studies human energy fields. While using an electromyograph (EMG) to measure muscle activity, she discovered that the energy radiating from the body was far more complex than originally believed. The highest frequency for muscle activity was believed to be around 250 Hertz. Hunt found that there were also very low amplitude fields emanating from the areas of the body associated with the chakras. These fields were of a much higher frequency, often averaging as high as 1600 Hertz. Furthermore, Hunt found that the frequency of these energy fields depended upon the psychological state of the person. When a person’s consciousness was directed towards the material world, the fields were near 250 Hertz. Psychic healers emanated fields in the 400 to 800 Hertz range, and people who claimed to channel information from a higher source emanated frequencies in the 800 to 900 Hertz range. Hunt’s most extraordinary finding came when she used a Poincaré map to examine these frequencies. Instead of randomness, she found a dynamic pattern typical of a strange attractor (Talbot, 1991, p. 177).

From: www.survey-software-solutions.com/walonick/reality.htm

Comment: A “Poincaré map” is used to plot and analyze the flow of a fluid. In chaos theory , a “Strange Attractor” is the region of a system toward which all of the elements of the system tend to move.

Hypnotism Works: Dr Christina Liossi’s (University of Wales) work on hypnosis was presented at the BA Science Festival in Exeter England. Her research shows that hypnosis can help relieve the pain suffered by children with cancer. The study was of a group of eighty children with cancer who were between the ages of six and sixteen. Half were hypnotized before receiving injections into their spine, a very painful part of their medical treatment. The other half received counseling. All the children were given a local anesthetic as usual. The children who were hypnotized reported feeling less pain and anxiety than the children who were not hypnotized. Children who were taught to hypnotize themselves benefited but not as much as when they were hypnotized by an expert. Dr Liossi says that, “We now have experimental evidence to say that hypnosis is an evidence-based intervention, at least for children who undergo painful treatment procedures.”

From: British Psychological Society www.bps.org.uk THE RESEARCH DIGEST, issue 27

MORI Poll: A recent survey by Market & Opinion Research International (MORI) showed that seven out of ten people are convinced that psychic powers, telepathy and communicating with the dead are all possible. Three out of ten think that near-death experiences prove there really is an after-life. Half of the women questioned said that they had visited a psychic and a quarter of them said that they changed their lives as a result. MORI is the largest independently owned market research company in Great Britain. From: “Have You Got the Power” by Jane Simon, Mirror.co.uk

The Email Telepathy Experiment: Rupert Sheldrake is running an online telepathy experiment at www.sheldrake.org/. The site reads, “Some people say they know who is about to email them just before they receive an email from that person, or else, that they think about someone they haven’t thought of for a while, who then emails. We want to find out if this is just a matter of coincidence, or whether telepathy is involved. Help us with this research by running your own experiment on line!” To find out how you can help go to www.sheldrake.org/experiments/olt/start.html.

What the Dying See: They Walk Among Us: An Investigation into the Phenomenon of After-Death Materialisation (Metro Books, 2004, ISBN: 1-84358-097-7), by Emma Heathcote-James, features interviews with over 1000 individuals who have worked with and cared for those who were dying. Many of the interviews with doctors and nurses report that most people who are dying have similar experiences. They report seeing family and friends who have previously crossed over. These familiar people tell the dying person that they have come to help them cross over and the dying person is comforted and reassured by this experience. The care givers also report that it does not matter whether the dying person believes in an afterlife; the experience and reactions are all the same.

Happy at your Job? Enjoying your job depends largely on your personality. Nikos Bozionelos (Sheffield University in England) asked 308 office workers, from three universities, to complete a range of personality and career questionnaires. The personality traits of neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness and conscientiousness were calculated for each person. People with more agreeable personalities, who were altruistic, friendly and sensitive to the needs of others, tended to be happier with their jobs.

From: the British Psychological Society, http://www.bps.org.uk, THE RESEARCH DIGEST, issue 27

Dolphins Protect Lifeguards: In November of last year, during a training exercise, four lifeguards in New Zealand where herded together and surrounded by a group of dolphins. The dolphins kept the men together by doing tight circles around them. Then the lifeguards noticed that a great white shark had been coming toward them. The dolphins surrounded the group for forty minutes until it was safe for them to get to shore.

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