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MEDIUMS Continued

Eusapia Paladino
Bringing "Witchcraft" into the Domain of Science

Improbable as her story is, it cannot be refused belief. Famous scientists have exercised over it for more than thirty years. They risked their reputation on her remarkable phenomena. She was an almost illiterate Italian peasant woman, ill-cultured, frequently falling in good sense and even common sense, so impulsive and violent that she would go off on people and beat them if they questioned her reputation as a medium. Why should the world of science lavish attention on a woman of this type? She brought witchcraft within the domain of science.
     Most appropriately, Cesar Lombroso, the famous Italian criminal anthropologist, was the first to bow his head to this revolution in human thought. In 1888 he was challenged by Dr. Ercole Chiaia, a noted Italian researcher, to investigate the case of a humble woman. Chiaia said that she could make a table advance by glaring at it; that she could make it back away by warning it off; that by lifting up her hand she could make objects ascend in the air and remain suspended like Mahomet's coffin; that she could herself rise in the air no matter what hands tied her down; that she could play on distant musical instruments; that she could draw on cards whatever people suggest by simply pointing at them; that she could assume strange forms; that no one knew how many legs and arms she had, for while she was being held other limbs came into view without her even knowing where they came from.
     Lombroso ignored the challenge for over two years. Then, on visiting Naples, he joined Professors Tamburini, Bianchi, Violi and five doctors in a sitting. He saw things which Chiaia claimed but he would not believe. On tis occasion though, he saw a handbell suspended in the air and ringing without visible contact. In a statement to the Press he declared: "I am ashamed and grieved at having opposed with so much tenacity the possibility of the so-called spiritistic facts; I say facts because I am still opposed to the theory. But the facts exist, and I boast of being a slave to facts." After fifteen years of investigation he ended by accepting the theory as well.
     Lombroso's testimony placed Eusapia Paladino in the limelight and initiated an exciting scientific quest. In 1892 there was an investigation at Milan in which Schiaparelli, Prof. Gerosa, Dr. G. B. Ermacora, Alexander Aksakof, Imperial Councillor of Russia, Baron Carl du Prel, author of the Philosophy of Mysticism, and Professor Charles Richet of the Sorbonne took part. Eusapia emerged with flying colors. The report, based on 17 sittings, stated: It is impossible to count the number of times that a hand appeared and was touched by one of us. Suffice it to say that doubt was no longer possible. It was indeed a living human hand which we saw and touched, while at the same time the bust and the arms of the medium remained visible and her hands were held by those on either side of her."
     Science was aroused. Professors came to Naples from all over Europe. Eusapia was pursued by invitations. She strode from conquest to conquest. Francesco Porro, Director of the Observatories of Genoa and Turin, concluded: "The phenomena are real. They cannot be explained either by fraud or hallucination." That they were not of an illusory character appears from his further testimony: "Next a formidable blow, like the stroke of the fist of an athlete, is struck in the middle of the table. The blows are now redoubled and are so terrific that it seems as if they would split the table. A single one of these fist blows, planted in the back, would suffice to break the vertebral column."
     Who struck the blows? The force was always associated with intelligence. That intelligence claimed to be an entity who is quite famous in the annals of Spiritualism: John King, alias Sir Henry Morgan, the buccaneer. He is the most romantic "spirit control", father of Katie King, the beautiful spirit girl of whom Sir William Crookes took forty-four flashlight photographs in his sittings with Florence Cook. It appears as if Katie King had a sister. Signor Damiani's English wife was told by John King in London that he had a reincarnated daughter in Italy who was a very powerful medium. He gave her name and address. Acting on this information, Signor Damiani discovered Eusapia Paladino. The old pirate was a genial soul and he did his best to oblige scientists. They could not help accepting him as a personality. Not quite a secondary one. For he showed himself, though mostly in parts.
     Describing John King's materialized hand, Prof. Richet says: "I held it firmly and counted twenty-nine seconds, during all which time I had leisure to observe both of Eusapia's hands on the table, to ask Mme. Curie if she was sure of her control, to call Courtier's attention, and also to feel, press and identify a real hand through the curtain. After twenty-nine seconds I said: 'I want something more, I want uno anello (a ring) on this hand.' At once the hand made me feel a ring: I said 'adesso uno braceletto' (now a bracelet) and on the wrist I felt the two ends as of a woman's bracelet that doses by a hinge. I then asked that this hand should melt in mine, but the hand disengaged itself by a strong effort and I felt nothing further." This happened with a professor of physiology who won the Nobel prize for his attainments! The swarthy, bearded face of John King was a familiar sight to Eusapia's sitters.
     For a ghost he could perform unusual feats of strength. Here is how, according to Lombroso, he was seen, in a semi-materialized state, levitating Eusapia: While Eusapia's hands "were being held by MM. Richet and Lombroso, she complained of hands which were grasping her under the arms; then, while in trance, with the changed voice characteristic of this state, she said: 'Now I lift my medium up on the table.' After two or three seconds the chair, with Eusapia in it, was not violently dashed, but lifted without hitting anything on the top of the table, and M. Richet and I are sure that we did not even assist the levitation by our force. After some talking in the trance state the medium announced her descent and (M. Finzi having been substituted for me), was deposited gently on the floor with the same security and precision, while Mme. Richet and Finzi followed the movements of her hands and body without at all assisting them, and kept asking each other questions about the position of the hands. Moreover, during the descent both gentlemen repeatedly felt a hand touch them on the head."
     The suggestion that a group of scientists cannot take effective measures to bar an accomplice or cannot sufficiently immobilize the medium is too childish to consider. Enrico Morselli, Professor of Psychiatry at Genoa University, tied Eusapia Paladino to a camp bed in the way that he would tie a dangerous maniac. Yet in fairly good light six phantoms presented themselves in succession in front of the cabinet, the last one being a woman with a baby in her arms. Each time, after the phantom retired, Morselli rushed into the cabinet and found the medium as he left her. He did not accept the spiritualistic explanation, but as to the genuineness of the phenomenon no doubt was left in his mind. Indeed, according to Richet, "more than thirty very sceptical scientific men were convinced, after long testing, that there proceeded from her body material forms having the appearances of life."
     The mystery is a biological one. The depth of it has not yet been sounded. The coming of the phenomena was preluded by marked sensations for Eusapia. According to Flammarion's description: "she suddenly experiences an ardent desire to produce the phenomena; then she has a feeling of numbness and the gooseflesh sensation in her fingers; these sensations keep increasing; at the same time she feels in the lower portion of the vertebral column the flowing of a current which rapidly extends into her arms as far as her elbow, where it is gently arrested. It is at this point that the phenomenon takes place."
     There was a depression on the medium's forehead due to an incident in childhood. From this depression Lombroso observed a spouting fountain of air. Others called it a breeze. At a good séance, the breeze was very strong, after a poor one it was altogether lacking.
     Between the movement of objects and the limbs of Eusapia there was a marked synchronism, on which Sir Oliver Lodge remarks: "When six or seven feet away, the time interval (between the push and the movement of the object) was something like two seconds. When the accordion is being played, the fingers of the medium are moving in a thoroughly appropriate manner, and the process reminds one of the twitching of a dog's legs when he is supposed to be dreaming that he is chasing a hare. It is as if Eusapia were dreaming that she was fingering the instrument, and dreaming it so vividly that the instrument was actually played. It is as if a dog dreamt of the chase with such energy that a distant hare was really captured and killed, as by a phantom dog; and, fanciful as for the moment it may seem and valueless as I suppose such speculations are, I am, I confess, at present more than half disposed to look in some such direction for a clue to these effects."
     Strange to say, this power of "vivid dreaming" could be transferred to the sitter if Eusapia held his hand. Flammarion struck three or four times in the direction of Victorien Sardou while Eusapia was holding his wrist. A second later Sardou felt the blows on his body tallying with the gesture.
     Another dramatic display of this invisible contact was witnessed in Prof. Richet's house on the Isle of Roubaud, in 1894. Eusapia rubbed the end of her lingers with blue chalk, asked Prof. Richet to hold it and, advancing to the table, drew two crosses on the table top in the air. The blue marks disappeared from her finger and the crosses were found on the underside of the table. She also drew scrawls on Prof. Richet's jacket with Myers' fingers. Under the waistcoat on his shirt front a blue mark was discovered. Holding Richet's clean finger as though it were a pencil she drew, in good light, a blue line on a piece of white paper. Another time she took Schiaparelli's finger and wrote her own name with it on the top of a block of writing paper which the astronomer brought along. The writing was found inside the block.
     The value of such demonstrations is by no means impaired by Eusapia's well-known propensity towards fraud. If the investigators weren't on the look-out she was always ready to play tricks both in the conscious and in the unconscious state. If she  was prevented in producing fraudulent results she produced the genuine article. After a genuine seance she was frequently ill the following day, sometimes even on the second day. She preferred deception if she could practice it; it did not exhaust her, and was amusing. As Dr. Carrington remarks, "practically every scientific committee detected her in attempting fraud, but every one of these committees emerged from their investigations quite convinced of the reality of these phenomena.
     The Society for Psychical Research in 1908 sent a committee of three capable and sceptical investigators to Naples. They were: Mr. W. W. Bagally, a practical conjurer, Dr. Hereward Carrington, an amateur conjurer whose book, The Physical Phenomena of Mediumship, is the standard authority on fraudulent performances and the Hon. Everard Feilding, who also brought many a fraudulent medium to grief. The committee brought in a verdict which was a complete acknowledgement of Eusapia's extraordinary powers .
     Against the American exposure in 1910, Carrington strongly dissented. He said that Eusapia presented a large number of striking phenomena which have never been explained. Howard Thurston, the famous American magician, supported his view in stating: "I witnessed in person the table levitations of Mme. Eusapia Paladino ... and am thoroughly convinced that the phenomena I saw were not due to fraud and were not performed by the aid of her feet, knees or hands."
     It is to Eusapia Paladino that the scientific recognition of the physical phenomena of medium ship is due. For she has been accorded that recognition. But as the facts could not be pigeon-holed, orthodoxy conveniently chooses to ignore them. On the day of their readmission a new age of science will be ushered in.
It takes so much energy to perform some of these feats that she could do that she could not simply just do them at anytime what-so-ever.  Cheating when you can made it possible to deliver the real thing later when ones energy had been refreshed.

The Story of David Duguid
A Medium For Famous Artists

David Duguid, an ignorant, uneducated Glasgow working man. Duguid was no professional medium. It was curiosity that led him to participate, in 1866, in table-sitting experiments at the house of H. Nisbet, a Glasgow publisher. During the sitting David's hand shook and a cold current ran down his spine. When Nisbet's daughter, who was an automatic writer, placed her right hand on his left, it began to draw rough sketches of vases and flowers and then the section of an archway.
     From such beginnings there developed one of the most powerful mediumships of the last century. The phenomena included mysterious raps, stirrings and intelligent action of inanimate objects, voices which from a husky tone became so thunderous that the house shook, the levitation of the medium, appearance of objects from closed rooms, mysterious lights, touches by phantom hands, showers of delicious perfumes and the handling live coals with impunity.
     All these phenomena were subsidiary to the Great Painting Mystery. In trance, with his eyes shut, Duguid executed sketches of great promise. The influence which claimed to be responsible for it felt hampered by Duguid's absolute lack of artistic education. On his suggestion, the medium took lessons at a Government School of Arts for four months. The knowledge so acquired might have assisted him in the large tableaux which he successively did. But it certainly sheds no light on the major mystery.
     In total darkness, on little cards which the sitters brought along and marked, while the medium was held or tightly bound, invisible entities executed small oil paintings, sometimes in as short a time as thirty-five seconds. The noise of the brushes and the crinkling of the paper could be heard from well above the table. When finished, everything dropped, the paper invariably with painted side uppermost, wet and sticky. It showed miniature landscapes, one or more so finely executed that sometimes their merit was enhanced if viewed under a magnifying glass. Occasionally drawings were produced within a sealed envelope on a folded sheet of paper, on which all those present had placed their fingers. It was in such curious manner that illustrations were provided for the frontispiece of William Oxley's Angelic Revelations.
     The invisible operators at first refused to disclose their identity. One of them assumed the name of Marcus Baker. He promised copies of his masterpieces which he had painted on earth. For four days, four hours at a time, the medium worked on a large painting. It was initialled J.R. From Cassell's Art Treasures Exhibition it was recognized as "The Waterfall" by Jacob Ruisdale. The copy, however, was not exact. Some figures were omitted. The "control", on being questioned, said that those figures were added later by Bergheim. On consulting Ruisdale's biography, this was found to be true. The second work of the invisible inspirer also claimed a famous name: that of Jan van Steen.
    Visitors to David Duguid sometimes recognized in the "direct" paintings produced in their presence scenes which they were acquainted with in America and Australia and which the medium certainly could not have seen. Apparently, therefore, their memory, in some subtle manner, was also tapped.

Mrs. Leonore E. Piper
The Medium Who Changed Even the Skeptics Lives

Mrs. Leonore E. Piper, a woman of sterling character and courage was the discovery of Prof. William James, one of our greatest modern philosophers. It was Mrs. Piper who converted Dr. Richard Hodgson, the greatest fraud-hunter in the history of psychical research ("a veritable Saul persecuting the Christians", as he was described) to a belief in human survival. It was her also who convinced Prof. J. H. Hyslop of Columbia University that "there is a future life and persistence of personal identity." a declaration which cost him his professional chair. It was she who reduced psychologists to a state of bewilderment all over the world and who, for a period of over forty years , endured every kind of scrutiny that scientific ingenuity could devise to disprove the reality of an invisible world.
     Mrs. Piper was a trance medium. The marvel of Mrs. Piper's case was that her body responded to these beings exceedingly well. She could obtain three simultaneous communications: writing with both hands and speaking at the same time. The dramatic activity of the hand was a remarkable phenomenon. It was full of intelligence and could be described as acting more as a person than a hand. Dr. Hodgson reported that at a sitting where a lady was engaged in a profoundly personal conversation with the control concerning her relations "the hand was seized very quietly and, as it were, surreptitiously, and wrote a very personal communication to myself purporting to come from a deceased friend of mine and having no relation whatsoever to the sitter; precisely as if a caller should enter a room where two strangers to him were conversing, but a friend of his is also present, and whisper a special message into the ear of the friend without disturbing the conversation."
     The first point on which the average inquirer wishes to be satisfied is the integrity of the medium. As to this, we have the testimony of Prof. William James. For the first eighteen months he kept her under personal supervision. He hypnotized her and found the condition of her trance and hypnotic sleep radically different. He found no signs of thought transference either in the hypnotic condition or immediately after it. Would he have declared in his report to the Society for Psychical Research without taking the utmost pains? He writes: "...taking everything that I know of Mrs. Piper into account, the result is to make me feel as absolutely certain as I am of any personal fact in the world that she knows things in her trances which she cannot possibly have heard in her waking state, and that the definite philosophy of her trances is yet to be found".
     It was as the result of Prof. James's representation to the Society for Psychical Research in London that Dr. Richard Hodgson was sent over to America and initiated there the most famous period of mediumistic investigation. He started by engaging detectives to watch Mrs. Piper and see if she made any attempt to obtain information normally. On days of sittings he forbade her to read the morning papers. He introduced all sitters under the pseudonym "Smith". He improvised sittings for the benefit of chance callers of whose very existence Mrs. Piper could not have been aware. For fifteen years he was ready to pounce upon the least suspicious circumstance. And in later years he ruefully declared more than once that his amour propre had never quite recovered from the shock it received when he found himself forced to accept unreservedly the genuineness of the Piper phenomena . For in his second report to the S.P.R. in 1897, he stated: "At the present time I cannot profess to have any doubt that the chief communicators to whom I have referred in the foregoing pages are veritably the personages that they claim to be, that they have survived the change we call death, and that they have directly communicated with us whom we call living, through Mrs. Piper's entranced organism."
     Dr. Richard Hodgson, the terror of fraudulent mediums and the hardest skeptic that ever entered the arena of psychical research, became a spiritualist. His outlook upon life underwent a complete change. He refused remunerative offers from universities and colleges and lived happily on an inadequate salary in one room in Boston for the rest of his life. He was in touch with a reality the fullness of which only the personalities of Mrs. Piper's last controls could adequately unfold.
     Pelham, Mrs Piper's second control was George Pellew, a lawyer, writer and friend of Dr. Hodgson who had died in 1892 and came back through Mrs. Piper to keep his promise to Hodgson. He talked with 130 people, of which thirty had previously known him. He addressed each of them in the tone and manner which he used in his lifetime. In 1897 a great change had taken place. The Imperator group arrived on the scene. They relegated Pelham to the role of a minor communicator. They professed to be the same august personalities as those working through the chosen vessel Stainton Moses, the prophet Malachias and his faithful band. The tone of communication assumed a dignity and loftiness of expression and a quasi-religious character which it had heretofore entirely lacked. The group exercised a tremendous spiritual influence over the life of all those who came in contact with its members. Many sitters prayed to Imperator for comfort and guidance as one would pray to a favorite saint.

Ms. Stanislawa Tornczyk
Lines of Force And Our Intent

Paychic studies often reveal a deep symbolism in poetic fancy. It is that there is but one enduring reality, the idea, and not its manifestation in matter. The material shape is ephemeral, the idea lives on. Thoughts are things and, in that sense, things have souls.
     Dr. Julien Ochorowicz. While a lecturer of psychology at the University of Lemberg, he had the good fortune to discover in Mlle. Stanislawa Tomczyk, of Wisla, Poland, unknown and thoroughly mystifying powers. She was his patient whom he regularly hypnotized for therapeutic purposes. In the hypnotic sleep the girl disclosed an altered personality which answered to the name of Little Stasia. As a miracle worker she was without peer. As a personality she was full of mischief and played no end of tricks on Ms. Tomczyk. 
     She was capable of things beyond normal human power. She could stop a clock by looking at it. She could produce movement in objects without contact. She could influence a roulette to the extent that the number chosen by the medium turned up more often than justified by chance.
     This is a very startling statement. Fortunately, Ochorowicz presented us with a detailed description of his experiments. The climax came on September 11th, 1911, when he obtained the photograph of an "etheric hand" on a sensitive film rolled up and enclosed in a bottle. The film, as it lay in the bottle, measured about three-quarters of an inch in diameter. The bottle had an orifice of about two-thirds of an inch. It was closed with the palm of Dr. Ochorowicz's right hand. With his left he laid it on his knee and held it there firmly. The medium then placed her two hands on the bottle between his. She seemed excited and exclaimed that she wished that a small hand might appear. Then she said: "It is strange! The bottle seems to enlarge under my fingers; but perhaps this is an illusion. My hands swell, I cease to feel them."
     An attack of cramp ensued, the medium screamed aloud, a moment or two later Dr. Ochorowicz broke the bottle, developed the film and found on it the imprint of a large hand with the thumb posed in line with the index finger, so that it might find room to appear on the film, which was 13 cm wide. The hand had the characteristics of that of the medium. In automatic writing, Little Stasia gave the following explanation: "I crept in by a chink between your hand and the orifice of the bottle. Then I slipped my hand flat between the folds of the roll, and the light caused itself, I do not know how, I merely took care to make the film opaque."
     Dr. Ochorowicz tried to discover the thickness of the "etheric hand". He found indications that it was less than a millimetre. That it was self-luminous. That under the effect of suggestion it could grow or diminish.
     The next puzzling stage of his discoveries was reached when in several of these "radiographs" the medium's ring appeared on the finger of her etheric hand. This seemed to indicate to him: 1. That there is a kind of link between the organism and the object it wears, 2. That the occult notion that material objects have an astral body is not limited to living bodies.
     The ring did not always appear in the radiographs. Dr. Ochorowicz tried to find out whether objects frequently worn by the sensitive were more easily produced on the plate than others. He chose a thimble which she rarely used. The medium suggested that he should himself retain the thimble on the finger of his left hand, holding her with his right hand. "Perhaps," she added, "the thimble will pass from your body on to my finger."
     The experiment appeared absurd, but Dr. Ochorowicz was willing. He took a plate from his box, marked it, and laid it on the medium's knees. She was seated on his right. With his right hand he held up her left hand about sixteen inches above the plate, the thimble being on the middle finger of his left hand which he kept behind his left knee. A red lamp was burning at a distance of about three feet. After a minute had elapsed, the medium said that she felt a sort of tingling in the direction of her forearm, where their hands met. She exclaimed: "Oh, how strange. Something is being placed on the tip of my finger... I do not know if it is the thimble; I feel something keeps pressing the end of my finger." When the plate was developed it showed the hand of the medium, and on the middle finger was what she called jokingly the soul of her thimble.
     Dr. Ochorowicz asked in some bewilderment: was the image a "double" of the thimble, or was it a photograph of the idea of the thimble? A close examination of the photograph and comparison with the thimble showed that the two corresponded exactly, the one "was a true copy of the other, precise in details and in dimension". He leaned towards the conclusion that an etheric hand wearing an etheric thimble produced the image.
     Another surprise which Little Stasia provided was proof that she was not the double of the entranced medium. While Dr. Ochorowicz was having a lively conversation with Mrs. Tomczyk in her normal state, Little Stasia impressed her picture, as promised, on a photographic plate in a dark and empty adjoining room.
     Who Little Stasia was mattered comparatively little. It was her phenomena which puzzled Ochorowicz and the world of science to which she was introduced. Invisible rigid rays appeared to issue from Madame Tomczyk's finger-tips by the help of which, before a commission of physicians, physiologists and engineers, she could raise a pair of scissors or any other light objects into the air without material support. The rays were threadlike and acted like a line of force. "Dr. Ochorowicz wrote: "I have felt this thread, 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 seems to be formed of points; it can be photographed and it is then seen to be much thinner than an ordinary thread. It starts from the fingers. Needless to remark that the hands of the medium were carefully examined before every experiment."
     When these photographs were thrown enlarged upon a screen the psychic structure became invisible. So much could be determined that there were swellings and nodes along it, like the waves of a vibrating cord.
     When Ms. Tomczyk lifted, supernormally, a ball, a whole number of filaments surrounded it like a net. In a photograph of a balance which was supernormally depressed, fine, hairlike threads are visible.
     The existence of such invisible threads were known before Ochorowicz. There are observations to prove that threads, finer than a spider's, may somewhat in the manner of cobwebs, connect the medium with the objects in the room which are supernormally set in motion. Mme. d'Esperance often complained of a cobwebby feeling on her face. Margery of Boston and many of her sitters had the same experience. Two years ago Professor Karl Blacher, of Riga, reported on his experiments with Frau Ideler, that she spun threads to accomplish telekinetic movements. She seemed to pull them from the inner side of her hand with her finger-tips. The threads seemed to be of a doughy, elastic substance, at first thick, then pulled fine, and felt soft and dry. Even while being handled they diminished perceptibly. A piece was secured and subjected at once to microscopic examination in an adjoining room. An enlargement of the microscopic photo shows that it is composed not of one strand, but of many fine but not organized threads. In its chemical composition the structure was not that of any known textile fabrics. Curiously, fire had no power over those threads. They made the flame withdraw. But, they were conductors of electricity.
There are many helpful hints here relative to the powers of our consciousness. One of those that can make a difference in our lifting off the ground is suggestion. Take heed and use it. Use the postive suggestions of others to help you too. None willing to be positive? Find new friends.

Electromagnetic Humans Continued

Charles Fort mentions two other 'immovables' Both of these women were married. A Mrs. Annie Abbott demonstrated her powers in London, November 1891 and the other a Mrs. Mary Richardson. in Liverpool England in September of 1921. One investigator of this phenomena in human beings, a Mr. Holms concluded that that "these ladies did not resist pressure, but that in some inexplicable way pressure against them did not reach or touch them"
These ladies were able to Be "immovables" by # 1. grounding themselves mentally and # 2. through their great power of belief they determined that they could not be moved and so, they would not be. That is how powerful we can Be. Why aren't we taught that such power is available to us? The possibilty of humans is shown to us throughout history yet the information is suppressed relative to the general populace while the priviledged few get access to such information. Times are a changing and we are coming into a time where all these possibilities are shared with one another. The days of selfishness and greed are coming to an end. Thank God.

Twelve year old Vyvyan Jones (pronounced Vivian) of Henbury, Bristol, in England became unaccountably electirc after breaking his arm in Feb. 1976. For two days his hair was permanently on end and he shocked people with powerful discharges whenever touched them. Lights and televisions flickered in his presence and watches would stop too. He could light up a lightbulb simply by holding it by his fingers.
Again note that we are talking about a subject of puberty age when so much is going in in the body, mind and emotions. This person experiences something likely very painful, a broken arm and then somehow, it is like some kind of switch in the body has been turned on and now he is an electric dynamo, albiet in his case, for just two days.
     I would note that the electromagnetic field of women who have just given birth is different and that many of these women notice afterwards that their watches stop being dependable or stop all together.

Gould and Pyle also mention a six year old Zulu boy who gave off intense shocks and was exhibited in Edinburgh in 1882. The investigator, Dr. Nandor Fodor in his Encyclopedia of Science tells of a baby born at Saint-Urbain, France, in 1869 who badly shocked all who touched him. Luminous rays would shoot from his fingers, and when he died, just nine months old, a radiance was observed around his body for several minutes. Douglas Hunt, writing in Prediction , (Jan. 1953) gave us two other cases of high-voltage infants: one was able to charge up a leyden jar, and the other caused "vibrations" in objects held near him, and was also seen to be surrounded by a soft, white radiance.
The higher self has purposes for having these powers at this young age. It does not have to be a conscious thing that this phenomena happens. It can be though, as in the case of a yogi or fakir for instance. They could give off these effects.

In the June 20th 1920 edition of Electrical Experimenter a Dr. J.B. Ransom, chief physician at Clinton Prison in New York, reported that thirty-four convicts who were suffering from botulinus poisoning also became highly electrically charged to where paper for instance would stick to them but metal would be repelled. Compasses went wild in their presence. The effects directly correlated with how poisoned they were. All effects faded as they regained their health.
Such things ought to be looked into to learn just how the bodies electromagnetic field  became so affected.

Fire Powers Continued

Lily White, of Liberta, Antigua would suddenly have her clothes burst into flames. Fire would start upon her garments whether she was at home or in public leaving her naked. On August 25th 1929 the New York Times reported that she had become dependent on her neighbors for things to wear, and that even as she slept her sheets burnt up and yet she herself was never harmed by the fires that lit all around her.
Some folks show not only fire immunity but are able to project it or in this womans case attract or create it. She's a fire initiator. What is the perfection of her being naked?  My mate Neida has the psychic impression that this is the woman herself (at an unconscious level) stripping down to her bare physical essence. If she would of consciously understood the symbolism behind this phenomena, that she was on a journey to her true "spiritual self" the phenomena would have stopped. That rings as true for me but if it doesn't for you then what other things might this all represent?
    Play God for a moment and try to look into the bigger picture of things. Ask questions. Put forth your own theories. Maybe it represents perfect vulnerability. It could also be seen as a possible unconscious "self-test" of how attached she was to how she presented herself in public. Personal issues relative to modesty may have been present on her part for all we know. Consider just what the possibilites may be here? for her, her family if any, neighbors and fellow citizens back then or nowadays. What do all these symbols tell you? Now listen for the answers.

Fire Initiating Abilites - From the Daily Mail, Dec. 13th 1921 comes a story of a boy who, with his mother, was driven from their home in Budapest by "alarmed" neighbors who claimed that some of them had seen flames flicker over him as he slept, singeing his pillow. It was said that since the boy's thirteenth birthday furniture had moved and fires repeatedly broke out in his presence.
It is VERY common for children (most often girls) of puberty age to come upon telekinetic abilities (moving things with their minds) and other abilities. Hormonal and other changes are going on in the body at this time. There seems to be a switch of sorts that gets flipped. Their abilities are usually unconscious, at least at the beginning. What ever happened to this kid? Did he grow up and gain control over his abilities? Was he somehow the inspiration for The Flame character in The Fantastic Four superhero magazines? Did the original artist come across this fellow via the dream state? These things could be. This is how the spirit works oftentimes .

In a March 14th 1976 interview with Soviet parapsychologist Dr. Genady Sergeyev, he spoke of the powerful telekinetic medium Nina Kulagina: "She can draw energy from all around her, electrical instruments prove it. On several occasions, the force rushing into her body left four-inch-long burn marks on her arms and hands... I was with her once when her clothing caught fire from this energy flow, it literally flamed up."
A couple of things about this story: 1. "She drew energy from all around her" that is what people who levitate and fly are also doing.  2. Everyones use of energy is unique unto them, because this person got burn marks on her arms and her clothing caught fire does not mean that you or I will so, don't focus on that. She chose to have her abilities show up this way, to vividly demonstrate that the fire energies she could produce were real.

The Girl With X-Ray Eyes

Natalya Nikolayevna Demkina; Natasha Demkina, is a young woman from Saransk, Russia, (born January 1987) who possesses a special vision that allows her to look inside human bodies and see organs and tissues, and thereby make medical diagnoses. Since the age of ten, she has performed readings in Russia. Time does not hinder her sight. She can see ailments and diseases that have not developed yet as of the time of her meeting her clients. Clairvoyance.

In 2004 she appeared on television shows in the United Kingdom, on the Discovery Channel and in Japan. Since 2004 Demkina has been a full-time student of the Semashko State Stomatological University, Moscow. Since January, 2006, Demkina has worked for the Center of Special Diagnostics of the Natalya Demkina (TSSD), whose stated purpose is to diagnose and treat illness in cooperation with "experts possessing unusual abilities, folk healers and professionals of traditional medicine. Here is her web page: http://www.online-translator.com/url/tran_url.asp?lang=en&direction=re&templat e=General&transliterate=on&autotranslate=on&url=http://demkina.ru/     Excepting for the pictures on her site (of which there are but about 5) what you would read there is here, enjoy.

History
According to her mother, Tatyana Vladimovna, Demkina was a fast learner, but was otherwise a normal child until she was ten years old, at which time her ability began to manifest itself.

"I was at home with my mother and suddenly I had a vision. I could see inside my mother's body and I started telling her about the organs I could see. Now, I have to switch from my regular vision to what I call medical vision. For a fraction of a second, I see a colorful picture inside the person and then I start to analyze it." says Demkina

In response to these complaints, the research team stated that Demkina should have been able to find the plate without extrasensory abilities, because its outline could be seen beneath the subject's scalp, and questioned why the presence of scar tissue in a patient's throat had not alerted her to them having an esophagus condition. Additionally, they noted that it remains clinically impossible for an appendix to spontaneously regrow.

Joe's Input: To my knowledge, as of the date of my putting this on the website here, 3_6_08 she is not aware that she is sometimes seeing into the future of a person. Also the scientists aren't believers in the true possibility of the human body and consciousness, sic the end of the paragraph above.

Brian Josephson's criticism
In a self-published commentary regarding the New York testing performed by CSICOP and CSMMH, Brian Josephson, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and the director of University of Cambridge's Mind-Matter Unification project, criticized the test and evaluation methods used by Hyman and questioned the researchers' motives, leveling the accusation that the experiment had the appearance of being "some kind of plot to discredit the teenage claimed psychic." Note from Joe: That is exactly what they were up to. There are forces that don't want us to know what we are truly capable of.

Tokyo
After visiting New York, Demkina traveled to Tokyo Electrical University in Japan, at the invitation of Professor Yoshio Machi, who studies claims of unusual human abilities.

According to accounts on her personal website, after her experiences in London and New York, Demkina set several conditions for the tests, including that the patients bring with them a medical certificate stating their health status, and that the diagnosis be restricted to a single specific part of the body – the head, the torso, or extremities - which she was to be informed of in advance.

On her website Demkina says that she was able to see that one of the patients had a prosthetic knee, and that another had asymmetrically placed internal organs. She also detected the early stages of pregnancy in a female patient, and an undulating spinal curvature in another subject.