ARTHUR
FINDLAY:
Arthur Findlay was a
psychic researcher who examined psychic phenomena
and meticulously recorded his findings and then
published them. His informative books are still
in print.
Arthur
Findlay was an educated free-thinker, much
opposed to orthodox religion because of its
narrowness of thought. He disliked bigotry,
hypocrisy and religious persecution in all their
forms and he championed the right of the
individual to think for himself. Like Thomas
Paine, who encouraged people to use their
reasoning powers, Findlay was a man before his
time. Arthur's home was Stansted Hall in Essex,
England, and he bequeathed his Jacobean
Mansion to the Spiritualists' National Union
- and it is now known as the Arthur Findlay
College of Psychic Studies.
Prophetically,
Findlay states in his writings:
"Truth always
wins through in the end, and some day natural
religion will be accepted in the place of
orthodox faiths which are slowly passing away in
every country in which education exists."
JOHN
CAMPBELL SLOAN:
Arthur Findlay
investigated and wrote copiously about a gifted
Independent Direct-Voice medium called John
Campbell Sloan, through whose mediumship the
so-called 'dead' were able to reproduce their
voices and speak again to their loved ones in the
seance room. Findlay published several books
recording these fascinating two-worlds
conversations (see below).
John
Campbell Sloan was born in Dalbeattie, Scotland.
He was a humble man who could sometimes be grumpy
in outlook, but in his presence discarnate
chemists and other specialists in the spirit
world were able to extract from him, and also
from his sitters, a psychic substance called
ectoplasm (a kind of plasmic life-fluid) which
they then 'moulded' into a voice-box through
which their voices could be heard again in our
world. For over forty years, John Sloan shared
his mediumistic services free of charge to all
his sitters.
Sloan's
seances took place in a darkened room to help the
subtle ectoplasm to form properly, and during the
proceedings, which occurred in the early part of
the 20th-Century, expert stenographers recorded
in shorthand everything that was said. It was not
uncommon in Sloan's physical mediumship circles
for several spirit voices to speak at once, in
different parts of the room.
Opposite,
are some snippets of verbatim conversations.
Stansted Hall in Essex -
Home of The Arthur Findlay
College of Psychic Studies, which is attended by
students from all parts of the world.
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THE 'DEAD'
SPEAK AGAIN:
A very Scottish voice spoke to one of the
sitters, who was called Miss Colquhoun, and
supplied his full name and address along with an
insight into the difficulties that spirit
communicators encounter when they try to contact
our world:
Hoo (how) are you
getting on? Aye (yes), you will no (not) remember
me, lassie, but I used to know you when you came
for holidays to Arran. It is John Cook of
Banchory Hill, Sliddery Coome. I had a look
through the farm the other day and we were amazed
when we were speaking to them and they did not
hear us. Aye, I thought I would like to have a
bit word with you. I had aye (always) a soft
corner in my heart for you, and lookit forward to
the time when you came down in July and August.
Miss Colquhoun
understood everything this communicator said,
confirming that John Cook was indeed a farmer on
the Island of Arran where she and her family had
spent their holidays together.
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Another spirit voice,
this time a female one, said:
It is Margaret
Cochrane speaking. I bring a message for Isobel
McRobbie. All our love to her. She will know who
it is - James and Margaret Cochrane - and our
love to Jim too.
This message was
sent to Miss McRobbie who was not present at the
sitting but who afterwards revealed that James
and Margaret Cochrane were brother and sister,
and that they were her close relations. The Jim
that the communicators had mentioned was her
eldest brother, who was still on Earth.
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John
Sloan's wife had been a regular sitter in the
physical circle and she continued to visit it
after she had 'died'. John missed her terribly
and was always wishing that he could join her.
The Sloans affectionately referred to each other
as "Mammy and Daddy Sloan". During one
sitting when John dropped his handkerchief in the
darkened room and couldn't find it, his 'dead'
wife's voice immediately spoke from the Other
Side, saying: Never mind, Daddy. I will let you
see it. A beautiful
light then appeared and hovered and spread about
the floor for a while, after which the
handkerchief was lifted up and placed in Mr
Sloan's hands by someone on the Other Side. Mrs
Sloan's voice said:
There it is, Daddy;
and John was so touched by the experience that he
replied through his tears, "You are just the
dearest wee lassie that ever was."
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Many
questions about Life on the Other Side are
answered in Arthur Findlay's books by the
spirit-world's inhabitants.
Some of
Arthur Findlay's books are:
Where Two World
Meet (extracts are quoted above)
On the Edge of the Etheric
The Way of Life
The Unfolding Universe
The Torch of Knowledge
The Rock of Truth
The Curse of Ignorance (2 volumes)
The Psychic Stream (2 volumes)
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