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Reincarnation On Trial

Two of the world's best direct-voice mediums
offer conflicting views on reincarnation.

 


 

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On the “direct-voice mediumship” page we were introduced to two of its greatest practioners. The achievements in this area astound us.

A direct-voice medium has the ability to facilitate the hearing of voices from the other side. These voices do not arrive through the mouth of the medium but are simply heard in the room in an unrestricted way.

Direct-voice mediums Leslie Flint and Emily French provided their services over some decades and, by their agency, facilitated many thousands of “open room” voices. In their day, their work was somewhat well known and, as such, they were thoroughly investigated. See the above referenced article.

For our purposes at hand, however, I would like to focus on an important distinction between the voices brought forth by each medium. Elsewhere in this series of articles, we’ve discussed how the belief-system of a medium might affect messages received.

Leslie Flint believed in or accepted reincarnation as a common feature of the other side. As such, possibly due to the principle of “like attracts like,” nearly 100% of the voices of spirit-persons “coming through” also believed in reincarnation.

Very significantly, though, Emily French, who did not accept the validity of reincarnation, made possible the entrance of voices - essentially, 100% - who also denied the existence of “R.”

Editor’s note: To offer but one example from Mrs. French, the following “voice” emanated from a woman who had died as an infant and had grown up in Summerland. In all of her years on the other side, she had never met anyone who would even consider returning to the sorrowful Earth:

“Let me impress upon you the charm of our land by saying that I have never yet found a single one who had emerged and come up out of the earth conditions who wanted to go back, inhabit a flesh garment again, and live among you, — and this, regardless of earth ties”; meaning, regardless of the closeness of love-relationships left on the Earth.

Again, we are talking about, for each medium, many thousands of voices coming through over decades. In other words, this “split decision” could not have happened by accident.

In the article “the 500 tape-recorded messages from the other side,” I offered extensive discussion on the Leslie-Flint voices. Somewhat impolitely, I referred to this group as “the insane 500.” My impertinence was supported by the testimonies of the “voices” which, in many different ways, exhibited, what Eric Hoffer described as, a tendency to “be rid of oneself.” It’s all quite dysfunctional, but the “insane 500” become posterkids for this malady. You’ll want to read the entire article as it is far too lengthy even to summarize here.

The great throng of voices surrounding Emily French, however, did not, in my opinion, display these unbalanced psychological drivers; there was no attempt to “be rid of oneself.”

All of this, I find to be extremely noteworthy.

A belief in “R,” if born of lack of knowledge, if caused by falling victim to one-sided propaganda, is understandable; but those who obsessively crave to believe in “R” as a kind of de facto "religion" reveal something else going on down below; something unhealthy.

postscript

The direct-voice medium, John Campbell Sloan, was featured as on the afterlife page.

#48 one of the greatest direct-voice mediums of the 20th century

John Campbell Sloan

The direct-voice medium is much to be preferred over the more common mental-medium. While the latter’s offerings can be valuable, the direct-voice medium provides an unfettered access to speakers from the other side, messages which have not been filtered through the mind of an intermediary. We receive the voices unprocessed, untouched.

John Sloan provided his services for decades but never accepted a penny for his work. He lived the life of a common laborer, raised a family, tended his garden in the evenings, and suffered from poor eyesight. Arthur Findlay chanced to meet him in 1918, from which encounter ensued many years of investigation of Sloan’s mediumship.

419 quotations from the other side

Herein, you’ll find 419 quotations, extracts from transcribed messages from people on the other side, telling us of their daily lives.

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As with French's mediumship (above), there were no believers in "R", it seems, coming through over the years. Investigator Arthur Findlay reports this concerning Sloan's voices:

Once I put the straight question, "Do we reincarnate again on earth?"- to which I received this reply from the Etherian to whom I was speaking,

"I have known no one who has been re-incarnated on earth. I passed over many years ago, and I have round about me those who lived thousands of years ago on earth. That is all I can say, because my knowledge does not permit me to say more."

Another equally unequivocal reply on the same subject was given by a different Etherian some years later. He said,

"We cannot come back and go through the same again."

What they talk about is progress, and never have I heard anyone on the other side speak of coming back to be born again on earth. The butterfly cannot return to enter the cocoon. Remarks like the following were quite common:

"I was an Indian Chief in the old days. I have now been on the spirit side of life for many years as you know time" - in other words, the people who spoke via Sloan know nothing of "R" over there, even from friends who are thousands of years old.

 

Editor's last word:

In Edward Randall's own words, the following, I believe, is the reason why Emily did not attract proponents of "R": 

"There are certain people born with what is known as 'psychic' force who, when scientifically developed, become instruments by the aid of which communication is established between the two worlds. Such was Emily S. French. She was a woman over 80 years of age [deaf and blind] at the time of her death. Above the average in intelligence, she devoted her life to helping others, [like Sloan, accepting no money for her services,] and as a result her character was spiritualized and refined so that only good could come within her environment."

We find embedded herein a universal principle. The Spirit Guides speak to this. If one’s intentions are altruistic, good, truly spiritual, and pure, no malicious discarnate can touch you – the “vibrations” will not match but mutually repel, and, therefore, we need never fear of being harmed by wicked influences lurking within certain sectors of the universe.

One might wonder, if this principle be true, are we given here an indication of some moral lapse on the part of Mr. Flint? I strongly hesitate to make such a statement, as he appears to me to have been a very fine person. Nevertheless, a belief in "R" does or could seem to suggest a hidden fear, a skewed or untoward self-evaluation, harbored in one's deeper person. See much discussion in "the 500" article on the dysfunctional desire to be "rid of oneself."