SEE ECTOPLASM AROUND ME, AN ORB, & MY SPIRIT GUIDE ALAN WATTS OVERSHADOWING ME
The above image shows ectoplasm next to my right hand side (I have enlarged it from the following screenshot which quickly I took on my tablet at the end of a Zoom group session with TV psychic detective (Street Psychic, Psychic Private Eyes and Psychic Academy), Tony Stockwell, last night. I captured it because of the orb that I saw behind me, and it was only after I looked at the image, that I saw the overshadowing on my face and neck (from my world-famous British-American Spiritual philosopher, speaker and author, spirit guide, Alan Watts). And then, the second time I looked at it, to my amazement, I saw the ectoplasm (see it next to my right arm, and in front of the wooden cabinet).
SO WHAT IS ECTOPLASM?
"Popularized by Ghost Busters (“it slimed me”), ectoplasm [ecto], has become an archetype of paranormal pop-culture. Most people today associate ectoplasm with ghosts and haunted locations, but originally the substance was more closely connected to mediums and the spiritual practice of contacting the dead [1]. - In my case, it is to do with mediumship and energy...
HISTORY BEHIND THE TERM 'ECTOPLASM'
As the 1890s moved ahead, the renowned French physiologist, Charles Richet, formed an association with a growing band of European scientists who were fascinated by psychic and spiritualist phenomena. And it was during this period that Richet came forward to clarify a process through which Eusepia Palladino, a well known medium, externalized an immaterial substance [2,3]. The latter was believed to be either:
An element of the medium's part-subconscious, or
a discarnate spirit (someone without a physical body) in material form [3]
To that end, Richet put forward the suggestion that such ‘materialization’ phenomena witnessed in séances (namely, the evanescent slime seeping from the medium), should be referred to as 'ectoplasm.' Indeed, Richet noted that this terminology (which he used in experiments), was greatly justified. - Thereby noting that the ectoplasm is a category of gelatinous protoplasm, and something which, in the first instance (when oozing from the medium's body), has no form. And that the latter occurs later [2, 3].
The Low-Down on Overshadowing
And for those of you who would like to take an academic dive into 'Spiritualism, Photography and the Search for Ectoplasm,' listen to 'Media of Mediumship' collaborator, Shannon Taggart's fascinating talk for the Science Museum (London). Of note, Sharon's monograph, SÉANCE, was credited as one of TIME magazine’s ‘Best Photobooks, and her extensive work has also been published in Newsweek, Discover, the New York Times Magazine, and many other high profile publications.
[2]. Raia, C. G. "From Ether Theory to Ether Theology: Oliver Lodge and the Physics of Immortality," Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 43:1 (2007): 20
[3]. Richet, C. Les Phénomènes dit de Materialisation Paris: Annales des Sciences Psychiques (1906)
Comments
Post a Comment