Lainaus Victor Zammitin kirjasta "A lawyer presents the case for the afterlife":
THE SCOLE EXPERIMENT PROVES THE AFTERLIFE
"For the open-minded sceptic, the evidence collected over a period of six years and with more than five hundred sittings by the Scole experimentors and the afterlife team is absolute, definitive, irrefutable and irretrievably proved. Many regard THe Scole Experiment as the greatest recent afterlife experiment conducted in the Western world." -Victor Zammit
The Scole Experiment was a recent example of physical mediumship and materialization, which are dealt with in more detail later in the book in Chapter 10. It is a very well-documented current experiment, witnessed by a number of people of the highest credibility, many of who are still very much alive.
When sceptics attack the evidence for the afterlife, you will find that they are all strangely silent about The Scole Experiment. While they theorize about how physical mediums could have cheated, not on of them has offered to conduct even one demonstration to produce even a fraction of the phenomena that these wonderful experiments produced, on a weekly basis, for over six years in several different countries under the strictest scrutiny in premises that were often assigned to the group on short notice.
SIX YEARS OF EXPERIMENTS
Scole is a village in Norfolk, England. Using it as a base, several experimenters of the Scole Group, including mediums Robin and Sandra Foyand Alan and Diana Bennett, produced brilliant evidence for the afterlife in experiments conducted in England, the United States, Ireland and Spain.
Senior scientists and investigators who participated in The Scole Experiment included Professors David Fontana, Arthur Ellison and Montague Keen. Of course, over the six years there were many others who attended as senior scientists and guests in the actual experiments: Dr. Hans Schaer, a lawyer; Dr. Ernst Senkowski; Piers Eggett; Keith McQuin Roberts; biologist Dr. Rupert Sheldrake; Professor Ivor Grattan-Guiness, all with scientific or other relevant backround, and a host of other highly credible witnesses who have had years ecperience in dealing with paranormal.
NASA SCIENTISTS INVOLVED
In the United States, sessions were also attended by a number of scientists, including a number of senior scientists from the space agency NASA and others from the Institute of Noetic Sciences near San Francisco, as well as representatives from Stanford University. Grant and Jane Salomon, who wrote a book on the experiments, some fifteen scientists from the NASA group formed their own psychic group to continue to communicate with the afterlife entities (Solomon 1999:73,189).
One critical thing that the reader is asked to consider is that during these experiments, the "spirit team" working from the side of the afterlife expressly stated that it was they who were causing psychic phenomena.
This was to rule out "super ESP" and other theoretical and abstract irrelevancies as an explanation of Scole effects. The members of the "spirit team" identified themselves. The "spirit scientists" identified themselves. And intermittently, there were guest spirit observers like Helen Duncan, the gifter medium who died in 1955 (see Chapter 11).
THE SCOLE REPORT
A scientific report from the (British) Society for Psychical Research is available that contains documents all of the following phenomena. According to Montague Keen, speaking on behalf of three investigators who wrote the report, "None of our critics has been able to point to a single example of fraud or deception" (Keen and Ellison 1999).
The group began with two mediums delivering messages from a non-physical group. Many of these messages contained personal information that nobody else could have known about.
VOICES, TOUCH AND MATERIALIZATION
Soon the messages came in the form of voices which could be heard by all in the room. Many of the experimenters experienced physical touch and the levitation of a table took place. Then came the actual materialization of the people and objects from the non-physical side.
More than fifty small objects were materialized, including a silver necklace, a Churchill coin, a small rose quartz crystal ball, a 1940 British penny, a 1928 one-franc piece, a silver charm of the "Grim Reaper", an original copy of The Daily Mail dated 1 April, 1944; an original copy of The Daily Express dated 28 May 1945; and many others.
THE SCOLE EXPERIMENT PROVES THE AFTERLIFE
"For the open-minded sceptic, the evidence collected over a period of six years and with more than five hundred sittings by the Scole experimentors and the afterlife team is absolute, definitive, irrefutable and irretrievably proved. Many regard THe Scole Experiment as the greatest recent afterlife experiment conducted in the Western world." -Victor Zammit
The Scole Experiment was a recent example of physical mediumship and materialization, which are dealt with in more detail later in the book in Chapter 10. It is a very well-documented current experiment, witnessed by a number of people of the highest credibility, many of who are still very much alive.
When sceptics attack the evidence for the afterlife, you will find that they are all strangely silent about The Scole Experiment. While they theorize about how physical mediums could have cheated, not on of them has offered to conduct even one demonstration to produce even a fraction of the phenomena that these wonderful experiments produced, on a weekly basis, for over six years in several different countries under the strictest scrutiny in premises that were often assigned to the group on short notice.
SIX YEARS OF EXPERIMENTS
Scole is a village in Norfolk, England. Using it as a base, several experimenters of the Scole Group, including mediums Robin and Sandra Foyand Alan and Diana Bennett, produced brilliant evidence for the afterlife in experiments conducted in England, the United States, Ireland and Spain.
Senior scientists and investigators who participated in The Scole Experiment included Professors David Fontana, Arthur Ellison and Montague Keen. Of course, over the six years there were many others who attended as senior scientists and guests in the actual experiments: Dr. Hans Schaer, a lawyer; Dr. Ernst Senkowski; Piers Eggett; Keith McQuin Roberts; biologist Dr. Rupert Sheldrake; Professor Ivor Grattan-Guiness, all with scientific or other relevant backround, and a host of other highly credible witnesses who have had years ecperience in dealing with paranormal.
NASA SCIENTISTS INVOLVED
In the United States, sessions were also attended by a number of scientists, including a number of senior scientists from the space agency NASA and others from the Institute of Noetic Sciences near San Francisco, as well as representatives from Stanford University. Grant and Jane Salomon, who wrote a book on the experiments, some fifteen scientists from the NASA group formed their own psychic group to continue to communicate with the afterlife entities (Solomon 1999:73,189).
One critical thing that the reader is asked to consider is that during these experiments, the "spirit team" working from the side of the afterlife expressly stated that it was they who were causing psychic phenomena.
This was to rule out "super ESP" and other theoretical and abstract irrelevancies as an explanation of Scole effects. The members of the "spirit team" identified themselves. The "spirit scientists" identified themselves. And intermittently, there were guest spirit observers like Helen Duncan, the gifter medium who died in 1955 (see Chapter 11).
THE SCOLE REPORT
A scientific report from the (British) Society for Psychical Research is available that contains documents all of the following phenomena. According to Montague Keen, speaking on behalf of three investigators who wrote the report, "None of our critics has been able to point to a single example of fraud or deception" (Keen and Ellison 1999).
The group began with two mediums delivering messages from a non-physical group. Many of these messages contained personal information that nobody else could have known about.
VOICES, TOUCH AND MATERIALIZATION
Soon the messages came in the form of voices which could be heard by all in the room. Many of the experimenters experienced physical touch and the levitation of a table took place. Then came the actual materialization of the people and objects from the non-physical side.
More than fifty small objects were materialized, including a silver necklace, a Churchill coin, a small rose quartz crystal ball, a 1940 British penny, a 1928 one-franc piece, a silver charm of the "Grim Reaper", an original copy of The Daily Mail dated 1 April, 1944; an original copy of The Daily Express dated 28 May 1945; and many others.
Vastaukset 13
Vanhimmat
Interesting experiments were undertaken wish photography. Images were imprinted on unopened rolls of film inside a locked box. These images included actual photos of people and places, sometimes from the past, and various obscure verses and drawings that took some effort to identify. There were also pictures of other dimensions and the beings that inhabit them. Eventually video cameras were able to record disincarnate images.
One of the most spectacular phenomena of The Scole Experiment was the materialized psychic ligts that whirled around the room performing various maneuvers. Occassionally, these lights would throw out beams, as well as pass through solid objects. When they touched people, there was a definite sensation, and when they entered a person's body, a healing.
The speed, the different configurations and other phenomena performed behind the lights were just overwhelming, especially when all witnesses attested it was impossible that the lights coul have been in any way fraudulently physically manipulated. All of these phenomena were accompanied by sudden and dramatic drops in temperature.
This is how Piers Eggett, one of the eyewitnesses, described the light:
"This was a small ball of white light which moved around the room in all directions, sometimes at great speed, leaving a trail like a firework by persistance of vision ... At times the light hovered in mid-air, and then touched some of the sitters, giving them a small electric shock."
According to the other eye witnesses the normally single light point would:
- dart around at great speed and perform elaborately patterned dances ... including perfect, sustained circles executed at high velocity and with a precision which appeared inconsistent with psysical manipulation
- settle on outstretched hands and jump from one to the other
- enter a crystal and remain as a small point of light moving around within the crystal
- strike the top of the table with a sharp rap or the glass of the dome or dish with an appropriate "ping" and do this repeatedly while remaining visible as a sharp pinpoint of light
- respond to requests, such as alightning on and irradiating parts of the witnesses' bodies.
- move in time to tape-recorded music
- produce "lightning flashes" in an area of a large room some three to three and half meters distant from the group sitting round a table (in Spain)
- undertake several aerial "bombing raids" on the table top, hitting it very audibly and visibly, and appearing to emerge from an area immediately below the table (Los Angeles)
- change shape, from a pinpoint of light to a generalized irradiation
- move at very high speed, describing at times perfect geometric shapes within a foot or two of visitors' faces, but without making any sound or creating any perceptible air movement.
A MASTER MAGICIAN'S TESTIMONY
Sceptics may argue that such effects could be produced by stage magicians using long hollow strands of fiberglass with laser lights projected through them. This option was certainly considered by James Webster, a professional stage-magician and former member of the Magic Circle, who has more than fifty years experience in psychic research. On three occassions he attended sittings with the Scole group and published reports.
His conclusion was clearly set out in a recent letter to the English newspaper Psychic World (June 2001):
"I discovered no signs of trickery, and in my opinion such conjuring tricks were not possible, for the type of phenomena witnessed, under the conditions applied....
KINGSLEY FAIRBRIDGE
There were many dramatic revelations during the years of The Scole Experiment, but one which I found particularly interesting was about a member of the "spirit team" named Kingsley Fairbridge.
The experimentors were told by the spirit that he, Kingsley Fairbridge, was born in South Africa, educated at Oxford in England and moved to Australia. There he set up Fairbridge Farm Schools, to teach underpriviliged children a trade. Unfortunately, he was not physically healthy and died fairly young. A picture of him was materialized.
The Scole group made some effort to investigate and published the details in the new Scole Bulletin sking for help. As a result they were contacted by the daughter of Kingsley who was still living in Australia. When the Scole group sent her a copy of a materialized photograph she confirmed the accuracy of the information and that the photograph was an exellent likeness of her late father (Solomon 1999).
Anteeksi kirjoitusvirheet, kopsasin tän näpyttelemällä joka sanan. :)
Meedio-hommista:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediumship
Kritiikkiä: The Scole Experiment
http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4179
Ei-niin-kovin-kriittinen video:
The Afterlife Investigations: The Scole Experiment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQvQ_WTtdHk
Katsoin tuon video siihen asti (muutama min.), missä näytettiin Nikon-kameraa ja sanottiin että henki räpsi sillä kuvia pimeässä huoneessa, ja kuvissa oli vanhoja näkymiä, hoh hoh hoo.
Kuvia filmille pimeässä huoneessa!
Jos ne videolla näytetyt kuvat oli todellakin siitä sessiosta, ihmettelen kyllä miten modernilla filmijärjestelmäkameralla saa suttukuvia jotka näyttää juuri siltä kuin ne olisi kuvattu vanhoista valokuvista, ehkä jonkun kirjan sivuilta.
Mikä ihme siinä on, että kummitukset, haamut, henkiolennot jne. ilmestyvät vain jos huone on pimeänä tai yöllä ja nimenomaan sellaisille ihmisille, jotka haluavat niiden ilmestyvän? Pelkäävätkö henkiolennot valoa ja selkeitä valaistusolosuhteita? Miksi henget liikkuvat vain kellareissa, vanhoissa hylätyissä taloissa tms?
Johtuisiko siitä, että paikallaolijoita on helpompi huijata, kun he eivät näe mitä tapahuu? Tiedän, että mielikuvitus voi alkaa itselläkin laukkamaan pimeässä vanhassa talossa keskellä yötä, mutta se ei ole todiste haamuista vaan mielikuvituksen voimasta.
Ja tuo valokuvajuttu - haloo? Jos tuollaista tapahtuisi niin eiköhän meistä jokaisella olisi tietoa kyseisistä asioista. Miten hitossa voi sattumalta juuri tietty "tutkijaryhmä" onnistua laittamaan kameran juuri siihen kellariin, missä on aktiivinen poltergeist. Jos tuollaista tapahtuisi niin toki esineet liikkuisivat ilmassa myös päivällä ja silloin kun ihmiset ovat huoneessa näkemässä asian jne. En oikein pidä uskottavana, että aina pitää olla synkkä ja myrkyinen yö, että henki ilmestyisi paikalle. Ja henki aina sattuu pidättäytymään toimiasta, jos paikalla on puolueettomia havainnoitsijoita jne.
No mm noissa spiritismikokeissa pöydän tai Ouija-laudan osoitinta voi kukatahansa elävä paikallaolija liikuttaa ilman että kukaan voisi huomata että liikutajana toimii ihminen eikä henki. Sama tuossa käden pöydällä tilanteessa. etenkin pimeässä jossa kukaan ei näe kenen jalat siellä pöydän alla tekee temppujaan.
Jokainenhan voi netistä tilata oman Bullshit ouja-laudansa ja kokeilla kotona miten pelotella ihmisiä. :)
"ihmettelen kyllä miten modernilla filmijärjestelmäkameralla saa suttukuvia"
Olisiko vaikka väärällä Zoomilla?
Ainakin omalla automaattikameralla saan juuri niin suttuisia kuvia aikaan kuin vain itse haluan. Ei temppu eikä mikään. Sama filmikameroiden kohdalla.
Paljon tekstiä, vähän asiaa. Onko sinulla lähteitä?
Aloittajahan ilmoittaa mistä kirjasta juttunsa on peräisin. Google löytää paljonkin asiaan liittyvää (Scole experiment).
"Aloittajahan ilmoittaa mistä kirjasta juttunsa on peräisin."
Minulla ei ole tapana lukea jonkun tulkintoja vaan luen mieluummin alkuperäistä tekstiä.
Itse Scole reportin lähdettä ei näkynyt kirjoituksessa.
No, minä käännyin yhden lähteen puoleen, jonka annoin ja koko Scole homma näyttää enemmänkin taikureiden tempuilta kuin todelliselta kokeelta.
http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4179
Itse 'Scole report' mahtaa olla kaupallinen tuote, ja melko paksukin järkäle kirjaksi.
Ja tässä muuten toinen tuote mikä soppi noihin tarkoituksiin :D
"Ghost Finder" Camera
http://www.gadgetextra.co.uk/WackyGadgets/2.aspx