Great moments of Modern Mediumship, Volume 2

By Maxine Meilleur

A second amazing collection of more than 190 of interesting and intriguing cases in the history of psychical research and mediumship over the last 160 years. This is another easy reference book by this author on the subject of communication with the Spirit World, whether through mediums speaking while entranced, spirit healing, paintings precipi

• Language: English
• Publisher: Saturday Night Press Publications
• Release date: May 3, 2021
• ISBN: 9781908421494

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This Spiritualism is worthy of careful

investigation, as I have evidence that

there is reality behind it.

Psychical Researcher Vice Admiral

William Usborne Moore

© Maxine Meilleur (2018)

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Dedication

True mediumship if completely honest is very unpredictable.

No one can command the spirits to communicate.

Ena Twigg (Medium)

This book is dedicated to the many great mediums and their spirit teams who have brought us all these great moments.

Thank you all and may your service never be forgotten.

Contents

Introduction

Absent Healing.

‘Incurable’ cured through absent healing (Harry Edwards)

Friend of sitter is unaware of spiritual healing and is healed (Lancelet Brice)

Absent healing asked for by a child via direct voice (Blanche Cooper)

Mother healed after Myers asks if anyone needs help (John Myers)

Boy recovers after Nurse asks for help (John Myers)

A Message from Grandfather results in Healing (Albert Best)

Andrew Jackson Davis

Apports

Asported Brooch (Annie Brittain)

Apport of a lion’s claw after scar made by the lion is seen (Arnold Clare)

Flowers, sugar plums, fruit, a vegetables and a block of ice (Mrs Guppy)

Apports through a sealed box on three occasions (Margery Crandon)

Gold cross with honeysuckle fastened to it (Mollie Perriman)

Daughter apports flowers father put on her grave (Einer Nielsen)

A ring brought from the grave (Maud Lord-Drake)

Trinkets apported from inside the coffin (Einer Nielsen)

Lit cigar apported (John Sloan)

A broken branch and pinched flowers (Annie Brittain)

Roses dropped in a mess (A.Vout Peters)

Birthday present from daughter in spirit (Arthur Colman)

Butterflies apported to public park (Mollie Perriman)

Nipped in the bud (Etta Wriedt)

Items spontaneous apported (Arnold Clare)

Apports brought but later returned (Einer Nielsen)

Apport brought but had to be mailed back (Einer Nielsen)

Return of red rose which had been placed in coffin (Helen Duncan)

Flowers apported nine miles, confirmed with a phone call (Einer Nielsen)

A hot boiled egg apported from house next door (Maud Lord-Drake)

Nun brings her Cross & chain as a gift ( Isa Northage)

Pink paper tissues and pink petals (Gordon Higginson)

Ivy & bunches of grapes, with the bloom undisturbed (Maud Gunning)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur puts his signature directly in a book (Margery Crandon)

Sir Arthur pushes Marcel Poncin to be a Spirit Artist (Marcel Poncin)

Sir Arthur communicates a few minutes after his passing (u/kn medium)

Séance in an airplane a mile above New York (u/kn medium)

Sir Arthur gives medical diagnosis from spirit (u/kn medium)

Automatic Writing

Mary Baker Eddy Returns (Ursula Roberts)

Private sitting via automatic writing (L. Margaret Bazett)

Book Tests

Page 22 or 122 (Arnold Clare)

Alice, I am here just the same (Eileen Garrett)

What would I not give to be with you to comfort you, dearest Mother. (Gladys Osborne Leonard)

God knows it, I am with you (Gladys Osborne Leonard)

A table of languages (Gladys Osborne Leonard)

I will not answer thee with words, but blows. (Gladys Osborne Leonard)

Three book tests from the father of Rev. C. Drayton-Thomas (Gladys Osborne Leonard)

Book test related to table tipping (Gladys Osborne Leonard)

Cross correspondence

Fiddle-de-dee (Florence Marryatt and Mr. Helmore)

Direct Voice

Franklin D. Roosevelt communicates after his death (Etta Wriedt)

Thank you for trying to bring my wife (Estelle Roberts)

The Teddy Case (Estelle Roberts)

The spirit survives cremation (George Valiantine)

The Engagement Present (John Sloan)

Direct Voice on Death Row, San Quentin Prison (Florence H. Becker)

Direct voice heard singing in a cinema (Mollie Perriman)

Direct voice insists, There is work for you to do! (Mollie Perriman)

When John King spoke (Cecil Husk)

Medium argues with her ‘Uncle George’ (Mollie Perriman)

Parents question spirit voice and become convinced (Etta Wriedt).

Clergyman tries the spirit direct voice (Etta Wriedt)

He is amusing himself with horses. (Etta Wriedt)

Artist is thankful (John Sloan and Susannah Harris-Kay)

Direct voice saves woman from suicide (Mollie Perriman).

The many great public direct voice seances (Mollie Perriman)

Dir. voice requests a handkerchief be inserted into trumpet (Arnold Clare)

Dir. voice speaks to scholar in Ancient Chinese language (George Valiantine)

Six languages spoken in one seance (Alec Harris)

Direct Writing

I’m with you still (Margaret and Catherine Fox)

Questions asked and answered written in foreign languages (William Eglinton)

Direct writing seen without the aid of a pencil (Einer Nielsen)

Signature in trance identical to that written in independent writing (Mollie Perriman)

Spirit writing on the arm of medium (William Eglinton)

Spirit writes on tile of fireplace (Minnie Harrison)

Spirit answers questions on paper placed between two slates (May Bangs)

Levitation

Medium in her chair levitated to center of table (Eusapia Palladino)

Medium levitates holding magician who is amazed (William Eglinton)

Levitation and teleportation of medium out of séance room (Mrs Perriman)

Medium levitated out of his chair (Einer Nielsen)

Table levitates to ceiling with medium atop it (Fannie Conant)

Direct voice and levitation outside of the séance room (Mollie Perriman)

Medium and his chair levitated and placed on the table (Einer Nielsen)

Materialization

Hand materialized without middle finger (William L. BamBam)

Jack Webber materializes (Arnold Clare)

Grandfather appears, saying It is solid Alfred; it is solid (Helen Duncan)

Girl materializes in dress she was buried in (Carmine Mirabelli)

Rose into the air and began to dematerialize feet first (Carmine Mirabelli)

Dog materializes, barks, and licks sitters (Etta Wriedt)

Bird whistles, materializes,& flies around the séance room (Mrs Perriman)

Woman in a Wedding Dress Materializes (Helen Duncan)

‘Willy,’ the forgotten brother, materializes (Cecil Husk)

Two sons materialize (Einer Nielsen)

I am happy, and I am delighted that you came here. (Einer Nielsen)

James Wright (Helen Duncan)

A doctor examines materialized larynx (Mollie Perriman)

Piece of dress cut from materialized form (Katie Cook)

Piece cut from materialized dress which is repaired (Mrs H. B. Fay)

Brother materializes and places sitter’s hand on his nose (Alec Harris)

Sister materializes and raises the correct hand (William Eglinton)

This is the way we make ladies’ dresses. (William Eglinton)

How the spirits were made from the medium (William Eglinton)

The Roman lace maker (Mr De Witt Hough)

Examples of dematerialization (Mrs Fay, Mrs Fairchild, & Helen Berry)

Materialized spirit poses for 20 minutes (Einer Nielsen)

Deserted wife materializes (unknown medium and Einer Nielen)

Faces photographed in ectoplasm (Mary Marshall)

Spirit doctor shows three forms of Ectoplasm (Isa Northage)

Materialised Spirit forms sign their names (Minnie Harrison)

Newspaper Tests

Recognised Intelligence (Gladys Osborne Leonard)

Phenomena without current categorization

One moment we all saw him; the next his chair was empty (Alec Harris)

Medium immunized to take blows from trumpet (Jack Webber)

A piano played without human hands (Jesse Shepard)

Gloves dematerialized and rematerialized (Einer Nielsen)

Precipitated Spirit Paintings

Maude with a yellow rose (Lizzie & May Bangs)

The case of the disappearing necklace & flowers ( Lizzie & May Bangs)

Twins & Husband added to portrait (Lizzie & May Bangs)

Always a torn corner (David Duguid)

Singing for a painting (Florence Harwood Becker)

Azur (The Campbell Brothers)

Private & Investigative Sittings

I have waited 20 years for this (Eileen Garrett)

Leon – Noel (Annie Brittain)

Not wrong after all (Annie Brittain)

Surrounded by wild roses (Annie Brittain)

‘Dick’ McCready or Wycliffe ‘Wyck’ McCready (Mrs Larder)

You are Mrs. Johnson! (Bertha Hirst)

Stillborn brother speaks (Lily Thomas)

Spirit persists in making contact to first available channel (Mrs Falconer)

Saul and Fred (Annie Brittain)

Not guilty, my Lord and Bunny (Annie Brittain)

The Case of the Shark (George Spriggs)

Thirty-Four sittings with 15 mediums over 5 years (15 mediums)

Psychic Photography

‘Press to Ann’ (John Myers)

The Melting Pot (John Myers)

Impromptu sitting brings results for American visitors (Ada Deane)

Photo taken too soon gives insight (William Hope)

Dog appears instead of father (William Hope)

Psychic Raps

‘Pophy Sophy’ (D. D. Home)

Psychic raps linked to weight loss (Kathleen Goligher)

Spirit raps lead to automatic writing and levitation (unknown medium)

Knocks & raps at sittings in USA & England (Miss A. Basinnet, Etta Wriet)

Public Demonstrations of Mediumship

Ringwood calling (Helen Hughes and three other mediums)

72 Grange Road (Albert Best)

Billet mediumship (Keith Rhinehart)

Message before picking out the correct billet (Keith Rhinehart)

Mother’s aunt gives date of her passing (unknown medium)

The Forgotten Birthday (Edith Thomson)

Red carnation promised and delivered for sitter’s birthday (William Redmond)

Ask him if he has it now? (Two unknown mediums)

More than 100 names and 28 addresses (Gordon Higginson)

On a wing and a prayer renders recipient speechless (Albert Best)

Spiritual Healing

Myers performs another miracle John Myers

It was positively uncanny John Myers

Spirit doctors direct operation in séance room (Mr & Mrs Perriman)

Surgery with ectoplasmic rod not scalpel (William Lilley)

Spirit Lights

Table tilting, tapping and levitation

Valerie and Charlie (Florence Marryatt)

Table tilting leads to life of Physical Mediumship (Alec Harris)

Address unknown to everyone present (Eileen Garrett)

Mother comes to get help for her daughter (Florence Marryatt)

yrnehkcocffej (Mary Marshall)

Light is dawning… (unknown medium)

Spirit tried via table tilting (Mrs Endicott)

Frederic Myers communicates after his death (Elizabeth Poole)

Crawford/Goligher table tipping results replicated (Elizabeth Poole)

Teleportation

Wife’s thimble returned (Arnold Clare)

Playful Belle teleports sitter’s objects (Mollie Perriman)

Teleportation of medium’s crying baby (Bessie Williams)

Objects teleported from elsewhere in the house (Mollie Perriman)

The toy that was almost teleported to a sitter’s house (Einer Nielsen)

Temperature Changes

Water freezes in Séance Room (Colin Fry)

Trance Sittings

Arthur Ford’s Fletcher proves Professor wrong (Arthur Ford)

Psychometry by a Trance Control (Leonora Piper)

Trance contact from mother saves son (The Reverend Mr Crewe)

The Melbourne Case; Hodgson shocked (Leonora Piper)

More psychometry by a Trance Control (Leonora Piper)

The Airman Case (Gladys Osborne Leonard)

Paralysis disappears during trance sitting (Mollie Perriman)

Ceiling falls in during a trance sitting (Gladys Osborne Leonard)

Spirit returns to thank man for blood donation (unknown medium)

But I will be able to go back, won’t I? (Minnie Harrison)

Dr Funk returns with test to prove independent voice (Emily French)

Trance Addresses in Public

Speaking on the sphere of soul (Cora L. V. Scott)

Whether the gentleman considered the oration as inspired or not, does not alter the facts. (Cora L.V. Scott-Tappan)

36 continuous hours of trance speaking (Florence Harwood Becker)

Red Cloud thanks his audience (Estelle Roberts)

Verification of Spirit Guides

The M.N. Case (Leonora Piper)

Silver Birch’s existence verified three times (Nena Mayer & Estelle Roberts)

Dr Fisher passes questioning (Frances ‘Fannie’ Conant)

Spirit guides go to each other’s circles (Mollie Perriman & unknown medium)

Xenoglossy

Xenoglossy in spoken language of Ancient Egyptian (Rosemary)

Acknowledgements

Bibliography (Books, periodicals & websites)

Diagram showing identity of mediums and researchers in the images on the font cover

Index

Illustrations

Cross and chain apported for Mrs Galvin 1948

Signature of Materialized spirit form Agnes in notebook.

Mexico’s Lady of Guadalupe on an agave-fiber tilma (cloak).

Precipitated Painting of Audrey Alford - 2 copies - original portrait and as it is now.

Painting of The Daughtery Family by Lizzie & May Bangs.

Painting of Azur.

Copy of Wm Hope’s spirit photo of Lt. McKenzie.

Spirit ‘Extra’ seen to the side of Mrs Cushman.

Spirit ‘Extra’ of Agnes taken by Mrs Deane & Agnes in life.

Figs. 12&13 from The Case for Spirit Photography, showing the development and later appearance of Mrs Jeffries in the ectoplasm.

The Buxton family with Mrs Buxton’s sister and ‘Floss’.

Spirit photo of Mrs Buxton’s father with ‘life’ photo.

Introduction

As explained in Great Moments of Modern Mediumship: Volume I, mediumship is communication between those in the physical world and those who have transitioned through the change we call ‘death’ into the spiritual world. However, mediumship has the wonderful potential to transcend mere communication between the physical and spiritual worlds and go into the realm of communion between souls as seen in this passage from H. Dennis Bradley (1925: 4):

Then the silence (of the séance) was broken by the gentle accents of a woman’s voice. I recognized the voice of my favorite sister, Annie, who had passed over ten years since, and between whom and myself there had been a bond of affection, and an intimacy in thought and outlook that was rare indeed. She announced herself by her name and spoke to me at length with great emotion and tenderness.

For over fifteen minutes we talked with each other, as only two persons of great affection and complete understanding can talk. The greater part of the conversation would have lost much of its importance to an outsider, so delicate were the shades of its intimacy; and the talk was not in whispers, but in clear, audible tones. Her voice came, not through the mouth of the medium, but independently; in fact, as though she were standing some eighteen inches away from me. I experienced no element of shock or surprise.

We talked fluently and naturally, discussing intimate subjects and events which I had discussed with no one since her passing, and of which, in her lifetime, she and I alone were cognizant. She referred to incidents which occurred twenty years ago—long before I had met any of the other sitters at the séance—and of which I had never spoken, and then she, without any prompting from me, talked of events which had happened to me and affected my life since her passing over.

Thus, the healing power of mediumship goes far beyond merely ‘talking to the dead.’

Even before the publishing of Great Moments of Modern Mediumship: Volume I, it became apparent that there would be a Great Moments of Modern Mediumship: Volume II because numerous other great moments of modern mediumship existed and could not be included in the first volume.

Maxine Meilleur, March 2018

Special Note re the entry in Great Moments of Modern Mediumship: Volume I. p.96 – American direct voice medium William Carthauser is unfortunately not as well documented as other great mediums, but he is the subject of The Trails of Truth, a book written J. Pincock. It contains many séance reports of his séances in the 1920s in Canada and the U.S. and has philosophy given by his guide, Dr Anderson.

Absent Healing

Absent Healing

Preparing for the unending future is what should

most concern us all while here on earth.

Maud Lord-Drake (Medium)

‘Incurable’ cured through absent healing (Harry Edwards)

From Harry Edward’s The Healing Intelligence (1971: 15-16), we read:

A soldier was lying in a Southampton hospital suffering from acute spinal meningitis. He was dying and the final stage of the arching rigidity of the spine had commenced. He was beyond all medical help. The hospital authorities had telephoned the man’s parents in the north of England, urging them to make all speed in arriving at the hospital if they wished to see their son before he died. They were warned he might die before their arrival. The parents hurried to London realizing that there was but little earthly hope for their son, but they knew about spiritual healing. So it was that after arriving at the London terminus they broke their journey south by coming to see the author [Harry Edwards] by taxi-cab.

They told me what the hospital people had told them and asked me to intervene with spiritual healing. When they eventually arrived at the hospital, they were taken into the ward where their son lay. To their amazement they found a group of doctors in consultation around his bed. The doctors were excited because all the distressing symptoms had vanished and they could not understand where he had gotten his sudden strength from. The patient lay at ease, listening to the doctors’ conversation. The man did not die; he made a rapid recovery, and in a few weeks was back on full duty with his regiment.

The completeness of his recovery was significant in view of the complications that usually follow this disease. The parents talked with the physician in attendance on their son and informed him of the steps they had taken to enlist the aid of spiritual healing. It was then discovered that the change for the better synchronized with the time that I had sought for spirit intervention.

Friend of sitter is unaware of spiritual healing and is healed (Lancelet Brice)

H. Montague Crane (1931: 21) lists this statement from W. H. H. Anderson:

Many of the members of the circle, as well as their friends, have received healing treatment from Spirit Doctor Forbes Winslow. On one occasion, at least, the patient was unaware that he was being treated. He is a friend of mine and lives at Sumner, about six miles from Christchurch. He was in a very bad way with hardening of the muscles of the heart, and at the time he had a severe attack of bronchitis. He was so ill that he could not walk, even across the room, without help of some kind.

At our meeting on Wednesday I asked the doctor if he would see what he could do for my friend and he promised to go that night. On the following Sunday I went to Sumner and found my friend walking about outside. On being questioned he said, I went to bed on Wednesday night, feeling so bad that I did not know what might happen before morning; but for the first time for two years I had a good night’s rest. I slept so soundly that I did not waken till 6 o’clock on Thursday morning. I found my bronchitis completely cured, and had a sensation of having been massaged round the heart; also my mentality is much improved. In fact, I feel like a new man.

At our meeting the following Wednesday, the doctor told me what he had done, I found your friend’s heart very hard, and his lungs congested. I massaged the heart, and cleared his lungs, and I think you will find, that if he rests as much as possible, he will go on improving till he is eventually cured. On examining the brain I found a small clot forming in one of the vessels. This I completely removed. I think you will notice the difference in his health. I certainly did, and though that is some time ago, my friend’s health has continued to improve, and he still sleeps well.

Absent healing asked for by a child via direct voice (Blanche Cooper)

Saunders (1928: 41) writes in Healing through Spirit Agency:

We were sitting with Mrs Blanche Cooper, the direct voice medium, when Mrs M’s son, Archie, who had passed over as a child, and grown up in the Spheres, manifested, and said to his father, Father, I want you to do something for me.

His father replied, Yes, my son, I shall be only too happy.

I don’t know if Abduhl [Abduhl Latif] will like me mentioning it, said the boy.

I’ll take the responsibility, what is it? said the father.

I want you to try the Ray, replied the son, on the woman who is suffering from cancer – the one Mrs Cooper knows.

Cancer! exclaimed Mrs Cooper, in astonishment, I don’t know anyone with cancer!

Yes, said Archie, the woman who kept you awake crying in her agony.

Oh, dear! I know now, said Mrs Cooper. The Ray was sent out without the patient having the slightest idea she was being treated, and Mrs Cooper was never distressed again.

Mother healed after Myers asks if anyone needs help (John Myers)

When, afer a lecture at a ranch in Arizona, John Myers asked if anyone knew of someone who needed healing Evelyn Vallaster of Vernon, B.C., Canada, put forward her mother’s name.

In He Walks in Two Worlds Maurice Barbanell (1964: p131) writes:

... another case of healing-at-a-distance which is attested to by the patient’s daughter, Evelyn Vallaster of Vernon, B.C., Canada, who repeatedly uses the word miracle whenever she speaks of the healing done by Myers.

Her seventy-one-year-old mother was very brave when she was given the verdict. She now knew the worst. There was no cure. The operation she had undergone had revealed that nothing more could be done for her to rid her of the cancer from which she was suffering. With gallant resignation she awaited the end of her earthly life.

Then a miracle happened, says the daughter.

Some members of the family were present when Myers lectured on psychic phenomena at a ranch in Arizona. During his speech he mentioned that if anyone present had a sick friend or relative, absent healing would be given if their names were forthcoming.

The family eagerly put forward their mother’s name. The result? Subsequent examinations by the mother’s doctors produced the guarded verdict that the growth of the cancer had inexplicably been arrested. The lady regained much of her previous strength and she was able to resume her normal way of life

Cautiously, the astonished doctors added that they could not say this was a permanent cure.

Maybe not, but it is good to report that the last news I received was that the clean bill of health had been fully maintained.

Boy recovers after Nurse asks for help (John Myers)

Nurse Natalie Gordon had been with Myers as he recovered from a heart attack and she was brought to realise the power of supernormal forces having seen his healing power when he stood by another patient. She watched as Myers stood silently beside the restless patient The man suddenly relaxed and fell into a deep, untroubled sleep and made a complete recovery. The nurse asked Myers if she might contact him when there was a hopeless case.

Yes, he had replied, provided that we can make contact with the patient through you.

Now was that time, as Barbanell records in his book He Walks in Two Worlds (1964: p123):

In a New York hospital a seven-year-old boy suffering from nephrosis, a dread kidney disease, lay in a coma. Doctors regarded his case as hopeless. The boy’s blood pressure was dangerously high, and he would neither eat nor drink. What was to happen next?

It was his nurse who made the decision to seek Myers’ help; she did so when her patient, James Donna of New Jersey, lay hovering between life and death in his oxygen tent. The hour was after midnight and in the dark, quiet ward Nurse Natalie Gordon felt the boy’s pulse and found it very weak. She knew that medically his life had already been surrendered. With seven-year-old James on the verge of dying, she decided to seek Myers’ aid.

She rushed to a telephone and dialled his number. To her dismay there was no reply. Back she hurried to the boy’s bedside, anxiously standing over him. Several times she left to telephone the medium. Her despair increased on each occasion because she was now certain that the only chance of saving the boy’s life was to reach Myers.

Finally, to her relief, the medium answered the telephone. She explained the dire need for his help.

He told her that she must try to tune herself mentally in to him at a specific hour every day; so that she could be the channel for the spirit power that normally flowed through him.

Nurse Gordon followed his instructions. For five weeks the doctors were puzzled because they could see no reason why James did not die. Then the boy came out of his coma but almost immediately relapsed back into shock.

At no time did the doctors express any real hope for the boy’s recovery, says the nurse, since in medical history this was a unique case. But, from the beginning, Myers did not falter in his confidence that the child would survive, though never once did he visit the hospital.

Progress continued until James was well enough to be removed from his oxygen tent and was able to have a semi-solid diet. Previously he had received only tube feeding. Soon he was well enough to walk, and in due course he was allowed to go home to his parents. His mother stated, in the last report, that the boy was continuing to progress and was gaining weight though there were occasional lapses of memory due, it was said, to blood-clotting on the brain.

Myers, however, continued to give healing so as to restore the greatest amount of normal health, with the nurse as the secondary channel of the healing power. Not unnaturally Myers treasures Nurse Gordon’s written statement of the whole remarkable occurrence.

A Message from Grandfather results in Healing( Albert Best)

In Rosalind Cattenach’s tribute to Albert Best, ‘Best’ of Both Worlds (2016:26) we read of an amazing healing which took place after Best gave a message to a couple from her father at a Sunday morning service.

Cattenach writes: One of the most moving and exciting stories of healing given through Albert was that of Lee and Jack McDowell of Lurgan, N. Ireland. They write that no record of Albert’s life would be complete without the following details being included:

That it was a super normal occurrence goes without saying, for there was no known cure at that time for our son. None that we had heard of anyway, and the prospect of critical surgery and a lifetime after of daily medication was appalling. When we were at our lowest point there was Albert, like a lovely, tubby angel, sans wings, giving us hope when we had none. We wrote and told John what had happened and we all started to lift our heads again and hope. That was a joyful day for us, we can tell you! An ordinary day perhaps for Albert but not for us. How many more Good News days must there be for countless families all over the countries Albert has travelled, if the truth were known? And it should be and that is why we are telling our tale.

Our son John had been seriously ill for some time. Attending hospital one week in four, where he had undergone tests for Giantism, a condition which affects one person in ten thousand. We were very worried indeed, for his condition was progressively worsening, and it seemed that all the doctors could offer was surgery and a strict regimen of