Mysteries and Enigmas Del Ectoplasm

The embodiments produced by the famous medium Eusapia Palladino were frequent and varied. Visual ectoplasmic manifestations were rare.

Rather, it used to be the hands of the perceived contact. Charles Richet, who made over two hundred sessions with her, that, on numerous occasions, was touched by a hand on the sides, hands in the face, forehead, neck and back.

This woman, an Italian national, born in a poor environment was crude and rude manners, comment on it makes Lombroso’s daughter, adding that despite the long time associated with educated people, was investigated by eminent scholars, , had failed to learn good manners. Sudden customs, their frauds, when there were extremely rude and childish.

In these embodiments of Eusapia appear only certain members corporeal ghost. The alleged telergía issued by the medium fails to be strong enough to cause the complete appearance. Richet, who was no believer in the survival of life after death, explained the fantasmogénesis saying that it is a material called ectoplasm, which gives the medium through body cavities, mouth, ears, nose, etc..

The telergía condenses and gradually assumes a bodily appearance, very powerful mediums achieving the full realization. But this substance from the medium, so after completing the spectral scene, returns to the body that emitted it. That the emergence takes a familiar form for the group of attendees at the meeting it may be due to clairvoyance or telepathy. That is, the medium would be able to observe past events in the life of the subject, or if it is telepathy, knowing the troubles of the experimenter, their concerns and anecdotes that pass by your imagination.

Following Eusapia, at its meeting in Genoa with the circle of Minerva, which was attended by Morselli, Porro, Ramorino, L. Vassallo and Dr. Venzano, came in the form of a girl known as Porro granddaughter. The meeting, which occurred on December 21, 1901, did well, she says Morselli:

“Manifestáronse two ways unseen in the darkness, but soon could be seen after a weak light. Porro noticed how her granddaughter died. Behind a curtain, he could hug her and heard her voice talking to children. Then came a son Vasallo, who died at age sixteen. This time, it became visible. Showed himself an oval almost phosphorescent Eusapia right, moved from left to right slowly, and disappeared. It saw the red light, leaving one arm and hand of the cabinet and head Vasallo. Appeared after a third and a fourth way. ”

Current spiritualist would not hesitate, to explain this phenomenology, to say that is the spirit of the deceased which, taking the energy of the medium-so it would fall into unconsciousness, “take a form which possessed life, and speaks with more relatives.

A Special Show

Would be from the experiences of Schrenzk-familiar Notzing and Richet, where would follow that the implementation emerge from the medium itself, by a successive process of metamorphosis. Able to observe these changes with the medium Eva Carriere, so then called himself known to us all Marthe Beraud.

Their spectra followed a changing environment, at first was a gelatinous protoplasm, as we described Richet, first amorphous, flowing from the body of the medium and later took shape. At first, there is always veiled in white, milky spots, and within its gelatinous pulp, something that looks like wet muslin and collagen. They form little by little fingers, drawings and figures in general. In this session, which took place in 1906, we see this evolution protoplasm:

“After half an hour I open the curtains and see the ground a vague glow, rather weak, so you can doubt its reality. Gradually escalate, to look like a small bright scarf. Eva’s whole body is still. The light spot spreads. Its contours are undecided, or flowing, more uncertain and softer than a cloth. He approaches the couch, grows, takes the form of a snake and seems to go up the left arm of the chair of A. .. Their outlines become more distinct. ”

“Suddenly, an extraordinary spectacle. Table separates a tip that rises, bends, and goes to Eva’s chest, whose hands we are subject. The tip continues to move forward in a threatening way, like an animal that goes with his beak. And as it progresses, rigid needle appears on a kind of fabric that is developed as a bat-membrane thin and transparent dresses are Marthe through. Perfectly distinguishes the stem of this veil membranous envelope. Marthe is still and spoke at regular intervals. ”

“I can come close and look so close you get to 3 and up to 2 inches away. Look like a swollen material, endowed with movement. For five or six minutes to examine carefully. See extensions like little horns of a snail, straightening the right and left. These horns are like a clear gel and can enter and exit the main mass more clearly formed. ”

“Marthe rises. I take his hands, raising or lowering the same, I think I exert pull on the tip of the mass. Suddenly, it disappears. It is not the same but a veil suspended from my hand that holds two of the medium. ”

“But I feel nothing. I made a small movement with little mass and fell a few inches to get into the act. ”

Nightmare Hands

We can see in this experience that the ectoplasm follows a gradual, like an amoeba, sets its tentacles into the ground, and from there makes certain movements. Sometimes it remains subject to the medium and other separates. Finally, regresses back to the body of the gifted. At other times, the ectoplasm becomes corporeal forms, shaping it gradually give rise to a corresponding arm muscles, as seen in this experinecia:

“Light pretty good. The curtain closed for about an hour. After the open, on a white ground is widening rapidly, and the formation of two little horns on the progress of mass X, which broadcasts in all directions, very moving. Then the mass of X, first very wide, gradually dislocated particles, taking the look of a hand grayish vague outlines. This hand is animated movements, with the appearance of a mummy’s hand out of a fabric. It rises and falls like a real hand. The medium’s subject for me, are absolutely still. The ends of the fingers of ectoplasm, tapering, long spindle-shaped, appear to result in cloudiness. ”

“The I can look very closely. I play one of these bones and gives me the feeling of a cold liquid. The hand is balanced on my knee and feel like a little friction-resistant body. Then the hand standing alone, balancing on a rod that holds the ground. After making a slight noise down, lying on the ground and I look the two bones of the forearm, as if enveloped in a haze of muslin. Rises again, it tilts toward me. The wrist is low, hanging fingers, swing and show a unique twisting movement of the forearm. I still figuring see carpal always wrapped in muslin cloudiness. The hand is placed on my knee.

Perceive their very light weight. Makes small movements of my travel orders on my knees, which I feel clearly. Martha then tells me: “Look at the muscles how to begin to form.” I see, I see, in the space between two bones something black. The hand is raised, it moves very close to me, almost uprooted from the ground, which is not subject rather than a small white line. Hand falls back to the ground with a noise, gets up and goes away again soon, so that the medium is put in place. ”

These are in brief the results of experiments by Richet in 1906 and subsequently published, following the achievements of Schrenz-Notzing with the same medium, with which embodiments got some curious that the name designated with the plans, as displayed drawings or cut faces, whose origin is very similar to those described by Richet. Ectoplasmic emanations, on such occasions, came out of the mouth, other breast or armpit. Madame Bisson, Eva inseparable companion, says she could see the emergence of ectoplasmic fluid medium’s navel when he was completely naked. It was a whitish substance, which microscopic examination, conducted by Schrenzk-Notzing, revealed the presence of epithelial rests, forms of bacteria and high in fat. In some cases it has been a tissue of plant appearance, and in others as a cotton thread surrounded by a granular substance to be determined.

A Gifted Irrepetible

This same era is the Polish Kluski Franek, who was considered the giant of the medium on the theme of the embodiments. He was never found wanting simulate some ectoplasm. Was studied very intensively, because of its extraordinary capabilities, leading scientists of the time, making him the tests came back into the world.

He was a very emotional, showing areas of intense feeling in the neck and left forearm. He lived from 1874-1944. During the sessions mediumship is strongly accelerated heart rate, bringing their beats per minute at high levels. At the end of the study complained of thirst, drinking large amounts of water. Sometimes, the day after a session appeared his body covered with bloody sores that healed quickly in a couple of days. Had a family history of these powers in the figure of his father, who, although possessing these gifts, never participated in seances, also seemed to meet these conditions, an uncle, a Catholic priest.

At night the rooms were meeting place for individuals from beyond the grave, so he said. But these visits did not cause any fear.

Its powerful powers emerged, he said, from an early age, in which his friends participated in the occurrences that arose in a shop he had built with two chairs which placed a shawl. Inside you could see the figures of a brother and sister who had died. At puberty, the hallucinations became very frequent. I used to visit cemeteries and lonely forest, then emerge appearances around everything from her parents, who had died, until the ghosts of various animals: dogs, cats and wolves, which stood beside him.

From 20 to 46 years paid little attention to the world of hallucinations in which he was immersed, marrying and engaging in finance. In late winter of 1918-1919, attending a mediumship session in which she starred the gifted Guzik, attendees had the idea, once he had left the medium, to concentrate all of them, to see if they could produce a phenomenon. The surprise was not long, rising above the luminous forms Kluski head. From this incident began the race in the mediumship of Franek Metapsíquico Institute, which was paid to be studied with no other expectation than to serve science. The controls were taken to their experience simple.

He grabbed her hands and he controlled the knees and legs. There was a medium that offered difficulty in the use of controls, and he kept an almost absolute immobility throughout the session, sometimes supporting the head on the table or the experimenter who was at his side. The repertoire of events was of great variety. Realizations were observed with the human, animals, shapes, light and even phenomena of telekinesis.

Dr. Geley, which dealt with the study of the gifted, we describe the course of their realizations, indicating that at the time they were going to take place in the environment is perceived an intense smell of ozone fading at the end of the same .

La Mirada Spectrum

The cabinet in which the experiences passed was illuminated by weak red light. Emerged first, around the head of Kluski, a vapor-like mist. At the same time, light flashes were observed, similar as Geley, to foci of condensation, giving the impression of invisible bodies.

Appeared tips of fingers and pieces of faces. Once all these vapors were condensed and organized enough, hands and faces were life-size, well formed, which were located next to the medium or the head of the attendees. Not only were the embodiments in faces, but also, in some cases, could be seen ghosts visible to the upper extremities. Geley describes these faces as having life, and tells us in this regard is strongly fixed in the experiments. As the visibility afforded by the red light was low, approaching a luminescent screen of zinc sulfide to examine the faces better. Other times, this was unnecessary, since the very appearance had its own light, making it easy to observe their features and contours.

Geley not fit for the possibility of fraud with this medium, arguing that they were only three possible mechanisms to implement the tweaks of the faces:

1, “The use of a partner.” Possibility would be discarded, since the participants were trained experimenters, previously selected by him.

2 ° Illusion assistants produced by the medium’s own face more or less transformed. Opinion unlikely as Kuskli remained in immobility, and the controls did not allow any displacement.

3 rd third hypothesis Being as “the use of masks.” In this respect, we argued the researcher: “A deception and requires an appliance that the medium, held by both hands, he could not handle. Even suggesting that might have to free one of his hands, would have been insufficient. In all probability would have been needed both hands: one to hold the mask, and the other to raise and bring light to the mask. ”

“” Sculpture “From the Dead?

Discarded all scenarios, fraud seems very difficult with the gifted. Further taking into account the paraffin casts made their ectoplasm, under very strict control and, according to noted experts in this area were described as beyond reproach. The experiment consisted of the following: he put a bucket of hot water over which a layer of paraffin poured molten blue. Once there was a realization, is plunged into the tank and depositing the mold found in the hands of researchers.

Geley describes the movements of these ghosts: “His hands were illuminated by bright spots in the digital extremities. They walked slowly before our eyes, he plunged into the bucket of paraffin splashed a fraction of a minute and came back out without losing their brightness and, finally, left, the mold is still hot in my hands. ”

Also in subsequent experiments was added to paraffin blue other colorless substance, cholesterol, which put to the test of making sulfuric acid red. This control is established to eliminate the hypothetical probability that Kluski bring ready-made molds, as known throughout the sessions that the paraffin used was blue.

With all these controls, the molds obtained containing cholesterol. Casts were obtained seven hands and one foot, and emptying the bottom of a face. The casts have the anatomical characteristics of adult hands, although its small size, reminiscent of children’s hands. The professional opinion molders such as Gabrielli, Guido Barettini Marchelli-artists and modelers, have demonstrated that these casts are first operation, taken from living organisms, not seconds emptied, which excludes the possibility of obtaining them through soluble substances prepared for this purpose.

The models mentioned above made numerous attempts through artificial means, such as leather gloves, etc., For molds similar to those made Kluski, proved impossible to find an artificial mechanism that could explain the production of casts.

I was amazed, especially in some molds of hands, very difficult position in which they appeared placed fingers. Were unable to explain this phenomenon and stated that they were unable to understand how they were made molds.

Ghost Process

In the world of parapsychology, even today, has not exceeded the realm of hypothesis, and has not found any that serve to explain the embodiments. The only thing we can point as characteristics that are repeated in the field of the embodiments, over the history of this phenomenology is the following:

1 ° The ectoplasm of the medium arises from the body, remaining attached to it by a kind of umbilical cord.

2 ° In the beginning it is not visible. Little by little fluffy clouds arise, sometimes accompanied by phenomena of luminescence and telekinesis.

3 ° The vaporous mass is whitish, slowly organizing, training of members can be seen in most cases, although, in very powerful mediums, the organization is done very quickly, and full realization arises, without having reached to observe paragraphs 1, 2, 4 (if Katie King).

4 ° As members are organized body will make the dresses and other garments that are the ghost costume.

5 ° In many cases, the realization has self-illumination.

6 ° The spectrum is absorbed by the body of the medium in trance, thus realizing disappearing, why does it occur? What mechanisms triggers the gifted? Do we have all the ability to produce ghosts? These are questions that today still have no answers.