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People from the Afterlife Speak through Trance Mediums

A message from Dr. Hogan

Trance mediumship differs from direct voice: rather than the deceased speaking independently, the medium enters an altered state and reports — often in real time, often in the deceased person's own manner of speech — what they are perceiving. The three cases below are among the most rigorously investigated in the history of psychical research, studied for decades by scientists who set out to find the ordinary explanation and, case after case, could not.

As you read these accounts, notice how much of the evidence comes from investigators who set out to expose fraud, and what they did when the facts would not let them. That is the heart of the case this lesson makes.

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A Man Communicates with His Father in the Afterlife through a Trance Medium

Rev. Charles Drayton Thomas conducted hundreds of sittings with medium Gladys Osborne Leonard over more than two decades, meticulously recording and later verifying the information received — communications he attributed to his deceased father. Drayton Thomas developed rigorous cross-verification methods, including 'proxy sittings' in which a stranger sat in his place to rule out the medium reading his own expectations, and the results held up under his own exacting scrutiny.

The Drayton Thomas sittings

Transmedium Gladys Osborne Leonard received messages from Reverend Charles Drayton Thomas' father referring him to text in specific parts of books and newspapers. The accuracy of his messages demonstrated that the elder Thomas was alive in spirit, communicating to his son about current activities. Thomas' deceased father instructed him, through Mrs. Leonard, to go to the lowest shelf in his extensive library and extract the sixth book from the left. On page 149, three-quarters of the way down, he was told, he would find a word that meant falling back or stumbling. Once home, Thomas located the book, and on page 149, three-quarters of the way down, were these words, “To whom a crucified Messiah was an insuperable stumbling block.”

In eighteen months of experiments, Thomas' father was able to cite ever more words and numbers with increasing accuracy, both in Thomas' library and in a friend's. All were accurate. Thomas decided to try asking his father for information from newspapers and magazines, not yet printed. On January 16, 1920, Thomas' father, in spirit, told him to examine the Daily Telegraph the following day, and to notice, near the top of the second column of the first page, the name of the place Thomas was born, Victoria Terrace, on Victoria Street, Taunton. When Thomas checked the paper the next day, the word Victoria was in that exact spot, demonstrating that his father was alive contemporaneously, and capable of researching the text and conveying it through the medium.

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A Man Communicates with a Good Friend through Another Trance Medium

Leonora Piper was investigated more thoroughly than perhaps any medium in history, by researchers including Richard Hodgson — a professional skeptic hired specifically to expose fraud. Hodgson had Piper followed by private detectives and her mail intercepted, and found nothing. After the death of his friend George Pelham, sittings with Piper produced communications that Hodgson — initially the most determined debunker in the room — came to regard as genuine, in one of psychical research's most famous reversals of a skeptic's position.

The Piper-Hodgson sittings

George Pelham, a lawyer, died in an accidental fall at age 32. Five weeks later, Pelham's good friend John Hart attended a seance with Leonora Piper, who announced that Pelham was there to speak. Pelham, now living in the afterlife, provided a long list of details about himself, his early life, his friends, and his family, that could be verified to prove he was indeed George Pelham, still alive in the life after this life.

All the details were verified as being true. For example, at the seance, John Hart wore the shirt studs Pelham's father had given him as a memento after his friend's death. Pelham identified the studs as formerly his, and explained how his mother had chosen them, and his father had delivered them to Hart.

In a different sitting, a researcher from the Society of Psychical Research, named Richard Hodgson, was in a seance with Leonora Piper, when Pelham came through again with messages. In this seance, Pelham said he had seen his father take a photograph of him to an artist to have it copied. After the seance, Hodgson contacted Pelham's mother, who verified that, in fact, her husband had taken a photograph of their son to an artist to be copied.

Pelham's father eventually wrote to Hodgson, ‘The letters you have written to my wife giving such extraordinary evidence of the intelligence exercised by George in some incomprehensible manner over the actions of his friends on earth have given food for constant reflection and wonder. My preconceived notions about the future state have received a severe shock.’

The details provided by Pelham in spirit were of details unknown to the medium that occurred after his body had died. They are further evidence of life after death.

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A Flight Lieutenant Describes His Death When His Airship Crashed

Eileen J. Garrett was a twentieth-century psychic and trance medium. From 1932 to 1933 she toured the United States, holding sittings with a number of organizations, including Johns Hopkins University and the New York Psychiatric Institute.

Garrett held a séance on October 7, 1930, during which a flight lieutenant killed in an airship crash came through — a voice identifying itself as the airship's late Flight Lieutenant, H. C. Irwin, gave highly specific technical details about the disaster's cause, involving gas pressure, engine performance, and structural failure. The sitters later learned that the airship, the British R101, had crashed just three days before, but the government had not yet revealed the tragedy. Those technical details were later corroborated by the official Air Ministry inquiry — information Garrett, untrained in aeronautics, had no ordinary way of knowing.

The R101 sittings

The man living in the afterlife who communicated through Eileen Garrett was Flight Lieutenant Herbert Carmichael Irwin. Irwin commanded non-rigid airships during World War I, what we would call a blimp or dirigible. He and 45 other crew members died when airship R-101 crashed in a storm in northern France on a flight from Britain to India.

The officer spoke using Garrett's vocal mechanism, describing the airship's destruction in great detail.

One of the sitters wrote down Irwin's report in shorthand. The sitter then presented the notes to air ministry intelligence to see if they were genuine.

The officials at the air ministry were startled and impressed by the accuracy as well as by details they had not known. No one knew about the disaster yet because the ministry hadn't announced it. The air ministry was sufficiently convinced of the authenticity that Major Oliver Villiers arranged seven more seances with Garrett to hear more details from Irwin.

He discussed technical subjects Garrett could not have understood such as useful lift of the airship, gross lift, disposable lift, fuel injection, cruising speed, trim, volume of structure, and others. Irwin also discussed a top-secret classified experiment the ministry had been engaged in, attempts to use a mixture of hydrogen and oil in airships. Ministry officials agreed that the information that came from Irwin through Garrett was completely accurate.

Even the town the airship passed over before it crashed and the locations of hidden diaries crew members had kept that revealed their fears about the secret project. Eileen Garrett had absolutely no technical knowledge and couldn't have known about what happened to the airship. The account was so accurate that air ministry intelligence arranged to interview Irwin through her, demonstrating that flight lieutenant Irwin was alive, had intact memories, and was articulate and capable of explaining technical information clearly.

The details communicated about people's lives and current events verify that trance mediums are communicating with people living in the life after this life whose bodies have died. The communications demonstrate that people in spirit are aware of current efforts to prove the validity of their communications. In the examples cited, the people in spirit maintained regular, consistent communication about the locations of words and gave technical specifications of an airship. All the factual details conveyed articulately and without hesitation show that mediums communicated with people in the life after this life.

Evidence from communications through trance mediums with people whose bodies have died but are recognized by those who knew them proves you will never die.

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Why Is This Evidence Beyond a Reasonable Doubt of the Afterlife?

What separates these three cases from casual anecdotes is the extraordinary lengths their investigators went to in order to rule out fraud, coincidence, and unconscious guesswork. Drayton Thomas didn't simply accept comforting messages — he devised deliberate tests, having his father in spirit direct him to specific, previously unread pages in specific books, and later to a specific word in a newspaper that had not yet been printed at the time of the sitting. These were not vague impressions capable of multiple interpretations; they were falsifiable predictions that either matched or did not, and they matched.

The Pelham case is perhaps the strongest, precisely because Richard Hodgson began it as a determined skeptic whose entire professional reputation rested on exposing fraudulent mediums. He had Leonora Piper followed by detectives and her mail intercepted, and still found nothing. When George Pelham came through with verifiable personal details — a set of shirt studs, a photograph he had asked his father to have copied — it was not a believer who became convinced, but the investigator whose career depended on remaining unconvinced.

And in the case of Flight Lieutenant Irwin, Eileen Garrett had no possible access to the technical vocabulary of airship engineering — gas pressure, disposable lift, structural volume — details specific enough that the British Air Ministry itself sent an investigator to interview the voice through her, and details that were later confirmed by official inquiry into a disaster the public did not yet know had occurred. When information this specific, this technical, and this independently verifiable comes through mediums with no ordinary way of possessing it, the more difficult position is not that these communications were genuine, but that three unrelated investigators, across three unrelated cases, were all fooled in exactly the same specific and falsifiable way.

Reflection: Notice how much of the strongest evidence in this lesson comes from people whose job was specifically to catch fraud. What weight do you give to a skeptic changing their mind?

Trance mediumship channels a message through an altered state. A related but distinct gift — mental mediumship — has more recently been tested under controlled laboratory conditions designed specifically to rule out every conventional explanation.

Questions and Topics for Group Discussion

1. In trance mediumship, the words pass through the medium's own mind on the way to you, unlike the direct-voice cases in Lesson 2. Does that distinction change how convincing you find this evidence?
2. Drayton Thomas used 'proxy sittings,' where a stranger sat in his place, to rule out the medium reading his own mind. Why does that kind of control matter, and can you think of other ways researchers might test this?
3. Richard Hodgson set out specifically to expose Leonora Piper as a fraud and instead became convinced. What does it take, in your own life, to change your mind about something you were certain was false?
4. Eileen Garrett produced detailed technical information about the R101 disaster before the news had even been made public. What do you make of evidence that couldn't have come from ordinary research or guesswork?
5. Of the three mediums in this lesson — Leonard, Piper, and Garrett — which case would you want to investigate further, and what would you want to know?

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