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Webber was a Welsh ex-miner, born into a
Christian family in Loughor, South Wales, who
went on to develop deep trance physical
mediumship which included the levitation of
objects, the production of spirit voices and
materialised forms, the transmission of spiritual
healing powers, and the presentation of spirit
gifts - known as apports - to his
sitters: these apports were often small
ornaments or sacred religious artefacts. In his psychic circles, spirit
voices spoke to their loved ones through seance
trumpets (conical aluminium structures) and also
independently of these, often addressing their
relatives in their own languages. On occasions,
threeseparate spirit voices were heard to speak
simultaneously.
In Mr Webber's presence
the seance trumpets flew around the room at great
speed and travelled way up to the ceiling, moving
with remarkable accuracy and never harming
anyone.
Although Jack Webber
worked mainly in private home circles, on
occasion he also demonstrated his abilities in
public halls to audiences of up to five hundred
people.
Working in deep trance,
and declining the use of any seance cabinet or
curtained-off area, he was always securely tied
to his chair before a seance began in order to
satisfy sceptical investigators who were present
in his circles.
Infra-red flashlight
photographs were taken of his phenomena, and a
series of these shows the medium's coat being
supernormally removed by spirit operators, who
dematerialise it through the tightly-secured
ropes and then throw it into the room. This
normally impossible task indicated the presence
of invisible intelligences at work, and therefore
pointed to an existence of the soul after death.
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Two
photographs showing some of the physical
phenomena produced in the seance-room through
Jack Webber's deep trance mediumship.
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Above left: Ectoplasm
(a fluid-like substance which is
extracted from the medium and sitters by
the spirit operators) streams from Mr
Webber who is in a deep trance state, and
it forms itself into a supernormal
'voice-box' structure through which the
spirit visitors can then make themselves
heard.
Above right:
A table weighing 45lbs is levitated into
the air by invisible forces. These
photographs were taken with the
permission of Mr Webber's spirit guides:
Black Cloud (a Mohawk Indian), Reuben (a
South American schoolmaster), and Paddy
(a young lad).
Other 'behind the
scenes' spirit guides of Mr Webber's
were: Malodar, a healer; Talgar; Revd
John Boaden, a great-uncle to the medium;
and Dr Millar and Professor Dale, whose
work was mainly concerned with building
up the materialisations.
Reuben's baritone
voice was once recorded by the Decca
Record Co., Ltd.
The Book about Jack Webber's work is
called:
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The Mediumship
of Jack Webber.
Written by Harry
Edwards it ontains 36 photographs of the
physical phenomena produced through the
medium.
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