| Leslie Flint
possessed the rare ability of diect-voice
physical mediumship. In a darkened room, spirit
visitors withdrew from the medium and the sitters
a substance called ectoplasm to form a kind of
'voicebox' through which they could vibrate our
atmosphere and speak objectively. This form of mediumship is
exceptionally rare.
In addition to holding
many hundreds of private seances, Leslie Flint
appeared at large demonstrations around the UK,
sitting inside a light-proof cabinet (a large
darkened box, seven feet high and four feet
square) with a microphone placed outside it. From
within the cabinet the spirit voices then spoke
to their loved ones in the auditorium.
At one private seance
held for a group of people, a mother arrived late
and had to sit outside the seance room, but her
dead son communicated anyway, wrote Leslie: 'His
voice moved right away from me across the room to
the door where he called loudly for his mother,
and they talked together through the door.'
Another seance sitter spoke with his wife, following
which he said, 'I then felt fingers take my pen
and notebook from my hand and heard the pen
moving across the paper.' On examining this
later, he verified that the handwriting was his
wife's.
When sceptics declared
that Leslie heard the voices clairaudiently and
then gave the messages himself through his own
mouth, Rev Drayton Thomas arranged a test,
details of which were reported in Psychic
News (14 February, 1948). A strip of
elastoplast was placed over Leslie's mouth, then
a scarf tied over this, then cords were used to
tie up his hands and restrict his head movement.
But the voices were still heard - and at the end
of the seance, the sitters discovered that
neither the cords nor the plaster had been
disturbed. Mr Flint was also tested by his
holding a measured amount of coloured liquid in
his taped-up mouth - but the voices still came
and the fluid was intact afterwards.
Leslie Flint gave
successful seances in America: in New York,
Chicago, Los Angeles and Hollywood, during which
time he was entertained by the filmstar Mae West,
who sat in seances with him. Leslie also visited
the silent movie-star Rudolph Valentino's grave
and placed flowers on it. In a seance, Valentino
declared himself one of Leslie's main spirit
helpers, along with a chirpy young Londoner
called 'Mickey',
In one of the many of
Leslie Flint's recorded seances, a communicator
called 'Rose Hawkins', a street flower seller,
possessing an earthy voice, strident and cheerful
and with a Cockney twang, stated: 'You want me to
describe our world in your material language! I
don't know which way to start. I suppose if you
could think of all the beautiful things in your
world without all the things which aren't
pleasant, you'd 'ave a vague notion of what it's
like...The only things you get 'ere is by
character and the way you've lived your life and
how you've thought and acted.'
George Bernard Shaw's
recorded spirit communication was verfiied by his
close friend George Bishop, the Daily
Telegraph's drama critic, who stated, 'The
mind and the mood are Shaw's.'
top of columns
|
A 'dead'
Archbishop Communicates
At a
private Flint seance, Dr Cosmo Lang, who as
Archbishop of York had previously suppressed a
favourable Church of England Report the
investigation of Spiritualism (which had found
its survival claims to be true) voiced his
regrets about his earthly actions:
Dr Cosmo Lang,
Archbishop of Canterbury
'If only I
could have my life over again with the knowledge
I now have, how differently I would act. I could
have done so much, but I was afraid. I feel
strongly (now) that Spiritualism is so vital and
so important that all should know it.'
But he warned
materialistic people against developing their
mediumistic gifts: 'If
you are to contact the highest forces, the good
forces, those who can uplift mankind, you must
have mediums or instruments who are of like mind
and of like thought and on a higher spiritual
vibration, and it seems to me some of your
mediums are unfortunately of a low order.
'I do not want you to
think I condemn, far from it, I am anxious to
help. I feel that only when Spiritualism is used
in the right way with mediums on a higher mental
and spiritual level - who will give up material
things in true service to God, regarding
themselves as mere instruments of the divine
power to serve the children of the Earth - will
it be of true benefit to mankind.
'If the great truth of
survival were demonstrated and made manifest in
the truest and finest sense, the whole world
could be changed for the better.'
When Dr Lang's recording
was played to Conan Shaw, who had known him well,
Shaw affirmed, 'Yes, I have every confidence it
is Dr Cosmo Lang.'
Writing Leslie Flint's
obituary in The Independent, journalist
Alexander Walker recalled attending one of the
medium's seances: 'Though tolerantly sceptical, I
had to concede that those (voices) which
addressed me, claiming acquaintance with a
recently deceased parent, answered test questions
about childhood, family and pets with fluency and
total accuracy. They did not seem to need to
pause for breath.'
_______________________
What is Life Like on The Other Side?
To hear dozens of recordings of famous
and unknown spirit communicators speaking through
Leslie Flint's direct-voice mediumship on life,
the process of 'death', spirit return,
philosophical thought, God, religion,
spirituality, mediumship, healing, the eternal
nature of the soul, and many other fascinating
subjects, visit the official Leslie Flint website
at:
www.leslieflint.com
More
Direct Voice Evidence:
Estelle Roberts
John C Sloan
|
