In this short extract from his book
A Gift of Golden Light , Stephen O’Brien records that mediums can clairvoyantly see Thought-Forms which have been created by people who are still living on Earth:
Five friends and I were seated on comfortable sofas and armchairs in a swish dining room when I suddenly received a vivid psychic vision of a woman’s phantom form, dancing around the floor.
I saw a beautiful waltzing lady who was exquisitely dressed in a pink crinolined evening gown; and as she swirled around and around, her ghostly image shimmered in the psychic light that enveloped her.
I watched this lovely young belle from the 1800s as she swayed back and forth in her full-skirted ball-gown. Her perfectly arranged hair was light brown with soft copper highlights in the ringlets, which gave her an air of sophistication as they bounced around her shoulders.
I was aware that she carried with her a marked psychic feeling of ‘America’. Then she vanished - and everything in the dining room was back in its rightful place.
But the guests became curious and goaded me into describing this dancing apparition, which amazed all of them - especially our host.
‘You mentioned a waltzing girl,’ he said. ‘Well, this afternoon I was sitting here when I started to daydream about the ballroom scene from the movie Gone with the Wind. You know the one, where Scarlett O’Hara danced and stole all the men’s hearts.’
Incredibly, I had seen this man’s Thought-Form, which had appeared as a moving psychic image imprinted in the energy-fields of the room.
But in his projected visualisation Scarlett O’Hara’s gown had been pink, which was a much darker shade than the dress worn by the beautiful Vivien Leigh in the film, clearly showing that his own mind had coloured the Thought-Form.
All responsible sensitives need to distinguish between which thought impressions are coming to them from people who are living in the next world, and which mental images are reaching them from people who are still alive on Earth.