неделя, 25 ноември 2012 г.
Apport
Object that appears in the presence of a MEDIUM
or spiritual adept, as though it has been formed from thin
air or has passed through solid matter. This paranormal
transportation is also known as teleportation. The word
“apport” comes from the French apporter, meaning “to
bring.”
Apports once were a common phenomenon of spiritualist
SEANCES, with mediums producing fl owers, perfumes,
and odd objects, said to be gifts from the spirits
present. Other apports have included vases, books, dishes
of candy which moved about the seance table for the sampling
of each sitter, and live birds, animals and sea life,
including lions, hawks, buzzards, eels and lobsters. Some
mediums were found to hide apports on their person
before a seance and then produce them in the dark; others
produced apports with no normal explanation. Apports
also occur in POLTERGEIST cases. In the 1990s, the SCOLE
EXPERIMENT seance group in England became famous for
its controversial apports.
Nineteenth-century mediums AGNES GUPPY and EUSAPIA
PALLADINO were especially adept at apports, producing
the customary fl owers and fruit—even sea sand and
ice. Palladino also produced disagreeable apports, such as
dead rats.
Guppy was herself an apport at a seance conducted by
mediums Frank Herne and Charles Williams, two of her
protégés. In June 1871, at a seance at the mediums’ home
at 61 Lamb’s Conduit Street, High Holborn, London, one
of the sitters, a Mr. W. H. Harrison, jokingly asked spirit
CONTROLS JOHN KING and KATIE KING if Guppy could be
brought. She was an extremely large woman, and the sitters
thought that such teleportation would surely test the
powers of the spirits. According to all reports, within
three minutes Guppy, clad only in her dressing gown,was sitting in a daze in the middle of the table, holding
her pen and account book. Guppy claims that just as she
was writing the word “onions” in her household ledger,
she found herself transported from her home at Highbury
about two miles away, whisked through the air at about
120 miles per hour.
American medium ARTHUR FORD reported the appearance
of apports at a seance in England at the home of
medium Catherine Barkel, which included Sir ARTHUR
CONAN DOYLE and Ford among the sitters. After Barkel went
into a trance, her Native American SPIRIT GUIDE and control
took over and announced that the “little people” had
brought the sitters some valuable objects which had been
lost on ships wrecked at sea or in other ways. Immediately,
precious stones, one for each of the sitters, appeared in
Barkel’s hand in her lap. Doyle took them to a jeweler, who
appraised them at several hundred pounds. Ford’s stone was
a garnet; others were diamonds, amethysts, emeralds and
rubies. The sitters had them set in jewelry.
Perhaps the most unusual apports were produced by
Charles Bailey, the pseudonym of an Australian medium
who excited much interest on the part of psychical
researchers. Born around 1870, Bailey enjoyed a 50-year
career in mediumship until his death in 1947. He discovered
his powers as a medium at age 18. Early on, his
controls announced he had a gift for apports. He then
produced his fi rst, a stone dripping with sea water, said
to be conveyed from the ocean by a spirit. Among the
many apports Bailey produced were live birds in nests
with eggs; live fi sh, crabs and turtles; a barely alive small
shark; seedlings growing in pots of earth; an Arabic newspaper;
rare coins and antiques (the values of which later
were said to be grossly exaggerated); a human skull; a
leopard skin; a huge piece of tapestry; precious stones;
and clay tablets and cylinders said to bear ancient Babylonian
inscriptions.
Bailey’s modus operandi was to enclose himself in a
double-sewn canvas bag with only his head and arms out,
and with seals placed at the neck and wrists. Efforts to
test Bailey were thwarted by his controls, who insisted on
working in the dark. He was searched prior to donning
the bag but was never undressed. Skeptics believed he hid
apports on his person, or in hollow heels of his rather
high-heeled boots (he was a short man), and then pushed
them out through an undetected hole in the sack. Once, he
was caught with his boots off. He also was exposed producing
fake spirit materializations. Two exotic live birds he
once produced as apports were taken to a local bird dealer
for the purpose of identifying the species; the dealer recognized
the birds as two he had recently sold to a man, and
he later identifi ed Bailey as the purchaser. Bailey retorted
that the dealer was a “stooge” of the Catholic Church.
Several explanations have been advanced for apports:
that they are brought from other dimensions by spirits;
that they are drawn from other dimensions by the willpower
and magnetic pull of the medium; or that they are
objects already existing on the earth plane which are forcibly
disintegrated by the medium, transported and reintegrated
in another location.
According to apport medium John W. Bunker, in order
for apports to appear the medium must put all his spiritual
energy, or magnetic current, at the spirits’ disposal.
Bunker’s technique called for deep breathing and relaxation.
First, he inhaled in rhythm with his heartbeat for
seven counts and mentally directed the magnetic energy
in the air to the base of the spine, where he held it for
three heartbeats. Next he drew this energy up the spine
to the root of the neck and exhaled through the mouth
for seven heartbeats. He paused for three heartbeats and
repeated the process from the beginning. According to
Bunker, this spiritual energy felt like a spot of heat about
the size of a half dollar. He advised that mediums never
attempt to do this procedure without fi rst having full control
of one’s mind, emotions and passions. Bunker said
he released his cosmic energy in the late evening, thereby
converting apported objects to the vapor state, and rematerialized
them at seances at 8:00 the next morning.
Certain mystical adepts, such as the Sufi s of Islam
and Hindu swamis, holy men and avatars (incarnations
of God), claim to produce apports such as food, precious
jewelry, religious objects and vibuti (holy ash). Like
mediums, some adepts have been detected using sleight
of hand, but others, such as Sai Baba of India, have never
been exposed of fraud.
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