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Media Watch for April 2003 (Issue 17)
Article on Spiritualism. The December 2002 Fate Magazine ran an article titled, Listening to the Dead, written by Janet Brennan. The article was very positive toward Spiritualism. The author wrote that she had gone to a spiritual development class envisioning herself exposing the would-be mediums as frauds learning the tricks of the trade. Instead she wrote that the development class she attended at the Madison Spiritualist Camp, “Was a gathering of people sincerely interested in spiritual advancement.” She was also very positive about the person teaching the classes, the Certified Medium the Reverend Gloria Nye, NST. The article ends with the author writing, “My foray into Spiritualism has convinced me that those who love us are with us always—we need only open our eyes to see the signs of their presence.”
Article on Ectoplasm.
The December
issue of the ARPR Bulletin (Academy of Religion and
Psychical Research) ran an article on the front page titled, The Mystery of
Ectoplasm. In it the editor,
Michael E. Tymn, wrote that pseudo-skeptics say ectoplasm is nothing more than
Tymn writes about research on the structure of Ectoplasm done in 1916, which found epithelium to be flat globules, mucus and other organic substances. No inorganic substances were found that showed that the material was of an artificial product. He quoted the researcher Schrenck-Notzing as saying, “For substances of this kind [artificial substance] can never decompose into cell detritus, or leave a residue of such.”
The accompanying photograph is from, The Mediumship of Jack Weber, by Harry Edwards, The healer Publishing Co., LTD., Guildford, Surrey , 1962, Plate 33 (J. McCulloch, Photographer).
The Nocebo Effect: Placebo's Evil Twin. An article in the Washington Post last year, written by Brian Reid, with the above title discussed something that researcher discovered over ten years ago. Women who believed that they were predisposed to heart disease were four times as likely to die heart disease as woman with similar risk factors who didn’t hold such fatalistic views. The risk of death in these women had nothing to do with what are considered the culprits of heart disease. Things like cholesterol, weight, age and blood pressure made no difference. Instead, illness tracked closely with belief. Think sick, be sick.
This study and many others have
shown the “nocebo” phenomenon. The
placebo effect refers to health benefits from a treatment that should have no
effect. The nocebo effect is just
the opposite. Think the worst,
health wise, and that is what you get. It
is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
More on Belief. Japanese researcher, Siyoh Tomiyama, has written a report on experiments being conducted in his country. Siyoh writes about a hot spring in Japan , which has healing powers like the water at Lourdes in France . The composition of the water has been analyzed and found to contain many rare minerals. But the results have been inconsistent and change from day to day and experimenter to experimenter. One experimenter found the composition of the water changed when someone passed behind him!
Siyoh notes that science is unable to deal with inconsistencies. The uncertainty principle, developed by German physicist, Werner Heisenberg, in 1927, allows for such inconsistent results in the world under the microscope, but not in our day to day world, even though such inconsistencies do occur.
Siyoh writes that those who do not believe can actually stop phenomena from happening around them without even knowing it, by using their subconscious power. He references work done by a professor at Toohoku University. The professor had written a report and had done many experiments that proved his theory. The results were sensational and attracted the attention of world scientists, many of whom believed the results were ridiculous and impossible. They then tried to replicate the professors’ results and failed. After many years the professor told an acquaintance of Siyoh, “What a malicious thing the collective thought is! I conducted the experiment several hundred times before I announced it. The results were always duplicated. But now, somehow, I sometimes have difficulty reproducing them.” You can read the report in it entirety at www.worlditc.org/newscience.htm.
Pet Psychics. Phyllis Galde is the editor and publisher of Fate magazine. Galde does a monthly column in the magazine called, I See By the Papers. In her column, published in the January 2003 issue, she writes about contacting a pet communicator. Her cat, Jules, was diagnosed with glaucoma and the veterinarian said his eye had to be removed. Galde contacted the pet psychic to be sure that her cat understood was going to happen.
The psychic explained to Jules what was going to happen and Jules communicated back that he wanted the vet to verbally explain everything that would be happening during the surgery, even though the cat would be anesthetized. Galde felt a little strange asking the vet to do this, but the veterinarian agreed to the request. When she picked up the cat after the surgery, the vet confirmed that he had talked to Jules during the surgery and said that it was peculiar but that he felt that the cat had understood.
A week later, Galde once again brought the pet psychic in for a follow up with Jules. She relayed that the vet had talked to Jules during the surgery and that he was thankful for this. The pet psychic then repeated exactly what Jules told her happened during the surgery. When she took the cat back to the veterinarian to have the stitches removed, the vet corroborated everything that the pet psychic had repeated from Jules.
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cheesecloth, “Indeed, some photographs of ectoplasm do show a substance that
very much looks like cheesecloth.
