Twenty people sit in a darkened room.
They are waiting for proof that there is life after death.
I am one of those twenty.
Do you believe there is life after death?
I’ve always believed that our consciousness survived death, but like most people I had doubts. I wanted proof that life after death was not just a fanciful notion that made me feel better about losing loved ones. When the chance arose to attend a physical mediumship sitting I accepted without hesitation.
Physical mediums of The Yellow Cloud Circle, Tom Morris and Kevin Lawrenson of Mont Cabirol, France arrived in New York to share their gifts of physical mediumship with us through six seances. I was lucky enough to attend two sittings that were astounding.
What is physical mediumship?
Physical mediumship, as opposed to mental mediumship, is the ability to provide physical evidence that can be seen and heard by onlookers that our conscious survives physical death. Mental mediumship is the ability to provide evidential information to a group or individual that we survive death. A mental medium will receive information telepathically from the deceased and pass this information on to someone, while physical mediums have the ability to allow the deceased to produce physical effects that can be heard and seen by witnesses.
Sitting for a seance
While I attended two sittings, one April 30 and another on May 5, I’ll describe them here as if they were one for the sake of brevity. The room that was used for the seance was kindly donated by the owner of Subtle Energies, a holistic health center in beautiful upstate NY. The room would allow for a maximum of twenty people per sitting.
In the front of the room was the medium’s “cabinet.” The cabinet is a simple ply-wood structure similar to a closet that is open at the top and in the front. Inside the cabinet was a comfortable armchair for the medium to sit on during the seance.
The front opening of the cabinet has a metal curtain rod at the top with a curtain that is pulled to enclose the opening. Tom Morris, the medium sits inside where the energy he emits builds-up and can then used by the discarnate personality to create the physical effects which are witnessed by the people attending the seance, called “sitters.”
Inside the cabinet was a crate containing ping pong balls and other small objects. To the right of the cabinet was a small pedestal table, and on the left was a small snare drum with two drumsticks upon it, a tambourine, as well as two cardboard trumpets that resembled megaphones. Strips of illuminated tape were fastened to each of these items so that we could see them if they moved in the dark.
On the floor directly in front of the cabinet was another piece of ply-wood about 4 by 4 feet. The plywood would allow us to hear the footfalls of the spirits. Arranged in a semi-circle around the cabinet were folding chairs for all the sitters. At the right of the cabinet was a small table with an iPod hooked up to a speaker for playing music and for recording the seance next to which Kevin Lawrenson sat. Kevin’s chair was the last one in the semi-circle on the right side of the room. I sat in directly across from the medium’s cabinet about 12 feet away.
We were asked to leave all our personal items in our cars and bring only our car keys which were collected and left at the back of the room. We also had to take off our shoes and leave them in the back of the room as well. No cellphones or electronic devices of any kind were allowed in the room. We were encouraged to inspect the cabinet inside and out to our satisfaction before the seance began. The room was completely blacked-out. Heavy canvas was placed over the front window and window in the door and then taped around the edges to make sure no light could enter the room.
After we all took our seats Tom entered the cabinet and was cable tied to the chair. Plastic ties similar to those used by police were used to tightly fasten Tom’s arms to each arm rest and his feet to each of the front legs of the chair. One of the sitters closest to the cabinet was invited to go up and inspect the ties. He pulled on them and reported that Tom was securely fastened to the chair. The lights were turned off and the room became completely dark. Kevin played some music while we waited for things to start happening.
A voice in the dark
When the music stopped the room was completely still as all the sitters waited in anticipation of what would come next. Lights twinkled a few feet above the cabinet near the ceiling and then stopped. Tom had entered a deep state some would call a trance and his breathing was quite loud. Then a raspy man’s voice began speaking. The voice, with a clearly Scottish accent, belonged to John Campbell Sloan, Tom and Kevin’s main contact and gatekeeper for their work in the Spirit world. After John introduced himself he took questions from the sitters.
Physical mediumship is important work
There are very few physical mediumship circles in the world and when you have the opportunity to sit with one the questions you are to ask are not to be of a personal nature. The purpose of this type of mediumship is to learn more about life after death, and to get information from Spirit that can be used to help mankind. The sitters asked some fascinating questions some of which pertained to earth changes, 2012, formal religion, vegetarianism, and the law of attraction. (You can listen to the entire seance on Tom and Kevin’s site: www.montcabirol.com)
Several times during the question and answer period John asked that we check the medium.The sitter who’d checked prior to the lights going off was given a small flashlight and he got up and pulled the curtain on the medium. Shining the light on Tom we could all see that he was still securely fastened to his chair. The first time the sitter checked he noted that Tom’s cardigan had been reversed. The sweater had been taken off of him and put back on with the buttons going down his back!
After the question and answer period which lasted for at least an hour we were told to think of a loved one on the other side that we might like to see.
Transfiguration
Transfiguration is when Spirit overlays their image over the face of the medium.
A small flashlight was set up outside the medium’s cabinet to illuminate Tom’s face. We were allowed to move up and sit on the floor directly in front of Tom who was still in trance so that we could watch his face. Within a few seconds Tom’s face began to change rapidly. I saw many, many faces, older men, young men, Asian faces, and then I saw my father’s face! He was wearing one of his beloved baseball caps and smiled at me. I saw him again a few moments later when he appeared without the cap and looked right at me. It was magical and wonderful to see him.
Everyone who sat close enough was able to see Tom’s face change.
Raising our vibrations
After the transfiguration period John Sloan said goodbye to us. His associate, Irene Simms, came through next. Irene was a boisterous character whose main function was to keep the energy of the sitters up so that this energy would contribute to creating the physical effects of the evening. Irene asked for some lively music. We could hear her singing and heard her dancing on the plywood. While she danced the drum and tambourine played and at the same time the trumpets were making figure eights in the air. The table also flew about on its own. Irene also briefly showed us her hand by placing it front of a square object that had been covered in illuminated tape.
You could feel the floor shaking as Irene jumped up and down to the music and enthusiastically let out a few screams of delight, “Woo!” Her voice came from different locations in the front of the room so it was apparent that she was moving around. Suddenly, ping pong balls began flying all over the room too. I was hit with several. During this time a bell was ringing followed by the piercing sounds of a slide whistle. Someone to my left yelled out that a sweater had landed in their lap.
Checking the medium
Another check of the medium was performed. Tom had been moved to the center of the plywood outside the cabinet and it was noted that he was now missing his sweater entirely.
After Irene got us all revved up with her dancing she answered some questions and then she took her leave too.
There is no bigotry in the afterlife
Another spirit came through briefly. His name was Phil Starr and his voice was completely different from John or Irene’s. His voice was quite powerful and loud. He told us he had been a drag artist while he was alive. He was quite funny and jokingly put the moves on one of the male sitters. He wanted to make it clear that homosexuals are not precluded from entering the afterlife as some people would have you believe.
The finale
John Sloane returned and asked for some music. Kevin played some Freddie Mercury songs followed by some John Lennon songs. Some of the sitters up toward the front said that someone was standing in front of them singing during John Lennon’s song “Imagine” and that it sounded like John Lennon himself.
I was too far and didn’t hear it myself much to my dismay.
John reminded us that it was important to share this experience and the knowledge that we survive physical death with as many people as were willing to listen. If more people knew that “death” was only the beginning of another life perhaps we would be less inclined to violence and wars. After this John Sloan bid us goodnight and after a few moments the lights were turned back on.
Kevin cut the ties off Tom so that he could get out of the chair.
It had been an amazing evening.
Questions about the mechanics
Afterward I asked Kevin why the seance room had to be so dark and he explained that light has a negative effect on the spirit’s energy. He said it “sticks to them like your tongue sticks to an ice cube making it hard for them to move freely.”
I also asked why the spirits didn’t move too far away from the front of the room. Apparently, they do move all over in their own seance room in France where the energy has been stored over several years. While they are away from home they stay closer to the “source” of their energy because if they move too far they lose connection to the power/medium.
Have you ever attended a seance of physical mediumship? Would you attend if you had the chance? How do you think witnessing something like this might affect you? Would it help you to believe in the afterlife?
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Very interesting experience but despite the excellent narration, I’d have to have been there to fully believe what happened was the real thing. I think that is often the case when you hear or read about the spirit world, the paranormal, or proof of the afterlife. That said, the very exclusivity of physical mediumship (only ten in the world) makes it something to take seriously. and more so given all the factual and proven evidence of the afterlife.
In my own case, both my sister and I saw my dead father walking towards us. He must have been about ten yards away so it couldn’t have been someone else. (We were in a car and couldn’t stop.)Yet when I tell it to others, there are mixed reactions, and even my sister now doubts that it was him and not some doppelganger.
When I was researching a book about reincarnation, I also had some past-life experiences that changed my entire outlook about the afterlife. I’m still not certain if we’re reincarnated, or go on to another level (as my dead father once explained to me), but I am certain that our consciousness/energy/soul lives on in another form and this life is just another step in our journey.
Hi Penelope,
I completely understand. I was skeptical until I attended a physical mediumship sitting myself.
I’m sure that it was your father – and even if it was a “doppelganger” it seems like a huge coincidence that both you and your sister were there to experience it together? Perhaps you were meant to see him regardless?
I think we are reincarnated if we choose to continue learning on the earth plane, and if we don’t we can continue to grow on another level of existence.
I’m a total believer. Energy is ongoing, always.
Hi Sheila,
I’m glad to hear this! Yes, energy never dies!
What I wouldn’t give for an opportunity to witness this! 🙂 Wherever I got the idea originally, I’ll never know, but I remember being in a basement with my Brownie girlfriends, trying SO hard to recreate a seance. It was my idea, I had the others all fired up, and we were all practically wriggling in our skins just *knowing* someone would come through to us. Alas… 😉
To this day, I know they are with us, I can sense them so clearly at times. And I’ve even had some amazing physical and clairaudient experiences of my own. But not like this.
I’m so glad you did this, Angela—and that you shared it with us!! 🙂 ~ Julie
Hi Julie,
I love your comment! I also was fascinated with this subject when I was a girl too.
Did the Brownies have a badge for “seances?” 🙂 I must have missed that one – I was a Girl Scout.
Yes, I know they’re here too. Energy can never be obliterated – it just changes form!
Thanks so much for coming by and visiting!
Angela,
Many Hindus believe in life or reincarnation after death! It has been said that person is going to be kept being born as a different life form (such as human, animal, insect and so on), until he/she achieve the final enlightnment or Moksha.
I always find something new to learn here.
Preeti
Hi Preeti,
Yes, I believe in reincarnation as well. I think we have to keep coming back here until we learn certain lessons in our life plan.
I’m so glad you found this topic interesting.
It’s always a pleasure seeing your Preeti~!
Hi Angela,
I would be freakin’ out if I was in the room!The stuff you’re involved in always blow my mind. You have amazing gifts and are so willing to share with the rest of the world.xo
Hi Tess,
You know when attended my first sitting in Aug 2009 I thought I’d be freaking out too, but instead I found it very exciting!
Thank you Tess. I’m so happy to be able to share my experiences with everyone. xo
I am definitely a believer in life after death, but I haven’t ever attended one of these sessions. Really, really fascinating Angela. Thanks for giving us a peek inside and a look through your eyes.
HI Sibyl,
I’m so glad you’re open to this. It is fascinating isn’t it?
If you ever get the chance to go to mediumship circle you should go.
Thank you so much for such an interesting, captivating article. I would love, one day, to be a part of something like that.
Hi Anne,
Why don’t you study up on physical mediumship and start your own circle?
This is the time to do it. There are fewer than 10 active and successful circles in the world that are getting phenomena.
Maybe you’re being called to do this?
I have never been to a seance, and I don’t know whether I would go to one. But I have had experiences, as a child and as an adult, with beings who were not in my regular frame of reality. So life after life? I think perhaps there is only life. Life before life, life during life, life after life. A thought provoking post. Were you nervous? I might have been!
Hi Galen,
I love that Galen: Life before life, life during life, life after life!
I wasn’t nervous. I’ve been to a number of them previously. I was nervous the first time though!
Angela,
Thank you for this post. You kept me reading till the end.
It was very interesting. My culture have taught us to fear the dead but I guess now, that they are not that scary afterall. They are just in a different form afterlife. This is a great eye opener for me.
I am interested to know what you learn about 2012 from this sitting?
Hi Joseph,
I’m glad you’re seeing it’s not scary at all!
Yes, that’s it exactly we leave out bodies but the energy inside that powers the body is the real “us” and we live on. We don’t need out bodies!
What we learned was that 2012 the world is definitely not going to end!
We as a world need to begin to see the earth as a living ecosystem and respect and care for our world better.
You can listen to the sittings online. They were recorded. Just go to the Mont Cabirol website. The link is in the article.
Angela,
Definitely resonates with my mind that we need to start to see that we are not so different after all. Its collective-We instead of I or You.
I did not yet download the sittings as I was still a bit erm… nervous to listen to it 🙂
Hi Joseph,
That’s right. We’re all part of the fabric of life. Its threads run through each and everyone one of us – so how can we truly be separate? It is truly a collective.
You have nothing to be nervous about – but there is no pressure to download or listen to them. Just do it if the “spirit” moves you! 🙂
Very interesting, Angela, I didn’t really know that people still did that sort of thing these days. Sounds quite lively!
I’m glad my ghost buddy isn’t afraid of the light, though. I wouldn’t be able to stand waiting all day to see him! 🙂
Hi Anna,
It’s very rare these days. There are fewer than 10 active and successful physical mediumship circles in the entire world!
I think you’d love it!
I think Dani manipulates the light, right? You should check out Tom & Kevin’s website. You can ask them question you know!
Amazing and fascinating and as I have said many times before, if this did not come from you I would have my doubts. Thanks for sharing your other physical manifestations with me as well.
Hi Roe,
It is so fascinating. Next time you’ll have to come!
Yes, it does help to get this kind of information from someone you know and trust – like me!
It also helps that I’m not a flaky type either!
Yes, I’m going to write a post about that next.
Ive just visited their website http://www.montcabirol.com and am disappointed to know that Tom and Kevin were in Australia earlier in the year!
I’ll now have to live vicariously by reading the testimonials and listening to the recording.
C’est la vie!
Rosemary
Hi Rosemary,
Oh, too bad. That’s right they were in Australia.
Why don’t you email and ask if they have any intentions of going back?
You know Angela, even though I ‘work’ in the paranormal – there’s that word again 🙂 I have never attended anything like a Tom and Kevin seance.
I guess in part it is because of the difficulty we all share in discerning who is a charlatan and who is genuine.
That being said, having read your account Angela I’ll now be on the look out for news of Tom and Kevin (and John and Irene) visiting Australia.
Thanks for the detailed account of your experience. I felt like I was there.
Cheers
Rosemary
Hi Rosemary,
It’s such a pleasure to have you visit my site.
I’m so glad you enjoyed my account of the evening.
I thought it best to lay it out moment by moment for everyone since it is such an incredible experience.
You can listen to the recordings of the sittings you know?
Hi Angela,
I have never attended a seance but would definitely do it if I had the chance. I have had readings done with psychics before and am open to that.
Your experience with the seance sounds really cool.
Dannion Brinkley has some really cool stories about what the afterlife is like.
Hi Justin,
Yeah it is definitely the among the top coolest things I’ve ever done!
There is so much more to our world than meets the eye, that’s for sure!
Dannion Brinkley – he had the near death experience? I think I read his book when it first came out.
I was always reading this sort of thing from when I was teenager. It’s simply fascinating.
WOW! I was transfixed to this article until I read it all the way through. Wow. I have always had a feeling that we continue on after death. My father died when I was 6 years old and I have felt his presence at various times throughout my life. I have heard of seances on TV and the internet but I didn’t think that it was something real. I really want to experience one of these. Thank you so much Angela for sharing your wonderful knowledge and experiences with me!
HI Trisha,
I’m so glad that your read this article. Yeah, most people think it only stuff in movies too.
I knew about it but I honestly didn’t think it was real until I attended my first sitting in August of 2009.
I was sure it was going to be some sort of hoax or mass hypnosis, but it wasn’t. We (five of us) were in a room that was about 6 x 8 feet and all our chairs were touching and our knees – that’s how close we were sitting, so I knew that no one was getting out of their chair. The table flew up to the ceiling and spun around like a top and then did figure eights and somersaults up there. Then it floated down as gently as you please and landed back in the middle of the circle. No human being could have manipulated the table like that.
If you ever get the chance to go – you should Trisha.
I was blown away!
Hi Angela,
there is doubt in my mind that there is heaven and hell and that we move on after our body dies. To me it is like a new born baby. They have know idea of what they are getting into or where they are going. In death it is the same way for many people. However I do know where I am going. Would I go to a physical mediumship circle, problably just it could be very interesting. I am always up for something new.
Very interesting and thanks,
Debbie
Hi Debbie,
I’m glad you have no doubts about the afterlife.
I’m glad you’re open to sitting with a physical mediumship circle.
I hope you get the chance to do so someday!
I would definitely attend if given the opportunity. I know that energy is infinite, so of course there’s life after death. I have never directly seen spirit activity of any kind but I’ve occasionally felt the presence of loved ones who have moved on to the nonphysical–including my dogs.
Thanks for sharing this powerful experience! I think the more we talk about this energy and how it manifests, the less “spooky” it becomes and the more we can understand it.
Hi Ande,
I’d love to hear your thoughts about it if you ever attended a circle.
Yes, I think most of us have been aware of the presence of a loved one that passed over at some time in our lives.
It makes sense since as you pointed out – energy is infinite and can never be obliterated. It simply changes form.
I agree the more you look into it the less spooky it becomes!
Angela,
Sounds like a life altering experience. I have never encountered any sort of ghost or apparition though I do believe that there is a connection between our temporal world and a more spiritual world. My sister was traveling in Europe years ago and encountered what she called a ghost. It was an old man standing by where she was sleeping at night. She said it was peaceful and didn’t frighten her. For me there is still something a little spooky about the idea. I imagine it is only a certain type of person that spirits contact, maybe related to their energy level. It’s very interesting regardless!
Hi Joe,
I can understand your feeling about it being spooky. I was deathly afraid of the dark growing up and I never wanted to see or hear anything that might scare me. Consequently, I never did see anything spooky except for a few benign apparitions like the one your sister mentioned. I think the notion that we live in a “different” world is why we are unable to perceive them. We all live in the same world it’s just that our consciousness has been “shaped” by our societal beliefs so that we literally cannot perceive the spiritual dimension that is all around us!
I’d like to attend a seance if I had a chance. I’ve heard many stories of rebirth and the after-life and am fascinated, because some of them were very convincing.
Very interesting, reading this. Thanks, Angela
Hi Vidya,
If you get the chance you should definitely go. It is a life altering experience – for sure!
I have not attended any physical mediumship. Your account is very interesting. I’m not sure that I’d be ready for one though.
I certainly believe that the conscious survives physical death. I have been visited by spirits of my uncle, grandma and mother-in-law. There is usually a message or two that they wish to share.
Also, I have “seen” many of my past lives. I’ve also gone for a life-between-lives regression therapy, which I previously shared on my site two years ago. It was a very interesting experience too 🙂
Hi Evelyn,
It might be hard to attend a physical mediumship circle as there are fewer than ten active circles getting real phenomena in the entire world! That’s why Tom & Kevin’s visit to NY was so special and rare!
I’m sure you’re relatives are happy to be able to visit you to let you know that death is not the end! They do want us to know once they’ve discovered this for themselves, but in most cases the relatives they go to are too closed minded to “see” them. Your open mind is why you were able to perceive their presence.
I also know that reincarnation is real. I’ve done past life regression work too. The information was very helpful for understanding my current life circumstances. I’m glad you’re past life therapy was so helpful to you too. I can totally relate~!
That is so cool! My brother and best friend, died 14 years ago of AIDS. He has shown me many times in many different ways that his energy still exists. He even called me once. The caller ID said his name. It was my Dad on the phone.
I feel him in meditation and at other times. I also know, without a shadow of a doubt, that he was instrumental in my surviving and recovering from a brain injury.
It would be absolutely great to see him and others in this way.
Hi Debbie,
I’m so sorry to hear about the loss of your brother. I am glad that he’s come through to you though to let you know that he’s okay and still very much “alive” though. Oh – the phone thing is so cool! I had that happen once too. I was totally blown away. I was speaking to a cousin and the name on the caller ID was her grandmother’s first and last name! I’m sure he’s around you quite often. I totally believe that he was helping you from his realm to overcome your brain injury too!
Wow, I love the part about transfiguration. That must have been very reassuring to see your father’s face.
I have always believed in life after death. There are so many instances of things in my own life or in what I read, to know there is so much more beyond our brief time on earth. If you think of your interests – specific countries, times and places that you have always gravitated to, it is a good indicator of a past live(s). Have you ever read about kid that is 5 or so and can speak multiple languages or can play a piano like Beethoven? I don’t believe they are just gifted. They are tuning into their gifts from other incarnations.
Did you ever hear about this story? Truely amazing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKrXZnWbiTo&feature=related
I highly recommend reading Slyvia Browne’s books. I know she gets a lot of flack, but I finally read a few of her books recently and it filled in a lot of the blanks for me. Her information felt very accurate and explained so much about one’s current life as well and the issues we face. Too much to get into, or I will be writing several pages 🙂
Hi Wendy,
You know I’ve stayed away from Sylvia Browne’s work for that very reason. Maybe I’ll give it a read though.
I do believe in reincarnation and I do believe that children who are gifted from such an early age have returned with the door to this previous knowledge wide open in this life – which is unusual for most of us. I started doing readings when I was 11. I think it had to do with a previous incarnation as there was no way I learned it in this life before that age.
I’ve never attended one of them, but hey I’m always open to new experiences.. if it can convince me of an afterlife, so be it
Henway, if the opportunity ever arises – you should definitely go!
Wow, that sounds like an incredible experience!
I actually wouldn’t go if given the chance, I think I’d give my seat to someone who really wanted it. I get to experience “the other side” every day when I do readings, so I feel very comfortable with life after death already.
Hi Julie,
I’m also a mental medium and I went. I wouldn’t be too quick to discount it for someone else!
Although, I must say it’s very generous of you!
Hi Angela,
My mind is open on this. I now believe that “our spirit” carries on. I am concentrating on making my(this) Life the best that it can be. That’s all I have control over…….
Be good to yourself
David
Hi David,
I’m glad you’re concentrating on this life – that’s exactly as it should be. Making this life your best life is why you’re here.
Knowing our spirit carries on puts this life in more perspective for some people – they know that what they do here matters.
Hi Angela,
I already believe in life after death, however, I would definitely go to a physical mediumship session if I ever had the chance to.
Hi Todd,
Yes, if you ever get the chance I would encourage you to know. What you see and hear will challenge all the fundamental scientific principles you know! By the way, there are fewer than 10 active physical mediumship circles getting phenomena in the entire world!
Wow, only 10? Wonder if there’s one in Colorado?
Hi Todd,
I don’t believe there is one in Colorado.
There are only about 4 in North America.
The rest are in Europe and Australia.