Not a bad small article .....this is one of the things I do and when I go to Scotland next time I will be doing a private sitting for papa bear and a close knit group of his....

A couple of things they missed out on is that it has to be done in a very quiet room and it has to be reasonably cold.....this is why in England when this was a rage it was done in the cellars of the house or as the americans call it the basement.

The other thing it does, is that it turns the medium into a diabetic and this is why I have gone from doing it once a month to twice a year. It takes a lot out of the medium and went you have finished for the performance so to speak , the medium is ushered out of the room quickly sand given a warm cup of tea with about six sugars in it

Interesting post. I was just at a friends profile and he had wonderful pictures from the Rosicrucian's of mediums and ectoplasm flowing from their fingers.

Hate to say this, but ectoplasm doesnt flow from fingers....it must be a bodily oriface..

It does flow from the fingers and every orifice, the mouth, the solar plexus, and anywhere and everywhere, even to the point a few mediums have had to keep clean underwear on hand. My great grandmother all the way down to my Father, and now mean do this. It has been called ectoplasm by old time spiritualist and even Blavatsky called it that. Ectoplasm can come from every orifice. One way is not necessarily the true way only a different name and different way of learning. There is no right or wrong only different ways of naming it.

It seems you are both right, in a few of my old occult books, it was called ectoplasm and was said to flow from every where. It has been changed with new age thought. The pictures were titled ectoplasm flowing from a medium's fingertips, as in one of the old books I have. You are right about the undergarments Bel. I found a link on it.


http://newagevillage.com/wiki/index.php/Ectoplasm

when I do it , it only so far has flowed from my head oriface only and no-where else.


I rang up my teacher in England, who specialises in this and out of all the people in his life who he has seen ( he is in his early eighties) , he has never seen it come from the finger tips.......ectoplasm comes from the body orifaces and there is no openings on the finger tips, otherwise it would be coming out of your toes, elbows, scalp etc....

He and I are still searching on this one, so I will say the jury is out on this one at the present moment........ .....will post later on this one....

I just spoke to my friend who is a medium and has been for over forty years, and a Theosophist to boot, she goes with Belphebe's explanation. She has had it come out of her naval, chest. ears, fingers, and other places. It is as I said what each person has experienced. There is no way to say Bel is right or wrong, or any one, it depends on the individual and what they have experience. If we pigeon hole it to one way, we are becoming seriously closed minded and bias.

I would have to agree with both of you, I have seen the ectoplasm come from the fingers as well as the orifices of people,
The first time I saw this was when I was working with a Buddhist monk with meditation after meditation was done with the ectoplasm continued to flow from the fingers in a dimly light room.

Now people frown from her but it was also described being seen come from the fingers of H.P. Blavatsky while doing the work she was doing at the time.

I am still learning I see....

Dr. Crawford supplies this interesting hypothesis of the process at work in the formation of ectoplasm at a circle. It is to be understood that by "operators" he means the spirit operators controlling the phenomena:

Operators are acting on the brains of the sitters and thence on their nervous systems. Small particles, it may even be molecules, are driven off the nervous system, out through the bodies of sitters at wrists, hands, fingers, or elsewhere. These small particles, now free, have a considerable amount of latent energy inherent in them, an energy which can react on any human nervous system with which they come into contact. This stream of energized particles flows round the circle, probably partly on the periphery of their bodies. The stream, by gradual augmentation from the sitters, reaches the medium at high degree of "tension," energizes her, receives increment from her, traverses the circle again, and so on. Finally, when the "tension" is sufficiently great, the circulating process ceases, and the energized particles collect on or are attached to the nervous system of the medium, who has henceforth a reservoir from which to draw. The operators having now a good supply of the right kind of energy at their disposal, viz. nerve energy, can act upon the body of the medium, who is so constituted that gross matter from her body can, by means of the nervous tension applied to it, be actually temporarily detached from its usual position and projected into the seance room.*

* "The Reality of Psychic Phenomena," p. 243.

Here's another one, pictures are better. http://www.ghostcircle.com/_physical.html

Very interesting but you can see many Victorian era photos which have definately been doctored.

You need to definitely know medium who does this, and I think she is at another forum.

There again lies the truth where you are looking for the information there was a women who has had pictures of her when the ectoplasm was leaving the body and she was considered to be doing parlor tricks by some of the pictures that were taken and was cleared from the charges some 100 years after her death

Being occultist I would say that it is up to us to make or pass the judgement on the findings in personal experiences and those of others

Looking at the people that the pictures are taken of say the Blavatsky's, Fortune Crowley's and the other mediums will always be attacked from the nonbelievers ( not accusing anyone ) but this will go one for ages to come