Automatic writing:
Bookshop shelves have probably already seen one of the strangest autobiographies ever – that of Jesse James, who was an outlaw with his Colt slung damn low on his hip. He communicates from beyond the grave to correct long-held misconceptions and tell the truth about his life.
Skeptics like to say that this is a matter of sinking into a state close to dreaming (reverie), in which a person is already half dreaming but is still able to write and do other things.
William Stainton Moses filled 24 notebooks this way. One of the signatories of his texts was the composer Mendelssohn. Patience Worth was one of the most prolific posthumous authors of this kind. She first appeared as Pat-C (May 13, 1913), when she dictated a few lines of text to Mrs. Pearl Curran, among them: “Why let sorrow steal thy heart? Thy bosom is but its foster-mother, the world its cradle and the loving home its heart.”.
On July 8, this messenger signed herself as “Patience Worth“. Mrs. Curran later learned that Patience had lived in the 17th century, which explained her English. By 1938 she had dictated millions of words, which formed poems, novels and plays. And this was no average babble. These works enjoyed literary success in both America and Britain. The question was who the real author was. Mrs. Curran had only a very limited, basic education and hardly read at all. Patience Worth was an ordinary housewife. Is this proof that souls continue to develop in the other world?
Art for art’s sake:
Matthew Manning comes across as a remarkable person – kind and modest. He wrote his first book – The Link – when he was not even 20 years old, and it showcases some of the most astonishing and best-documented paranormal phenomena. At first, messages appeared on the walls of Manning’s old house.
Later he became a channel for countless dead painters, such as Arthur Rackham, Aubrey Beardsley, Beatrix Potter and even Pablo Picasso. The pictures range from new creations to copies of existing paintings, and they can easily stand comparison with them. Manning, however, is not the only one with such an ability. The Brazilian Luiz Gasparetto has produced new works by Renoir, Cezanne and Picasso. He works in a trance, usually in the dark, and often creates 2 paintings at once – each with one hand. These paranormal artists need no preliminary sketches and produce complete masterpieces within a few hours.
Music of the spheres:
Rosemary Brown, once again, has only a very limited musical education, yet in her London home she produces music dictated to her by deceased composers. The British composer Richard Rodney Bennett says of it: “A lot of people can improvise, but you can’t make up music like this unless you have years of practice and hard work behind you.”.
Just as with the artworks and automatic writing, these compositions are created very quickly. Skeptics again object that this is conscious fraud, or that these people who supposedly receive art from dead artists are sensitives who are merely working with their subconscious. What other source could there be? There is talk of a great cosmic store of knowledge, which some call the Akasha, or the Book of Life. Why has no medium yet appeared who receives inspiration from the great living artists of our own time?
“This is John Lennon, alive, except, of course, that I’m dead”:
Lennon regards his own murder with a strange ambivalence. He sees it as retribution from a past life and as something that was meant to be. “I died at just the right time, when I was supposed to die, and so I can take the next step.” He now belongs to a group, like all the great composers, unofficially called the “White Brotherhood“.
With their combined forces they are trying to provide proof of life after death, because in the nineties the Earth is supposed to go through an enormous spiritual transformation.
AGAINST LIFE AFTER DEATH:
- There are psychological explanations for where creativity comes from.
- The artworks are not usually considered better than, or even comparable to, the works the artist in question created during their lifetime.
- Operations separating the brain hemispheres suggest that information can surface from the subconscious without being recognized as such.
FOR LIFE AFTER DEATH:
- The creations of these sensitives exceed the ordinary level of artistic creativity that these people naturally possess.
- Many experts declare that the results are undoubtedly “in the style” of the presumed originator.
- No evidence has ever been presented proving that the mediums involved are dishonest.
- Entire new “masterpieces” appear on the canvas within minutes to hours, without prior sketches and sometimes even created in the dark. That is much more than just a latent talent hidden deep in the subconscious.
These are my notes, and sometimes even “copied passages”, from the book Life After Death (subtitle Investigating the Mysteries of Life and Death) by Jenny Randles and Peter Hough (ISBN 80-85928-04-3).
I have to return the book to the library, so I am at least keeping a memory of it in this form. If you want to find all the chapters I have written up like this on this blog, type something like “These are my notes from the book Life After Death” (without the quotation marks, of course) into the search on the right, because all of these notes and blog posts will contain this ending. If you want to tell me anything, use the email sunamocz@gmail.com. You can ask for my ICQ, Jabber or anything else, and I will try to give you everything.
You can also tell me off, express your sympathy or even praise me. I really have no desire, mood or anything else to copy out the whole book. I have tried to capture here the main ideas I came across, and since this book was packed with brilliant and remarkable ideas from the first letter to the last, I cannot cover absolutely everything here. I hope it will make sense to you. I apologize for any spelling mistakes; this has not been proofread or run through any spell-checker. Enjoy!