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Ectoplasm
Part 2 (Final)
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Still in the
"The Book of
Mediums",
Chapter VI, item
109, Allan
Kardec states
that the
perispirit is
the beginning of
all
manifestations
previously
considered
miraculous.
Later, referring
in particular to
the
characteristics
and properties
of the now
called
ectoplasm, he
named it "perispiritic
fluid" in
"Genesis",
Chapter XIV,
items 35 and 36,
or, according to
other
translators,
“perispirital
fluid".
After Kardec,
the Spirits
instructed that
the ectoplasm is
a "finished
product", i.e.,
ready to be used
in
materialization
sessions or with
other purposes
(therapeutic?),
and it is
composed of
substances,
other than the
organic
substances of
the psychic.
- The Spirit
Andre Luiz, for
example,
describes at
length,
a
materialization
session,
according to the
vision of the
Greater Plan: To
the ectoplasm
used in the
session of
ectoplasmy
(materializations)
it is added
potential energy
of the Sidereal
Spirits and
other elements
called “Nature’s
resources”.
- Thereby, the
phenomenon of
materialization,
to achieve
success, needs
to have the
energy of three
essential
elements:
1. Subtle
energies,
emanating from
the Protecting
Spirits;
2. The energy of
the psychic
(ectoplasm) and
eventually
issued by other
participants.
Here, the
psychic’s
ectoplasm is
described by the
spiritual
director as a
“nervous energy,
flowing
abundantly, like
a kind of thick
fog and milky…
and it is a
plastic matter
very sensible to
our mental
creations”.
3. Energy taken
from the Nature
elements of the
Earth
(water, plants,
etc.).
NOTE: In the
aforementioned
book Spirit,
Perispirit and
Soul,
Hernani
Guimaraes
Andrade
considers the
existence of the
following types
of ectoplasm:
ectomineroplasma
originating from
the mineral
materials;
ectophytoplasma,
extracted from
vegetables;
ectozooplasma,
produced by
animals;
ecto-humanplasma
generated by
humans. But
simplifying the
terminology in
order to make
the meaning more
accessible to
people, I
consider it as
follows:
mineral,
vegetable,
animal and human
ectoplasm.
Still referring
to the Spiritual
author Andre
Luiz, there is
another
narrative
regarding
ectoplasmy
sessions,
where it is
detailed how the
medium, who
furnishes the
ectoplasm,
spiritually
unfolds under
the protecting
spiritual
influence.
In sequence,
materialization
of flowers takes
place and they
are offered to
the psychics
attending the
session.
-
Francisco
Candido Xavier
(1910-2002), the
reputed
Brazilian
medium, "in
the beginning of
his task on
Earth he
exercised, among
other types of
mediumship, the
one of physical
effects",
according to the
following story:
The meetings he
promoted with
several friends
in Pedro
Leopoldo and in
Uberaba became
famous. Those,
who had the
privilege to
witness the
meetings with
him, say the
phenomena they
saw were
unforgettable.
(...) Chico was
in a small room,
leaning back in
a chair. When he
went into a
trance, within
minutes an
intense light
appeared and
began to flow
flooding
throughout the
meeting
environment. To
everyone's
surprise and
joy, Emmanuel
appears
materialized in
full body,
dressed as a
Roman, with the
Southern Cross
stars shining on
his chest. At
these meetings,
Andre Luiz and
Scheilla
materialized
too. They did
the laying on of
the hands on the
sick, leaving
the water in the
bottles
perfumed. Later,
Emmanuel
recommended that
it would not be
convenient for
Chico to go on
wearing himself
out with
materialization
activities,
because his main
task, in this
life, was to
write.
- However, the
most expressive
news about
Ectoplasm, are
found in the
narrative
of amazing
facts, regarding
three children
(sisters of the
psychic of
physical effects
Ophelia
Corrales, in the
Republic of San
Jose, Costa
Rica): the doors
of the place
where the
mediumship
session was
taking place
were locked, and
the three
children were
transferred/transported
to a nearby
house and then
they were
transferred back
in the same
manner – both
places had their
doors locked and
the children
left from one
room to another
and then came
back with the
doors locked!
Note:
I recall "Star
Trek" on TV,
created in 1966
by Gene
Rodenberry in
which the crew
of the ship
"Enterprise"
went through
this
dematerialization
phenomenon in
one place,
followed by
their coming
back in the same
way, they were
transported and
then
materialized
again…
Still the late
Herculano Pires
informed:
A known physical
in Sao Paulo, a
university
teacher, said
that the
materialization
phenomenon is
possible
considering the
present
knowledge of
Physics, but for
it to happen it
would be
necessary to use
a quantity of
energy only
possible to be
obtained during
a period of two
hundred years.
However, as
demonstrated by
Spriritism
scientific
experiences (and
this may be
proven if the
Spiritual Plan
allows it, and
only if there is
a justified
reason), the
materialization
phenomenon is
produced within
minutes.
Moreover, there
was an error on
the part of that
scientist (the
physician from
Sao Paulo) when
he classified
scientifically
the phenomenon
as physical
instead of
physiological,
since this is
the right
classification
of such a
phenomenon.
Apports
The term
"Apport", used
in
parapsychology,
is the sudden
appearance of
objects, animals
or people in an
environment,
where there is a
psychic of
physical
effects. Johann
Karl Friedrich
Zöllner
(1834-1882), a
German
astronomer and
physicist,
professor of
Astronomy and
Physics at the
University of
Leipzig, member
of the Royal
Society of
London, the
Imperial Academy
of Physical and
Natural Sciences
in Moscow,
Scientific
Society of
Psychic Studies
in Paris and the
British
Spiritual
Association of
London, honorary
member of the
Physical
Sciences
Association in
Frankfurt-on-Main)
- phew! - This
brilliant
scientist
imagined the
same type of
transportation
or transference
through the
Fourth
Dimension.
Other options
are the
dematerialization
of the
aforementioned
elements and
materialization
again in a
different place.
Obs.: I
mentioned Dr.
Zöllner’s
curriculum to
show the high
level of
scientific
interest
regarding this
subject.
I hereby mention
another
phenomenon that
makes us think.
In the far away
Easter Island in
the Pacific
Ocean, large
stone statues,
called "Moai",
according to a
local legend,
would have been
carried by the
power of thought
of a priest. The
rock blocks were
brought from a
stone quarry
miles away, and
they came "over
the air"...
No less
impressive are
the reports
mentioning
slates being
transferred/transported
from room to
room, with their
doors and
windows closed,
as well as
plants that grow
in the very
environment of
the medium
sessions, from
other plants,
called “psychic
plants”,
since they
enabled the
birth of other
plants
(materialization),
and there are
cases of some of
these plants
that even bear
fruit!
General
Considerations
Ectoplasm was a
prevailing
subject in the
late nineteenth
century, when
reliable and
dedicated men
studied it
thoroughly,
opening doors
for those to
come. Because
they did not
dispose of
advanced
instruments to
carry out the
necessary
experiences,
they were
limited to
materialization
phenomena, with
materialization
mediums and
laboratory tests
with the
resources of a
century ago…
By the way, this
issue, which in
the last century
puzzled so many
researchers,
today no longer
is taken to
laboratories and
perhaps even to
very few
Spiritist
Centers. I
imagine that
because Humanity
has evolved to
the point of
allowing us to
consider that
such facts
represented
nothing more
than a spiritual
awakening and
that the
Friendly
Spirituality at
the time brought
to Humanity. And
it is important
to establish
that
materialization
"popped" across
Europe soon
after the
Spiritism
Coding, as if
the Spirits
wanted to
consolidate it,
literally.
I am among those
who consider
Ectoplasm as
another
blessing, one
more from the
countless gifts
that God gives
us. Ectoplam’s
potential is
unthinkable.
Thus, it is sad
for me to see
that Ectoplasm
is not presently
in our research
laboratories.
Therefore, I
feel sorry when
I see that there
is no scientific
interest
regarding this
transcendental
question.
However, since
"Nature does not
make leaps", I
believe that in
the right time
man will pay
attention to
this subject
again. And this
will be one of
the valuable
contributions
that Spiritism
will provide to
Humanity, since
the
opportunities to
use Ectoplasm
goes beyond all
imagination:
from
transporting/transferring
people/objects,
to their
dematerialization
at their place
of origin and
materializing
them again at
their destiny,
including the
cure of fatal
illnesses.
LIMA,
Antonio
in
Life of
Jesus,
Chapter
(Materializations),
1939
Publisher:
Editora
FEB,
Rio/RJ.
AKSAKOF,
Alexander,
in
Animism
and
Spiritism,
3rd
edition,
Chapter
"Materialization
and
Dematerialization
of
objects
accessible
to our
senses",
pages
118-133,
1978,
FEB,
RJ/RJ.
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