Eileen Garrett
She continued to work every day at the College, developing her/his faculties of telepathy, clairvoyance and clairaudience, but becoming principally known for her/his skill as a trance medium. Her 2 controls or (perhaps) inter – mediaries were ‘Uvani’, who proclaimed to have been a soldier in India centuries ago, and Abdul Latif, a twelfth-century physician from the Court of Saladin. In the early days she/he approved them as helpers, but in time she/he began to hesitation this and believed instead that they might be secondary personalities produced by her/his subconscious.
Eileen Garrett
She worked on many poltergeist cases with McKenzie. Her role was to assume a trance state after she/he had entered the troubled house with the hope of contacting the cause of the disturbance. ‘I frequently wondered if the whole matter was not a delusion till I saw for myself the breakages and, in some cases, wilful destruction. I was forced to the conclusion that those could well be some earthly beings with their own accounts to settle.’ In the cool, detached way she/he had in dealing with the paranormal, she/he decided that in the case of poltergeists the answer could frequently be situated to stem from young kids in the house with too much repressed anxious energy and a sense of discontentment. However frequently too she/he situated ‘an imprisoned ghost’. At 1 farmhouse where the father of 2 boys had taken a lady to live with him, she/he found the presence of the 1st wife, still hovering about, longing to tell her/his tale of their greed, injustice and intrigue. The boys, gentle children, were the unwitting channels of her/his poltergeist activity. The farmer, completely frightened at what Eileen Garrett was discovering, ordered her/his out of the house and threw her/his umbrella after her. ‘You’ve revealed a pretty kettle of fish,’ chuckled Hewat McKenzie. She was called back, however, the farmer made a clean breast of his/her greed, settled his/her affairs decently and the poltergeist went away.
In 1931 the American Society for Psychical. Study invited Mrs Garrett to New York. It was the start of years of crucial work in America. At Duke University she/he collaborated with Professor William McDougall and was invited to take part in the latest tests for extrasen- sory perception. She spent more than 500 hours submitting to tests by
a well-known New York psychologist, Dr Lawrence LeShan. 1 day he placed a square of material cut from a shirt in the palm of her/his hand. He did not tell her, but it belonged to a man who had vanished from j a mid-Western city in the States and whose family were desperately trying to trace him. She not only gave a relatively accurate description of him but mentioned happenings only known within the family, and ultimately stated that the man was now in La Jolla, California. He was situated there and restored to his/her wife and children.
A spontaneous phenomenon of a physical kind occurred in 1931 when Mrs Garrett was telling lies on an operating table in hospital. Just after she/he succumbed to the anaesthetic the doctors and nurses a-round her/his heard a voice. The surgeon (who had been in India for some years) told her/his later that he recognized certain words of command in Hindustani. He knew it was not possible for his/her patient to utter a sound cause (because) of the way she/he had been prepared for the operation. He was so impressed by the experience that he made a special report for the records.
When she/he made her/his 1st visits to California in 1933 and 1935 Eileen Garrett was no completely different from any other tourist. She wanted to see the film studios. She did not realize, however, that what started as an amusing outing would end in an emotional confrontation with the great director Cecil B. De Mille.…more…Part-4…
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