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Daniel Dunglas Home

They are the star performers of the psychic world.

Whether producing startling physical effects, or (perhaps) just talking quietly to somebody in the ‘other world’, they act as channels between us and whoever is out there.
Daniel Dunglas Home
One night in December 1868 3 gentlemen of ‘unimpeachable reputation’ sat together in the dark in an apartment on the upper floor of Ashley House in London. 1 of them was Lord Lindsay, a notable scientist, the 2nd was Lord Adare, and the 3rd his/her cousin, Captain Charles Wynne. All 3 were silent, anxious and tense as though waiting for some thing extraordinary to happen. After a few minutes they heard the window in the next room being raised and almost immediately saw the figure of Daniel Dunglas Home floating in the air outside the window of the room in which they were sitting. He must have been at least 80 ft (feet) from the ground. Lord Lindsay wrote later: ‘The moon was shining full into the room … I saw Home’s ft (feet) about 6 inches above the window sill. He remained in this position for a few seconds after that raised the window, glided into the room ft (feet) foremost and sat down.’ And Lord Adare gave his/her word: ‘The fact of his/her having gone out of 1 window and in at the other, I can swear to.’

This amazing feat of levitation, which is still the subject of controversy today, was performed by the Victorian psychic who is usually regarded as the most well-known medium of all time. Not only did he rise into the air with aplomb but he extended his/her height to an extent not thought humanly possible, washed his/her hands in red-hot coals, produced spirit hands out of the air, talked with phantoms, created vapours and psychic breezes and moved furniture allover the place with out touching it.

Although in his/her mature years Home could levitate at will and became best known to the general public for his/her spectacular drifting about in the air, he also levitated with out seemingly being aware of it. On 1 occasion when his/her host drew his/her attention to the fact that he was hovering above the cushion in his/her armchair, Home seemed most surprised. .To the end of his/her life he maintained that he could only fly through the air cause (because) he was lifted up by the spirits. ‘Since the 1st time, I have never felt fear,’ he wrote in his/her autobiography, ‘Should I, however, have fallen from the ceiling of some rooms in which I have been raised, I could not have escaped serious injury. I am usually lifted up perpendicularly; my arms often become rigid and are drawn above my head as if I were grasping the unseen power which slowly raises me from the floor. …’

He continued to levitate and hold remarkable séances for forty years with out anybody being able to accuse him of trickery. With his/her handsome features, cool grey eyes and curling red-brown hair, Home was unlike any other medium of his/her day. Women swooned over him, and he was welcomed into aristocratic drawing rooms and palaces all over Europe and America. He was lionized by society hostesses, admired by kings and princes. The Empress Eugenie threw a fit of temper when she/he thought he did not pay her/his quite enough attention. Tsar Alexander II, Napoleon III and Queen Sophia of Holland welcomed him to their courts. Intellectuals like Alexandre Dumas, Thackeray and John Ruskin were fascinated by him.…more…Part-2…

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