Carl Miller
Active Member
“For the open-minded skeptic, the evidence collected over a period of
six years and with more than five hundred sittings by the Scole
experimenters and the afterlife team is absolute, definitive, irrefutable
and irretrievably proved. Many regard The Scole Experiment as the
greatest recent afterlife experiment conducted in the Western world.”
Victor Zammit
The Scole Experiment was a recent example of physical mediumship
and materialization, which are dealt with in more detail later in the
book in Chapter 10. It is a very well-documented current experiment,
witnessed by a number of people of the highest credibility, many of
who are still very much alive.
When skeptics attack the evidence for the afterlife, you will find that
they are all strangely silent about The Scole Experiment. While they
theorize about how physical mediums could have cheated, not one of
them has offered to conduct even one demonstration to produce even a
fraction of the phenomena that these wonderful experiments produced,
on a weekly basis, for over six years in several different countries
under the strictest scrutiny in premises that were often assigned to the
group on short notice.
Six years of experiments
Scole is a village in Norfolk, England. Using it as a base, several
experimenters of the Scole Group, including mediums Robin and
Sandra Foyand Alan and Diana Bennett, produced brilliant evidence
for the afterlife in experiments conducted in England, the United
States, Ireland and in Spain.
Senior scientists and investigators who participated in The Scole
Experiment included Professors David Fontana, Arthur Ellison and
Montague Keen. Of course, over the six years there were many others
who attended as senior scientists and guests in the actual experiments:
Dr. Hans Schaer, a lawyer; Dr. Ernst Senkowski; Piers Eggett; Keith
McQuin Roberts; biologist Dr. Rupert Sheldrake; Professor Ivor
Grattan-Guiness, all with scientific or other relevant background, and a
host of other highly credible witnesses who have had years of
experience in dealing with the paranormal.
NASA scientists involved
In the United States, sessions were also attended by a number of
scientists, including a number of senior scientists from the space
agency NASA and others from the Institute of Noetic Sciences near
San Francisco, as well as representatives from Stanford University.
Grant and Jane Solomon, who wrote a book on the experiments, report
that after the experiments, some fifteen scientists from the NASA
group formed their own psychic group to continue to communicate
with the afterlife entities (Solomon 1999:73,189).
One critical thing that the reader is asked to consider is that during
these experiments, the “spirit team” working from the side of the
afterlife expressly stated that it was they who were causing psychic
phenomena.
This was to rule out “super ESP” and other theoretical and abstract
irrelevancies as an explanation of Scole effects. The members of the
“spirit team” identified themselves. The “spirit scientists” identified
themselves. And intermittently, there were guest spirit observers like
Helen Duncan, the gifted medium who died in 1955 .
The Scole Report
A scientific report from the (British) Society for Psychical Research is
available that contains documents all of the following phenomena.
According to Montague Keen, speaking on behalf of three
investigators who wrote the report, “None of our critics has been able
to point to a single example of fraud or deception” (Keen and Ellison
1999).
The group began with two mediums delivering messages from a nonphysical
group. Many of these messages contained personal
information that nobody else could have known about.
Voices, touch and materialization
Soon the messages came in the form of voices which could be heard by
all in the room. Many of the experimenters experienced physical touch
and the levitation of a table took place. Then came the actual
materialization of the people and objects from the non-physical side.
More than fifty small objects were materialized, including a silver
necklace, a Churchill coin, a small rose quartz crystal ball, a 1940
British penny, a 1928 one-franc piece, a silver charm of the “Grim
Reaper,” an original copy of The Daily Mail dated 1 April, 1944; an
original copy of The Daily Express dated 28 May 1945; and many
others.
Interesting experiments were undertaken with photography. Images
were imprinted on unopened rolls of film inside a locked box. These
images included actual photos of people and places, sometimes from
the past, and various obscure verses and drawings that took some effort
to identify. There were also pictures of other dimensions and the
beings that inhabit them. Eventually video cameras were able to record
disincarnate images.
One of the most spectacular phenomena of The Scole Experiment was
the materialized psychic lights that whirled around the room
performing various maneuvers. Occasionally, these lights would throw
out beams, as well as pass through solid objects. When they touched
people, there was a definite sensation, and when they entered a
person's body, a healing.
The speed, the different configurations and other phenomena
performed behind the lights were just overwhelming, especially when
all witnesses attested it was impossible that the lights could have been
in any way fraudulently physically manipulated. All of these
phenomena were accompanied by sudden and dramatic drops in
temperature.
This is how Piers Eggett, one of the eyewitnesses, described the light:
This was a small ball of white light which moved around the room
in all directions, sometimes at great speed, leaving a trail like a
firework by persistence of vision ... At times the light hovered in
mid-air, and then touched some of the sitters, giving them a small
electric shock.
According to other eye witnesses the normally single light point
would:
• dart around at great speed and perform elaborately patterned dances
... including perfect, sustained circles executed at high velocity and
with a precision which appeared inconsistent with physical
manipulation
• settle on outstretched hands and jump from one to the other
• enter a crystal and remain as a small point of light moving around
within the crystal
• strike the top of the table with a sharp rap or the glass of the dome or
dish with an appropriate “ping” and do this repeatedly while remaining
visible as a sharp pinpoint of light
• respond to requests, such as alighting on and irradiating parts of the
witnesses' bodies
• move in time to tape-recorded music
• produce “lightning flashes” in an area of a large room some three to
three and a half meters distant from the group sitting round a table (in
Spain)
• undertake several aerial “bombing raids” on the table top, hitting it
very audibly and visibly, and appearing to emerge from an area
immediately below the table (Los Angeles)
• change shape, from a pinpoint of light to a generalized irradiation
• move at very high speed, describing at times perfect geometric shapes
within a foot or two of visitors' faces, but without making any sound or
creating any perceptible air movement.
A master magician’s testimony
Skeptics may argue that such effects could be produced by stage
magicians using long hollow strands of fiberglass with laser lights
projected through them. This option was certainly considered by James
Webster, a professional stage-magician and former member of the
Magic Circle, who has more than fifty years experience in psychic
research. On three occasions he attended sittings with the Scole group
and published reports.
His conclusion was clearly set out in a recent letter to the English
newspaper Psychic World (June 2001):
I discovered no signs of trickery, and in my opinion such conjuring
tricks were not possible, for the type of phenomena witnessed,
under the conditions applied….
Kingsley Fairbridge
There were many dramatic revelations during the years of The Scole
Experiment, but one which I found particularly interesting was about a
member of the “spirit team” named Kingsley Fairbridge .
The experimenters were told by the spirit that he, Kingsley Fairbridge,
was born in South Africa, educated at Oxford in England and moved
to Australia. There he set up Fairbridge Farm Schools, to teach
underprivileged children a trade. Unfortunately, he was not physically
healthy and died fairly young. A picture of him was materialized.
The Scole group made some effort to investigate and published the
details in the new Scole Bulletin asking for help. As a result they were
contacted by the daughter of Kingsley who was still living in
Australia. When the Scole group sent her a copy of a materialized
photograph she confirmed the accuracy of the information and that the
photograph was an excellent likeness of her late father (Solomon
1999)
From=
A Lawyer Presents the Case for the
Afterlife= Author =
Victor James Zammit
six years and with more than five hundred sittings by the Scole
experimenters and the afterlife team is absolute, definitive, irrefutable
and irretrievably proved. Many regard The Scole Experiment as the
greatest recent afterlife experiment conducted in the Western world.”
Victor Zammit
The Scole Experiment was a recent example of physical mediumship
and materialization, which are dealt with in more detail later in the
book in Chapter 10. It is a very well-documented current experiment,
witnessed by a number of people of the highest credibility, many of
who are still very much alive.
When skeptics attack the evidence for the afterlife, you will find that
they are all strangely silent about The Scole Experiment. While they
theorize about how physical mediums could have cheated, not one of
them has offered to conduct even one demonstration to produce even a
fraction of the phenomena that these wonderful experiments produced,
on a weekly basis, for over six years in several different countries
under the strictest scrutiny in premises that were often assigned to the
group on short notice.
Six years of experiments
Scole is a village in Norfolk, England. Using it as a base, several
experimenters of the Scole Group, including mediums Robin and
Sandra Foyand Alan and Diana Bennett, produced brilliant evidence
for the afterlife in experiments conducted in England, the United
States, Ireland and in Spain.
Senior scientists and investigators who participated in The Scole
Experiment included Professors David Fontana, Arthur Ellison and
Montague Keen. Of course, over the six years there were many others
who attended as senior scientists and guests in the actual experiments:
Dr. Hans Schaer, a lawyer; Dr. Ernst Senkowski; Piers Eggett; Keith
McQuin Roberts; biologist Dr. Rupert Sheldrake; Professor Ivor
Grattan-Guiness, all with scientific or other relevant background, and a
host of other highly credible witnesses who have had years of
experience in dealing with the paranormal.
NASA scientists involved
In the United States, sessions were also attended by a number of
scientists, including a number of senior scientists from the space
agency NASA and others from the Institute of Noetic Sciences near
San Francisco, as well as representatives from Stanford University.
Grant and Jane Solomon, who wrote a book on the experiments, report
that after the experiments, some fifteen scientists from the NASA
group formed their own psychic group to continue to communicate
with the afterlife entities (Solomon 1999:73,189).
One critical thing that the reader is asked to consider is that during
these experiments, the “spirit team” working from the side of the
afterlife expressly stated that it was they who were causing psychic
phenomena.
This was to rule out “super ESP” and other theoretical and abstract
irrelevancies as an explanation of Scole effects. The members of the
“spirit team” identified themselves. The “spirit scientists” identified
themselves. And intermittently, there were guest spirit observers like
Helen Duncan, the gifted medium who died in 1955 .
The Scole Report
A scientific report from the (British) Society for Psychical Research is
available that contains documents all of the following phenomena.
According to Montague Keen, speaking on behalf of three
investigators who wrote the report, “None of our critics has been able
to point to a single example of fraud or deception” (Keen and Ellison
1999).
The group began with two mediums delivering messages from a nonphysical
group. Many of these messages contained personal
information that nobody else could have known about.
Voices, touch and materialization
Soon the messages came in the form of voices which could be heard by
all in the room. Many of the experimenters experienced physical touch
and the levitation of a table took place. Then came the actual
materialization of the people and objects from the non-physical side.
More than fifty small objects were materialized, including a silver
necklace, a Churchill coin, a small rose quartz crystal ball, a 1940
British penny, a 1928 one-franc piece, a silver charm of the “Grim
Reaper,” an original copy of The Daily Mail dated 1 April, 1944; an
original copy of The Daily Express dated 28 May 1945; and many
others.
Interesting experiments were undertaken with photography. Images
were imprinted on unopened rolls of film inside a locked box. These
images included actual photos of people and places, sometimes from
the past, and various obscure verses and drawings that took some effort
to identify. There were also pictures of other dimensions and the
beings that inhabit them. Eventually video cameras were able to record
disincarnate images.
One of the most spectacular phenomena of The Scole Experiment was
the materialized psychic lights that whirled around the room
performing various maneuvers. Occasionally, these lights would throw
out beams, as well as pass through solid objects. When they touched
people, there was a definite sensation, and when they entered a
person's body, a healing.
The speed, the different configurations and other phenomena
performed behind the lights were just overwhelming, especially when
all witnesses attested it was impossible that the lights could have been
in any way fraudulently physically manipulated. All of these
phenomena were accompanied by sudden and dramatic drops in
temperature.
This is how Piers Eggett, one of the eyewitnesses, described the light:
This was a small ball of white light which moved around the room
in all directions, sometimes at great speed, leaving a trail like a
firework by persistence of vision ... At times the light hovered in
mid-air, and then touched some of the sitters, giving them a small
electric shock.
According to other eye witnesses the normally single light point
would:
• dart around at great speed and perform elaborately patterned dances
... including perfect, sustained circles executed at high velocity and
with a precision which appeared inconsistent with physical
manipulation
• settle on outstretched hands and jump from one to the other
• enter a crystal and remain as a small point of light moving around
within the crystal
• strike the top of the table with a sharp rap or the glass of the dome or
dish with an appropriate “ping” and do this repeatedly while remaining
visible as a sharp pinpoint of light
• respond to requests, such as alighting on and irradiating parts of the
witnesses' bodies
• move in time to tape-recorded music
• produce “lightning flashes” in an area of a large room some three to
three and a half meters distant from the group sitting round a table (in
Spain)
• undertake several aerial “bombing raids” on the table top, hitting it
very audibly and visibly, and appearing to emerge from an area
immediately below the table (Los Angeles)
• change shape, from a pinpoint of light to a generalized irradiation
• move at very high speed, describing at times perfect geometric shapes
within a foot or two of visitors' faces, but without making any sound or
creating any perceptible air movement.
A master magician’s testimony
Skeptics may argue that such effects could be produced by stage
magicians using long hollow strands of fiberglass with laser lights
projected through them. This option was certainly considered by James
Webster, a professional stage-magician and former member of the
Magic Circle, who has more than fifty years experience in psychic
research. On three occasions he attended sittings with the Scole group
and published reports.
His conclusion was clearly set out in a recent letter to the English
newspaper Psychic World (June 2001):
I discovered no signs of trickery, and in my opinion such conjuring
tricks were not possible, for the type of phenomena witnessed,
under the conditions applied….
Kingsley Fairbridge
There were many dramatic revelations during the years of The Scole
Experiment, but one which I found particularly interesting was about a
member of the “spirit team” named Kingsley Fairbridge .
The experimenters were told by the spirit that he, Kingsley Fairbridge,
was born in South Africa, educated at Oxford in England and moved
to Australia. There he set up Fairbridge Farm Schools, to teach
underprivileged children a trade. Unfortunately, he was not physically
healthy and died fairly young. A picture of him was materialized.
The Scole group made some effort to investigate and published the
details in the new Scole Bulletin asking for help. As a result they were
contacted by the daughter of Kingsley who was still living in
Australia. When the Scole group sent her a copy of a materialized
photograph she confirmed the accuracy of the information and that the
photograph was an excellent likeness of her late father (Solomon
1999)
From=
A Lawyer Presents the Case for the
Afterlife= Author =
Victor James Zammit
It's already comforting to hear!