Compelling Evidence from the Other Side

The best evidence for survival of our consciousness upon leaving the physical body comes when a communicator from the Other Side reveals some news that is unknown to the sitters and is confirmed only some time later. Here are two stories that epitomize that evidence.

The first comes from a 1923 book, Guidance from Beyond, by Kate Wingfield, in which she tells of how Sir Edward Marshall Hall (1858-1927), one of Great Britain’s leading barristers, denied all possibility of a future life. Now, Hall had a sister with whom Wingfield was a close personal friend. Wingfield, an automatic writing and trance medium, was staying with the sister when Hall, her brother, paid them a visit. The sister knew of her brother’s disbelief in such things, but asked him to participate in a sitting. Under much protest, Hall agreed.

From his pocket, Hall pulled out a letter which he had received the previous day. He folded up the letter, still in its envelope, and put it in another envelope, which he sealed. There was no writing on the outside of the outer envelope.  He handed it to Wingfield, and said, “Identify the location of the writer.”

In automatic writing, Wingfield wrote: “The writer of that letter is dead.”

This news added to Hall’s skepticism, so he asked, “When and where did the writer die?”

“He died yesterday in South Africa.”

In his account, Hall wrote, “I had mentioned no sex and given no indication of locality, and the answer, though curious, seemed ridiculous. To say that I was puzzled is to put it mildly. This letter, which I had received the previous day was from my brother in South Africa, mailed three weeks earlier. I had not told my sister of this letter and she could not have known of its existence.”

Three weeks after the sitting, Hall received a letter from a clergyman in South Africa dated the day before the sitting that said, “Your brother was found dead in his bed this morning.”

Hall wrote: “I need hardly say that I was staggered at the communication, and I came to the conclusion then, and I still believe, that this message can only have been communicated through Miss Wingfield by some agency outside this sphere. Telepathy, clairvoyance, thought-reading are eliminated absolutely. I was ignorant of the fact that the writer of the letter was at that moment lying dead in South Africa.”

Hall later determined that his brother had died about 36 hours prior to the receipt of the message through Wingfield and the death was unknown to anyone in England until three weeks later, when the second letter was received.

Hall wrapped up his account with, “I was, and am, convinced that there is an existence beyond so-called death, and that there are means of communication between them and us. It is not given to me to see visions or hear voices, or write down messages that are sent. I realize that I am not sufficiently detached from the earthly attraction of life to be allowed myself to pierce the veil. But am I for this reason to say that these things do not exist?”

 

Don’t you love it when a closed mind gets blasted open? The second story takes us back to May 7, 1915 in Dublin, Ireland. Hester Travers Smith, a prominent author and wife of a respected physician, was using a Ouija board along with Lennox Robinson, a world-renowned Irish playwright. They were both blindfolded, and the Rev. Savell Hicks sat between them to copy the letters indicated by the board’s planchette, or traveler.

The first message spelled out: “I am Hugh Lane, all is dark.” Quite a story unfolded, but being blindfolded, Smith and Robinson had no idea as to the message. Eventually, Hicks told them that the communicator was Sir Hugh Lane, director of the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin, who had relayed that he’d been aboard the Lusitania and had drowned.

Although distressed, they continued the sitting, and Lane told them that there was panic, the life boats were lowered, and the women went first. He was the last to get in an overcrowded life boat, but fell overboard, and lost all memory until he ‘saw a light’ at their sitting. “I did not suffer. I was drowned and felt nothing.” To establish his identity, Lane gave Smith an evidential message about the last time they had met and talked.

Later that evening, the story came out about how the passenger ship had been hit by a German torpedo (the event that took the U.S. into WWI), but none of the sitters had known that, or that Sir Hugh Lane was a passenger on the ship sailing from New York to England. In her 1919 book, Voices from the Void, Smith wrote that she had known Lane had gone to New York, but not that he was returning from New York so soon and was on that particular liner.

Sir William Barrett, professor of physics at the Royal College in Dublin, later tested the Ouija board sittings at Smith’s home, and in his 1917 book, On The Threshold of the Unseen, he explained how two members of the group would sit blindfolded at the board, their fingers lightly touching the board’s traveler, which flew from letter to letter under the direction of a ‘control.’ Sometimes, the traveler moved so rapidly that the recorder had to use shorthand. Once, following a discussion about whether the communicator really was Lane, the latter was so upset that the traveler flew clear off the table.

 

Two great stories that involve information completely unknown to the sitters, so could not have been pulled from the minds of those involved. And the odds of them making such stuff up? Forget it! So, if you have any doubt about surviving your own crossing, forget that, too. What’s true for those two guys is also true for you. Whether you cross over on the Lusitania, the Titanic or an Arctic cruise ship tomorrow, the crossing over business is identical, and hasn't changed in a million years. Survival is just the way it is, so relax and enjoy the journey. Let the destination take care of itself … just the way it’s meant to.