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Webber was a Welsh ex-miner, born into a
Christian family in Loughor, South Wales, who
went on to develop deep trance physical
mediumship which included the levitation of
objects, the production of spirit voices and
materialised forms, the transmission of spiritual
healing powers, and the presentation of spirit
gifts - known as apports - to his
sitters: these apports were often small
ornaments or sacred religious artefacts. In his psychic circles, spirit
voices spoke to their loved ones through a number
of seance trumpets (conical aluminium
structures), and the spirit people also spoke
independently of the trumpets, addressing their
relatives in their own languages. On occasions,
three separate voices were to speak
simultaneously.
In Mr Webber's presence
these trumpets flew around the room at great
speed and travelled way up to the ceiling, always
moving with remarkable accuracy and never harming
anyone.
Although Jack Webber
worked mainly in private British home circles, on
occasions he also demonstrated his abilities at
some remarkable meetings in public halls to
audiences of up to five hundred people.
Working in deep trance,
and declining the use of any seance cabinet or
curtained-off area, he was always securely tied
to his chair before a seance started, in order to
satisfy the sceptical investigators who were
often present in his circles. (See photograph, on
the right) .
Many infra-red
flashlight photographs were taken of his
phenomena; and a series of these shows the
medium's coat being supernormally removed by the
spirit people, who would
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dematerialise it through the
tightly-secured ropes, and then throw into the
room. This normally impossible task clearly
indicated the presence of invisible intelligences
at work - and therefore pointed to an existence
of the soul after death.
Two photographs showing
some of the physical phenomena produced in the
seance-room through Jack Webber's deep trance
mediumship.
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Above left: Ectoplasm
(a fluid-like substance which is
extracted from the medium and sitters by
the spirit people) streams from Mr
Webber, who is in a deep trance state,
and forms itself into a supernormal
'voice-box' structure through which the
spirit people will make themselves heard.
Above right:
A table weighing 45lbs is levitated into
the air by invisible forces. These
photographs were taken with the
permission of Mr Webber's spirit guides:
Black Cloud (a Mohawk Indian), Reuben (a
South American schoolmaster), and Paddy
(a young lad).
Other 'behind the
scenes' spirit guides of Mr Webber's
were: Malodar, a healer; Talgar; Revd
John Boaden, a great-uncle to the medium;
and Dr Millar and Professor Dale, whose
work was mainly concerned with building
up the materialisations.
Reuben's deep and
powerful baritone voice was once recorded
by the Decca Record Co., Ltd.
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The
Mediumship of Jack Webber,
(published by The Harry Edwards Spiritual
Healing Sanctuary Trust) is written by
Harry Edwards, and it contains 36
photographs of the physical phenomena
produced through the medium.
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