| Leslie Flint
possessed the rare and spectacular gift of
diect-voice physical mediumship. In a darkened
room, spirit visitors withdrew from the medium
(and the sitters) a substance called ectoplasm to
form a kind of 'voicebox' through which they
could vibrate our atmosphere and speak
objectively. This
kind of mediumship is exceptionally rare.
In addition to holding
many hundreds of private seances, Leslie also
appeared at large demonstrations around the UK,
sitting inside a light-proof cabinet (a large
darkened box, seven feet high and four feet
square) with a microphone placed outside. The
spirit voices then spoke to their loved ones in
the auditorium.
At one seance, a mother
arrived late and sat outside the seance room, but
her dead son still communicated. Leslie writes,
'His voice moved right away from me across the
room to the door where he called loudly for his
mother... and the dead boy and the living mother
talked together through the door.'
Another sitter attended
a seance and spoke with his wife, following which
he said, 'I then felt fingers take my pen and
notebook from my hand and heard the pen moving
across the paper.' On examining this later, he
verified that the writing obtained at the seance
and his wife's normal handwriting (when alive)
were exactly the same.
When sceptics declared
that Leslie heard the voices clairaudiently, and
then gave the messages himself through his own
mouth, Rev Drayton Thomas arranged a test,
details of which were reported in Psychic
News (14 February, 1948). A strip of
elastoplast was placed over Leslie's mouth, plus
a scarf tied over this, and the cords tied up his
hands and restricted his head movement. The
voices were still heard - and at the end of the
seance, the cords and plaster had not been
disturbed. He was also tested by holding a
measured amount of coloured liquid in his
taped-up mouth: but the voices still came, and
the fluid was still there afterwards.
Leslie gave successful
seances in America: in New York, Chicago, Los
Angeles and Hollywood; during which time he was
entertained by the filmstar Mae West - who sat in
seances with him - and her husband. Leslie also
visited the silent the movie-star Rudolph
Valentino's grave and placed flowers on it.
Valentino was one of Leslie's main spirit
helpers; and there was also the ever- present
'Mickey', a chirpy young Londoner.
'Rose Hawkins', a street
flower seller, possessed an earthy voice,
strident and cheerful, with a Cockney twang. 'You
want me to describe our world in your material
language! I don't know which way to start. I
suppose if you could think of all the beautiful
things in your world without all the things which
aren't pleasant, you'd 'ave a vague notion of
what it's like...The only things you get 'ere is
by character and the way you've lived your life
and how you've thought and acted.'
George Bernard Shaw's
spirit communication was verfiied by his close
friend George Bishop, the Daily Telegraph's
dramatic critic, with: 'The mind and the mood are
Shaw's.'
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A 'dead'
Archbishop of Canterbury
Speaks from the Beyond
At a
private Flint seance, Dr Cosmo Lang, who as
Archbishop of York had previously suppressed a
Church of England Report investigating
Spiritualism - which had found its survival
claims to be true - voiced his regrets about his
behaviour on Earth:
Dr Cosmo Lang:
'If only I
could have my life over again with the knowledge
I now have, how differently I would act. I could
have done so much, but I was afraid. I feel
strongly (now) that Spiritualism is so vital and
so important that all should know it.'
But he warned
materialistic people against developing their
mediumistic gifts: 'If
you are to contact the highest forces, the good
forces, those who can uplift mankind, you must
have mediums or instruments who are of like mind
and of like thought and on a higher spiritual
vibration, and it seems to me some of your
mediums are unfortunately of a low order.
'I do not want you to
think I condemn, far from it, I am anxious to
help. I feel that only when Spiritualism is used
in the right way with mediums on a higher mental
and spiritual level - who will give up material
things in true service to God, regarding
themselves as mere instruments of the divine
power to serve the children of the Earth - will
it be of true benefit to mankind.
'If the great truth of
survival were demonstrated and made manifest in
the truest and finest sense, the whole world
could be changed for the better.'
When Dr Lang's recording
was played to Conan Shaw, who had known him well,
Shaw affirmed, 'Yes, I have every confidence it
is Dr Cosmo Lang.'
Writing Leslie Flint's
obituary in The Independent, journalist
Alexander Walker recalled attending a seance:
'Though tolerantly sceptical, I had to concede
that those (voices) which addressed me, claiming
acquaintance with a recently deceased parent,
answered test questions about childhood, family
and pets with fluency and total accuracy. They
did not seem to need to pause for breath.'
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What is Life Like in the Spirit
World?
To hear many recordings of famous, and
unknown, spirit communicators speaking through
Leslie Flint's direct-voice mediumship about
life, the process of 'death', spirit return,
philosophical thought, God, religion,
spirituality, mediumship, healing, the eternal
nature of the soul, and many other fascinating
subjects, visit the official Leslie Flint website
at:
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