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[Note: 11th June 2007 - Allowing this article to appear in the Love For Life Campaign Website does not mean that the Cristian Family or Love For Life endorses what is being stated in any way whatsoever. It is possible that souls trapped in the astral world (Word-Story Fantasyland - Hell, as explained in the Love For Life Flier Page) could be the source of all voices or could be just trickery through witchcraft/occultic, black magic means. Whatever is the truth, it is still a very interesting article. We have provided many articles in this topic as well as many photos. If you are interested, keep coming back to this article as we will insert further articles as we find them. Arthur & Fiona Cristian Love For Life]

Afterlife Communication?

Validity of the Afterlife Recordings

Voices of the person in spirit presented on this Web site were recorded using tape recorders during sessions in which various people were present with the medium. The medium is Leslie Flint, called a "direct-voice medium" because the voices heard were purported to be directly from the deceased into air vibrations (audible voice), not through the medium's voice. The voices came through a voice box created in the air to communicate.

If you are a Christian concerned about what the church seems to say about mediums and communication with the dead, read the explanation about Jesus and mediums.

Before you listen to the recordings, read the constraints on how the voices were produced in the explanation of direct-voice mediumship. The explanation will appear in a new window.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The evaluations of the evidence for Leslie Flint's recordings follow.

The Leslie Flint Recordings

Leslie Flint, a medium during the twentieth century, was involved in thousands of experiences in which people spoke to deceased loved ones and the deceased responded in normal conversations. Their voices did not come through the medium's mouth or from any one else present. The people whose loved ones came through all expressed with certainty that the voices were their loved ones' and that they had had conversations with the real, living person, although they had been dead, at times for decades.

The medium and many others before and since described a "voice box" that those in spirit used to communicate that was created just for the purpose and disappeared afterward. The sittings always occurred in the dark.

Evidence for Their Validity

1. The medium was tested hundreds of times using all manner of controls and never once was found to have produced the voices or had any collaborator produce the voices.

Leslie Flint described himself as the most tested medium in all of history. In one instance, "He held a certain amount of pink water in his mouth. Then his mouth was sealed by an adhesive strip. After the séance, he returned the entire amount of water--quite a difficult achievement!" (http://www.tanika.com/04-Mediums/flint.htm).

The creativity of his testers was remarkable: "He was bound to a chair, his mouth sealed with tape. At other experiments he wore a throat microphone to detect possible vibrations in his vocal organs. He was observed through an infra-red viewer." (http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/deathnoe.html) At no time did sounds come from his mouth. In no tests by qualified, skeptical scientists, was anything found to be fake or deceptive.

Quote from the Psychic News, February 14, 1948:

Reports in detail one experiment where he conducted a séance with elastoplast pressed over his lips, bandages over the elastoplast and his hands and legs tied to a chair. The observers concluded that in spite of the above restrictions the voices were soon speaking with their usual clarity, even shouting. Some twelve persons in the room all heard more than enough to convince the most obdurate skeptic that the sealing of Mr Flint's lips in no way prevented the unseen speakers from saying anything they wished. At the conclusion of the experiment they found the plaster and the cords intact and undisturbed. (http://www.survivalafterdeath.org/experiments/direct-voice/flint.htm)

Rev. Drayton Thomas of the British Society for Psychical Research evaluated Leslie Flint. This is his account:

I placed over his [Leslie Flint's] tightly closed lips a strip of Elastoplast. It was five and a half inches long and two and a half inches wide and very strongly adhesive. This I pressed firmly over and into the crevices of the closed lips. A scarf was then tied tightly over this and the medium's hands tied firmly to the arms of his chair; another cord was so tied that he would be unable to bend down his head.
(http://www.tanika.com/04-Mediums/flint.htm)

His evaluation was that Leslie Flint had absolutely no part in producing the voices.

2. The voices came regardless of the setting.
No speakers or collaborators were involved when the voices came. The sittings were held in hotel rooms, houses of strangers, foreign countries, theaters, halls, and a great variety of other places, sometimes set up on the spot so no one could have arranged for electronic devices of any kind to be installed. He travelled with various companions or alone, so no one was with him to create the voices.

3. The sessions occurred before thousands of people with no hint of fraud in any of the sessions.

Each group of people would assemble in the sitting room of Leslie’s London flat in anticipation. Deceased of all descriptions would come and talk to them, not only their relatives. It was as if there was a microphone in the spirit world and the spirit would stand in line waiting their turn to speak. Voices would come from all corners of the room and often several would converse at once, giving detailed descriptions of their life on Earth and other pieces of personal information.
(http://www.thepsychicbarber.co.uk/bookextract.html)

4. The voices were of a great variety of nationalities and ages, and of both genders.

The medium could not have created the voices, nor could an accomplice, because they varied so in quality between men, women, young people, speakers with accents, British speakers, Southern American speakers, and a great variety of others. Also, the witnesses attested that the voices came from all parts of the room, not from any individual. They usually from the direction of the medium, but the medium was often gagged as a test, and at least once, a throat microphone was placed tightly on his throat to detect any voice.

None of the hundreds of tests by witnesses sitting next to the medium or in front of the medium showed any voice coming from the medium. And in any event, it would have been impossible for anyone to create the great variety of clearly different voices.

A brief recording of Leslie Flint's distinctive voice will play when you clickon one of the links that follow. That voice could not have created the voices you will hear when you click on the sound bars that follow his voice sound bars.

Now, listen to a sample of six of the different voices recorded during séances, one after another. The speakers demonstrate the remarkable differences and qualities in the voices that could not be created by any medium or accomplice, and certainly not by the masculine voice of Leslie Flint. Many have British accents, but that is only because the seances were done in Britain and British people came through. Remember as you listen to these strikingly different voices, the microphone was close to Flint, where the voicebox was formed, and far from the two sitters. Flint was bound and gagged for the test seances. And only Flint, with his masculine voice, and two sitters apart from the medium and the microphone recording the voices were in the room.

5. The voices had all the intonations and mannerisms the people had when alive.

It was a remarkable feat for the people no longer using bodies to create a voice box and attempt to mimic what they sounded like while still in a body on Earth decades or centuries before. The ectoplasmic voice box has not a molecule of the long-dead throat in a grave somewhere. And yet consistently, those who knew the deceased said the qualities of the voices matched the people who had died.

A small number of speakers chose to alter the quality (as did Rudolph Valentino who had a squeaky voice in life but has a masculine voice when speaking in a seance). We don't know why a few chose to change their voices, but we do know that they often remark about how extremely difficult it is to come back a century after death, recall the voice others heard, and duplicate the voice using an ectoplasmic voice box created on the spot.

In a demonstration before 75 people in New York City, a man known on Earth as Carl Schneider spoke. At first, no one responded, but a member of the audience finally spoke up and stated that he knew a Carl Schnieder and that the voice was unmistakably his. It had all the intonations, qualities, and mannerisms he recognized as Carl Schnieder's. However, as far as he knew, Schneider was still among the living. The next day, the person attempted to call Schneider, only to find that he had committed suicide a year earlier. (http://www.leslieflint.com/reviews.html)

The seances had thousands of such voices, recognizable by those who knew them on Earth.

Dame Ellen Terry, the Shakespearean actress, came through in a Flint seance. A portion of that recorded seance in 1964 follows. Beside the seance recording bar is the sound bar for a recording of Dame Ellen Terry while she was alive, portraying Portia in the Merchant of Venice in 1911. The ectoplasmic voice box makes a small difference in quality and other details and the recording isn't using Ellen Terry's long dead, disintegrating voice box. Listen to the intonations, even though in one recording she was speaking openly and in the second appearing in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice onstage. The intonation and mannerisms that come from her conscious mind are identical. The later recording, in 1964, of the deceased Ellen Terry, uses a better recording device than the 1911 recording of the living Ellen Terry.

Seance recording (1964)

Quicktime: http://greaterreality.com/recordings/Leslie%20Flint.mp3

Windows Media: http://greaterreality.com/recordings/Leslie%20Flint.wma
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Live recording (1911)

Quicktime: http://greaterreality.com/recordings/samples.mp3

Windows Media: http://greaterreality.com/recordings/samples.wma

The recording of the entire seance in which Ellen Terry spoke was sent to an old friend of Ellen Terry's who was still alive. After listening to the recording, the woman responded by writing, "I am satisfied that it is the voice of the friend I knew so well, Ellen Terry. She pronounces her words exactly as she did when I knew her."

The recording was also sent to some friends in London who had a record made by Ellen Terry to use in comparison with the recording and their own recall of Ellen Terry's voice. They compared the voice on the record with the voice on the tape and reported, "They are identical."

You may listen to the full seance with Ellen Terry's message at one of these links:

Quicktime: http://adcguides.com/ellenterry1fullquicktime.htm

Windows Media Player: http://adcguides.com/ellenterry1fullwma.htm

6. The speakers talked openly and honestly, with conviction, emotion, and personality that could not be staged.

Anyone who listens to the recordings cannot believe them to be staged frauds. Human beings can judge when someone is speaking from the heart, with personal conviction. The speakers on recordings of the seances are speaking with the energy and fervor that can only come from real people. No one could consider that they have been scripted and rehearsed, that some person or group of people had such genius that they could create the personalities, portray them in voice, and keep the affair a secret over decades, repeating the impossible feat in thousands of events before large and small gatherings of different people.

You can judge the veracity of the speakers by simply listening to some of them. Listen to Ted Butler's (http://adcguides.com/tedbutler1.htm) description of what happened to him in the days after his death, or to Al Pritchatt's (http://adcguides.com/alfpritchatt3.htm) account of his death on a battlefield of World War I. You will hear real people speaking about what actually happened to them. Nothing in their messages suggests insincerity or deceit; all of the other recorded voices have the same candid, genuine quality.

If actors had agreed to engage in fraud and create these remarkable characters, we would have to wonder how they managed to project their voices so clearly and audibly into the area around the medium when skeptics had the medium bound and gagged and were anxiously watching for fraud. Then, what happened to these hundreds of talented actors since the recordings were made? How is it possible that they've all kept silent about their subterfuge all these years, en masse? It would require an incredible conspiracy to even manage such a feat, but to keep it all secret with hundreds of participants who received no money for their efforts would be simply impossible.
The recordings could not have been created by fraud.

7. Responsible, uninvolved observers found the messages to be authentic.

Many evaluated Flint thoroughly, using all manner of control. Professor William R Bennett, Professor of Electrical Engineering at Colombia University in New York City, tested Leslie Flint at length. After completing his exhaustive investigation, he thoroughly vouched for Flint's authenticity:

My experience with Mr. Flint is first hand; I have heard the independent voices. Furthermore, modern investigation techniques not available in earlier tests corroborate previous conclusions by indicating that the voices are not his. But to be thorough, one should consider the possibility of live accomplices. This suggestion became untenable for me during his visit to New York in September 1970, when, in an impromptu séance in my apartment, the same voices not only appeared but took part in conversations with the guests. (Voices in the Dark, page 220)

Another witness, Dr Aubrey Rose, OBE, CBE, one of the most brilliant lawyers in England, attended many sittings with Leslie Flint and claims that through Flint he received “the most detailed evidence of survival of the individual beyond this life.” In his recent autobiography, The Rainbow Never Ends (2005), Rose states that his investigation into the afterlife began when he heard a tape recording of a voice he recognized as that of the deceased Judge, Lord Birkett, speaking through Leslie Flint. As a result, Rose became a close friend of Leslie Flint and went on to become a spiritual healer himself.

8. People who attended the sessions and received messages all stated emphatically that it was their deceased loved ones they had conversations with.

This is the report of a deceased young man who spoke with this parents:

He had initially appeared at a seance attended by Lord Dowding, giving his name as Peter William Handford Kite, and asking that his parents be contacted at an address he gave. The parents accepted an invitation to attend a second seance and for nearly forty minutes, Peter came through and in his own voice told them the following which his parents confirmed to be true:

. of a joke about buying an Alsatian he made before he died

. that his mother had put a photograph of himself and photographs of his grave in Norway in her bag that morning

. that he liked the cherry tree in the memorial garden they had planted for him

. that his bedroom had not been changed in the six years since he died

. that he had not liked the wallpaper in his bedroom

. that his father was still driving his car although it was a too small for him.

The young man's parents affirmed emphatically that they had a conversation with their son. (http://www.survivalafterdeath.org/experiments/direct-voice/flint.htm)

9. The variety of personalities, personal stories, and insights is remarkable.

The thousands of sessions, including hundreds taped for evaluation that are available today, contain a vast array of personalities, detailed personal stories, and insights about life and the afterlife that would require a genius greater than Shakespeare for the drama, Agatha Christie for the stories, Jesus or Buddha for the teachings, and Sigmund Freud for psychological insights. This remarkable savant would have had to repeat the feat of creating characters on the fly, impromptu, with no revision of conversation, concept, or thought. It would be simply impossible for any person or group of persons to create all of the personalities now on record in tape recordings available to anyone interested in listening to them.

Several foreign and dead languages are among the conversations people heard during the sessions.

10. The descriptions of the afterlife are perfectly consistent.

If a mythological world called "afterlife" were being created while the speaker was concentrating on the person's story, accent, gender, portrayal of life in the afterlife, and all of the other components of the sessions, we would expect inconsistencies and changes over the decades during which the sessions were held, purely by accident. Instead, the accounts are entirely consistent, demonstrating that the speakers were all describing the same foreign land. They described an afterlife in which they live.

11. The medium and those who recorded his sessions gained nothing of value and wished only to help humankind grow spiritually.

In a court of law, we would look for some motive for actions intended to defraud. We would need to find a reason dozens of people would take extraordinary pains to hold thousands of contrived seances and create the over 120 recordings now in the Leslie Flint archives. The activities would have required the involvement of a cadre of people if they were orchestrated and created in a manner aside from that witnessed and attested to by hundreds of people. That would have required some reward, usually money, for the large number of people present at the seances. No money has been involved in the recordings in the Leslie Flint archives. No motive for them other than to provide them for humanity as records of people in the afterlife speaking has ever been present.

These are descriptions of Flint's activities and those of the people who attended and recorded his sessions:

Leslie Flint's mediumship lacked all traces of false romanticism, fantasy, daydreaming, or the exploitation of human grief and fear. The purpose of his séances was to search for truth and to spread the message about life eternal. (http://www.tanika.com/04-Mediums/flint.htm)

Those present at most of the sessions were George Woods and Betty Green, who gained nothing from their volunteer efforts. They gave the tape recordings they made to the world, for free, to help humankind grow spiritually:

. . . so began for George Woods, Betty Green and their reel to reel tape recorder a 15 year series of regular sittings with the independent direct voice medium Leslie Flint that culminated in over five hundred recorded first hand accounts from those passed on to the next stage of existence beyond the grave referred to by most as "death."

As a reward for her efforts Betty Green presents these recordings to the world to enlighten mankind. They wrote, "These tapes of ours have no restrictions placed on them--they are for the world. Those lovely souls from the Spirit world have not come through just for our benefit, but to give a message to the world, and they are relying on us to pass that message on through the medium of the tapes, and they are determined that people should receive them." (http://www.freewebs.com/afterlife/flint/flintrecordings.htm)

12. Others have had the same experiences, with recorded voices, under controlled conditions.

Mrs. L. Piper was a gifted medium who also enabled voices of the deceased to speak. Professor Hyslop, Professor, a one time skeptic was converted to accepting the afterlife after Mrs. Piper repeatedly produced high quality evidence for the afterlife. In Life After Death (1918) he wrote,

I regard the existence of discarnate spirits as scientifically proved and I no longer refer to the skeptic as having any right to speak on the subject. Any man who does not accept the existence of discarnate spirits and the proof of it is either ignorant or a moral coward. I give him short shrift, and do not propose any longer to argue with him on the supposition that he knows anything about the subject.

David Thompson is now conducting séances with direct voices and materializations of those in spirit in the presence of a variety of people with careful, rigid controls. One of those is Victor J. Zammit, lawyer and author of A Lawyer Presents the Case for the Afterlife. You can listen to descriptions of the seances verified by four witnesses: Ken Pretty, Elizabeth Pretty, Gaylene, and Camilla Persson (a journalist).

Ken Pretty:
Quicktime: http://greaterreality.com/recordings/kenpretty.mp3
Windows Media Player: http://greaterreality.com/recordings/kenpretty.wma

Elizabeth Pretty:
Quicktime: http://greaterreality.com/recordings/kenpretty.mp3
Windows Media Player: http://greaterreality.com/recordings/elizabethpretty.wma

Gaylene:
Quicktime: http://greaterreality.com/recordings/gaylene.mp3
Windows Media Player: http://greaterreality.com/recordings/gaylene.wma

Camilla Persson (journalist):
Quicktime: http://greaterreality.com/recordings/camillapersson1.mp3
Windows Media Player: http://greaterreality.com/recordings/camillapersson1.wma

You can read the transcript of a reunion between a woman and her deceased loved one during a David Thompson seance and listen to the recording at this link: Sarah (http://adcguides.com/sarah-nick.htm).

Montigue Keen was head of the Parliamentary and Legal department of the National Farmers Union of England and Wales, journalist, magazine editor, and secretary of the Society for Psychical Research Survival Research Committee. Keen investigated David Thompson's physical medium abilities on October 25, 2003, using tight controls that prevented the medium from uttering a sound or moving. In spite of the strict controls, the medium was transported, with the chair to which he was taped, to a different part of the room, the medium's cardigan was reversed on his body while the straps binding him were intact, and four distinctive voices were heard. You can read about the controls and occurrences at this link: Montigue Keen (http://silvercordcircle.com/newsletters/montague_keens_report.pdf).

H. Dennis Bradley, an Irish playwright and scornfull skeptic of afterlife communication had two seances, one with medium George Valiantine and the second with medium Gladys Osborne Leonard. In the first, he spoke with his deceased sister. He called it the "most staggering event of my life." He wrote that "Doubt took flight when faced by an unchallengeable fact and the mind understood in a flash that what had hitherto appeared to be impossible was possible." You may read the entire account of his seances and reactions at this link: H. Dennis Bradley (http://www.lightlink.com/arpr/tymn/when_scorn_turned_to_awe.htm).

Dr. neville Whymant, a British professor of linguistics, was a specialist in languages; he knew 30 languages. He attended a seance at the home of William Cannon, a New York City lawyer and judge. The medium was George Valiantine. In the seance, a man came through speaking ancient Chinese. Whymant knew modern Chinese and knew the literature of ancient China, so he was able to interpret it as perfect ancient Chinese. He learned that the speaker was Confucius, whose writings Whymant knew well. He asked the speaker, in Chinese, about poems people had puzzled over for centuries that Confucius had written. The spirit finished the poems Whymant began and explained the errors in copying that had occurred after his death, solving the puzzles. You can read about the seance at this link: Dr. Neville Whymant (http://adcguides.com/whymant.htm)

13. The messages are full of love, hope, and inspiration.

In the end, the most compelling testimony to their authenticity is that all of the messages are full of love, hope, and inspiration. They show no taint from the physical realm; no statements of anger, withdrawal, or desire for revenge. None of the negative emotions we live with daily are in the messages. Refraining from intruding such thoughts and statements is beyond any living human's ability.

An account of such a message follows, written by Gordon Smith, who knew the deceased's mother personally:

One young man who became a frequent communicator was David Cattanach, who had died at the age of 18. He made many visits to the Leslie Flint sessions over a period of almost ten years and spoke to his mother there. I know her personally and she is someone I would describe as very astute, someone who would not easily be fooled, especially when it came to her son, and she had no doubts that she was hearing his voice. In his earlier contacts, he spoke mainly to her, giving brief messages of comfort, but also describing his surroundings. At first these were of a fairly material nature, although filled with a sense of peace and contentment. But each time he managed to come through there was a new strength in his voice and brightness in his personality, and there was even a sense of his surroundings changing.

In one of the later sessions, when one of the group asked him what it was like on the other side, David addressed the whole gathering. He started by saying that he could not conjure up the words to even begin to describe how beautiful it was there and that he felt alive in a way that he never had before. He went on to talk about how he had progressed away from the material world. He said that he was in a state of luminosity and wasn’t aware of having a body anymore – he still had some sort of vehicle, but it wasn’t so important. In his new state he could expand his knowledge just by encountering another spirit. Everything that they knew was shared and so each grew in awareness. His knowledge certainly seemed to be vast as he continued to talk about his understanding of the spirit world he had become a part of. He described levels of consciousness that were wonderful and open to all to discover; he described death as a great adventure that none of us should fear; he explained that all levels of life were interconnected and that our Earthly level was the darkest of all, that we were limited in our understanding because of our emotions and that it was important for us to expand our consciousness beyond our limited vision of ourselves.

In the last part of his talk he spoke to his mother, telling her that no matter how he evolved, they would always be connected. For her, the most marvellous part of these encounters was hearing how her son had grown over the years. (http://www.thepsychicbarber.co.uk/bookextract.html)

Recordings of people in spirit

Over 120 recordings of those in spirit speaking at Leslie Flint sessions exist. Seven recordings (http://adcguides.com/voices.htm) illustrating the variety of people and messages are presented as examples.
The afterlife, as described by those in spirit

In addition, this site has selections of the recordings (http://adcguides.com/theafterlife.htm) in which those in spirit describe characteristics of the afterlife.

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PARANORMAL VOICES ASSERT: DEATH NO END

The Woods/Greene collection of direct voice recordings has been called the most complete account of life in the hereafter ever received

Direct voice medium Leslie Flint

Leslie Flint

The young Leslie

Leslie Flint was born in 1911 in a Salvation Army home in the London district of Hackney. When seven years old he discovers that he is different from the other boys. He sees spirits of the deceased. But he learns to his dismay that his gift is little appreciated (see photo as a young boy with parents). When he is seventeen years old he attends a seance. He receives remarkable messages. A medium in Munich relays a message to him after having received his address from the spirit.

Then at a seance he falls into trance himself and passes on evidential messages to those present. He is not keen at his age to develop his gift and enters a career as a teacher of ballroom dancing. He enjoys his profession and forgets about spiritualism.

Then he meets again a former sitter of his home-circle, Edith Mundin. She persuades him to become a medium at her private circle. His mediumship develops rapidly. Their association ends in marriage.
Voices in the dark

Leslie hears, when going to the cinema, voices whisper in the dark. He is not the only one; people around him hiss for silence. When this goes on he is forced to leave the cinema. The voices are the first manifestations of the direct voice phenomenon. He develops the gift of physical mediumship and becomes a frequently seen medium at other spiritualistic circles. In 1935 he gives the first public demonstration. This is followed by others in halls holding up to 2000 people.
The most tested medium

Leslie Flint always fully cooperated with researchers who wanted to test him. Psychologists, psychiatrists, scientists, ventriloquists, electronic experts and even investigators posing as sitters, all had their go at him.

1948 S.P.R.test.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gagged and bound during 1972 test.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

newspaper article on test.

Test in 1972 with members of S.P.R.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

He was bound to a chair, his mouth sealed with tape. At other experiments he wore a throat microphone to detect possible vibrations in his vocal organs.

Flint with ectoplasmic voicebox.
(See photograph Flint with ectoplasm resting on his shoulder)

When he was observed through an infra-red viewer, what looked like a ball of mist was seen over his shoulder. This is supposed to be ectoplasm, an ethereal substance coming from both the medium and the sitters, which has a similar function to the human voice-box. The communicators explain that they concentrate their thoughts and attempt to speak as they once did on earth. Their thoughts are so translated into audible vibrations.

Flint is not the only medium with such a gift, but he is certainly the last one to have demonstrated it with such clarity for almost half a century.
Leslie is said to be assisted by a team of spirits "on the other side".

Psychic drawing of Mickey

Mickey (see psychic portrait), his main guide, was a newspaper boy who said of himself that he was run over by a truck when he was eleven years old. He had a talent for putting sitters at ease with his cheerful boyish voice. At the end of a sitting he always popped up to say good-bye.

In the many years of his mediumship Flint welcomed thousands of visitors at his house at Westbourne Terrace, London. They listened in amazement to a multitude of voices. All went away with the unmistakable conviction of having conversed with the spirit of a relative or friend, who was living in a better world, which was very real to them. None of sitters is known to have caught Leslie in any fraudulent act during all these years.Alas, all that is sublime has to come to an end. Leslie has joined his friends in the other world in April 1994. His funeral was attended by many of his former sitters and friends. The medium's solicitor, Aubrey Rose, paid tribute to him:For over fifty years he sat in the darkness of his room bringing light through his mediumship, knowledge to the eager, comfort to the distressed, joy and laughter to his friends.

The Woods/Greene collection of direct voice communications

George Woods and Betty Greene at work

This site is dedicated to the memory of George Woods and Betty Greene, who painstakingly recorded direct voices on their tape recorder and made it their lifetime work to copy them for everyone who asked for it without ulterior financial motives (see photograph of them at work).

All the communications would have been of personal interest only, were it not that they have been recorded, first on wire or paper tapes, later on better quality tapes. Sidney George Woods sat with Leslie Flint from 1946 onwards. In 1953 he was joined by Mrs. Betty Greene who gave him invaluable assistance.

 

 

 

 

 

Ellen Terry

In 1956, the voice of Ellen Terry, (see photo), a famous actress of the British stage, who died in 1928, came through and said to them:

You are going to have some remarkable communications. And I suggest you keep these contacts going regularly to build up the power, and to make possible this link which has been deliberately arranged for your tapes. The tapes you record give us the opportunity to reach many people in all parts of the world.... We shall bring various souls from various spheres to give talks and lectures. We need willing helpers on your side.

This marked the beginning of their self-sacrificing work which continued for seventeen years until Mrs. Greene's death in 1975. George Woods (1890-1983) was to keep the work of distributing cassettes going in spite of his age for eight years more until he joined her.

In Great Britain these recordings were once well-known. Thirteen radio and television programmes were devoted to them. Now that the main protagonists have left us the phenomenon and the remarkable recordings thereof are in danger of being forgotten.

But through the Internet, Ellen Terry's words have been really fulfilled: these communications have become available to millions of people all over the globe by means of these pages.

Herewith an audio clip which may be heard on most recent browsers (it may take some time to download it). On a companion page (http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/death_ra.html) another excerpt is provided in the form of a Real Audio .rm (streaming audio) file which will play immediately. However, only if one has installed Realplayer. To download a free copy refer to http://www.real.com.

Listen to an excerpt of a voice communication of Ellen Terry (http://darwin.clas.virginia.edu/~bhs2u/carroll/terry.html) delivered on 27th January 1964:

"Here is complete unity and harmony and love. Here is truly brotherhood. Here is the wisdom of all time expressed in all manner of ways, by all manner of peoples, irrespective of any earthly ideas of class, or creed, or colour."

Direct voices belong to the most impressive phenomena associated with physical mediumship which also includes materialisations (http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/presence.html#MAT).

Presently Victor Zammit reports on spectacular seances with Australian materialization medium David Thompson in Sydney(http://www.thedirectvoice.com/).

For links to other transcripts and (.wav)sound-clips of direct voice communications click on:

* Mahatma Gandhi: http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/gandhi.html

* A BBC interview and a conversation between a mother and her dead son: http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/fearon.html

* Oscar Wilde: http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/oswilde.html

* Chopin: http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/chopin.html

* Mr. Ohlson tells how he experienced "kicking the bucket": http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/ohlson.html

* Bessie Smith, cotton picker of Alabama: http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/bessie.html

* Mr. Biggs recounts the experience of his passing over (Sorry, no sound clip for this communication yet): http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/biggs.html

* Excerpts of transcriptions of direct voice communications: http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/excerpts.html

* Astral Pulse 'The direct voice' with audio clips of full length communications: http://www.astralpulse.com/directvoicerecordings.html

* Welcome to the direct voice. A similar site with full length communications: http://www.thedirectvoice.com/

Foreign languages:

* French introduction: http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/voixdir.html
* Spanish introduction: http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/voces.html
* German introduction: http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/stimmen.html
* Italian introduction: http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/dirvoic_it.html
* Dutch introduction: http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/deathnoe_nl.html
* Paranormale stemmen (Dutch): http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/dirvoic_nl.html

Notes:

* For further info on voice phenomena click here http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/dirvoic3.html.

* The sound clips on these and other pages are from these personal tape recordings made by Mr.S.G. Woods and Mrs. Betty Greene on their taperecorder at seances at Leslie Flint's home, with his permission.
Some are .wav files which may be played after downloading (which will take some time) on most modern browsers.

* On other pages I have installed Real Audio clips which will play immediately, provided one has installed RealPlayer. To download a free copy of RealPlayer refer to the link given at the companion pages:
o The Woods/Greene collection of direct voice recordings with (Real Audio)clip of Ellen Terry: http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/death_ra.html

o Sir Oliver Lodge on direct voice phenomenon: http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/lodgera.html

o Bessie Smith, cotton picker of Alabama: http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/bessiera.html

o Chopin still composes: http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/chopinra.html

o Oscar Wilde returns: http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/wildera.html

o A dead boy speaks: http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/tracey.html

o The voice of a quaker: Here are no leaders: http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/fry.html

o The Archbishop of Canterbury: 'Love overcometh all things': http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/archbish.html

The Leslie Flint Educational Trust http://www.leslieflint.com/, 13 Pembridge Place, London W24 XB, UK, has a huge collection of taped sittings with this famous British medium which are currently available on cassette. You may send your name and address to 'Two Worlds", 7 The Leather Market, Weston Street, London SE1 3ER, Great Britain who distribute cassettes of some of these recordings. You may also listen to recordings of these communications on their website.

Any questions may be directed to mana...@NOSPAMxs4all.nl after deleting NOSPAM from the address. Choose your language: English, French, German, Spanish, or Dutch.

Click here for further information on paranormal voices http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/dirvoic3.html

Links (see also above):

o Biographies of physical mediums, including Leslie Flint, in the past: http://www.fortunecity.com/roswell/seance/78/ind2.htm

o Leslie Flint audio clips: http://www.freewebs.com/afterlife/flint/flintrecordings.htm

o Description of available Leslie Flint communications: http://82.74.223.149/Description%20of%20tapes/Description%20of%20tapes.d...

o Dr. V. Zammit: The Direct-Voice Mediumship of Leslie Flint: http://www.survivalafterdeath.org/experiments/direct-voice/flint.htm

o ADC: After-Death Communication: http://www.after-death.com/

o Ten arguments for a life after death: http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/paraps.html

Literature:

o Bayliss, R.: Voices from beyond (1976)

o Bradley, D. : The wisdom of the Gods (1925)

o Conacher, Douglas: Chapters of Experience, dictated from beyond the grave (1973)

o Edwards, Harry: The mediumship of Jack Webber (1962)

o Funk: I.K.: The widow's mite and other psychic phenomena (1911)

o Hamilton, T. Glen : Intention and Survival (1942/77)

o Flint, Leslie: Voices in the dark (1971, reprinted recently)

o Randall, Neville: Life after Death (1974)

o Usborne Moore, W.: The voices (1913)

o Scans of important books on spiritualism and direct voice: http://survivalebooks.org/

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The Reality of the Afterlife

The afterlife is as real as this life. Volumes of research data, verified accounts of experiences, and recordings of people from the afterlife are available today. The mass of evidence testifies to the undoubtable fact that the afterlife is a reality.

However, in spite of the vast array of evidence, Western culture still lives in ignorance about what happens after a person dies. The truth was obscured first by the church that dominated Western culture until the seventeenth century, then by materialism that took hold of Western thought from the seventeenth century until today. Both the church and materialism suppressed evidence about the afterlife because it ran counter to their doctrines. They derided or persecuted anyone who spoke of the life after this life. They continue to do so today.

As a result, Western culture has lived in a dark age of ignorance about the afterlife.

Today, that is changing. Television and the Internet have allowed humankind to learn about the evidence for the afterlife and the nature of the realm that everyone enters after leaving the Earthly plane. The result is the Renaissance of spiritual realization we are now just beginning to experience. It's an exciting time to be alive.

The After Death Communication Guides site is devoted to providing information about the afterlife and spiritual growth, focusing especially on the recorded descriptions of the afterlife given by people who are now living there, conveyed through direct-voice mediums.

Listen to a Clear, Eloquent, Engaging Description of the Afterlife from Someone Living There

We enthusiastically recommend that you listen to the description of the afterlife given in a seance in 1965 by Dame Ellen Alicia Terry, the Shakespearean actress who died in 1928. It explains what the afterlife is and encourages us to look forward to it as the most wonderful part of our eternal lives. She explains the condition people find themselves in and the fact that there is no hell, only each person's assessment of his life.

Dame Ellen Alicia Terry
(1848-1928)

Listen to her message.
Quicktime: http://adcguides.com/LF_Ellen_Terryquicktime.htm
Windows Media Player: http://adcguides.com/LF_Ellen_Terrywma.htm

Direct-Voice Medium Communication

Direct-voice mediums have the ability to enable people living in the afterlife to speak audibly so sitters in the seance can hear the voices, and the voices can be recorded on a tape recorder. A number of direct-voice mediums have given thousands of such seances. The voices came through a voice box created in the air to communicate. Portions of this Web site are devoted to these mediums. Before you listen to the recordings, read the constraints on how the voices were produced in the explanation of direct-voice mediumship http://adcguides.com/dvmediumship.htm.

Listen to the voices: http://adcguides.com/voices.htm

Induced After-Death Communication:

In induced after-death communication, a patient sitting in a psychotherapist's office undergoes a therapy named EMDR that allows the patient to enter a receptive state of mind. While in that state of mind, the person may have an after-death communication with a loved one. The author of this Web site co-authored a book with the psychotherapist who originated the therapy method. This Web site contains an explanation of the method. Read about the after-death communications http://induced-adc.com/.

Recording of a Living Woman Speaking with Her Deceased Loved One

A woman from England named Sarah was invited to visit David Thompson's Circle of the Silver Cord in early February 2007. As those assembled sat waiting, a whispered voice came through. The sitters asked whom the voice belonged to and he whispered "Nick." Immediately, Sarah realized that it was the spirit of the love of her life who had passed away five months earlier, in August, 2006. Nick and Sarah spoke for a few minutes and she felt him physically caress her face in his hands. The audio and transcript of their loving communication are available for you to listen to and read.

Listen to Sarah and Nick's seance: http://adcguides.com/sarah-nick.htm

Proof the Afterlife Exists:

Victor Zammit is a lawyer from Australia. He has devoted his life to proving, from a lawyer's perspective, that the afterlife is a reality. He has amassed a vast array of evidence and knows without a doubt that the afterlife is just the other side of this life. Read Victor Zammit's proofs http://victorzammit.com/.

Growing in Spiritual Maturity

In the first century CE (Common Era or Christian Era), a humble Jewish spiritual teacher named Yeshua ben Yosef taught profound truths about how individuals and humanity could mature spiritually to make real the Kingdom of God, a kingdom that was within people, and already available. Yeshua's teachings were lost in church doctrine about a mythological person they called Jesus Christ. The twenty-first century is seeing a rediscovery of his teachings. Read about Yeshua and growing in spiritual maturity http://30ce.com/.

Copyright © 2006 www.adcguides.com

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Mr. Biggs Passes Over

Transcription from the Woods/Greene collection of direct voice recordings with direct voice medium Leslie Flint

B. Greene: Well, can't you tell us how you passed over and how you found yourself?
Voice: Oh, I died!

B. Greene: Can you tell us how you found yourself, your reactions on finding yourself so-called dead?

Voice: Oh, I was - I was sitting in my chair - I was sitting in my chair, you know. And I was reading the news-paper which had just come, you know. And I felt a bit sort of odd like, you know, and I thought, well, that's funny! I took my specs off, you know, put them on the table and I thought, well, just sit quiet for a minute and it'll pass off, you know.

But - er - the next thing I knew was that I was sitting there, but I wasn't there, I wasn't! I was, I was sort of standing, so it seemed to me, standing by the chair, looking at myself! And there was the newspaper on the table, my glasses, and I thought, this is odd! Very strange, you know! I couldn't make head or tail of this at all.

And then I was conscious of the fact that there was someone knocking at the door. I don't know how - it was funny that - I was standing there sort of looking at myself sitting in the chair and yet it was as if I could hear this knocking at the door and at the same time - almost in a minute - a second - I was able to see who was knocking at the door, yet I was still standing in the room. And it was my sister. She lived a few doors down the road, you know. I thought, oh dear, what am I going to do? 1 can't open the door, I don't think, and in any case it's - you know, I was in a proper sort of panic.

Anyway, what must have been only a few minutes, she came back with a policeman! Eventually the policeman got in at the window and he came into the room, and I recognised him, I'd seen him many a time on the beat. It was quite a time before I could understand what was going on. Anyway he shook me. He thought I was asleep, you see, same as I did, and nothing happened.

And then he realised I was dead and he opened the door, of course. My sister came in. She was in a proper state, I tell yer! Of course that was all I had left, my sister at that time, May. And - er - anyway they went for the doctor, of course. Old Dr Foskett, he came, you know, but he was no bloody good anyway! I mean, he couldn't do anything for me, I mean, it was obvious then. I realised myself that I'd 'ad it! And I was trying to sort of calm down my sister. She didn't take notice of me. I went and stood - and sort of put my hand on her shoulder and tried to tell her I was all right, it was not me that was there, that I was standing beside her. But she probably didn't seem to cotton on at all to the fact that it was me at all. She just sat there and - a proper state she was in.

Anyway - and then the doctor, he went, and then they came - they took my body away, you see. They slumped it down like an old sack of potatoes and I thought, I'm not going after them, I'm going to stay 'ere in me 'ome I might as well sit down in my chair now it is empty. So I sat down there and tried to think it all out.

Anyway, my sister by this time she'd gone off and I was alone in the house again. And all of a sudden, it was just as if the fireplace disappeared! It's the only way I can put it. And there, where the fireplace was, it was as if the wall had disappeared and I could see beautiful green fields and trees and a little sort of well, I was going to say it was a river, it was more like a little brook.

And I could see something - something - at first I didn't know what it was, coming up towards me in the distance and I made it out, and it was a figure. And it was my mother!

Dear, oh dear! She looked, oh as I'd seen her in the picture which I'd still got in the room hanging up on the wall as a matter of fact, my mother when she was first married. She came right up to what was the fireplace, towards me. And she was smiling all over her face and she was as happy as a sandboy. She says: "Come on", she says, "you don't want to stay here! It is no good sitting here, no one's going to take notice of you. May won't realise, you know. You have to come and be with me, you see."

Anyway, I went with my mother. And it was funny going through this what had been my fireplace and into this lovely sort of countryside.........

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Mr. Ohlson Kicks The Bucket

Excerpt from the Woods/Greene collection of direct voice recordings with direct voice medium Leslie Flint

George Woods

George Woods

Mr. Ohlson was a personal friend of Betty Green George Woods and the medium. He was very interested in Spiritualism and healing. His passing was very sudden. In November 1967 he returned to them This was his second communication, the first being a very short one, but in each the voice was identical.

B.Greene: Hello: Who's that?

Spirit:: Good Lord; Ohlson here!

S.G.W.: Oh, Mr. Ohlson

B.G.: Hello, Mr. Ohlson

Mr. 0.: How are you both?

S.G.W.: Oh, very well.

B.G.: Fine, thank vou.

S.G.W.: And how are you getting on?

Mr. 0.: Very well, no regrets, I'm very happy, I wouldn't come back if you offered me all the gold in China. I'm perfectly well, and perfectly happy, and I can't tell you how marvellous it is to be dead!

S.G.W.: Well, I never!

Mr.O: I've never known - well, you know I was very interested in all this and I used to go to meetings -

B.G.: I've sat with you in this room -

Mr. 0.: I know, that's a few years ago! My goodness me, people should think themselves lucky the day they kick the bucket!

B.G.:What sort of condition did you find yourself in? What sort of place?

Mr. O: Well, as far as I'm concerned the place in which I found myself was, the nearest one can say is like some country place, it could be anywhere in a sense. I mean there were trees and the birds, and just as if one was waking up in a country village, I realised that very soon afterwards - thousands and thousands of people. Many, many live in what you'd call apartment houses - vast buildings housing thousands of people - all sounds rather like a large council estate, but nothing like that really.

I think this place I first came to, was a kind of reception station = it's the only way I can put it - because it is pretty obvious that quite a lot of people when they first come, they do need help and attention, they need to be sort of helped through - it is a difficult period. They don't take to it in the beginning, the realisation that they're separated from people they're close to and fond of on earth, when they realise that, although they can return, though very seldom do, they have the opportunity to have a chat or to comfort people they know and love on earth, they soon begin to realise that they are not acknowledged, and not welcomed. Of course that's a great distress to people at first. That's why they do have these reception stations where there are advanced souls in attendance who know how to deal with these difficult cases, and in consequence they're soon nurtured into a new way of thinking. I think the most difficult cases are those who have strong convictions, religious convictions, narrow outlook.

Oh, we have community centres, and the children of course are one of the greatest joys. I've seen so many children who live with their people over here. Of course many of them - their parents are still on earth, but they're taken in charge by people related to them like a grandmother and so on, but if there is no close tie or relationship there are always souls here who'll take charge. And we have schools for them, and they learn all sorts of things, many of them more important than they learned at school on earth.

Do you know that there are vast cities here, but also you do get communities of peoples who because of nationality when on earth, and possibly because of their colour even, they have this habit of clinging together, or being together. This is usually, of course, a temporary thing with most of them.

We have great halls of learning, and of music. One can study any particular thing that appeals to one, mostly of an artistic endeavour, because it seems to me, I can realise that much more now, that art and the things of the mind and of the spirit are the things that are the most lasting obviously.

You see, this is a real world, but it's not a material world. Therefore we don't have the material aspects like you do on earth. You don't get vast factories for instance. You don't get railways and stations, and thank God, you don't get all the noise, the filth and the dirt.. Here it is a world of absolute beauty, and there's the joy of progress in everything, the feeling of elation that comes with the realisation that all the time you're stepping forward. There's always something new, something more interesting, some new experience, some new place to go to, new people to visit, fresh arrivals coming over from the earth. People we have known and loved, helping them to settle, getting them interested in all sorts of things over here.

It's not a wishy-washy affair over here. It's not some sort of vague something. It's a real existence, and we are in our own way as physical as you are. Yet it's not a physical body as you have it. To all outward appearance it may look the same, but it isn't, the construction is different. I mean we are living on a vibration that is so far removed from earth, and everything is rarified in consequence and everything that we do has a meaning and purpose.

Your world to me seems - well, it is as if there's a dark, dreary foggy atmosphere. Of course the thought forces emanating from your world en masse are so terrible. There's all this upset, hatred, bitterness and malice. I wouldn't want to come back to it.

This is a transmission of my thought via this artificial vocal voice box, call it what you will, which transmits it into sound. It is artificially created because after all we can speak over here - we can communicate if we wish by the vocal effort - we learn very quickly that the best form of communication is a mental process.

This is a world of mental reality, which by the very power that generates it, creates, what you might call, a physical condition or picturisation of things. The more one sort of develops mentally and spiritually here, the more conscious and aware you become of other places, vistas and people. It's just a matter of tapping the source and becoming, as it were, tuned into it.
B.G.: Mr. Ohlson, how do you spend your time now?

Mr.O.: Time, time, time! Well, we're not conscious of time. Time does not mean anything to us. By coming back to you we're conscious of time to some extent. People say 'Oh well, I'me sure so-and-so will come and speak because it's his birthday.' Well, we couldn't care less in a sense about birthdays. In fact we probably wouldn't even remember it was our birthday if it were not for the fact that we pick up the idea or the thought from the consciousness of the individual near and dear to us on earth.
(George and Betty exchanged more thoughts with their former friend. After half an hour the power had gone and they had to say goodbye. Ohlson did not return to the seance-room of Leslie Flint. But, may be, they have met in the spirit by now!)

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Mahatma Gandhi Speaks:

Excerpt from the Woods/Greene collection of direct voice recordings with direct voice medium Leslie Flint

On 21st June 1961 a voice manifested in the seance room of British medium Leslie Flint, claiming to be that of the late Mahatma Gandhi http://www.lucidcafe.com/lucidcafe/library/95oct/mkgandhi.html.

Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi

The voice said:

"Death is something which in your world is taboo! People are afraid to mention the word. They do not like to think about it. They run away from it. It is something they are afraid of because they know deep down in their hearts that it is a reality they must face eventually, and they are afraid of it because they are knowing deep down in themselves they are not fully prepared for it. They know so little about it and they are afraid to find out.

Fear dominates the hearts and minds of man. And we know that, unless something is done about this before it is too late, the disastrous consequences are so tremendous that one hardly dares to think about it.

Today your world stands on the bridge as it were of destruction. Anytime that bridge, which is in itself so unreliable that it is doubtful if it will sustain the weight that is placed upon it, because man himself, unconsciously, and in some ways consciously, has brought into being such a condition of confusion, such a condition of hatred and intolerance.

.........sound clip (click on sound control to start)...........

We on this side for a long time have striven to build between our world and yours a bridge whereby man could climb to heights and find that peace which your world could not give. We know that it is only in this truth, only in this realisation of communication between the so-called dead and the living, there lies the salvation of your world. All history repeats itself. History shows that the very foundation of man's happiness is in the knowledge and the realisation of the life that is to come. The Earth life is but the training ground. It is but the school in which man must learn the lesson, which will, in consequence, give him the opportunity to inherit the Kingdom of the living Father.

Why is it that there is so much fear in your world? Because man has not learnt the path.

There is only one real path. It is the path of the spirit, and there are few people who follow that path. There are some who profess it, there are some who endaevour it, but there are few who succeed in it, because they cannot forget themselves.

The first lesson one must learn is to forget oneself, to give out in love all that is possible from within yourself, and it shall be returned to you.

These things that Christ spoke about, and all the great teachers, all the great philosophers down through the ages was that man should forget himself, so that in return he might find himself.

When you lose yourself in a sea of love, then indeed do you find that you lap against the shores. It is as if you cast yourself in the cleansing power of the eternal sea of love. And you do not become drowned, but you become, as it were, lifted up, buoyed up by it, and you are carried by it. And in consequence your work then begins. And many a shore you may be cast upon, and you will enable others to find that which you have found."

Gandhi said much more in his half-hour' talk. The above are only excerpts.

The full length communication of the Mahatma can be listened to here http://82.75.144.91/Leslie%20flint%20tapes/LF%20Mahatma%20Gandhi.wma%20n....