Video: The Scole Experiments 1993-1998
The Scole Experiment is widely regarded as one of the most successful paranormal experiments ever conducted involving communication with the dead.
What makes the Scole Experiment so different from conventional spirit communication using mediums is the remarkable range of physical evidence produced. This includes astonishing photographic and video material, numerous ‘apports’ or objects materialized into the séance room out of nowhere, the levitation of objects, spirit hands physically interacting with observers and spirit voices communicating directly from a point in space and not via a medium. Additionally verification of the Scole claims came from scientific observers who were invited to monitor sessions as well as a professional magician. The highly respected Society for Psychical Research in London also conducted a lengthy investigation and published a positive report. To date no one has found any evidence to show that the Scole experiments were anything but genuine.
BACKGROUND
The Scole Experimental Group (SEG) consisted of four core members Robin and Sandra Foy and Alan and Diana Bylett who were the mediums. The experiments took place in a converted cellar in the Foy’s beautiful 17th century farmhouse located in the sleepy village of Scole in northeast England. I first visited this house and met the SEG last year as part of a documentary series I am making for American television exploring the evidence for life after death.
Beginning in 1993 all four members embarked on a five-year experiment using a revolutionary kind of ‘physical mediumship’, which succeeded in producing tangible objects from the spirit world.
The SEG believe they were guided to this particular house by spiritual intelligence. They were later informed by spirit entities that the location of the house was a significant factor in helping build a bridge between the living and the dead. They were also informed that the ability to create this bridge was assisted by something referred to as ‘creative energy’. Their spirit communicators told them this was a blending of three different types of energy, which the ‘spirit team’ could manipulate to produce the desired results.
Foy describes the spirit team as comprising ‘thousands of minds’ that exist in another dimension of reality normally invisible to the senses. Members of this team of discarnate beings were dedicated to assisting in the experiments from the ‘other side’. Unlike traditional spiritualist séances where mediums were reportedly able to exude ectoplasm during séances, the spirit team’s ability to manipulate ‘creative energy’ precluded this necessity. This spared the mediums considerable duress since traditionally mediums are completely exhausted by the experience. During the Scole Experiments the Byletts would go into trance, spirits would communicate through them and later they would emerge without being physically depleted but without any memory of what had transpired.
Robin Foy, a huge bear of a man who radiates warmth and integrity, has been investigating psychic phenomena for over thirty years explains the motivation of the Scole Experiments. “What we wanted to do,” he states, “ was to provide physical evidence for other people to witness, which would provide actual proof of life after death that could be studies scientifically. In short we wanted to prove beyond any doubt that life goes on beyond death.” For Robin and the other members of the SEG belief in life after death is not a mater of faith. “ When people ask me do I believe in an after life I say no. I don’t believe. I know. It’s not about faith it’s about evidence.”
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Even Dr Richard Wiseman
was brought in to ensure no tricks were being
played... more here.Sources: Wikipedia, neopax.com and www.timcolemanmedia.com
