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The Two Worlds of Helen Duncan Free FREE THE TWO WORLDS OF HELEN DUNCAN PDF Gena Brealey,Kay Hunter | 252 pages | 30 Nov 2008 | Saturday Night Press | 9780955705038 | English | York, United Kingdom The Two Worlds of Helen Duncan by Gena Brealey Helen Duncan, the materialisation medium, was last woman to be convicted in under the year-old Witchcraft Act. This true story is written in The Two Worlds of Helen Duncan parts. In the first part her daughter, Gena tells the true story of this remarkable woman who cared so deeply for her family and all who needed her help. Her many gifts of clairvoyance, clairaudience and precognition have all been overshadowed by the publicity relating to the physical materialisation side of her mediumship. Nothing has been written before, of her unselfish love for humanity, her devotion to her husband and family, her personal and private joys and tragedies, her physical and emotional suffering. How sad that some people are so filled with fear that they cannot look with an unbiased mind on phenomena that they don't understand but could learn from if they were only willing to wonder about it" J. A must read if you have an interest in physical mediumship. Lots of nuggets of important information about the development of PM" JJ amazon verifies purchase Feb Read more Read less. Customers who bought this item also bought. Page 1 of 1 Start over Page 1 of 1. Previous page. Voices in the Dark: My Life as a Medium. Leslie Flint. Kindle Edition. The Mediumship of Jack Webber. Harry Edwards. Letter to a Young Medium. Brian Bowles. A Guide to Spirit Healing. Jenni Gomes. Lisette Coly. Next page. Review "This is a wonderful book written in a very warm and genuine way about a woman who dedicated her life to helping others and who was not always appreciated for it but The Two Worlds of Helen Duncan attacked for it. Lots of nuggets of important information about the development of PM" JJ amazon verifies purchase Feb --This text refers to the paperback edition. Customer reviews. How are ratings calculated? Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. It also analyses reviews to verify trustworthiness. Review this product Share your thoughts with other customers. Write a customer review. Top reviews Most recent Top reviews. Top reviews from Australia. There are 0 reviews and 0 ratings from Australia. Top reviews from other countries. Verified Purchase. This is a wonderful book written in a very warm and genuine way about a woman who dedicated her life to helping others and who was not always appreciated for it but sometimes attacked for it. How sad that some people are so filled with fear that they cannot look with an unbiased mind on phenomena that they don't understand but could learn from if they were only willing to wonder about it harmlessly. This is what I would say is a food for thought book, very well written from family personal experience. By thedaughter of Helen Duncan, the way this lady The Two Worlds of Helen Duncan treat by the authorities does not bear thinking about. The book is excellent and makes one wonder, what happens when a person dies, naturally there are sceptics and those who will do their damnedest to disprove these believers of spiritualism. D Bowen. Having known about Helen Duncan for a number of years, reading this book makes me grieve. The length's that the "establishment" went to convict this woman of witchcraft were astonishing. I hope those who The Two Worlds of Helen Duncan her at the time receive their just rewards when they pass to spirit. One person found this helpful. The Two Worlds of Helen Duncan of nuggets of important information about the development of PM. I have thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. It is a lovingly written account of a truly remarkable woman, Helen Duncan was both a devoted spiritualist and a spiritual person and an inspiration in her love for spirit and her fellow man. Anyone interested in the history of spiritualism and in what Helen endured as a medium standing for her beliefs and her own truth should read this book. See all reviews. Back to top. Get to Know Us. Length: pages. Word Wise: Enabled. The Two Worlds of Helen Duncan Typesetting: Enabled. Page Flip: Enabled. Language: English. The Two Worlds of Helen Duncan - AbeBooks - Brealey, Gena; Hunter, Kay: She was famous for producing ectoplasm. It has been suggested that she made this from cheesecloth. At school, she alarmed her fellow pupils with her dire prophecies and hysterical behaviour, to the distress of her mother a member of the Presbyterian church. A mother of six, she also worked part-time in a bleach factory. It was observed that upon opening her mouth, the ectoplasm gradually began to be formed on the tip of the tongue until it resembled a cherry. When the ectoplasm retreated into the mouth, it diminished at the tip of the tongue The Two Worlds of Helen Duncan the likeness of a cherry, as it first appeared. None of the substance appeared at any time in the pharynx, disproving the The Two Worlds of Helen Duncan that the ectoplasm was regurgitated cheeseclothwhich is a cotton cloth. Contrary results of this experiment have been recorded. One account stated that no ectoplasm appeared. It was given to Harry Pricewho was originally enthusiastic about the sample. However, when he gave the sample to a chemist The Two Worlds of Helen Duncan analysis it was discovered to be made from egg white mixed with chemicals. Price later duplicated Duncan's ectoplasm with similar substances. She was suspected of swallowing cheesecloth which was then regurgitated as "ectoplasm". According to Price in a report of the mediumship of Duncan: [12]. At the conclusion of the fourth seance we led the medium The Two Worlds of Helen Duncan a settee and called for the apparatus. At the sight of it, the lady promptly went into a trance. She recovered, but refused to be X-rayed. Her husband went up to her and told her it was painless. She jumped up and gave him a smashing blow on the face which sent him reeling. Then she went for Dr. William Brown who was present. He dodged the blow. Duncan, without the slightest warning, dashed out into the street, had an attack of hysteria and began to tear her seance garment to pieces. She clutched the railings and screamed and screamed. Her husband tried to pacify her. It was useless. I leave the reader to visualize the scene. A seventeen-stone woman, clad in black sateen tights, locked to The Two Worlds of Helen Duncan railings, screaming at the top of her voice. A crowd collected and the police arrived. The medical men with us explained the position and prevented them from fetching the ambulance. We got her back into the Laboratory and at once she demanded to be X-rayed. In reply, Dr. William Brown turned to Mr. Duncan and asked him to turn out his pockets. He refused and would not allow us to search him. There is no question that his wife had passed him the cheese-cloth in the street. However, they gave us another seance and the "control' said we could cut off a piece of "teleplasm" when it appeared. The sight of half-a-dozen men, each with a pair of scissors waiting for the word, was amusing. It came and we all jumped. One of the doctors got hold of the stuff and secured a piece. The medium screamed and the rest of the "teleplasm" went down her throat. This time it wasn't cheese-cloth. It proved to be paper, soaked in white of egg, and folded into a flattened tube Could anything be more infantile than a group of grown-up men wasting The Two Worlds of Helen Duncan, money, and energy on the antics of a fat female crook. Price in his report published photographs of Duncan in his laboratory that revealed fake ectoplasm made from cheesecloth, rubber gloves and cut-out heads from magazine covers which she pretended to her audiences were spirits. Following the report written by Price, Duncan's former maid Mary McGinlay confessed in detail to The Two Worlds of Helen Duncan aided Duncan in her mediumship tricks, and Duncan's husband admitted that The Two Worlds of Helen Duncan ectoplasm materializations were the result of regurgitation. A sitter named Esson Maule grabbed her and the lights were turned on and the spirit was revealed to be made from a stockinette undervest. The spiritualist journal Light endorsed the court decision that Duncan was fraudulent and supported Price's investigation that revealed her ectoplasm was cheesecloth. One of these was a Lieutenant Worth who was not impressed as a white cloth figure had appeared behind the curtains claiming to be his aunt but he had no deceased aunt. In the same sitting another figure appeared claiming to be his sister but Worth replied his sister was alive and well. According to Donald:. The loss of HMS Barhamtorpedoed off the coast of Egypt on 25 Novemberwas indeed kept quiet for a while, but letters of condolence were sent out to families of the dead, asking them to keep the secret until the official The Two Worlds of Helen Duncan. So, allowing for perhaps 10 people in each family, there were about 9, people who knew of the sinking; if each of them told only one other person, there were 20, people in The Two Worlds of Helen Duncan country aware of the sinking, and so on — hardly a closely guarded secret.
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