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THE INVISIBLE PLAYMATE
The bible says "in my house there are many mansions", the best
explanation for this, put forth by spiritual experts that this
world is interspersed by others, and physicists and other
theoretical thinkers have concluded the same. That some people
with training- can at times see into these other dimensions or
mansions, is I think beyond dispute. I was never invited to
attend what was arguably the greatest haunting case of modern
times in Britain, the "Enfield poltergeist" but I did attend
another well known classic, the perplexing case of
the "invisible playmate ".When I was first alerted to the fact
that in a quiet modern London suburb, a young boy had an invisible
friend, my reply was that so do thousands of
other children including one of my own sons, and that with the
passage of
time these things just evaporate into the child's memory, but
imagine my
dismay to be asked, does your child's invisible friend lift him of
the
ground in front of witnesses, one occasion was in a crowded
doctors surgery ?Under great pressure my assistant and I set off
to meet with the parents to get some "back grounding", and as our
car pulled up in Victoria avenue, there suddenly appeared all
down the road people standing at their gate watching us in
silence, when I enquired to my colleague something must be going
on, he shook me rigid by replying, "its you mate they have all
heard and have been awaiting to get a look at you " I said, " we
will go home we cannot work with an audience this size". However
we went inside and I was pleased to shut out the curious onlookers
and urgently wanted to hear the parent's story. Although I
listened to each one separately in the kitchen , what they said
tall eyed well, in fact if it talleys too well , I am as a rule
suspicious, but it was the boys father who convinced me both of
his sincerity and the fact that his nerves were in shreds.
Boys in these cases fall usually into certain psychological types,
and he was typical being quiet, introverted, lacking in self
esteem, a poor communicator, emotionally younger than his years,
poor at school sport, a little asthmatic, and often felt an
outsider over being bullied .So lonely children often develop
these friends who as a rule are harmless, and I did not believe
too much when he spoke of this invisible friend, I was only
casually alerted by the fact this boy was older than these
statistical occurrences, he was in the "latency period" and aged
10.It is standard procedure in these matters, to ask the parents
to show the child's bare back, Hindu healers have long known that
heat changes along the spine, or hair tufts can give pointers to
the closest active chakra, for evaluation, and this boy when
questioned did say he often felt a tightening on his scalp, which
is actually quite common in similar cases. The shaving of this
part of a monks head, called a "tonsure" is actually to discourage
discarnate beings from gripping the scalp hair during attempted
possessions, and is the reason for the scull cap of the Jews, and
is still worn in active demonology demonstrations to the present
day. When asking to see the boys room we all crowded in and on
close examination of the wall posters to see what interested the
boy, looking particularly for" trigger mechanisms" when he blurted
out " he comes through that wall to see me, and he has told me
not to speak to you, as you are here to send him away. On leaving
the room and speaking candidly to the father, I said that on some
level this boy had invited and welcomed this beast and although
feeding off his aura, was giving him in return some companionship,
and on occasion the boy would demonstrate special powers, that
were the talk of the street. One of these powers was the
exhibition of xenoglossy, which is characteristic of possession,
and involves speaking in both a different language and vocal
tone, this and his ability to spew out a torrent of abuse and
swearwords, with his levitation a few inches from the ground, for
several seconds at a time all in slow motion were what had caused
the school to say insensitively, if it continued, then he would be
excluded. That the boy and the beast had a relationship of sorts
and this in occult terms is called a "Symphile" the same scenario
is often seen in the broader animal kingdoms, such as the
hippopotamus that allows a small bird to hop in and out of its
mouth, looking for grubs.
* The particular wall in this boy's room was also the focus of a
smelly
liquid like substance, that seeped out and ran down to the floor,
I did not
see this happen, but photographed the stained wallpaper.
I asked both parents to keep some of the substance for me in a
small
medicine bottle I always carried for analysis. As this was on an
outside wall I hung out the window and drew the attention of the
two witnesses that the gutter was blocked and the wall was very
damp with rain overflow.*On questioning the boys father if he had actually seen this in
operation
himself, I was fairly satisfied the phenomena was genuine. And he
assured
me categorically it was, he said the whole thing was tearing the
family
apart, and would pay any amount of money to see it stopped. I
have had to
say this many times but although I belonging to several spiritual
organizations, the spiritualist church makes no charge, but so
many times
you can be out of pocket, to take a day or two away from work,
travel etc.
so as he was a financially secure I said if he wanted to give a
donation I
would see that the church ,wrote officially and thanked him.
This was one of those rare cases where an exorcism is both
necessary and
urgent. Most modern possession cases are now considered the
province of the psychiatrist, and N.H.S. drugs. But I did try to
get it over to the boys father, that no matter how many times we
got rid of what I suspected to be one of the lesser symphilous
demonic entities, if his son was to invite it back again each
time, then not only a stalemate situation was in embryo, but it
would put his son at risk of harm for me to antagonize it. That
night I telephoned a friendly Jewish scholar in these matters and
asked if in the "Genizah" which is a room put aside in a synagogue
for old damaged, rare or "special " books, had anything which
would throw light on the situation, that in brief meant any
exorcism of the beast could bring about the death of the child,
because of the close linkage between the two. Next day we had what
the old books call a "holding at bay ceremony" to give time for us
to make our plans. There is a saying in the intelligence services
that says, " no time ever spent in reconnaissance is ever wasted"
but time was pressing.We got a message from the boys father saying they were moving
away
immediately as a radio station had made a mocking broadcast
accusing the family of being publicity and sensation seekers, and
life was becoming
intolerable, with sightseers etc. he family doctor had acted like
a fool and had put the whole family on tranquillizers. And we
heard no more from them, so what happened to this day I do not
know. I do know many prayers were said for the anxious parents,
the shy, introverted young boy and his demonic friend. I wish
them well
T Stokes paranormalist & exorcist
* footnote- the two witnesses to the staining of fluid on
the
wallpaper have suggested that in retrospect they think the gutter
overflow
of rain could have run damp down the boys wall, and the wallpaper
paste and
emulsion paint, thickened and colored the water.I could not say more than I have *
THE ENFIELD POLTERGEIST
An excellent article in the psychic world April edition by
Graham Hewitt,
On one of the most interesting of modern cases, that was alas
all too short. With Graham's permission I wish to expand on
several of his items. I had the utmost respect for the integrity
of investigator Maurice Grosse, who was scrupulously honest in
what he saw at Enfield, and if anything down played it, I had
seen him very shaken at what he had seen and heard, but
particularly the energy from the girls that was "Bled" from them
by the discarnate entity to produce the paranormal effects.
Dr John Beloff, would not allow anything to be seen as evidence
that was not seen and verified by himself, this made it
difficult to have independent statements and photographs
verified, and many were never seen, it was Carl Jung who said;
"any degree of learning narrows horizons" and John Beloff an
intellectual academic, who incidentally died recently, used his
position in the SPR to downgrade and poo-hoo the work of
reputable psychics alongside the fakers. There is a trend just now for the SPR to be cynical in the main
on these
subjects, while they should be open minded and John was not.
John particularly disliked the lowbrow "Psychic News,"
newspaper, which he said was "a pathetic rag" And while I agree
they have constantly verified as genuine, a string of mediums
who have later been proved charlatans, this is a bit harsh. John
had great regard for the psychologist Hans Eysenck, and it was
Hans who told me That while John would do his official cynical
pooh hooing, in private he believed he had been here before, and
as a strict Jew he had to believe in the Old Testament teachings
on Astrology Necromancy etc. Around this time I was teaching
Psychology, and my class was working on personality testing,
and I think I may have used the Briggs Myers personality test
for each student, now psychology is not an exact science,
exactly as Hans Eysenck says, But students and lay people always
think it is, so I took details from each of the class and next
day asked them to read their psychology assessments and comment
on it. While every single student agreed it was absolutely accurate, I
told them
afterwards that all assessments were the same, all said they
were likeable but stubborn, could get angry when riled, liked to
laugh, loved animals took work seriously and worried about
their family and future countries prospects etc. After they had
agreed, I turned over the sheets and it was from Adolph Hitler's
analysis, from W W II. and this is how general some
psychological assessments are.! After every item on T V about
paranormal and spirit phenomena we are treated to a quack
psychologist coming on and making fun and often uttering
ignorant
statements. Psychology has many differing opinions right across
the board, why do the T V companies treat us as children and
always put on a disturbed cynic to throw dirt, The law on
discrimination was recently broadened to include religious
beliefs, And Spiritualism is a world recognized religion, in
fact many theologians say:" belief in spirits is the core base to all religions " so to
discriminate
and laugh at another's beliefs is actually a criminal offence,
the Human
rights act actually covers this by name, and these T V
companies and quack psychologists are actually now breaking the
law. One final point, the official excuse for the prosecution of
Helen Duncan was that she could reveal data about the D day
landings, is total codswallop, a medium works through dead
communicators, and this accusation at best is very, very
tenuous, the argument is that she was prosecuted because she was
a fake, yet the authorities claim she could also give accurate
information on D Day ? So how would they determine when she was
faking and when not, and what about all the thousands other
mediums who could also give out the D Day info ?One of
Churchill's occult advisors Dr. Alexander Cannon, who was
imprisoned
on the Isle of man for speaking of Churchill's wartime
paranormal team in his papers, claimed that both Harry Price and
home secretary Herbert
Morrison were behind the prosecution, and this could be true as
Morrison had a lot to hide. Strikes me that the whole Helen
Duncan saga was just another of the governments " Dodgy
dossiers" and we have had a bellyful of them lately
T Stokes
Eblis
Returned
Some
times things of a supernatural nature fit into
patterns, and some are just so strange that there
are no categories where they can belong. Such an
event happened some few years ago, and the memories
incurred in those events, still
grip me in horror. One of the exorcism rules of The
British Demonologists Foundation, was that you go to
the trouble, it never comes to you,
But it did
I had not seen my
brother for some time, and he had the double
celebration of his fortieth birthday, and the new
birth of his daughter. So I duly arrived at his
home, for the family gathering, and was introduced
to his other guests, There was the usual comic
repartee, and I was given a glass of sherry which is
always the custom at these, happy and relaxed times.
The chatting was superficial and polite when one of
the guests asked who the baby took after, my brother
or his wife.? It was then when I relaxed and
smiling, stepped over to look into the babies crib,
And remember new born babies cannot lift their heads
or focus their eyes, But this baby turned to face me
and looked me straight in the eye, with a demonic
lear, that seemed to penetrate my very soul itself.
The eyes burnt into me and the babies lips twisted
into a mocking smile, in fact, the whole face became
a threatening mask As I stepped back in shock and
terror, the thought sunk in that of all places my
brother’s home was the venue, and his new baby the
vehicle for some spirit activity of the grossest
evil. I felt the blood in my veins go cold, as
suddenly regaining my composure I searched the faces
of the guests to see if any had seen my look of
shock, and as I felt the color return to my face, I
was much relieved to know that my reaction had gone
unnoticed. While I gazed into my sherry glass I
examined my thoughts, and the slow realization began
that I knew those eyes, they were familiar to me, an
old adversary, from somewhere a long way back, I
broke out in a thick hot sweat as suddenly the doors
were open on a life long past when I had to fight
this creature, and my stomach turned over.
There is
an old saying in Britain’s occult circles, that “the
eyes are the mirror of the soul”
and whatever soul inhabited that child’s body at
this time certainly unnerved me.
I had an imaginary
picture in my mind of a battle yet un-fought, a debt
perhaps from eons ago, and the inner knowing that
the creature and I both knew each other and had
unfinished business. I seemed to know on some level,
that in showing itself to me in mutual recognition,
it was saying, and I heard a deep inner voice, “this
child if I want it, is mine, for I am Eblis
from the bottomless pit, and you all belong
to me ” This could only be a prelude, to
some real and coming deep unpleasantness.
After some anxious deliberation I decided the
best course of action, was no action at all. I would
monitor the situation and only make a move if I had
to. Strangely as the child grew up she was as a
normal little girl, with normal eyes and actions,
wherever the beast had gone it did not return, I
never saw it in her face again. And over the years I
have watched for it, she is now full grown, and now
has her own children, and sounds a happy mother. I
never spoke of what I saw to a living soul, maybe
one or two un-living, yes. That was one battle I was
pleased, not to have to fight, the taste of fear and
trepidation lived with me a long time, I would have
faced this beast with difficulty, for I desperately
felt outgunned.
T. Stokes.
Paranormalist
The
Genie in the Bottle
This is a strange
story and in retrospect I am not proud of my part in
it.
It
began when in 1980 I took employment at a building
site as a laborer,
fetching tools, sweeping up, ensuring the site was
clean, safe and of course making tea. Well,
a kind friend told the lads there that I was a
spiritualist and belonged to several “rescue
circles” on 24 hour call for exorcisms, now called
deliverance.
From
that moment on I became the target of relentless
mickey taking, I myself am a practical joker so
could not really complain, but
each morning my padlock was glued up on my tool box,
and I was informed it was ghosts, it was also ghosts
that hid my things, dropped things on me from the
scaffolding, welded my steel
toecap boots to the floor, and
generally cheesed me off. But things came to a head
when I began to get late night phone calls, telling
me to come out urgently as the local pub was full of
spirits, things such as this
were intruding into the life of my family, and no
amount of reasonable asking would get my foreman to
stop.
Eventually a message
came through that was a genuine call for help, most
are sincere but rarely to do with spirit. The house
concerned was one of three work men’s cottages
virtually unspoilt since the 1700’s, in a most
beautiful part of kent, in rural England..A woman in
her forties was nursing a bad tempered and foul
mouthed old man in what was obviously the last
months of his life.
This lovely but a
little shabby old cottage had been the focus of some
minor paranormal activity, that was no more than a
nuisance, however, a deep
feeling of menace, brooding and unease permeated the
building, which I was unsure if the old man was
connected to, but I was certain
his emotions were at least a contributing factor, to
the thick dark negative energy currents there.
With old houses like
this especially when not ruined by the “modernisers”,
a lot of the old memory patterns are retained,
emotional themes, household arguments and even the
vocal range of previous occupants, this can be
captured and mentally regurgitated by spirit
mediums. After some examination, I asked for a
shovel, and began digging under the front step, then
in front of my bewildered audience pulled out the
remains of a very old leather shoe.
This told me two
things, that for this amulet to be in place from
when the house was almost new, meant the feeling of
claustrophobic negativity, was an old one, and the
type of spirit deterred by the shoe. A detailed
search of the fireplace for amulets and scratching’s,
and an examination of the ceiling beams was
unproductive, I then sat down with the lady of the
house and gave my prognosis. My belief was that a
sprite or Imp, was responsible for the minor
phenomena, my only real concern was that the base
was there for things to get a lot worse, the lady of
the house advised me that she wanted it taken away.
I had then to tell her of her elderly
husbands caustic attitude towards all who wanted to
help him and, the awful fact that lower spirit
entities may be feeding from this.
It is well known in
occultism that any toxic emotional state, can
attract unpleasant freeloaders into the human system
from the astral plane. Hamartiology, is the
Theological study of sin, although “sins” have
changed since the middle ages, often what was once a
sin, is not
now regarded as such, can you
imagine some of our lawyers, pop stars and
politicians if things had not changed ? The realms
of evil thoughts and evil deeds, are the resting
places of some of the most unsavoury categories in
incorporeal life, and an
insulting and unpleasant old man such as this would
give succour and harbor to this exuviae, living in
his aura.
For just as if you go
to earthly places that are unclean you can pick up
bacterial bugs and parasitical stuff,
so also if your thoughts visit unclean places
you can pick up bugs in your
aura. Many fairy stories have a
basis in fact, the story of the “Genie in the
bottle” is more fact than fiction, with this in
mind, I emptied a pop bottle
and allowed my thoughts to associate the
unpleasantness of my foreman in work with the
similar remarks, and sarcasm of this sick old man,
who was starting to really irritate me, and
unforgivably- I conjured the mischievous sprite into
the bottle and banged the top on and turned it
tight.
Making my goodbyes I
left the beauty of the village behind and returned
to 20th century London. Early next
morning as the milkman left his store of bottles on
the doorstep of my foreman’s house, I tiptoed over
and added my pop bottle with the “surprise” inside,
and watched as the bottles were taken inside, I knew
that curious hands would open and look inside,
releasing the imp, into is new home.
My intention had been
to educate this man that not all life was in a body,
and that when he apologised I would recapture the
infernal animal and release him in the correct
place, however, several of us labourers were
suddenly laid off, and I did not see the bullying
fore man again.
It was some years
later that I heard the story of how he had picked up
the bottle, and after looking at what looked like
smoke inside, opened the top on an angry little
beast.
Then began what was
described to me as a period of madness, things going
missing to be found some distance away, toilets
jammed up with missing clothes, the two household
cats running away, lights going on and off on their
own, and mysterious scrawlings on the walls, and the
bullying foreman thinking he was going mad, until
bringing in help from a specialist medium, which did
the trick.
I
had learnt a valuable lesson in having the strength
not to retaliate, and I curiously wondered what
lessons the Foreman had also learnt !.
“All things are possible to him who believes” Mark
9;23
T. Stokes.
Paranormalist
Sun,
20 Aug 2006
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