Karin Goodwin writes in the Scottish Sunday Herald that
scientists have found evidence of ESP after studying how
mediums get information from the dead. University of Glasgow
professor Archie Roy says, "There is no doubt from the work
we have done that mediums can obtain information using
more than the five normal senses. The results so far have
been assessed with hard maths and statistics. We believe
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Roy used double blind testing in which the medium and the
recipients were placed in separate rooms. Communication was
established using a microphone and the identities of all
involved were kept secret. He says, "We now have to move
beyond these findings. One theory is that the medium can
access information in other people's minds but how does the
medium do this? This research will have to be followed up by
all sorts of investigation." His results are the same as those
of U.S. researcher
Gary Schwartz.
Gordon Smith, one of the mediums Roy studied,
says, "Basically you are using a heightened sense. It is just
like radio waves. If there is an emotional tie with the person
you want to contact a medium can pick up the signals. A lot
of scientists would argue that I am downloading the
information from somewhere and I wouldn't argue with that.
There's not always a spirit contact. If you were very
emotional you'd give off a lot of feeling and I would be able to
pick up the fact that you were going through a crisis time.
'However with a lot of the work I've done with Archie Roy I
can't even see the audience and so I can't fall back on body
language. When you are working with the scientific
community you can't make general statements -- it is totally
different from the way you might see people on TV just
trawling for information with general statements like 'I can
feel someone over here has lost someone'".
John Weir, Scottish chairman of the Spiritualist National
Union, says, "The only person who can really know if it is
genuine is the one who gets a message. When that happens
it is certainly a wonderful experience and it can be really
uplifting for someone going through grief. People are mostly in
need of comfort."
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