This article is in May's addition, of spirit and destiny (edited)

Is ectoplasm like slime in the film Ghost busters....

Its a physical manifestations of the spirit world, a substance that acts as a bridge between the two worlds and the physical...

Where does it come from...

Some mediums can exude ectoplasm, from any of their orifices...

What! Not...

Yes! though is commonly from the mouth, or even pores of the skin, The spirit uses this stuff, to take a physical form and appear in our world. Ectoplasm is what 'clothes' spirit allowing us to interact with them...

What colour is it...

Its usually a whitish grey.. and feeling of liquid or paste. There are reports of a strong smell. The naming of ectoplasm, is from French spiritualist Charles Richet around the turn of the 20th century. from the creek words ecto & plasm meaning exteriorised substance...

Yuck.... sounds awful...

Doucemented scientific analysis of ectoplasm produced by a psychic... at the Massachusette Institue of technology, The analysis shows of sodium, potassium, water, chlorine, and fresh red blood corpuscles

Sounds like Et...

Victorians were big fans of as seances were hughly popular in the 19th century. Many report of figures, hands, meduims claim it can be used to move or leviate objects or can be moulded into different shapes even allowing the spirit to speak to us

Is it like of play doh...

In a sense... All manifestations from spirit world visiting our own depend of ectoplasm, its said its senstive to touch and light it will shoot back at the medium can cause physcial harm (see Helen Duncan)

How does when your a fake medium....victorian out look....

Lots of people tried to fake this a Harry Houdini was one person who would want to expose fakes (Eva C was caught out like this.... society of the psychical research

Notable medium.......

Meduim Ivy Northage. she and spirit world create a ectoplasmic mask over her face with would form a likeness.Lesley Flint would use a voice box of ectoplasm which he did bring through a lady who passed in auschwitz a Dr Anna Caster. which a Mrs Foulds recognised the voice of Dr Casters...

Is there an proof of this evidence as in a photo...

There a lots of photos on the Web proof is in the eyes of the beholder

http://www.spiritsinc.co.uk/magnus_picture.html

Colin Fry 'Magnus' here his voice as (ectoplasm voice box)

further evidence link:http://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk

 

Another explaining of ectoplasm

The Crème de la Crème of Physical Mediumship

In materialization, the Spirit people use ectoplasm to create an image or moulding of him or her. The degree and strength of the materialized form varies quite a bit. A full-form, head-to-toe materialization of a spirit is, perhaps, the most amazing phenomenon witnessed in mediumship and the hardest to achieve. When achieved to the fullest there can be seen a cord of ectoplasm linking the spirit form with the medium. This ectoplasm cord can be likened to the umbilical cord. Spirit may dematerialise by withdrawing the ectoplasm back into the medium's body via this cord.

This can take a little time and it is quirt dangerous to touch at any time but can only with permission from spirit be touched under the demonstration

Ectoplasm!

Let us take a look at the substance we call ectoplasm or teleplasm where spirit materialises.

Ectoplasm can be used to move objects. Ectoplasm can be manipulated into hardened rods and spirit can direct these rods to move large object like tables and chairs and levitate a person. This is known as levitation ectoplasm. Objects known to be levitated have ranged in weight from a few ounces to hundreds of pounds

This ectoplasm is some time faintly luminous and can density so as it can be used to clone (a word I use to explain that spirit makes a duplicate of them self

It is very hard to explain what ectoplasm really is, but some say it looks like a cheesecloth, some say it’s like a thick cloud, this is of course very difficult to explain for those who never had seen it, or sat under a materialisation. Spirit tell us, that the spirit (chemist) "let us call them" supply a substance, and also obtains a certain amongst from the medium and sitters combine this, spirit mix these ingredients together, and this enable the spirit to materialize. When spirit comes to the materialisation they use all they can from the surroundings

It usually takes place in the dark, but not always. The opinion amongst investigators say that in the dark this form of materialisation can be taken for fraud; as nobody can se anything, but this is not truth, for many mediums have sat in red light and white light and photos has been taken under the séance with the help of spirit, photos of the medium and the sitters of ectoplasm and materialisation of spirit

The trouble with some of the photos of materialisation is that Spirit looks like cardboard cut- out often distorted where others look very different, only people who knows the truth in this séance room and have see pictures taken of spirit under control experiment, is those who witness this materialisation at first hand. Those who examined the medium, the sitters and the room are the people who attended the séance.

It is easy to criticize what they have not witnessed them self, and I believe many of the pictures taken under materialisation should remained with people who have a understanding to this phenomena.

There are many scientists and other wonderful people who give their time to study these phenomena, but are given no time of day to express their understanding and their witness account. Their understanding is excluded from TV and radio, and I can only express that is has to be fear for what they will say

They’re for it is easier to except, when somebody doesn’t believe and think they can prove this, but if we are not given an equal time to the other side of the argument.

All mediums who have sat for materialisation, in the dark and study this experiments will them self rather sit in the light under control or investigations, for even mediums would like to weed out frauds, to express what they have seen and what have happen at the séance.