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Broadcasting From Beyond by A. E. Perriman

CHAPTER FOUR
A PSYCHIC “OPERATION”

We continued our sittings on our return home, and kept our friends informed of the happenings. A little time elapsed before they paid us a visit. While we were holding a sitting, one of the sitters complained of an acute pain in the heart region. We asked for a spirit doctor to come and give him advice.

Wright immediately diagnosed the trouble, told our friend to visit his own doctor when he returned to London, and find out what he had to say. When this man returned to London he consulted his own doctor, who diagnosed the complaint exactly as Wright had done. His doctor told him that he could do nothing to help him, and an operation was out of the question. The only advice he could give was to take a complete rest, not to attempt to drive his car or do anything that would involve the slightest strain to the heart.

We consulted Wright to find out if anything could be done. Wright suggested that our friend got three weeks’ leave of absence from business, which he could easily do on the strength of the medical certificate from his own doctor, and to come to Cardiff. If he had faith in the Supreme Power, we were told, the spirit world would put him right. Our friend was able to get the required sick leave, and in due course came with his wife to Cardiff

We held a sitting when instructions were given as to the mode of procedure. The date for the psychic operation - as the spirit communicators called it - was fixed, and in order to get extra power we were asked to invite two extra sitters.

A treatment bed was fixed up in the séance room, around which was placed a screen. A table, on which we put a red electric light, stood at the head of the bed. Those present were the patient, who was submitting to this unique experience, his wife, two men whom we had invited as extra sitters, my wife and myself. My friend lay on the treatment bed and I stood beside him. The others took their seats out-side and away from the screened bed.

When everything was ready, a prayer was offered by the Rev. T. H. J., the first to manifest, in which he asked for the help and guiding hand of God to aid the doctors in the work they were about to do. In rapid succession “voice” after “voice” was heard to say, “I am standing by to give help.”

Wright then came through, and asked us to give all the help we could through kindly thought and loving sympathy. I was asked if I were ready to carry out the operation in accordance with instructions that would follow. I replied that I was, although I must say I was nervous about it. This was a new experience to me, and I had no idea what I would be asked to do.

Immediately the four medical men - their “voices” coming from above the head of the patient - held a consultation. When they had arrived at their conclusions, Wright gave me instructions what to do. I had to make certain passes, also I was told to apply pressure on certain arteries. It is interesting to note that the spirit operators knew when I was giving the requisite pressure, for, on several occasions, Wright called out that the pressure was insufficient, and would I press harder. I thought I was pressing hard enough, and I did not want to hurt my friend by undue pressure, but the patient did not complain.

Following the passes and pressures, Wright instructed me to place my thumbs in a certain position, and, on a given signal by him, I was to press hard and at the same time move my left thumb to the left, and my right thumb to the right with a quick movement. I did as I was instructed, and a distinct click was heard from the heart region. Simultaneously my friend groaned as if in pain. Wright told us that everything was all right and that we need not get alarmed.

He gave instructions for the left arm to be strapped across the patient’s body to relieve any strain that its weight might bring on the left side, and for the two men to assist me in putting my friend to bed with as little discomfort as possible. He was told that be would have to remain in bed for a week at least. From his subsequent condition, he had no desire to leave his bed. I gave the patient a light massage daily, and at the end of a fortnight he was convalescent. A week later he was well enough to return to London. It was not very long before he began to feel like his old self, and now, several years later, he has not been again troubled with his heart.

I would like to say that up to this stage we were unaware who the medium was, and it had never dawned on us to ask. At a later sitting, I thought one of our party had gone to sleep because of the heavy breathing that I heard. “Who’s gone to sleep?” I asked. Before anyone could reply, the Rev. T. H. J. interposed. “It is quite all right,” he said.

What is happening?” I asked. “We are putting Mrs. Perriman to sleep,” was the answer.

Why?” I queried. I was told that a new control was coming, and the only way possible for this entity to manifest was through a trance condition of the medium. After further questioning, the Rev. T. H. J. informed us that Mrs. Perriman was the medium for the direct voice.

‘While in the trance state, an entity controlled my wife. Speaking in a decided Scots dialect, the communicator gave her name as Flora Macdonald. When asked if she was “Prince Charlie’s Flora Macdonald,” she replied, “No, but a descendant of that line.” She told us that she was a nursing sister when on earth, and was killed in the first Boxer Rising, in China, while on duty. She added that she had been appointed one of the chief controls of the circle, and would, in future, be a frequent visitor. Before bidding us good night, she said that she hoped to be able to speak in the direct voice with a little practice.

We pulled Mrs. Perriman’s leg when she woke up. She would not believe that she had been controlled by a spirit entity when we told her what had happened. All that she remembered, she said, was feeling drowsy and unable to keep her eyes open. We had the greatest difficulty in convincing her that she had been in a trance. When at last we did assure her that we were not fooling, she expressed alarm and concern, and hoped that unseen powers would not use her again in this way without first asking her permission.