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Seances, Automatic Writing and Attempting Contact With the Departed · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The vital nature gets excited by things that seem to be a cult or
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  that promise some kind of interaction with the dearly
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  departed loved ones who have passed away.
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  An entire industry has arisen to cater to people who are seeking
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  solace, contact or information from the deceased.
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  Some of this, as was shown by the debunking done by Harry
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  Houdini in the 1920s, was purely fraud.
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  Very little of this actually relates to real experiences
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  between people living in this world and those in the other
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  side camp. In between, we find a broad
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  segment of people who advertise psychic services but who are
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  really performing a type of psychological counselling for
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  people who are distraught. They are invoking memories, past
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  experiences, emotions and thoughts, and using the
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  procedure as a way to deaden the grief and thereby aid people in
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  moving on from their attachments, the mother observes
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  quote. But those who indulge in this
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  exercise, an exercise of unhealthy curiosity, get what
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  they deserve. For the atmosphere we live in is
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  filled with a great number of small vital entities, which are
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  born of unsatisfied desires, vital movements of a very low
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  type, also the decomposition of larger beings of the vital
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  world, indeed, it's swarming with them.
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  You see, it is surely a protection that most people do
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  not see what is going on in this vital atmosphere, for it is not
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  especially pleasant. But if they have the presumption
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  to want to come into contact with it and set about trying
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  automatic writing or table turning or indeed anything of
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  the kind, out of an unhealthy curiosity, well, what happens is
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  that one of these small entities, or several of them,
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  have fun at their expense and collect all the necessary
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  indications from their subconscious mind, and then
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  furnish these things to them as clear proofs that they are the
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  person who has been called. I could write a book for you
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  with all the examples I have known of these stories.
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  For people are very proud of doing things like this and
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  immediately write them down, giving proofs of the truth of
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  the experience which are so ridiculous that they should be
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  enough to show them that someone was making fun of them.
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  I had another instance very recently of somebody who fancied
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  that he had entered into contact with Sri Aurobindo and was
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  receiving sensational revelations from him.
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  That was comical in the extreme. But anyway, as a rule it is
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  almost often it is your own forces, your subconscious,
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  mental and vital forces which you put into the planchette and
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  you make sensational revelations to yourself.
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  One can do many things in this way.
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  Once I wanted to prove to people that what they were evoking was
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  nothing but themselves. So I had a little fun simply
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  with the concentration of the will, tapping the furniture,
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  making tables, walk and well. As for automatic writing, you
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  only have to withdraw your conscious will into yourself to
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  let your hand go, just like this gesture and leave it free.
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  And then the hand will begin to make movements.
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  But there is a little part in you which is interested and
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  would like these movements to make sense.
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  And this little part appeals to the subconscious mind which
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  begins to make sensational revelations.
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  Indeed, it is a booby trap, All this business, unless one does
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  it scientifically. But then scientifically, 1
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  realizes that it leads to nothing, nothing at all except
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  just passing your time in what you consider an interesting way.
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  End Quote reference. Shriorobindo and the Mother.
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  The Hidden Forces of Life, Chapter 5.
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  Occult Forces, pages 1:29 to 1:30.