Attention! A seance is a serious matter. It should not be taken lightly and carried out for the sake of entertainment. The goal should be for good reasons, such as getting answers to important questions. If you just want to have some fun, "killing" time, it's better to do exciting and harmless fortune-telling.

What to expect from a séance?

Many are interested in what can happen to people who decide to carry out this procedure at home. Experts say that if you follow all the rules and precautions, as well as with the correct procedure for conducting a session, you can lift the veil of secrecy - communicate with the spirit of a deceased person who will answer your questions.

Of course, one should not hope that you will definitely be able to evoke the spirit of great people the first time, for example, Macedonian, Pushkin, Gogol. After all, these entities are not required to appear at the first call, they have their own will. And when you call the spirit of a deceased person with whom you sympathized (during his lifetime), you can count on the success of the session. Sometimes it is not possible to establish a connection with the other world. In this case, nothing will happen. It is better to postpone the session to any other day.

There is also a worse scenario. The spirit of the called person will come, perhaps even answer your questions, but he will not be able to go back to his world. Accordingly, he will be in the house (apartment), and this does not bode well for the residents. The result can be turmoil in all areas of life and poor health. There may also be manifestations of a poltergeist, which will be expressed:

• in the movement and overturning of objects;
• in spontaneous combustion;
• in opening / closing doors;
• in a draft with closed windows and doors;
• in knocks, steps, sounds.

Seance Precautions

1. Never call the spirit of a dead person who was your enemy during life, treated you hostilely. Even if you want to ask him for forgiveness, experts do not recommend doing such a procedure. The result can be deplorable - the spirit will deprive a person of vitality.

2. You should not conduct a seance while intoxicated (under the influence of alcohol or drugs). You can easily lose control of the situation. A certain astral entity may come to the call, which is set up aggressively towards you. As a result, people who participated in the session may have serious health problems.

3. Speak politely and respectfully to the spirit, as if there were a living person in front of you. Do not order the spirit and even more so shout at him.

4. No need to ask the same questions several times.

What you need for a seance

1. A lifetime photograph of a deceased person whose spirit you plan to contact (this condition is not mandatory).

2. A needle with a thread 30-40 cm long threaded into its eye (the color of the thread and the size of the needle can be any).

3. Saucer (preferably new). After the session, it should not be used at home.

4. A special board designed for conducting seances (with lined fields, written letters, numbers and words).

5. A stable table, preferably round or oval, at which it will be convenient to sit for all the people taking part in the call of the spirit.

If you did not have time to prepare a special board that serves for such sessions, you can do it yourself. Only it will not be wooden, but paper. Take a large piece of paper. Then draw a circle on it. Inside the circle, enter all the existing letters (you can follow an arbitrary order). Outside the circle, write the words yes, no, don't know, and numbers (from 0 to 9). On the surface of the saucer (underside) draw an arrow to serve as a pointer.

The procedure and rules for conducting a spiritualistic session

It is desirable to engage in this procedure in the dark, using candles. In such an environment, the medium and all those present will be able to better concentrate on what is happening. By the way, with electric lighting, the session is allowed.

When all the necessary equipment is prepared, you can begin to call the spirit. Set the saucer (upside down) in the center of the circle and touch it with the fingers of your left hand. If other people take part in the session besides you, they should also touch the surface of the saucer. If you have a lifetime photograph of the deceased person whose spirit you are invoking, place it next to the Ouija board.

All those present should concentrate their attention as much as possible on the image of the deceased person, with whose spirit it is supposed to make contact. Next, the medium should clearly, but quietly say: "Spirit (person's name), come."

You can understand that the spirit has appeared by the following signs:

• by rhythmic knocks that can be heard from any side of the room;
• by feeling the invisible presence of the spirit;
• according to air movements and the presence of a draft in the room (with closed doors and windows);
• by a slight chill or a sudden burst of heat.

You and everyone present can take turns asking questions of the visiting spirit. If he wishes to answer, the saucer will begin to move from side to side. Pay close attention to which letters the arrow on the saucer points to.

If you are using a needle instead of a saucer, keep it above the surface of the circle while asking questions. See in which direction the needle begins to swing, making up the answers from the indicated letters. When you decide that the session is worth stopping, thank the spirit for the answers and say: "Spirit, go away, we are letting you go."

And in conclusion, I need to give one more valuable advice. Conduct a seance only if your health (emotional and physical) is normal.

Spiritualism(from Latin spiritus - “soul, spirit”) is a way of communication (communication) with the souls of the dead and aliens from the other world, who can make contact with the living through special persons - mediums. Spirits come into contact with people through various visible physical phenomena, giving answers to their questions by raising tables, various knocks, automatic writing of the medium, etc.

The term "spiritualism" was introduced in the middle of the 19th century by the French researcher of mental phenomena Allan Kardec, the founder of this philosophical and religious doctrine.

Allan Kardec

Allan Kardec began to study paranormal phenomena that occurred at séances in 1850. With the help of his friend's daughters, who acted as mediums, he learned about his "mission", which was to convey to mankind, as he claimed, some "new ideas about the structure of the world and life in it." Kardec, believing in his own “chosenness”, undertook to form his own “holy scripture” through spiritualistic dialogues, asking questions to the “spirits” and writing down the answers. The latter were formulated by knocks or claps (with the help of a conditional code) or letter by letter, on a planchette. He outlined the main provisions of his new doctrine in The Book of Spirits (1856), followed by The Book of Mediums (1861), The Gospel in the Interpretation of Spirits (1864) and others.

Kardec's spiritualism was popular in the highest spheres of French society. Arthur Conan Doyle in his History of Spiritualism wrote , that Emperor Napoleon III was fond of spiritualism and repeatedly invited Kardec to the Tuileries, where he had a long conversation with him, discussing the "Book of Spirits".

The history of communication with spirits goes back centuries. There are references that even the ancient Greeks and Romans practiced summoning spirits. The ancient Greeks constantly asked the dead for advice, for which there was a special class of necromancers. Even the great sage Socrates communicated with the "mysterious genius" and believed his messages. In general, communication with the Spirits of dead ancestors existed among all peoples. Special people were engaged in this - healers, sorcerers, shamans. Spirits at that time were, as it were, "guardian angels" and protectors of people. They were approached for advice, help, they helped in the treatment, in the fight against the elements and enemies. At that time, the spiritual world was a continuation of real life and fulfilled the duties assigned to it by God - to help people.

The history of the emergence of spiritualism

The harbingers of spiritualism were an unexpected outbreak poltergeist (from German poltern - "make noise", "knock" and Geist - "spirit") in the house of the English doctor and priest John Pordage (1607-1681). This highly educated man for that time led the Protestant association of the Friends of God, later known as the Philadelphia Society. One night, terrible things happened in his house: he saw a black silhouette with a huge, uprooted tree on his shoulder and a sword in his hand, then a creature appeared in the form of a huge winged dragon half the room. Pordage entered into a fight with these unknown entities, which brought him to a faint. His wife was also a witness to these battles.

After what happened, he told everything to his like-minded people, after some time they began to see images from the "life of hell and paradise." Such demonism was going on in his house that caused not only mental harm to people's health, but also physical: a disgusting stench, fumes emanating from ghosts, the inhabitants of the house had pains in the body, many became seriously ill. According to Pordage, the "devils" imprinted on the glass of the windows and on the tiles the same unusual figures that all the inhabitants of the house saw. The drawings turned out to be indelible, they could only be removed with a chisel and a hammer. It lasted for a whole month, then the devilish manifestations disappeared.

It was, so to speak, only the very beginning, when so often the spirits began to disturb our world.

But modern spiritualism appeared only in the middle of the XIX century . It began to count from March 1848, when a certain John Fox rented a house in the city of Hydesville, New York, where strange knocks began to appear that no one could explain. The head of the family was a farmer and a zealous Methodist (one of the religions of that time), his religious beliefs were shared by his wife and six children, but by that time only the youngest lived with their parents - 12-year-old Margaret and 9-year-old Kate.

In March 1848, teenage girls began to communicate with the spirit that lived in their house. First, they asked him to repeat the knocks that the girls themselves made, then they began to ask questions, agreeing that the spirit would answer in the affirmative with one knock, i.e. The questions were asked in such a way that the answer could be either yes or no. It soon became clear that the spirit not only hears, but also sees, and also knows a lot. 12-year-old Margaret invented a whole alphabet that allowed knocking to get answers to her questions: “yes” or “no”. Using it, she learned that the mysterious entity was the spirit of a robbed and murdered traveling merchant. As a result of the excavations, a fragment of bone with several hairs was found (a local doctor claimed that the find was a fragment of a human skull). In 1904 (after both sisters had already died), an event occurred which, as many believed, confirmed the truth of their testimony. In the collapsed wall of the basement, the corpse of a man who was once immured here was found, who, by all indications, was the disappeared merchant.

The Fox Sisters: Lee, Margaret and Kate

After moving to Rochester, New York, the Fox sisters (Lee, Margaret and Kate) began to give public sessions. As early as 1849 they had become nationally famous, and even the later confession of one of them that all their séances were fraudulent did not shake the faith of many adherents of Spiritualism. After the incident in Hydesville became public, people who had not dared to do so began to talk about their experience with spirits.

By 1850, a wave of séances swept the United States, and soon the whole world.In the countries of America, Europe, Russia, a huge number of spiritualist societies appeared. Newspapers, magazines began to be published, one after another books were published, the authors of which were the most famous people of that time - scientists, writers, public figures and even politicians. Serious people accepted the new teaching as a boon, and since then it has not only not weakened, but has spread with incredible speed; within 3-4 years it attracted to its side in all parts of the world an innumerable number of adherents, especially enlightened people, whose number grew in an extraordinary progression.

Spiritualism gained particular popularity among the intelligentsia. It is curious that many of them did not believe in the existence of God, but recognized the mysterious power of mediums.

In Russia, the first seances were organized in the early 1970s by the famous medium Hume. Among the first adherents of spiritualism were the Decembrist F. N. Glinka and the compiler of the "Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language" V. I. Dal. It is known that Dostoevsky and Leskov took part in the sessions. In the mid-70s, ardent supporters of spiritualism A. N. Aksakov, the famous chemist Professor A. M. Butlerov, and the professor of St. Petersburg University, the zoologist N. P. Wagner, organized a circle of spiritualists. It was at their invitation that famous Western European mediums began to come to Russia. When the medium Bredif arrived in St. Petersburg in 1874, his experiments attracted general attention.

Spiritualistic experiments have become the topic of the day. Then Professor Dmitry Mendeleev turned to the Physical Society at St. Petersburg University with a proposal to form a commission to study spiritual phenomena. “The time has come,” he said in his note, to pay attention to the spread of spiritualistic studies in family circles and among some scientists. Classes in table-turning, talking with invisible beings with the help of knocks, calling human figures through mediums, threaten the spread of mysticism, which can tear many away from a healthy view of objects and strengthen superstition, because a hypothesis has developed about spirits that allegedly produce the above-mentioned phenomena. Mendeleev's proposal was accepted. A committee of 12 people was formed. The commission compiled a detailed report on its research and the results achieved and published it in the Golos newspaper. The conclusion of the report was that spiritualism is a superstition. The activities of the commission apparently had an impact on Russian society. The enthusiasm for spiritualistic phenomena gradually began to weaken, and spiritualistic experiments were abandoned.

However, séances continued to be held in private apartments for a long time. So, in a house in London, seances were often held, to which friends and high-ranking dignitaries were invited. During séances, the Roerichs evoked "the souls of dead people", and after joining the Theosophical Society founded by H.P. Blavatsky, they tried to establish contact with the Teachers (Mahatmas). Helena Roerich claimed that thanks to her and her husband's communication with the "Great Teacher" (Mahatma Moriah), arose.

Seances

The main practice of spiritism is in collective seances, the purpose of which is to call the spirits of dead people and communicate with them. The simplicity of the ritual and the effectiveness of the result have brought seances to great popularity among young people who are interested in the unknown. However, the seance is not as simple as "knowledgeable people" usually tell about it.

Usually, séances (also called table-turning ) take place at night in a room where there are no icons, because it is believed that the time of the greatest activity of spirits is from midnight to 4 o'clock in the morning. A seance is usually conducted by several people, one of whom is the leader (possessing mediumistic abilities). Holding hands, people form a magic circle, concentrating in it the energy necessary for the spirit of the subtle world. To communicate with spirits, a round table, a spirit board (Ouija board) and a porcelain or faience saucer without chips or other flaws are used. Further, those gathered call on the essence of the subtle world, calling its name, and say: “Spirit, come!”. A saucer with an arrow travels and points to the letters that make up the text.

spiritist circle

Spirits manifest themselves by the movement of objects, voice, knocking, or even appear as ghosts. Practitioners of Spiritualism disagree on many points about the nature of the spirits invoked. In any case, their awareness of the details of the lives of those they claim to be leaves much to be desired. Spirits at the sessions are capricious, black humor and inconstancy in answers. It has been established that the spirit best answers those questions, the answers to which are known to at least one of the participants in the seance. The spirits have not yet reported a single hitherto unknown fact about the life of great people. From the point of view of classical esotericism, spiritists do not communicate with the souls of dead people, but with larvae and other entities - the inhabitants of the lower astral. Accordingly, all the information available to them is information owned by the participants in the séance. Spirits draw strength to demonstrate their abilities from mediums. That is why the medium spends a large amount of personal energy per session. Frequent practices of this kind cause serious harm to both physical and mental health.

Let's bring a story from the book of Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov) "Unholy Saints" about how he himself, while still studying at VGIK, participated in a seance.

“The history of foreign art was taught by Paola Dmitrievna Volkova. She read very interestingly, but for some reason, perhaps because she herself was a searching person, she told us a lot about her personal spiritual and mystical experiments. For example, she devoted a lecture or two to the ancient Chinese divination book I-Ching. Paola even brought sandalwood and bamboo sticks into the classroom and taught us how to use them to see into the future.

One of the classes concerned many years of research on spiritualism by the great Russian scientists D. I. Mendeleev and V. I. Vernadsky, known only to narrow specialists. And although Paola honestly warned that the enthusiasm for this kind of experiments is fraught with the most unpredictable consequences, we, with all youthful curiosity, rushed into these mysterious, exciting realms.

I will not delve into the description of the techniques that we subtracted from the scientific treatises of Mendeleev and learned from the staff of the Vernadsky Museum in Moscow. Having applied some of them in experience, we found that we can establish a special connection with some incomprehensible to us, but completely real beings. These new mysterious acquaintances, with whom we began to have long nightly conversations, presented themselves in different ways. Either Napoleon, or Socrates, or the recently deceased grandmother of one of our friends. These characters sometimes told unusually interesting things. And, to our immense surprise, they knew the ins and outs of each of those present. For example, we could be curious with whom our classmate, the future famous director Alexander Rogozhkin, is secretly walking until late at night?

And immediately received the answer: "With sophomore Katya." Sasha flared up, got angry, and it was quite clear that the answer hit the nail on the head.
But there were "revelations" even more amazing. Once, during a break between lectures, one of my friends, who was especially fond of these experiments, with eyes red from sleepless nights, rushed to one or another classmate and asked in a terrible whisper who Mikhail Gorbachev was. I, like the rest, had never heard of a man with that last name. The friend explained: “Tonight we asked “Stalin” who will rule our country. He answered that some kind of Gorbachev. What kind of type, we need to find out!”

Three months later, we were stunned by news that we would not have paid any attention to before: Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, the former first secretary of the Stavropol Territory Party Committee, was elected a candidate member of the Politburo.

But the further we got carried away with these exciting experiments, the more clearly we felt that something disturbing and strange was happening to us. For no reason, we were more and more seized by an inexplicable longing and a gloomy hopelessness. Everything fell out of hand. An inexorable despair seized us. This state grew from month to month, until at last we began to guess that it was somehow connected with our nightly "interlocutors". In addition, from the Bible, which I never returned to the Baptist, it suddenly became clear that such activities are not only not approved, but, as it says, are cursed by God.

But still, we did not yet realize that we were faced with merciless and improbably sinister forces that invaded our cheerful, carefree life, from which none of us had any protection.
Once I stayed overnight with friends in a hostel. My classmate Ivan Loshchilin and a student from the director's course Sasha Olkov sat down to their mystical experiments. By that time, we had already sworn several times to give up all this, but we could not help ourselves: communication with the mysterious spheres attracted us like a drug.

This time my friends resumed their interrupted conversation the day before with the "spirit of Gogol." This character always spoke exclusively figuratively, in the language of the beginning of the 19th century. But today, for some reason, he did not answer our questions. He complained. He moaned, lamented, breaking his heart. He told how unbearably hard it was for him. And most importantly, he asked for help.

"But what's happening to you?" my friends wondered.

- Help me! Horror, horror! .. - conjured a mysterious creature. - Oh, how unbearably hard! I beg you, help!

We all sincerely loved Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol and just as sincerely thought that we were talking with him.

But what can we do for you? we asked, wishing from the bottom of our hearts to help the writer we loved so much.

— Help! Please don't leave! Terrible fire, brimstone, suffering... Oh, this is unbearable, help...

- But how? How can we help you?!

"Do you really want to save me?" You are ready?

Yes, yes, ready! We warmly responded. “But what should we do? After all, you are in a different world.

The spirit hesitated and answered cautiously:

- Good young men! If you really are ready to take pity on the sufferer...

- Certainly! Just tell me how?

- Oh, if so! .. Then I ... Then I would give you ... poison ...

When the meaning of these words reached us, we were petrified. And looking up at each other, even with the dim flame of a candle cinder, they saw that our faces had become white as chalk. We knocked over our chairs and stormed out of the room.

Coming to my senses, I said:

- Everything is correct. To help him, we must first become like him. That is... to die!

“And I understand everything,” Sasha Olkov said, chattering his teeth in horror.

“He wants us to…commit suicide.”

“I even think that I’ll go back to the room now and see some kind of pill on the table,” Ivan Loshchilin added, green with fear. - And I understand that I definitely need to swallow it. Or you want to throw yourself out the window ... They will force us to do it.

We could not sleep all night, and the next morning we went to the neighboring church of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God. We no longer knew where to ask for advice and help.

Savior ... This name from frequent use sometimes loses its original meaning even for Christians. But now it was for us the most desirable and most important thing - the Savior. We realized, no matter how fantastic it sounds, that powerful forces unknown to us have declared a hunt for us and only God can save us from their enslavement.

We were afraid that in the church we would be ridiculed with our "gogols", but the young priest, Father Vladimir Chuvikin, quite seriously confirmed all the worst fears. He explained that we communicated, of course, not with Gogol and not with Socrates, but with real demons, demons. I'll admit it sounded crazy to us. But at the same time, we never doubted for a second that we had heard the truth.

The priest firmly said: such mystical pursuits are a grave sin. He urged those of us who have not been baptized to immediately prepare for the sacrament and be baptized. And the rest come to confession and communion.”

On the dangers of séances

Seances are very dangerous. Under the guise of called "spirits", demons are always (!) (Even the supporters of spiritualism, such scientists as Fekhner, Pergi, Butlerov, and others, recognized the participation of evil spirits in spiritualistic séances.) And such communication is extremely detrimental to a person. At best, there will be a loss of energy, at worst, obsession and madness. This is not clairvoyance at all, nor spiritual sight, and has nothing to do with the third eye. The information received from the spirits is very relative and often false. Although these evil beings can tell the past and present, they are unable to do much more than predict the future. These guesses are often so skillfully presented that they are able to satisfy the questioner and at the same time seem plausible, even if the result is contrary to expectations.

Naive people usually believe that the dark forces are always rude and criminal in their actions and intentions. This is a pernicious delusion. Only the dark forces of small degrees act in this way. Much more dangerous are those who come under the guise of Light and with our formulas on their lips. The Dark Ones always act according to the consciousness of their victims, and they often act very subtly and inventively, playing on the vanity and weak strings of their victims.

It is said that all spiritualists preach morality, and this, of course, can in no way hurt. It must be borne in mind that the devil never directly invites people to sin. He knows that a person will not go for it, so at first he is carried away by supposedly innocent thoughts, he offers something that a sinner will not refuse, even good, just to put the inexperienced to sleep. When a person trusts him, the devil does what he wants, and, moreover, brazenly laughs at him. This is what he does in spiritism.

According to eyewitnesses, if religious people take part in a séance, the spirits at first seem very careful when they mention the Bible, sometimes they advise these people to read the Bible more, pray more, etc. But all this is done in order to eliminate suspicions and fears and to subordinate them more to their influence. Gradually such instructions become rarer, and the student is made to understand that the Bible is good only for the ignorant world; for those who have direct communication with spirits, the Bible is useless, and even worse - it creates an obstacle. A well-known writer has a good saying about spiritualism: "A system that begins with light, innocent, insignificant, and frivolous acts and fellowship, but ends with its followers denying "the Lord who redeemed them" and rejecting God's Word, which lives and abides forever."

Those engaged in spiritualistic contacts often fall into complete dependence on spirits. : they gradually lose the ability to soberly evaluate the information received, begin to believe it without limit, unconditionally follow all commands and instructions. Sometimes this ends in tragedies: murders, suicides, deaths on dates predetermined by the spirit.

A well-known expert in spiritualism V.P. Bykov, himself a former spiritualist, testifies that he knows many cases of mediums committing suicide. It is also known that famous mediums were the most unfortunate people...In 1991, the following case was widely reported in the press: four schoolchildren aged 14 to 16 killed their classmate. They brought her to the river bank, tied her up, mortally wounded her, and collected her blood. Then they drank the blood, and hid the body of the murdered woman. Soon the perpetrators were found. During the investigation, it turned out that they had been practicing seances for a long time: they talked with spirits, asked questions, received answers, becoming more and more carried away and imperceptibly falling into complete dependence on the counterparty. After some time, a “man in black” appeared to them at a session, ordering them to kill an Orthodox girl and drink her blood. They were no longer able to disobey the terrible order ...

The attitude of the Church towards spiritualism

The Christian Church refers to spiritualism as grave sin : Everyone who practices spiritualism or divination will go to hell. The very practice of spiritualism can lead a person to demon possession. The most terrible thing is that a person thinks that he is addressing the souls of the dead, but in fact he communicates with demons that can appear to a person in various forms, including human ones.

There are many references and warnings in the Bible on this subject.

What we now call spiritualism was part of the religious cult of paganism and was strictly forbidden among the Jewish people under pain of death. Here is what the Scripture says: “And if any soul turns to those who call up the dead and to wizards to walk after them fornication, then I will set My face on that soul and cut it off from its people ... Whether a man or a woman, if they call the dead or perform magic, yes shall be put to death: they shall be stoned with stones, their blood upon them."(Lev. 20:6,27).

Everyone knows the story of the First Book of Kings about how the sorceress of Endor conjured the shadow of the prophet Samuel for Saul (1 Samuel 28:7-19). Saul then turned to the sorceress when he saw that God had abandoned him. Obviously, only despair prompted him to this, and he himself realized that he was seriously sinning. In the books of Moses, God Himself testifies more than once that the Canaanite tribes were condemned by Him to extermination also for calling the dead, and this occupation is called "abomination."

That spiritualism is of demonic origin is beyond doubt. Saint Theophan the Recluse writes: “Spiritism is downright demonism, uncovered by anything. There is a tactile evil force here. Who is acting here can be judged by the phenomena. Yes, they themselves do not hide that they are demons.

Saint Ambrose of Optina wrote about spiritualism: “Spiritualism is nothing but the delusion of the enemy. This teaching is the communication of people with spirits, but, of course, not with the spirits of light, but with the spirits of darkness...”

And this opinion, that it is not the souls of the dead who speak through mediums, but unclean spirits, is in full agreement with the teaching of the ancient Fathers of the Church. During the time of St. John Chrysostom, as well as during the apostolic times ( cm.: Acts. 16:16-18), the mediums were the possessed, who spoke on behalf of the dead. “What does it mean,” Chrysostom asks, “that the demons say: I am the soul of such and such a monk?.. This is the cunning and deception of the devil. In my opinion, it is not the soul of someone who has died that cries out, but the demon hiding under it to seduce the listeners... It is impossible for a soul that has already separated from the body to wander here...»

Conclusion

Spiritualism is attractive to a person, because. gives you the opportunity to feel part of another world.The fashion for table-turning at the end of the 19th century was more connected with psychology: a medium, supposedly evoking the soul of the deceased, helped to endure the bitterness of loss, satisfied vanity and curiosity (who would not want to talk to Pushkin?). Man could not resist the temptation to enter the mystical world from the "back door". Christianity offers the believer the path of humility, warns him against "charm", but spiritualism, on the contrary, widely opens the doors to the afterlife for a person, makes him an interlocutor of spirits, the only question is - what kind? Spiritualism does not require from its followers either a moral life or observance of the commandments of God - live as you live, do whatever you like, you are immortal anyway! A very attractive idea for many! Moreover, spiritism owes its popularity to manifest miracles, which no science can explain, nor can it deny.

In the manifestations of spiritualism, we are dealing with a most experienced enemy who does not disdain any means to achieve his goal. His name is the devil, and his goal is to seduce a person through flattery, deceit, forgery, imaginary kindness and holiness, alienate him from God and His Holy Church, subordinate him to his evil will and destroy his immortal soul in eternity.

Material prepared by Sergey Shulyak

Used Books:
1. Archbishop Nikon (Christmas). What is spiritualism // Trinity leaflet No. 94, 1915
2. A. A. Oparin. Spiritualism
3. Encyclopedic Dictionary F.A. Brockhaus, I.A. Efron. The concept and history of spiritualism

It can be defined as a process in which a person calls on spirits to ask them a question of interest. Since ancient times, people have been interested in him, he beckoned them with his secrets and riddles. Many people are still fascinated by mysticism with all its components.

Many want to hold a seance at home. But summoning spirits is not so easy. It is worth thoroughly preparing for this so that everything goes smoothly. To begin with, the one who decided on this session needs to recruit four or five more people who are willing to keep him company. Only an experienced medium is able to conduct a séance alone. The consequences, in this case, will not be as negative as if the newcomer took up this business alone. So, next you need to choose a leader - someone who is at least a little familiar with spiritualism. The time of the event must be chosen strictly between 00:00 and 4:00. To enhance the activity of spirits, you can wait for the full moon.

Of course, you can't do without inventory. Here you will need a saucer and a board on which you need to put numbers up to ten, letters and the answers "yes" and "no". To give the atmosphere more mystery, you can fill the room in which the seance takes place with incense, candles, light a fireplace. You must remember to take off your jewelry and warn others about it.

A lot depends on whose spirit is to be summoned. For example, if this is a deceased relative, it is worth placing his personal item in the room. And if this is one of the famous people, for example, a writer, you need to put one of his books or a portrait on the table.

So, the most important thing begins. Participants in the session should sit around the table. The leader put the saucer on the Ouija board and begin to call the spirit. For this, the phrase is suitable: "Spirit ..., come." Moreover, it must be repeated many times, up to the moment when the called spirit does not appear. But how do you know that he has already arrived? It's simple: you need to carefully observe the saucer and the situation. The spirit has already appeared if the saucer is moving, if the candle has gone out, if a light breeze has run through... The participants may shudder a little, caused by the unusualness of their position.

It must be borne in mind that perhaps the spirit is not disposed to answer prepared questions. He may get angry, want to leave. Sometimes spirits deliberately lie. To be sure of the veracity of the answer, you must first ask the question, the answer to which is well known. If the test shows that the spirit is lying, it is better to just thank him and say goodbye, otherwise he will become aggressive.

There is a topic that is better not to touch - this is the Spirit will slowly move the saucer from one letter to another, and the folded words will be his answer. For general questions, the saucer should move to the inscriptions "yes" and "no".

Now we need to say goodbye to the spirit. First you need to thank him for the conversation, and then turn the saucer over and knock it on the board three times. This concludes the seance. Do not forget that this process should not last more than an hour. One should not abuse the time of the spirit. It is possible that many will feel exhausted after the session. But after a while, the forces will be restored.

Recently, the scientist Yu. A. Fomin expressed his point of view, the essence of which was that recently many spiritualistic seances have become mass in nature, which does not have the best effect on both the person himself and society as a whole. The negative impact is manifested in the deterioration of the human condition - both mental and physical. History knows many cases in which a seance ended in a major failure. Therefore, it is not worth abusing such activities. Otherwise, serious problems may arise.

When a close person or relative leaves untimely, there is a lot that you want to know, tell him, and so on. Church workers say that you can be healed by prayer. It doesn't help everyone. Sometimes you really want to talk to someone who has long gone to another world. Hear from him answers, opinions or wishes.

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Is it possible to summon a spirit?

Communication with the dead is quite possible. After all, man is very complex. His body dies, what remains is that which is immortal. It is with this part of the personality that one can communicate, using, of course, special rituals. Let's get to know some of them.

First of all, you need to understand that you are trying to step over the line that is hidden from us. But after all, someone, and for some reason, he tore it off our everyday, so to speak, use. This, of course, was done from the point of view of an adult who hides gingerbread from a child, for the reason that the latter has an allergy. The meaning of the impossibility of communicating with the souls of people in ordinary life is completely different. We will not delve into the theory, we just need to understand that this is a serious issue. Sometimes it's dangerous. Therefore, for the process it is worth stocking up with patience, faith and caution.

Collective summoning of the spirit of a deceased person

To guide and summon the spirit of a deceased relative, it is desirable to have his portrait. The process itself takes place in the evening or at night (any). A group of people should sit in a circle. A portrait must be placed on the table. Then you need to call him in chorus. If a breeze blew, then the call was successful. Look closely at the portrait. If shadows have gone, the spirit is angry, does not want to communicate. If there is nothing like that, then you can ask your questions.

Spiritualists in order to decipher the answers of the spirits of the dead use an ouija board or another. It's not necessary, and it's difficult. It is recommended to just ask simple questions. If the entity wants to respond, it will choose the method itself. Most often there is a knock. So the same answer may be the game of shadows. Do not even hesitate, if he wants to talk to you, then you will understand it!

How to call the deceased alone?

If there is no desire to initiate strangers into your communication with the spirit of a deceased relative, then you can try to call him alone. Doing this, by the way, is less dangerous than having a group session. The fact is that he is obliged to appear at the call of the company. But he may be dissatisfied with the fact that he was torn away from his own affairs. And the call of one person of the spirit does not oblige to anything. If he does, it will be only "of his own free will." It is clear that there will be no trouble from such a conversation.

Prepare a sheet of paper with signs or Alawite. Now you need to take a needle with a black thread. Make a pendulum out of it and begin to mentally call the spirit of the deceased. You can call him in your own words, if that's easier. Then you need to make sure that he is here and start communication. The needle will swing, point to certain signs, which will be the answers.

Communication Precautions

When communicating with the spirits of the dead, it is important to remember that the seriousness of your intentions must be declared not only in your thoughts, but also in the room. For this it is prepared. It is necessary to remove the excess, open the window. Religious items should preferably be removed or covered for the duration of the session. Session participants should not have "closed" lines on their bodies. Meaning: chains or belts, even rings. All this is removed.

The call is carried out at night, by candlelight. Electrical appliances should be turned off. Keep in mind that the electromagnetic fields are close to the energetics of the entity you are summoning. She has to fight them, sometimes overcoming certain difficulties (like a person who has to go against a strong wind). It is clear that without the creation of appropriate conditions, the spirit of the deceased simply will not come to your call, and the idea will fail.

Spiritualists also say that anyone can come to the call. This is not necessarily the one you are calling. Often one of the lower entities comes running, for example, many of which hover around a person. They feed on the emotions of grief, anger, and so on. If this sticks to you, then good will not be enough. To protect the room, it is recommended to treat it with incense. For a while, this will scare away low dark entities.

Alphabetical circle for séance

The alphabet circle is the main tool for penetrating the secrets of the astral world. For 3-7 participants in a spiritualistic session, its diameter should be about 0.5 m. The circle is divided into 32 sectors, the letter Y or the letter Y is taken out of the circle.

So, let's write the letters in the alphabetical circle:

A, P, Ch, 3 - letters of a straight cross.

D, U, Y, L - letters of the diagonal cross.

B, e, Y, H - letters of the right side.

C, X, Щ, Yu - letters of the left side.

B, D, E, F, I, K, M, O, R, T, F, C, b (they are written side by side), E, ​​I are intermediate letters.

Draw a digital circle inside the digital circle, the diameter of which will be half that. The signs of this circle are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,6, 7,8,9,0.

The words YES and NO can be included - above and below - in a digital circle.
In the gap between the alphabetic and numeric circles - on the right and on the left - you can draw a question mark and an exclamation point.

In the middle of the circle, it is necessary to depict a noticeable point that will help to concentrate the attention of the participants in the session. The material for the circle can be ordinary thick paper.

In the amateur practice of spiritualism (mainly in Russian), it was customary to depict various additional symbols, such as “love”, “death”, “separation”, etc. Such symbols are not needed, they only make it difficult to interpret the answers.

The circle during the session must be firmly fixed on the table.

Now let's choose an object that will act as a pointer. Traditionally, this is a porcelain saucer. It should be light and slide well over the paper at the slightest touch of the participants' fingers. As a rule, a clearly visible indicator strip is drawn on the outside of the saucer.

The session time must be correct. The subconscious is most liberated in the evening and at night. However, experience has shown that daily sessions can also be quite effective.

There are days on which it is not worth holding seances. As a rule, the spirits themselves are asked about this, and they, as an interested party, report whether the time is right for the session.

At the beginning of the séance

Before the start of the seance, participants must remove all metal objects (rings, rings, brooches, chains, pendants). The hatch should be opened. If the session is held in the evening or at night, you need to turn off the electric light and light candles. The latter are needed not for spirits, but for the participants in the session themselves: their light has a hypnotic and calming effect.

It is recommended to talk during a seance in a whisper or in an undertone.

Before the session begins, write down questions that you would like to hear answered.

Questions to the spirit must be asked by the medium. He is also engaged in summoning the spirit. None of the other participants in the session should interfere with its work. Accepts answers, and also brings them into a readable form also by the medium.

The ability to make subconscious contacts is different for different people. Therefore, not all participants in the session can drive a saucer. Before starting the session, you need to stretch your fingers, rub your palms. For those who are not confident in themselves, it is better to simply put their hands on the table, but do not bring them closer to the saucer.
You need to choose someone who will write down the answers of the spirit. This person will not come into contact with the spirits.

Please note that it is the preparation for the session that creates a special emotional atmosphere, disinhibits the subconscious sphere of the participants, and prepares them to receive astral information. The closer the séance participants come to the state of meditation, the better.

At the beginning of the session, the medium heats the saucer over the candle flame. Then he sets the saucer in the middle of the image on its edge (at an angle of about 45 degrees) and says:

Spirit of such and such (or such and such), please come to us!

This spell must be repeated three times.

Let's make a reservation right away that the challenge of the spirit of Napoleon Bonaparte, popular in its time, looks, to put it mildly, archaic at the beginning of the 21st century.

After pronouncing the call, the medium places the saucer in the center of the drawing. Thus, he covers the spirit that came to the call. Now the rest of the participants in the session carefully touch the edge of the saucer with the fingertips of one or both hands.

The medium must ascertain the presence of the invited spirit: - The spirit of such and such (or such and such), are you here?

Here the saucer should move. There are three options for the behavior of the saucer.

The saucer remains completely still. Participants need to increase the pressure of their fingers, as if pushing the saucer. As a rule, the direction of this movement, dictated by the astral body, is rarely erroneous. Then the saucer moves of its own accord.

The saucer makes sharp chaotic movements. Participants must hold it. The reason for this behavior of the saucer may be an excess of participants. Are you cramped at the table? Have some of the participants try to remove their hands from the saucer. It is impossible to tear off the fingers from the saucer for all participants in the session at the same time - this usually leads to a loss of contact with the invited spirit.

If the answer is positive and the spirit is in contact with the participants in the session (the answer is “yes” - the saucer turns with a risk to the answer “yes” in the center of the circle), then the medium asks the following question:

– Spirit of such and such (or such and such), are you ready to speak with us?

Usually the spirit answers in the affirmative - it is interested in the continuation of its existence, that is, in communication with spiritualists. Having received a negative answer, the medium should end the session as soon as possible. Continuation of the session with a negative answer is highly undesirable. If communication with this spirit is extremely necessary, you can try to ask why he refuses to speak, and still continue communication. But this is only as a last resort.

In order to verify the correctness of magical operations, the spirit is asked to give his name. It must match the name of the spirit you wish to question.

The saucer, in response to the question asked, should walk in a circle, indicating certain letters with a risk. The sequence of these letters is the answer of the spirit to the question of the session participants. Sometimes it happens that the saucer cannot immediately orient itself in a circle, and you need to give it time to “calm down”. The better the spirit orients itself in the symbolism of the circle, the clearer its answers will be. Remember: the answers of the first spirit will be the most detailed and valuable.

Inhabitants of the astral world

The spirit caused by the different composition of the participants will give different answers. This is important to know for lovers of accuracy. Unfortunately, this quality is only to a small extent inherent in the inhabitants of the astral world. However, it is very difficult for spirits to fit their answers into the framework of human language, limited by the rules of vocabulary and grammar.
Take care of the medium! Help him! For the duration of the session, he renounces himself, becoming an instrument in the hands of the forces of the astral world!

The spirit does not always “speak” the whole phrase. The medium must guess the end of the phrase begun by the spirit. Otherwise, the spirit interrupts the "speech" and the risk on the saucer turns to "no". In this case, you need to start recording the answer again.

The inhabitants of the astral world do not tolerate rudeness Be tactful! Those who are patient and polite receive much more information than those who are rude and hasty.

Questions addressed to the spirit must be formulated with the utmost precision. It is best if each of them can be answered "yes" or "no" By building a chain of such questions, you can get almost any information you are interested in. Do not rush to interpret the answers! In order to understand them, in some cases you need to wait at least a few days. Records of the spirit's responses must be kept very carefully.

The creation of the spirit takes place not only at the beginning of the session, but also during its continuation. The spirit must be tamed by the participants, and only in this case you will be able to get enough information.

Fear is what often interferes with participants in a seance. We have already said that spirits, by definition, are much weaker than humans and are less perfect beings.

So fear at a seance is simply meaningless: the spirit is not able to physically influence a person. We spoke about the prevention of various psychological consequences of such an impact above. It is possible that the spirit you invited simply does not have the information you need. Then it would be quite correct to ask which of the other spirits should be disturbed in order to resolve the issues that have arisen. Know how to expose an incompetent spirit that is trying to lie to you! With especially "touchy" spirits, show special tact.

When the answers to the prepared questions have been exhausted, it is time to end the séance. The medium should very politely thank the spirit for the help and say goodbye to him. All other participants in the session should say words of gratitude and farewell to themselves. The speech formula pronounced by the medium may be as follows:

- The spirit of such and such (such and such)! We are grateful for your help. Goodbye! (Or "Goodbye!" if it was supposed to be a one-time use of a certain spirit.)

Then the medium must turn the saucer upside down, thus releasing the spirit to freedom.

Communication with spirits for beginners should be short. It is not recommended to communicate with the spirit for more than 1 hour (and more than 4-5 hours per week). You cannot call more than two spirits in one session. Before a spiritualistic session, one should not drink alcohol and drugs, as well as take a lot of food. After the session, one should definitely eat to make up for the loss of energy. Physical exercise for 10-15 minutes will also be useful. A spiritual contactee should sleep at least 8-9 hours a day, spend more time in the fresh air.

We live in a society of rigidly imposed behavior and way of thinking. Therefore, the sensations that arise after the session can cause some discomfort in the spiritualist. We are talking about a sharp increase in intuition, improvement of logical and creative abilities. That which was inhibited by upbringing, training, turns out to be activated through spiritualism.

Often novice spiritualists ask the question: “Is, say, the spirit of Golda Meir able to understand the Russian language and adequately answer the questions of a medium?” It is not difficult to answer this question. The spirits do not speak any of the human languages ​​and at the same time understand equally well the questions asked in Swahili and in the modern international language - English. Asking a question to a “foreign language” spirit, you will get a completely adequate answer, except that the saucer will spend a little more time orienting in the alphabet circle.