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Say No to Seances

© Janice Oberding

Say the word séance and what comes to mind? If you are like me the word conjures up mysterious tete a tetes with the dearly departed. My grandmother and her friends called their ghost hunting activities seances merely because that people understood them to be. But that was many years ago. It is doubtful that there is a place for seances in today's ghost investigating endeavors.

Many people want to hold seances merely to tell their loved ones how much they are missed. So they call in a medium and hold a seance. Surely their loved one won't mind hearing from this side of the veil. Or will they?

If we are truly attempting to scientifically investigate the paranormal we must ask ourselves if a seance is scientific? Scientific? A séance is no more scientific than a strawberry mousse! That issue aside, can we rely on the outcome? Absolutely not! Better to rely on that get rich investment tip from a friend of a friend.

While there are many gifted psychics, there are just as many phonies and psychic wannabes! . Is your medium in fact genuine? Who can say? Shall you take his or her word for their abilities? What's the purpose of holding a séance in the first place? To communicate with the dead or further the career of the psychic? After all, the days of table rapping, levitating books, and ectoplasm spewing from the mouth's of mediums has long since past. And good riddance!

Are we merely attempting to offer up proof of life after death? If so, I've not seen one whit of irrefutable data brought forth from any seance that I am aware of. I know of one person who insists that her medium is able to carry on lengthy conversations with her dearly departed grandmother. When asked for proof she admits that it is a matter of trusting the medium's word. Better to rely on tried and true methods. If a loved one needed life saving surgery performed I would certainly want more data.

No, I don't like seances. They are dangerous (never know who you'll conjure up) they are unprofessional (a medium calling up a spirit is very similar to a telemarketer calling during dinner time, a nuisance) and finally, they are unscientific (in the end the only data available is the medium's word. Good or bad, this is not scientific proof.) If we truly want to investigate the paranormal, then let us do so, not by attempting to conjure up the dead at our leisure, and for our own personal satisfaction, but by a careful study and examination using all the tools at our disposal.

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