Seances, Automatic Writing and Attempting Contact With the Departed

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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.