Leslie Flint: An Excerpt from Death the Beginning

Born in 1911, Leslie Flint was a gifted physical medium. The recorded voices of the deceased that we heard on tape at most of Brian's open-house events were the products of George Woods and Betty Greene, researchers and psychics in their own right.

They conducted test sittings with Flint at regular intervals, and produced over 500 tapes featuring many different individuals--some famous, some ordinary, but all articulate about life after death.

The process of spirit communication was created through an ectoplasmic "voice-box" as described in detail in Leslie Flint's autobiography, Voices in the Dark: My Life as a Medium. In his book, Flint proclaimed that "Every living being has a substance known as ectoplasm, which is life force, and a physical medium like myself has a great deal more of it than most people. During a séance, this substance, which is sometimes also referred to as 'the power,' is drawn from the medium and fashioned by spirits into a replica of the physical vocal organs which is known as the voice-box or sometimes the mask. The communicating spirit then concentrates his or her thoughts into this voice-box, creating a frequency of vibration which reaches the sitter on earth as objective sound."

The medium's ectoplasm can exist outside the medium's body only in total darkness. If the lights were turned on suddenly, the ectoplasm would immediately rush back into the medium's body, causing injury and possibly death. Leslie Flint considered himself to be one of the most highly tested mediums. In Flint's book, Rev. Drayton Thomas of the British Society for Psychical Research offers this scientific evaluation: "I placed over his [Leslie Flint's] tightly closed lips a strip of Elastoplast. It was five and a half inches long and two and a half inches wide and very strongly adhesive. This I pressed firmly over and into the crevices of the closed lips. A scarf was then tied tightly over this and the medium's hands tied firmly to the arms of his chair; another cord was so tied that he would be unable to bend down his head." Flint was given special tests. He held a certain amount of pink water in his mouth. Then his mouth was sealed by an adhesive strip. After the séance, he returned the entire amount of water--quite a difficult achievement! Leslie Flint related, "I had been boxed up, tied up, sealed up, gagged, bound and held, and still the voices have come to speak their message of life eternal."

Another book, Life After Death, by Neville Randall (first published in 1975 and reprinted many times since), reflects upon the unique and invaluable collection of voices from the other side brought through by Leslie Flint and also by researchers George Woods and Betty Greene. This collection gives the fullest, most detailed account of an experience of transition from the earth dimension to the next dimension, also known as the fourth dimension or the etheric dimension. The stories of simple people as well as celebrities provide equally fascinating accounts of the transition to the next dimension. Among them are Alf Pritchett, a soldier killed in WWI; Michael Fearon, killed in Normandy in 1944, two days after D-Day; Rose, with her strong cockney accent, who sold flowers at Charing Cross Station, London; the famous actress Dame Ellen Terry; Oscar Wilde; Cosmo Gordon Lang, a former Archbishop of Canterbury; and Mahatma Gandhi. Many voice-messages are fascinating. A number of communicators insist on the idea expressed by a former prisoner of the Dachau labor camp: "People on earth ought to realize that as a man thinks so he is, and by his thoughts and actions on your side of life so he creates his own heaven or his own hell over here." There are also fascinating messages illustrating that death does not destroy the most valuable trait of the human spirit, our sense of humor. In the words of a voice claiming to be Oscar Wilde, "People keep sinning because it is so human to sin."

Leslie Flint's mediumship lacked all traces of false romanticism, fantasy, daydreaming, or the exploitation of human grief and fear. The purpose of his séances was to search for truth and to spread the message about life eternal. This same businesslike approach to the mystery of communication was employed by the famous New York medium George Anderson. His communication with the other side, performed during live radio and television shows in the 1970s, was chronicled by Joel Martin. Martin's 1988 book, titled We Don't Die, is extremely valuable because it is based on professionally documented data such as televised public demonstrations of spiritual communication. This book also addresses skeptics' traditional accusations and answers all of their charges. It was obvious that James Van Praagh and Brian E. Hurst represented the same line of honest mediums who had no need for pretense. Presenting the mystery of communication was the foremost goal of these séances

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