Séance held at Perth October 2009 – Saturday. David Thompson medium I had never attended a séance before, and although I had heard what happens, I did not really understand it at all, particularly why the physical medium has to be bound and gagged. I now understand that it is to prove to skeptics that there is no ability for the medium to disguise his voice and ‘fake it’ all. That could not happen, firstly because he was bound and gagged, secondly the people that ‘came through’, to participants in the séance, were mostly family members and known only to the people that were being addressed. The voices changed to the voices of the family members. After a lecture on the protocols of the séance by the medium and his assistant, we entered a blacked out room, that had only one door. There was initially a dim light on. The medium placed us where he wanted us to sit and the door was closed and locked. Two of our members had been chosen randomly (and I knew one of them as the brother of a friend so there was no possibility of ‘planting’ people) to check the room and the medium. The medium was bound and gagged, and the bounds further secured with cable ties, these all being checked by the selected people. A red light was put on, the white light extinguished, and then the red light extinguished. I had never before been in the total absence of light. This was not just dark, it was pitch black. We played music and started to sing, and the mediums guide, William, came through first. What a delightful gentleman! I loved his voice and his exquisite command of the English language, I could have listened to him for hours. I guess he must have passed at least 100 years ago, and was an English Gentleman. He complimented our circle for the strong energy. He spoke to us for a while, acknowledging by name some of the attendees who had attended previously, and he also asked for questions, which he answered. I recommend listening to the audio recording of this séance. William also moved around the room, talking to some individuals and on occasion touching them, after asking them for permission first. I really wanted him to touch me, but was not honored in that session. William then withdrew and a young boy named Timothy came through, he brought through various other spirits, most of whom were family members of the participants. There were several personal moments for the participants, that included being touched by their loved one. Timothy also made the cardboard trumpet move around the room at such a speed, that a person could not possibly do. In between we played music and sang, one of the chosen songs was Louis Armstrong’s ‘What a wonderful world’, and as we were singing that, Louis himself came through and joined in with us singing. I heard his voice and it moved around the room, and also he continued singing when the music stopped. I have no doubt that it was Louis, at one part he was standing right in front of me, I could hear that although not see him. Another spirit guide called Quentin Crisp came through, he was very funny and rather naughty. We had quite a few laughs during the séance, and I expected it to be only very serious, so that was surprising to me. One of the participants also had one of his guides introduce himself to the participant, and apparently this is very unusual. At one point we were warned that the spirits were going to do ‘something new’, and there was a lot of thumping and the chair in which the medium was bound, was levitated and moved across the knees of some of the participants, and then more thumping. When the light was put on at the end of the session the chair, with the medium in it, had been moved into the centre of the room. That move was several meters. In addition the mediums cardigan, that had been tied closed with plastic cable ties, was now on back to front! As his was bound to the chair and the cable ties would have prohibited him from doing that himself, there is no other explanation than the sprits did that. I have no doubt that the spirit lives on in another plane, after the physical body we inhabit on earth dies. My writing skills can not do justice to the wonderful, uplifting experience of this séance. I will definitely attend when the medium returns to Perth, I just wish it would not be a year before he returns. I encourage anyone to attend his séances if you have the opportunity. Lynne Ware, Perth. Western Australia.