Answering the objections

1) “You are dealing with the devils.”

Even the Vatican’s paranormal representatives do not claim that. It is sheer stupidity even to raise the issue of devils in materialization when loved ones who materialize reveal a great deal about their own loved one still on earth. The voice, the accent, the attitude, the personality, the knowledge of intimate facts about the sitter and the love they exude to their loved ones can only come from those who were very close to the sitters when they were physically on earth. Besides, the Church of England, under the auspices of Archbishop Lang formally investigated afterlife communication and conceded that it is possible to communicate with our loved ones who crossed over.

2) The medium is producing the voices himself.

The medium is tied in twelve different ways by one-way plastic tags which CANNOT be undone by anyone – wrists, legs and calves are tied to the chair. The only way out of these plastic tags is by cutting them with clippers. Further, there are some ten other seals on the medium which are checked when the session is over. Further still, the medium is tightly gagged. So it is IMPOSSIBLE for the medium to articulate a voice – let alone ten different voices in one night – and when these voices were put through the computer, all voices graphed differently.

3) The voices all sound the same.

W ith better quality sound equipment, it is easy to hear the differences in voice production. At the moment we are compressing the sound files to put them on the Internet however we now have some high quality (350 MG) recordings of each session. One emailer said that Gordon Higginson and William sound the same. Hearing them LIVE, the voices are hugely different and as stated with quality speakers the differences are obvious. Further, we did, as anyone around the world can do, analyse each voice with Audacity and see that each voice had its own peculiar graphic pattern – no two voices were the same. David Thompson’s voice is vastly different from all the materialized voices we heard. We are endeavoring to get some of the voices tested using Forensic Audio testing – where we are informed will give us the ultimate results because the Courts will accept in evidence the results of Forensic Audio testing.

Further, afterlife entities regularly tell us that in physical materialization it is very difficult to speak through ectoplasm. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle often tells us of the 'battle' he has when he tries to speak in materialized form. Timothy tells us that it is like trying to speak when your head is underwater . In 'direct voice' mediumship the voices come out very clearly because it is much easier to speak through the ectoplasmic voice box of the medium. More about this later.

4) “There have to be trap doors”.

Guaranteed, there are NO trap doors at all. Ceiling, floors and walls are inspected. As an empiricist I do have the technical knowledge what to look for and guarantee any debunker that no trap doors exist.

5) “You are all doing this for money”.

The medium David Thompson, not only does not get a cent for his weekly meetings - he is tied tightly, is terribly inconvenienced and is always in danger of being injured or losing his life because of light hitting the ectoplasm – the whitish substance being emitted from him during these fantastic materializations. No-one else is making money from this- In fact, it has cost me some $250,000 over the sixteen years in pursuing truth in afterlife matters and the paranormal.

6) “Confederates are helping the medium”.

I know all the regular sitters and when materialization occurs, the sitters participate in the dialogue with those materialized and their voices come from where they sit. They have to hold hands whenever materializations occur. I guarantee that these sitters can never be doing anything paranormal. One has to be with them during materializations to fully understand that no fraud is or can ever take place. In New Zealand my wife and I and Rosheen accompanied the medium David Thompson. The nineteen others who attended the materialization session were all locals and knew before the session started where each of us was sitting. Each of us was holding hand with one of the New Zealanders.

7) None of the entitites are personally known to the sitters- they could be imposters.

I have personally been present when more than 40 people personally known to the sitters have materialised. Close relatives of Circle members have come through on numerous occasions. In the Aukland seances nine of the sitters had relatives come through. Ken Pretty is on record as definitely identifying three entitities well known to him.

8) “It’s all fraud”: this is usually uttered by the closed minded skeptical debunkers who usually go into DENIAL when confronted with empirical information inconsistent with their own cherished skeptical beliefs. Talk is cheap. Those who call fraud have the onus to show how where, and when afraud is taking place. They have not done that – nor have they taken me on regarding the half a million dollars to duplicate our sensational materialization results. That speaks volumes.