John Campbell Sloan
Remarkable Independent
Direct-Voice Medium
(Passed on: 24th May 1951, aged 82 years)
Arthur Findlay investigated, and then wrote copiously about, a brilliantly gifted Direct-Voice medium called John Campbell Sloan, through whose remarkable gifts the so-called 'dead' were able to reproduce their voices and speak again to their loved ones in the seance room. Several books have been published, recording these fascinating two-worlds conversations.
John Campbell Sloan was born in Dalbeattie, Scotland. He was a humble man who could sometimes be rather grumpy in outlook, but his mediumistic gifts were quite astonishing. In his presence, discarnate chemists and other specialists in the spirit world were able to extract from him, and from his sitters, a psychic substance called ectoplasm (a kind of plasmic life-fluid) which they then 'moulded' into a voice-box through which their voices could be heard again in our world. John Sloan is one of the unsung heroes of psychic history who, for over forty years, gave his mediumistic services free of charge to all his sitters. He has earned his place in the Mediums' Hall of Fame.
Sloan's seances took place in a darkened room to help the subtle ectoplasm to form properly; and during the proceedings, which occurred in the early part of the 20th-Century, expert stenographers recorded in shorthand everything that was said. It was not uncommon in these physical mediumship circles for several spirit voices to speak at once, in different parts of the room.