Here’s a tale of Cataleptic Exteriorization by T. Stokes, a Paranormal Studies lecturer.

This is a peculiar tale, with an ending very different from the one anticipated. My friendship with the family priest who was also the diocese exorcist, meant we shared tales of what is now called deliverance. The strange thing is that I was related to the people involved, and I think the family priest asked my advice only to insure my silence over the confidentiality thing, where an unwritten code of ethics prevents talking publicly over any personal events.

The family in question believed they were haunted by invisible assailants, as things would go missing and be found days, later somewhere quite unconnected. Light bulbs would continually pack up, and the usual nocturnal bumps and bangs that accompany these disturbances, with a constant feeling of tension and apprehension. It came to a head when the householders walking stick vanished, and a couple of weeks later an electrician who was re-wiring the house to stop the light bulbs exploding, lifted a floorboard, that had not been up before, to find the walking stick.

This brought matters to a head, the family of roman-Catholics were dumfounded as to why them? It turned out after questioning that this kind of thing had gone on for years, And there was no discernable kind of a pattern here, which is one of the things you look for, no particular time of day, both the couple were victimised, and all over the house was affected. Yet bafflingly, no signs of a haunting. No indication of lower spirit infestation, or a troubled spirit, It was only as a last resort having tried everything else that the priest and I arrived at a case of what Carl Jung called: “Cataleptic exteriorisation phenomena” And the priest then questioned them on a different tack, the sensitive questions were then over the couples sex life. It transpired that they were good Catholics, and kept church teachings over no protected sex, it has long been a source of suffering to Catholics that they cannot use contraception. Some say it’s because this old boy in the Vatican palace says as he can’t have it no-one else can either.

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Although the famous Swiss psychologist, Carl Jung, was a scientist and worked hard to retain his credentials in the scientific community, he was at heart a spiritist. Here’s an excerpt from his Collected Letters which proves the point. I’ve taken this from Colin Wilson’s admirable book, Afterlife.

“I once discussed the proof of identity for a long time with a friend of William James, Professor Hyslop, in New York. He admitted that, all things considered, all these metapsychic phenomena could be explained better by the hypothesis of spirits than by the qualities and peculiarities of the unconscious. And here, on the basis of my own experience, I am bound to concede he is right. In each individual case I must of necessity be sceptical, but in the long run I have to admit that the spirit hypothesis yields better results in practice than any other.”

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