Dropin communicators

by Marinus Jan Marijs

Drop-in communicators are those who, prior to communicating through a spiritistic medium, is unknown to both the medium and present company. The identity of the one who drops in or the information communicated is unknown but verified later. An introduction and an explanation about this subject:

Ian Stevenson’s Contributions to the Study of Mediumship ERLENDUR HARALDSSON            University of Iceland Reykjavik, Iceland

“In 1965 Ian Stevenson wrote: ”Among all the cases which seem to provide impressive evidence of survival, a most important group consists of those in which a communicator appears whose existence neither medium nor sitters know anything about at the time of the  manifestation”, a phenomenon he christened “drop-in “mediumistic communications. He argues that if “subsequent checking verifies the existence of a person and details corresponding with the communicator and his message … [then] the explanation of the communication as resulting from telepathy between the medium and the sitters breaks down”. He goes on to discuss the difficulties in excluding the possibilities of latent subconscious memory (cryptomnesia) and fraud, but he also emphasizes the great importance, when these can be excluded, of purpose or intent that seems to lie behind such “drop-in” cases.” Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 22, No.1, pp. 64–72, 2008 0892-3310/08