Table Tipping The Lost Art |
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Table Tipping The Lost Art |
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Back in the 1800's during one of mankind's spiritual revolutions, table tipping showed up in our culture as a way of communicating with the dead. Whether it began as an honest means of communication or some charlatan thought of it in a attempt to see how much people would buy into, no one knows for sure. Wouldn't you like to have been there when it was thought up? It would be nice to get a feel for what was going through the mind of the first table tipper. Did he/she laugh out loud at the thought of people lining up to talk to Uncle Fred or was did someone have an honest communication across the veil and decide to share it with others?
As the Spiritualist movement spread, so did the fraud and it didn't take too many years for the bad guys to outnumber the good guys. Once the charlatans found out how fast people would part with their money for a moment with the departed, the show was on!
Then the tables turned, so to speak, and there were more people exposing the fraud than there were customers and table tipping fell into disrepute. It became a parlor game for a boring Saturday night with your friends. Sort of a precursor to the movies.
Back in the late 60s and early 70s I met a nice retired couple from Muncie, Indiana (Millie and Sheldon Blazer) who had a knack for getting a table to move as if it were light as a feather.
Over the period of about 6 years, they demonstrated their abilities to our group who gathered regularly to chase elusive subjects such as reincarnation, God, ESP, hypnosis, ghosts, and other fun spiritual matters. We could have 2 tables at once tapping out messages when the Blazers were present and none when they weren't. It was eerie. When they were present there was a different energy in the room.
We would sit around 3 sides of the table. Then lay our fingers lightly on top of the table and ask a friendly spirit to enter the room and talk to us by tapping 1 tap for yes and 2 taps for no. Anywhere from 5 to 30 minutes later the table would move ever so slightly. The air would feel like it was charged as the table would seem to gently lift off the ground. 1 or 2 legs would stay on the floor but at times we felt that all of them were lifting.
We would begin by asking simple yes or no questions. If the spirit seemed especially strong that evening, we would then proceed to have the spirit spell out words by tapping once for A, twice for B, thrice for C, and so on. Most spirits were just passing through and would stop for a chat although it seemed sometimes that we could attract relatives and when the air got a chill, we knew that we had a mean one and stopped the session. Probably the best session we had is described in our free download Psychic book, "A Search For Psychic Truth".
The Blazers were just a very pleasant older couple. Fun to be around and were a part of our group to share knowledge and interest in the spiritual side of life. No money was exchanged because we generally spent more out of pocket to keep the group alive than ever came through with commercial ventures. They had found their niche in retirement and enjoyed the companionship of the group.
We can all hope that they passed their secret on to someone who is continuing the work. It was all great fun and a pleasure to know and spend time with this couple during the spiritual awakening of the 60s.
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