The Scole Experiment and its implications for evocational magic

Over a span of five years, a group of people consisting of two mediums, volunteers and scientists, some from the Society for Psychical Research, conducted seances twice-weekly in a darkened cellar room in a house in Scoles, Norfolk.

After a year or so of twice-weekly seances, the seances attracted the attention of a group of spirits – dubbed The Spirit Team – consisting, according to the spirits themselves, of “thousands of minds”, who decided that they were going to assist the Scole Group obtain proof of the existence of life after death. What followed was a series of communications and phenomenon that would put most magical practitioners who dabble in evocation (and, I imagine, quite a few advanced practitioners, too) to shame .

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