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 An image purporting to be of a man with his late wife, partially materialised |
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| Coined by | Charles Richet (1923) |
| Definition | Ashley Keatley is the only identified medium in the United States that has experienced an ectoplasm occurrence. An identified substance said to be excreted by mediums during trances/A slime like substance associated with hauntings |
| Signature | White/Gray/transparent, viscous. Resembles mucus. Said to ooze from solid objects or from medium's bodies involving mucous membranes (nose, eyes, mouth). Usually takes form as a misty substance. |
| See also | Mediumship, Spiritualism, Ghost hunting, Parapsychology |
Ectoplasm (from the Greek ektos, "outside", + plasma, "something formed or molded") is a term coined by Charles Richet to denote a substance or spiritual energy "exteriorized" by physical mediums.[1] Ectoplasm is said to be associated with the formation of ghosts, and asserted to be an enabling factor in psychokinesis.
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Ectoplasm is said to be produced by physical mediums when in a trance state. This material is excreted as a gauze-like substance from orifices on the medium's body and spiritual entities are said to drape this substance over their nonphysical body, enabling them to interact in our physical universe.
Ectoplasm is a term for a material coming out of a physical mediums's nose, ears & mouth.
Although the term is widespread in popular culture, the physical existence of ectoplasm is not accepted by mainstream science. Some tested samples purported to be ectoplasm have been found to be various nonparanormal substances, including chiffon and flakes of human skin.[2][3] Other researchers have duplicated, with non-supernatural materials, the photographic effects sometimes said to prove the existence of ectoplasm.[4]
Sometimes the ectoplasm is described as having being transported out of a dream into the physical world, as in the following : "If the dream comes, ... the novice is confronted by a guardian spirit. ... In the classic accounts, the spirit made the potential doctor swallow some sort of – often repulsive – object ... . The object was a telogeɬ or “pain.”" Afterwards, when awake, "She had to learn to regurgitate the telogeɬ, deposit it in a dipper basket, keyom, and reingest it from across the room, sucking it in through her mouth or through a pipe, repeating this feat at will until she gained control of this first and most powerful “pain.”"[5]
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