Eleen J. Garrett is one of the most respected mediums of the twentieth century. She was aware of peoples mood's and feelings.As a psyhic researcher she recognized the need of scientific investigation of the parnanormal with a open mind. Eleen was also a author, lecturer, and publisher. She sought to share her ideas and experiences with the public.
Eleen Garrett was born in the historic town of Beauparc, County Meath (now the Republic of Ireland) on March 17, 1893. Her mother, Anne Brownell, belonged to a stern Protestant family, had married a Catholic Basque named Vacho, the religious strife that ensued led to tragedy. Eleen's mother drowned herself two weeks after her birth and her father committed suicide a few weeks later. Eleen was brought up by her aunt and uncle, who had just returned after service in India.
As a senitive child, Eleen had playmates who were invisible to others. She went to school in Meath, then was sent to boarding school in Merion Square Dublin, were she had painful loneliness. When her uncle (who had been kind and understanding) died she felt there was no one to turn to. Two weeks after the funeral she had had her first magor paranormal experience, and described it in her Autobiography Many Voices. She wrote: "One evening my dead uncle "appeared" to me in a vision, younger and more alert than I had known him; his vandyke beard was well clipped and he stood stong and straight. He told me in time I should leave my aunt and the farmand go to London...". From that moment on she became interested in the whole question of live and death.
As Eleen's uncle predicted she went to london, married a architect when she was little more than a school girl. In the years that followed she had three children but lost two of her sons in a epidemic of meningitis, the third at birth but she also had a daughter who share her interests and carried on her work. Devastated and left alone a great deal of the time by her husband. She was spiritually drained. Eleen decided to make a new busy life for herself. She opened a tea room an Heath street, Hampstead, which prospered and became a meeting place for some of the most famous literary maen of the age. She came to know D. H. Lawerence quit well.
With the out break of World War One, Eleen and her husband divorced. She opened a hostel for wounded soliders. On an impulse married a artistic young solder who was haunted by the premonition that he was going to be killed. Eleen was dining out one night with friends at the Savoy Hotel in London one evening, she had a clairvoyant vision of her husband being blown up with two or three of his comrades. As she sat at the table she felt that she was a part of the action, and seemed to be enveloped in smoke and the stench of blood. She almost fainted and asked to be excused. A few days later she was advised by the War Office that he was missing in action and believed to of been killed. She never saw him again. Her third marriage was to another wounded soldier, James William Garrett.
After the war she was interduced to Hewat McKenzie, director of the British Collage of Psychic Science. With the help of his guidence she began to discover the extent of her psychic ablitys. She also worked with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the early days, he made a deep impression on her live - and Sir Oliver Lodge who carried out a number of experiments with her
She continued to work at the collage developing her faculties of telepathy, claivoyance and clairaudience but becoming best known for her skill as a trance medium. Her two controls or intermediaries were "Uvani", who claimed to have been a solider in India centuries ago, and Abdul Latif, a twelfth-century physician from the Court of Saladin. In the early days she accepted them as helpers but in time she began to doubt and believed they might be secondary personallities produced by her subconscios.
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