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| EILEEN GARRETT |
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| In 1931 Eileen Garrett was invited to New York by the American Society for Psychical Research. It was the beging of many years of important work in the United states of America. She went to Duke University, she collaborated with Professor William McDougall and was invited to take part in the tests for extrasensory preception. She spent more than five hundred hours submitting to tests by a famous New York psychologist, Dr. Lawrence LeShan. In one experiment, Dr. LeShan placed a square of material cut from a shirt in the palm of her hand. He did not tell her but it belonged to a man who had vanished from a Mid-west city, whose family were trying to trace him. Eileen not only gave a fairly accurate discription of him but mentioned things about him only his family would have known. She then said that the man was now in La Jolla, Californa. he was located and reunited with his family. In 1933 Eileen went to California for the first time, she was no different to eny other tourist, she wanted to see the move studios. It started out as a fun day but turned in to a emotional confrontation with the famous director Cecil B. De Mille. On a hot day she watched him direct a film with Elissa Landi in a oriental setting. Eileen soon became aware of a little old lady standing besides the great director talking to him in a lively manner. He did not seem aware of her presence. Eileen turned to her daughter who was with her said,"I think the heat must be efecting my vision." A moment later the little old lady was standing behind Eileen. She looked Eileen straight in the face with the most vivid eyes and said," I can't make him hear," she began, ' I wish you would speak for me". "Who are you?" asked Eileen. " I'm his mother. Few people know him...he's a lonely man." The old lady then poured out motherly advice, encouragment and gental critism and loving words. De Mille was not pleased when Eileen knocked on his door, he thought she was just a hanger-on from the party. She eventualy caught his atttention and passed on all the imformation the the old lady wanted him to here. De Mille looked out the window as she spoke, she was nt even shore he was listening. But when he turned around there were tears flowing down his cheeks. He asked, "Were do you come from?" " I loved my mother. It's true we didn't always understand each other but I had great respect for her. I have waited for this for over twenty years. When she returned to her apartment it was filled with roses. the accompanying card from De Mille read: Do not come to California with out first advising me. Eileen Garrrett was in the South of France when the second world war broke out and for a time ran a soup kitchen for children. She return to New York when Paris fell to the Germans. She established a publishing firm which attacted authors of the calibre of Robert Graves and Aldous Huxley. She began to write prolifically, but after a break of ten yers returned to pychical research full time establishing the Parapsychology foundation in New York. Eileen loved the South of France and set up the Foundation's regional head-quarters at Saint Paul-de-Vence. Towards the end of her live she prefered to stay in the back ground and listen to scientists, philosphers and psychical researchrs talk about the latest advances. If she could be persuaded to discuss mediumship, she was listed to with the greatest of respect. Eileen Garrett died at Saint Paul on the 15. September,1970 from bone cancer. Hoping that one day a real understanding of the nature of psychic phenomena would be found. REFERENCES: Worlds Greatest Psychics And Mystics. By Nicholas Margaret. 1986. Octopus Books Ltd. 59 Grosvenor St. London. |
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| By Jeff Fausch. Paranormal Field Investigators. |