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Montague, a leading light in the well-respected and long-established Society of Psychical Research (SPR), will provide a background to the extraordinary events which in the 1990s surrounded a physical mediumship group based at Scole, Norfolk. In his first lecture for the Questing Conference, he will describe the unique two-year investigation undertaken by senior figures in the SPR of the Scole séances where a wide range of strange phenomena were produced before scores of witnesses. The SPR investigators instituted anti-fraud controls chiefly to regulate the production of pictures, poems, glyphs designs and messages from unopened rolls of colour film. These will be exhibited at the conference. His talk will describe the striking range of animated light phenomena widely witnessed by sitters, and reactions to the mammoth 300-page report Montague wrote on the investigation, together with the late Professsor Arthur Ellison and Professor David Fontana and published as part of the SPR's Proceedings. He will also examine the validity of criticisms of the Scole Group and the phenomena, and the impact the report is having worldwide. |
Physical mediumship groups are commonplace throughout the world, yet what seems of extreme importance about the Scole group is that the strange activity witnessed on countless occasions by so many people has helped revolutionise the manner in which spiritualists and psychics perceive séance-room phenomena. Similar groups are now springing up all over the world. It is thus important to take stock of the situation, and there is no better person to do this than Montague Keen, who sat in on a great many of the sittings as an impartial observer and is therefore in a perfect position to deliver an unbiased assessment of the events based on the findings of the SPR.
Montague Keen is a council member of the highly respected Society of Psychical Research. He has been involved with their research programme to examine the validity of claims by the so-called Scole Group regarding alleged paranormal phenomena at their base of operations in Scole, Norfolk, during the 1990s.
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