The Eternal Nature of Life

  

Douglas Conacher passed to the other side on June 6, 1958.  In October the following year was his widow Eira's first tape-recorded seance with Direct Voice medium Leslie Flint.  During the 1960s while sitting with Flint she would record many Direct Voice (disembodied speech) conversations informing her about her husband's new conditions of life.  Today the Douglas Conacher Collection of Leslie Flint Recordings are available for listening without charge at wholejoy.com.  Eira published two books of transcripts compiled from tape recordings of these sessions: Chapters of Experience in 1973 and There Is Life After Death in 1978.  Here is some of the background information provided by Eira Conacher in her Introduction to the first book. 

My husband and I did not meet until rather late in life.  Douglas was fifty-eight, a confirmed bachelor; I was thirty-nine, and deeply involved in my work as an Art Mistress in a school in Surrey.  However, on August 12th, 1937, a few months after what seemed a chance meeting, we were married.  This was during the period of uneasy peace before the Second World War descended upon us all.

Douglas had served in the First World War and knew only too well the horrors of war, and his highly sensitive nature was greatly affected by this second conflagration.  Years of illness, operations, and frustrations followed; and it became necessary for him to give up his publishing business in the heart of London, and try to find rest and peace in rural surroundings.

My husband was deeply religious, and a devout member of the Church of England.  The books he published were chiefly on orthodox religion and philosophy.  He had an overwhelming love of books and read widely, but I never remember him reading anything of a psychic or occult character.  Neither did we ever discuss these things.

 
We had twenty years of devoted companionship, and although the path we had to tread, and the lessons we had to learn, were often very difficult, sharing these trying experiences drew us closer together and made our love stronger.

I had read a few books on the subject of life after death before my husband's passing, but my quest for spiritual knowledge started in earnest a few weeks after this crisis in my life.

 
During this time, also, I was privileged to have sittings with many of the finest mediums of today.  These brought great joy.  Life took on a new radiance, and a new realization of its purpose and splendour dawned upon me.  What I had dimly perceived before, became clear and intelligible.  I knew beyond a shadow of doubt that death, far from being the end of life, was indeed the gateway to life, and to ever-increasing life.

 
I was classifying this material—with a view to compiling a book from the knowledge I had received through many forms of mediumship—when I found it necessary to put this idea on one side.

In August 1959, I had the good fortune to meet Mr. Leslie Flint—a well-known medium of integrity, who has the rare gift of independent direct voice mediumship—and to be invited to his evening circles.  These were great occasions.  Later, I had many private sittings with him.  Douglas soon became a very good communicator by direct voice, and expressed a wish to concentrate on this form of communication.  He said: "This is by far the most direct method, and the most satisfactory one, once one has become used to it.  There is much less likelihood of the medium, or the recipient of the messages, influencing what is being given . . ."

 
To avoid repetition as far as possible, I have deleted passages here and there, and in one or two instances, added a little information on the subject under discussion from recordings not otherwise used.  The editing of Douglas's conversations has been kept to a minimum, so as not to interfere with his speech pattern; the result is that nearly every word in this book came from him by direct voice.

 
These sittings with Mr. Flint have always been absolutely natural, and very happy occasions.

 
May these talks help to bring a clearer realisation of the eternal nature of life; so that while living this present life to the full, and in the right way, there may be an inner awareness of the greater expressions of living that will be possible for each one of us—beyond the school of earth.

Eira Conacher's book is "Dedicated to Leslie and Mickey with our love."  She described Flint's 'control' Mickey as "our master of ceremonies" and reported what she and other seance sitters knew about him. 

He takes charge under the varying conditions which prevail at the time of the communication.  His amusing remarks relieve any tension there may be, making us feel relaxed and happy.

Mickey's last earthly life was brief, for he was killed at the age of eleven, shortly before the First World War, while crossing the road near Camden Town tube station where he sold newspapers.

 
He is a great character who endears himself to all.

Sitters may have contemplated the significance of the manifold occasions when Mickey and the other communicators used the pronoun "we" in conversation.  Reminders of spiritual Oneness are found throughout the annals of transcendental communication.  Preceding blog articles have reported about some of these cases.  For example, the Ouija Board communicator/s in the 'Messages From Michael' case was quoted: "The name we are called is Michael . . . [although] Only one small fragment of this entity had that name."  The text of Edgar Cayce channeled reading 262-46 given on May 28, 1933 includes: "God, the Father, the first cause, seeking - in the manifestations of self - brought the world, as we (as individuals) observe it about us, into being - THROUGH love; giving to man, His creation, His creatures, that ability to become one with Him.  That son WE have called the Son of man, the Christ Spirit, the love made manifest in bringing the creature into material being in a plane we have called earth."  During a 2005 lecture in England, 'Paul' (channeling through Ray Brown) said about "all guides, all your helpers that come to you'' — "Why do we do it?  Pure love for you.  That is what makes Spirit also beautiful.  We've only got one thing in common — love and light."

In the two books of transcripts of her husband's Direct Voice seance conversations from the 'other side,' Eira's own comments are identified with the word 'Self.'  One chapter of the first book is a Tribute presenting communicator Douglas Conacher's words in appreciation to Mickey and Leslie, such as about Mickey: ". . . behind everything that happens there is Mickey . . . He is, as it were, the compère to whom we all owe a great debt."  Eira was equally appreciative of the medium.

Self: And Leslie, too, of course——

Douglas: Yes, the medium, bless him, we are very grateful to him for all his effort, the work he has done, and the many opportunities he has given us.  I hope his health will continue for many years, so that we can do this work and help many souls in your world.

One of Mickey's patterned quirks is quipping to seance 'sitters,' "You're a bit of a case" or some variation thereof.  In comparison, the contemporary transcendental communicator—also extensively documented—Ramtha, who channels through JZ Knight, is known to consistently refer to audience members as "entity."   Here is a Ramtha lecture transcript excerpt with part of Ramtha's response to a student's question about "what you do when you're not squeezed into this plane."

I am expressing, master, and I am being happy with what I am.  And when I am not the identity you see of me here, I am that which is: the platform from which all things come forth, for the seventh level is the totality of thought, which is the great Void that holds your planets in orbit, your cells together, and encompasses all things to the perimeters of forever.  And when you are a seventh-level entity, there is no such thing as levels.  There only is.  In that, you become all feeling of all things, of all knowingness, of all thought."

 

Mrs. Conacher's seances with Leslie Flint took place in his residence in the Bayswater area of London.  (The Leslie Flint Educational Trust photo)

Another book with transcripts of Leslie Flint Direct Voice seances is The Eternal Privilege (1988) by Joseph Powles Applegate, who designates the tape recordings as "a Revelation of the existence of the all-pervading mighty Life Force . . . For us mortals to be part of it is the Eternal Privilege."