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I am suprised that we don't have a specific thread for it although see this IHTM:
https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/ectoplasm.15076/
and as it came up at UnCon (yes I will stop going on about it eventually) in Marina Warner's talk:
https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/uncon-2004-reviews-discussion.18546/
I thought it worth throwing the discussion open.
What really interested me wer the variety of things photographed and she had a lot of them. There was ectoplasm being vomitted out (looking like classsic cheesecloth), passing through other objects, hardening into other shapes, forming faces and impressions, forming whispy smoke-like forms. It is clear that the simple sceptical dismissal as it just being cheesecloth is not completely satisfactory (although I am inclined to think that is just because they employed a range of tricks).
So thoughts?
Anyone know the names of the books she used as she seemed to imply one or two were essentially just books of these photos.
She is working on a book along these lines so that should help answer some questions but in the meantime.........
See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ectoplasm
http://www.skepdic.com/ectoplasm.html
and this is a good entry on the idea of aether which also helped set the background of ectoplasmic appearances:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminiferous_aether
https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/ectoplasm.15076/
and as it came up at UnCon (yes I will stop going on about it eventually) in Marina Warner's talk:
https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/uncon-2004-reviews-discussion.18546/
I thought it worth throwing the discussion open.
What really interested me wer the variety of things photographed and she had a lot of them. There was ectoplasm being vomitted out (looking like classsic cheesecloth), passing through other objects, hardening into other shapes, forming faces and impressions, forming whispy smoke-like forms. It is clear that the simple sceptical dismissal as it just being cheesecloth is not completely satisfactory (although I am inclined to think that is just because they employed a range of tricks).
So thoughts?
Anyone know the names of the books she used as she seemed to imply one or two were essentially just books of these photos.
She is working on a book along these lines so that should help answer some questions but in the meantime.........
See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ectoplasm
http://www.skepdic.com/ectoplasm.html
and this is a good entry on the idea of aether which also helped set the background of ectoplasmic appearances:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminiferous_aether
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