Fifty Years a Medium – Chapter 7, 3/16 by Estelle Roberts

The receiving and transmitting of messages is always a most exhilarating experience. I feel myself vibrating with the power of the spirit as I walk from side to side of the platform, pointing to people in all parts of the audience, even to the back of the gallery. Some messages are short and to the point, others long, and some so involved that they have little meaning to anyone but their recipients.

Then, usually after about three-quarters of an hour, Red Cloud comes to me and says gently, “Sufficient.” He always knows when the high state of tension to which I had been brought is beginning to take its effect. He never allows me to carry on beyond my endurance. Then I bow to the audience and return to my seat. As this action is invariably greeted by an audible sigh of regret, I joyfully know I have not failed my friends in either world.

During the 1930’s my public demonstrations of clairvoyance were regularly filled to overflowing. It used to worry me that so many interested folk should have to be turned away. One of my regular meeting places at this time was the Victoria Hall, Bloomsbury, which, in fact, was not one hall but two.

Somebody suggested that it would help to solve the “House Full” problem if we were to link these two adjacent halls by microphone. This proved to be an excellent solution, enabling me to give clairvoyance to packed audiences in both halls at the same time.

Before the first “twin” performances, I wondered whether I should be able to project my clairvoyant powers beyond the immediate surroundings to an entirely separate assembly, even though the distance between the two was trifling. I need not have worried, however.

I found I was able to send messages and describe spirit people to the audience in the second hall as successfully as if I had been sitting among them. A two-way microphone arrangement enabled those in the second hall to converse with me and acknowledge the messages I gave.