Many thanks to kitkat on the Spiritlove forum for bringing this to our attention.
It appears that a Swedish medium, one Anders Akesson, has been caught cheating and the world of spirit is in high dudgeon not only, as one would hope, with the cheating medium but with the fact that he was exposed.
You can read more here
Personally, I do not condone cheating at all where physical mediumship and its phenomena are concerned. This lady sat in the medium's circle - she tells us - for 3 years. The medium concerned cheated. That is a fact. He confessed and apologised regarding his moments of madness, but I am assured that there has been some genuine phenomena in the course of his physical mediumship. I do not believe such potential mediumship should be lost for all time because of a stupid mistake on his part.
I cannot believe that this lady, who should have shown some loyalty to the circle, and compassion regarding his wretched situation, could not wait to spread the news of the cheating and THE ACTUAL NAME of the medium to anyone and everyone throughout the world!!
It is indeed a peculiar profession when the act of cheating is preferred to be swept under the carpet rather than exposed.
I cannot imagine many other careers or responsibilities where people would prefer that fraudulent actions are exposed and the integrity of that person held to account. Imagine if it was ok for doctors to lie or solicitors, and if caught, it was ok to hush it up.
This is hardly a surprise though as we know the whole thing is built on mostly wishful thinking....
Not quite correct in thinking that spiritualists as a whole are condoning this (quite the contrary, if you read the various discussions ...) but pretty disconcerting to see that there is a small group/section contained in the physical mediumship 'movement' who are trying to cover up this revelation - and censoring those who dare to bring it out in the open.Originally Posted by chaggle
The poor guy should take heart. After all, Colin Fry seems to have managed to keep a career in the dark arts going despite being blatantly caught out cheating a sceance.
As for covering it up, there are two ways to look at this. First, let them try. The more they do, the more they weaken their position and look foolish.
In trying to cover it up, they are simply demonstrating that they fear what will come out if anyone looks deeply enough beneath the surface (approx 1 micron!) Perhaps he even has something on others in the circle? i.e. if they abandon him then he will spill beans. Not inconceivable. After all, the obvious thing to do would be to weep and wail that sadly very occasionally a bad un gets through, and denounce him. That way would kill the story quickest. Now we can watch while they factionalise. Peoples Front of Psychics, or Popular Front For Psychics, or maybe the Psychics Popular Peoples Front? Take your sides. Place your bets.
And, as always, a teensy weesny bit if credit to the Spiritlove gals for their twinges of skepticism. We'll have you signed up yet!
Signed up for what exactly, DD? Are you suggesting we are poised for imminent sectioning?
Given general human nature, I'd have thought it fairly likely that there would be some carpet-sweepers out there who think that the less said the better.
Maybe that's a head-in-the-sand approach taken by people who actually don't have much real faith - the less that's said, the easier it is for them to pretend that nothing actually happened.
Possibly it's just some kind of siege mentality, assuming that any admission of imperfection even where one clearly exists is fuel for The Enemy, but I think the other people in the discussions are right that suppressing admissions of cheating looks far worse than acknowledging them.
However, even for someone with a siege mentality, it would seem pretty odd to think it was OK to say that someone had been caught cheating but not name them.
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