TIBET, the land of mystery about which more nonsense has been written than any other country in the world, is revealed as a land of mediums and Spiritualists, where the monasteries still have the oracles for which ancient Greece was famed, where seances are held so remarkable that the materialised "dead" walk out of the darkness to greet the living, talking and singing with them for hours before departing. These revelations are made by Murdo MacDonald-Bayne, who has just returned from a spirit-directed journey to Tibet. He declares that many of the authors who have written books describing their "travels" in this part of the world have left behind them no evidence of their visits to Tibet, and he was unable to confirm that they had ever reached the land where no visitor is allowed without the special permission of the authorities in both India and Tibet. Not more than a dozen European travellers have been permitted to enter the country in the last ten or twelve years, he says, and in many of the more remote parts of the country he was the first white visitor. His pilgrimage to the Himalayas was undertaken as a result of a direction given him by a then unknown spirit at an Edinburgh seance with Mrs. Helen Duncan, when a materialised form appeared and uttered the three words, "Go to Johannesburg." No explanation was given, but MacDonald-Bayne decided to obey the command. When he arrived in South Africa, the message was confirmed in a remarkable way. A stranger telephoned him, saying: "You have arrived. I have been waiting for you." The message was from a Johannesburg healer who had been told by the Other Side that Bayne was coming to help him with a particularly difficult case he had. An influential business man had developed suicidal tendencies with which the healer was unable to deal. Bayne had had success with this type of case before and had in fact, been told at a voice seance shortly before he left England that a band of Other-Side helpers had attached themselves to him for the express purpose of preventing suicides. Bayne was able to cure this man and then he heard clairaudiently the same voice that had spoken to him in Edinburgh. This time it said, "Come to Tibet." When Bayne reached Kalimpong, the gateway to Tibet on the Indian side, he found he was expected. He was met by a Tibetan master," said to be over 200 years old, who had come from one of the most inaccessible parts of the country. This Tibetan was known as the "Master of Wisdom" and Bayne questioned him on many subjects, including such things as Western science and other topics on which one would expect a dweller in Tibet -- which is practically cut off from the outside world -- to be ignorant, but the "master" answered all questions with the same assurance of knowledge. This "master" told MacDonald-Bayne of the spirit who had spoken to him in Edinburgh and in Johannesburg and showed that he was acquainted with him throughout his journey. Then he gave Bayne instructions to proceed about a hundred miles into Tibet. AIDED BY THE UNSEEN Before this could be done, Bayne had to get permission from the authorities both in India and Tibet, but every facility seemed to be put in his way by unseen forces. He experienced none of the hitches that he expected would occur before he could set foot in the "forbidden country." Permits that are seldom granted he obtained with ease. The place to which he was directed was the sanctuary of another "master" whose feats were known throughout Tibet and in many border states. One feat was the materialisation of food and it was said that numbers of people were fed by this means. When he arrived there, he found his journey was not yet over, for he was directed to another point 100 miles further still, over country devoid of vegetation with nothing but rocks and snow. But eventually he arrived, though in places he covered only three miles in ten hours. When in one of the rest huts on the way, Bayne was awakened by a materialised form of a woman dressed in black. He could see that she was in distress and was able to help her. He learned later that the hut had the reputation of being haunted, but since his visit the manifestations had ceased. HOW DID HE TRAVEL? Arrived at his destination, Bayne found there was in progress a gathering of master yogis, including the "master" he had seen in Kalimpong and who must have travelled by some remarkable means, for he had been at the meeting place for ten days when Bayne got there. Instructions were given him that benefited his psychic healing, which he found to be much more efficacious as a result and on which he has based a new spiritual campaign which he is determined to carry through many Western countries. SEANCES HELD IN TIBET IN THE OPEN AIR -- "Dead" Mother Materialises and Talks in Gaelic One night, when he was told to expect visitors from the Other Side, he perceived, in the open air, a number of forms approaching him. He convinced himself that he was not seeing the forms clairvoyantly, but that the visitors were really solid materialised "dead" people. Some of them he knew, others revealed themselves as being associated with him in his work. One of them was his "dead" mother, who came forward and spoke to him in Gaelic. NATURALLY RELIGIOUS The Tibetans are a naturally religious race, Bayne says, and nearly every family has a son in some monastery, though only a few rise to be more than an ordinary monk. They are not the same as the "masters" who are beyond creed and dogma and have universal thought. The people are really Spiritualists. In every monastery is an oracle, really a trance medium through whom a discarnate "master" speaks. Great powers are attributed to the oracles. Bayne defines yogis as those who have acquired some "control" of natural forces but he declares the highest type of yogi is one who has become "Christlike" and he is then known as a "master." ___________________________________ [See the original photocopied version below] |
[A newspaper in England, Psychic News, has kept a file on Murdo MacDonald-Bayne. This is retyped here and the original photocopied version appears at the end.] |
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PSYCHIC NEWS, October 2, 1937 TIBET IS FULL OF MEDIUMS ______________________________ Every Monastery Has Its Own "Oracle" For Trance Talks __________________________________ |
TIBET, the land of mystery about which more nonsense has been written than any other country in the world, is revealed as a land of mediums and Spiritualists, where the monasteries still have the oracles for which ancient Greece was famed, where seances are held so remarkable that the materialised "dead" walk out of the darkness to greet the living, talking and singing with them for hours before departing. These revelations are made by Murdo MacDonald-Bayne, who has just returned from a spirit-directed journey to Tibet. He declares that many of the authors who have written books describing their "travels" in this part of the world have left behind them no evidence of their visits to Tibet, and he was unable to confirm that they had ever reached the land where no visitor is allowed without the special permission of the authorities in both India and Tibet. Not more than a dozen European travellers have been permitted to enter the country in the last ten or twelve years, he says, and in many of the more remote parts of the country he was the first white visitor. His pilgrimage to the Himalayas was undertaken as a result of a direction given him by a then unknown spirit at an Edinburgh seance with Mrs. Helen Duncan, when a materialised form appeared and uttered the three words, "Go to Johannesburg." No explanation was given, but MacDonald-Bayne decided to obey the command. When he arrived in South Africa, the message was confirmed in a remarkable way. A stranger telephoned him, saying: "You have arrived. I have been waiting for you." The message was from a Johannesburg healer who had been told by the Other Side that Bayne was coming to help him with a particularly difficult case he had. An influential business man had developed suicidal tendencies with which the healer was unable to deal. Bayne had had success with this type of case before and had in fact, been told at a voice seance shortly before he left England that a band of Other-Side helpers had attached themselves to him for the express purpose of preventing suicides. Bayne was able to cure this man and then he heard clairaudiently the same voice that had spoken to him in Edinburgh. This time it said, "Come to Tibet." When Bayne reached Kalimpong, the gateway to Tibet on the Indian side, he found he was expected. He was met by a Tibetan master," said to be over 200 years old, who had come from one of the most inaccessible parts of the country. This Tibetan was known as the "Master of Wisdom" and Bayne questioned him on many subjects, including such things as Western science and other topics on which one would expect a dweller in Tibet -- which is practically cut off from the outside world -- to be ignorant, but the "master" answered all questions with the same assurance of knowledge. This "master" told MacDonald-Bayne of the spirit who had spoken to him in Edinburgh and in Johannesburg and showed that he was acquainted with him throughout his journey. Then he gave Bayne instructions to proceed about a hundred miles into Tibet. AIDED BY THE UNSEEN Before this could be done, Bayne had to get permission from the authorities both in India and Tibet, but every facility seemed to be put in his way by unseen forces. He experienced none of the hitches that he expected would occur before he could set foot in the "forbidden country." Permits that are seldom granted he obtained with ease. The place to which he was directed was the sanctuary of another "master" whose feats were known throughout Tibet and in many border states. One feat was the materialisation of food and it was said that numbers of people were fed by this means. When he arrived there, he found his journey was not yet over, for he was directed to another point 100 miles further still, over country devoid of vegetation with nothing but rocks and snow. But eventually he arrived, though in places he covered only three miles in ten hours. When in one of the rest huts on the way, Bayne was awakened by a materialised form of a woman dressed in black. He could see that she was in distress and was able to help her. He learned later that the hut had the reputation of being haunted, but since his visit the manifestations had ceased. HOW DID HE TRAVEL? Arrived at his destination, Bayne found there was in progress a gathering of master yogis, including the "master" he had seen in Kalimpong and who must have travelled by some remarkable means, for he had been at the meeting place for ten days when Bayne got there. Instructions were given him that benefited his psychic healing, which he found to be much more efficacious as a result and on which he has based a new spiritual campaign which he is determined to carry through many Western countries. SEANCES HELD IN TIBET IN THE OPEN AIR -- "Dead" Mother Materialises and Talks in Gaelic One night, when he was told to expect visitors from the Other Side, he perceived, in the open air, a number of forms approaching him. He convinced himself that he was not seeing the forms clairvoyantly, but that the visitors were really solid materialised "dead" people. Some of them he knew, others revealed themselves as being associated with him in his work. One of them was his "dead" mother, who came forward and spoke to him in Gaelic. NATURALLY RELIGIOUS The Tibetans are a naturally religious race, Bayne says, and nearly every family has a son in some monastery, though only a few rise to be more than an ordinary monk. They are not the same as the "masters" who are beyond creed and dogma and have universal thought. The people are really Spiritualists. In every monastery is an oracle, really a trance medium through whom a discarnate "master" speaks. Great powers are attributed to the oracles. Bayne defines yogis as those who have acquired some "control" of natural forces but he declares the highest type of yogi is one who has become "Christlike" and he is then known as a "master." ___________________________________ [See the original photocopied version below] |
