| The Skippy Experiment
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| | was arepeatable experiment which could be
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| The Skippy Experiment has been modeled on
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| | performed by any dedicated circle
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| the highly successful Philip
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| | ofsitters. The Philip Experiment showed
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| Experiment, which was conducted by the
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| | that conscious thought could betranslated
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| Toronto Society for Psychical
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| | paranormally into actual physical force.
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| Research in the 1970s.
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| | So with this background six Sydney-based
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| Philip was an articifical 'ghost' created
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| | participants committed themselvesto
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| by the collective minds of
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| | meeting on a fortnightly basis (the
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| eightresearchers who dedicated themselves
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| | modern lifestyle being somewhatmore
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| to creating a false history for
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| | hectic than that of our 70s
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| theirsubject through a series of weekly
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| | counterparts!) to round out the
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| meetings. They used meditation,sketches
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| | characterof one Skippy Cartman,
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| and various 'artefacts' to focus and
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| | schoolgirl femme fatale:
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| generate a collectivehallucination of an
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| | "A sweet and attractive 14 year old,
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| imaginary person.
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| | Skippy Cartman lived out all ofher short
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| "Philip was an aristocratic Englishman,
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| | life on her parent's property near Dubbo,
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| living in the middle 1600's atthe time of
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| | NSW. Her overbearingand overprotective
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| Oliver Cromwell. He had been a supporter
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| | parents kept her on a short leash and she
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| of the King, and wasa Catholic. He was
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| | was veryinexperienced with the joys and
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| married to a beautiful but cold and
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| | dangers of life when she got her
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| frigid wife,
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| | firstschoolgirl crush - on her Catholic
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| Dorothea, the daughter of a neighbouring
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| | school teacher Brother Monk. Flatteredby
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| nobleman.
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| | the attention, Brother Monk embarked on a
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| "One day when out riding on the
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| | foolhardy affair with theyoung girl, with
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| boundaries of his estates Philip
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| | nature running its course and Skippy
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| cameacross a gypsy encampment and saw
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| | finding herselfpregnant.
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| there a beautiful dark-eyed
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| | "Full of schoolgirl naievity, Brother
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| girlraven-haired gypsy girl, Margo, and
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| | Monk reacted vastly differentlyto the
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| fell instantly in love with her.
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| | news than an idealistic Skippy had
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| Hebrought her back secretly to live in
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| | expected. Not for her whitedresses and
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| the gatehouse, near the stables of
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| | smiling children. After all, he had his
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| Diddington Manor - his family home.
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| | career to safeguard,not to mention the
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| "For some time he kept his love-nest
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| | reputation of the Church! He swiftly
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| secret, but eventually Dorothea,realizing
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| | murdered his youngstudent, strangling her
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| he was keeping someone else there, found
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| | and burying her corpse under the
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| Margo, and accused herof witchcraft and
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| | floorboards of anabandoned shearing shed
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| stealing her husband. Philip was too
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| | on her family's property.
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| scared of losinghis reputation and his
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| | "Her body was hidden quickly and quietly,
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| possessions to protest at the trial of
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| | not discovered for nearly ayear
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| Margo, andshe was convicted of witchcraft
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| | afterwards - despite her family's
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| and burned at the stake.
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| | continued searching. By that timeher body
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| "Philip was subsequently stricken with
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| | was found it was so badly decomposed that
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| remorse that he had not triedto defend
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| | no one ever discoveredthat she had been
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| Margo and used to pace the battlements of
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| | pregnant. And Brother Monk had moved to
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| Diddington in despair.
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| | another town,and another parish, his dark
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| Finally, one morning his body was found
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| | secret going with him."
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| at the bottom of the battlements,whence
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| | With this darkly disturbing background
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| he had cast himself in a fit of agony and
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| | it's no wonder her ghost is
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| remorse." 1
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| | stilllingering! We're rather pleased to
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| But no apparition resulted. So after a
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| | say she's deigned to join in on
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| year of sittings a new approach
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| | ourregular sessions and communicate
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| wasadopted following the discovery of the
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| | through soft raps and scratchings - onone
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| work of Batcheldor, Brookes-Smithand
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| | occasion our hands were'nt even touching
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| Hunt, which led to immediate results in
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| | the table! In a perfect worldwe'll soon
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| the regular production ofparanormal
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| | be wheeling out our audio visual
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| physical phenomena.
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| | equipment to capture this onfilm and
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| Communication with Philip was established
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| | tape, and perhaps invite some observers
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| and he regularly answeredquestions with
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| | to witness this curiousexperiment in
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| coded raps, all the while remaining true
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| | action.
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| to his character
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| | References:
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| (as determined by the group) - and even
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| | 1. Paper: Generation of Paranormal
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| more amazingly, all phenomenaoccurred in
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| | Physical Phenomena in connection withan
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| full light.
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| | Imaginary "Communicator", authored by
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| Batcheldor, Brookes-Smith and Hunt
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| | Iris M.Owen & Maragret H.
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| believed the production of
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| | Sparrow, Toronto Society for Psychical
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| physicalphenomena by a group "not
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| | Research, 17.10.1973.
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| specially selected for psychic talent"
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