
in an alert waking state or in a hypnotic trance, usually during a sance. Lesson being, for those asking you for a definition of ectoplasm at a party, you can really judge what kinds of people they are by which definition they cleave to. What is produced may be unrelated words, fragments of poetry, epithets, puns. a session or sitting, as of a class or organization. sence Shortened form of Sensimilla ( Marajuana ), a bastardization of the Spanish phrase 'sin semillla' - Without seeds. And it probably isn't a huge surprise that people took these pictures as proof in the burgeoning days of photography, it was easy to assume that white splotches on a badly rendered picture were ghosts or that the carefully staged pictures were candid. a meeting in which a spiritualist attempts to communicate with the spirits of the dead. It's pretty easy to find lots of photographic "evidence" of the kind of spooky ectoplasm mediums were into. A kind of gross trick, but not really from another dimension, after all. Still others would just swallow some cloth or paper and spit it up for effect. Or perhaps not so mysteriously, considering that some of the most famous "physical" mediums were later found to be cutting out pictures from newspapers and using the cover of darkness (ectoplasm would supposedly disappear in light, you see) to "manifest" the stuff. Zombiegone said, 'Communication with the dead is not possible. We told our pastor that we were going to consult a medium in order to visit with our deceased Johnny via a seance, but Rev. This ectoplasm sometimes looked like gauzy, cloth-like material or mysteriously took the form of faces of the spirit that was being invited to talk. Urban Dictionary: seance seance An attempt to communicate with the dead. Usually, this ectoplasm would kind of ooze from the body - the mouth, an ear or (let's just be polite) any other orifice you could imagine. Įctoplasm emerged as a nifty way for mediums to "show" people that those spirits really did exist and could physically manifest. People were quite into the idea that souls or spirits were floating around us, waiting to be nudged with a question. Caveman Cult Blood And Extinction LP 180g Black vinyl edition with insert limited to 400 copies In an era defined by malignant blight, 2021 is as appropriate a year as any to introduce new CAVEMAN CULT material into our collective bloodstream. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, séances were a popular fad. In a séance, a medium supposedly communicates (or helps others communicate with) a spirit.



Because for a long time, ectoplasm was absolutely something mysterious but not altogether insane - if you were hanging out at séances, that is. But don't tell that to the small, yet vocal, part of our audience who chose the latter definition.
