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In a very famous haunted house in the West of England, during my investigations which were spread over a period of nine, not uninterruptedly consecutive, nights, manifestations took place twice, and on both occasions I stood up and spoke, but in neither case w
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Hence, I am of the opinion that one can learn more from one spontaneous ghostly manifestation in a haunted house than from a thousand lectures, or a thousand books
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“I made certain the Germans had got hold of me
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I awoke Tanaka, and we went out into the garden
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r two men—sometimes there were little taps, as though a tobacco pipe were being emptied of its ashes, but more often a curious noise was heard which sounded like ‘putter putter.’ About this time, an account appeared in all the Japanese newspapers of a bridge i
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His argument was that, even were the spirits ‘laid,’ no one now would rent the house, and so he would not spend any money on it
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My last experience occurred only a few days ago, as I was sitting on the stairs of a haunted house near Ealing
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ssages of an intelligible though rather recondite character from "Myers" began to reach me indeed a week or two before the death of my son; and nearly all the messages received since his death differ greatly in character from those which in the old days were r
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Of mediumship there are many grades, one of the simplest forms being the capacity to receive an impression or automatic writing, under peaceful conditions, in an ordinary state; but the whole subject is too large to be treated here
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And when the method of communication is purely mental or telepathic, we are assured that the communicator 'on the other side' has to select from and utilise those ideas and channels which represent the customary mental scope of the medium; though by practised
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In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less
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To understand the intelligent tiltings of a table in contact with human muscles is a much simpler matter
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I may state, for what it is worth, that as a matter of fact normal clues to identity are disliked, and, in so far as they are gratuitous, are even resented, by a good medium; for they are no manner of use, and yet subsequently they appear to spoil evidence
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To comfort her my wife took her up to London to call on Mrs
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The first message came to us through a recent friend of ours in London, Mrs
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Ultimately I was able to take her anonymously and unexpectedly to an American medium, Mrs
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There is some one here with a little difficulty; not fully built up; youngish looking; form more like an outline; he has not completely learnt how to build up as yet
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Kennedy desired Lady Lodge to try with a different and independent medium, and therefore kindly arranged with Mr
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A table sitting is not good for conversation, but it is useful for getting definite brief answers--such as names and incidents, since it seems to be less interfered with by the mental activity of an intervening medium, and to be rather more direct
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Many of the answers obtained were quite outside the knowledge of the medium or of Mrs
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ctly; nevertheless, it might have made the obtaining of the answers they wanted much more feasible, inasmuch as in their presence he would have been in their atmosphere and be more likely to remember their sort of surroundings
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When a medium is present he sees you quite distinctly
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He is bringing a girl with him now--a young girl, growing up in the spirit world
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(Medium here reached out across the table to A
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must tread the same path; there's no escaping the crucifixion, it comes in one way or another
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At length, on 17 November 1915, Raymond's brother Lionel (L
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I should think, myself, that they are of very varying degrees of value, and peculiarly liable to unintentional sophistication by the medium
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It is the action of the spirit on the body that keeps it from mortifying
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It may be well to give a word of warning to those who find that they possess any unusual power in the psychic direction, and to counsel regulated moderation in its use
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He thought his mother would be interested
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What it does not exclude is telepathy
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Gerald Balfour, in The Hibbert Journal for April 1910, on the Epiphenomenon controversy, and generally on the alternative explanations of the connexion between Mind and Body, in the light thrown on the subject by Telepathy and Psychical Research; while on the
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We change our state at birth, and come into the world of air and sense and myriad existence; we change our state at death and enter a region of--what?
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Therefore when the ship was rent by the explosion (it was as sudden as the firing of a pistol) I felt no particular shock, because of that curious inner expectancy
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If death is not extinction, then on the other side of dissolution mental activity must continue, and must be interacting with other mental activity
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Scientific prediction is familiar enough; science is always either historic or prophetic (as Dr
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Human character, and action based upon it, may be more trustworthy and uncapricious than is usually supposed; and data depending on humanity may be included in a completer scheme of foreknowledge, without the exercise of any compulsion
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Will they do so best by allowing their own bodies or brains to be utilised?
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Why should telepathy be unfamiliar to us?
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Physical things can reach consciousness--if at all--only through the brain; that remains true as regards physical things, however much we may admit telepathy from other minds; and, conversely, only through the brain can we operate with conscious purpose on the
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Further thought, however, raises difficulties and doubts
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But in a few cases the desire to give new information is awakened; and when there is sufficient receptivity, and, what is very important, a competent and suitable Medium for anything beyond commonplace messages, instructive and general information may be forth
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It ought to be clear that they are not to be taken as oracular utterances, or as anything vastly superior to the capabilities of the medium through whom they come,--though in fact they often are superior to any known power of a given medium, and are frequently
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One day, when the Spirit stands within the veil which shrouds the spirit world from mortal gaze, you shall wonder at your ignorance of Him whom you have so foolishly imagined!
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Another method, and one that turns out to be still more powerful, is for the automatist not only to take off his or her attention from what is being transmitted through his or her organism, but to become comprehensively unconscious and go into a trance
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er different opinions may be held, it is universally admitted that the dramatic semblance of the control is undoubtedly that of a separate person,--a person asserted to be permanently existing on the other side, and to be occupied on that side in much the same
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The process of regular communication--apart from the exceptional more direct privilege occasionally vouchsafed to people in extreme sorrow--thus seems to involve normally a double medium of communication, and the activity of several people
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In oral or voice sittings the function of the note-taker is more laborious and more responsible than in writing sittings; for these latter to a great extent supply their own notes
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