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When operating indirectly in the ordinary way through a control and a medium, it usually appears to be remarkably difficult to get names transmitted
Read record →ch it may seem frivolous to have actually recorded--are reminiscent of the kind of shots which are made by mediums under control when they too are striving after a name; and it was a perception of this analogy which caused me to jot down my own guesses, or wha
Read record →A pen or pencil is an inanimate piece of matter guided by the fingers
Read record →re some communicators who object to a control's presence, especially if they have anything private to say; and these often prefer the table because it seems to bring them more directly into contact with the sitter, without an intermediary
Read record →When, for instance, I see during a total solar eclipse red flames shooting out from the edge of the sun, the obvious explanation is that these are real phenomena, caused by masses of glowing vapours ejected from the sun
Read record →Now the phenomena encountered in psychical research have long ago suggested an explanation, in terms of other than living human intelligences, which may be properly called spiritistic
Read record →One little point of difference, between the time before and the time after, has however become manifest
Read record →A deity of some kind is common to every branch of the human race
Read record →This is not a subject on which one comes lightly and easily to a conclusion, nor can the evidence be explained except to those who will give to it time and careful study; but clearly the conclusion is either folly and self-deception, or it is a truth of the ut
Read record →The object of Lieutenant Hill and myself was to make it appear possible and to avoid being found out
Read record →Some of us received cryptograms, or what we thought were cryptograms, from which we could reconstruct the position on the various fronts (if we had imagination enough), and guess at the progress of the war
Read record →t the fact that we could not see them was no proof that spooks did not exist, and told us of things revealed by the microscope, things that undoubtedly “are there,” with queer shapes and grisly names
Read record →Winnie Smith knew someone—I think it was one of his second cousins in Russia, or a crowned head, or somebody of the kind—who had a pet spook in the house
Read record →What the parent is for the child, the medium is for “believers.” The gentle art, as Hill (my ultimate partner in the game) and I know it, is merely a matter of shifting the authorship of the answers from yourself to some Unknown Third, whose authority has beco
Read record →The situation arose in this way: being a medium was a tiring game
Read record →At our after-séance talk, this led to a new discovery—new, that is, for us
Read record →Shortly after this notice was put up, Doc
Read record →It is a step which many eminent men have taken after years of patient investigation
Read record →We learned that the night before there had been a séance in the Hospital House
Read record →Previous tests indicate it is not done by the mediums—”(I breathed more freely after that, old chap)—“but it may be caused by one of the spectators unconsciously exercising a sort of hypnotic influence over the mediums—in short by Telepathy
Read record →In the first place, Alec Matthews had been guilty of a bad slip
Read record →After the séance, Tony took me apart and declared he had never seen anything so wonderful in his life
Read record →Spiritualists have divided the statements of spooks into “evidential” matter and “non-evidential” matter
Read record →But we also took the gifts the gods sent
Read record →The “non-evidential” matter also turned out a howling success
Read record →In building up the reputation of our spooks there was one type of séance we did not encourage
Read record →I know well that conversations with the dear dead are the every-day stock-in-trade of the average medium
Read record →Rome was not built in a day, and I had my little sea of troubles to navigate before reaching the safe harbour of the Witch’s Den
Read record →He had “done his bit” in the Boer War before he went killing Turks at Oghratina
Read record →The man responsible for pushing the glass in the Hospital House séances was Nightingale
Read record →For a couple of months past Hill and I had been secretly engaged on getting ready a leg-pull for the benefit of the camp wiseacres
Read record →“As some of you know,” he said, “I once underwent a course of telepathy, or thought-reading, in Australia
Read record →The Dispensary was a tiny room over the Majors’ wood-store
Read record →All this was not merely gratuitous by-play
Read record →The obvious course was, therefore, for the Commandant to set about obtaining this admission of belief, without the camp knowing beforehand the purpose for which he required it
Read record →While Hill was busy with his document-making and his burying, it was my duty to inculcate a proper respect for telepathy in the chosen witnesses of the forthcoming trial
Read record →We had cobblers of every grade, from an artist like Colonel Maule, who made himself a pair of rope-soled shoes, to “Tony,” whose only boots, owing to their patches, were of different size and vastly different design—indeed, it required a stretch of the imagina
Read record →The Spook began at once to fan Kiazim’s waning courage
Read record →The Commandant had not previously realized that Gilchrist had been acting under the Spook’s influence, nor had he known about the parole
Read record →At the end of the second séance, which also was devoted to soothing the Commandant’s difficulties and fears, there was a scene
Read record →en it becomes a question of reading human thoughts, I am as ignorant of what I read as the mediums are until it is read out, and all I do is to communicate certain movements to the mediums, who in turn communicate them to the glass
Read record →Next day Moïse complained to us that the Commandant had cursed him for a fool (i) because he did not know Armenian, (ii) because his translation of the early part of the séance was not understandable in Turkish!!
Read record →What really was wonderful was the fact that Gilchrist should have hit upon the idea of getting his speech written out in Turkish to be handed to Kiazim Bey at the dinner—and that the very same idea should have cropped up in our séance a few hours earlier
Read record →Our next séance, held on the 24th March, purported to be an explanation of and an introduction to that special species of trance talk which appeals to all superstitious minds—the reading of the future
Read record →The séance is no doubt poor stuff from a metaphysical point of view, but it was good enough for the Turks, and I quote it in full as an example of the way in which we entangled our victims in a labyrinth of confused reasoning
Read record →The séance opened with a little speech by Moïse
Read record →The mathematical sense can know the future
Read record →We heard him call, and a lady came in—a lady with very beautiful hands
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