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The Phinuit personality, of which Professor Richet speaks in the passage above quoted, is what the Spiritualists call a "control." By "control" is meant the mysterious being who is supposed to have temporarily taken possession of the organism of the medium
Read record →Mrs Piper's trance has changed its aspect a little with the development and perfecting of her mediumship
Read record →The medium remained quietly seated in an armchair for three or four minutes
Read record →Professor William James of Harvard has made experiments to elucidate this point
Read record →I have already explained on what occasion Mrs Piper had her first trance
Read record →Mrs Piper was therefore really a medium
Read record →The first person of educated intelligence who had an opportunity to examine and study, although somewhat summarily, Mrs Piper's trance phenomena, was Professor William James of Harvard University
Read record →Professor James made Mrs Piper's acquaintance in the autumn of 1885 in the following way
Read record →When phenomena of this nature are related, the first hypothesis that occurs to the reader's mind is that of fraud
Read record →Professor James concealed the identity of as many as he could of the sitters whom he introduced to Mrs Piper
Read record →She would not have the means to pay such a police as she would need
Read record →She went, and remained from 18th December to 27th December 1889
Read record →But as this objection had often been made, the sitters endeavoured to avoid contact with the medium
Read record →In one sense it's bad, but in another it's good
Read record →But, since the hypothesis of fraud and of unconscious muscular movement may not be invoked, where shall we find the source of the mass of exact information Mrs Piper gives us?
Read record →It will not have been forgotten that Mrs Piper's mediumship blossomed forth, if I may thus express myself, during the sittings she had with the blind medium J
Read record →The reader will perhaps be astonished that I speak of the Phinuit personality as if it were already established that the hypothetical doctor were really a spirit; that is to say, a personality as distinct from that of the medium as the reader and I are from on
Read record →He likes to count in French, and sometimes he pronounces two or three consecutive words more or less correctly
Read record →Hodgson's left shoulder, placed his finger under the left shoulder-blade scapula, on the exact spot where the pain had been, and said it must have been caused by a draught, which was probably true
Read record →There is no so clearly defined distinction between the normal personality and the secondary personalities which have so far been studied as there is between Mrs Piper and Phinuit
Read record →So far the Blodgett-Wild case is on the whole commonplace
Read record →Should we suppose these speeches are automatisms of the communicator, rendered half unconscious towards the end of the sitting by the heavy atmosphere of the medium's organism?
Read record →She called on an old friend of Hannah's--somebody I told her to go and see
Read record →This confusion and incoherence is all the graver, as the mental trouble preceding death was graver
Read record →However, some people might reason as follows
Read record →George Pelham, more fortunate than many others who, before or after him, have made the same promise, seems to have kept his word
Read record →On most occasions, since the automatic writing has become easy, two controls have manifested simultaneously--one by means of the voice, the other by writing; Phinuit continuing to use the voice, according to his former custom
Read record →Formerly Phinuit used to protest when the hand was seized, and asked at once that it should be returned to him, as we have seen above
Read record →At another sitting Mrs Howard gives a photograph
Read record →This brings me to a new feature of the sittings, principally of those with George Pelham
Read record →But, as I have said, I reserve my right of critical examination
Read record →Now, if we have an astral body which accompanies our Ego in the next world, and if that astral body consists of a fluid similar to what we suppose ether to be, or identical with that ether, this fluid must be matter in some form, though matter obviously subjec
Read record →A celebrated English medium, William Stainton Moses, in a book well known to spiritualist readers, Spirit Teachings, developed, or rather allowed his spirit-guides to develop, the theory that souls leave this earth taking with them all their desires and all th
Read record →It would be strange if the science of to-morrow were to prove that matter is only a sort of temporary illusion of mind
Read record →Phinuit, to oblige Professor Newbold, goes to find Stainton Moses
Read record →Perhaps something like this happens to the discarnate spirits who try to manifest themselves to us by borrowing the organism of a medium
Read record →For those of my readers who are unacquainted with spiritualist literature, and in order to facilitate the understanding of what follows, I must give a short sketch of the life of the English medium, William Stainton Moses
Read record →It is a long dialogue between self-styled disincarnated spirits and Stainton Moses
Read record →The contents of the messages interested him much more than their origin
Read record →Stainton Moses then said that he would ask the help of his former spirit-guides
Read record →The last report[77] we possess of the phenomena accompanying Mrs Piper's trance is that of Professor James Hervey Hyslop, of Columbia University, New York
Read record →anding that she should submit to any tests they chose to apply, and that now, after fourteen years' work, the subject not being yet cleared up, she felt disinclined for further investigation
Read record →No question was raised in the original article as to Mrs Piper's honesty or as to the genuineness of her trance phenomena; on the contrary she is represented by the reporter of the New York Herald as holding a view of those phenomena which asserts that they ar
Read record →Dr Hodgson presented him as Mr Smith, which name is given to all new sitters
Read record →As I have said in the preceding chapter, Phinuit no longer manifests
Read record →His life was by necessity passed indoors, or at least on his farm
Read record →There is even a passage of the communications so characteristic in this way that it is nearly too much so; it would almost suggest fraud
Read record →At this point I must return to a fact which is surprising on any hypothesis we may prefer: the utility of presenting to the medium objects which have belonged to the person from whom we wish to obtain the supposed communications
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