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By its aid the tangled skein of the mental life may be unravelled, the mental knots may be untied, and the threads may be woven and plaited together again into one normal, healthy chain of being
Read record →A word of caution may not be out of place in this connection
Read record →Le Flohic, on whose plates curious streaks of light were obtained, in a dark room
Read record →In a remarkable little booklet, entitled, Unseen Faces Photographed, Dr
Read record →raphy, so called, has of late been asserting its existence in such a manner and to such an extent as to warrant competent men in making an investigation, conducted under stringent test conditions, into the circumstances under which such photographs are produce
Read record →My conditions were exceedingly simple, were courteously expressed to the host, and entirely acquiesced in
Read record →If anything happened to the plate it happened through the paper of the envelopes
Read record →"They are not professionals and charge no fee
Read record →We can only apply the same sort of tests in the one case as in the other
Read record →I next present a remarkable series of photographs, kindly lent to me by Lady Glenconner,--to whom I am indebted for permission to reproduce them
Read record →The second photograph is one of Lady Glenconner and her son,--a faint, whitish mist appearing over (or on) her left shoulder
Read record →Frequently, within the next few days after these experiments, Dr
Read record →Although these initial experiments of Dr
Read record →The case is still an open one; nothing is proved, one way or the other, and, in such work as ours, proof--and not mere conjecture--must be forthcoming
Read record →But even if this be not granted, I can quite see how a certain rapport between the sitter and the hand--or the intelligence behind the hand--might easily enable one sitter to perceive it, and not another
Read record →But if all the accounts obviously concern a given phenomenon, and if they agree, even in the essential outlines, it is probable that the event resembled the description more or less; and if in all these accounts there is no evidence of fraud forthcoming, and n
Read record →Miss Johnson's discussion of Home's famous levitation out of one window and in at another is surely masterly, and is precisely the kind of criticism which psychic research needs
Read record →Leaving aside this particular case of Home's levitation, however, it may be said that there are others on record far more conclusive in character, and against which many of Miss Johnson's criticisms could not be levelled
Read record →One can quite see how this would be the case, e.g
Read record →In Home's case, then, the evidence for his levitation phenomena rests, not on any one case taken by itself, but on the mass of cumulative testimony offered by scores of witnesses
Read record →After a brief discussion of Home's fire-tests, which Miss Johnson practically admits are inexplicable by any process either of fraud or of hallucination known to her (p
Read record →It is a different thing to say that hallucination might account for the facts, and saying that the facts tell in favour of hallucination
Read record →I venture to think we have no analogies whatever
Read record →Is there any similarity between the two cases?
Read record →First, then, let us distinguish between illusions and hallucinations, as this is of the very greatest importance in a discussion such as this
Read record →When one's hair is suddenly and forcibly pulled by living fingers, and when one is banged over the head by a closed fist, and when one is grasped by a hand and pulled so forcibly as to almost upset one into the cabinet--it requires a strong imagination to beli
Read record →I returned to the curtains of the cabinet, and my mother announced herself present, 'who had died from consumption.' The curtains were pulled aside, and I put my face close to the opening, since it was so dark I could see nothing
Read record →And one is no more detachable than the other; and one is no more "immortal" after the death of the body than the other
Read record →When the Society for Psychical Research was founded, in 1882, its main energies were directed toward the investigation of this faculty, and of the reality of thought-transference
Read record →ose manifestations which take place at or about the moment of death; phantasms of the living, phantasms of the dying, and phantasms of the dead--according to whether the subject is yet living, is dying, or has recently died
Read record →Now the first analogy which strikes one in the consideration of this question is that of wireless telegraphy--the subtle electric vibrations which journey to and fro with incredible swiftness through the universal ether
Read record →But there is a reply to this argument
Read record →But there are other and still more serious objections to the vibratory action of telepathy which have not as yet been mentioned
Read record →Again, the theory has been advanced that all minds are in touch in a sort of subterranean way--through their subliminal regions--just as all spokes of a wheel ultimately reach the hub, though each spoke is distinctive
Read record →For if we try to picture to ourselves the process of telepathy as taking place in some manner other than physical, how are we to conceive such action?
Read record →Regarded physiologically, a thought is only a vibration, probably, which does not pass out of its appropriate medium
Read record →We know similar cures have been effected at Lourdes; over the bones of saints (which did not really exist under the sacred cloth); over (fraudulent) "chips of the Cross"; by means of hypnotism, and in a hundred ways
Read record →We seem to be driven, then, into one of two alternatives: (1) that unconscious muscular action pushed the board, and that the supernormal information given was obtained by telepathy, clairvoyance, etc.; or (2) that spirits did the writing
Read record →There are, very frequently, answers to mental questions--questions, too, the answer to which none of those having their hands on the board could possibly know
Read record →occasion, for example, and at such times will tear round the table like a living thing, pointing first to one letter and then to another, and accentuating its meaning or calling attention to certain letters that are important, or that have been omitted in the
Read record →Its action, as before said, ceases where the rapport ceases; and if communications from really intelligent spirits have sometimes been defective as to the quality of the intelligence manifested, it is because there has been found nothing in the medium which co
Read record →[46] I have in mind especially one remarkable (but hitherto unpublished) experiment with Mrs
Read record →It has frequently been pointed out that, "where there is so much smoke there must be some fire"; also that there is, probably, and almost necessarily, some grain of truth in any popular superstition, no matter how absurd it may appear at first sight
Read record →If an old woman were seen to enter a house by the front door, and a black cat was seen to leave the house by the back door, it was deemed sufficient evidence that the old woman was a witch, without further evidence or investigation--and indeed much of the evid
Read record →"A witch should be an old woman with a wrinkled face, a furred brow, a hairy lip, a gobber tooth, a squint eye, a squeaky voice, a scolding tongue, having a ragged coat on her back, a skull cap on her head, a spindle in her hand, a dog or cat by her side
Read record →In France and England the witches ride upon broomsticks; but in Italy and Spain the Devil himself, in the shape of a goat, supports them on his back, which lengthens or shortens according to the number of witches he is desirous of accommodating
Read record →blished such a book, it was likely that he would have been burned himself; but the times were probably ripe for just such a publication; there was already much unrest and uneasiness afoot, and his book appeared in the nick of time
Read record →It must be remembered that, in the days of witchcraft, virtually nothing was known of hysteria, epilepsy, the varied forms of insanity, hallucination, hypnotism, or of the possibilities of mal-observation and lapse of memory: while such a matter as first-hand
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