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In about ten minutes a stertorous sleep ensued, and in five minutes more she passed into a sleep-waking state, and began to talk incoherently
Read record →We have seen that the hypnotic agent is able to project from his own brain certain thoughts and images into the mind of the percipient
Read record →But is this faculty restricted in its operation to a hypnotised subject?
Read record →The net result of all this investigation would seem to demonstrate that a large number of sensory automatisms occur amongst sane and healthy persons
Read record →"On January 17th of this year (1895) I was haunted all day with an indefinable dread, amounting to positive terror if I yielded in the least to its influence
Read record →"I said to myself: 'This is one of those strange apparitions I have often heard of
Read record →Some years afterwards I was staying with some friends in Suffolk and told the story at the dinner-table, saying that it was no ghost as the lady was still alive
Read record →"On July 5th, 1887, I left my house in Lakewood to go to New York to spend a few days
Read record →Stevenson's dreams were of no ordinary character; they were always of great vividness, and often of a markedly recurrent type
Read record →I saw a bright opaque white mass before my eyes, and in the centre of this light I saw the face of my little darling, his eyes bright, his mouth smiling
Read record →He had the corpulence, the features, and the general appearance of one of our uncles who lived in the neighbourhood, where he was an archbishop
Read record →"One morning, about ten days after, Mr E---- called and asked me: 'Do you believe that at the moment of death you may appear to one whom you love?' I replied: 'Yes, I do.' 'Well,' he said, 'we shall see
Read record →"On Saturday, October 21st, 1893, I was in Berlin with Lord Carnarvon
Read record →There is nothing unreasonable in the assumption that telepathy is the agency primarily concerned in these manifestations
Read record →Occasionally the object seen or the sound heard is non-human in character
Read record →Thus far I have devoted myself to an investigation of phenomena for which the theory of telepathy is not inapplicable
Read record →I remember that I was much struck, as I looked intently at her, with the careful arrangement of her coiffure, every single hair being most carefully brushed down
Read record →"Before relating my experience of having seen a ghost, I should like my readers thoroughly to understand that I had not the slightest idea that the house in which my husband and I were living was haunted, or that the family residing there for many years before
Read record →"There is an old Manor House in this district which is locally known as the 'Haunted House.' The original mansion was, according to Hasted, one of the homes of the Colepepers
Read record →It came walking along in close proximity to his feet
Read record →Mr Spence and two other gentlemen came down to my house in the afternoon to hear my detail; but, sir, could I account for these noises from natural causes, yet, so firmly am I persuaded of the horrid apparition, that I would affirm that what I saw with my eyes
Read record →en minutes to twelve we both heard a noise, as if a number of people were pattering with their bare feet upon the floor; and yet, so singular was the noise, that I could not minutely determine from whence it proceeded
Read record →"What I have thus tried to describe in many words, I saw at a glance
Read record →On the whole I can find no class of occult phenomena of greater antiquity and persistence than that of haunting
Read record →About two years since, during an exceptionally dry season, it became absolutely necessary to obtain a further supply of brewing water; hence several boring experiments were made on the property
Read record →These physical phenomena consist chiefly of table rapping, table moving, ringing of bells, and various other manifestations for which a normal cause is not apparent
Read record →Hall, the present Earl of Dunraven, Earl of Crawford, Dr Hawksley, Mrs Nassau Senior, Mr P
Read record →He has various explanations for other of the phenomena, but he confesses that there remain a few manifestations which the hypothesis of simple trickery does not seem to fit
Read record →"I was sitting with Mr Home and Lord Adare and a cousin of his
Read record →He was a clergyman and a scholar, an M.A
Read record →Mrs Speer tells us that they sat in the fire-light, and that the seances were held in more or less complete darkness
Read record →All physical occurrences are normal that are capable of being produced by a clever conjurer; and there is no doubt that with due preparation such a one could achieve table rapping, introduce flowers and move furniture
Read record →Most of the phenomena discussed by Dr Maxwell were obtained through the mediumship of Eusapia Paladino
Read record →In the same way as certain psychical phenomena, such as automatic writing, trance, "controls," crystal vision, and so forth, in which an intelligence seems to be present independent of the intelligence of the medium, can be shown beyond dispute to be merely ma
Read record →A number of English scientists, interested in the reports of her seances, induced her to come to England and repeat them at Cambridge
Read record →It is one thing to exert consciously or unconsciously, as Home, Cook, Paladino, Moses and other mediums have done, in the presence of scientifically trained witnesses, unknown and supernormal muscular power
Read record →He pointed out that there were two classes of so-called materialisations: (1) forms with flexible features, commonly bearing a strong resemblance to the medium, which move and speak
Read record →ou will be bound in honour to accept all the rules laid down by our Spirit controls, and by the leader of the meeting, as to the conditions under which the meetings are held, such as the darkened room, the holding of hands so as to form a strongly magnetic rin
Read record →So long as spiritualists, as I have before remarked, maintain this attitude, so long must they meet with incredulity on the part of official science
Read record →"First, several faces, one after another, of great beauty appeared, and in amazement we saw--and as I was standing close up to the medium, even touching him--I saw most plainly, several times, a perfect face and form of exquisite womanhood partially issue from
Read record →Not till ten years later did a photographer named Hudson succeed, with the aid of a medium, in producing spirit pictures
Read record →A conviction of fraud having entered the minds of the sceptically inclined, the exposure of a certain Parisian photographer, Buguet, shook the faith of the credulous
Read record →One of the most curious instances of a ghost photograph occurred in the summer of 1892
Read record →Another ghost picture described by Mr Podmore was probably caused in a similar way
Read record →To this cult has been given the name of spiritualism (or spiritism, as some of the newer devotees prefer to call it)
Read record →If, unknown to a living soul, your wife or sister accidentally dropped half-a-sovereign down a deep well, and whilst she was still continuing to hug her little secret to her bosom you were present at a clairvoyant sitting where the medium in a trance informed
Read record →But it is in 1892 that her real history begins
Read record →"It is Helene's extra-planetary experiences, however, which have excited most attention, and which furnished to the attendants at her circle the most convincing proofs of her dealings with the spiritual world
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