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In laying to the account of the supernatural matters in occult natural philosophy which have a tolerable resemblance to feats of prestidigitation, they appear to a curious public to add imposture to insolence
Read record →s book what truth there is in the phenomena of table-turnings, table-movings, and table-rappings, in the communications received therefrom, in levitations that contradict the laws of gravity, in the moving of objects without contact, in unexplained noises, in
Read record →In the country of Rabelais, of Montaigne, of Voltaire, we are inclined to smile at everything that relates to the marvellous, to tales of enchantment, the extravagances of occultism, the mysteries of magic
Read record →Let me add that this medium came to Paris during the first months of the year, 1906, at the invitation of the Psychological Institute, several members of which have been recently engaged in researches begun long ago
Read record →Running underneath all the observations of the above-mentioned writers, one dominant idea can be read as if in palimpsest; namely, the imperious necessity the experimenters are constantly under of suspecting tricks in this medium (Mme
Read record →It may not be superfluous to caution the reader that the word "medium" is employed in these pages without any preconceived idea, and not in the etymological sense in which it took its rise at the time of the first Spiritualistic theories, which affirmed that t
Read record →Take the case of the levitation of a round table
Read record →We are obliged to act as if there really were a being present who is listening
Read record →These taps audible in the table, this "typtology" well known to Spiritualists, have been frequently attributed to some kind of trickery or another, to a cracking muscle or to various actions of the medium
Read record →The lady, who is a person of plain common sense, courteously laughs in his face
Read record →So, then, all you have to do, gentlemen, is to forbid the light to blacken iodine, or order it to blacken lime, and condemn the photographer to develop his negative in full light
Read record →Phrases are rapped out, usually banal and without any literary, scientific, or philosophical value
Read record →The success of experiments does not always depend on the will of the medium
Read record →They denied also that fish and toads can fall from the clouds, because it had not then been observed that waterspouts draw them up by suction and transport them from one place to another
Read record →During seance experiments, phantoms often appear,--hands, arms, a head, a bust, an entire human figure
Read record →The members came together every Friday evening in the assembly room of the society, in the little passageway of Sainte Anne, which was placed under the protection of Saint Louis
Read record →At the same period, but several years earlier, my illustrious friend Victorien Sardou, who had been an occasional frequenter of the Observatory, had written, as a medium, some curious pages on the inhabitants of the planet Jupiter, and had produced picturesque
Read record →o not move the hand, but let it remain inert, passive, free; we place it upon the paper, taking care merely that it shall meet with the least possible resistance; we think of a word, a figure, a stroke of the pen, and the hand of its own volition begins to wri
Read record →When writing in the exalted and abnormal state of mind of the medium, we do not, as I have just said, form our phrases as in the normal condition; rather we wait for them to be produced
Read record →e still mysterious problem of spiritualism, what a deep scientific interest and what a philosophic future there is in the study of these phenomena, to which, as you know, many of our most eminent living scholars have given their time and attention
Read record →There is, of course, an unseen cause that originates these rappings
Read record →Those who have sufficiently studied the subject know that fraud does not explain what they have observed
Read record →At the time of which I was just now speaking (1861-63) I took part, as secretary, in experiments conducted regularly once a week, in the salon of a well-known medium,--Mlle
Read record →These designs are more or less pretty, and more or less curious
Read record →"A feeble atom, lost to sight in an imperceptible point of the infinite, man has believed he could embrace in the sweep of his vision the whole expanse of the universe, whereas he can scarcely pass beyond the region he inhabits; he has thought he could study t
Read record →It is applicable to a great number of cases, but not in all
Read record →My first experimental seance with this remarkable medium took place on the 27th of July, 1897
Read record →During the autumn of 1892 I was invited by M
Read record →But neither do I believe in our right to deny everything; for, in order to have a good basis for denial, it is not sufficient to suspect fraud, it is necessary to prove it
Read record →They would lead to a very considerable extension of the sciences, an extension such that their author would deserve to be placed side by side with Galileo and Newton
Read record →Eusapia Paladino was introduced to me
Read record →Five raps in the table indicate, according to a convention arranged by the medium, that the unknown cause asks for less light
Read record →The curtain moves forward again toward me, and a rather strong hand seizes my arm
Read record →The little round table, placed outside of the cabinet, at the left of the medium, approaches the table, climbs clear up on it and lies across it
Read record →Eusapia replies that it is a difficult thing and asks us not to think of it for a moment, but to go on speaking
Read record →She cannot touch it without turning around, and we have her entirely in our power, our feet on hers
Read record →ra!" ("Oh, how severe!") We at once lighted a candle and found a print, rather poor in comparison with those which other experimenters have obtained,--a thing due, perhaps, to the bad quality of the clay which I used
Read record →I then took the tray of clay, and we passed into the dining-room in order to better examine the imprint, which I placed on a large table near a big kerosene lamp
Read record →The first four events, having taken place in full light, are incontestable
Read record →On the other hand, however, it is impossible not to recognize the existence of unknown forces
Read record →A rather curious observation ought to be made here
Read record →That is the fact: what is the best hypothesis to explain it?
Read record →After this seance my most ardent desire was to see the same experiments reproduced at my own house
Read record →Mathieu, tired of the blows which he is constantly receiving, asks to change places with some one
Read record →Brisson, I sat down on her left, while you preserved your place on her right
Read record →In the first place, and in less than a minute after I had been placed on the left of the medium, the curtain nearest to me was puffed out and brushed against me, as if impelled by a gust of wind
Read record →This morning I recall with a kind of anxious curiosity the least details of this very fascinating soiree
Read record →At ten o'clock it rises from the side of the medium, who withdraws her hands, the other persons holding their hands lifted up
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