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Eusapia asks that a window be partly opened, the one in the middle of the salon, saying that we shall see something new
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Eusapia asks that a window be partly opened, the one in the middle of the salon, saying that we shall see something new
Read record →Brisson, all this time at Eusapia's left, is next touched on the hip, at a moment when the hand of the medium is at the height of M
Read record →I ought to say that, while these events were taking place, my eyes were carefully observing the medium as well as the persons who were by my side
Read record →At the seance of November 10 the noise of a sonorous object notified us of a displacement, a movement
Read record →So held, it is vertically suspended by the stretching out of my right hand to the height of my head, and above the head of the medium
Read record →Guillaume de Fontenay, with whom the experiments at Montfort-l'Amaury were made, in 1897, at the home of the Blech family, had come on purpose from the centre of France, with a great profusion of apparatus and of new processes, to try to get some photographs
Read record →We wait pretty long before anything happens
Read record →The medium seems exhausted, groans, laments, and we all regret this check to the proceedings; but Eusapia declares that she can begin again, and asks us to get ready
Read record →Eusapia now asks for a little light ("poco di luce")
Read record →During this same soiree of November 19 I ask that the violin, which has fallen to the floor, be brought again upon the table
Read record →How great a value the sight of this thing passing through a portiere would have as a scientific datum, if one were only sure of the absolute honesty of the medium,--if, indeed, this medium were a man of science, a physicist, a chemist, an astronomer, whose sci
Read record →The phenomena of which I am speaking are so extraordinary that one is led to doubt them, even when one feels assured that he has seen them
Read record →From these different experiments with Eusapia Paladino, including those described in the first and second chapters, the impression is left that the phenomena observed are, to a great extent, real and undeniable; that a certain number may be produced by fraud;
Read record →This John King is said to be the brother of Crookes's Katie King, and to have been Eusapia's father in another existence
Read record →Their astonishment was unbounded when they ascertained that there was no one there, and that, under their very eyes, the table continued to glide over the floor in the direction of the medium
Read record →Under these conditions, the end of the table having been lifted six and a half inches, the dynamometer showed seventy-seven pounds
Read record →Then we changed the conditions by putting our hands under the table
Read record →The phenomenon always materialized under the following conditions: the persons seated about the table place their hands on it, and form the chain; each hand of the medium is held by the adjacent hand of her two neighbors; each of her feet remains under the fee
Read record →In all the experiments which precede, we gave our attention principally to a careful inspection of the position of the hands and the feet of the medium; and, in this respect, we believe we can say that they were safe from all criticism
Read record →On this evening it was remarked that a little before the levitation, Eusapia's skirt was inflated on the left side until it touched the foot of the nearest table
Read record →These phenomena were observed several times during our seances
Read record →In order to assure ourselves that we were not the victims of a trick, we tied the hands of the medium by a string to those of her two neighbors, in such a way that the movements of the four hands would reciprocally control each other
Read record →A little bell was placed upon a chair behind her
Read record →They had quivered and wavered around us, giving us pet names, sweet sacred things, the intimate talk of the olden time
Read record →My own experiences were limited and inconclusive, so that it was the evidence of others which I quoted
Read record →However this is digression, and when the digressions are taken out of this book there will not be much left
Read record →I employed the time by running down to Devonshire to give addresses at Exeter and Torquay, with admirable audiences at both
Read record →There, however, the proof ends, nor will they go further than the proof extends, as otherwise their original principles would be gone
Read record →I have a number of good psychic photographs with me, some of them of my own taking, and all of them guaranteed, and I find these valuable as making folk realise that my words do in truth represent realities
Read record →It begins with my electric fan whizzing over my head
Read record →Which leads my thoughts to the question of the torpedoing of merchant vessels by submarines
Read record →All these Australian boys agree that the matter will burn itself out, and that it will end in an immense massacre of Jews which may involve the whole seven millions now in Russia
Read record →A doctor came up to me in the hotel and told me that he was practising there, and had come recently from England
Read record →After a time he asks each of the circle what he or she can see, and has many correct answers
Read record →I showed them the record of miracle after miracle, some of them done under my very eyes, one guaranteed by Russell Wallace, three by Sir William Crookes, one of the Geley series from Paris, two of Dr
Read record →Of His own personality we know extraordinarily little, considering the supreme part that He played in the world
Read record →Their chief agent had been the Argus, a solid, stodgy paper, which amply fulfilled the material needs of the public, but was not given to spiritual vision
Read record →The details he gave me were almost the same as those given by Mr
Read record →That is blasphemy!" The Chinese control said, "He stupid man
Read record →He conveys to me that his name is Roberts
Read record →Hughes was good enough to ask me to meet the members of the Federal Government at lunch, and the experience was an interesting one, for here round one small table were those who were shaping the course of this young giant among the nations
Read record →I have been interested in the medium Bailey, who was said to have been exposed in France in 1910
Read record →Reading the alleged exposure, one is struck, as so often in such cases, with its unsatisfactory nature
Read record →I had a sitting in my room at the hotel to which I invited ten guests, but the results were not impressive
Read record →I have been reading Bailey's record, however, and I cannot doubt that he has been a great apport medium
Read record →I was wrong, however, for there was no luminosity at all
Read record →To return to this particular seance, it was unequal
Read record →If you ask the way or any other information, strangers will take trouble to put you right
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