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the form of Katie King was evolved from this cloud, in the manner already described, and finally the nexus was broken and the completed body advanced to present itself at the door of communication, showing a person different in every possible attribute save th
Read record →The argument which I would advance is this
Read record →A book has recently been issued by Harpers, of New York, called "The Seven Purposes." In this book the authoress, Miss Margaret Cameron, describes how she suddenly developed the power of automatic writing
Read record →ng upon these facts, and they would appear most undoubtedly to be facts, what possible answer can the materialist or the sceptic give to the assertion that they are a double proof of the continuity of personality and the possibility of communication?
Read record →There are, however, a large number of cases where the photograph, under rigid test conditions in which fraud has been absolutely barred, has reproduced the features of the dead
Read record →At the time of this volume going to press the results obtained by clients of this medium have been forty-two successes out of fifty attempts, checked and docketted by the author
Read record →Speaking of a future life, John Fiske, a leading American exponent of the doctrine of evolution, says ("The Destiny of Man"): "The doctrine of evolution does not allow us to take the atheistic view of the position of man
Read record →Belief in the evocation of the spirits of the dead is as old as Humanity
Read record →Of the first, the "Encyclopaedia Britannica", in its brief but able review of the subject, says: "Those which, if correctly observed and due neither to conscious or unconscious trickery nor to hallucination on the part of the observers, exhibit a force hithert
Read record →Hallucination has unquestionably played a part in the séance-room, but here again the statement of the "Encyclopaedia Britannica" is worthy of consideration: "Sensory hallucination of several persons together who are not in a hypnotic state is a rare phenomeno
Read record →If there are any facts to sustain the spiritual hypothesis, these facts exist in subjective manifestations
Read record →The extraordinary results obtained by hypnotizers point to another phase of consciousness, which is none other than the subjective or "subliminal" self
Read record →The English Society for Psychical Research and its American branch have of late years popularized "telepathy", or thought transference
Read record →s and radiant nerve-energy on one side, we find practically only one mode suggested for the telepathic transference--viz., that the physical changes which are the accompaniments of thought or sensation in the agent are transmitted from the brain as undulations
Read record →Is it like the light of a candle or the light of the sun which radiates equally into space in every direction at the same time?
Read record →He and his wife thought a great deal of my mother, and frequently stopped me on the street to inquire, "How is Mary?" I went to Miss Gaule's house with the thought of General M-- fixed in my mind and the circumstances surrounding his decease
Read record →But suppose the medium relates facts that were never in the possession of the sitter, what are we to say then?
Read record →Telepathy is a logical explanation of many of the ghostly visitations of which the Society for Psychical Research has collected such a mass of data
Read record →In regard to Table-Tilting with contact, I have given Faraday's conclusions on the subject,--unconscious muscular action on the part of the sitter or sitters
Read record →On the part of the principal, muscle-reading consists of an acute perception of the slight action of another's muscles
Read record →His explanations made the seeming marvel perfectly plain
Read record →The servant who raps at the door brings with him, concealed under his coat, a second slate, upon which the long message is written
Read record →Davey, a member of the London Society for Psychical Research, and an amateur magician who possessed great dexterity in the slate-writing business, gave a series of exhibitions before a number of persons, but did not inform them that the results were due to pre
Read record →The result was a criminal prosecution and a sensational trial lasting three days at the Bow Street Police Court
Read record →Borchert wrote to Slade offering him one thousand marks if he would produce writing between locked slates, similar to the writing alleged to have been executed at the Zoellner séances, but the medium took no notice of the professor's letter
Read record →Wilmann describes the effect as startling in the extreme and says Schradieck produced it by means of his left foot
Read record →"Hold the slates tightly, please!" said Mr
Read record →forehand, being general in nature and conveying about the same information that any departed spirit might give to any inquiring mortal, but, as will be observed, giving no adequate answers to the queries, with the exception of the last two sentences, which wer
Read record →Keeler, I subjected him to no tests
Read record →After what has been stated, I think there can be no shadow of doubt that the medium abstracted by sleight-of-hand some of the paper slips containing my written questions, read them under cover of the table, and did the slate-writing himself
Read record →I have never taken the trouble to look at the numbers, consequently I do not know them.' 'Your request is an unusual one,' replied the medium, 'but I will endeavor to gratify it.' We had some conversations on the subject that lasted several minutes
Read record →This is a very interesting test, indeed, because of its apparently impromptu character
Read record →Taylor, who was desirous of putting the medium to another crucial test, wrote down a list of names on a sheet of paper--cognomens of ancient Egyptian, Chaldean, and Grecian priests and philosophers--folded the paper, and carefully sealed it in an envelope
Read record →Taylor, and quickly opened them, accidentally dropping one of them behind the table
Read record →When investigators bring their own marked slates with them, screwed tightly together, and sealed, the medium has to adopt different tactics from those employed in the tests before mentioned
Read record →"You now conduct him to your séance-room and invite inspection of your table and surroundings
Read record →In the autumn of 1855 the famous medium went to Florence; there, also, the spirit manifestations secured him the entree into the best society of the old Italian city
Read record →In February, 1856, the medium joined the retinue of Count B--, a Polish nobleman, and went to Naples with his patron
Read record →After the Roman fiasco, the famous medium returned to England to give Spiritualistic lectures and séances
Read record →One of the most notable passages in the life of the great medium was the famous law suit in which he was concerned in England
Read record →The "coal" is a piece of spongy platinum which bears a close resemblance to a lump of half burnt coal, and is palmed in the hand, as a prestidigitateur conceals a coin, a pack of cards, an egg, or a small lemon
Read record →arious ways, one method being the repeated application of sulphuric acid to the skin, whereby it is rendered impervious to the action of fire for a short period of time; another, by wearing gloves of amianthus or asbestos cloth
Read record →As to the marvelous "levitation", either the witnesses of the alleged feat were under some hypnotic spell, or else they allowed their imaginations to run riot when describing the event
Read record →Many of Home's admirers have declared that he possessed the power of mesmerizing certain of his friends
Read record →Sometimes before performing the levitation act, he will say, "In order to convince any skeptic present, that I really float upwards, I will write the initials of my name, or the name of some one present, on the ceiling." When the lights are raised, the letters
Read record →The materialization of a spirit hand which crept from beneath a table-cover, and showed itself to the "believers," was one of the most startling things in the repertoire of D
Read record →"Diminish the light, please," says the medium
Read record →An ingenious improvement has been made to this hand-test by an American conjurer, one that enables the medium to produce the hand although his feet are secured by the sitter
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