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At the risk of appearing inconsequent by mentioning that first which in point of time came last, we must premise that in our investigations with this Medium we early discovered the character of the writing to be twofold, and the difference between the two styl
Read record →In its simplest form (and one which any person can try with astonishing results upon an artless, unsuspicious sitter), a slate, on which, before the sitter's visit, a message has been written, is lying face downward on the table when the séance begins
Read record →The method of producing the long message which opened the séance has been described above
Read record →By this manoeuvre a double end is attained: First, it creates an atmosphere of expectation, and the sitters grow accustomed to a good deal of motion in the Medium's arm that holds the slate; and secondly, by these repeated motions the pencil (which, having bee
Read record →At our last séance with him we noticed two slates which were not with the other slates on the small table behind him, but were on the floor resting against the leg of that table, and within easy reach of his hand as he sat at the larger table
Read record →There are very, very few professional Mediums, as far as our experience goes, who are accepted by all Spiritualists as free from the reproach of fraud
Read record →There is really no step in the bare process of producing this writing, as we have observed it, which might not be accomplished by trickery or by legerdemain
Read record →Every Medium, it would appear, is under the special tutelage of a departed Spirit; this Spirit is termed the 'Medium's control.' In the present case, when the slates were delivered to Mrs
Read record →So anxious, however, was our Acting Chairman that the experiment should prove successful, that, undeterred by this failure, he carefully sealed up a second slate, and placed it in the hands of the same Medium, with renewed adjurations to put forth all her Spir
Read record →Each Medium, generally, has some peculiar mode of manifesting Spiritualistic power; it is a peculiarity of this Medium, as has been before stated, that the completion of the Spirit message within the slates is indicated not by raps, as is frequently the case w
Read record →Whether these answers be ascribed to Spirits, or to what is termed clairvoyance, they would be none the less true or false if delivered orally by the Medium; all that we are sure of is that the writing down of these communications, be their substance what it m
Read record →We were more successful in procuring a séance with Mr
Read record →Rothermel and Powell, of whom the former is the Medium, the latter, acting mainly as a reservoir of psychic force, guides and directs the séance
Read record →I have been forced to the conclusion that Spiritualism, as far at least as it has shown itself before me (and I give no opinion upon what has not fallen within my observation), presents the melancholy spectacle of gross fraud, perpetrated upon an uncritical po
Read record →Furness held another séance with the Medium formerly examined, Mrs
Read record →On Saturday, May 31st, 1884, at 8 P.M., the Commission met at the house of the Provost, 1811 Spruce Street, for the purpose of sealing a slate to be left with the Medium, Mrs
Read record →Sellers' right and at the side of the table, sat Mr
Read record →Note by the Stenographer.--No intimation is given that the rap here spoken of was heard by any one other than the Medium herself
Read record →The company retained their positions with hands joined, and the Spirits were repeatedly requested to make their presence known--Mr
Read record →Subsequently, when the trance condition had apparently disappeared, the Medium complied with a request to write, as it would be read to her, the Latin phrase at the end of the first communication
Read record →These slots and the use to which I ascertained they might be applied are worthy of special comment, as they played a very important part in all the expositions that were made of the Medium Slade's manifestations
Read record →Taking a slate in his hand Slade held it beneath the table leaf to his right, when almost immediately there was a succession of faintly audible sounds such as would have been made by writing on the slate under the table
Read record →A special minute is here made of observations by members of the Committee upon certain features of the Medium's operations, which tended to discredit the assumption of a supernatural agency in the production of the slate writings
Read record →Upon being requested to open his left hand and hold it thus extended in a position beneath the top of the table to his left, Mr
Read record →At this point the Medium substituted another slate for the one which he had held in his hand, and almost immediately thereafter, upon the new slate being placed under the table, the sound of writing began and was carried on with little interruption
Read record →Sellers here resumed, from his notes): The same experiment of jerking the pencil over the table was repeated with another pencil
Read record →Sellers (resuming): An accordion was then played under the manipulations of the Medium, after which that gentleman told the writer that he might look under the table and witness the performance of the instrument
Read record →(Resuming, from notes): The next meeting of the Committee, which was held on January 26th, at the Girard House, was an exceedingly important one, because its result was absolutely negative
Read record →Fullerton here remarked that at the séance reported by him, soon after the members were seated, the Medium reached behind his (the Medium's) position to get one of the slates placed near him, and accidentally turned up one, the back of which was covered with w
Read record →Sellers: The methods of this Medium's operations appear to me to be perfectly transparent, and I wish to say emphatically that I am astonished beyond expression at the confidence of this man in his ability to deceive, and at the recklessness of the risks which
Read record →There was no sound of any character; the day was absolutely fruitless of any result
Read record →That on the 27th was the last sitting
Read record →A sound was heard, and upon the Medium bringing the slate out from under the table, a zig-zag line appeared upon the slate with the pencil at the end of the line
Read record →No change whatsoever in the needles was observed other than that which was caused by a vibration due to shakings of the table
Read record →At the end of this séance, the sum agreed upon, three hundred dollars, was paid to the Medium in three one-hundred-dollar bills
Read record →Sellers has set before you much better than I can, the steps to the conclusion to which we all arrived: that the long messages were written beforehand
Read record →After an interval of waiting, during which, by constantly looking at the slate as though impatient for the writing to begin, whereby his sitters become accustomed to the appearance and disappearance of the slate, the Medium reaches for a second slate, ostentat
Read record →On one occasion, when the Medium was very sure of his sitters, he placed the prepared slate, face downwards, on the table, with his fingers resting on the upper surface, then in a few minutes the slate was lifted up and the writing displayed, as though just ma
Read record →After the question has been written the slate is handed to him face downward
Read record →At our last séance I noticed what were evidently two prepared slates resting against the support of the table behind him, where his prepared slates usually stood
Read record →He complained immediately and very frequently of his right side, saying it felt weak and numb, and he was sure he was going to be paralyzed
Read record →The Medium described a number of Spirit forms as coming to those present--to one a little child, to another an old man with white hair, etc
Read record →Kase to say a few words as to the necessity of observing the conditions, need of harmony, etc
Read record →This group of students is busied with "Psychical Research," and the obscure human faculties implied in alleged cases of hallucination, telepathy, "double personality," human automatism, clairvoyance, and so on
Read record →Conceive that Zeus, or Baiame, was originally, not a Father and guardian, but a lewd and tricky ghost of a medicine-man, a dancer of indecent dances, a wooer of other men's wives, a shape-shifter, a burlesque droll, a more jocular bugbear, like Twanyirika
Read record →Offerings and prayers are therefore made, not to him, but to the ghosts of parents, who are more accessible
Read record →These conclusions may be briefly stated thus: Man derived the conception of 'spirit' or 'soul' from his reflections on the phenomena of sleep, dreams, death, shadow, and from the experiences of trance and hallucination
Read record →That chapter, too, is concerned with no mean topic, but with what we may call the X region of our nature
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