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Hodgson's left shoulder, placed his finger under the left shoulder-blade scapula, on the exact spot where the pain had been, and said it must have been caused by a draught, which was probably true
Read record →There is no so clearly defined distinction between the normal personality and the secondary personalities which have so far been studied as there is between Mrs Piper and Phinuit
Read record →So far the Blodgett-Wild case is on the whole commonplace
Read record →Should we suppose these speeches are automatisms of the communicator, rendered half unconscious towards the end of the sitting by the heavy atmosphere of the medium's organism?
Read record →She called on an old friend of Hannah's--somebody I told her to go and see
Read record →This confusion and incoherence is all the graver, as the mental trouble preceding death was graver
Read record →However, some people might reason as follows
Read record →George Pelham, more fortunate than many others who, before or after him, have made the same promise, seems to have kept his word
Read record →On most occasions, since the automatic writing has become easy, two controls have manifested simultaneously--one by means of the voice, the other by writing; Phinuit continuing to use the voice, according to his former custom
Read record →Formerly Phinuit used to protest when the hand was seized, and asked at once that it should be returned to him, as we have seen above
Read record →At another sitting Mrs Howard gives a photograph
Read record →This brings me to a new feature of the sittings, principally of those with George Pelham
Read record →But, as I have said, I reserve my right of critical examination
Read record →Now, if we have an astral body which accompanies our Ego in the next world, and if that astral body consists of a fluid similar to what we suppose ether to be, or identical with that ether, this fluid must be matter in some form, though matter obviously subjec
Read record →A celebrated English medium, William Stainton Moses, in a book well known to spiritualist readers, Spirit Teachings, developed, or rather allowed his spirit-guides to develop, the theory that souls leave this earth taking with them all their desires and all th
Read record →It would be strange if the science of to-morrow were to prove that matter is only a sort of temporary illusion of mind
Read record →Phinuit, to oblige Professor Newbold, goes to find Stainton Moses
Read record →Perhaps something like this happens to the discarnate spirits who try to manifest themselves to us by borrowing the organism of a medium
Read record →For those of my readers who are unacquainted with spiritualist literature, and in order to facilitate the understanding of what follows, I must give a short sketch of the life of the English medium, William Stainton Moses
Read record →It is a long dialogue between self-styled disincarnated spirits and Stainton Moses
Read record →The contents of the messages interested him much more than their origin
Read record →Stainton Moses then said that he would ask the help of his former spirit-guides
Read record →The last report[77] we possess of the phenomena accompanying Mrs Piper's trance is that of Professor James Hervey Hyslop, of Columbia University, New York
Read record →anding that she should submit to any tests they chose to apply, and that now, after fourteen years' work, the subject not being yet cleared up, she felt disinclined for further investigation
Read record →No question was raised in the original article as to Mrs Piper's honesty or as to the genuineness of her trance phenomena; on the contrary she is represented by the reporter of the New York Herald as holding a view of those phenomena which asserts that they ar
Read record →Dr Hodgson presented him as Mr Smith, which name is given to all new sitters
Read record →As I have said in the preceding chapter, Phinuit no longer manifests
Read record →His life was by necessity passed indoors, or at least on his farm
Read record →There is even a passage of the communications so characteristic in this way that it is nearly too much so; it would almost suggest fraud
Read record →At this point I must return to a fact which is surprising on any hypothesis we may prefer: the utility of presenting to the medium objects which have belonged to the person from whom we wish to obtain the supposed communications
Read record →I shall repeat my explanation; it is necessary that the reader should have it well in mind, as in this chapter I am about to examine the telepathic hypothesis and endeavour to find out if it will cover the facts which we are studying
Read record →To begin with, what is the origin of this telepathic hypothesis?
Read record →For the same way, if we were dealing with telepathy, it is to be supposed that the communicators would be the persons whom the sitters expect
Read record →Now this does not happen; if the fact exists only in the consciousness of a person who is at the time at the far ends of the earth, it makes no difference in the precision of the details
Read record →Another well-observed fact, opposed to the telepathic theory, is the selection made amongst incidents by the communicator
Read record →If the telepathic theory expresses the truth, we must grant an almost infinite power to telepathy
Read record →Here is another argument, which, I think, is very strong, against the hypothesis of telepathy
Read record →If it cannot reasonably be admitted that the occasional communicators are only secondary personalities of the medium, the impossibility must be extended to the controls
Read record →There is another aspect of the phenomena which telepathy does not explain; the dramatic play
Read record →It would need a volume to recount all the little analogous incidents which telepathy does not explain
Read record →Up till now I have said a great deal of evil of telepathy
Read record →If they were well-known men, and had revealed their names, the critics would merely see a reason the more for crying fraud
Read record →They often contain ideas of much breadth of view and elevation
Read record →When the sitting is over and the automatic writing has ceased, Mrs Piper begins to return gradually to her normal state
Read record →We shall see that these scraps of phrase are less incoherent than they seem, and that it is worth while to collect them
Read record →In the passage quoted, the words, "I am he
Read record →She rarely fails to shed a few tears, and to say, "I want to stop here, I don't want to go back to the dark world!" Here is a characteristic passage, as an example
Read record →The mass of existing material on this subject is so great that I have not attempted to make a survey of the whole of European 'Witchcraft', but have confined myself to an intensive study of the cult in Great Britain
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