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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
Read record →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
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