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As to his powers, they seem to have included every form of mediumship in the highest degree--self-levitation, as witnessed by hundreds of credible witnesses; the handling of fire, with the power of conferring like immunity upon others; the movement without hum
Read record →The facts of his life are, in my judgment, ample proof of the truth of the Spiritualist position, if no other proof at all had been available
Read record →There is a sympathetic preface by the husband
Read record →In the case of the direct voice one of the leading exponents is Mrs
Read record →I have seen father, mother, and dead soldier son, all taken together with the dead son looking far the happier and not the least substantial of the three
Read record →I have spoken of the need for careful and cool-headed analysis in judging the evidence where automatic writing is concerned
Read record →He tells of an American doctor of his acquaintance, and he vouches personally for the truth of the incident
Read record →What it is, is a difficult question, and yet when science and imagination unite, as Tyndall said they should unite, to throw a searchlight into the unknown, they may produce a beam sufficient to outline vaguely what will become clearer with the future advance
Read record →It had already been shown by the astronomers that the sensitized plate is a more delicate recording instrument than the human retina, and that it can show stars upon a long exposure which the eye has never seen
Read record →To the ordinary man it is invisible
Read record →Very many accounts have come back to us, verbal and written, detailing the experiences of those who have passed on
Read record →In my own case, this medium mentioned correctly the first name of a lady who had died in our house, gave several very characteristic messages from her, described the only two dogs which we have ever kept, and ended by saying that a young officer was holding up
Read record →cations, I have in a previous paper pointed to the "Gate of Remembrance" case, but there is a great mass of material which proves that, in spite of mistakes and failures, there really is a channel of communication, fitful and evasive sometimes, but entirely be
Read record →It is a plausible argument, and yet when we receive a telegram from a brother in Australia we do not say: "It is strange that Tom should not communicate with me direct, but that the presence of that half-educated fellow in the telegraph office should be necess
Read record →e least like "Sludge," a poem which Browning might be excused for writing in some crisis of domestic disagreement, but which it was inexcusable to republish since it is admitted to be a concoction, and the exposure described to have been imaginary
Read record →It has been stated in a previous book by the author, but it will bear repetition, that the use of the seance should, in his opinion, be carefully regulated as well as reverently conducted
Read record →These creatures are in truth our own backward brothers, bound for the same ultimate destination as ourselves, but retarded by causes for which our earth conditions may have been partly responsible
Read record →The revelation abolishes the idea of a grotesque hell and of a fantastic heaven, while it substitutes the conception of a gradual rise in the scale of existence without any monstrous change which would turn us in an instant from man to angel or devil
Read record →When we view sin in the light of modern science, with the tenderness of the modern conscience and with a sense of justice and proportion, it ceases to be that monstrous cloud which darkened the whole vision of the mediaeval theologian
Read record →In the most material and pronounced classes of these are the ghosts who impinge very closely upon matter and have been seen so often by those who have no strong psychic sense
Read record →Such, in very condensed form, is the world which is revealed to us by these wonderful messages from the beyond
Read record →So, too, with the automatic script of Mr
Read record →There is first "the word of wisdom," "the word of knowledge" and "faith." All these taken in connection with the Spirit would seem to mean the higher communications from the other side
Read record →believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God," show very clearly that spirit communion was a familiar idea, and also that they were plagued, as we are, by the intrusion of unwelcome spiritual elements in their intercourse
Read record →rs of any circle who are contributing psychic power; that the transfiguring of the face and the shining raiment are known phenomena; above all, that the erection of three altars is meaningless, but that the alternate reading, the erection of three booths or ca
Read record →This he did a second time upon a second catch-question being addressed to Him
Read record →It is at least possible, though I admit that under modern conditions it has not been clearly proved, that a medium of great power can charge another with his own force, just as a magnet when rubbed upon a piece of inert steel can turn it also into a magnet
Read record →This makes it very clear that this particular Gospel, in its present form, was written after that event, and that the writer fitted into it at least one other incident which had struck his imagination
Read record →Some of the faces are but partially formed, which gives them a grotesque or repellant appearance
Read record →It is not possible to define exactly what occurs in the case of the ectoplasm, nor, on account of its vital connection with the medium and its evanescent nature, has it been separated and subjected to even the roughest chemical analysis which might show whethe
Read record →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
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