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A table sitting is not good for conversation, but it is useful for getting definite brief answers--such as names and incidents, since it seems to be less interfered with by the mental activity of an intervening medium, and to be rather more direct
Read record →Many of the answers obtained were quite outside the knowledge of the medium or of Mrs
Read record →ctly; nevertheless, it might have made the obtaining of the answers they wanted much more feasible, inasmuch as in their presence he would have been in their atmosphere and be more likely to remember their sort of surroundings
Read record →When a medium is present he sees you quite distinctly
Read record →He is bringing a girl with him now--a young girl, growing up in the spirit world
Read record →(Medium here reached out across the table to A
Read record →must tread the same path; there's no escaping the crucifixion, it comes in one way or another
Read record →At length, on 17 November 1915, Raymond's brother Lionel (L
Read record →I should think, myself, that they are of very varying degrees of value, and peculiarly liable to unintentional sophistication by the medium
Read record →It is the action of the spirit on the body that keeps it from mortifying
Read record →It may be well to give a word of warning to those who find that they possess any unusual power in the psychic direction, and to counsel regulated moderation in its use
Read record →He thought his mother would be interested
Read record →What it does not exclude is telepathy
Read record →Gerald Balfour, in The Hibbert Journal for April 1910, on the Epiphenomenon controversy, and generally on the alternative explanations of the connexion between Mind and Body, in the light thrown on the subject by Telepathy and Psychical Research; while on the
Read record →We change our state at birth, and come into the world of air and sense and myriad existence; we change our state at death and enter a region of--what?
Read record →Therefore when the ship was rent by the explosion (it was as sudden as the firing of a pistol) I felt no particular shock, because of that curious inner expectancy
Read record →If death is not extinction, then on the other side of dissolution mental activity must continue, and must be interacting with other mental activity
Read record →Scientific prediction is familiar enough; science is always either historic or prophetic (as Dr
Read record →Human character, and action based upon it, may be more trustworthy and uncapricious than is usually supposed; and data depending on humanity may be included in a completer scheme of foreknowledge, without the exercise of any compulsion
Read record →Will they do so best by allowing their own bodies or brains to be utilised?
Read record →Why should telepathy be unfamiliar to us?
Read record →Physical things can reach consciousness--if at all--only through the brain; that remains true as regards physical things, however much we may admit telepathy from other minds; and, conversely, only through the brain can we operate with conscious purpose on the
Read record →Further thought, however, raises difficulties and doubts
Read record →But in a few cases the desire to give new information is awakened; and when there is sufficient receptivity, and, what is very important, a competent and suitable Medium for anything beyond commonplace messages, instructive and general information may be forth
Read record →It ought to be clear that they are not to be taken as oracular utterances, or as anything vastly superior to the capabilities of the medium through whom they come,--though in fact they often are superior to any known power of a given medium, and are frequently
Read record →One day, when the Spirit stands within the veil which shrouds the spirit world from mortal gaze, you shall wonder at your ignorance of Him whom you have so foolishly imagined!
Read record →Another method, and one that turns out to be still more powerful, is for the automatist not only to take off his or her attention from what is being transmitted through his or her organism, but to become comprehensively unconscious and go into a trance
Read record →er different opinions may be held, it is universally admitted that the dramatic semblance of the control is undoubtedly that of a separate person,--a person asserted to be permanently existing on the other side, and to be occupied on that side in much the same
Read record →The process of regular communication--apart from the exceptional more direct privilege occasionally vouchsafed to people in extreme sorrow--thus seems to involve normally a double medium of communication, and the activity of several people
Read record →In oral or voice sittings the function of the note-taker is more laborious and more responsible than in writing sittings; for these latter to a great extent supply their own notes
Read record →When operating indirectly in the ordinary way through a control and a medium, it usually appears to be remarkably difficult to get names transmitted
Read record →ch it may seem frivolous to have actually recorded--are reminiscent of the kind of shots which are made by mediums under control when they too are striving after a name; and it was a perception of this analogy which caused me to jot down my own guesses, or wha
Read record →A pen or pencil is an inanimate piece of matter guided by the fingers
Read record →re some communicators who object to a control's presence, especially if they have anything private to say; and these often prefer the table because it seems to bring them more directly into contact with the sitter, without an intermediary
Read record →When, for instance, I see during a total solar eclipse red flames shooting out from the edge of the sun, the obvious explanation is that these are real phenomena, caused by masses of glowing vapours ejected from the sun
Read record →Now the phenomena encountered in psychical research have long ago suggested an explanation, in terms of other than living human intelligences, which may be properly called spiritistic
Read record →One little point of difference, between the time before and the time after, has however become manifest
Read record →A deity of some kind is common to every branch of the human race
Read record →This is not a subject on which one comes lightly and easily to a conclusion, nor can the evidence be explained except to those who will give to it time and careful study; but clearly the conclusion is either folly and self-deception, or it is a truth of the ut
Read record →The object of Lieutenant Hill and myself was to make it appear possible and to avoid being found out
Read record →Some of us received cryptograms, or what we thought were cryptograms, from which we could reconstruct the position on the various fronts (if we had imagination enough), and guess at the progress of the war
Read record →t the fact that we could not see them was no proof that spooks did not exist, and told us of things revealed by the microscope, things that undoubtedly “are there,” with queer shapes and grisly names
Read record →Winnie Smith knew someone—I think it was one of his second cousins in Russia, or a crowned head, or somebody of the kind—who had a pet spook in the house
Read record →What the parent is for the child, the medium is for “believers.” The gentle art, as Hill (my ultimate partner in the game) and I know it, is merely a matter of shifting the authorship of the answers from yourself to some Unknown Third, whose authority has beco
Read record →The situation arose in this way: being a medium was a tiring game
Read record →At our after-séance talk, this led to a new discovery—new, that is, for us
Read record →Shortly after this notice was put up, Doc
Read record →It is a step which many eminent men have taken after years of patient investigation
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