Iss: contact phenomena: wj crawford
The psychic structure of the goligher circle. hands on her knees, and the remaining three sitters had their hands on the contact apparatus. This arrangement seemed immediately to increase the magnitude of psychic results on table. On those occasions when the table was pulled down (its weight increased) and pushed up (its weight decreased), the pull or push seemed to be quite centrally applied to the table, for there was no twisting movement. The resultant of the pull or push must, therefore, be practically in line with the centre of the table. Several times after the table's weight had been increased from 8 to 12 lb., and when the pointer on the spring balance had returned to normal (i.e. no pressure on table), Mr X.'s weight did not simultaneously come back to normal, but remained several pounds reduced for a considerable time. Séance V. - Sitters: Mr X. (medium), Miss A., Mrs B., Mrs C. All the undersurface and legs of the table were covered with turpentine soot, in order to see if any marks would be left due to a psychic structure gripping the wood of the table. One such mark was found, but it requires verification. The sitting was chiefly remarkable for a message which was laboriously spelled out, the table turning in the air when the correct letter of the alphabet was reached (I called out the letters). The following was the message: "Clean table; tie hands and feet of sitters to their chairs, and sit nine inches back from the table." Séance VI. - Sitters: Mr X. (medium), Miss A., Mrs B., Mrs C. I tied the sitters' legs together at the ankles with strong cord. At first I also tied each sitter's own hand
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Nandor fodor: encyclopaedia of psychic science</font></a></p></body>
Cal organs." Findlay's views are further enlarged upon in his second book The Rock of Truth (1933). The voices may be human (sometimes of someone living, or belong to the animal kingdom. The barking of fairly well materialized dogs, three in number, was heard by Lieut. Col. E. R. Johnson in a London seance with Mrs. Wriedt. Dennis H. Bradley in The Wisdom of the Gods speaks of a direct voice seance in which very loud and distinct barks were heard. "There came back an answering bark of my Alsatian wolfhound in an outhouse some distance away from the room in which the seance was being held." Mr. John M. Dick, the sporting journalist, was told that the dog was a Great Dane, in fact, his own. They had deep affection for it. This dog would always bark in four distinct barks at a time. Technically, the process of speaking appears to be the same as the ordinary one. After a long sentence the controls often pause for breath, and the indrawing sound becomes distinctly audible. Still the phenomena may so differ individually that it is unadvisable to generalize. The vocal effects know of no restriction. The invisible communicator may laugh, whistle or sing. Walter (the control of Margery) can give expression to all sorts of moods by whistling: surprise, contentment, joy, anger and melancholy. Once, the medium and Walter laughed at the same instant. The two chuckles came from a common point in space and gave the impression of being tangled up together, as though conceivably from a common physical organism. The language may be unknown both to the medium and the sitters. Yet the national
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