Month: June 2021

Discussing it with me after the sitting, the wife was disposed to think a mistake had been made somewhere, though she couldn’t think where. Determined to inquire closer, she decided to write to the foster-mother in Ireland to see if she could throw any light on the strange affair. It was some weeks before she received a reply to her letter and, reading between the lines, I thought the interval might well have been spent by the writer in wrestling with her conscience as to the propriety of revealing a…

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Nor could telepathy explain the following case in which neither the medium nor the two sitters had knowledge of what was communicated.The first of these sitters had a private sitting for clairvoyance. A message came from her father in the spirit world. I said: “Your father is giving me the name Florence. Do you know who she is?”“Yes,” she replied. “Florence is my mother.”“The message is: ‘Florence has an affliction of the heart. Soon it will show itself and she will be very ill. But she will not die.’” My…

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As the doctor himself was quick to acknowledge, at the time of the séance he had known of the suicide, but none of the details, which I had supplied. He had been astonished to have them confirmed in every particular by his Canadian correspondent. He asked if there were some way by which we might convince his Canadian friend of Red Cloud’s existence. I suggested an experiment. At my request the doctor wrote to the widow asking her to choose some object connected with her husband and post it to…

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From time to time I have enjoyed discussions with sceptical men and women from all walks of life. Mostly they were intelligent, fair-minded folk who came in a spirit of genuine inquiry. I always did my best to answer their questions as fully as I could. Often they would counter my explanations with their own theories. The trouble with all such theories is that they never stand up to examination over a wide field of experiment. They may provide a complete and satisfactory explanation of the particular phenomenon under discussion…

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“But how can you possibly know?” The women asked incredulously.“I know because I was told by the voices of my spirit friends,” I replied. “How else could I know?” They looked at me in wide-eyed wonder, apprehensive that they should be in the presence of all-seeing spirits whose voices I could hear but they could not. Many and varied have been the personal possessions of deceased loved ones which their friends have brought to me in the hope that the vibrations of the objects would help me to contact the…

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Another piece of stone that was brought to me conjured up an impression of a medieval castle and a battle raging round it. Especially clear were the arrow-slits let into the massive walls. I told the man who had given it to me that this stone chipping had been taken from one of the slits. He confirmed this in detail, telling me that it had come from a castle in North Wales whose name I have forgotten. I remember only that it was reputed to be the birthplace of Prince…

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Another piece of stone that was brought to me conjured up an impression of a medieval castle and a battle raging round it. Especially clear were the arrow-slits let into the massive walls. I told the man who had given it to me that this stone chipping had been taken from one of the slits. He confirmed this in detail, telling me that it had come from a castle in North Wales whose name I have forgotten. I remember only that it was reputed to be the birthplace of Prince…

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If, then, you are prepared to agree that every man and women may occasionally experience such moments of unexplained “clear sight,” you may also agree that a few, who by nature and training are mediums, can develop an extension of it. Not that I suggest that psychometry is a straightforward extension of what is popularly known as intuition. It goes much deeper. But in seeking an answer to the oft-repeated question of how I am able to give my descriptions and verbal messages when demonstrating psychometry, I can only advance…

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But what about psychometry? In this the medium sees nothing and hears nothing. There is no mental picture which she can look at and describe in detail, and no distant voice to penetrate her consciousness with verbal messages. Then how do the vibrations of the object she is holding communicate their message to her? As far as I am concerned the answer is inexplicable because there is no physical counterpart from which to make a comparison. I can only say that as soon as I take the proffered object in…

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CHAPTER FOUR,PSYCHOMETRY Psychometry is an aspect of mediumship which I have always found fascinating because of the remarkable results it produces. It is based on the fact that everything material pulsates with vibrations. The aura surrounding the human body also emits vibrations which are constantly being absorbed by inanimate objects lying within their field of influence. Small personal possessions, such as those regularly carried in pockets or handbags, are ideal for psychometrical purposes. Repeated handling of them over a period of time impregnates them with their owner’s vibrations. This impregnation…

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