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25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"value": "It is supposed by some physiologists that the essential cells of nerves do not actually touch, but are separated by a narrow gap which widens in sleep while it narrows almost to extinction during mental activity. THIS CONDITION IS SO SINGULARLY LIKE A BRANLY OR LODGE COHERER [a ... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It derives its scientific name from its shape, which resembles a pine-cone. Western physiologists are at sea regarding the function and office of this interesting organ, or gland, and the text books generally content themselves with stating that"
},
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"from": "gpt",
... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The action of one mind upon another at a distance--the transmission of thought, mental suggestion, communication at a distance--all these are not more extraordinary than the action of the magnet on iron, the influence of the moon on the sea, the transportation of the human voice... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The student is unable to conceive of a wave of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "being projected into the air, and then traveling along until it reaches the mind of other persons. The difficulty, upon analysis, is seen to consist of the inability to conceive of"
},
... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "TRANSFORMATION. For instance: When we transmit electric vibrations over a fine wire or thread of carbon, the electric vibrations are transformed into light vibrations and manifest as"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In another form of transmission the electric vibratio... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "These are communicated to the ether in the form of so-called"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "but which are merely etheric waves of a certain rate of vibration. These waves travel through space and are transformed into"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "only ... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "only by those instruments which are"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "with the sending instrument to at least a certain degree; to all other instruments, those which are not"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "with the sending instrument, there is no message pe... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "law or rule of manifestation, we wish to call to the attention of the student the important fact that the same law prevails in the case of communications from the higher planes of existence--the so-called"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and other messages of this kind... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "of the transmission of thoughts, messages, and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "between two minds, be they both on earth plane, or one of the two on the higher planes, we would say:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Always remember the two Key-Words, namely ... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There are many places today filled with the thought-vibrations of minds long since passed out of the body. There are places filled with the strong vibrations of tragedies long since enacted there. Every place has a mental atmosphere of its own, the same arising from the thought-... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We know how great waves of feeling spread over a town, city, or county, sweeping people off their feet, and causing them to lose their balance. Great waves of political enthusiasm, or war-spirit or prejudice for or against certain people, or groups of people, sweep over places a... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Magic"
}
] |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The word"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "has sprung into use in this connection, in America and Europe, by reason of its employment by the numerous metaphysical cults and schools flourishing there. We hear on all hands of persons being"
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Magic"
}
] |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In our own civilized lands there are many people who have learned the principles of mental influence, and who are using the same for unworthy purposes, seeking to injure others and to defeat their undertakings, or else trying to bring them around to their own (the treators') poi... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Among the negroes of the South, in America, and among the Hawaiians, we find marked instances of this kind. The negro Voodoo men and women work Black Magic on those of their race who are superstitious and credulous, and who have a mortal fear of the Voodoo. Travelers who have vi... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When you come in contact with people who are seeking to influence you by psychic methods, either direct or indirect, you will find yourself able to defy their mental attacks by simply remembering the strength immanent in your Ego, or Spirit, aided by the statement or affirmation... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Crookes' Tubes,"
}
] |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and another called the"
}
] |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mind Reading."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "experiment or game, which is quite popular in some localities, and among persons interested in this line of thought. The experiments of this kind are performed, generally, about as follows: The receiver leaves the room, an... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Willing Game."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "in which the whole roomful of persons concentrates upon the receiver, and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "that he find a selected object. On the whole, however, the private experiments conducted by the sender ... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Titanic"
}
] |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "just as truly as in the case of the wireless telegraphy. These things are difficult to explain in ordinary words to one who has had no experience along these lines; but when one begins to actually experiment and practice, the way opens out gradually and steadily, and then the pe... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Clairvoyance, which term we have thought it advisable to employ in this sense in this book, notwithstanding the technical objections urged by some against such a general usage. The term"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Clairvoyance really means"
},
{
"from": "h... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The faculty or act of perceiving, as though visually, with some coincidental truth, some distant scene; it is used sometimes, but hardly properly, for transcendental vision, or the perception of beings regarded as on another plane of existence. A distinguished investigator along... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Psychic Scent."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "of the physical object employed to establish the connection between clairvoyant and distant object, person, or scene. But we do not think it advisable to enter into a discussion of these elaborate, technical theories, whi... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The untrained clairvoyant usually cannot find any particular astral picture when it is wanted, without some special link to put him en rapport with the subject required. Psychometry is an instance in point. It seems as though there were a sort of magnetic attachment or affinity ... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "conditions existing at the present time at the particular place from which a particular piece of ore or mineral has been taken, which ore or mineral has been handed the psychometrist to be used as the connecting link. As many practical miners know from actual experience, many va... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "a particular locality, a house, a room, a place of business, for instance, by means of the connecting link afforded by some physical object formerly associated with the said location. Some writers have called this class of psychometric phenomena"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have doubtless heard of the sensing of sealed letters spoken of as pure clairvoyance. But this phase of phenomena properly belongs to the realm of Psychometry. Letters frequently prove to be very excellent connecting links in psychometric experiments. I advise the student to... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Getting in Touch."
}
] |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The person who sits for the psychometrist for a 'reading' should not be antagonistic nor frivolous, neither should he desire special information, nor concentrate his thought forces upon any given point, as otherwise he may dominate the psychic and thus mislead him into perceivin... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They stare into a crystal ball, a cup, a mirror, a blot of ink, a drop of blood, a bowl of water, a pond, water in a glass bowl, or almost any polished surface, etc."
}
] |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gaze calmly at the crystal, but do not strain your eyes. Do not try to avoid winking your eyes--there is a difference between 'gazing' and 'staring,' remember."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Milky Mist."
}
] |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The best authorities instruct their pupils that the state of clairvoyant reverie may be safely and effectively induced by the practice of mental concentration alone. They advise positively against artificial methods. All that is needed is that the consciousness be focused to a s... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The clairvoyant vision is also able to discern what is called the 'prana aura' of a person. By this term is indicated that peculiar emanation of vital force which surrounds the physical body of each and every person. In fact, many persons of but slight clairvoyant power, who can... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Another strange power of which the clairvoyant may find himself in possession is that of magnifying at will the minutest physical particle to any desired size, as through a microscope--though no microscope ever made, or ever likely to be made, possesses even a thousandth part of... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The view of a distant scene obtained in this way is in many ways not unlike that seen through a telescope. Human figures usually appear very small, like those upon a distant stage, but in spite of their diminutive size they are clear as though they were close by. Sometimes it is... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Causes continue to exist in their Effects."
}
] |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "but the former term is a closer and more definite one. The Akashic Plane, as known to occultists, contains the impressions or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "of all events that have happened on the earth plane during the present cycle of earth manifestation. The very ... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "these past happenings--they have not the faintest conception of how they are able to see them. This is no more strange than would be the case of a man who witnessed a moving picture for the first time, and who was ignorant of the mechanism involved in the showing of the picture,... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Memory of Nature."
}
] |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The psychometrist, who needs an object physically connected with the past in order to bring it all into life again around him; and the crystal-gazer who can sometimes direct his less certain astral telescope to some historic scene of long ago, may both derive the greatest enjoym... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But this, at the best, is not true clairvoyance--it is merely the statement of"
}
] |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Time is but a relative mode of regarding things; we progress through phenomena at a certain definite pace, and this subjective advance we interpret in an objective manner, as if events moved necessarily in this order and at this precise rate. But that may be only one mode of reg... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Those occultists and metaphysicians who have thought long and deeply upon the ultimate facts and nature of the universe, have dared to think that there must exist some absolute consciousness--some absolute mind--which must perceive the past, present, and future of the universe a... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Prophecy of Cazotte."
}
] |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here a sensible emotion pervaded the whole company, and the countenance of the host was dark and lowering--they began to feel that the joke was becoming too serious. Madame de Grammont, in order to dissipate the cloud, took no notice of the last reply, and contented herself with... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This phase of clairvoyance is very fascinating to the student and the investigator, and is one in which the highest psychic powers are called into play. There is a reflection here of something even higher than the psychic plane--there is a glimpse of regions infinitely higher an... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--does not depend upon any particular form of religious belief, or teaching, concerning the nature of the state or place of abode of the departed spirits of men; but, on the contrary, is common to all form of religion and to all phases of belief in the survival of the human soul... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "means"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "or"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "the term being the opposite of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "meaning"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We may also state here that the teachings of most philo... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Through the gateway of mediumship the spirits make themselves known in a variety of ways. There are many phases of mediumistic phenomena, and the student will find that he must be patient, painstaking, and persevering if he would make sure of his facts. Careful investigation, po... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It must not, however, be supposed that spirit influence is limited to, and exerted solely upon, those who are known to be mediums; or that the spirits do not assist those who use their own psychic faculties. It is probable that all people who are psychically sensitive and open t... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There may be some mediums who are ignoramuses, but it is doubtful if there will be any great degree of intelligence or great spiritual illumination presented through their agency. It is possible that some mediums act foolishly when in their normal state, for the purpose of accen... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "in order to meet the public demand for sensational features; and at the same time the honest, careful, conscientious mediums are often overlooked, and the home circles almost unknown. Many so-called investigators of spiritualism are feverishly anxious to"
},
{
"from": "g... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let us not be misunderstood. In saying this we are not apologizing for, or palliating fraud or wrong doing, but merely asking for fair and considerate treatment--not hasty, unreasoning condemnation. While it is true that mediumship has many compensations, and the medium who take... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Psychic Force."
}
] |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Human magnetism, or nerve aura, is probably the most sublimated form of ethereal matter, hence nearest in refinement to spirit substance, and therefore spirits use it as the vehicle of their vibrating forces. Those persons who have an excess of magnetism, of the proper quality t... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "board or similar mechanical aid to writing, clairvoyant perception of spirits, clairaudient hearing of spirit voices, prophetic utterances of spirits, impersonating and inspirational control of the medium. Mediums are frequently so thoroughly"
}
] |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A good psychographic medium will usually obtain writing between closed slates, which may be brought by the investigator, who can insist upon their not leaving his sight, and not even leaving his hand. We have obtained writing on paper that we had previously marked, which was the... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "During the whole of my knowledge of D. D. Home, extending for several years, I never once saw the slightest occurrence that would make me suspicious that he was attempting to play tricks. He was scrupulously sensitive on this point, and never felt hurt at anyone taking precautio... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "at least, such should be his course until he has learned not to be carried away with his desire to please or to satisfy such persons attending his circles. He should endeavor to cultivate a mental condition of calmness, and a determination not to influence or to interfere with t... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Trance Condition."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "but this term is quite misleading, for it carries with it the suggestion of an entire loss of consciousness and of a condition of more or less deep sleep. But the mediumistic trance is seldom a deep sleep condition. In... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At first the operator may succeed by very imperfectly stimulating the brain of the sensitive and causing the cerebration and expression of his thoughts. The utterances may bear but a slight resemblance to what the spirit intended to express. The vocabulary is that of the medium,... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is no need for the medium to decline to be influenced or controlled, by spirit friends for fear of losing his 'individuality,' any more than he should insist upon asserting his freedom and refuse the aid of tutors, lest they should infringe upon his sacred 'individuality.'... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "by their friends. They need instruction on the subject of psychic laws and self-control, so that they may intelligently guard themselves against undesirable influences, and at the same time cultivate the power of mediumship of the desirable kind. It has been asserted that"
}
] |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is a fundamental proposition that sensitiveness, or the capability of mediumship, is a faculty common to mankind, differing in degree--as hearing and sight are common heritages, but keener in some individuals than in others; or, under certain conditions, it may disappear. Wha... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The remedy will be found in the systematic cultivation of interior repose and confidence. The psychic must learn to regard it as a perfectly natural experience that the spiritual states and positive thoughts of excarnate people should impinge upon his spiritual sphere, and while... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "as most of you know, is a company of harmonious, earnest, sympathetic persons joining their psychic powers for the purpose of aiding the medium to establish the lines of psychic communication between the earth plane and the planes o... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Too many people, instead of waiting until the spirits were ready to communicate with them, have pressed for 'tests' before the connections were properly made. They have complicated matters by their eager questionings, and have worried the operators until everything went wrong; a... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is but one course of procedure for the successful attainment of excellence in any field of labor or thought, and that is by study and training, by observation, by persevering application and determined effort, by readiness to learn, and responsiveness to every influence wh... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "THREE indicates Yes; ONE indicates No; TWO indicates 'doubtful'; FOUR indicates 'don't know'; and FIVE indicates 'call the alphabet.' The numbers refer to the number of raps or table-tilts, etc., given by the spirits in answer to questions asked them. When the alphabet is called... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There are some people who are so sensitive that they should not sit in circles, because they are liable to become charged with the psychic emanations from, and dominated by the expectancy of, the sitters, but who are not influenced by spirit power to any great extent. Or probabl... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you are requested, either by the controlling intelligence or by the manager of the circle, to take another place, or even if your room is desired for some unknown cause, do not get angry and create a disturbance, but get with those with whom you are in spiritual harmony and t... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "messages. Let the communications flow on in a somewhat rambling manner at first, until the lines of communication are fully and firmly established, and then you may begin to think about asking test questions of the spirits in order to establish their identity. A writer says on t... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is not so much that the table moves with or without contact, or that strange rappings are heard, that is of paramount importance, but that by these means of communication actual and intelligent communication can be obtained and maintained with so-called dead people; and evide... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There are three factors concerned in mediumship: (1) the spirit controlling; (2) the mental atmosphere of the medium controlled; and (3) the mental atmosphere of the people surrounding the medium. And as A. Morton has said:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The requirem... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stage Fright."
}
] |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "to overcome in the production of mediumistic phenomena. Not only does the spirit wishing to communicate have to draw sufficient psychic power from the medium and the sitters, not only has he to scientifically adjust the apparatus at the sending end of the psychic telephonic line... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Even on this side, when we send telegraphic messages or use the telephone, mistakes and misunderstandings are by no means uncommon occurrences, and our letters sometimes create an impression in the mind of the reader which we did not intend to convey. Is it any wonder, then, tha... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On one occasion in particular, we had a remarkable illustration of the detrimental influence of one or two sitters. It occurred at a seance at which a number of mediums were present, and, under ordinary circumstances, successful results would have been practically certain; but t... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The sitters should endeavor to lay aside all prejudices and preconceived conceptions, and in place thereof should endeavor to hold a fair, impartial mental attitude--and this accompanied by a desire to have the manifestations proceed naturally, freely and fully. The results shou... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "type of sitters. As a writer well says:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Spirits are human still, and a good, breezy laugh, a hearty, joyous, kindly sympathetic disposition, goes a long way to open the avenues by which they can approach us. Another has said:"
},
{
... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Impatience and anxiety are disintegrating mental conditions. People who are all the time looking at their watches and thinking, 'Oh! I wish they would hurry up.' 'Oh! do be quick, don't keep us here all night, we shall surely miss our train,' etc., are disturbers of the peace, a... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Frequently at the outset both spirits and sitters are ignorant of their powers, of the conditions necessary for success, and the association that exists between them being affectional rather than intellectual or spiritual, they have to grope their way towards each other. It foll... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The modes of spirit manifestation are many, the phases wonderfully varied, but, like a golden cord running through them all, there is a distinct purpose of bringing to those on earth the glad tidings and proof positive of continued conscious personal experience in the life after... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Around the family table, where those who are united in affection meet to hold joyous communion with their spirit friends, where the blended desire ascends to the spiritual plane, and becomes the potent magnetic attraction, by which those friends can establish harmonious relation... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Never forget that your nerve-vital energy is used and expended in the exercise of your mediumship, and that the supply is limited, hence the necessity for care and moderation. Too frequent, prolonged, or discordant seances; inharmonious conditions and sittings, when you are alre... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No sensible person should surrender himself to the magnetic influence of a human being of whom he knew nothing; he should need to know and have confidence in him before doing so; yet we find many who, impelled by a desire to be a medium, without understanding how much the word i... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "feeling, something akin to a gentle current of electricity passing along them. Sometimes there is experienced the sensation of a gentle cool breeze passing over the sitters--particularly over the backs of their hands. In other cases there may be a sense of numbness or partial lo... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As a writer has said:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Remember also that you are merely experimenting, and that the spirit people are also, perhaps for the first time, trying to penetrate the veil and utilize powers and agencies of which, in all probability, they know... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "messages by means of the apparatus called"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "which consists of a moving"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Planchette with an indicator which moves over the letters marked on a board, the hands of the sitters (or certain of their... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "viz.,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A Planchette may be used as an 'Ouija' by laying down a sheet of paper upon which the letters of the alphabet have been written or printed in a fairly large semi-circle, the words 'Yes' or 'No' being written at either end, and fig... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you are likely to become a trance-speaking medium, you will probably experience a sensation as a falling or dizziness, as if you were going to faint; this may continue until you become entirely unconscious on the external plane, and you will know no more until you regain your... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Most mediums find that their powers vary. Sometimes there seems to be a high degree of lucidity. The impressions which they receive are clear and strong; and the ideas seem to flow through them freely, and the quality of the inspirations is exhilarating, and they feel strengthen... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Should you be controlled to give public addresses, it will be best to withhold the name of the spirit who prompts or controls your utterances. Most intelligent spirits prefer to be known by their teachings, rather than by the names they bore when on earth. If the addresses are e... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Trust to the sincerity of the spirit and the good sense of the sitters, and throw off your fear. Yield obedience to your control, and neither help nor hinder it. Just do and say what you feel you HAVE to do or say, and leave the results. You cannot, or should not, be held respon... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "While most mediums seek for some guide or control of prominence, it must not be always taken for granted that the controlling spirit during a seance is always just what he claims to be. For instance, a spirit control might give his name as Henry Clay, and he might deliver a spir... |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and"
}
] |
25337 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "the medium's hand is controlled by the spirit, and is caused to write messages to those present, or to answer questions propounded by some of those present at the circle. In some quarters such writing is called"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "but inasmuch as this last... |
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