Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, Volume 1Society for Psychical Research., 1885 |
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Page 14 - Have you ever, when completely awake, had a vivid impression of seeing or being touched by a living being or inanimate object, or of hearing a voice; which impression, so far as you could discover, was not due to any external physical cause?
Page 111 - Literature of the Doctrine of a Future Life : or, A Catalogue of Works relating to the Nature, Origin, and Destiny of the Soul.
Page 408 - Blavatsky or her agents. (3) That there is consequently a very strong general presumption that all the marvellous narratives put forward as evidence of the existence and occult power of the Mahatmas are to be explained as due either (a) to deliberate deception carried out by or...
Page 242 - Thought-transference, apparitions, etc. " The Society for psychical research will be grateful for any good evidence bearing on such phenomena as thought-reading, clairvoyance, presentiments, and dreams, noted at the time of occurrence, and afterwards confirmed; unexplained disturbances in places supposed to be haunted ; apparitions at. the moment of death or otherwise ; and of such other abnormal events as may seem to fall under somewhat the same categories.
Page 191 - Lloyd were near them, with their backs turned towards the bin, the doctor nearer to the door. I stood by the drawers, and Mrs. White was by me near the inner door. Then suddenly a basin, which stood on the end of the bin near the door, got up into the air, turning over and over as it went. It went up not very quickly, not as quickly as if it had been thrown. When it reached the ceiling it fell plump and smashed. I called Dr. Lloyd's attention to it, and we all saw it. No one was near it, and I don't...
Page 191 - White or any one else. White couldn't have done it without my seeing him. The jar couldn't go in a straight line from the cupboard out of the door ; but it certainly did go. " Then White asked me to come and see the things which had been smashed in the inner room. He led the way and I followed. As I passed the chest of drawers in the kitchen I noticed a tumbler standing on it. Just after I passed I heard a crash, and looking round, I saw that the tumbler had fallen on the ground in the direction...
Page 408 - That after examining Mr. Hodgson's report of the results of his personal inquiries, they are of opinion that the testimony to these marvels is in no case sufficient, taking amount and character together, to resist the force of the general presumption above mentioned. Accordingly, they think that it would be a waste of time to prolong the investigation.
Page 184 - Some plates, a cream-jug, and other things, then flew lip in the air, and smashed themselves in view of all who were in the kitchen — Rose, the Whites, and Mrs. Wass. White then lay down on the sofa ; but disturbances continued during his siesta. In particular, some pictures on the wall next the pantry began to move, but were taken down at once by his brother. At about 2 pm a Salvation Army woman came in, and talked to White.
Page 127 - Soon afterwards she awoke, became composed, and the scene finished. Some weeks afterwards, Dr. Arndt found this lady pensive and sorrowful. She had just received from her father, who was at a distance of some hundred miles — an account of a serious accident which had befallen him. In ascending the stair of his cellar, the door had fallen upon his breast — a considerable haemorrhage ensued, and the physicians despaired of his life.
Page 335 - First Month, and this is why I remember the date. The following Third Month I got a letter and newspaper from my brother in Australia, named Allen, letting me know the sad trouble which had befallen him in the loss, by drowning, of one of his daughters and her companion. Thou wilt see by the description given of it in the paper how the event corresponded with my dream. My niece was born in Australia, and I never saw her.