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agent answer apparition appeared asked awake Beacon St Big Rapids Boston Boylston brother called Cambridge chance CHARLES SEDGWICK MINOT clairvoyance coincidence COLEMAN SELLERS committee correspondent DEAR SIR death decedent diagrams digit dream evidence experience fact father feeling figure give given guesses Gurney hallucination hand heard husband hypnotic hypothesis impression investigation JOSIAH ROYCE lady letter looked Marlborough St Mass memory mental mentioned mind Minot Miss morning MORTON PRINCE mother night object observations occurred Oil City Peirce Peirce's percipient percipient's persons Phantasms phenomena Phila present Prof Professor pseudo-presentiment Psychical Research question received recollection regard remarkable remember reply RICHARD HODGSON rience seems seen SIMON NEWCOMB sister sleep statement story suggestion supposed telegram telepathy tell thought thought-transference tion told unconscious vision vivid W. H. PICKERING wife words writing
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Page 259 - From the recorded testimony of many competent witnesses, past and present, including observations recently made by scientific men of eminence in various countries, there appears to be, amidst much illusion and deception, an important body of remarkable phenomena, which are prima facie inexplicable on any generally recognized hypothesis, and which, if incontestably established, would be of the highest possible value.
Page 545 - And the beasts, and the birds, and the insects were drowned In an ocean of dreams without a sound, "Whose waves never mark, though they ever impress The light sand which paves it, consciousness...
Page 120 - An examination of the nature and extent of any influence which may be exerted by one mind upon another, otherwise than through the recognised sensory channels.
Page 496 - Have you ever, when in good health and completely awake, had a vivid impression of seeing or being touched by a human being, or of hearing a voice or sound which suggested a human presence, when no one was there...
Page 422 - I suddenly became conscious that some one was sitting on my left, with one arm resting on the table. Quick as a flash I turned and distinctly saw the form of my dead sister, and for a brief second or so looked her squarely in the face ; and so sure was I that it was she, that I sprang forward in delight, calling her by name, and, as I did so, the apparition instantly vanished. Naturally, I was startled and dumbfounded, almost doubting my senses ; but...
Page 423 - I mentioned this my mother rose trembling to her feet and nearly fainted away, and as soon as she sufficiently recovered her self-possession, with tears streaming down her face, she exclaimed that I had indeed seen my sister, as no living mortal but herself was aware of that scratch, which she had accidentally made while doing some little act of kindness after my sister's death. She said she well remembered how pained she was to think...
Page 423 - Now comes the most remarkable confirmation of my statement, which cannot be doubted by those who know what I state actually occurred. This visitation, or whatever you may call it, so impressed me that I took the next train home, and in the presence of my parents and others I related what had occurred. My father, a man of rare good sense and very practical, was inclined to ridicule me, as he saw how earnestly I believed what I stated; but he, too, was amazed when later on I told...
Page 422 - ... looked her squarely in the face; and so sure was I that it was she, that I sprang forward in delight, calling her by name, and, as I did so, the apparition instantly vanished. Naturally I was startled and dumbfounded, almost doubting my senses; but the cigar in my mouth, and pen in hand, with the ink still moist on my letter, I satisfied myself I had not been dreaming and was wide awake.
Page 544 - ... that any motion could be perceived. I had fallen into a sort of torpid reverie, when I was recalled to consciousness by a paroxysm of violent grief on the part of the bereaved husband, as his eye suddenly caught the coffin sinking into its black grave, formed by the inverted covering of the altar. In an instant I felt not merely an impression, but a conviction, that I had seen the whole scene before on some former occasion, and had heard even the very words addressed to myself by Sir George Naylor.
Page 422 - SIR, — Replying to the recently published request of your Society for actual occurrences of psychical phenomena, I respectfully submit the following remarkable occurrence to the consideration of your distinguished Society, with the assurance that the event made a more powerful impression on my mind than the combined incidents of my whole life. I have never mentioned it outside of my family and a few intimate friends, knowing well that few would believe it, or else ascribe it to some disordered...