That Other World: Personal Experiences of Mystics and Their Mysticism |
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Page 18 - I'm doing what I call my morning task of stone-breaking — writing letters, by proxy, to a lot of people who have more time on their hands than they know what to do with, and who, therefore, insist upon wasting mine. Anything particular to say to me?
Page 19 - His bag of spiritual tricks included materialisation and dematerialisation ; but his chief card was " levitation." There were two noble lords who, in their mind's eye at least, saw him float in and out of an open window in a west-end London house, and duly testified to the fact. Nothing, I believe, would convince them of the fallacy of the pretension.
Page 4 - ... having no existence. Whatever illusions may have remained to me were knocked on the head. Disgust at the chicanery practised and contempt for the puerile manifestations claimed to be spiritual took the place of expectancy and earnest longing for truth.
Page 125 - Joan has also seen him.'- Joan is an intimate young friend, who a little time before had told my wife, to her astonishment, that she (Joan) had actually seen him under conditions which placed out of bounds the possibility of its having been a dream. Mrs. Brittain had never heard of and knew nothing of Joan. She told us many strange things at this extraordinary sitting. Thus far no medium had given my wife the name of endearment the boy used to her, and she was transfigured with joy when this time...
Page 5 - And so I set to work not only to find out how the so-called spirit phenomena were produced, but to reproduce them after the manner and under the conditions governing the medium's productions.
Page 154 - The mind of man can be read, but not on the basis of what is termed telepathy.