The Psychic Structures at the Goligher Circle

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E.P. Dutton, 1921 - Mediums - 176 pages

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Page 69 - ... upwards from the impression left by each, thread. The reason why this impression should appear is given as follows. The actual psychic structure is covered by a film which is formed against the medium's feet out of psychic matter oozing round about the little holes in the fabric of her stockings. It is at first in a semi-liquid state, and it collects and partly sets on the outer covering of the stocking, and being of a glutinous, fibrous nature, it takes almost the exact form of the stocking...
Page 25 - ... structure in one of my hands. On the reply " Yes," I went inside the circle, lay down on my right side on the floor alongside the table, and placed my gloved right hand between the two nearest legs of the table. Almost immediately I felt the impact of a nearly circular rod-like body about 2 inches in diameter on the palm of my hand, which was held palm upwards. (The back of my hand was towards the floor and at a distance of about 5 in. from it.) This circular rod-like body was flat at the end,...
Page 50 - ... at a distance of about 5 in. from it.) This circular rod-like body was flat at the end, ie, as if the rod were sawn across. It maintained a steady pressure evenly distributed over the area of impact, and was soft but firm to the sense of touch. I estimate the magnitude of pressure at from 4 to 6 oz. Without being requested to do so, the " operators " moved this rod-like structure until I felt the clearly defined edges of the circular blunt end. This was accompanied by a sensation of roughness,...
Page 24 - operators' (having first obtained the permission of the leader of the circle) if they could place the end of the structure in one of my hands. On the reply ' Yes,' I went inside the circle, lay down on my right side on the floor alongside the table, and placed my gloved right hand between the two nearest legs of the table. Almost immediately I felt the impact of a nearly circular rod-like body about 2 in.
Page 172 - ... thighs and on the interior of the thighs. For about a year Dr. Crawford took one photograph each seance night, in the hope that he might ultimately obtain success. The operators had informed him by raps that he might finally expect this, though he had to take care to prevent injury to the medium, as it was necessary gradually to work her up to withstand the shock of the flashlight upon the plasma. He found that the pulse of the medium, which was 84 at the beginning, rose to 120 just before the...
Page 23 - ... though quite invisible to ordinary sight, be felt. It is described as clammy, cold, reptilian, almost oily, as though the air were mixed with particles of dead and disagreeable matter. The psychic rods issuing from the medium may vary in diameter at their extremities from £ inch to 7 or 8 inches, and the free end of each rod seems able to assume various shapes and degrees of hardness. The end may be flat or convex, circular or oval ; it may be soft as the flesh of a babj, or as hard as iron.
Page 21 - I have compared the whitish, cloud-like appearance of the matter in the structure with photographs of materialisation phenomena in all stages obtained with many different mediums all over the world, and the conclusion I have come to is that this material very closely resembles, if it is not identical with, the material used in all such materialisation phenomena. In fact, it is not too much to say that this whitish, translucent, nebulous matter is the basis of all psychical phenomena of the physical...
Page 25 - The impacts were upon the more sensitive side of my hand. When my fingers were being touched or pressed it seemed as if another finger were causing the sensation — a finger of very great strength. During this experiment of pressure on the fingers there was no sensation of roughness, such as occurred and is described with the larger rod when I felt the edge of the circular end. My sight is very keen. "(Sgd.) ARTHUR HUNTER.
Page 173 - As time went on these increased in size and variety until great quantities of this psychic material could be exteriorized and photographed. Then the operators began to manipulate it in various ways, building it up into columns, or forming it into single or double arms, moulding it into the different shapes with which I had been long familiar in a general way from previous investigation. Not only did they do this, but they showed unmistakably, by means of set photographs, from what part of the medium's...

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