...yet unexplained." ... As for the explanation of her trance-phenomena, I have none to offer. The primA facie theory, which is that of spirit-control, is...mysterious Phinuit are apt to confine themselves. 1 must admit, however, that Phinuit has other moods. He has several times, when my wife and myself...

...were, so far as we can tell, known only to the dead." Professor William James says :— " The prima facie theory, which is that of spiritcontrol, is hard...mysterious Phinuit, are apt to confine themselves." But a still more fatal instance of failure to establish spirit-identity is reported in the Proceedings...

...position " Here are a few extracts from Professor James's paper in this same volume (Pr. VI, 65 If.) : " As for the explanation of her trance-phenomena, I...off on long lectures to us about our inward defects and outward shortcomings, which were very earnest, as well as subtile morally and psychologically,...

...(Pr. VI, 651f.) : " As for the explanation of her trance-phenomena, I have none to offer. The prima facie theory, which is that of spirit-control, is...off on long lectures to us about our inward defects and outward shortcomings, which were very earnest, as well as subtile morally and psychologically,...

...remarked on the extreme triviality of the supposed communications. " What real spirit," he wrote, " at last able to revisit his wife on this earth, but...mysterious Phinuit are apt to confine themselves." A woman writer passed away not long ago in early middle life. Her mother tried to get in touch through...

...her trance phenomena, which purported to be under the control of departed spirits. "The prima fade theory, which is that of spirit-control, is hard to...the sort of remark to which the spirits introduced . . . are apt to confine themselves."69 Despite the challenges to credulity that even James acknowledged,...