Mrs. Piper & the Society for Psychical ResearchScott-Thaw Company, 1904 - 187 pages |
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Page xix - An examination of the nature and extent of any influence which may be exerted by one mind upon another, apart from any generally recognized mode of perception.
Page xx - The aim of the Society will be to approach these various problems without prejudice or prepossession of any kind, and in the same spirit of exact and unimpassioned inquiry which has enabled Science to solve so many problems, once not less obscure nor less hotly debated.
Page 111 - Remember we share and always shall have our friends in the dream life, ie, your life so to speak, which will attract us for ever and ever, and so long as we have any friends sleeping in the material world; — you to us are more like as we understand sleep, you look shut up as one in prison, and in order for us to get into communication with you, we have to enter into your sphere, as one like yourself asleep. This is just why we make mistakes as you call them, or get confused and muddled, so to put...
Page xix - 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 23 - The servant who attended on her and on her two young children was chosen by myself, and was a young woman from a country village, whom I had full reason to believe to be trustworthy, and also quite ignorant of my own or my friend's affairs. For the most part I had myself not determined upon the persons whom I would invite to sit with her. I chose these sitters in great measure by chance ; several of them were not residents...
Page 31 - I'm studying hard how to communicate; it's not easy. But it is only a matter of short time before I shall be able to tell the world all sorts of things through one medium or another. (And so on for some time.) Lodge, keep up your courage, there is a quantity to hope for yet. Hold it up for a time. Don't be in a hurry. Get facts ; no matter what they call you, go on investigating. Test to fullest. Assure yourself, then publish. It will be all right in the end — no question about it. It's true.
Page xix - ... to be, amidst much illusion and deception, an important body of facts to which this description would apply, and which, therefore, if incontestably established, would be of the very highest interest. The task of examining such residual phenomena had often been undertaken by individual effort, but never hitherto by a scientific society organised on a sufficiently broad basis.
Page xx - ... to approach these various problems without prejudice or prepossession of any kind, and in the same spirit of exact and unimpassioned inquiry which has enabled Science to solve so many problems, once not less obscure nor less hotly debated. The founders of...
Page xix - THE SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH MRS. HENRY SEDGWICK THE Society for Psychical Research was founded at the beginning of 1882, for the purpose of making an organized and systematic attempt to investigate various sorts of debatable phenomena which are prima facie inexplicable on any generally recognized hypothesis.
Page xix - ... investigate various sorts of debatable phenomena which are prima facie inexplicable on any generally recognized hypothesis. From the recorded testimony of many competent witnesses, past and present, including observations recently made by scientific men of eminence in various countries, there...