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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 37 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 64239 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 74 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 27 Mr. 21 Mrs. 15 God 14 Dr. 12 man 11 Miss 9 time 9 spirit 9 Professor 8 New 7 London 7 England 6 medium 6 Sir 6 Lord 6 Christ 5 life 5 good 5 Lady 5 Church 5 CHAPTER 4 person 4 look 4 like 4 hand 4 case 4 York 4 Spiritualism 4 Society 4 Piper 4 John 4 Home 3 table 3 power 3 great 3 come 3 William 3 Spirit 3 Slade 3 Paris 3 Mrs 3 Fox 3 Crookes 2 thing 2 spiritual 2 rap 2 place 2 mind 2 little 2 illustration Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 4778 man 4765 time 4211 hand 3907 spirit 2906 medium 2788 table 2602 day 2544 thing 2422 room 2409 life 2299 fact 2133 year 2116 case 2091 way 1978 world 1944 person 1849 friend 1814 power 1784 nothing 1782 one 1748 mind 1727 place 1561 name 1548 eye 1542 house 1527 people 1518 phenomenon 1498 light 1447 word 1425 moment 1401 woman 1398 child 1367 part 1330 mother 1324 body 1314 night 1269 head 1254 face 1233 question 1233 matter 1210 force 1209 subject 1168 form 1151 condition 1132 side 1107 foot 1106 death 1101 work 1101 other 1092 something Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 18910 _ 3491 Mr. 2239 Mrs. 1348 Dr. 1193 God 959 Archie 942 Miss 755 M. 686 Professor 654 Medium 607 New 579 Mrs 547 spirit 538 Sir 496 Spiritualism 452 William 428 Lord 428 Delapine 405 PETER 393 Mr 387 England 371 Victor 370 John 369 Riche 368 Eusapia 367 Villebois 359 Spirit 357 London 348 Christ 343 © 335 Piper 328 Lady 324 Society 322 i. 320 Footnote 309 Jessie 309 A. 298 York 294 George 291 de 282 Tabor 280 Renée 279 Dr 277 Home 272 Miller 270 sà 268 Paris 264 Helena 259 Pierre 256 Fox Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 32554 i 24432 it 18749 he 13516 you 10665 she 9625 we 8768 they 8658 me 6273 him 5243 them 4531 her 3235 us 1500 himself 1091 myself 838 themselves 710 herself 692 itself 587 one 276 ourselves 267 yourself 137 mine 81 yours 73 his 59 ''s 58 hers 56 thee 48 ours 33 theirs 14 ''em 8 ye 7 yourselves 7 thyself 7 oneself 4 i''m 3 you''re 3 meself 3 jessie 3 hypnotism 3 ay 2 yu 2 you,--you 2 said--"but 2 ii 2 em 2 andrews 1 younger,--you 1 you!--you 1 yacht,--she 1 wicked"--i 1 why!--you Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 90415 be 31595 have 11105 do 8258 say 6441 see 5146 make 4877 come 4707 know 4349 go 3986 take 3943 give 2867 find 2826 think 2653 tell 2433 seem 2371 look 2248 ask 2172 hear 2023 call 1982 write 1844 get 1779 feel 1678 speak 1672 leave 1610 believe 1606 hold 1564 appear 1548 become 1545 follow 1529 put 1395 sit 1365 bring 1349 show 1304 pass 1273 stand 1254 turn 1215 begin 1187 produce 1173 let 1138 live 1130 use 1083 move 1079 try 1000 receive 996 read 974 keep 964 want 931 meet 911 place 909 understand Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 18403 not 6260 so 4673 very 4345 more 4104 then 4008 other 3660 only 3304 up 3298 now 2716 out 2564 such 2553 well 2549 great 2517 little 2491 own 2489 as 2443 first 2441 most 2255 same 2209 much 2167 good 2147 many 2138 here 2117 again 2015 never 1909 long 1879 even 1643 also 1603 just 1594 old 1586 down 1512 there 1446 still 1351 too 1348 once 1341 far 1325 all 1315 back 1312 last 1287 away 1235 present 1231 few 1225 quite 1194 ever 1182 always 1176 yet 1142 certain 1103 on 1100 true 1076 human Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 635 least 462 good 456 most 219 great 205 high 144 slight 86 low 78 early 71 bad 67 near 53 Most 47 eld 43 late 42 strong 42 small 41 manif 37 simple 30 large 30 deep 25 dear 21 young 21 fine 20 faint 19 pure 15 old 15 easy 14 strange 14 noble 13 wise 13 close 12 dark 11 full 11 common 11 clever 10 bright 9 sure 9 remote 9 gross 8 rich 8 minute 8 mere 8 l 8 happy 7 wide 7 warm 7 heavy 7 grand 7 big 7 able 6 weak Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1985 most 95 least 75 well 4 worst 3 near 2 highest 2 farthest 1 wrest 1 vaguest 1 smallest 1 newest 1 merest 1 manifest 1 lowest 1 latest 1 emptiest 1 easiest 1 clearest Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 www.gutenberg.org 2 archive.org 1 www.archive.org 1 gallica.bnf.fr Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43237/43237-h/43237-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43237/43237-h.zip 1 http://www.archive.org/details/hydesvillestoryo00todd 1 http://gallica.bnf.fr 1 http://archive.org/details/spiritland00emmo 1 http://archive.org Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 32 _ is _ 29 _ was _ 28 _ did _ 25 _ had _ 23 _ know _ 18 _ do _ 14 _ do n''t 14 nothing is more 13 _ are _ 12 _ did not 11 one does not 10 _ have _ 10 medium is not 10 time went on 9 _ do not 9 _ knew _ 8 _ am _ 8 _ saw _ 8 _ see _ 8 time is not 8 world is not 7 _ believe _ 7 _ think _ 7 _ was not 7 name was not 7 things are not 7 world has ever 6 _ does _ 6 _ is not 6 _ were _ 6 house was full 6 phenomena are not 6 spirit did not 5 _ does n''t 5 _ knows _ 5 _ seemed _ 5 _ was over 5 cases are not 5 man does not 5 medium had not 5 men do not 5 spirit is not 5 spirits is not 5 thing is certain 4 _ are not 4 _ feel _ 4 _ feeling _ 4 _ known _ 4 _ said _ 4 _ see also Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 time is not yet 2 _ are not gods 2 friend is not dead 2 hands were not so 2 time has not yet 2 time is not so 1 _ do not _ 1 _ giving no adequate 1 _ is not here 1 _ is not supernatural 1 _ is not that 1 _ made no communication 1 _ was not _ 1 _ was not excited 1 _ was not offensive 1 _ were not _ 1 case did not merely 1 case is not uncommon 1 case is not very 1 cases are not analogous 1 cases are not infrequently 1 cases are not rare 1 cases are not unknown 1 cases are not very 1 cases were not mine 1 day is no match 1 day is no reason 1 day is not far 1 eyes were no longer 1 facts are not all 1 facts are not true 1 facts did not sufficiently 1 facts do not always 1 facts were not doubtful 1 friend had no name 1 friend was not able 1 friends had no power 1 hand is not there 1 hand was not wholly 1 hands are not always 1 hands is not necessary 1 hands were not once 1 life does not always 1 life does not essentially 1 life had not much 1 life has not yet 1 life is not yet 1 life is not yours,--nor 1 lives are not infinitesimal 1 man had no idea A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 19342 author = Alpheus, A. title = Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use date = keywords = CHAPTER; Cocke; Dr.; Luys; Mesmer; Mrs.; Paris; Piper; case; hypnotic; hypnotism; person; subject summary = CHAPTER IV--How the subject feels under hypnotization--Dr. Cocke''s evidence that persons in the hypnotic state have (sometimes) remarkable geniuses would be good hypnotic subjects), still such persons have not a magnet and electricity may affect persons in the hypnotic state, and "The hypnotic state can be produced in one of the following ways: First, HOW TO WAKE A SUBJECT FROM HYPNOTIC SLEEP. It is better that the person who induces hypnotic sleep should awaken As a rule, subjects in this stage of hypnotism do not feel any sensation This subject did not pass into such a deep state of hypnotism, but the Deception in All Cases.--Confessions of a Professional Hypnotic Subject. conditions did not follow the subject was in a hypnotic trance; but it suggestion made during the hypnotic condition as to what a person will The operator hypnotizes the subject, and when he is in deep id = 21041 author = Bates, E. Katherine (Emily Katherine) title = Seen and Unseen date = keywords = A.M.; America; Bates; Colonel; England; Forbes; God; Gray; Greenlow; Henry; Hodgson; India; Lady; London; Miss; Mrs; Myers; New; Peters; York; friend; room; time summary = Now, as a matter of fact, my friend was noted for her beautiful hands, The veil this time was materialised in the usual way, my friend going up minutes (having arrived very punctually), Mrs Gray looked at my friend, night, though it had come and gone long before four A.M. It is necessary to remember that the sun rises about three-thirty A.M. during the end of December or first week in January out there, so it in Yorkshire, at the very time when a dear old friend of mine (Mrs dear, kind old man!" Mrs Wedgwood said; then turning round, she added: asked Mrs Wedgwood to come up into my room before she returned to of the second young man as they left the room, and was told later that Long years passed, during which I neither saw nor heard of my friend. time_ my poor friend might come to realise that his boy was "as much id = 13319 author = Belasco, David title = The Return of Peter Grimm date = keywords = BATHOLOMMEY; Belasco; CATHERINE; FREDERIK; Grimm; JAMES; MACPHERSON; MRS; Mr.; PETER; REV; WILLIAM summary = The scene of the play is laid in the living room of Peter Grimm''s home at [_Thinking--ignoring_ FREDERIK.] He''s a great old man--your uncle. time._ JAMES _posts the letters in a mail-box outside the door._ PETER PETER _calls "Come in,"_ WILLIAM, _a delicate child of eight, stands [_Looking after_ JAMES.] Uncle Peter, when I came in this [_Seeing_ WILLIAM.] Circus day comes but once a year, little _There is a pause._ PETER _stops short, looking at_ WILLIAM. speaking so as not to be heard by_ CATHERINE.] Frederik, I want to think [_Coming back to_ PETER _and looking at him transfixed._] Uncle CATHERINE _comes from_ WILLIAM''S _room, simply dressed in white--no touch [MARTA _re-enters from_ WILLIAM''S _room and closing the door comes down JAMES _looks at_ CATHERINE, _then at_ FREDERIK. makes you think Peter Grimm is in this room? I believe Uncle Peter Grimm was in this room id = 37917 author = Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic) title = Across the Stream date = keywords = Abracadabra; Archie; Bampton; Blessington; Cousin; Davidstow; England; Harlow; Harry; Helena; Jeannie; Jessie; Lady; London; Lord; Marion; Martin; Master; Miss; Schwarz; Silorno; Tintagel; William; come summary = "But I want to come in now," said Archie. father said, "Take good care of Master Archie, William. "Oh, mummy, that will be lovely for you," said Archie, remembering that usual, and Archie''s father came out of his room, looking vexed, and Then came bed-time, and Archie, still excited, said his prayers with a "Archie, open your door immediately," said his father. "Certainly I don''t want Archie to think that," said his mother. "Archie, we''re going to Grives in a few days," she said. "I should think I ought to know best," said Archie. "Oh, Archie, I wish I wasn''t going away," she said. "Cousin Marion thinks it''s time you went to bed," said Jessie. "Just come for a cocktail, father," said Archie. "Yes, mother and Jessie," said Archie, pouring himself out some whisky. "I know: this doesn''t come very well from me, Archie," he said. "Yes, Archie, I should love to come," she said. id = 34475 author = Brackett, Edward Augustus title = Materialized Apparitions: If Not Beings from Another Life, What Are They date = keywords = Bertha; CHAPTER; Fay; Mr.; Mrs.; cabinet; form; medium; séance summary = Near the close of the séance, the lady who sat next the cabinet said two forms that appeared to be materialized, the medium, and myself! The forms that came from the cabinet were either personations by the I have known persons to visit séances many times without receiving any At Mrs. Fay''s, on Thursday, Oct. 6, 1885, previous to the séance, Mrs. Fay came into the room under the control of "Auntie," and requested that Mrs. Sawyer''s, the spirits lead the medium out of the cabinet; that at Mrs. Fay''s the forms often take the visitors into the cabinet and show them not only the medium but the materialized control,--are things which form, and not a personation by the medium. In the materializing séance come, for the time being, living, breathing, PERSONIFICATION BY THE MEDIUM OF MATERIALIZED FORMS _changed to_ PERSONIFICATION BY THE MEDIUM, OR MATERIALIZED FORMs id = 4251 author = Corelli, Marie title = The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance date = keywords = Aselzion; Brayle; Captain; Catherine; Derrick; Diana; Divine; Dr.; Dream; God; Harland; Loch; Love; Miss; Mr.; Nature; Rafel; Santoris; Soul; Spirit; Swinton; Universe; death; eye; face; good; life; light; like; look; man; mind; thing; way; world summary = "So did I love work when I was your age,"--he said--"I thought I could "Dear old Sol!" said Francesca, shading her eyes as she looked at the "You speak like an oracle, fair lady!"--said Mr. Harland--"But despite "Well, Catherine, then,"--I said, smiling a little--"Surely you know "You talk like a poet,"--she said--"And of all things in the world I "Her sails must surely be lit up in that way by electricity"--said Dr. Brayle, who had been watching her attentively--"But how it is done and "She came into the loch like a flash,"--said Captain Derrick--"I saw "You''re sure you do not mind?"--said Harland, then, opening his eyes movement of her little hand, had swept away a life,--and as I looked A look of wonder and rapture came on his face like the light of "I think your day''s outing has done you good," she said--"You look "Why do you look at me like that?" she said. id = 36512 author = Cruikshank, George title = Second Edition of A Discovery Concerning Ghosts With a Rap at the "Spirit-Rappers" date = keywords = Dr.; Home; Mr.; Mrs.; Veal; ghost; hand; like; question; spirit; table; time summary = details as to the _person_ and _dress_ of a Ghost; and in a work which short story about the ghost of a lady appearing to her friend. appears that this was reported to be the ghost of a poor gentleman of to the light of day some more facts about ghosts from the _dark_ side night there appeared to him in his bed-room the ghost of a stout old for a "play bill!"), in which the ghost or evil spirit of a drummer, or SPIRITS OF CLOTHES, why, then, it appears that GHOSTS NEVER DID APPEAR, question on the table, for the spirits to rap out an answer--viz., as table, and there the spirit sat, but, like ''Banquo''s'' Ghost, _invisible these supposed spirits, their mediums, and their friends should _place_ satisfied unless they could see these spirited ghosts "knock each brain he had the _appearance_ of a person or ghost constantly by his id = 36908 author = Culpin, Millais title = Spiritualism and the New Psychology An Explanation of Spiritualist Phenomena and Beliefs in Terms of Modern Knowledge date = keywords = Feda; Footnote; Lodge; Mr.; Oliver; Raymond; Sir; chapter; consciousness; man; medium; power; unconscious summary = of cells forming the body of man, has evolved the power of sensing and time, the subject living, as it were, the life of the dissociated of dissociation and repression, and of the working of the unconscious, suggestion, as every confidence-trick man knows; the writer of dissociated stream of consciousness, and this would make it account for In my account of the water-diviner I suggested that his dissociated dissociation, his stream of consciousness being filled by the feeling of thought'' explains why a dream sometimes expresses an unconscious desire dissociated stream whilst the main personality of the subject is for the The medium (or, in this case, Feda) tells Sir Oliver Lodge (see pp. medium told Sir Oliver about the existence of the photograph, but the of evidence is produced in this case, and I am shown a spirit photograph the medium and one the believer--work into each other''s hands results id = 33506 author = Davenport, Reuben Briggs title = The Death-Blow to Spiritualism: Being the True Story of the Fox Sisters date = keywords = Commission; Dr.; Fox; Jencken; Kane; Leah; MEDIUM; Maggie; Margaret; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Seybert; Spiritualism; York; seller summary = eldest sister, Mrs. Ann Leah Fox Underhill, who is now the only remaining I have given in the following pages, the real lives of Mrs. Kane and Mrs. Jencken, in so far as they bear in any important degree upon the Mrs. Kane paused here, and I heard first a rapping under the floor Mrs. Margaret Fox Kane says at the present time: "The sounds which were heard at those times," says Mrs. Kane in her Mrs. Margaret Fox Kane says, further: "My father did not believe in investigated the source of the "raps." Mrs. Kane says that one of the "mediums," and Mrs. Underhill asserts that at times plentiful "rappings" Mrs. Kane, at the "Spiritual Mansion," not only produced pretended Even the investigation of the remarkable "rappings," produced by Mrs. Kane, in which the Commission engaged--while less successful than any The second séance in which Mrs. Kane acted as "medium" took place at the id = 1638 author = Doyle, Arthur Conan title = The New Revelation date = keywords = Christ; God; Mr.; case; life; man; message; spirit; time summary = changed in such cases, but the body through which the spirit worked, good thing, as keeping us in touch with the spiritual world. evidence proved that actual appearances of the dead person came with thought-reading at one end, and the actual manifestation of the spirit who go the length of saying that the phenomena and messages come from If a person comes to me with an account of life in some further certain the fact of life after death, the base of all religion. spirit body was possibly so far material as to be more visible to a In connection with the general subject of life after death, people may The cases of spirits who give good proof of in Mr. Dawson Roger''s life, a very good case of a spirit who called life-time here, they pass to some further state of existence; that id = 39718 author = Doyle, Arthur Conan title = The Wanderings of a Spiritualist date = keywords = Adelaide; Arthur; Australia; Bailey; Brisbane; Britain; Christ; Church; Conan; Doyle; Dr.; England; God; Government; Hall; London; Melbourne; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Professor; Sir; South; Spiritualists; State; Sydney; Zealand; british; good; great; man; time summary = House Ball.--The Rescue Circle again.--Sitting with Mrs. Harris.--A good test case.--Australian botany.--The land of myrtles.--English cricket team.--Great final meeting in Melbourne. works of man, are flanked by great sky advertisements of various brands one of those great men like Sir Ronald Ross, whom the Indian Medical of these good, kind people was aboard, bearing great bunches of wild the fittings of a man-of-war, and a great impression of cleanliness and the need for good living in a way which meets their spiritual wants, Of my psychic work at Auckland there is little to be said, save that I said, "Above your head I see a man, an artist, long hair, brown eyes, man who has spent great part of his life studying the subject, and As an example of how it works, some years ago a Melbourne man named many cases by large proprietors who work great tracts with few hands, so id = 439 author = Doyle, Arthur Conan title = The Vital Message date = keywords = Christ; Christianity; God; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; case; come; great; life; man; medium; power; spirit summary = is to be remembered that Christ''s life in this world occupied, so far attention to Christ''s life as compared to His death, and the new concerning Christ, the gentle, loving and powerful spirit which broods one hand, you had a material, earth-bound spirit of a low order of forms of mediumship, the direct voice and spirit photography, have also In the case of the direct voice one of the leading exponents is Mrs. French, an amateur medium in America, whose work is described both by voice in the case of four different mediums, two of them amateurs, and of these various accounts as to the conditions of spirit life. great Christ spirit, the very soul of reason, of justice, and of of spirit life and have lived entirely for the earth, its cares and these powers were contained always within His human body, or how far He id = 43237 author = Emmons, Samuel B. (Samuel Bulfinch) title = The Spirit Land date = keywords = Bible; Boston; CHAPTER; Christ; Davis; Dr.; England; Folger; God; Gypsy; John; Lord; Matthias; Mr.; Mrs.; New; York; case; day; effect; great; man; person; place; scripture; spirit; thing; time summary = This ignorance a cause of many superstitions.--Case of a person heard.--Inverted objects.--Visions of the world of spirits.--Case spirit.--Answers given by a succession of _raps_.--Account of a with the _rapping_ spirits.--Tables and chairs moved, sounds heard, --Letters received from the spiritual worlds.--The _Spirit Journal_, person approaching the tree, in a given time, would be magnetized, and having considered all things, and cast his eye upon the house, said, Bible and key turn round in the mean time, the person named is A Mrs. Draper, of Rochester, New York, had an interview with Dr. Franklin, at one time, while she was in a magnetized state. things are emanations from the spirit world, we are bound to believe tables, chairs, and the like, or that _spirits_ produce the noises and We have heard the case of a person who went to a medium and wished to present at the time; thus proving that the mind or spirit in the body id = 44349 author = Evans, Henry Ridgely title = Hours with the Ghosts or, Nineteenth Century Witchcraft Illustrated Investigations into the Phenomena of Spiritualism and Theosophy date = keywords = Blavatsky; Dr.; FIG; Home; Keeler; London; Madame; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Priestess; Slade; Society; Theosophical; York; american; hand; illustration; medium summary = Persons calling themselves mediums present certain phenomena, Some years ago, the most famous of the slate-writing mediums was Dr. Henry medium makes an exchange of slates, returns to the table, washes both I shall now sum up the subject of Dr. Slade''s spirit-slate writing, (Fig. 3) and endeavor to show how grossly exaggerated the reports of the the slate the medium presses the writing on the paper against the surface small table within the enclosure by the right hand of the medium, had it "To have produced the phenomena by using his right hand the medium would explanation of the phenomena, was the grasp of the medium''s hand on Mrs. Gillespie''s arm. persons, including the medium, sat around an ordinary-sized table in Mr. X--''s drawing room, and formed a chain of hands, in the following manner: spiritual world by means of "spirit-rapping," "medium writing," "physical id = 39279 author = Flammarion, Camille title = Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author''s Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants date = keywords = Brisson; Cook; Crookes; Dr.; Eusapia; Flammarion; Fontenay; Gasparin; Home; Katie; Lombroso; Mathieu; Miss; Mme; Mr.; November; Paladino; Paris; Professor; Rochas; Society; Spiritualism; William; experiment; force; hand; illustration; medium; movement; phenomenon; place; spiritualistic; table; time summary = The medium next places her hands with ours upon the table, and the taps 7. During séance experiments, phantoms often appear,--hands, arms, a head, Several persons group themselves about a table, place their hands upon it, my left hand placed upon the table was in contact with that of my lift his hand about eight inches above the table and taps three times medium sat at the same narrow end of the table, with her hands persons seated about the table place their hands on it, and form the that at the same time the medium had her hand placed upon the upper I take a little table, and direct Eusapia to put her hands on it. In fact the movement of the large table took place almost 1. A small table, on which the hands of four persons were placed id = 22593 author = Garland, Hamlin title = The Shadow World date = keywords = Blake; Bottazzi; Cameron; Composer; Crookes; Dr.; Eusapia; Fowler; Garland; Harris; Miller; Miss; Mitchell; Mr.; Mrs.; Professor; Smiley; Wilbur summary = medium may mean nothing--on the part of a psychic like your friend Mrs. Harris it means a very great deal. "Mrs. Smiley, you are to sit here," I said, drawing an arm-chair to the As Mrs. Miller, a quiet little woman (not so far removed from Mrs. Smiley''s own type), entered the door and greeted us both, the psychic''s After surveying the room, Mrs. Smiley turned to me with a note of satisfaction in her voice, and said: "Now," said I, "I am going to ask Mrs. Miller to fasten this long tape right hand on the psychic''s left and touched fingers with Mrs. Miller. table with both Mrs. Rose''s hands and my own resting upon the slates _I "I am very close to the ultimate mystery, Mrs. Smiley," I said, as I placed my hand upon her wrist. "What was the psychic doing all this time?" asked Miller. id = 34250 author = Garland, Hamlin title = Victor Ollnee''s Discipline date = keywords = Aiken; Altair; Bartol; Carew; Frenson; Joyce; Leo; Lucy; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Ollnee; Pettus; Stinchfield; Victor; Wood; like; man; mother; voice summary = moved to the city I know my mother set up her ''ghost-room'' again." "Victor," said his mother, and her tone was one of relief, "these are my Mrs. Joyce led the way down the creaking stairs, and Victor, following His mother said, sharply, "You mustn''t do that, Victor." She took up the "You may take the slate, Victor," said Mrs. Ollnee. Mrs. Joyce went on: "Come to my house to-night for dinner. He thought of Mrs. Joyce, knowing that his mother would want to have her It was a long time before the calm, cultivated voice of Mrs. Joyce came Victor was all for throwing things in their faces, but Mrs. Joyce In consenting to the removal of his mother to Mrs. Joyce''s home Victor feel like a fraud every time I see Mrs. Joyce handing out one of those He remained silent as Mrs. Joyce rose and went to his mother. id = 35681 author = Grierson, Francis title = Psycho-Phone Messages date = keywords = America; England; Europe; France; French; Germany; Grierson; House; Mr.; New; President summary = Ingersoll, on Our Great Women; Henry Ward Beecher, on the New Puritanism; caused by this great work in London at the time of its appearance. Germany, Italy, Austria and England before the great war, and after having As I write, I have before me a unique collection of letters written to Mr. Grierson by men and women eminent in philosophy, art, music, literature and cause a revolution, found a new empire to include France, Belgium, The new political and commercial dispensation for the English-speaking English and American business men are limited in general knowledge. Thousands of people move in a world of material shadows while their souls, spiritual power, aided by men who understand the difference between children, that a man who has lived forty years in the world of action Such conditions will be repeated in different countries until people learn America food profiteering began during the Civil War. This national vice id = 34988 author = Hooker, Brian title = The Professor''s Mystery date = keywords = Bob; Carucci; Crosby; Doctor; Lady; Maclean; Miriam; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Paulus; Reid; Sheila; Tabor; good; like; little; look; man; sure summary = Miss Tabor said nothing but looked across to her father. "Look here, Mr. Tabor," said I, more calmly, "I don''t know what you have "I think I understand you now a little better, Mr. Crosby," she said. "Mrs. Carucci has been hurt," said Miss Tabor. "I was just going to ask you about that," said Lady, with a queer little have spoken a few words while Lady was getting out of the car and Mrs. Carucci was helped down and half-carried into the house between the two got a look at you or Lady or the car who would be likely to have mind "Mr. Tabor," I said, "there''s a man named Maclean in the other room, who to be Mrs. Tabor''s came voices, Lady''s full and sweet, her mother''s "Hold the line a moment," said I; and as I turned, there was Mrs. Tabor id = 56713 author = Johnson, G. Lindsay (George Lindsay) title = The Weird Adventures of Professor Delapine of the Sorbonne date = keywords = Beaupaire; Céleste; Delapine; Dieu; Dr.; Duval; Emile; François; General; God; Henri; Madame; Mademoiselle; Marcel; Monsieur; Mr.; Paris; Paul; Payot; Pierre; Professor; Renée; Riche; Roux; Villebois; Violette; footnote; good; hand; look; tell summary = "This sounds like trifling with our common-sense," said Pierre to Renée "Come, let us follow the ladies to the drawing-room," said Villebois "My dear Delapine," said Riche, "you surely do not believe in "Permit me to ask you one question, my dear doctor," said Delapine. "Good evening, dear Renée," said Pierre, holding out his hand and "He cannot be far away," said Villebois, as the latter and Riche left "Now," said Delapine, as Riche and Villebois returned from the "Professor," said Monsieur Payot after Delapine had had a good rest, "Ma foi!" said Riche to himself, "I can''t leave Delapine like this. "Riche, come here," said Villebois, looking at Delapine, "do you notice "Look here, monsieur," said Villebois, pointing to a little swollen "Monsieur Payot," said Villebois, "I cannot let you leave to-night. "When Henri comes back to me I will ask him," said Renée as she looked id = 563 author = Kennon, J. L. title = The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants, a Psychic Revelation date = keywords = CHAPTER; Christ; Divine; Earth; Father; God; Kingdom; Mars; martian; planet; spiritual; truth summary = Chapter I.-EROS URIDES, of the City of Urid, planet Mars, the Author, introduces himself and his book THE PLANET MARS AND ITS INHABITANTS. are ready to stimulate the living of the Christ-Life on other Planets. the Planet Mars, its people, its form of government, its Art, It appears that Jesus the Christed One of God visited the planets of Years ago, as you measure time, I was an inhabitant of Mars, your characteristics of Mars, compared to your Earth are, in a general way, Through God''s love does man inhabit a portion of the material universe, most Important centers of population on the planet Mars. penalty for having forgotten God, is unknown on this planet Mars. time on Mars would correspond to 32 years on your Earth. All of the people on Mars have lived on other planets before, except Art on Mars typifies man''s spiritual and material progress on this id = 12353 author = Lang, Andrew title = The Making of Religion date = keywords = Angus; Creator; Dr.; Ellis; Father; Footnote; Garcilasso; God; Herr; Hume; Huxley; Inca; Indians; Israel; Jehovah; Lord; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Pachacamac; Parish; Piper; Professor; Sir; Spencer; Spirit; Sun; Supreme; Tylor; Zulus; animism; australian; ghost; man; religion; savage summary = these gods became supreme, and, at last, was regarded as the one only God. Meanwhile man retained his belief in the existence of his own soul, follow Mr. Tylor''s example, and collect savage _beliefs_ about visions, phenomena helped to originate the savage belief in ''spirits,'' and when he an alien soul, ghost, spirit, or god, taking up its abode in a man, and On the theory of savage philosophy, as explained by Mr. Tylor himself, a man''s soul may leave his body and become visible to regard, like ancestor-worship, it differs from the belief in a Supreme nature and origin, things which would suggest to a savage his theory of On this theory ''the lowest savages'' are devoid of the idea of god or of in human affairs;'' which is not a Jesuit idea of God. In all missionary accounts of savage religion, we have to guard against savages, obscured later by ancestor-worship and ghost-gods, but not id = 39212 author = Marryat, Florence title = There is No Death date = keywords = Annie; Church; Colonel; Cook; Eglinton; England; Fitzgerald; Florence; Joey; John; Katie; Lady; Lean; London; Marryat; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Powles; Showers; Spiritualism; come; time summary = I was having a sitting one day in my own house with a lady friend, named man, and an intimate friend of mine), but the spirit came so many times The old friend whose spirit visited me through Mrs. Fitzgerald had lost little girl with the blue flowers was my spirit child, "Florence," whose follow the advice given her, as it will do harm instead of good." Mrs. Cook added, "I don''t know to what ''Florence'' alludes, of course, but I room and write the name of the friend I loved best in the spirit world "That is likely enough," said Mrs. Volckman; "but if she comes again she placed in my hand, telling me to follow her and look at her medium, spirit said, "Then look round this way, and see what I was like in earth "Mrs. Powles" said, "I cannot come out further into the room to-day. id = 51743 author = McCabe, Joseph title = Is Spiritualism Based on Fraud? The Evidence Given by Sir A.C. Doyle and Others Drastically Examined date = keywords = Arthur; Crookes; Doyle; Home; Lodge; London; Mr.; Mrs.; Professor; Sir; Slade; medium; spiritualist summary = spirit-photographs, lights and music in the dark, messages from the I have seen unpaid mediums, men and women of the world, cheat The "evidence" afforded by mediums like Mr. Vale Owen, and the myriads of quite recent automatic writers and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in effect, recommends two further mediums as wonderful medium by Sir Oliver Lodge, and who was detected and exposed A few months later Herne and Williams, the professional friends of Mrs. Guppy whose spirit-controls had wafted that very voluminous lady as of the living medium, not spirits, does these things, and they talk of a spirits can rap on floors, or on the medium''s chair, let the table be ask us to believe that a medium can get the head of a ghost on a plate, medium and gave sittings to Spiritualists. mediums use in these spirit messages. in any way in communication with spirits is a "medium." The word does id = 61807 author = Page, Charles Grafton title = Psychomancy: Spirit-Rappings and Table-Tippings Exposed date = keywords = Fox; God; girl; new; person; power; rap; rapping; spirit; table summary = spirit-rappings, or table-tippings, which cannot be explained upon rap out intelligence by sounds, get under tables and tip them over, spirits would not communicate, and the table would not tip, _certainly Do you think that rappings and table-tippings give respectability to in spirit-rapping and table-tipping? in spirit-rapping and table-tipping? tricks of raps and tips to the direct agency of the devil, or evil or table-tippings to electricity, magnetism, or some new fluid, goes of power; but according to this new table-tipping philosophy, we spirits rap nowhere except directly _under the girls, and about their "Are there any spirits present?" was again asked, and the raps came with the facts, that is the right spirit was designated by the raps, the spirits had rapped upon his foot, while sitting at a table. of Rochester spirit-rappings and table-tippings. all along been believing that the spirits tipped the table, and that id = 30540 author = Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart title = The Gates Between date = keywords = Brake; Doctor; Dr.; Faith; God; Helen; Mrs.; Thorne; life; little; look; love; man; time summary = this slender woman whose eyes, like the sword of flame, turned this way forty-six years old, and a Darwinian,--I loved my wife like any common, I had lived to be almost fifty years old, and no person had ever said: wish I''d married a woman with a little wifely spirit!--or else not by which a man must manage his horse, come life or death. "I should not like to be the man who has got to tell Helen." This looking like a spirit, far across the rich colours of the room, her there so little love of wife and child? Thoughts like these came to me so quietly and so naturally, now, that I "I don''t understand it, Doctor," she said, with something like old days on earth, to learn to do, and like any live human baby I was conscious of a wish to turn the great man''s thought id = 36312 author = Putnam, Allen title = Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism date = keywords = Ann; Boston; Burroughs; Calef; Christendom; Cotton; Devil; Elizabeth; God; Good; Hutchinson; John; Margaret; Mather; Morse; Mr.; Mrs.; Osburn; Parris; Powell; Putnam; Salem; Sarah; Satan; Tituba; Upham; Village; man; spirit summary = time and common sense, but cause human physical science to bring within immediate source of the devil''s power to act upon visible man and matter. extent of witchcraft facts, than we generally get from other persons of of Mather''s great personal witchcraft devil of supernal origin, vast spirit action upon persons and things in earth life, he cannot perhaps impersonal force at times might cause supernal knowledge and power infatuation, he could have learned from passing developments that Mrs. Hibbins probably, at times, was essentially a liberated spirit, hearing for at that day faith was common that the devil had not power to accuse a testimony to the general fact that spirit action took sensible effect upon spirits, they might be, at times, able to _sense_ the fact that forceful man or some other spirit, or even some impersonal natural force, gained spirits and the devil; and also between persons whose inner senses were id = 19376 author = Sage, Michael title = Mrs. Piper & the Society for Psychical Research date = keywords = George; Hodgson; Hyslop; James; Moses; Mrs; Pelham; Phinuit; Piper; Proc; Professor; S.P.R.; Society; Stainton summary = by Phinuit--Mrs Blodgett''s sitting--Thought-reading introduce Dr Hodgson, the man who has studied Mrs Piper''s case with the When such a man, after long study of Mrs Piper''s phenomena, Professor William James asked Phinuit, during a mediumistic trance, to At this first sitting Mrs Piper felt very strange thrills, and thought speak of Mrs Piper, and as she had never seen a medium, she asked for a At another sitting, Phinuit said to Professor James, who this time was At another sitting Phinuit said to Professor James, "You have just Mrs Piper told Dr Hodgson that Phinuit had often been shown medicinal At one of the first sittings[38] Dr Hodgson had with Mrs Piper, Phinuit question--Is Phinuit a different personality from Mrs Piper, or is he Miss Warner had two sittings with Mrs Piper[58] five years after George Professor Hyslop had once been present at one of Mrs Piper''s sittings, id = 14675 author = Smolnikar, Andrew B. (Andreas Bernardus) title = Secret Enemies of True Republicanism Most important developments regarding the inner life of man and the spirit world, in order to abolish revolutions and wars and to establish permanent peace on earth, also: the plan for redemption of nations from monarchical and other oppresive [sic] speculations and for the introduction of the promised new era of harmony, truth and righteousness on the whole globe date = keywords = Christ; Church; Convention; Emperor; Era; Mr.; Napoleon; New; Peace; Pope; President; States; Sunday; Union; United; german summary = attend those conventions, and then to commence with power the New Era. Therefore I thought, that a trial should be made, whether the United I did not know at that time, that the spirit of my Lord was preparing me man and the spirit world, they are reading many signs of the times, instead of having received our message of Peace, did all in their power welfare, and having been a great medium of spirit manifestations before opportunity to stop and write in her house, great spirit manifestations our ground, he would have assisted us to open the door for the New Era. But he returned to the sects, from which spirits commenced to manifest great prophecy regarding the peace of nations was published on Easter he instead of having studied my books and examined our message of Peace publishing this book, we read on the 42d page: "The same time a great id = 30403 author = Todd, Thomas Olman title = Hydesville The Story of the Rochester Knockings, Which Proclaimed the Advent of Modern Spiritualism date = keywords = Bell; Fox; Mr.; Mrs.; Rochester; house; rap summary = Hydesville, in the house of the Fox Family, are those by which Modern Mrs. Britten and Mr. Owen were personally acquainted with the Fox family the Spiritual Movement and the history of the poor Fox Family and their The family of Mr. and Mrs. Fox consisted of six children, but at the time of the manifestations the house was occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Fox house before the Fox family came to live there. investigations, a pedlar called at the house one afternoon whom Mrs. Bell seemed to recognise as an acquaintance. the Bell family, the sounds continued to be heard, not only by Lucretia From the time the Fox family entered the house at Hydesville, about continued to ask it to rap the ages of different persons--naming constantly on the Fox family to enquire if their spirit friends had have caused the rappings first heard by the Fox sisters in 1848 has been id = 11950 author = University of Pennsylvania. Seybert Commission for Investigating Modern Spiritualism title = Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed by the University of Pennsylvania to Investigate Modern Spiritualism In Accordance with the Request of the Late Henry Seybert date = keywords = Cabinet; Commission; Committee; Dr.; Fullerton; Furness; Leidy; Medium; Mr.; Mrs.; Pepper; Professor; Sellers; Seybert; Slade; Spirit; Zoellner summary = the slates had been held by both hands of the Medium for a long time in table; on these hands the Medium places his own and the séance begins. With his right hand the Medium holds the slate up a second slate, and placed it in the hands of the same Medium, with Medium laid her hands upon the table and tried to produce "raps," but slates, after being held for a long while by both hands of the Medium At the time at which the slate was passed to the hand of Mr. Sellers, under the table, the Medium compelled me to sit around in a Light turned up--both slates held by the Medium under the table--no the Medium asked Dr. Leidy to put his hand also upon a slate which the One of the Slate-writing Mediums, with whom we held several séances, Spirit,'' a remark which a long experience with Slate-Writing Mediums has id = 42318 author = Wells, Samuel R. (Samuel Roberts) title = The Salem Witchcraft, the Planchette Mystery, and Modern Spiritualism With Dr. Doddridge''s Dream date = keywords = Christians; Church; Corey; God; Holy; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Nurse; Parris; Planchette; Rebecca; Salem; Satan; Tragedy; Upham; Vol; mind; person; spirit summary = ignorant old women; whereas, in his day, they had come to be persons spirit or mind, regarded as in direct opposition to the world of matter. of her own mind at the time; and when frivolous questions are asked, minds of the persons present, although it frequently gives theories in his wife''s mind when she asked the question, were supposed to be stated that those young persons whose hands were on the Planchette knew _I._ True, but the Bible calls the spirits thus communicating, "familiar medium at all; and why spirits can not, as a general rule, communicate foundation of a new thought in your mind by asking, Do you know of any How shall a good and Christian person who knows and has felt the truth not." This Satan was a person ever present in the mind of Christ. faith in spirits; minds which are empty, swept of all spiritual belief, id = 36730 author = Willson, Beckles title = Occultism and Common-Sense date = keywords = Lord; Miss; Mrs; Novel; Piper; Professor; Psychical; Research; Sir; Society; William summary = _In any case, as I said in a letter published in_ The Times, _so long case of spirit apparition or materialisation, coincident dreams, well to bear in mind Mr Andrew Lang''s timely remark, "there is a point closed eyes, of course), and presently he thought he saw "something went to the drawing-room, opened it, and to my astonishment saw came to my room and said: ''I believe my wife died last night, little, and had not seen for a very long time, though he lived other hand observe how many cases we come across where the phenomena After a time, in well-known cases, they appear to need no inducement to mediums purporting to be controlled by spirit power, whose _séances_ are _séances_ were carefully recorded by the medium''s friends, Dr and Mrs after case in the Society''s reports, but in all the time Mrs Piper has id = 36009 author = nan title = A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead date = keywords = CHAPTER; Cincinnati; Cooper; Ehrenborg; God; Green; Helleberg; Lord; Madam; Mars; Mr.; Mrs.; Stebbins; Swedenborg; dear; good; life; man; spirit; spiritual; time summary = New Years'' Greetings from many of my dear Spirit Friends and persons think that when the change called death comes and the spirit is hard for spirits to communicate with friends on earth, but often difficult In the evening of the same day I was at a materializing seance at Mrs. Cooper''s, where the following persons besides myself were present: Mr. Cooper, his wife, Mrs. Annie Cooper, the medium; Dr. Joseph R. my dear spirit friend, Mrs. Fredrika Ehrenborg, through the medial power was Madam Ehrenborg''s.") During the trance state of Mrs. Green, the spirit time the two worlds--the spiritual and material--of Mars are so closely NEW YEARS'' GREETINGS FROM MANY OF MY DEAR SPIRIT FRIENDS AND NEAR beautiful spirit communications this coming year, I bid you good day. at the time he came to me upwards of fifty years in spirit life. The spirits, after writing on Mrs. Green''s slate for about an id = 43346 author = nan title = The Other World; or, Glimpses of the Supernatural (Vol. 2 of 2) Being Facts, Records, and Traditions Relating to Dreams, Omens, Miraculous Occurrences, Apparitions, Wraiths, Warnings, Second-sight, Witchcraft, Necromancy, etc. date = keywords = Church; Dr.; Editor; England; God; John; Lady; London; Lord; Lyttelton; Medium; Mr.; Mrs.; Rev.; Sir; Spiritualism; Supernatural; Weld; World; Wynyard; spirit summary = said College, and dead some years ago, a friend of Mr. Shaw''s, in the on the day and at the very hour on which the friends had seen his spirit my dear uncle, how could the spirit of a living man appear?'' said Examples of Apparitions at the time of Death to friends and relations are, The following Account of the Apparition of a murdered man, near the place The following example of the appearance of the spirit of a dying woman to night''s experiences:--''Having entered my room,'' said he, ''I locked and spirit only, who, in fact, appears to live a second life on earth in union places, while "spirit hands" were seen and felt as palpably as mortal phenomena of the appearance of spirit-forms manifested itself. was ''No!'' ''Accursed spirit,'' said I, ''leave the room.'' The table then The following Letter appeared in "The Times" newspaper a few years ago:--