LAST
CENTURY EXPERIMENTS
We were talking with a man who had
been on that side for many
years, and knowing that he had been concerned with the wave of
psychic phenomena that spread over
the country some seventy-five
years ago, we asked him to tell us
about it. He replied:—
"There was much real mediumship, but
all along material lines. I
was interested for a long time; but it did not lead to any better or
higher life, and did not impress me as being at all heavenly, so I gave
it up at last. No one knew the cause of the manifestations, and all were
hunting for some explanation. I could not see any good arriving from it,
and I tried to account for it in some logical material way. But it never
was explained satisfactorily to me until I came here, and could see for
myself just the influences and experiences that could go forth from
earthbound
spirits on this plane."
'I think I have been told that at times
you heard sounds like the steps of a dancer, a man whom you had known?'
"It was more of an impersonation. I
cannot explain it just as I
wish. But it was not my friend, only an imitation by the medium of some
characteristic of his. He had not at that time come into a very
advanced state, but could possibly have
sent an impression of himself to the medium. I have not learned the truth,
as he has advanced to a higher plane now, and I have not talked with him
about this appearance."
There seems to be a hint here that some
physical manifestations may not be directly caused by spirit; they may be
caused by suggestions from a spirit source, and carried out unconsciously
by the medium.
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