Phenomena of Materialisation; A Contribution to the Investigation of Mediumistic Teleplastics (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ...action once, and that without success. For this reason the position of the kinematograph is not shown on the Diagram. The electric contact for igniting the flash-light was provided with sufficient flexible wire to enable the author to work it from his seat. All the electric arrangements of the seance room derived their current from the house installation. Sitting Of The 25th July 1912. Present.--Mme. Bisson, Dr Specht, and the author. Negative. During this and all the following sittings Eva wore the well-known Paris seance costume, consisting of black tights, with stockings in one piece, and the black apron dress. As in Paris, Mme. Bisson, in our presence, sewed up the medium before each sitting in the room adjoining the seance room, after a bodily examination. The seam passed round her waist in order to join the tights to the dress, and then up from the waist to the neck, as well as round the wrists. The costume remained in my house, and was closely examined before and after each sitting by the sitters, with the help of an electric torch shining through it. Only after completing the preparation of the costume, and after searching the medium, did the two ladies enter the seance room together with the other sitters, the room then being illuminated with white electric light. Eva took her seat in the cabinet and extended her hands, Mme. Bisson taking hold of her thumbs. Hypnotisation was carried out, by fixation of gaze and suggestion, in thirty to sixty seconds. Mme. Bisson then sat back. One of those present closed the curtain and extinguished the white light, while the red light was burning all the time. The hypnotisation process described was the same in all the sittings. Besides the above precautions, the sitters also examined the cabinet...