Mysterious Psychic Forces: An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European SavantsFlammarion, Camille
Philosophy
Mysterious Psychic Forces: An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants
Flammarion, Camille
Parapsychology -- Investigation; Spiritualism
At ten o'clock it rises from the side of the medium, who withdraws her
hands, the other persons holding their hands lifted up. The same
effect is produced three times. The second time, while the table is in
the air, M. Antoniadi declares that he is leaning on it with all his
weight and is unable to lower it. The third time, M. Mathieu leans on
it in the same way and experiences the same resistance. During this
time, Eusapia holds her closed fist about four inches above the table,
looking as if she were strongly grasping something. The action lasts
several seconds. There is no doubt whatever about this levitation.
When the table falls back, Eusapia experiences something like a
relaxation after a great effort.
At 10.03 the table is lifted clean off its four feet at once, at first
on the side opposite to the medium, rising about eight inches; then it
falls abruptly back. _While it is in the air, Eusapia calls her two
neighbors to witness that they are closely holding her hands and her
feet, and that she is not in contact with the table._
Then light raps are heard in the table. Eusapia makes M. Antoniadi
lift his hand about eight inches above the table and taps three times
upon his hand with her fingers. The three taps are heard
simultaneously in the table.
To prove that she is not using either her hands or her feet, she sits
down sidewise upon her chair on the left, stretches out her legs, and
puts her feet on the edge of the chair of M. Antoniadi: she is in full
view and her hands are held. At once the curtain is shaken in the
direction of M. A.
From 10.10 to 10.15, several times in succession, five raps are heard
in the table. Each time the gas is turned down a little, and each time
the table moves without contact.
At 10.20 it balances itself, suspended in the air, and resting upon
the two legs of the longer side. Then _it rises off of its four feet
to a height of eight inches_.
10.25. The curtain moves, and M. Flammarion says that there is some
one behind it, that somebody is pressing his hand. He holds his hand
out toward the curtain, at a distance of about four inches. The
curtain is pushed out into something like a pocket made by a hand
which is drawing near. The medium with nervous laugh cries, "Take it,
take it." M. A. feels through the curtain the touch of a soft body,
like a cushion. But the hand of M. F. is not taken. Objects are heard
to move, including the bells of a tambourine.
All of a sudden the medium, leaving M. Mathieu, stretches her hand
above the table toward M. Jules Bois, who takes it. At this moment,
behind the curtain, an object falls to the floor with a great noise.
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