Produced by Robert Baruch and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net PSYCHIC PHENOMENA A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE PHYSICAL MANIFESTATIONS OBSERVED IN PSYCHICAL RESEARCH WITH FACSIMILE ILLUSTRATIONS OF THOUGHT-TRANSFERENCE DRAWINGS AND AUTOMATIC WRITING BY EDWARD T. BENNETT ASSISTANT-SECRETARY TO THE SOCIETY OF PSYCHICAL RESEARCH, 1882-1902 WITH A FOREWORD BY SIR OLIVER LODGE NEW YORK BRENTANO'S MCMIX NOTE The writer desires to express his sincere thanks to the Council of the Society for Psychical Research for the permission given to make extracts from the _Proceedings_ of the Society, from the privately printed _Journal_, and from "Phantasms of the Living"; and for allowing the reproduction of a series of THOUGHT-TRANSFERENCE DRAWINGS. Also best thanks are due to Mrs. Myers, and to Messrs. Longmans, Green & Co., for permission to make quotations from Mr. F. W. H. Myers' great work, "Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death." Also to Mr. J. Burns and his brother, for freely granting permission for any use to be made of the James Burns 1873 Edition of the "Report of the Committee of the Dialectical Society." E. T. B. CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE I. INTRODUCTORY 11 II. THE MOVEMENT OF OBJECTS WITHOUT ANY APPARENT PHYSICAL CAUSE 16 III. THE PRODUCTION OF SOUND WITHOUT ANY APPARENT PHYSICAL CAUSE 31 IV. THE APPEARANCE OF LIGHT WITHOUT ANY APPARENT PHYSICAL CAUSE 35 V. PHYSICAL PHENOMENA IN THE PRESENCE OF DANIEL DUNGLAS HOME 41 VI. PHYSICAL PHENOMENA IN THE PRESENCE OF W. STAINTON MOSES 58 VII. THE DIVINING ROD 76 VIII. THOUGHT-TRANSFERENCE DRAWINGS 89 IX. MATERIALISATIONS 109 X. "SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPHY" 113 XI. THE SUMMING UP OF THE WHOLE MATTER 121 INTRODUCTION BY SIR OLIVER LODGE