Raymond; or, Life and Death: With examples of the evidence for survival of memory and affection after death.Lodge, Oliver, Sir
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Raymond; or, Life and Death: With examples of the evidence for survival of memory and affection after death.
Lodge, Oliver, Sir
Future life; Lodge, Raymond, 1889-1915 (Spirit); Spiritualism; World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, British
(The answer was apparently a faint "YES.")
O. J. L.--Have you any special message, or did you give Case a
special message?
YES.
O. J. L.--What was it?
SO IM NOT SO IM WUO
(Here some confusion was indicated; and M. F. A. L. said,
"Try and spell the name"--meaning for whom the message
was, if it was a message that was intended, which was very
doubtful.
It seemed to me that he was trying to say, or remember,
what he had said to Lieutenant Case, who saw him after
he had been struck; and that what he thought he had said
was "So I'm wounded"; but I thought it unadvisable to
continue on this tack, and rather regretted that I had
begun it, since it was liable to put him back into a
period of reminiscence which his friends would prefer that
he did not dwell upon. Moreover, these last few questions
did not seem particularly to interest him, and the
responses were comparatively weak. Accordingly, I decided
to switch him on to a topic that would be more likely to
interest him.)
O. J. L.--Would you like your mother to go and see a friend of yours?
(Some names of friends of his were now correctly given,
but as we knew them I need not reproduce this part.)
O. J. L.--I say, Raymond, would you like a Ford? [motor].
(After a moment's apparent surprise:--)
YES.
O. J. L.--Aren't you tired now?
Loud "NO."
M. F. A. L.--Raymond, I don't know Mitchell.
NO.
O. J. L.--Well, that will be better evidence.
YES.
O. J. L.--Is that why you chose it?
YES.
AER
MEDIUM (_sotto voce_).--No, that can't be right.
O. J. L. (_ditto_).--I don't know; it may be. Go on.
OPLANE.
O. J. L.--You mean that Mitchell is an aeroplane officer?
"YES" (very loud).
M. F. A. L. (misunderstanding, and thinking that he had said that he
would like an aeroplane in preference to a Ford).--Still at your jokes,
Raymond!
YES.
(Then again the table indicated, by slight rocking, that
the alphabet was wanted; and it spelt:--)
RAYMOND IS BEATING U.
(The sitters here made a little explanatory comment to
each other on what they understood this unimportant
sentence to mean; after which O. J. L. appears to have
said:--)
O. J. L.--I don't like bothering you.
Table moved, indicating that it was no trouble.
M. F. A. L.--Raymond, can you see us?
YES.
M. F. A. L.--Can you see that I have been writing to you? [See Part I,
p. 10.]
YES.
M. F. A. L.--Can you read what I am writing?
YES.
M. F. A. L.--How do you read it? By looking over my shoulder?
Table again called for alphabet and spelt:--
SENSE IT.
M. F. A. L.--Shall you ever be able to write through my hand do you
think?
(Silence.)
M. F. A. L.--Well, anyhow, you would like me to try?
YES.
O. J. L.--Raymond, have you plenty to do over there?
Loud "YES."
O. J. L.--Well, look here, I am going to give another name away.
NO.
O. J. L.--Oh! You prefer not! Very well, I will ask you in this way:
Have you met any particular friend of mine?
YES.
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