The Problems of Psychical Research: Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the SupernormalCarrington, Hereward
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The Problems of Psychical Research: Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal
Carrington, Hereward
Parapsychology
Nausea and a strong desire for sleep were experienced by the subjects in
this series of experiments, as before.
The above is a very rapid summary of the report drawn up by Dr. Sydney
Alrutz, and read to the Sixth Psychological Congress, which met at
Geneva in August 1909. Professor Alrutz also attended the Congress in
person, and brought with him one of his instruments, which he desired to
try upon some of the members in the presence of a number of
psychologists. In several instances these attempts were entirely
successful; and Professor Flournoy, editor of the _Archives de
Psychologie_, was enabled to say of these experiments:
"Professor Alrutz invited me to assist in two seances, in which we
experimented upon some of the feminine members of the Congress who
desired to try it. The first, in which the subject was Mme. Glika,
yielded nothing conclusive. But at the second, at which Professor
Alrutz attempted to increase the force by adding two other members
of the Congress (strangers who had appeared to him to possess
suitable temperaments), it succeeded fully, and I was able to prove
conclusively after three trials, and under conditions precluding
all possibility of fraud or illusion, that the will of these
ladies, concentrated upon a certain material object with a desire
to produce a movement in it, ended by producing this movement as if
by means of a fluid or an invisible force obeying their mental
command." (_Spiritism and Psychology_, p. 291.)
So much for the testimony of Professor Flournoy and Professor Alrutz. In
view of the facts and the well-known caution of these investigators, we
may assuredly take it for granted that there is here no room for doubt,
and that the manifestations really took place as recorded.
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