As to the levitations of the table, I said awhile ago that, when one of us showed an inclination to resist with his hand the upward movement, he received an impression as if the table were floating on a fluid.
During the levitations of the table the salon is lighted by a strong Auer burner.
As to levitations without touch our success was more decisive; but it was purchased at the price of a very considerable expenditure of force.
We repeat the same experiments thrice, in such a way that five levitations of the table take place in a quarter of an hour, and for several seconds the four feet are completely lifted from the floor, to the height of about nine inches.
During and after the levitations of the tables she has a feeling of pain in her knees; during and after other phenomena, in her elbows and all through her arms.
They have remarked that the force of the levitations is not diminished when the sitters are removed from the side of the table that is to form the fulcrum.
They show also rotations and levitations without contact, as well as glidings under the influence of a natural force hitherto only slightly studied.
Now how are these levitations and movements produced?
Several very remarkable table-levitations were observed and photographed by these gentlemen during their sittings.
We tried to produce rotations and levitations without contact, and had complete success.
During one of the levitations the experimenters did not touch the table at all, but formed the chain above it and in the air; and Eusapia acted in the same way.
Levitations of the table take place in full light.
At the commencement of the sitting several levitations of the table took place, and, when I asked the spirit who was present if he could let me see my daughter Rosalie, I obtained an affirmative reply.
And I may say that I now consider levitations as well established as any other physical facts.
In the matter of the levitations and elongations, however, it is not so easy to raise the cry of sheer fraud.
But they believe that mediums have remarkable psychic powers, and they admit levitations and (in many cases) materializations.
Barrett urge the levitations and other miracles of D.
I have once or twice obtained defective levitations with a non-professional medium.
This conjurer explained certainlevitations in a singular fashion.
Telekinetic movements are more difficult to simulate than levitations of the table with contact.
The levitations of the table were splendid--in obscurity--and all the furniture in the seance-room was more or less jostled about and displaced.
I myself have often obtained fine levitations in this way, but unfortunately in obscurity.
Levitations without contact can certainly be obtained by the same method, by simply forming a chain of hands around the table without touching it; but the results are less difficult to obtain when the hands are laid on the table.
I have observed more decided movements without contact with other mediums, but they have not given me levitations properly so-called.
I suspect that certain levitationswere among the number of these phenomena.
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