The mental picture thus evoked produces a corresponding effect in the astral body of the patient, and sets into operation the materialization of desired results.
I would be telling you but half the story did I not warn you that strong Fear may play the part ordinarily filled by Desire in the production of the psychic phenomena of materialization of mental pictures.
This was his first seance, and, unless Materialization becomes popular, it may be his last.
I do not care to discuss the question as to who or what Bertha is; I know she is not the medium, nor a confederate, and that her materialization of objects is genuine.
One of the most convincing proofs of materialization was the following: A lady, whom we understood to be a relative of Col.
Such a materialization is a counterpart of the entranced person; is, in fact, the spirit of that person clothed in a body not strictly its own, but composed of material largely drawn from it.
This is seen in the materialization of objects, which is important as being the only materializations outside the cabinet, and the only ones that we can study.
From these conditions materialization may broaden into more complex forms, always depending upon the currents of magnetic thought, and that central will-force that sweeps into its vortex all atoms necessary to its use.
Materialization is denounced by the learned and the ignorant, and in both cases the denial springs from the same cause.
If it has the strength or power to control other sensitives, it may manifest itself in remote places, either clairvoyantly or by materialization more or less tangible.
Well, it is materializationthat puzzles you, is it?
The materialization of Peter had taken place, and, as the spirit form slowly dissolved and faded from their view, there was left behind, lying on the table, an object that had not been there before.
Not the least of the reasons for this was the astounding account of the materialization of the tobacco pouch, detailed exactly as Benjamin Crane had told the story the night of the occurrence.
Materialization was easy enough for a charlatan, but, as had been said, where could she get the handkerchief to do the trick with?
It was not announced that materialization was expected,--Madame Parlato preferred it should not be, she said; so the friends were merely asked to a seance.
Don't you say it's really a materializationof a note from Peter!
She held out a hope of materialization later, but she wasn't sure she could compass that for some time to come.
Neither of these two would believe in the materialization of the tobacco pouch, yet neither of them could arrive at any satisfactory explanation of the incident.
It was a simple matter for Madame Parlato to persuade Benjamin Crane to allow her to hold a session there, promising him a probable materialization of his son, if allowed to attempt it in the scenes familiar to Peter Boots.
If we are successful, I can tell no more than you what form this materialization will take.
His ideas on what a tangible materialization was were of the vaguest: if it was anything like Professor Granger, he inwardly trusted the experiment would fail.
And the materializationof the objects is--Boy, that's noisy!
Every now and then the rear guard and the white men cast apprehensive glances rearward as though momentarily expecting the materialization of some long expected danger from that quarter.
A medium is not a Leyden-jar nor an Edison battery; materialization is not precisely a vaudeville 'stunt.
I was thus able to discover the origin of the substance of the materialization of the writing, and also its psychic origin.
I thought of Richet's observations (that in cases of materialization the psychic seemed shrunk and weakened), and narrowly scanned the helpless woman.
Certainly I cannot say in what materialization consists.
But, after all, the fact of materializationis so tremendous in its implications that even to admit its possibility is to admit more than any man of our day, who has been trained in scientific ways, is willing to be answerable for.
Apparently he would have us believe that materialization is a process due to the medium--or at least dependent on her will--and that these partially completed forms represent fragmentary impulses.
In actuating them to that end the Genius of the Species desired, for reasons which Schopenhauer described as inaccessible, the materialization of a particular being that could not otherwise appear.
Such an astral materialization is sometimes called the mâyâvirûpa, and to form it for the first time usually needs the assistance of a qualified Master.
This looks decidedly like an instance of the terrible power of man's unrestrained passions to reproduce themselves, and to cause in some strange way a kind of materialization of their record.
But it was positively a materialization of Sanford Embury's flitting spirit--and nothing else.
That I will do with pleasure, but I cannot guarantee his bringing about a materialization of --of Mr. Embury.
You have heard of materialization--materialization of departed spirits?
Since then an episode has warned me that the method by which I was expecting to acquire this money-- materialization upon a scale of limitless magnitude--is marred by a taint of temporary uncertainty.
The materialization was immature, the burglar has evaded us, this is nothing but a damned ancestor!
I will give a short account of a materialization which a very expert medium, who is on friendly terms with me, witnessed.
I could report enough cases of materialization to fill a volume.
The table also served a convenient purpose in the materialization and dematerialization through the floor.
The laws of materialization of Astral forms make it possible, under certain conditions, that the Astral Form become so thoroughly materialized that it may not only be seen but actually felt.
All occultists who have witnessed the materialization of an Astral Body will readily understand this statement.
In other words, a materializationis the appearance of an entity in bodily, tangible form, i.
Speaking now of materialization séances only--of which I have seen many--I may say that in all my investigations I have never seen one single instance of suggested or spontaneous hallucination.
Radiographs are difficult to obtain; a materialization generally loses its luminosity.
Finally, the facts of materialization and kindred phenomena, which find so ready and complete an explanation on this theory.
The materialization séances offer a sufficient example of this form of manifestation.
The miracle of the foetus taking human shape and soul, or of the oak rising out of the acorn and the brown earth is to me as baffling as the materialization of a spirit.
As the forming spirits attain materialization through occupation, they may remain in the City or go out into the other cities, and into the country to work and live.
In materialization some seem badly put together, and these resemble our former terrestrial bodies.
Spiritualistic phenomena themselves became more varied and complex; trance mediumship became a profession with a great increase of performers; slate writing was introduced and finally materialization was achieved.
Telepathy between the living is fairly well enough established to make this a not impossible hypothesis, and even materialization might be accounted for in the same way.
His studies of materialization are so vivid as to be uncanny and his photographs a series of documents which still await explanation.
They do not need a tempest for their materialization nor a supernatural play of lightning for their wild threats, and comparatively few storms occur in later fiction.
I am a clairvoyant and trance-medium, with materializationas a specialty.
When they had done, there was no one who cared to say a word for the Englishman or an Englishman, and Mr. Smitz announced that Confucius would be the next materialization and that all might address him in his native tongue.
This indicatedmaterialization of spirit forms and was so announced to us.
Soon after we got there the band concluded to abandon for the time being any further attempt to perfect the phase of materialization and demanded a tin trumpet, which was made according to their directions.
No matter which of these parties may triumph, it will be compelled, for the materialization of its tenets, as well as for the maintenance of its power, not only to make use of all the existing means of violence, but also to invent new ones.
Chapter III of Mark Twain's novel, The American Claimant, contains a scene between Colonel Sellers and Washington Hawkins which presents the extravagance of the Colonel's materialization scheme.
In due time Raymond reported favorably on the play, at least so far as the first act was concerned, but he objected to the materialization feature and to Sellers as claimant for the English earldom.
