Vast, indeed, and difficult is the inquirer's prospect here, and the most significant data for his purpose will probably be just these dingy little mediumistic facts which the Huxleyan minds of our time find so unworthy of their attention.
It does not really matter whether she has any phase of what they call mediumistic power or not.
The following quotations from mediumisticwriters will serve to illustrate this point, and to show that the best mediumistic authorities themselves insist upon this precaution being taken.
From the above, it will be seen that a mediumistic person may practice in psychometry, clairvoyance, and clairaudience, either with or without the assistance of the spirits.
There are two main reasons advanced for the necessity of the cabinet in this phase of mediumistic phenomena.
But, as all careful investigators of mediumistic phenomena well know, some wonderful results are still obtained, quietly and without publicity or notoriety, in many family or private circles.
It is not the purpose of this book to prove the existence of mediumistic phenomena--rather it points out the means and methods whereby the student may obtain such proof for himself or herself.
On the contrary, it is simply a matter of degree, and the same general principles underlie all phases of mediumistic phenomena.
Many so-called investigators of spiritualism are feverishly anxious to "see something," and are impatient and the comparatively slow order of developments at the home circle or at the careful mediumistic circles.
The orientals account for physical mediumistic phenomena in a similar way, though their terms are different.
They may be able to affect one mediumistic person and not another.
It is not at all to the discredit of any one's powers of observation or intellectual acumen to be deceived by the performances of a conjurer; and the same holds true of the professional part of mediumistic phenomena.
The psychological status of these and similar mediumistic phenomena must be interpreted in the light of our knowledge of hypnotic and allied conditions, of automatic writing, of modifications of conscious and subconscious personality.
With peculiar obliviousness to the double-edgedness of his remark, he writes: "If you think it all juggling, point out where the difference lies between it and mediumistic phenomena.
More especially is this true in the case of mediumistic messages.
I know of one famous alienist who confided to me his belief that a very large percentage of mediumistic cases could be found in hospitals for hysterical patients or in wards for the mentally unbalanced.
It concerns the question of darkness and its effect upon genuine mediumistic phenomena.
That is, the more mediumistic the sitter, the more likely would he be to perceive such hands.
The space A E F represents the area in which all kinds of confusion is possible, and it is within this area that most of the mediumistic messages come.
It is because of the rarity of this combination and this coincidence that mediumistic messages are so scarce.
It would seem to indicate that the controlling intelligence found it easier to convey its thoughts when the letters were before it, in plain sight--a very suggestive fact, taken in conjunction with certain mediumistic phenomena.
These demonstrations I thought were most remarkable, as I had never seen nor heard the like before, and they fairly attested the great mediumistic ability of Mrs. Green.
When coming within the radius of mediumistic aura we encounter obstacles great and difficult to overcome at their state of mediumship.
The following is a partial history of the development and mediumistic experiences of Mrs. Lizzie S.
In reply to a question, Mrs. Green said that she was about thirty-eight years old, and had been a clairvoyant since 1868, her first mediumistic inclinations having developed that year.
Also, there was conversation, mostly between Professor Agassiz and Mrs. Brown, as to when and how the Fox family first learned that they possessed this mediumistic susceptibility.
There seem to be also great variations of degree in which it is possessed by different persons, constituting differences of mediumistic power.
How To Converse With Spirit Friends" tells you how you may develop mediumistic powers, so as to be able to receive messages from the other world when sitting alone.
In any event in this way the combination of mediumistic and detective talent was broken up.
This would have been quite characteristic of her, although I have always thought she had some mediumistic faculty, and was one of the many people whom I should advise to leave these matters alone.
He had merely said how much interested he had been in meeting Mrs Peters, and that she evidently had some mediumistic power.
On this occasion we were ushered into a much more imposing drawing-room, and the lady herself was evidently some degrees higher in the social scale than our first mediumistic friend.
It is not necessary for you to do so; she says you have enough mediumistic power for her to be able to communicate with you directly.
I can assure you that all he does is done solely by means of his mediumistic powers.
The Youngest of theMediumistic Pioneers Will "Give the Snap Away.
Among Mr. Cleaveland's parishioners was a young woman, Miss Edith Wright, who developed mediumistic abilities, being controlled at times by what purported to be a discarnate spirit.
Piper, whose remarkable mediumistic faculty was first made known to the scientific world by Professor James thirty years ago, and who has since been repeatedly investigated by leading members of the Society for Psychical Research.
When the appointed time came, a slender form, draped in gauze, emerged from the mediumistic cabinet into the darkened seance room, and saluted him with a joyful cry of "Husband!
Take the three cases just cited, and which are typical of mediumistic communications.
He had discovered, by chance as he thought, that he possessed mediumistic powers in an unusual degree, and had begun then to take up the life as a profession.
I repeat, mediumistic experience can show other instances of this kind.
Rochas tells us of Eusapia's youth:-- Her first mediumisticmanifestations began at the age of puberty, when she was about thirteen or fourteen years old.
Up to this day, I have sought in vain for certain proof of personal identity through mediumistic communications.
In the mediumistic writing experiments it is very easy to deceive ourselves and to believe that the hand is under the influence of another mind than our own.
According to this theory, mediumistic phenomena would lose their mystic or mystifying character and would pass into the domain of ordinary physics and of physiology.
Perhaps the most curious thing of all is that they have a family resemblance in the manner of their execution, and have stamped on them, in some way or other, the mediumistic hall-mark.
Here are some extracts from this report:[38] Nearly ten years have passed since Eusapia Paladino made her first appearance in the memorable seances at Milan during the course of her mediumistic tours through Europe.
Mediumistic experiences might form (and doubtless soon will form) a chapter in physics.
And in another passage she says:--"As soon as I have entered the mediumistic cabinet my first impression is of being covered with spider webs.
It is easy to understand that the mediumistic person, finding this wonderful dramatic and creative faculty within himself or herself, is sometimes tempted to turn it to personal advantage; and succumbs to the temptation.
It cannot be denied that, under mediumistic conditions, one does not write in his usual fashion.
Stillman had a friend whose daughter was mediumistic and he decided to experiment.
This was evidently part of themediumistic apparatus.
Obviously, also, she was an uncommonly good developing medium, or, in other words, her constitutional properties were such as greatly aided spirits to develop the mediumistic susceptibilities of other persons.
Evidences of mediumistic capabilities in either the afflicted or the afflicters are worthy of distinct observation, and therefore we draw attention to the statement that the yellow-bird "hath been several times seen by the children.
Mediumistic Sarah Good, because she was highly mediumistic, would naturally be a brilliant and attractive object in the field of vision which the inner eyes of other mediumistic ones might be able and attracted to survey.
The detailings of facts and experiences not rare in that mediumistic family, were no confession of anything like what the public in any age has been accustomed to designate by the term witchcraft.
It shows that when about six years old this mediumistic girl had become so developed that her spirit could commune with her mother's, independently of their bodies.
The presumed mediumistic properties of her mother, together with her own apprehension that presence with the girls might bring renewal of her own old fits, indicate that she probably was quite mediumistic.
Thus we find her organs of sense subject to just such control as invisible intelligent operators exercised over prophetic or mediumistic ones of old, and such as spirits exercise over many mortal forms to-day.
And it is a significant fact that all the mediumistic ones then, both accusers and accused, escaped ever falling into the prevalent habit of accusing THE DEVIL.
Mediumistic proclivities run much in families, about as much as musical ones do; and the capabilities for either mediumistic or musical performances are measurably constitutional and transmissible.
They all came to this experiment perfectly sure that no mediumistic phenomena could endure the light of science.
Bottazzi gives much space to these 'mediumistic explorations of the cabinet.
Bottazzi grimly says: 'We began by restraining her inexhaustible mediumistic activity.
He says: 'The mediumistic limbs explored the cabinet.
Bottazzi pauses to generalize: 'Whatever may be the mediumisticphenomena produced, there is almost always at the same time movement of one or several parts of the medium's body.
How are we to explain that man has lived to this day with his domestic animals never suspecting that they harboured mediumistic or subliminal faculties as extraordinary as those which he vaguely felt himself to possess.
To obtain these movements it is enough, but it is also indispensable that those who form the "chain" should include a person endowed with mediumistic faculties.
In default of telepathy proper, I inclined toward the mediumistic or subliminal theory, which was very ably outlined by M.
From the maybe enchanted atmosphere that surrounds numbers we shall pass more easily to the even more magic mists of the final theory, the only one remaining to us for the moment: the mediumistic or subliminal theory.
For the present, it simply relegates to posthumous regions, phenomena that appear to occur within ourselves; it adds superfluous mystery and needless difficulty to the mediumistic mystery whence it springs.
I will not speak here of trails discovered and followed in an almost mediumistic manner, after an object of some sort has been sniffed at.
I can assure you that all that he does is done solely by means of his Mediumistic powers.
Horace Howard Furness, on Mediumistic Development, Sealed Letters, and Materialization were the occasion of acrimonious and violent attack on the whole work of the Commission by those periodicals devoted to spiritualism and its propaganda.
In addition to the answering of sealed letters sent to him by mail, this Medium exercises his Mediumistic powers on questions propounded to him, or rather to the Spirits through him, at his own home.
Mansfield, with a request that it be subjected to hisMediumistic power.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mediumistic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
