Cut off in the full flush of earthly passions which bind them to familiar scenes, they are enticed by the opportunities which mediums afford to gratify them vicariously.
In most ways--yes; but crazy on the subject of spooks, and mediums and things like that!
And, speaking of such things, are your mediums always happy, Aunt Abby?
I begged him to use all his mental powers to keep me in the right direction--oh, I have that poppycock all down fine--just as the mediums at the seances have.
In this record mediumsand psychometrists may read the past, upon the same principle as, under proper conditions, moving pictures are reproduced time and again.
Reflecting ether, impressions of universe recorded in, 69; mediumsand psychometrists read in, 70.
And the automatic writings of the mediums indorse this disrespectful view, for it is difficult to gather more idiotic slang than the emanations of these letters of the planchette.
It is usually impossible for the coincidence of time to be exact, because both mediums may not be sitting at the same time.
I have known mediums much more powerful in this respect, so that free conversation with one or two specially skilled communicators was quite possible, and interchange of ideas almost as easy as when the communicator was in the flesh.
She also received excellent confirmation through several other mediums whom she had discovered for herself--notably Mr. Vout Peters and Mrs. Osborne Leonard.
Mediums have perhaps but little conscious information to give us concerning their powers; we must learn from what they do, not from what they say.
The simplest kind is when two mediums both use the same exceptional word, or both refer to the same non-public event, without any normal reason that can be assigned.
For such evidence I must quote from the record of sittings held here in England with mediums previously unknown, and by sitters who gave no sort of clue as to identity.
Most mediums are able to convey a name only with difficulty.
The Countess and I were the only two persons who held the alphabet and pointed, and when she held it the mediums could not have seen the letters from their position at the table with regard to hers.
The two French women mediums were already in the room, and I am bound to say they did not attract me pleasantly nor impress me very favourably.
The mediums invariably went on to say that the female spirit was further on in development than the male spirit.
They tell me that it depends upon what the mediums or medias eat and drink," said Doodles, "and upon what sort of minds they have.
There are many cases of mediums speaking in languages which they did not know, but which the control, when incarnate, did.
Mrs. Piper and most of the mediums are normal people, and do their best when physically at their best.
And don't pretend that the Bureau has no record of mediums in New York City.
They aren't exactly liturgical and my Bishop would have a fit if he heard me mention them--he considers them on a par with mediums and spiritualism--but they have some value in restoring memory.
Naturally, under the leadership of our present Director, the New York office has made a close check on all self-styled spiritualistic mediums in this city.
I went to one of those mediums that Mrs. Jones knows about.
I do not look to visits to professional mediums for initiation into the higher mysteries of the human spirit.
To this day the memory of that critical emergency has made me feel charitable towards all mediums who make phenomena come in one way when they won't come easily in another.
In really strong mediums this knowledge seems to be abundant, though it is usually spotty, capricious and unconnected.
Socrates had his daemon, Joan of Arc her voices and visions, the Highlanders their second sight, Spiritualists their mediums and "controls.
And these, saith Scaliger, are good Mediums conjunctively taken, that is, not one without the other.
They claim that not all, but only those persons are mediums who are peculiarly susceptible to spiritual influences.
The mediumsall go into the trance by means of several spirits entering the body at one time.
French verse was the first born of all literary mediums in modern European speech, and the resources of ancient learning were certainly not less accessible in France than in any other country.
In all other mediums there is a slight desire to hide line, it merely serves as an accessory.
He sometimes tried experiments with different mediums in oil painting.
I sat with her through many seances, successful, barren, and indifferent, conducted by mediums of various nationalities.
We regard the Universe through the lens of five very imperfect senses, conscious all the time that there are certainly many more mediums for the expression of consciousness.
As may be supposed, a woman of such commanding presence who was known to possess a deep interest in the occult, could secure the services of the best mediums the world over.
Query: How did the mediums know, when they placed this table, that the spirits who "lent a hand" in the performance would act their play at that part of the table?
And the tricks of false mediums have been so often detected as to throw a shadow of doubt over everything connected with the asserted phenomena.
To the same class belong the cabinet performances and the so-called materialization of spirit forms, which have been the favorite cards of professional mediums of late years.
No repetition by new mediums of other forms of the exposed tricks carries any weight.
Of frauds under the name of mediums there has been an abundance.
One is that they are purely the result of fraud in the mediums and self-delusion in the believers.
I do not believe that thesemediums get any information or help from "spirits.
Mediums have told us nothing about astronomy, geology or history, have made no discoveries, no inventions, and have enriched no art.
I will not say that all mediumsare impostors, because I do not know.
I do not know that any medium has added to the useful knowledge of the world, unless mediums have given evidence of another life.
I have seen things done that I could not explain, both by mediums and magicians.
When not engaged in their calling, the mediums take part in the daily activities of the village.
When her parents made Sayang, the mediums called Bayon and his wife to come.
The writer has recorded these diams from various mediums in widely separated towns and has found them quite uniform in text and content.
They are generally told by the mediums or wise old people, during the ceremonies, but always to a crowd of eager listeners.
There are various methods of cooling transformers, the cooling mediums employed being 1.
To explain the unusual Refraction of Island Crystal by Pression or Motion propagated, has not hitherto been attempted (to my knowledge) except by Huygens, who for that end supposed two several vibrating Mediums within that Crystal.
For such Bodies will pass through uniform Mediums in right Lines without bending into the Shadow, which is the Nature of the Rays of Light.
For the Velocities of the Pulses of elastick Mediums are in a subduplicate Ratio of the Elasticities and the Rarities of the Mediums taken together.
For the resisting Power of fluid Mediums arises partly from the Attrition of the Parts of the Medium, and partly from the Vis inertiae of the Matter.
And for these Reasons the Density of fluid Mediums is very nearly proportional to their Resistance.
Those Superficies of transparent Bodies reflect the greatest quantity of Light, which have the greatest refracting Power; that is, which intercede Mediums that differ most in their refractive Densities.
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