I repeat, these incidents are odd and embarrassing for the spiritistic hypothesis.
No doubt these incidents are very embarrassing to the spiritistic hypothesis.
Now I'm ready to declare that the deaths of your two friends are positively not due to spiritistic wills, but are dastardly murders, cleverly accomplished by human hands and human brains.
Norma Cameron, herself an avowed 'sensitive,' had had no spiritistic visitant in the haunted room, and Eve thought Norma had doubted her word.
Of the spiritistic nature of the Babylonian pantheon small doubt remains.
If there are spirits, and if they have a certain access to human thoughts, and if the limitations of space are little felt by them, then the spiritistic theory would have an easier time than telepathy with the facts in this case.
There should be some limit to the handicap which, by way of courtesy, the spiritistic hypothesis allows to the telepathic.
The critics generally agree upon two points as the strongest against the spiritistic hypothesis.
In this report the sittings take up some two hundred pages, and Hodgson devoted about fifty pages to his reasons for accepting the spiritistichypothesis regarding them.
This consideration and those before associated with it seem to me more for the spiritistic hypothesis than any others which we have met so far.
The whole scheme seems to me akin to the Du-Prel and Myers scheme of making a man lift himself higher than his head by his own boot-straps; and beside it the spiritistic hypothesis seems simplicity and probability themselves.
But a proof that the spiritistic hypothesis will not fit these cases, is no proof that it will not fit the cases of G.
Prince would consider a probable number, and at what number the spiritistic hypothesis would begin to appear easier than the divided personality one.
It is not a rare thing inspiritistic seances, for two or three persons to enter into a state of somnambulism at the same time.
This appearance is all the more singular, in that it manifests in a centre where the spiritistic hypothesis is looked upon with disfavour.
It is to be noted, that I have observed this phenomenon with mediums, who had no familiarity whatever with spiritistic seances.
It is outside spiritistic circles that I have discovered the best mediums.
He himself acknowledges that one is never certain of the identity of the communicating intelligence at a spiritistic sitting.
If we are experimenting with spiritists or with people accustomed to spiritistic proceedings, the table, raising itself, will be seen to strike the floor with one of its legs.
This vision has also been seen, in the same crystal, by our medium's youngest sister, a girl of twenty, who is absolutely ignorant of spiritistic phenomena.
Probably spiritistic messages do not emanate from very well-informed witnesses.
The simplest way of provoking this automatism is in the ordinary spiritistic process of typtology.
Newbrough of New York, whom I understand to be now, or to have been lately, at the head of the spiritistic community of Shalam in New Mexico.
Somehow there was too much life, too much reality, to fit in with any spiritistic hypothesis.
Probably she felt that, since Sir Henry had gone on record as being doubtful of the spiritistic explanation of psychic phenomena, she might get into a controversy with him.
So far as any effect from these exposures was concerned, they were as harmless as those exposures of fraudulent spiritistic mediums which from time to time are supposed to shake the spiritistic superstition to its foundations.
In passing, I may say, for the sake of completeness, that I believe the magic of wonder to be almost entirely spiritistic in its nature, and that it consists of evocation and similar processes.
Theosophists and others would lead us to suppose that in the gloomy crypts of Egypt weird spiritistic rites of evocation and magical ceremonies of dark import were gone through.
That he also was fully aware of the spiritistic side of magic is certain.
None of these postulates fully applies to the spiritistic investigation.
I have just said that there were three methods employed in our spiritistic experiments.
Might it not be true that, like electric and magnetic phenomena, which are in close interchangeable connection, and frequently appear to us inseparable, animistic and spiritistic phenomena have a common bond?
The spiritistic communications were the reflex of the general ideas in the air.
Did we obtain, during the course of our ten seances with Eusapia, the one fact which is enough to make the spiritistic hypothesis necessarily take precedence of all others?
I have no personal ambition in the spiritistic line, and all the careful observations that I made during this seance of November 21 are only one stone the more contributed to the edifice of Truth.
It needed only unstable personalities, capable of self-induced trance states, so to widen all this as to supply the bases of spiritistic faith and the material for the immensely laborious investigation of the Society for Psychical Research.
The Very Small Number of Dependable Mediums Spiritistic literature is endlessly diffuse, but on the other hand the more dispassionate students rest their case on an unexpectedly small body of undiscredited evidence.
In France to a degree and in Germany strongly Mesmerism lent itself to spiritistic interpretations.
Three Possible Explanations of So-Called Spiritistic Phenomena Admitting the facts, there are three possible explanations.
On the other hand, if there should evidence an increasing and tested body of facts which can be explained only in terms of spiritistic communications, Spiritualism will naturally make headway.
She was for years under the constant observation of a capable group by no means unanimously sympathetic with the spiritistic hypothesis, and has never been detected in fraud.
If the phenomena under examination, then, cannot be explained in terms of animism and if the spiritistic hypothesis is gravely open to question, what explanation is left?
A representative group of its members, some of them men whose names carry weight in other regions, have been led by their investigations to adopt the spiritistic hypothesis.
Men whose names carried weight accepted the spiritistic explanation of phenomena ranging from broken flower pots to ghosts.
Here the psychologist is a better witness than the scientist and it is significant that psychologists have been slower to accept the spiritistic hypothesis than the scientist.
Richard Hodgson and Professor Hyslop were finally led to accept her trance utterances and writings as spiritistic revelations.
There is absolutely no evidence to justify the hypothesis of so-called "independent clairvoyance," advocated by occultists of every shade of spiritistic belief, and utilized by unscrupulous tricksters to dazzle the imagination of their dupes.
Equally indicative of the part imagination plays in constructing spiritistic phenomena is an experience of my own with a New York medium.
It is associated with professional spiritistic mediums, who lay claim to supernatural powers which they are ready, at a moment's notice, to exercise for all who are credulous enough to pay the fee they demand.
To the spiritistic seance, consequently, go grief-stricken men and women, skeptical perhaps, but fervently hopeful that their skepticism will be overcome.
Scheibner, at his rooms, in Leipsic, and obtained from him the following information concerning Professor Zoellner's Spiritistic experiments with Dr.
Pepper, to investigate Spiritistic phenomena produced through the Mediumship of Mr. Briggs (for an account of Mr. Briggs see a previous report).
Professor Weber seemed unwilling to speak decidedly on the subject, but showed that he leaned to the Spiritistic interpretation of the facts.
Perhaps no other investigation ofSpiritistic phenomena has exercised so strong an influence upon the public mind in America, at least, as that conducted by Professor J.
And, so far as the phenomena go to establish the spiritistic hypothesis, surely they are not to be lightly regarded because as yet they do not establish it more conclusively.
We have the testimony of many eminent authorities(2) to the phenomenon of the movement of physical objects without contact at spiritistic seances.
Consequently, even if one is prepared to admit the whole of modern spiritistic theory, nothing is thereby gained towards a belief in talismans, and no light is shed upon the subject.
His replies to the theistic and spiritistic reasonings of Descartes's Méditations are, like those of Gassendi, unrefuted and irrefutable; and they are fundamentally materialistic in their drift.
Besides this, detailed as his narrative is, it is lacking in precisely those details which would give it evidential value; so lacking, indeed, that even such a spiritistic advocate as the late F.
From this it would be an easy step to the development, in the neurotic child, of a full fledged secondary personality, akin to that found in the spiritistic mediums of later times.
Stevens's detailed record contains a reference which indicates strongly that the spiritistic tendency manifest from the onset of her trouble was to some extent predetermined.
And he derived little encouragement from the investigations carried on by Sidgwick, Myers, and himself in the field of spiritistic mediumship.
As everybody knows, his experiences with Mrs. Piper led him to unite with Hodgson and Myers in regarding the spiritistic hypothesis as the only one capable of explaining all the phenomena encountered.
But I also know that much of the so-called spiritistic phenomena is possible without the aid of "spirits," but by, the employment of the psychic astral forces and powers as stated in these lessons.
Some who are firmly wedded to the spiritistic theory resent the statement of occultists that this form of phenomena may be explained without the necessity of the "spirits.
It is evident, therefore,' concludes Lombroso, 'that a third will can intervene in spiritistic phenomena.
Yes," I agreed, "it's a slant at all commissions and committees who think they can jump in and settle this spiritistic controversy in the course of half an hour.
There was no premeditation in the act, and Miss Halsey, who was the librarian of the city, and a pronounced disbeliever in spiritistic theories, had never met Mrs. Smiley before.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spiritistic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
