No matter how well attested an apparition at the moment of death, singly it would indicate no telepathic communication nor other supernormal factor at work.
Are there any facts, amid all this superstition and ignorance, tending to show that genuine supernormal phenomena ever occurred at all?
Whether the phenomena were due to fraud or were the results of the operation of some supernormal force, or whatever their explanation, they were certainly not due to hallucination.
But what of those other (relatively rare) cases in which supernormal information, unknown to the sitter, is obtained?
I have no theory to offer as to the nature of these photographs, save that they appear to me to be genuine and supernormal from all the evidence and testimony that I have been enabled to obtain.
For the moment, I wish only to draw attention to the fact that, during these deep trance states, rapport was noted, and supernormal information frequently given.
Albeit, even as regards this thought-transference, we must be on our guard against a too rash acceptance of unknown or supernormal agencies in every bona-fide experiment.
Before any supernormal theory, we must admit the possibility of a normal communication, however far-fetched it may seem.
The question is whether, after making every allowance for shrewdness of eye, chance, coincidence, and local geological knowledge, the dowser has any instinctive or supernormal power of discovering the presence of underground water.
Flournoy, in spite of his long investigation, can find no explanation of the supernormal to fit the case.
It is often difficult to resist employing supernormal hypotheses; but, until normal hypotheses are exhausted, the resistance must be made.
What is the net result of the evidence for all classes of supernormal phenomena?
I should like to see a census of all the minds which embrace a belief in the truth of supernormal phenomena.
It will be seen, then, that not only increased but entirely supernormal perception on the part of some individuals is a well-established fact.
Through all these coverings the coppery emanation from the coin had penetrated her system, reached her tongue, and was perceptible to her supernormal taste.
A belief in supernormal perception, and especially in the clairvoyant vision, is apparent in the history, however meagre it may be, of every ancient nation.
The supernormal chain of events, the long succession of occurrences that were little less than miraculous, told their own tale.
It was impossible for any sane mind to be with Lluellyn Lys daily and not to recognize that some influence which was supernormal both in essence and fact made him what he was.
Perhaps, indeed, such occurrences as these impressed the great mass of the public more even than the supernormal occurrences to which Black's famous article bore witness.
New powers of unknown kinds, as already in those rare cases when the supernormal forces emerged, could only strain the machinery and cause disorder.
He opened his lips to speak, but could not find wise words, for he believed that she had guessed the truth, by some extraordinary and supernormal process of intuition.
Europe and America, as studies of abnormal orsupernormal psychological conditions.
The speeches of Mr. Fletcher and of Yoga Rama still further raised the expectations of the audience that they were about to witness that afternoon a demonstration of the power of mind over mind by supernormal means.
As regards the lady members with whom Yoga Rama tried a few experiments, they declared themselves, at the conclusion of the performance, to be believers in his allegedsupernormal claims.
On the whole, I think this extremely likely, but the rapidity and the certainty and dependableness of the power went far beyond anything that I could imagine as possible between people who depended on supernormal faculty alone.
With primitive man the order, even when perceived, is conditional upon the non-interference of assumed supernormal intelligences.
Actually, only one type of supernormal psychodeviant had been found--the telepath, the mindreader who could probe into the mental processes of others.
It was still mysterious; it was still magic; but now the weird machinations of the supernormal mind were something to be feared.
The contact of clothing with the table is sufficient to produce raps, which have nothing of a supernormal nature.
But I have reason to think it is not always so, and that a certain number of cases exists, in which knowledge of the past appears to be acquired in a supernormal manner.
The extraordinary facts with which Madame Vergniat's life was filled are not confined to those just related; she appears to have possessedsupernormal faculties right up to the last.
The first supernormal phenomena are raps and oscillations without contact.
Theosophists do not reveal to the profane the means they use to obtain supernormal facts.
If there be a positive feature in these supernormal facts, that feature in my opinion is their apparent irregularity.
Madame Agullana, at some seances where only a few experimentalists took part, gave proof of the possession of certain supernormal faculties, which I have not observed in the same degree of intensity at the usual sittings of her group.
At the same time, this objection is not paramount; for we know so little of the ways in which supernormal knowledge flows into the mind, that we are unable to make any negation concerning them.
If thesupernormal phenomenon delays, the inferior strata of the consciousness--whose morality often differs greatly from that of the active personal consciousness--realises it normally.
The tilting of the table need not be regarded as a 'physical phenomenon' in the technical or supernormal sense, yet it does not appear to be done by the muscles of those present.
The only alternative, in the best cases, is to imagine a sort of supernormal mischievousness, so elaborately misleading that it would have to be stigmatised as vicious or even diabolical.
It is by the content of the communication that its supernormal value must be estimated.
We see in travelling clairvoyance,[117] just as we see in crystal-visions, a kind of fusion of all our forms of supernormal faculty.
We shall need to consider a group of cases which might have been introduced at various points in our scheme, but which are perhaps richest in their illustrations of the supernormal phenomena of hypnotism.
For the present I must confine myself to a brief sketch of some of the main types of supernormal dreams, arranged in a kind of ascending order.
A raising of objects from the ground by supposed supernormal means; especially of living persons.
Open to the access of supernormal knowledge or emotion.
In our discussion of all telepathic and other supernormal influence I have thus far regarded it mainly from the psychological and not from the physical side.
But several years were to pass before she saw another ghost or gave evidence of possessing supernormal powers other than by occasional dreams of a prophetic and revelatory nature.
And there is always found to exist a correspondence between these several planes of manifestation; and, under supernormal conditions, a certain degree of possible communication between them.
There is a phase of prevision, or prophecy of coming events, however, that is not true clairvoyance at all, but simply the subconscious workings of the mind along the lines of a supernormal perception of the laws of cause and effect.
Yet his incisive critical faculty, as well as his love of music, also document the supernormal ante-pituitary.
It is when we come to consider the possibility of lowering the supernormal (in certain respects) to the normal, that we pause and hesitate.
Epilepsy and migraine certainly occur in people of no supernormal gifts, and often in degenerates and subnormals.
In any case, it is something to have perfected , as has been done in India, the empirical methods favourable to the production of supernormal phenomena.
A superior ethic, then, stands not for one man's supernormal insight, but for the acquired wisdom of a number of wise men.
At the same time he held by such fables as that of the floating island in the Nile and that of the supernormal Hyperboreans.
Medicated supernaturalism associated with prenatal influence occurs in various stories where a supernormaltwist is given because of some event out of the ordinary.
Fu-Manchu, the Chinese wonder-worker in Sax Rohmer's series of stories bearing that name, is a representative example of the modern use of chemistry for supernormal effect.
There are other examples of supernormal animals in modern fiction, yet these suffice to illustrate the genre.
Supernatural as well as human attributes have been extended to material things, as animals are given supernormalpowers in a sense different from and yet similar to those possessed by the enchanted animals in folk-lore.
It is true that the prevailing type of fiction for the succeeding period was realism, but with a large admixture of the supernormal or supernatural.
In fact these supernormal intimations seem to be generally heralds of the inevitable, rather than friendly envoys of any special Providence.
But that the knocks and rappings were in themselves absolutely genuine, and produced by some supernormal means, cannot be doubted.
Please do not think I got that by any supernormal means!
Don't think I'm telling you that from any supernormal source," she said.
This is simply to show that there was no abnormal condition of mind or body to produce the supernormal results that I have referred to.
My own experiences during this period of entrancement, or while in the supernormal state, may be of peculiar interest to the reader, since they seem to be almost unique.
But the circumstances fail to demonstrate that he had a supernormal premonition, or drew a correct deduction from Scripture, and make it certain that the Regent did not fall ill after his prophecy.
To Wishart Knox bore a tender and enthusiastic affection, crediting him not only with the virtues of charity and courage which he possessed, but also with supernormal premonitions; "he was so clearly illuminated with the spirit of prophecy.
