Barrahneil was most eager to see a superphysical manifestation.
In the midst of his many interests and activities, Crookes was filled from his youth with a longing to find by empirical means the bridge leading from the world of physical effects to that of superphysical causes.
Accordingly, everything combined to suggest to Crookes that here, if anywhere, he was at the boundary between the physical and the superphysical worlds.
A mere continuation of this path could lead to nothing but a loss of all connexion between the plant's superphysical and physical component parts.
Normally a definite spiritual type co-ordinates the dynamic functions present in the superphysical sphere of nature in the manner required to give the plant-organism its appropriate form.
It is only by its interactions with gravity that levity brings about events in the physical world-events, however, which are themselves partly of a physical, partly of a superphysical kind.
Christina was not a nervous woman; she had hitherto discredited all ghost-stories, and was quite the last person in the house to accept the theory that the present disturbances were due to any superphysical agency.
The moment I crossed the threshold of my room, that peculiar and indefinable sensation that invariably suggests the immediate proximity of the superphysical came over me, I felt sure the house was haunted.
I noticed these idiosyncrasies of person and dress directly, the nature of the light accentuating them, and my senses being, as they always are in the presence of superphysical phenomena, wonderfully and painfully acute.
The time when human vitality is at the lowest, and superphysicalphenomena the most common.
Fitzsimmons was not normally nervous, and on the subject of the superphysical he was decidedly sceptical; but he could not help admitting that it was queer, and he began to wonder whether there was not some other way of getting home.
I was unmistakably aware of some superphysical influence; but that influence, unlike the majority of those I had hitherto experienced, was decidedly attractive.
I have come across cases where there seems little doubt a family is labouring under some malign superphysical influence.
Few think of ghosts or of superphysical influences.
He could detect the presence of the superphysicalboth in the atmosphere and also in the shadows.
I never believed in the possibility of the superphysical before, but I am convinced of it now.
Yes, I am inclined to believe it was a case of suggestion, but of suggestion due to somesuperphysical objective presence that actually put the words of the story into the mouth of the narrator.
I have already stated that it is quite possible to separate the superphysicalfrom the physical body, and for the former to manifest itself either visually or auditorially, or both, at any distance from the latter.
One can only surmise that the act was an inconsequent one on the part of the Elemental, or that it would have revealed more to her had not some unexpected interruption recalled Miss Featherstone's superphysical self.
I have alluded in one of my former works to the only really satisfactory instance in which I have consciously projected my superphysical body, though I have made various attempts.
All superphysical spirits, whether earth-bound spirits of the dead or Elementals, have the power of materialisation, though the conditions under which they may do so vary considerably.
An instant more, and I feel my presence would be revealed to the sitters, but at the critical moment something mysterious happens, and my superphysical ego is sharply recalled to my physical body.
In the first place, it is necessary that the person desirous of acquiring the property of lycanthropy should be in earnest and a believer in those superphysical powers whose favour he is about to ask.
For instance, at a new moon, cusp of Seventh House, and cojoined with Saturn in opposition to Jupiter, sinister superphysical presences are much in evidence on the earth.
But though the evil eye denotes an evil superphysical influence, the werwolf is not necessarily possessed of it.
Its appeal is general and lasting in that it portrays in story form the ever existing conditions on the superphysical planes.
Thus we see that there are various grades of spiritual sight, each suited to the superphysical realm which it opens to our perception: Etheric vision, color vision and tonal vision.
I have merely developed within myself, some of man's additional senses in order to acquire the faculties through which it is possible to speak of glimpses into superphysical regions.
We must close this chapter with one more question, which is likely to arise: How may one attain to superphysical truths, and, of what help are spiritual movements towards this attainment?
Therefore, when a mystic undertakes to explain something of the superphysical nature of man, and of the destiny of the human soul and spirit before birth and after death, he is at once confronted with that fundamental demand.
Again, there are those who cautiously reject any information pertaining to the superphysical because to them it does not seem reasonable.
Nothing less than that the mind which is engaged upon physical investigation may assert the right of judging experiences of superphysical nature.
I could never discover whether Lady Holkitt or her daughters ever saw anything of a superphysical nature in their house; after my experience they were always very reticent on that subject, and naturally I did not like to press it.
So far, beyond my feeling that there was a superphysical something in the house, nothing had occurred.
Of course I knew Miss Bosworth was no sceptic--the moment my eyes rested on her I saw she was psychic, and that the superphysical was often at her elbow.
The moment the candles were extinguished the grimness sensibly increased, and he could feel all around him, thickly amalgamated with the ether, a superphysical presence, at once hostile and horrible.
But in numerous passages the author has realized how poor the means of presentation accessible to him prove to be in comparison with what superphysical research discovers.
It seems indeed almost impossible that a person should admit in a certain sense the reasons why knowledge of superphysical worlds is unattainable, and should yet speak about those worlds.
Human understanding, as it works in everyday life and in ordinary science, is actually so constituted that it cannot penetrate into superphysical worlds.
And so also should the vegetable world, for I have myself seen trees violently agitated, as if with paroxysms of the most sublime terror, before the advent of superphysical phenomena.
Unquestionably he could not have done so, unless—well, unless he had suddenly acquired superphysical properties, and projected his immaterial body after the manner of one of the phantasms about which he was so fond of writing.
From the impressions I got, when walking on the Common at Blackheath, I shall always believe that the superphysical influences there are particularly demoralising.
They want proof of it—that is to say, absolutely authentic and corroborative evidence that it exists—and they feel that they can only obtain such evidence by witnessing superphysical manifestations themselves.
Neither my informant nor any of the soldiers from the Front that I have met have been able to give me any information as to the alleged superphysical demonstrations in the sky during the retreat from Mons.
Let those who doubt this study the superphysical all around them.
It was All Hallow E'en, but there was no hempseed sowing, for no one in the house but myself took the slightest interest in anything appertaining to the superphysical or mystic.
Parrots do not appear to be very susceptible to the influence of the Unknown, and indicate little or no dread of superphysical demonstrations.
The deaths of the three children laid to rest any doubt I may have had with regard to the superphysical playing a part in the death of Marthe.
This is but one, albeit perhaps the most striking, of the many methods through which the superphysical endeavours to get in immediate contact with the physical.
They will then see how close a relationship there really is between the animal and superphysical worlds.
I have never yet had a cat with me that has not shown the most obvious signs of terror and uneasiness both before and during a superphysical manifestation.
It is pointed out that they could speedily convince the world by a display of superphysical force.
The scientific mind instantly grasps the inherent reasonableness of the existence of superphysical beings.
There is every conceivable grade of clairvoyant power and some degree of superphysical sensitiveness is becoming rather common.
From both a psychological and superphysical point of view the case had interested me from the first.
However, though my own experiences are not worth recording, I have heard of many extraordinary results obtained by others--results from automatic messages that one can not help believing could only be due to superphysical agency.
The laws that govern the superphysical are not known to us at present.
They have invariably proved themselves to be superphysical danger signals, the sure indicators of the presence of those grey, inscrutable, inhuman cerebrums to which I have alluded; of phantasms of the dead and of elementals of all kinds.
With regard to the phenomena of superphysical bestialities such as dogs, bears, etc.
The powers that govern the superphysical world have much in their close keeping that they absolutely refuse to disclose to mortal man.
