Category: Science - Biology
A French proverb says, ‘we must have eggs to make an omelette’: in order to be able to study psychical phenomena we must have psychical phenomena. This seems an elementary proposition, and yet it is the very one we most readily overlook. I have already said why and wherefore.
[17] It is scarcely necessary for me to certify to the accuracy of the phenomena mentioned in this chapter, especially when I am spoken of as having been present.—MAXWELL.
5. CHAPTER VUnder this somewhat vague title I am bringing certain facts together, which differ greatly from those I have been examining. In reality, the facts so far related by me refer to...
8. iv. 381) gives examples of this, but his paper only points out factswell known to those who are familiar with human testimony. In order to observe with a minimum chance of error, the phenomenon we intend to study should be simple, and repeated o...
4. CHAPTER IVThe curious glimmering lights, which I am going to describe in this chapter, can only be obtained in total obscurity. They are generally feeble, and appear to be at the limit of...
1. CHAPTER IA French proverb says, ‘we must have eggs to make an omelette’: in order to be able to study psychical phenomena we must have psychical phenomena. This seems an elementary propo...
3. CHAPTER IIII apply the term parakinesis to the production of those movements where the contact observed is insufficient to account for them. I thus more especially designate the complete l...
7. CHAPTER VIIThis work would be incomplete, if I did not carefully examine fraud and errors of observation. The first should always be considered as possible. Errors of observation are even...
2. CHAPTER III will not stop to consider movements with contact. From a physical point of view they have no serious signification whatever. They are so easily explained by the combined, unco...