Word: mediumship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afraid Dr. Rhine and I can never get together," said Margery. "He came to my house once, some years ago, and after a single sitting denounced my mediumship. Dr. Rhine has made thought transference so complicated that it is now impossible to figure out what he has or has not done. People are beginning to confuse his experiments with the Einstein theory. This is a smart move on Dr. Rhine's part...
Houdini was witness to one of the exhibitions of mediumship. Having fastened Margery in a box with only her head and arms free, Houdini felt along her arm with his own hand until it had passed through the hole in the box. Then the voice of Walter, the spirit, intervened. "What did you do that for, Houdini? You--! Putting up a plant like that on a girl. There is a ruler in that cabinet...
When reached last night, Dr. M. W. Richardson '89, who has been intimately connected with the mediumship for the last ten years, and has been given the opportunity to test and control it, stated that all phenomena have been proved genuine, and that since the time of the Harvard investigation many experiments have justified the belief that the mediumship is absolutely genuine. The complete account of the seances since 1923 are to be found in the Journal for the American Society of Psychic Research