Word: psychic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present recrudescence of interest in psychic and spiritualistic phenomena, partly due to the activities of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, has called forth vigorous attempts on the part of investigators to secure objective evidence. The most ambitious project is that of the Scientific American, which recently offered $2,500 each to the first persons to produce an authentic psychic photograph and other psychic manifestations of physical character, under prescribed conditions, to the satisfaction of a committee consisting of Prof. William McDougall (psychologist), Dr. Daniel F. Comstock (physicist), Dr. Walter Franklin Prince and Hereward Carrington (psychic investigators), Harry Houdini (magician...
...King, who has been writing since 1900, when he published "Griselda", has published many popular books, among which are "The Street Called Straight", "The Lifted Veil", and "The High Heart". Along with his literary work Mr. King has devoted much time to the study of psychic phenomena...
...Photographs can not He" he said in basing his proof on the dozens of pictures of spirits in the shape of humans and in masses of ectoplasm protruding from mediums bodies "Ectoplasm," he explained, "is the raw material of psychic phenomena. Science knows nothing about it. When analyzed, however, it has been found to consist of materials which are present in the human body, and of something else, possibly other, as well as a material not known to exist in any organic substance. It dissolves in the light, hence it is necessary to conduct seances in the dark...
Just as everyone does not have an ear for music or innate ability as an artist, so not everyone is psychic, he said in explaining why all people could not be mediums. Furthermore, the conditions must he suitable before a spirit may be recalled and the spirit itself must want to come of its own accord...
...Psychic and scientific investigation of the realms lying "beyond the veil" has been popular ever since De Foe invented Mrs. Beal, but the possibilities are apparently endless. The latest wrinkle comes with the announcement that Dr. Prince, director of the American Institute for Scientific Research, has gone into the wilds of Nova Scotia to track down a ghost which, evidently considering itself an outlaw, refuses to behave according to our preconceived notions of such things. And with him the good doctor has taken an "elaborate equipment of bells, cameras, flashlights, wires and white tracking powder". Shades of Friar Bacon...