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...last hour and a half I had had myself under complete control. The very second I laid down my hat and coat, a cold sweat such as I had never known in my life before broke out all over my body-the physical reaction which naturally followed the unutterable psychic strain. And then for the first time I knew that the worst hour of my life lay behind...
...Modern Psychic Mysteries, Millesimo Castle, Italy, by Gwendolyn Kelley Hack...
...going out of existence, though we do find them going out of our ken." Survivalist Lodge admits most scientists do not recognize the validity of proofs of immortality that have satisfied him; thinks that some day overwhelming proof will be forthcoming, hopes science will supply it. So far, "respectable psychic phenomena have been confined to mediums, automatic writing, table tapping, Ouija boards." But there have been "materializations": "ectoplasmic" bodies are seen proceeding from mediums; spirit hands, asked to dip themselves in paraffin, then to dematerialize, leave paraffin gloves...
...Author. Sir Oliver (Joseph) Lodge, 78, white-bearded, hale, once famed for his researches in wireless telegraphy, for the last 20 years has been famed for his zeal, his optimism, in psychic investigations. He believes that his son Raymond, killed in the war, sent messages to him. Survivalist Lodge is not a Spiritualist ; he is a member of the Church of England: believes not differently from but more than his fellow members. He lives on Salisbury Plain, near Stonehenge, near Lady Mary Bailey, famed airwoman. Other books: Life and Matter, Raymond, or Life and Death, Ether and Reality, Evolution...
...hand, farm implements, music. He earned money by the last three. Real success came with his play, The Spider, a Broadway smash in 1927, now playing in Budapest and Paris. His somewhat spiritualized view of Adah Menken is partly explained by his membership in the American Society for Psychic Research...