Seven Purposes

Margaret Cameron

Description

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. After the beginning of the war, however, when interest in the possible survival of the individual was so suddenly and pathetically increased, and one heard on every hand of attempts to establish communication with those gone before, I resolved to experiment again with planchette; but it was not until our friend V expressed a desire to try it with me, sometime in 1917, that I really bought one. For almost a year it lay untouched in its box, and when finally we found opportunity to test it we had no success. It did not move from the spot where we placed it, and I made no attempt to try it alone.

Sujets

• Assertiveness

Informations

• Publié par: Forgotten Books
• Date de parution: 27 novembre 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780243734146
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 5 Mo

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years more ago my atten tion was attracted to the entertaining possi a planchette and like other young persons I played with at intervals for several years Like others also I speculated concerning the source the remarkable state ments sometimes obtained in this way but the assumption that these statements were dic by disembodied personalities always seemed me rather absurd At no time has my interest in matter been sufito read anythingcient to lead me describing or discussing psychic phenomena with the exception an occasional magazine article N either have I read philosophies any extent I have been a l ways a busy per son taking li e atfirst hand without much regard to what students have said about it uch faith as I anything humanhave had in divine has been based upon works and ithout co vincing mon tration it has bee

N T UR O T O N impossible for me to b e sure that individual life continued ter the b eginning the war however when interest in the possible survival of the individual was so suddenly and pathetically increased and heard very hand of attempts to establish communication with those gone before I resolved to experiment again with planchette but it was not until our friend expressed a desire to try it with me sometime in that I really bought one For almost a year it lay untouched in its box and whenfinally we found opportunity to test it we had no success It did not move from the spot where we placed it and I made no attempt to try it alone everal weeks later two friends Mrs Wylie and Miss Gaylord told me that they had been making e forts through some one near their home to get into touch with their brother Frederick with results they though promis ing day or two later we tried planchette together with some success It moved brisk wro e Frederic mother love happy and other deta hed words It also persisted in making little circles perhaps two inches in diameter the pencil tracing the circumference again and again This was so often repeated that Mrs Wylie thought it

N T R O T O N might be symbol but could obtain no satis factor reply to questions a out it My friends went home without renewing the experiment and my i terest was greatly stimulated It seemed quite p obabl that the words written had reflected the thou hts and desires Frederick s isters and that the who e episode could b e explained by the theory unconscious res onse by the muscles of the hand to the prompting of the subconscious mind I as my ownhad dismissed th e matter as far participation in it was concerned when a letter came from Mrs Gaylord saying that her ters had told her I had mediumistic power and suggesting that I e able to help hermight b I k ew that the exceeding bitterness of grief lay not in the separati n from only son but in her inability to believe that his identity and evelopment continued and that the assurance that he had not gone like a snu fed candle as she afterward expressed it would bring her the greatest indeed the only possible comfort Therefore I replied at once that while I lieve thathad no reason to b I to the slightpossessed power est degree I erimentswould make further exp at the same time warn ng her that the attempt would probably prove fruitless The following pages contain a partial his

N T UR O T O N tory the result It was soon evident that certain these revelations were great moment to b e withheld f om public knowledge In addition while much of the more intimate personal matter has been omitted most those to whom these messages were given have felt impelled to share in this tragic time th e comfort and assurance their conviction and have voluntarily yielded their privacy hoping thereby bring to those in sorrow an added faith in the continuance personality with all that this implies To facilitate reference and to avoid br ak ing the sequence the twelve impersonal communications forming the basis the who l e this report has been arranged in three parts First the genesis and rapid de the individual message brief at fipurely personal but growing bothrst and in volume and in import with each day econd the Lessons Third additiona l dividual messages no l ess personal in their original application than thefirst but more impressive in their wider human appeal and signifiand emphasizing thecance illuminating meaning the Lessons obvious reasons the names and initials used have been substituted for those the persons involved with three or four exceptions

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