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EXPLANATIONS OF PHENOMENA 85
bodies" (of the sitters?), "and consolidates round
the spirit-self,
forming a temporary physical encasement"
(with legs that can move, and a voice that
can speak?).
Let us agree, rather than commit ourselves to any
of the above solutions, in the statement that "we
don't know how it's done."
Personally, I've never seen a conjurer yet where I
haven't had to say this; so it's nothing new, I suspect,
to most of us; nor is it even very surprising, that
we have yet to wait for the full solution of some
undoubted facts.
Explanation of
Psychic Phenomena
Leaving these perplexing physical phenomena
alone for the present, we will proceed to consider the
alleged communications supposed to come from
another world, received by raps, which spell out
words, or by writing by the medium's hand, or
wholly independently and automatically, and by slate
writing.
I have pointed out it is these phenomena alone
that constitute any
evidence of another world.
Those who deny another world in loto find their only
explanation of psychic phenomena in telepathy, a
very recently discovered science, but one which is
now of fair respectability in the scientific world.
According to Mr. Frank Podmore, telepathy is the
that is established
only thing in Spiritist phenomena
all doubt. Sir
as a scientific fact beyond Oliver Lodge
says: "The facts of telepathy must be regarded as
practically established in the judgment of those who
have studied them."