The reality of psychic phenomena : raps, levitations, etc. . torsto levitate the table, when in the usual waythe pointer on B gradually moved round to14|^ lb. against the stop, and then the tablesprang up into the air. The pointer on thetension balance also simultaneously moved alongthe scale, and the average of half a dozen levi-tations gave for it a rough value of about 4 confirm roughly this reading, I pushed back-wards on the compression balance B, and dis-tinctly felt a force of about that magnitudepushing against me. That the horizontal pushing force on thebalance B is not an indep
The reality of psychic phenomena : raps, levitations, etc. . torsto levitate the table, when in the usual waythe pointer on B gradually moved round to14|^ lb. against the stop, and then the tablesprang up into the air. The pointer on thetension balance also simultaneously moved alongthe scale, and the average of half a dozen levi-tations gave for it a rough value of about 4 confirm roughly this reading, I pushed back-wards on the compression balance B, and dis-tinctly felt a force of about that magnitudepushing against me. That the horizontal pushing force on thebalance B is not an independent force may beinferred from the following:—Several timesduring levitation strong upward jerks of thetable were given. On all such occasions thepointer on the tension balance S indicated asudden increase of a pound or two, and whenthe jerking motion was completed it wentback to the normal reading of about 4 pull. Conclusion.—The horizontal component of thereaction when the seance-table of weight lOf lb. The Reality of Psychic Phenomena. ]. COMPRESSION SPRING BALANCE 119 is levitated above the 14-lb. balance is apparentlyabout 4 lb.; and this component acts directlyoutwards from the medium. At a later date I made a further experimentwith the object of determining accurately thehorizontal component of the reaction. Eojperiment 49: To endeavour to determineaccurately the horizontal component ofthe reaction. I rigged up the apparatus as shown in figs. 13and 14. The balances were, however, compression balance was the one readingto 28 lb. (not to 14 lb.), although its over-alldimensions were about the same ; and the tensionbalance was a much larger one, with larger scaledivisions than that used in the previous experi-ment. It was new, and read up to 20 lb. During the course of this experiment I provedto my satisfaction that the horizontal and verticalforces are only components of a single force. Inthree or four cases, with a finger of one hand onthe te
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