The reality of psychic phenomena : raps, levitations, etc. . rapsin answer to repeated requests. Then the weightbegan very slowly to diminish, and light rapsbegan to be heard. I wish to emphasise the factthat until this first slight diminution in weightoccurred, absolutely no raps were given. Soonafter the process had commenced the weightbegan to decrease in successive fluxes of from2 lb. to 5 lb. or slightly more, and at thetermination of each decrease to come back some-what. It would seem that as soon as a littleweight is removed the drawing action upon themedium becomes easier; in other wor
The reality of psychic phenomena : raps, levitations, etc. . rapsin answer to repeated requests. Then the weightbegan very slowly to diminish, and light rapsbegan to be heard. I wish to emphasise the factthat until this first slight diminution in weightoccurred, absolutely no raps were given. Soonafter the process had commenced the weightbegan to decrease in successive fluxes of from2 lb. to 5 lb. or slightly more, and at thetermination of each decrease to come back some-what. It would seem that as soon as a littleweight is removed the drawing action upon themedium becomes easier; in other words, that theestablishing of even a weak psychic field facilitatesgreatly the preliminary operations. The processonce started, I asked the operators to rap at RAPS 187 intervals. The fluxes of decreasing weight con-tinued, becoming gradually greater and noticed that when a loud blow was given onthe floor the weight would greatly diminish—asmuch as 20 lb. or even more—and would thenusually come back, or nearly come back, to what 9st. lOlb. 12oz. About 6st. it was before the blow was struck. The weightdid not flow back instantly after the blow, but ifit did come back it did so slowly, taking perhapssix or seven seconds. Now and then it did notcome back for about half a minute, and on thoseoccasions it did not return so far as the originalamount registered before the blow. The weight,generally speaking, decreased in waves, irregularly(see fig. 38). 188 REALITY OF PSYCHIC PHENOMENA The final fairly steady value—which lasted fora few minutes—was about 6 st., although therewere fluxes somewhat below this. It seems to me that in this experiment wewitness two processes in combination :— (1) The process of getting the medium intocondition—the loosening of the psychic stuff bystrong fluxes of upward force upon her body ; and(2) the removal of sufficient material from herbody for the production of raps. When the processes outlined above had beengoing on for about a qu
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