The reality of psychic phenomena : raps, levitations, etc. . uring to press it down verticallyto the floor, I felt an elastic resistance, as alreadydescribed. I then thought of pushing it inwardstowards the medium. I was much surprised tofind that the resistance to push in that direc-tion was not an elastic one, but one of quite adifferent order. The resistance was a solid orrigid one, and, as a matter of fact, the tableappeared to be locked. As the results of thisexperiment are so important in the theory oflevitation, it is necessary that the reader shouldbe perfectly certain as to what I mea
The reality of psychic phenomena : raps, levitations, etc. . uring to press it down verticallyto the floor, I felt an elastic resistance, as alreadydescribed. I then thought of pushing it inwardstowards the medium. I was much surprised tofind that the resistance to push in that direc-tion was not an elastic one, but one of quite adifferent order. The resistance was a solid orrigid one, and, as a matter of fact, the tableappeared to be locked. As the results of thisexperiment are so important in the theory oflevitation, it is necessary that the reader shouldbe perfectly certain as to what I mean. In fig. 3, M is the medium, and T the levitatedtable. If the observer stands over the table andpresses down in the direction A, he experiencesa perfectly elastic resistance. If he presses indirection B, he experiences a solid and unyield-ing resistance. The actual direction of B I havenot determined. It is not parallel to the surfaceof the table, but is downwards and inwards atsome angle approximating to that shown. The SOME MISCELLANEOUS EXPERIMENTS 67. N 68 REALITY OF PSYCHIC PHENOMENA direction probably varies somewhat with theheight of the levitation. So soHd and unyieldingis the resistance in this direction that it gave methe impression that steel bars were connectingthe table with the medium, and that T was push-ing along the longitudinal axes of such bars. Eooperiment 20 : Another test for the unyieldingresistance of levitated table. The table used was the ordinary seance pressed inwards in a direction approximatingto B (fig. 3), and again experienced the rigid typeof resistance. It felt exactly as though I waspushing against a solid rod which had grippedthe table from the body of the medium. Experiment 21 : Overturning table to floor andraising it again. The table used was the ordinary stance ordinary experimental work it stands on thefloor with its long edge parallel to the frontof the body of the medium. The operatorswere asked to overturn it on to it
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