Hours with the ghosts, or, Nineteenth century witchcraft : illustrated investigations into the phenomena of spiritualism and theosophy . red to be subjective, being hisown personal vibrations, the result of a force emanat-ing from the human personality, supra-mechanical, orspiritual. The experiments were carried on in a darkroom, and according to his statement were highly suc-cessful. In a communication to an American corre-spondent, printed in the New York Herald, Janu-ary 3, 1897, he writes: I have discovered a human,invisible light, differing altogether from the cathoderays discovered by Pr
Hours with the ghosts, or, Nineteenth century witchcraft : illustrated investigations into the phenomena of spiritualism and theosophy . red to be subjective, being hisown personal vibrations, the result of a force emanat-ing from the human personality, supra-mechanical, orspiritual. The experiments were carried on in a darkroom, and according to his statement were highly suc-cessful. In a communication to an American corre-spondent, printed in the New York Herald, Janu-ary 3, 1897, he writes: I have discovered a human,invisible light, differing altogether from the cathoderays discovered by Prof. Roentgen. Dr. Baraducadvanced the theory that our souls must be consideredas centers of luminous forces, owing their existencepartly to the attraction and partly to the repulsion ofspecial and potent forces bred of the invisible number of French scientific journals took up thematter, and discussed Thought Photography atlength, publishing numerous reproductions of thephysicians photographs; but the more conservativejournals of England, Germany and America remainedsilent on the subject, as it seemed to be on the border-. FIG. 31—SIGELS ORIGINAL PICTURE OF FIG 30. THOUGHT PHOTOGRAPHY. 201 land between science and charlatanry. On January11, 1897, the American newspapers contained an itemto the effect that Drs. S. Millington Miller and Carle-ton Simon, of New York City, the former a specialistin brain physiology, and the latter an expert hypno-tist, had succeeded in obtaining successful thoughtphotographs on dry plates from two hypnotized sub-jects. When the subjects were not hypnotized, thephysicians reported no results. As Thought Photography is without the pale ofknown physical laws, stronger evidence is needed tosupport the claims made for it than that which hasbeen adduced by the French and American investiga-tors. Thought Photography once established as ascientific fact, we shall have, perhaps, an explanationof genuine spirit photographs, if such there be. 6. Ap
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