Phenomena of Materialisation: A Contribution to the Investigation of Mediumistic Teleplastics (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Schrenck-Notzing, A. Von

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ISBN 10: 1332063063 ISBN 13: 9781332063062

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Hypnotism, which encountered more opposition than anything else, is now the common property of psychology, and the cure of nervous disease. At all times new discoveries have encountered Violent opposi tion. Facts were denied because they did not fit into the theories prevailing at the time, or because fantastic people drew unwarrantable conclusions from them.

A particularly instructive example of this kind is furnished by meteoric stones, whose actuality struggled long for recognition. Thus Chladni1 complains in his work on Fiery Meteors of the treatment accorded to him by his colleagues: When my work appeared, the majority of them declared the whole contents to be foolishness, as indeed I had expected. It was said in the General German Library that my assertions were unworthy of refutation. J. A. Du Luc expressed himself in this sense, that if he had seen such a stone fall at his feet he would have said, I have seen it, and yet I do not believe it.

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Excerpt from Phenomena of Materialisation: A Contribution to the Investigation of Mediumistic Teleplastics

It is not without some misgiving that I publish in the present work the results of four years' observations of the medium Eva C. For the observations of mediumistic phenomena hitherto made, do not, up to now, in spite of their continuity and their independent agreement, and in spite of the high reputation of the authors whose names vouch for the facts stated, fulfil the requirements of an exact scientific method. This may, however, be due to the character of the occurrences themselves.

Any dealings with the discredited so-called "spiritistic" phenomena are attended, even now, by certain disadvantages to the investigator. Not only are his powers of observation, his critical judgment and his credibility brought into question, not only is he exposed to ridicule by the reproach of charlatanism - as, for example, was the famous criminal anthropologist, Lombroso - but he even incurs the danger of being regarded as mentally deficient, or even as insane, as was the case with the astronomer, Zollner, and the English chemist, Crookes.

The open or secret opponents of scientific men thus discredited are in the habit of deriving some advantage from the destruction of their scientific authority. Recognising this fact, the well-known French psychologist, Charles Richet, has for the present entirely withdrawn from any dealings with the forbidden subject.

As to the means sometimes adopted by those who wish to prove the supposed fraud underlying mediumistic phenomena, the experience of the author furnishes an instructive contribution. Convinced that the author was the victim of expert deceptions practised by two women, i.e., the medium Eva C. and her protectress Mme. Bisson, somebody secretly and without the author's knowledge instructed a well-known Parisian detective office to watch these two ladies. The employees of this firm, besides gathering the necessary information about the medium herself, also gained illegal possession of a number of photographic copies of the negatives obtained during the experiments, though these were the exclusive property of the author and his collaborator.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1332063063
• ISBN 13: 9781332063062
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 526
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