Experiments in Psychical Research at Leland Stanford Junior University, Band 1Stanford University, 1917 - 641 Seiten |
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Seite 7 - And it may be that further experiment in the lines of investigation before us may lead me to change my view; but at the present time I cannot profess to have any doubt but that the chief "communicators...
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Seite 350 - ... fanciful ventures. Professor De Morgan, in his Budget of Paradoxes, says : — " In the French lottery five numbers out of ninety were drawn at a time : any person, in any part of the country, might stake any sum upon any event he pleased, as that 27 should be drawn ; that 42 and 81 should be drawn ; that 42 and 81 should be drawn, and 42 first ; and so on up to a quine determine", if he chose, which is betting on five given numbers in a given order.
Seite 609 - Impostors, and divers persons under a passive delusion of Melancholy and Fancy. But that there is a corporeal league made betwixt the Devil and the Witch, or that he sucks on the Witches body, has carnal copulation, or that Witches are turned into Cats, Dogs, raise Tempests, or the like, is utterly denied and disproved. Wherein also is handled, The existence of Angels and Spirits, the truth of Apparitions, the Nature of Astral and Sydereal Spirits, the force of Charms, and Philters ; with other abstruse...
Seite 2 - It would be well to begin with telepathy; with the fundamental law, as I believe it to be, that thoughts and images may be transferred from one mind to another without the agency of the recognized organs of sense, that knowledge may enter the human mind without being communicated in any hitherto known or recognized ways.
Seite 570 - The Theory of Dreams, in which an Inquiry is made into the Powers and Faculties of the Human Mind, as they are illustrated in the most remarkable Dreams recorded in sacred and profane History.
Seite 2 - No incident in my scientific career is more widely known than the part I took many years ago in certain psychic researches. Thirty years have passed since I published an account of experiments tending to show that outside our scientific knowledge there exists a Force exercised by intelligence differing from the ordinary intelligence common to mortals.
Seite 146 - To the physiologist it may seem uncalled for to investigate a manifest absurdity, but it has at least a practical value to explode a common error by direct experiment. I asked a young man, who is very confident of his powers, to stand unknown to reagent A behind a bookcase and look through a carefully concealed peep hole. I gave him the best opportunity, placing A about four feet from the hole directly facing him, and I engaged A in mechanical writing. To the young man's confessed disgust and irritation...
Seite vi - Hardly, as yet, has the surface of the facts called ' psychic ' begun to be scratched for scientific purposes. It is through following these facts, I am persuaded, that the greatest scientific conquests of the coming generation will be achieved.
Seite 11 - ... result from direct telepathy between them. What we get is a fragmentary utterance in one script, which seems to have no particular point or meaning, and another fragmentary utterance in the other, of an equally pointless character; but, when we put the two together, we see that they supplement one another, and that there is apparently one coherent idea underlying both, but only partially expressed in each.