Seeing the Invisible: Practical Studies in Psychometry, Thought Transference, Telepathy, and Allied PhenomenaFowler, 1906 - 298 pages |
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Page 62 - It seems then that this photographic influence pervades all nature ; nor can we say where it stops. We do not know but it may imprint upon the world around us our features, as they are modified by various passions, and thus fill nature with daguerreotype impressions of all our actions that are performed in daylight.
Page 64 - In the morning he was surprised to see in his nocturnal sketch features which he thought it impossible the fossil itself should reveal. He hastened to the Jardin des plantes, and, with his drawing as a guide, succeeded in chiselling away the surface of the stone under which portions of the fish proved to be hidden.
Page 208 - Ninib a pair of earrings of agate. We were in great dismay, since there was no agate as raw material at hand. In order to execute the command there was nothing for us to do but cut the votive cylinder into three parts, thus making three rings, each of which contained a portion of the original inscription, The first two rings served as earrings...
Page 51 - Upon the walls of our most private apartments, where we think the eye of intrusion is altogether shut out and our retirement can never be profaned, there exist the vestiges of all our acts, silhouettes of whatever we have...
Page 208 - Bel, among other articles of agate and lapis-lazuli, an inscribed votive cylinder of agate. Then we priests suddenly received the command to make for the statue of the god Ninib a pair of earrings of agate. We were in great dismay, since there was no agate as raw material at hand. In order to execute the command there was nothing for us...
Page 269 - I turned, and still saw poor Oliver. I shut my eyes, walked through it, and reached the door of the room. As I turned the handle before leaving the room, I looked once more back. The apparition turned round his head slowly, and again looked anxiously and lovingly at me, and I saw then for the first time a wound on the right temple, with a red stream from it.
Page 253 - About six or seven years previous, in a mid-winter's night, he had a dream in which he saw what appeared to be a company of emigrants arrested by the snows of the mountains and perishing rapidly by cold and hunger. He noted the very cast of the scenery, marked by a huge perpendicular front of white rock...
Page 18 - Think over these great things and be not unduly sceptical about little things. An attitude of keen and critical inquiry must continually be maintained, and in that sense any amount of scepticism is not only legitimate but necessary. The kind of scepticism I deprecate is not that which sternly questions and rigorously probes, it is rather that which confidently asserts and dogmatically denies.
Page 1 - Instrument ; whoso function it is to bridge over the hiatus between the individual Consciousness and the External World, and thus to bring them into mutual communication.
Page 2 - Matter merely as the vehicle of Force, has no difficulty in seeing where both sets of disputants were right and both wrong ; and, laying the foundations of his Science broad and deep in the whole constitution of the individual Man and his relations to the world external to him, aims to build it up with the materials furnished by experience of every kind, mental and bodily, normal and abnormal, — ignoring no fact, however strange, that can be attested by valid evidence, and accepting none, however...