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american-journalist convinced distinct formulate hard piper reasons series

The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.

american-journalist expert hardly imitation inorganic living matter properties

The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.

american-journalist anxious fits hypothesis intelligence simplest

The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.

american-journalist becomes intelligence medium

In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.

american-journalist automatic capacity forms large ordinary receive simplest subject treated

Of mediumship there are many grades, one of the simplest forms being the capacity to receive an impression or automatic writing, under peaceful conditions, in an ordinary state; but the whole subject is too large to be treated here.

american-journalist considered expressed form life terms

Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else.

american-journalist broad experience held hitherto impossible invincible

Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur.

american-journalist communication form inevitable largely mechanical merely whether

We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.