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presence. “Me” thinks, “Try to make him say ‘Hullo! Mr. Jones; how are you?’” “I” replies, “That's done.” Then “Me” says, “Make him do so and so.” Perhaps “1” can- not do that particular thing, and “I” there- fore does something else on its own hook, so to speak, and tells “Me” what “I” tried to make Mr. Jones do, after “I” has returned to “ Me.”
In moving a table “I” tilts out the letters ABC, etc., one tilt of the table being A, and three or four tilts Cor D, ete. In order that this should be done, “Me” taps his foot on the floor, or his left hand on a cushion, and “I” gets the table in response to the ¢afs made by “ Me.”
The difficulties (and perhaps, dangers) are many. First, “1” has to make the medium’s own ideas “lie down quiet”; for, aésurd as it may appear to say so, these “ideas” seem to stand yp from the brain like blades of grass on red jelly, and until “I” can get one or two of these “blades” to “lie flat,” “I” cannot get “Me's” message delivered even to a small extent. Then, again, other “influences” try to “chip into the conversation” and to “play the idiot ” with the cords of communication between “I” and “Me,” and between “I” and the
presence. “Me” thinks, “Try to make him say ‘Hullo! Mr. Jones; how are you?’” “I” replies, “That's done.” Then “Me” says, “Make him do so and so.” Perhaps “1” can- not do that particular thing, and “I” there- fore does something else on its own hook, so to speak, and tells “Me” what “I” tried to make Mr. Jones do, after “I” has returned to “ Me.”
In moving a table “I” tilts out the letters ABC, etc., one tilt of the table being A, and three or four tilts Cor D, ete. In order that this should be done, “Me” taps his foot on the floor, or his left hand on a cushion, and “I” gets the table in response to the ¢afs made by “ Me.”
The difficulties (and perhaps, dangers) are many. First, “1” has to make the medium’s own ideas “lie down quiet”; for, aésurd as it may appear to say so, these “ideas” seem to stand yp from the brain like blades of grass on red jelly, and until “I” can get one or two of these “blades” to “lie flat,” “I” cannot get “Me's” message delivered even to a small extent. Then, again, other “influences” try to “chip into the conversation” and to “play the idiot ” with the cords of communication between “I” and “Me,” and between “I” and the
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