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them. But at the next séance “I” was more successful, both messages being given correctly; and my personality and mannerisms were strikingly assumed by the medium. As Mr. Walker only remembers my telling him of my desire to chaff Mrs. Walker, he only signs for one “test.” In my opinion the test is all the more satisfactory because of the fact that Mr. Walker was zof in the séance room at the time it was accomplished, although he had been in the room at the previous séance, when “I” had failed. This fact ought to do away with the theory of “suggestion of one of the sitters” as an explanation.
There is another peculiar thing about this incident, and I append a letter of testimony in order to substantiate my statement. When “T” controlled Mr. Blake, and made him shake hands with Mrs, Laney, ‘‘I” particularly noticed the sort of dress she was wearing at the time, and when, a few days later, I (in the body) was introduced to her, I correctly described to her the dress which she wore when at the séance. I had never seen her in my life; no one had told me what she wore, and I did not mention it to any one until I actually met her; and ‘ex she was wearing a different dress to the one that “1” saw at the seance,
them. But at the next séance “I” was more successful, both messages being given correctly; and my personality and mannerisms were strikingly assumed by the medium. As Mr. Walker only remembers my telling him of my desire to chaff Mrs. Walker, he only signs for one “test.” In my opinion the test is all the more satisfactory because of the fact that Mr. Walker was zof in the séance room at the time it was accomplished, although he had been in the room at the previous séance, when “I” had failed. This fact ought to do away with the theory of “suggestion of one of the sitters” as an explanation.
There is another peculiar thing about this incident, and I append a letter of testimony in order to substantiate my statement. When “T” controlled Mr. Blake, and made him shake hands with Mrs, Laney, ‘‘I” particularly noticed the sort of dress she was wearing at the time, and when, a few days later, I (in the body) was introduced to her, I correctly described to her the dress which she wore when at the séance. I had never seen her in my life; no one had told me what she wore, and I did not mention it to any one until I actually met her; and ‘ex she was wearing a different dress to the one that “1” saw at the seance,
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