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malady be the price of the gifts, there will be few who will purchase the use of these faculties at so great a cost. But it is possible that, if Mr. Turvey had voluntarily adopted the habits of contemplation and study to which he has been involuntarily subjected by his ill-health, he would have attained the same results, especially as he was born with psychic gifts.
Whether this be so or not, there can be no doubt that Mr. Turvey has acquired a remark- able capacity for controlling his super-normal faculties. He says—
“TJ never bother about ‘conditions’; a church or a hotel is all the same to me so far as ‘see- ing’ is concerned, I ‘see’ best for strangers ; my friends get nothing.”
His training as an engineer has made him methodical and exact ; and the severe discipline of prolonged ill-health has subdued the vehe- ment impulsive nature which he formerly pos- sessed,
There is nothing in all this to suggest the existence of anything very abnormal in Mr. Turvey. He is an ordinary, quick-witted, business man, who has had the advantage of his engineering training, and the disadvantage of very bad health. He does not regard him- selfasa medium. He is never entranced, and
malady be the price of the gifts, there will be few who will purchase the use of these faculties at so great a cost. But it is possible that, if Mr. Turvey had voluntarily adopted the habits of contemplation and study to which he has been involuntarily subjected by his ill-health, he would have attained the same results, especially as he was born with psychic gifts.
Whether this be so or not, there can be no doubt that Mr. Turvey has acquired a remark- able capacity for controlling his super-normal faculties. He says—
“TJ never bother about ‘conditions’; a church or a hotel is all the same to me so far as ‘see- ing’ is concerned, I ‘see’ best for strangers ; my friends get nothing.”
His training as an engineer has made him methodical and exact ; and the severe discipline of prolonged ill-health has subdued the vehe- ment impulsive nature which he formerly pos- sessed,
There is nothing in all this to suggest the existence of anything very abnormal in Mr. Turvey. He is an ordinary, quick-witted, business man, who has had the advantage of his engineering training, and the disadvantage of very bad health. He does not regard him- selfasa medium. He is never entranced, and
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