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42 PREFACE,
His description of his sensations, when see- ing through the telephone, is not less precise. He says—
“In most cases I seem to ‘see’ through a halo, or aura, of bright heliotrope, or pale violet-coloured fire, the flashes or sparks of which do not appear to cover a// the window, so to speak, but to leave the centre clear and colourless ; and in that centre there appears the person or object that is ‘seen,’ Another extraordinary phase, which I call gexwzne phone- voyance, consists in this, that a part of my mentality seems to ooze out of me along the line for a little distance, say for a yard or two; and as ‘I’ go, so little pieces of the copper wire that lay together, as A—_B, seem to turn over into B——A, ze. to reverse their relative positions, these pieces appearing to be about four inches in length.”
The reference in the foregoing sentence to “I” needs an explanation, which Mr. Turvey gives as follows :—
“In order to avoid such a phrase as, ‘My spirit went to London while I remained in Bournemouth,’ I use ‘I,’ in inverted commas, to denote that part of my consciousness, or ‘being,’ which appears to function at a dis- tance from my body, and use ‘Me,’ with a
His description of his sensations, when see- ing through the telephone, is not less precise. He says—
“In most cases I seem to ‘see’ through a halo, or aura, of bright heliotrope, or pale violet-coloured fire, the flashes or sparks of which do not appear to cover a// the window, so to speak, but to leave the centre clear and colourless ; and in that centre there appears the person or object that is ‘seen,’ Another extraordinary phase, which I call gexwzne phone- voyance, consists in this, that a part of my mentality seems to ooze out of me along the line for a little distance, say for a yard or two; and as ‘I’ go, so little pieces of the copper wire that lay together, as A—_B, seem to turn over into B——A, ze. to reverse their relative positions, these pieces appearing to be about four inches in length.”
The reference in the foregoing sentence to “I” needs an explanation, which Mr. Turvey gives as follows :—
“In order to avoid such a phrase as, ‘My spirit went to London while I remained in Bournemouth,’ I use ‘I,’ in inverted commas, to denote that part of my consciousness, or ‘being,’ which appears to function at a dis- tance from my body, and use ‘Me,’ with a
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