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seances at a distance, speaking through the medium like a spirit control, spelling his name through table-tipping, and causing a medium to write his signature in a characteristic hand. Mr. Turvey also exercised a gift of prophecy, and a remarkable travelling clairvoyance in which he described the appearance and background of people at the other end of a telephone. In the course of 160 demonstrations of public clairvoyance, he pave 145 clearly verified descriptions of dead persons. He was visited frequently by spirits, including an Oriental guru later identified.
Some of the semantic complexities of this book (e.g. ‘I asked myself, “How on earth did ‘T know that ‘Me’ saw it?”. ..) arise from the incredible problem of describing phases of dual and even triple consciousness. On one occasion Mr. Turvey was simultaneously conscious in what he designates his physical, astral and mental bodies. While smoking and talking with three witnesses, he projected a second conscious- ness to India which asked questions of a Hindu and relayed answers to the witnesses, af the same time that a third con- sciousness roamed between Russia and Italy and foretold an earthquake which took place ten hours later.
And there can be no reasonable doubt that all these wonder- ful things took place just as Mr. Turvey described them, and as his witnesses testified in their correspondence. Part of the awkward shape of this book arises from Mr. Turvey’s admi- rable efforts to present evidence that satisfies all normal re- quirements. Reputable witnesses endorsed the honesty of Mr. Turvey and the genuineness of the letters quoted. The pos- sibility of deception is ruled out.
Mr. Turvey described his paranormal faculties as “Seership’, and although his book does not discuss religious questions he had made an extensive study of Eastern philosophy and be-
seances at a distance, speaking through the medium like a spirit control, spelling his name through table-tipping, and causing a medium to write his signature in a characteristic hand. Mr. Turvey also exercised a gift of prophecy, and a remarkable travelling clairvoyance in which he described the appearance and background of people at the other end of a telephone. In the course of 160 demonstrations of public clairvoyance, he pave 145 clearly verified descriptions of dead persons. He was visited frequently by spirits, including an Oriental guru later identified.
Some of the semantic complexities of this book (e.g. ‘I asked myself, “How on earth did ‘T know that ‘Me’ saw it?”. ..) arise from the incredible problem of describing phases of dual and even triple consciousness. On one occasion Mr. Turvey was simultaneously conscious in what he designates his physical, astral and mental bodies. While smoking and talking with three witnesses, he projected a second conscious- ness to India which asked questions of a Hindu and relayed answers to the witnesses, af the same time that a third con- sciousness roamed between Russia and Italy and foretold an earthquake which took place ten hours later.
And there can be no reasonable doubt that all these wonder- ful things took place just as Mr. Turvey described them, and as his witnesses testified in their correspondence. Part of the awkward shape of this book arises from Mr. Turvey’s admi- rable efforts to present evidence that satisfies all normal re- quirements. Reputable witnesses endorsed the honesty of Mr. Turvey and the genuineness of the letters quoted. The pos- sibility of deception is ruled out.
Mr. Turvey described his paranormal faculties as “Seership’, and although his book does not discuss religious questions he had made an extensive study of Eastern philosophy and be-
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