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''Our Great Séance Test'' is an article by Sydney A. Moseley published in [[John Bull]] on 10 novem == Our Great Séance Test == ...

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...king waste of time, all of which applies very closely to the medium in the seance. The only satisfying and convincing test is the quality of the teaching the medium transmits. Has it been helpful? S ...

...the human frame emits, although we are unaware of it, just as we only see our breath emitted on a frosty day, though it is functioning so all the time. ...or more. Each sitter has given out ectoplasm which returns at the end of a seance. When there is enough, the spirit people can demonstrate their presence by ...

...on 19 december 1919 and in [[Light]] on 27 december 1919 as ''A Wonderful Seance''. * in ''[[Light]]'' (27 december 1919 [UK]) as ''A Wonderful Seance'' ...

...h has a preface by Sir Oliver Lodge, deals with a very interesting form of test, hitherto unknown. So, finally, the beat-all test was given when the message was to be sough for in the "Times" newspaper of ...

...be added, was an excellent witness, all of whose statements have stood the test of time. At the time when Miss Marryat (Mrs. Ross-Church) met the medium, t "On that occasion, as we were sitting at supper after the seance — a party of perhaps thirty people — ...

'''Acid Test of Spiritualism''' is an article published in [[The New-York Times]] on 22 About forthcoming test by J. Malcolm Bird for The Scientific American. ...

...be added, was an excellent witness, all of whose statements have stood the test of time. At the time when Miss Marryat (Mrs. Ross-Church) met the medium, t ...ner-table, with everything upon it, rose bodily in the air to a level with our knees, and the dishes and glasses swayed about in a perilous manner, withou ...

...ars. Sir Arthur confronted the quackeries and frauds of the mediums with a great, consuming desire to believe that the dead can return and talk with us. The ...plate because of the precautions taken. But on the second visit, when no "test" conditions were imposed, he was able to perform the miracle by the process ...

...every precaution should be taken with a medium. He employed every possible test, for he did not trust the medium; "but," he added, "I also do not trust the ...themselves tested. And then some fellow came along who had never been at a seance in his life and contradicted them. People sometimes asked, "Why doesn't Con ...

...ught forward evidence to show they had been secured under the strictest of test conditions, eliminating all possibility of trickery. ...m, and other evidential details. Finally the medium was hypnotized and the seance began. ...

* 02.07.1887 : [[A Test Message]] (letter) * 27.12.1919 : [[A Wonderful Experience|A Wonderful Seance]] (letter) ...

...n most cases, he declares, the result has been <span class="q">"tidings of great joy."</span> In only two was there absolute failure. ...if I would care to put a question? 'Yes,' I said, 'I should like to have a test. Let her transmit a message that I will know is meant for me personally.'</ ...

'''A cameraman breaks up a seance — being the singular adventure of "Movie Weekly's" photographer when he tri ...eir graves, parade them before our startled eyes and make them register on our camera. After an extensive search, reports began to drift in to us of the m ...

...lists-national-union-1920-01-our-reply-to-the-cleric.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Our Reply to the Cleric]] [[File:spiritualists-national-union-1920-01-our-reply-to-the-cleric-p3.jpg|250px|right|thumb|p. 3]] ...

...t minds-scientists, philosophers, professionals and authors. Whether these great minds have been misdirected, whether they have followed the subject because ...e and soul into the conversion of unbelievers. Sir Arthur believes. In his great mind there is no doubt. ...

...ty of ectoplasm is very welcome to those of us who, like myself, feel that our personal honour in touched, since we have publicly declared that we have se ...example from Mr. Lynch. He says, "Eusapia's foot was suddenly seized" in a seance, upon which she very naturally screamed, and this in some unexplained way i ...

* 03.05.1906 : [[Motor Army: Conan Doyle Asks for One for Great Britain]] * 12.06.1928 : [[New Captain Dreyfus Case is a Test for Sherlock Holmes]], by Milton Bronner (3 photos) ...

..., "[[A Study in Scarlet]]." Let us return, then, to the original manner of our tale-teller and dissect him as once upon a time he would have so enjoyed di If Conan Doyle's Pedigree was exceptional, so was his education. Among the great public schools of England, Stonyhurst, with its long Roman Catholic traditi ...

* 18.02.1905 : [[Memoirs of a Great Detective]], review by Jeannette L. Gilder * 17.11.1922 : [[Conan Doyle is Challenged to Psychic Test]] ...

...less-known developments which followed the new movement, sometimes to its great glory and sometimes to its temporary degradation. ...outbreak of inexplicable sounds. It was upon this evening that one of the great points in the history of psychic evolution was reached, for it was then tha ...

...st thing is that we should have authentic cases, so that the foundation of our reasoning may be sound. The second is to compare these authentic cases toge ...the West Indies, and this burial vault was a very fine one. It was made of great blocks of coral and cement, partly sunk into the earth, for the graveyard w ...

...ge only now developing and destined, as I think, to revolutionize for ever our views on the most vital of all subjects. For this was Daniel Dunglas Home, ...in this man's atmosphere which enabled forces outside himself and outside our ordinary apprehension to manifest themselves upon this plane of matter. In ...

* [[A Test Message]] (~2 july 1887) ...sell (McClure, Phillips & Co.)|Letter to John Cecil Russell<br />about The Great Boer War]]<br />(ca. sept-oct 1900) ...

...ined that belief in his immortal personality. What was that world in which our fathers lived even three hundred years ago? A narrow world, a toy world, co Flammarion, the great French astronomer, says, after fifteen years of intense and devoted investi ...

...at Is Spiritualism?'', and sub-titled: ''Can we, or can we not, speak with our beloved dead? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle answers YES''. ...7, detailing some interesting spiritual experience which had occurred in a seance. Thus it is manifest that my interest in the subject is of some standing, a ...

* [[Our Derby Sweepstakes]] (may 1882, [[London Society]]) * [[The Great Keinplatz Experiment]] (july 1885, [[Belgravia]]) ...

...heir scientific value as evidence. When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle returned to Great Britain, after his successful tour in America, the controversy was in full ...a deep and genuine affection for the maligned mediums of the Crewe Circle. Our hearty thanks are due to all those friends who have so readily co-operated ...

...the-vital-message-p14-illu.jpg|"The taint which poisons the very spring of our religious thought — the scheme depending upon a special tribal God, filled ...iration, which was the real object of the descent of this high spirit onto our planet." ...

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=== I. In which our special commissioners make a start === The great Professor Challenger has been — very improperly and imperfectly — used in f ...

File:1926-history-of-spiritualism-cassell-07.jpg|Professor Crookes's test to show that the medium and the spirit were separate entities. From a drawi A great leader both in physical and in psychic science <br /> ...

...alist-07.jpg|A Typical Australian Back-Country Scene by H. J. Johnstone, a Great Painter Who Died Unknown. Painting in Adelaide National Gallery (p. 128) ...ngs-of-a-spiritualist-09.jpg|The People of Turi's Canoe, after a Voyage of Great Hardship, at last Sight the Shores of New Zealand. From a Painting by C. F. ...

However, the book was based on a series of 6 articles published in [[Great Thoughts]] from 5 may to 30 june 1894 and in the Associated Press ([[The Ph * in ''[[Great Thoughts]]'' (5 may - 30 june 1894 [UK]) ...

[[File:Our-african-winter-1929-john-murray-imperial.jpg|thumb|250px|right|[[John Murra ''Our African Winter'' is a book written by [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] first publishe ...

Macaulay's grave. "It was the one great object of interest which London held for me. And so it might well be, crackling with vitality and quivering from the great ...