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Title: Psychic Phenomena
A Brief Account of the Physical Manifestations Observed
in Psychical Research

Author: Edward T. Bennett

Release Date: February 27, 2010 [EBook #31417]

Language: English

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PSYCHIC
PHENOMENA

A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE PHYSICAL
MANIFESTATIONS OBSERVED IN
PSYCHICAL RESEARCH

WITH FACSIMILE ILLUSTRATIONS OF
THOUGHT-TRANSFERENCE DRAWINGS
AND AUTOMATIC WRITING

BY
EDWARD T. BENNETT

ASSISTANT-SECRETARY TO THE SOCIETY OF
PSYCHICAL RESEARCH, 1882-1902

WITH A FOREWORD BY
SIR OLIVER LODGE

NEW YORK
BRENTANO'S
MCMIX

NOTE

The writer desires to express his sincere thanks to the Council of the
Society for Psychical Research for the permission given to make extracts
from the _Proceedings_ of the Society, from the privately printed
_Journal_, and from "Phantasms of the Living"; and for allowing the
reproduction of a series of THOUGHT-TRANSFERENCE DRAWINGS. Also best
thanks are due to Mrs. Myers, and to Messrs. Longmans, Green & Co., for
permission to make quotations from Mr. F. W. H. Myers' great work,
"Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death." Also to Mr. J.
Burns and his brother, for freely granting permission for any use to be
made of the James Burns 1873 Edition of the "Report of the Committee of
the Dialectical Society."

E. T. B.

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE

I. INTRODUCTORY 11

II. THE MOVEMENT OF OBJECTS WITHOUT ANY APPARENT
PHYSICAL CAUSE 16

III. THE PRODUCTION OF SOUND WITHOUT ANY APPARENT
PHYSICAL CAUSE 31

IV. THE APPEARANCE OF LIGHT WITHOUT ANY APPARENT
PHYSICAL CAUSE 35