From the Unconscious to the Conscious 



rigour which they were thought to have; they are only 

 relative. Their action may be temporarily or accidentally 

 modified or suspended. 



5. THE SECONDARY MODALITIES OF SUPERNORMAL 



PHYSIOLOGY 



These notions as to the sequence and the facts of 

 materialisation being established, it will be easy, con- 

 formably with our method, to understand the less complex 

 facts of so-called supernormal physiology, which are so 

 inexplicable when considered apart from other facts. 



The phenomena of telekinesis (movement of objects 

 without contact) are explicable by the action of the vital 

 dynamism exteriorised and obeying a subconscious 

 impulse. 



The experiments by Ochorowicz 1 have clearly 

 established the genesis of this phenomenon. They show 

 the meaning, from this point of view, of the elementary 

 forms of materialisation, the threads of substance and 

 rigid rods, sometimes visible, sometimes invisible, pro- 

 ceeding from the fingers of the medium and serving as a 

 substratum to the exteriorised dynamism. The facts 

 of telekinesis, though less complex, are of no less 

 importance than those of materialisation. I do not 

 think it necessary to describe them, but simply refer 

 the reader to special works on the subject. 2 



1 Annales des Sciences Psychiques. 



1 See especially the luminous report of M. Courtier on the experi- 

 ments made by the Psychological Institute with the medium Eusapia 

 Palladino in 1905, 1906, 1907, on the premises of the Institute, by MM. 

 D'Arsonval, Gilbert Ballet, M. et Mme Curie, Bergspn, Ch. Richet, and 

 de Gramont. Here, for instance, are the accounts given by M. Courtier 

 of two of these experiments : 



I. 'At the fourth seance of 1905, a table weighing 15 Ib. with a weight 

 of 22 Ib. placed on it, was twice completely raised for several seconds. 

 This was also done at the sixth s6ance, when the feet of the table near 

 the subject were encased in a sheath. . . . 



'At the moment of the raising of the table, M. D'Arsonval and M. 

 Ballet were completely controlling the hands and knees of Eusapia, an4 



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