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arable force, thus bringing about the phenomenon which has been 

 named "telekinesis," or movement of objects without apparent 

 or normal contact. 



If this faculty of materialisation is established, however it 

 be accounted for, the application to some varieties of ghostly 

 apparition is obvious. Something visible, and occasionally tangi- 

 ble, may be really there. 



But it must be clearly stated that several of the Continental 

 observers who have most successfully and thoroughly scrutinised 

 this materialising and telekinetic phase of mediumistic activity 

 are very loth to entertain the spiritistic hypothesis in any form; 

 these scientific investigators prefer to regard it as an unexplained 

 power of the medium's own organism, when in an unconscious 

 or hypnotic state. They have to assume a power of rearranging 

 the molecules of an extruded bodily substance, known as ecto- 

 plasm, which emanates from a medium's body, so as to cause it 

 to simulate the appearance of human bodies or parts of bodies. 

 And they have further to assume the possibility of its exerting 

 considerable force on objects in the neighbourhood. 



Psychic Photography 



However this may be, physical phenomena are among the 

 things requiring investigation by psychic science; and one of the 

 commonest forms at the present time is psychic photography. 

 Some mediums are said to have the power of so influencing the 

 photographic process that when, say, a widower or a bereaved 

 parent, arriving quite anonymously, is photographed, a shadowy 

 extra representing his deceased wife or son is sometimes obtained 

 too. Whether these so-called "extras," if genuinely produced 

 by a supernormal process, are "psychographed" on to the plate 

 itself independently of the camera though perhaps requiring 

 exposure to light to bring them out, or whether there is some- 

 thing in front of the camera which is optically focussed upon 

 the plate during the exposure given for the purpose of photo- 



