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the medium's vacated shell — These entities offer 

 proof that would be taken seriously in any court 

 of law — My own mental content is unique to me. 

 . . . When the communicating entity talks to the 

 sitter — Can we prove that the communicator did 

 not previously know facts he states about the sit- 

 ter? — Suppose Sir Arthur Conan Doyle should 

 communicate — He is known to fame, and his traits 

 are public property — But suppose the spirit entity 

 and sitter are totally unknown to the medium, and 

 details known to both alone come through? — The 

 files of Psychical Research Societies reveal many 

 such instances — How did the knowledge get into 

 the medium's mouth? . . . The clairvoyant read- 

 ing — The clairvoyant gets precisely the same sort 

 of evidence as the trance medium — Variations of 

 the types quite frequent — A hypothetical sitting 

 after the technique known as psychometry — The 

 results similar to those obtained through trance 

 and clairvoyance — A large common denominator 

 between psychometry and spirit mediumship. . . . 

 We must be true to scientific principles in inter- 

 preting psychic manifestation — Crystal gazers — 

 Reasoning out psychometry — A faculty of the 

 sub-conscious mind-levels — Similarity of results 

 through spiritistic and non-spiritistic means — A 

 unique personal experience. . . . Why the incident 

 afforded no proof of spirit return — A small per- 

 centage of seance-room phenomena take the form 

 of communication from living communicators — The 

 subconscious is unwilling to tolerate a mystery: 

 hence some dreams — When the subconscious is in 

 control — A preferable alternative to the spiritistic 

 hypothesis. . . . The double scheme of seance- 

 room manifestations — Numerous cogent arguments 

 that spirits of the dead are present — We cannot 

 accept the universal applicability of the spirit hy- 

 pothesis — Neither can we deny that there are occa- 

 sions when spirits of the dead are present. . . . 

 Justification of this paper in this volume — Why 

 orthodox science always turned thumbs down on 

 the whole field of psychical research — Science has 

 suffered a fundamental overturn — The old system 

 totally unable to give an adequate picture of the 

 universe — Research no longer believes the uni- 

 verse is all matter and energy — No informed 

 scientist to-day denies action at a distance — Rela- 

 tivity provides a framework for the new universe; 

 and we certainly have a new universe — Experi- 

 mental science cries out for a new cosmic philos- 

 ophy — In a remarkable manner psychical research 

 steps in and offers rationalized psychic phenomena 



