Real Ghost Stories by W.T. Stead

Author:W.T. Stead [Stead, W.T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9788892677869
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Published: 2007-01-22T00:00:00+00:00

resemblance to Tim Harrington, although it was not he, hold up a magazine or

book in his hand and laugh. It was not a picture—it was there. The scene was just as if you were looking through an opera-glass; you saw the play of the muscles, the gleaming of the eye, every movement of the unknown persons in the unnamed place into which you were gazing. I saw all that without opening my eyes, nor did my eyes have anything to do with it. You see such things as these, as it were, with another sense, which is more inside your head than in your

eyes. This was a very poor and paltry experience, but it enabled me to

understand better than any amount of disquisition how it is that clairvoyants see.

The pictures were apropos of nothing; they had been suggested by nothing I had been reading or talking of, they simply came as if I had been able to look through a glass at what was occurring somewhere else in the world. I had my peep and then it passed, nor have I had a recurrence of a similar experience.

Crystal-Gazing.

Crystal-gazing is somewhat akin to clairvoyance. There are some people who

cannot look into an ordinary globular bottle without seeing pictures form

themselves, without any effort or will on their part, in the crystal globe. This is

an experience which I have never been able to enjoy. But I have seen crystal-gazing going on at a table at which I have been sitting on one or two occasions

with rather remarkable results. The experiences of Miss X. in crystal-gazing have been told at length and in detail in the “Proceedings of the Psychical Research Society.” On looking into the crystal on two occasions as a test, to see if she could see me when she was several miles off, she saw, not me, but a different friend of mine on each occasion, whom she had never seen, but whom

she immediately identified on seeing them afterwards at my office.

Crystal-gazing seems to be the least dangerous and most simple of all methods

of experimenting. You simply look into a crystal globe the size of a five-shilling

piece, or a water-bottle which is full of clear water, and is placed so that too much light does not fall upon it, and then simply look at it. You make no incantations and engage in no mumbo-jumbo business; you simply look at it for

two or three minutes, taking care not to tire yourself, winking as much as you please, but fixing your thought upon whoever it is you wish to see. Then, if you

have the faculty, the glass will cloud over with a milky mist, and in the centre the

image is gradually precipitated in just the same way as a photograph forms on the sensitive plate. At least, the description given by crystal-gazers as to the way

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