Materialized Apparitions: If Not Beings from Another Life, What Are They

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Edward A. Brackett. Materialized Apparitions: If Not Beings from Another Life, What Are They

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

Part I. MATERIALIZATION AND DEMATERIALIZATIONOF FORMS AND OBJECTS

CHAPTER I. MY FIRST SÉANCE, AND WHAT CAME OF IT

CHAPTER II. PERSONIFICATION BY THE MEDIUM, OR MATERIALIZED FORMS?

CHAPTER III. MATERIALIZATION AND DEMATERIALIZATION OF OBJECTS

CHAPTER IV. MATERIALIZATION AND DEMATERIALIZATION UNDER TEST CONDITIONS

CHAPTER V. AN UNEXPECTED SÉANCE

CHAPTER VI. SÉANCE WITH MRS. CARRIE M. SAWYER

CHAPTER VII. SÉANCES WITH MRS. FAIRCHILD

CHAPTER VIII. SÉANCE WITH MISS HELEN BEERY AT ONSET

CHAPTER IX. SÉANCE AT THE BERRY SISTERS' IN BOSTON

CHAPTER X. MATERIALIZED FORMS – HOW SHALL WE MEET THEM?

Part II. OPINIONS AND THEORIES

CHAPTER I. A GLANCE BEHIND THE CURTAIN

CHAPTER II. EXPOSURES OF MEDIUMS

CHAPTER III. PUBLIC SÉANCES

CHAPTER IV. THE ATTITUDE OF SCIENTISTS

CHAPTER V. PUBLIC OPINION

CHAPTER VI. CONCLUSION

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Written at intervals from the pressure of business, and at times that should have been devoted to recreation, these pages make no claim to artistic arrangement or literary merit. If they enable any one to arrive at a clearer and better appreciation of the wonderful phenomena of which they treat, they will have accomplished all that was intended.

Winchester, Mass.

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What claimed to be my wife came to me quite often, and so many times disappeared in the way heretofore described, that I was no longer startled by the occurrence, for I had become so familiar with it that I had come to regard it as a natural consequence of her appearance. She not only grew stronger, but the likeness was much improved, and the resemblance to the medium, at times, entirely disappeared.

In my first visits to these séances, I was led, like many others, to attach great importance to the resemblance which these forms might bear to what they claimed to have been when in earth-life. I was constantly looking for it, and have seen many instances where the likeness was so marked that it would have been impossible to mistake it; yet I have learned not to regard it as positive evidence of identity. Whatever they may be, whether from this or the other side of life, there can be no question that they possess the wonderful power of changing their forms at pleasure, as any one at all familiar with them can testify.

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