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    The Truth About Telepathy: Paranormal Parlor, A Weiser Books Collection
    The Truth About Telepathy: Paranormal Parlor, A Weiser Books Collection
    The Truth About Telepathy: Paranormal Parlor, A Weiser Books Collection
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    The Truth About Telepathy: Paranormal Parlor, A Weiser Books Collection

    By J. Arthur Hill and Varla Ventura

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    Varla Ventura, Coast to Coast favorite, Weird News blogger on Huffington Post, and author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces Weiser Books’ new Collection of forgotten occult classics. Paranormal Parlor is an eerie assemblage of affordable digital editions, curated with Varla’s sixth sense for tales of the weird and unusual.

    One of the leading investigators and psychic sleuths of the Roaring 20s takes a high-society approach to the truth behind occult powers and mentalism.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Wheel Weiser
    Release dateApr 1, 2012
    ISBN9781619400689
    The Truth About Telepathy: Paranormal Parlor, A Weiser Books Collection
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    J. Arthur Hill

    Adelaide Anne Procter (30 October 1825 – 2 February 1864) was an English poet and philanthropist. She worked on behalf of a number of causes, most prominently on behalf of unemployed women and the homeless, and was actively involved with feminist groups and journals. Procter's poems were primarily published in Charles Dickens's periodicals Household Words and All the Year Round and later published in book form. Her charity work and her conversion to Roman Catholicism appear to have strongly influenced her poetry, which deals most commonly with such subjects as homelessness, poverty, and fallen women. Procter was the favorite poet of Queen Victoria. Coventry Patmore called her the most popular poet of the day, after Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Her father was the poet Bryan Waller Procter, novelist Elizabeth Gaskell enjoyed her visits to the Procter household, and Procter's father was friends with poet Leigh Hunt, essayist Charles Lamb, and novelist Charles Dickens, as well as being acquainted with poet William Wordsworth, and critic William Hazlitt.

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      The Truth About Telepathy - J. Arthur Hill

      You Won't See Me

      I was five years old the first time I saw an apparition. I was half-asleep, the pre-dawn crickets had gone silent, and I was stirred into waking by a gentle pulling on my toe. When I opened my eyes, I saw my paternal grandfather standing at the foot of my bed. He smiled. I slid my toes out of the covers into my slippers, preparing to lean into a nice big hug, but he was gone. I thought it strange, but to a five-year-old the very regular world can seem like a strange place, so I drifted back to sleep. The next morning when I told my mom about my nighttime vision, she burst into tears. My grandpa had died just after midnight, perhaps an hour before he visited me.

      As I grew up and started collecting strange stories of the supernatural variety, I found that this kind of manifestation is actually fairly common. An after-death farewell. Yet the idea of visitors from the great beyond is a subject that few dare to discuss in open company (unless you are hanging out with me) lest their experiences be ridiculed or their ideas sound crazy.

      In this excerpt from J. Arthur Hill's greater work Psychical Miscellanea, we find another example of early American investigation of paranormal phenomena. He explores the meaning behind telepathy and attempts to set the record straight on a number of issues relating to the supernatural and supernormal, addressed of course to his 1920s audience. Hill, the author of Psychical Investigations, Man Is a Spirit, Spiritualism: Its History, Phenomena, and Doctrine, among others, takes a dogged but decidedly journalistic approach to the proof from the Other World and Other Powers. Of particular note is the way in which he gives credence to the testimony by providing the high-society backgrounds of any participants. These are successful businessmen and other upstanding members of society. He claims to do this to give weight to the validity of his claims because some critics seem to have a notion that psychical researchers are a crowd of long-haired poets or semi-lunatic cranks.

      Though he doesn't always make it clear, one gets the impression that this upstanding citizen has had his own fair share of psychic experiences. Perhaps that is the driving force behind his investigations. I know it is mine.

      IN PSYCHIC SOLIDARITY,

      VARLA VENTURA

      SAN FRANCISCO, 2012

      TELEPATHY

      It is found by experiment that ideas can be communicated from mind to mind through channels other than the known sensory ones. Professor Gilbert Murray of Oxford, probably the most famous Greek scholar in this country, recently carried out some interesting experiments of this kind in his own family. He would go into another room, leaving his wife and daughter to decide on something which they would try to communicate to him on his return. They chose the most absurd and unlikely things, but in a large number of cases Professor Murray, by making his mind as passive as possible and saying the first thing that came into his head, was able to reproduce with startling accuracy the idea they had in mind. For instance, they thought of Savonarola at Florence and the people burning their clothes and pictures and valuables. Says Professor Murray: I first felt ‘This is Italy’, then, ‘this is not modern’; and then hesitated, when accidentally a small tarry bit of coal tumbled out of the fire. I smelt oil or paint burning and so got the whole scene. It seems as though here some subconscious impression, struggling up towards consciousness, caught hold of the burning coal as a means of getting through. On another occasion they thought of Grandfather at the Harrow and Winchester cricket match, dropping hot cigar-ash on Miss Thompson's parasol. Professor Murray's guess, reported verbatim, was: Why, this is grandfather! He's at a cricket match—why it's absurd: he seems to be dropping ashes on a lady's parasol. Another time they thought of a scene in a book of Strindberg's which Professor Murray had not read: a

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