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Updated: May 19, 2025
"Well, the upshot was, I joined the society, became a member of the Executive Board, was made a special committee on 'physical phenomena' that is to say, slate-writing, levitation, and the like and set to work. It was like entering a new, vague, and mysterious world.
Other phases are those presented by professional mediums, the tying and untying of ropes, playing on musical instruments, the production of luminous phenomena, slate-writing under tables, and the like. Performances of this character are usually done in the dark, and the fraud which may be present is therefore not easily detected.
These communications had come through a slate-writing Medium by the name of Patterson, and were received by two gentlemen whose names I am not at liberty to mention, but whom I will call A. and B. Both were prominent men, and both had become thorough believers in Spiritualism after several sittings with Mrs. Patterson.
"I have always considered slate-writing a cheap trick, but I don't quite see how that was done always providing your memory is not at fault." "I would not place much dependence on my present recollection," I frankly responded, "but I reported on the case at once while my mind was most accurate as to details.
It was given as I write it, with only a bit of hesitation once or twice; and yet, it may have been merely thought transference." "Merely thought transference!" exclaimed Miller. "I consider thought transference quite as absurd as slate-writing." Fowler interposed. "I consider this a simple case of spirit communication. You should be grateful for such a beautiful response."
We must at once ask ourselves: who placed the slates in that position? and if it was the medium as it probably was in the vast majority of instances then that test, in all probability, ceases to have any evidential weight. Anyone can read over a number of accounts of slate-writing performances, and verify these statements, if he chooses to do so.
I confess that I haven't much confidence in "mejums," who find employment for the shades of G. Washington, J. Caesar, and others of that ilk, at table-tipping, slate-writing and such unproductive enterprises; nor in the class of spooks who "materialize" in dark rooms, come prancing out of "cabinets" and other uncanny corporeal incubators for no other apparent purpose than to enable their mundane manipulators to realize two dollars in the coin of the realm.
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