Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: August 16, 2024
Herr Parish next contends that people who see pictures in crystal balls, and so on, are not so wide awake as to be in their normal consciousness. Herr Moll also speaks of crystal-gazing pictures as 'hypnotic phenomena. Possibly neither of these learned men has ever seen a person attempt crystal-gazing.
"I don't believe you have missed me such a lot after all," she said. "What have you been doing all the while?" "Crystal-gazing," he told her. She relinquished them suddenly, readjusted his rug and pillows, then kissed him and told him she was going to the office to see if there were any letters and went out again.
"Forever, with the right woman," I announced. "How long could the woman stand it?".... She humoured, smilingly, my crystal-gazing into our future, as though she had not the heart to deprive me of the pleasure. "I simply can't believe in it, Hugh," she said when I pressed her for an answer. "Why not?"
Herr Parish never asserts any such personal experience as the basis of his opinion about the non-normal state of the gazer. He reaches this conclusion from an anecdote reported, as a not unfamiliar phenomenon, by a friend of Miss X. But the phenomenon occurred when Miss X. was not crystal-gazing at all! She was looking out of a window in a brown study. This is a noble example of logic.
About this time also she acquired the faculty of crystal-gazing; that is to say, by looking into a bowl of water she could correctly describe scenes transpiring at a distance. More than this, she now declared that behind the persons in whose company she was she perceived ghostly forms, some of which she recognized as dead acquaintances.
Science has hardly thought crystal-gazing worthy even of contempt, yet it appears to deserve the notice of psychologists. To persons who can 'scry, and who do not see hideous illusions, or become hypnotised, or superstitious, or incur headaches, scrying is a harmless gateway into Les Paradis Artificiels. 'And the rest, they may live and learn.
Therefore every human being, when crystal-gazing, is more or less asleep. He infers a general affirmative from a single affirmative which happens not to be to the point. It is exactly as if Herr Parish argued: Mrs. B. spends hours in shopping. Mrs. B. is human. Therefore every human being is always late for dinner.
The ceremonies of fumigation, and the preliminary visions of flags, and a sultan, are not necessary in modern crystal-gazing. Scott made inquiries at Malta, and wished to visit Alexandria. He was attracted, doubtless, by the resemblance to Dr. Dee's tales of his magic ball, and to the legends of his own Aunt Margaret's Mirror. The experiments of Mr. Lane were tolerably successful, those of Mr.
Conrad's extraordinary intelligence seems to stand outside his subject, describing what he sees, as though he were crystal-gazing at figures and scenes, at gestures and movements, magically clear and sharp. Mr. Kipling, on the other hand, is part of intimately one with what he tells us; never for a moment really outside it; though he has at command every detail and every accessory that he needs.
When poor Professor Green received the letter, part of which is given above, he, too, was plunged into sad reflections. He reached for a pretty azure paper weight that always stood on his desk and reminded him of a certain pair of blue, blue eyes, and looking into it as though he were crystal-gazing, he shook his head mournfully and said: "Ah, Molly, you little know how you hurt me!
Word Of The Day
Others Looking