... them, as unreal or a deception. All that can reasonably be said is that their true nature has not yet been established beyond dispute. There are two conceivable explanations, one that of actual spirit communication, the other that of vigorously dramatised imaginary conversations jointly composed with wonderful skill and consistency by the subconscious minds, whatever that may be, of the persons present... obstinate unwillingness to admit new facts and ideas can explain its survival, although it was natural and justifiable in the first stages of investigation. There remains the explanation of actual spirit communication. But even when we have decided on this hypothesis as the base of our investigation, we have to be on our guard against a multitude of errors; for the communications are vitiated first by the ...
... coagulated and try to manifest and reappear. Sometimes they are small beings of the vital world, not very well-disposed; as soon as they see people playing at such things—automatic writing, spirit-communication—they come and play. And as they are in a domain from where it is easy to read human thought, they tell you very well what you have in your head. They respond to what you expect. You wish to ...
... laws of the physical being as final, the mistake of accepting the vital powers as the true gods. For example, the people who do psychic research, mediumistic experiments, automatic writing, spirit communication etc. are the people. Disciple : Do you mean to say that the physical laws also will be changed ? Sri Aurobindo : What do you mean by a law ? What are called laws are mere habits ...
... partially successful, effort somewhere else, like Christianity, and then retire. 3-9-1926 Disciple : One Mr. Sharma, president of the Spiritualist Society in India, says that spirit-communication is Page 172 not only possible but probable. There are also table-rapping séances in which spirits are said to reply to questions. What is the truth behind these thing ? ...
... Essays in Philosophy and Yoga Stead and Maskelyne 01-January-1910 The vexed question of spirit communication has become a subject of permanent public controversy in England. So much that is of the utmost importance to our views of the world, religion, science, life, philosophy, is crucially interested in the decision of this question, that no ...
... brightest luminary, and, by his unstinted generosity and sacrifice in the cause of national freedom, became the idol of Bengal. In view of the importance attached to the question of spirit-communication and general psychical research in the West, we reproduce a few words from Sri Aurobindo which, we hope, the readers will find enlightening: "Sri Aurobindo totally denies that he used ...
... be a very easy affair. Spiritual cure – method described – Blue ray – directed to the patient – Washes his own hands. Astral body seen near the patient. 19th April, 1943 Spirit communication – Desire to continue the family life of Earth. There are such spirits who like a reproduction of the life on Earth. Got tired of the same wife and husband. Page 314 Divorce ...
... little blurred - of the people who were there, of the circumstances, of the events.... 17 But psychic memories are beyond the ken of the vital entities that respond during sessions of spirit-communication or automatic writing. And since these entities "are in a domain from where it is easy to read human thought, they tell you very well what you have in your head. They respond to what you expect ...
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