PSYCHIC
PHENOMENA
A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE PHYSICAL
MANIFESTATIONS OBSERVED IN
PSYCHICAL RESEARCH
WITH FACSIMILE ILLUSTRATIONS OF
THOUGHT-TRANSFERENCE DRAWINGS
AND AUTOMATIC WRITING
BY
EDWARD T. BENNETT
ASSISTANT-SECRETARY TO THE SOCIETY OF
PSYCHICAL RESEARCH, 1882-1902
WITH A FOREWORD BY
SIR OLIVER LODGE
NEW YORK
BRENTANO'S
MCMIX
NOTE
The writer desires to express his sincere thanks to the Council of the Society for Psychical Research for the permission given to make extracts from the Proceedings of the Society, from the privately printed Journal, and from "Phantasms of the Living"; and for allowing the reproduction of a series of Thought-Transference Drawings. Also best thanks are due to Mrs. Myers, and to Messrs. Longmans, Green & Co., for permission to make quotations from Mr. F. W. H. Myers' great work, "Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death." Also to Mr. J. Burns and his brother, for freely granting permission for any use to be made of the James Burns 1873 Edition of the "Report of the Committee of the Dialectical Society."
E. T. B.
CONTENTS
| Chap. | Page | |
| I. | Introductory | [11] |
| II. | The Movement of Objects without any ApparentPhysical Cause | [16] |
| III. | The Production of Sound without any ApparentPhysical Cause | [31] |
| IV. | The Appearance of Light without any ApparentPhysical Cause | [35] |
| V. | Physical Phenomena in the Presence ofDaniel Dunglas Home | [41] |
| VI. | Physical Phenomena in the Presence of W.Stainton Moses | [58] |
| VII. | The Divining Rod | [76] |
| VIII. | Thought-Transference Drawings | [89] |
| IX. | Materialisations | [109] |
| X. | "Spirit Photography" | [113] |
| XI. | The Summing Up of the Whole Matter | [121] |