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The Rappers; Or, the Mysteries, Fallacies, and Absurdities of Spirit-Rapping, Table-Tipping, and Entrancement: (English)

The Rappers; Or, the Mysteries, Fallacies, and Absurdities of Spirit-Rapping, Table-Tipping, and Entrancement: (English)

          
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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1854. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V. ANOTHER SCIENTIFIC SOLUTION. Another American author, Mr. J. B. Dods, explains the modern spirit manifestations as they are called, such as rapping, writing, moving furniture, &c, on the principles of what he calls the voluntary and involuntary powers of the mind. He says that these manifestations are produced by allowing the involuntary powers of the mind in the back brain to take the place and execute the office of the voluntary powers of the mind in the front brain, and through the muscular and nervous force to give motion to the medium's foot or any part of the body, over which the medium, at that instant, has no more control than any other person who may be in the room with him. "The manifestations," says Mr. Dods, "are occasioned by too great a redundancy of electricity, congregated upon the involuntary nerves, through the passivity of the mind, and thus imparting to them extraordinary nervous force. And this force will be, more or less, in the same ratio that they are thrown out of balance with the voluntary nerves. In this condition, an electro-magnetic discharge from the fingers or toes of the medium may often produce an audible snap, or even sound, by coming in contact with surrounding substances favorable to the propagation of sound, and be heard at considerable distances. And, moreover, the sound will appear to originate in the very spot where it is heard. Or this electro-magnetic force, by endeavoring to equalize itself throughout the nervous system of the medium, may occasion a snapping in the head, or a striking together of the joints, that can be heard in an adjoining room, and even appear to be in the room. And while these phenomena are transpiring, that part of the body in which they occur will be entirely destitute of feeling at the very instant that ea...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781150128042
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 66
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 136 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1150128046
  • Publisher Date: 02 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm


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