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IN the third Frederic W. H. Myers memorial lecture, which was delivered before the Society for, Psychical Research on October 25, and of which an English edition has just been issued ("Supernormal Aspects of Energy and Matter": London, 1933), Dr. Eugene Osty, the director of the Institut Meta-psychique, Paris, reviewed the recent experiments with the medium, Mr. R. Schneider. He described the nature of the apparatus employed through the use of which it is claimed that the medium is capable of demonstrating his power of externalising a ‘force’, or substance, the effects of which can be registered at a distance from him. In the course of the address, the speaker maintained that Mr. Schneider possessed exceptional powers, which he was able to exercise over the material world when in a special physiological state designated as trance. In this condition his behaviour is as if he knew and could control “the primordial resources of life and processes of creation”. The method of demonstrating this alleged action at a distance was to study its effect on infra-red rays which occupied a certain area. Interruptions and absorptions occurred which were registered photographically, and shown to be connected with the respirations of the medium. Attempts were made to photograph the invisible substance, but were not successful; Dr. Osty is of the opinion that plates sensitive enough to the radiations have not yet been produced.
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Physico-Psychical Experiments. Nature 132, 776 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132776b0
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