Mrs. Piper & the Society for Psychical Research

Author: Michael Sage
Published: 1904
Language: English
Wordcount: 53,138 / 161 pg
Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease: 39.9
LoC Category: B
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Added to site: 2006.09.26
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Translated & slightly abridged from the French of M. Sage by Noralie Robertson, with a preface by Sir Oliver Lodge.

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ety, to which they are also allowed to invite friends. They are further entitled to purchase the Proceedings of the Society issued previous to their joining it,--and also additional copies of any Part or Volume,--at half their published price.

Members have the additional privileges of borrowing books from the Library, and of voting in the election of the Council, and at all meetings of the Society.

A contents sheet of the whole series of Proceedings may be had on application to the Secretary, 20 Hanover Square, London, W.

FOOTNOTES:

[2] Any reports or papers which may be printed in the Proceedings will become the Society's property; but author or authors will be entitled to receive 50 copies of any such report or paper gratis, and additional copies, if required, at a small charge.


Mrs Piper

and the

Society for Psychical Research

CHAPTER I

Mrs Piper's mediumship--Is mediumship a neurosis?

Mrs Piper is what the spiritualists call a medium, and what the English psychologists call an automatist, which is to say, a person who appears at times to lend her organism to beings imperceptible to our senses, in order to enable t

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