Mysteries of the vital element in connexion with dreams, somnambulism, trance, vital photography, faith and will, anaesthesia, nervous congestion and creative function : modern spiritualism explained / by Robert H. Collyer.
- Collyer, Robert H.
- Date:
- 1871
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Mysteries of the vital element in connexion with dreams, somnambulism, trance, vital photography, faith and will, anaesthesia, nervous congestion and creative function : modern spiritualism explained / by Robert H. Collyer. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Arts.—No ; one man and no more. Mr. P.'s statement.—Williamson alone is kept there. Mr. P.—14. What is he doing? Ans.—Sitting there. Mr. P.—15. What does he sit on ? Ans.—Something dirty. Mr. P.'s statement.—Their beds are dirty. Mr. P.—16. Do you see anything else ? Ans.—Only the black thing over there. Mr. P.ys statement.—I knew not what the boy meant at the time, but went directly to the gaol, and Williamson had a black article up against the wall to lean against as he sat. Mr. P.—17. Now we'll turn round, and what do you see ? A ns.—A small white thing, round. _ Mr. P.''s statement.—A tub, for necessary purposes, which is round. Mr. P.—18. What is it for ? Ans.—It's nasty—I don't want to tell. [Exhibiting great disgust.] Mr. P.'s statement.—Correctly described thus. Mr. P.—19. Well, you've told enough about that. What do you see now ? Ans.—A window. Mr. P.'s statement.—I was directing attention to the window. Mr. P.—20. Look out at that window. Ans.—I can't. Mr. P.—21. Why? Ans.—It's dirty. Mr. P.'s statement.—I was wishing to have him speak of the iron grates to it, but do not comprehend his answer. Mr. P. then said—Now we'll go to another part. What do you see? But the answers to this and other questions not being satisfactory, Mr. P. said, Well, I don't know where you are. You are where I'm not, and proceeded no further. The following is Mr. Park's certificate on the above :— I hereby certify that the expressions above attributed to me, are in sub- stance correct. - John C. Park. Adjourned to half-past ten o'clock, Thursday, A.M. Thursday, July 1st. The committee met pursuant to adjournment. Voted, That Dr. Gregerson (he being present) be requested to state his late experience upon the subject of the committee's inquiries. Dr. G. rose and gave a very interesting account in detail of the manner of his late conviction of the reality of some of the phenomena asserted by the advocates of Animal Magnetism. He says he began two or three evenings since, while entirely faithless upon this subject, to manipulate upon a gentleman happening to be with him, who was so far a sceptic as to have said shortly before that he wished Dr. C. would try to magnetize him before his evening audience, and he would feign sleep until Dr. C. announced that he was in the magnetic condition, and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21047066_0129.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
