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circle, and neither feel inclination nor
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ability to move or speak, do not be alarmed, but if you are sufficiently
conscious, request that a good spirit friend will come and use you. If,
however, you are mentally in active as well as physically quiescent, your
friends must intervene after a time and audibly solicit spirit aid. If you get
no further, and at subsequent sittings continue to fall into this inert and
unsatisfactory comatose condition, you must make up you mind before
you sit that you will awake out of the lethargy after about ten minutes
unless some spirit influences you in some way. You must give yourself
the 'suggestion' to awake, and after that you may try what you can do in
the way of psychometry or conscious automatic writing.*
TRANCE: AND INSPIRATIONAL SPEAKING.
The mental phases of mediumship involve the development of a degree
of impressibility which may range from the conscious reception of
suggestion, or impulses, or thoughts from other intelligences to the lucidity
on the spiritual plane which is displayed by conscious clear-seeing, or
spirit-sight. The phenomena of super-sensuous reception due to spirit
influence are elicited in much the same way as the mesmerist arouses the
clairvoyant powers of his subject. The somnambulic sleep, or trance, is
induced in the subject whose voluntary powers are no longer under his
control, and the involuntary processes are well-nigh suspended. In this
state his spirit sometimes gains a large degree of freedom, and is able to
perceive on the inner or spiritual plane.
If you are likely to become a trance-speaking medium you will
probably experience a sensation as a falling or dizziness, as if you are
going to faint; this may continue until you become entirely unconscious on
the external plane, and you will know no more until you regain your
normal condition, although, while under the influence of the operator, you
may have been speaking more or less coherently. He may not, at first, be
able to convey the
* See Part III. of this 'Guide' for instructions regarding psychical self-
culture.
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exact impression he wishes to produce. His 'suggestion' is not strong
enough to set your involuntary nerves vibrating in just the way he desires;
consequently his thought is not transferred to you in a manner which
ensures faithful reproduction, and you should not be disappointed because
of such imperfect results at the outset. If your mind is filled with the
desire to succeed you will become too self-conscious, and thus destroy the
very conditions upon which success depends. You need to lose sight of
yourself and become calm and receptive, so that the message may be
transmitted without hindrance.
It is very probable that you will be semi-conscious. The influence will
stimulate your breathing, which will become rapid and irregular; your eyes
will close and you will be unable to open them, and your hands and body
may twitch and jerk as if you were being subjected to a series of galvanic
shocks. The sitters should keep calm and sympathetic, but they should
check any tendency on your part to undue noise, or violence, or absurdity.
You will be aware of what you are doing, but unable to exercise the will to
interfere or try to stop. You will most likely become conscious of an
impulse to do something, or to 'blurt out' certain words. If you resist you
will only make the task more difficult and hinder the attainment of the end
you have in view. Your best course to hold your judgment in suspense; do
not be hostile or critical, but act out your impressions. Let the influence
have its course say what you feel you must say, and never mind about
your own state of consciousness. You will be much more likely to pass
into the unconsciousness trance (if you desire to do so) if you can say:
'Now, spirit friend, I trust myself to you and will yield my body and brain
to your control, for you to do the best you can with and through me. I am
willing to co-operate with you for the time being, and trust you to do your
utmost for the good of others.' It is not necessary that you should be
entirely unconscious, although you may think it is, to prove that another
Intelligence is operating upon and through you. The evidence of that fact
will be displayed in the nature of the message
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A Guide to Mediumship 153
ability to move or speak, do not be alarmed, but if you are sufficiently
conscious, request that a good spirit friend will come and use you. If,
however, you are mentally in active as well as physically quiescent, your
friends must intervene after a time and audibly solicit spirit aid. If you get
no further, and at subsequent sittings continue to fall into this inert and
unsatisfactory comatose condition, you must make up you mind before
you sit that you will awake out of the lethargy after about ten minutes
unless some spirit influences you in some way. You must give yourself
the 'suggestion' to awake, and after that you may try what you can do in
the way of psychometry or conscious automatic writing.*
TRANCE: AND INSPIRATIONAL SPEAKING.
The mental phases of mediumship involve the development of a degree
of impressibility which may range from the conscious reception of
suggestion, or impulses, or thoughts from other intelligences to the lucidity
on the spiritual plane which is displayed by conscious clear-seeing, or
spirit-sight. The phenomena of super-sensuous reception due to spirit
influence are elicited in much the same way as the mesmerist arouses the
clairvoyant powers of his subject. The somnambulic sleep, or trance, is
induced in the subject whose voluntary powers are no longer under his
control, and the involuntary processes are well-nigh suspended. In this
state his spirit sometimes gains a large degree of freedom, and is able to
perceive on the inner or spiritual plane.
If you are likely to become a trance-speaking medium you will
probably experience a sensation as a falling or dizziness, as if you are
going to faint; this may continue until you become entirely unconscious on
the external plane, and you will know no more until you regain your
normal condition, although, while under the influence of the operator, you
may have been speaking more or less coherently. He may not, at first, be
able to convey the
* See Part III. of this 'Guide' for instructions regarding psychical self-
culture.
154 A Guide to Mediumship
exact impression he wishes to produce. His 'suggestion' is not strong
enough to set your involuntary nerves vibrating in just the way he desires;
consequently his thought is not transferred to you in a manner which
ensures faithful reproduction, and you should not be disappointed because
of such imperfect results at the outset. If your mind is filled with the
desire to succeed you will become too self-conscious, and thus destroy the
very conditions upon which success depends. You need to lose sight of
yourself and become calm and receptive, so that the message may be
transmitted without hindrance.
It is very probable that you will be semi-conscious. The influence will
stimulate your breathing, which will become rapid and irregular; your eyes
will close and you will be unable to open them, and your hands and body
may twitch and jerk as if you were being subjected to a series of galvanic
shocks. The sitters should keep calm and sympathetic, but they should
check any tendency on your part to undue noise, or violence, or absurdity.
You will be aware of what you are doing, but unable to exercise the will to
interfere or try to stop. You will most likely become conscious of an
impulse to do something, or to 'blurt out' certain words. If you resist you
will only make the task more difficult and hinder the attainment of the end
you have in view. Your best course to hold your judgment in suspense; do
not be hostile or critical, but act out your impressions. Let the influence
have its course say what you feel you must say, and never mind about
your own state of consciousness. You will be much more likely to pass
into the unconsciousness trance (if you desire to do so) if you can say:
'Now, spirit friend, I trust myself to you and will yield my body and brain
to your control, for you to do the best you can with and through me. I am
willing to co-operate with you for the time being, and trust you to do your
utmost for the good of others.' It is not necessary that you should be
entirely unconscious, although you may think it is, to prove that another
Intelligence is operating upon and through you. The evidence of that fact
will be displayed in the nature of the message
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