Post by Angela L. on Apr 16, 2009 17:02:01 GMT -6
I found this today and was wondering if any of you had heard of this before
Book and Newspaper Tests
In the books tests, a spirit would give the position of a book on a shelf, the page number in the book, and the location on a page where an evidential message could be found. In the newspaper tests, a spirit would tell the contents of newspaper articles before they were printed. The purpose of these test was to show that mediums received information from spirits and not from the sitters by ESP or investigation since neither the medium nor the sitter could know this information.
Here is one example where the spirit gives the location and content of an item in a newspaper not yet published and the person receiving the reading confirmed the prediction.
October 4th, 1922, at 2:36 p.m.: "In to-morrow's Times, page one, column one, and near the top, see the name of a place which you much liked while away; you went to see it, but not to stay there, and were very interested. It is not the name of a county, but of a small locality."
... on looking at The Times on October 5th to discover the solution of the riddle, we were, I candidly admit it, astonished to see the words, School House, Sherbourne, placed precisely where I had been instructed to look, viz., "near the top of column one of the first page."
... Only five days previously we had stayed for an hour at Sherbourne, where we took tea in an upper room, the window of which overlooked a street adjoining Sherbourne School.... Before leaving the town we inspected the school buildings from the outside, and were sufficiently interested to read, on arriving home, all we could find in my books relating to Sherbourne and its school.
Source: "Life Beyond Death with Evidence" by Rev. Charles Drayton Thomas. Many book and newspaper tests are described in detail in this book which may be downloaded free from:
www.freewebs.com/psilib/
An overview of the book and newspaper tests is given in this blog entry by Michael Tymn:
metgat.gaia.com/blog/2007/5/proof_positive_of_spirit_communication
Book and Newspaper Tests
In the books tests, a spirit would give the position of a book on a shelf, the page number in the book, and the location on a page where an evidential message could be found. In the newspaper tests, a spirit would tell the contents of newspaper articles before they were printed. The purpose of these test was to show that mediums received information from spirits and not from the sitters by ESP or investigation since neither the medium nor the sitter could know this information.
Here is one example where the spirit gives the location and content of an item in a newspaper not yet published and the person receiving the reading confirmed the prediction.
October 4th, 1922, at 2:36 p.m.: "In to-morrow's Times, page one, column one, and near the top, see the name of a place which you much liked while away; you went to see it, but not to stay there, and were very interested. It is not the name of a county, but of a small locality."
... on looking at The Times on October 5th to discover the solution of the riddle, we were, I candidly admit it, astonished to see the words, School House, Sherbourne, placed precisely where I had been instructed to look, viz., "near the top of column one of the first page."
... Only five days previously we had stayed for an hour at Sherbourne, where we took tea in an upper room, the window of which overlooked a street adjoining Sherbourne School.... Before leaving the town we inspected the school buildings from the outside, and were sufficiently interested to read, on arriving home, all we could find in my books relating to Sherbourne and its school.
Source: "Life Beyond Death with Evidence" by Rev. Charles Drayton Thomas. Many book and newspaper tests are described in detail in this book which may be downloaded free from:
www.freewebs.com/psilib/
An overview of the book and newspaper tests is given in this blog entry by Michael Tymn:
metgat.gaia.com/blog/2007/5/proof_positive_of_spirit_communication