EXAMINING PSYCHIC PHENOMENA

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• Document Creation Date: November 4, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 5, 1998
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There is no question that there is an unseen world. The
problcm,,is, how far is it from midtown and how late Is it
open? Unexplainable events occur constantly. One man
will see spirits. Another will hear voices. A third w ill ake
up and find himself running in the Preakness. How many of
us have not at one time or another felt an ice-cold hand on
the back of our neck while we were home alone? (Not me,
thank God, but some have.) What is behind these experi-
ences? Or in front of them, for that matter? Is it true that
some men can foresee the future or communicate with
ghosts? And after death is it still possible to take showers?
Fortunately, these questions about psychic phenomena
are answered in a soon to be published book, Bowl, by Dr.
Osgood Mulford 'I'waweigc, the noted parapsychologist and
professor of ectoplasm at Columbia University. Dr. Twelge
has assembled a remarkable history of supernatural inci-
dents that covers the whole range of psychic phenomena,
from thought transference -to the bizarre experience of two
brothers on opposite parts of the globe, one of whom took a
bath while the other suddenly got clean. What follows is but
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a samp;rnti of yr. I wvelge s most celebrated cases, with his
comments.
APPARITIONS
On March 16, 1882, Mr. J. C. Dubbs awoke in the middle
of the night and saw his brother Amos, who had been dead
for fourteen years, sitting at the foot of his bed flicking
chickens. Dubbs asked his brother what he was doing there,
and his, brother said not to worry, he was dead and was only
in town for the weekend. Dubbs asked his brother what it
was like in "the other world," and his brother said it was
not unlike Cleveland. He said he had returned to give
Dubbs a message, which was that a dark-blue suit and
Argyle socks are a big mistake.
At that point, Dubbs's servant girl entered and saw
Dubbs talking to "a shapeless, milky haze," which she said
reminded her of Arnos Dubbs but was a little better-lo;Qking.
Finally, the ghost asked I?ebbs to join him in an aria from
Faust, which the two sang with great fervor. As dawn rose,
the ghost walked through the wall, and Dubbs, trying to
follow, broke his nose.
This appears to be a classic case of the apparition
phenomenon, and if Dubbs is to be believed, the ghost
returned again and caused Mrs. Dubbs to rise out of a chair
and hover over the dinner table for twenty minutes until she
dropped into some gravy. It is interesting to note that spirits
have a tendency to be mischievous, which A. F. Childe, the
British mystic, attributes to a marked feeling of inferiority
they have over being dead. "Apparitions" are often associ-
ated with individuals who have suffered an unusual demise.
Amos Dubbs, for instance; had died under mysterious
circumstances whcn a Earner accidentally planted hire.
along with some urn s.
SPIRIT 1)F.PARTURE
Mr. Albert Sykes reports the following experience: "I was
sitting having biscuits with some friends when I felt urn
spirit leave my body and go make a telephone call. For
some reason, it called the Moscowitz Fiber Glass Company.
My spirit then returned to niy body and sat for another
twenty minutes or so, hoping nobody would suggest cha-
rades. When the conversation turned to mutual funds, it left
again and began wandering around the city. I am coli-
vinced that it visited the Sta tut: of Liberty and then saw the
stage show at Radio City Music Hall. Following that, it
went to Benny's Steak House and ran up a tab of sixty-eight
dollars. My spirit then decided to return to my body, but it
was impossible to get a cab. Finally, it walked up Fifth
Avenue and rejoined me just in time to catch the late ric%s.
I could tell that it was reentering my body, because I felt a
sudden chill, and a voice said, `I'm back. You want to pass
me those raisins?'
"This phenomenon has happened to me several tunes
since. Once, my spirit went to Miami for a weekend, and
once it was, arrested for trying to leave Macy's without
paying for a tie. The fourth time, it was actually my body
that left my spirit, although all it did was get a rubdown
and come right back."
Spirit departure was very common around 1910, when
many "spirits" were reported wandering aimlessly around
India searching for the American Consulate. The phenomc-
non is quite similar to transubstantiation, the process
whereby a person will suddenly dematerialize and remateri-
alizc somewhere else in the world. This is not a bad way to
trairci, although there is usually a half-hour wait for
lug age. The most astonishing case of transubstantiation
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