Spiritualistic Activities
The phenomena of Spiritualism consists of; prophecy, clairvoyance, clairaudience, gift of tongues, laying on of hands, healing, visions, trance, apports, revelations, raps, levitation, automatic and independent writing and painting, photography, materialization, psychometry, direct and independent voice, and any other manifestation which proves the continuity of life after death.
Such universal practises and the giving of spiritual guidance, the different manifestation of spiritualistic activities were categorised by Sir William Crookes, a highly distinguished British physicist and chemist, as being;
- The movement of heavy bodies with contact, but without mechanical exertion
- The phenomena of percussive and other allied sounds
- The alteration of weights of bodies
- Movements of heavy substances when at a distance from the medium
- The rising of tables and chairs off the ground, without contact with any person
- The levitation of human beings
- Movement of various small articles without contact with any person
- Luminous appearances
- The appearance of hands, either self-luminous or visible by ordinary light
- Direct (automatic) writing
- Phantom forms and faces
- Special instances which seem to point to the agency of an exterior intelligence
- Miscellaneous occurrences of a complex character.
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