... soon [....] went into a trance and...was in convulsions, thrusting, jerking, whispering, panting and moaning, rather like someone in orgasm: the sexual was so unmistakable that it was not surprising later on to hear that the young man's activity is often accompanied by erections and ejaculations.... (Inglis, p. 110)
... the substance, whatever it had been, could not have been expected to be cold...(Inglis, p. 174)
Cold shock causes an irreversible decline..., leading to a loss of motility. (Hafez, p. 92)
... from the medium's body, was harder to swallow. Even harder to take was the possibility that these ectoplasmic limbs could so successfully mimic or counterfeit the human form that they looked real, felt real, and smelled real. (Inglis, p. 80)
... a whitish stream, perhaps luminous...in which there develops a hand or an arm that gradually gains consistancy, it would then begin to make what he described as personal movements. (Inglis, p. 28)
... [.....] managed a dingy white-looking subsistance that swayed and throbbed. (Pearsall, p. 100)
"Ectoplasm" was captured by an investigator early in this century: it burned to an ash, leaving a smell as of horn. (Pearsall, p.101)
I must call your attention to the fact that we all have to pass through the trying ordeal of so-called-death---but it is just a step Ñ enabling us to awaken to our spiritual understanding of the truth, which places us in a perfect sphere of life everlasting which marks our growth (as sowers watch the seed), and after so-called death we reach the goal of satisfaction. (Bryan, p.136)
... whether it is a nervous fluid or one of a more material nature, seems never to have been agreed... (Leaf, p. 59)
The mass may have been concealed in the vagina and thence expelled thus the only course open would have been for the medium to have thrown it upon the table then devise means of manipulating it there without the use of hands. (Inglis, p. 173)
... a slight surgical enlargement of the mouth of the uterus would make it a more convenient receptacle. (Inglis, p. 186)
... the spirit...must have:
1. Sufficient of the necessary kind of psycho-plasm in which to appear. 2. Sufficient skill to utilise the psychoplasm for it special purpose.
This is no easy thing, and , as one may well suppose, it is accomplished with varying results. Some idea of the ability that is required for such a gigantic task can easily be formed from remarkable scientific that is already forthcoming along these lines. In cases of materialization, in which the densest kind of psycho-plasm has to be used, the forms resemble in every way ordinary living people, with flesh, bone, blood, teeth, hair, temperature, and so on. (Leaf, pp.131-132)
... to build up in a few seconds an organ or organism biologically complete--to create life--is a metapsychic fact which can but rarely produce a perfect result ... (Inglis, p. 121)
In fertile men the concentration of abnormal spermatoza can be as much as 30% or higher. (Mann, p. 74)
... it is partly of a physical nature--the substance of the mediumÕs body. Scientists have frequently photographed it proceeding from psychics, and there appear to be certain parts of the human organism from or through which it is more easily extracted. Nevertheless, it appears to be based upon a sub-stratum of matter far more refined than the physical body, and which appears to belong to the physical body of the medium. No doubt it involves several degrees of matter, of the nature of which we are at present ignorant, and which may, because of their transcendental nature, be never fully understood in this world. (Leaf, p. 60)
... the spirits...return to stimulate us and make us see life as it is. This ought to be our delight. (Bryan, p. 32)
A substance at first amorphous or polymorphous ...exuded from the natural orificies...to thetouch, the substance was soft, and somewhat elastic, while spreading...(Inglis, p. 96)
Chemical analysis revealed the presence of salt and phosphate of calcium. It is perhaps unfortunate that modern chemists have not had the opportunity to try their skills on this mysterious substance. (pearsall, p. 101)
... a...mass of ectoplasm...its composition was reported as being 'sodium, potassium, water, chlorine, albumen, epithelial cells and fresh red blood corpuscles'. (Cavendish, p 278)
The red, sticky matter described by a ....medium,... ...., was an unusual variation on the theme... (pearsall, p. 101)
... if evidence suggests that certain sorts of phantasms...are generated by surviving portions of formerly living human beings, whatever survives and generates them must possess very much the same memories and conceptual abilities as are possessed by the living persons who sometimes similarly seem to generate phantasms of themselves. (Gauld, p.259)
... those clouds which developed into bony and mobile masses just in front of me... (Inglis, p.28)
... psychics are quite unable to control the phenomena. All they can do is place themselves in a state which renders them possible. (Leaf, p. 61)
... had photographs which he had been able to take when the ectoplasm from ....'s body, commonly from her navel or vagina, became visible... (Inglis, p. 79)
... a soft resilient mass, like a membrane filled with some semi-fluid substance... (Inglis, p. 173) ... he had shown photographs to an eminent gynecologist who had agreed it would be possible to pack Ôa considerableÕ portion of such a substance into the vagina from which it could then be expelled... (Inglis, p. 173)
... when .....was manifesting ... ......the latter was connected with the medium by cloudy, faintly luminous threads. (Pearsall, p. 101)
... the ectoplasmic substance, emerging like a baby...(Inglis, p. 172) ... a..."fluid" and sometimes even physical substance itself, is extracted from the sensitive's body and made to produce certain physical manifestations...(Leaf. p. 125)
... the veil of splendor...our hearts should be happy when they come, because they give us rest. What an ecstasy of joy...we can lay our burden at their doors, and they will aid us to wipe it away. (Bryan, p. 29)
... attempting to generate a phantasm of some person other than himself. (Gauld, P. 253)
Our body is used by us as an instrument through which one can express his or herdesire. Just so, the spirits control us. (Bryan, p. 195)
In either case we are in what seems to be a total deadend. All in all this is a baffling and dispiriting state of affairs. (Gauld, p. 250)
Psyche put her left hand down, with ...'s still controlling it, and threw the mass upon the table. (Inglis, p. 173)
Ectoplasm is supposed to have exuded from any or all of the mediumÕs orifices, and to have been reponsive to light...(Pearsall, p. 101)
... the antigonadotrophic activity of thepineal gland...is intensified by darkness, but suppressed by light. (Mann, p. 17)
... the grand climax is reached which gives light to the mysteries of all. (Bryan, p. 151)
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