There are three chief and most essential factors to be considered :
(1) Your mental and physical health must be quite up to the standard. If you are depleted, exhausted, or “run down” physically, if you are suffering from any disease, or if, on the other hand, you are full of fear, apprehension and doubts,...
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Trance
Mediumship rules
Early trance mediumship
You must not imagine that the beginnings of your mediumship will be either profitable or pleasant, because they probably will not be.
Nearly all successful mediums will tell you that they have passed through a period, at the beginning of their mediumship, when they thought themselves in danger, and believed that their minds were being...
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Enter trance by yourself
In order to induce trance spontaneously in yourself you should proceed, more or less as follows:
Begin by gazing for some time at a bright object, such as a reflected light, coming from a mirror, crystal-ball, etc.
This will tend to tire the eyes and nerves slightly and bring about a dazed condition...
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Experiment with the trance
You may experiment with your own trance condition profitably in the following manner:
Sit with pencil in hand for Automatic-Writing, and induce one or more friends of yours to do the same thing at the same time. See whether there is any connection between your writings, when they are compared the next day. In many...
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Somnambulism and trance
The difference between somnambulism and the medium trance seems to be that, in the former, we remain en rapport with ourselves and in the latter we are in touch with the Spirit World. Many mediums who give inspirational messages or lectures from the platform are in a condition of light trance, and children have...
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Light and deep trance
There are all grades and degrees of trance, from the very light stage, in which there is but little difference from the ordinary waking consciousness, to that degree of deep trance where the medium is totally unconscious of everything that passes around him. Very deep trance of this character is rare, but many of...
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Trance and Catalepsy
Trance is a condition into which certain mediums enter in order to receive messages and give them in the form of speaking or writing. No one knows, at the present time, what the medium-trance is, or for that matter, any other kind of trance ! Dr. George Moore says: “Trance is a state of...
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