The outline of Joans forearm now began to lose its
sharpness. We had no faintest hintor preconception of what to expect. It becamehazy,
much in the effect of a soft focus lens. But we want totell you our hopes so you can
help us.
Would not you then be reasonably satisfiedthat
there were three other Betas present? Yet to the son seeking communicationwith his
father it would seem an absurdly easy test.
The Beta is notmade up of any such; not in the way
the physical is made up. Gaines, also conscious, spoke from a revery-like condition
of arather lovely sensitivity. We have form, weight, color, and more senses than you
have. There are fifty or so here: like sardines. It hasbeen demonstrated, surely;
but not by such abnormally normal people,concluded the Professor. When theypinched
this, Joan shrank as though in pain.
Then my Beta is my individual bunch of that
consciousness, addedGaines.
Matter is only a ganglion of stress points, stated
Joe.
We can onlyreach-take advantage of effort, and you
have to supply the effort. Your above andbelow the threshold are not so far above or
below as most. If you had had her on a scales tonight, you could have had theweight
of the Beta.
It isnt a fluid, quite, because it keeps form.
Under advice the two stations were now brought out for a short recess. The next time
I want a dead,dense, shadowless, dark screen; and I want her to sit in a black
chair.
Suddenly, after another long and silent interval
Joan cried out sharply:Pinch it! When theypinched this, Joan shrank as though in
pain.
Ye did na see much, but it was a guid start in mair
waysthan one. You get it through the subconscious, which is to the Betawhat the
conscious is to the physical. Finally Joan said:It is cold around my ankles.
Stations seem to be naturally sensitive-to agreater or smaller degree-while other
people are not.
Have you never heard the phrase, Theeyes are the
windows of the soul?
Why not through our real inner self direct, instead
ofthrough a mere attribute?
Furthermore, theydiscovered under the palm of the
hand a thin cold streak. Is the emanation from the tips of the fingers an emanation
going on withus all the time?
THE FOURTH MEETINGThe fourth session began by a
request from Joe. Is the emanation from the tips of the fingers an emanation going
on withus all the time? Indeed, as will be seen, some ofthe experiments were
repeated in daylight. Next I want you to get a very dull dark room lantern, one that
gives avery small amount of light.
Or take another type, that of the station who
pronounces words unknown tohim. The difficulty for a time seemed insurmountable.