Beyond the Occult (2013)
“The story of the Allans yields another important clue to the mystery of paranormal experience. When the three ‘ghosts’ appeared behind Mrs Allan she felt paralysed, unable to turn her head. This sensation of paralysis appears again and again in accounts of paranormal experience. The student S. H. Beard experienced the same sensation when he tried to ‘appear’ to his fiancée Miss Verity, as decribed in chapter 2: ‘I must have fallen into a mesmeric trance, for although I was conscious, I could no...t move my limbs.’ It is as if the mind and the body have drifted slightly out of alignment.
Another case is cited by Dame Edith Lyttelton — one-time president of the Society for Psychical Research — in her book Our Superconscious Mind. In June 1889 Mrs F. C. McAlpine went to meet her sister off the train in Castleblaney and, when she failed to arrive, decided to go for a walk by the lake.
Being at length tired, I sat down to rest upon a rock at the edge of the water.MoreLess
Another case is cited by Dame Edith Lyttelton — one-time president of the Society for Psychical Research — in her book Our Superconscious Mind. In June 1889 Mrs F. C. McAlpine went to meet her sister off the train in Castleblaney and, when she failed to arrive, decided to go for a walk by the lake.
Being at length tired, I sat down to rest upon a rock at the edge of the water.MoreLess
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