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not conceivably have been gained by normal means.
When a discarnate tells a deserving heir that the missing will is located in a secret drawer under the
bottom shelf on the black walnut dresser in the east bedroom, and it proves to be there, just as she said
it was - that's "veridical."
The psychic sciences have evolved two rather elaborate tests to prove that certain data achieved
paranormally could not have been achieved normally, and that, moreover, a discarnate intelligence
had to be at work behind the scenes.
The first of these is known as the "Book Tests."
The prime purpose of the book tests was to rule out, once and for all, mere mental telepathy from one
mind to another as an explanation for "veridical" information. The information provided by these
book tests was not known to any living person who might transmit thought impulses - because the
substantiation for it came not from people, but from documents. The book tests were contrived in such
a way that their message would make no sense, either to the medium or to the sitter or anybody else,
until the clue was followed up and the message decoded.
The discarnate intelligence is able, apparently, to hit upon a certain passage on a certain page in a
certain book located on a certain shelf in the percipient's library. This message will contain a thought
that is relevant to the communication in general, to the percipient and his problem, or it may have
some bearing on a matter he discussed previously with the percipient during his lifetime. Sometimes
the passage in the book will be a continuation of some thought partially expressed through the
medium at the immediate sitting Neither makes any sense by itself, but pieced together, like an elusive
puzzle, it becomes crystal clear.
On one classic occasion the discarnate Frederick W.H. Myers was chatting with Sir William Barrett,
who had been his close friend and associate in physical research during Myers' life on the earth plane.
The discussion was conducted through "Reda," the control of Mrs. Osborne Leonard, and related to
Myers' continuing interest in his old friends and their current activities with words of individual praise
for the accomplishments of each of the researchers. The Myers entity then said he had a message for
his friends, and it would be found on such-and-such a page, on such-and-such a shelf in Barrett's
library; as an afterthought, he added that several books from this volume Barrett would find books on
a subject which had once engaged his intense interest some years past.
A search for the book and its reference revealed it to be a passage from George Eliot's novel
Middlemarch: "Ay, ay, I remember. You'll see I've remembered 'em all." The second and third books
beyond Middlemarch on the shelf turned out to be volumes entitled Heat and Sound by a physicist
named Tyndall, with whom Sir William had worked in his younger days.
Barrett had no knowledge of the page-content of the books, or where they were located in his vast
library. He had never even read Middlemarch. And needless to say, Mrs. Leonard had never been in
the house before, knew nothing of the library and its contents or the early life of Sir William.
The other classic test is a sort of psychic jig-saw puzzle called "cross correspondence."
On the incarnate side, the experiments were manned by three automatic writers, Mrs. A. W. Verrall, a
lecturer at Newnham College and wife of a well-known Cambridge University classicist, and two
other ladies who preferred to operate under the pseudonyms of "Mrs. Willett" and Mrs. Holland." (It
was discovered later that "Mrs. Holland" was the sister of Rudyard Kipling.)
The three autonomists were widely separated geographically; one was in London, one in New York,
and one in far-off India.
On the discarnate side, the experiments included entities purporting to have been the ubiquitous
Frederick W.H. Myers, Edmund Burney (who had died a suicide in frustration over the apparent
failure of some of his early experiments in hypnotism); and Dr. Richard Hodgson, one of the main
pillars of the Society for Psychical Research during its formative years.
The procedure of the experiments - which covered a thirty-year span - was for fragments of a message
to be delivered to each of the autonomists in her own locale, remote from the others. The messages
were usually of an obscure and often profound nature, but each in itself made no sense whatsoever
until it was matched up with the portions received by the other two autonomists. The completed
whole, then, was a message that usually bore the unmistakable stamp of Myers himself, who had been
a celebrated classical scholar in his lifetime.
It is very significant that these men, whose entire lives had been spent indefatigably in the pursuit of
psychic knowledge, should go to such ingenious and elaborate lengths to post-' humously prove the
validity of their endeavors to unbelievers.
Myers, in a touching plea to those left behind on the earth plane through Mrs. Holland's automatic
pen, said:
"If it were possible for the soul to die back into earth-life again, I should die from sheer yearning to
reach you and to tell you that all we imagined is not half wonderful enough for the truth...Oh, I am
feeble with eagerness! How can I best be identified?"
42 - Vardeger
Now we arrive in the presence of another elf of the psychic scene, a Norwegian entity known as the
"Vardeger." The literal translation of his name is: "Forerunner."
The Vardeger is a ghost of the living, a distant kinsman of the Doppleganger. He is a spiritual
projection which his possessor sends ahead to announce his arrival, "advance man," an odd
displacement that might be described as a hiccup in the rhythm of time.
Wiers Jensen, editor of the Norwegian Journal of Psychical Research, gave an excellent description of
the typical activities of the Vardeger:
"The Vardeger reports are all alike. With little variation the same type of happening occurs: The
possessor of a Vardeger announces his arrival. His steps are heard on the staircase. He is heard to
unlock the outside door, kick off his overshoes, put his walking stick in place.....The listening
'percipients' - if they are not so accustomed to the prelude of the Vardeger that they remain sitting
quietly - open the door to find the entry empty. The Vardeger has, as usual, played a trick on them.
Eight or ten minutes later, the whole performance is repeated - but now the reality and the man
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