The Soul of Things; Or, Psychometric Researches and Discoveries by William Denton

I see it flow into the ocean and the water boils intensely.'Ī pebble of a limestone, with glacial scratches on its surface, was given to Cridge.

The sight permeates my whole being, and inspires me with terror. It seems as if an ocean of fire were pouring over a precipice, and boiling as it pours. Now I am turned from where I saw the vessels, and am looking at something most terrific. This must be an island, for water is all around. 'I see the ocean and ships are sailing on it. From thousands of experiments conducted from 1853 until his death in 1883, Denton concluded that the existence of psychometric ability is unquestionable.įrom a fragment of lava from Kilauea, Hawaii (the sensitive had no idea of the origin and nature), the following picture was sensed:

All sources of error apparently were carefully excluded. Cridge's vision was sometimes rapid, like lightning sometimes it could be easily followed. His sister, Anna Denton Cridge, developed the gift of giving descriptions of character, surroundings, and personal appearance -to the color of the hair and eyes -of the writers of letters she held in her hand.ĭenton applied this mysterious ability to geology and found that the history of geological specimens passed before the gaze of the seer like a grand panoramic view. A professor of geology in Boston who became famous for his research in psychometry, begun for the purpose of controlling Joseph Rhodes Buchanan 's experiments. William Denton was born in Darlington, England in January of 1823.

The Soul of Things; Or, Psychometric Researches and Discoveries by William Denton