Glimpses Of The Next State.Pdf - Spiritualists' National Union

17On the other hand, I should be very sorry to declare that Husk has never been known to“help out” the manifestations. He sits too often, and it is not possible for a psychic to have powerat his command all the year round, especially if he holds séances three or four times a week. Ithink it is possible he may occasionally put forward dummies in his own house. Nineteen years agohe was once detected impersonating a spirit. From my own personal knowledge or observation, Icannot say I have ever detected him; but I can conceive a séance where fraud and genuinephenomena both occur. His séances are too regular and frequent to escape the natural inferencethat artificial aid is brought in.Numerous testimonies have been given, by people of all shades of intelligence and socialstanding, to the recognition of speech and sight of deceased friends through the mediumship ofCecil Husk. Thousands have sat with him. Many have been introduced under feigned names, andhave been detected by the controls. Hundreds have been comforted in bereavements. I may bewrong, and I hope I am, in thinking that all his home séances are not true throughout. Of onething I am quite sure – that he has, for over twenty years – exercised a genuine gift, and that, inprivate rooms when I sat with him, there was only one occasion when I suspected fraud, and thatonce it may have been unconscious on his part.In December 1904, I determined to go to New York, and sailed on the 17 th fromSouthampton, arriving on Christmas Day. With the various evidences of spirit presence that Ireceived while in New York and Boston I propose to deal with in the next chapter.