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APPENDIX B266THE ELECTRIC CONDITIONS OF THE ATMOSPHERE INTHE NORTHERN UNITED STATESI HAVE referred in my book to the electric conditions of the atmosphere on certain days inthe Northern States of America and in Canada. I believe it is to these conditions that the ability ofpsychics to bring us so close to the spirit world is due. Bulwer Lytton was aware of this, and statedit to the Dialectical Committee.The attached letter is from a gentleman residing in New York City. He is not a spiritist.Mr. James Higgins is, I venture to say, mistaken in supposing that he is at all peculiar in thisrespect. Less than twenty-four hours before I had the pleasure of making his acquaintance I metan Italian gentleman who had lived some time in New York; he related to me a similar experience.It will be found, as time goes on, that communication with the next state of consciousness isaccomplished with the greatest facility in very dry, calm conditions of the atmosphere, such as areto be found around the great lakes of North America and on the borders of the great deserts inAfrica and Australia. During the two months Mrs. Wriedt was at Mr. W. T. Stead’s house inEngland there was a drought.DEAR SIR,44 Wall Street, New York, May 9, 1911.You asked me about my experiences here in New York in receiving electric shocks from contactwith metallic objects in a room. Much of my work is done in the library of a law firm on WallStreet in this city.This is a large room, with heavy, soft carpet on the floor, and on three sides the walls arelined with books on metallic shelves. There is also a movable telephone in the room, the stand ofwhich is made of some metal. I have frequent occasion to take books from the shelves and to use thetelephone. On a clear day, when there is comparatively little humidity in the atmosphere, I find thatI receive a sharp and unpleasant shock if I cross the room and touch one of the shelves in removingor replacing a book, and that I meet with a similar experience in grasping the stand of thetelephone. This sort of thing has happened so frequently that on a day such as I have described Iam careful not to touch the book-shelves when I use the books, and to wrap a handkerchief aroundthe hand with which I grasp the telephone-stand, much to the amusement of my fellow-workers.I have known others in the office to receive shocks in the same way, but not such frequent orsevere ones as I have had. In fact, I imagine that I am peculiarly susceptible to the electricity in theatmosphere.My father sailed to-day for Naples on the Heretic, of the White Star Line. He expects to be inLondon in about a month, and hopes that he may have the pleasure of seeing you there.ADMIRAL W. IISBORNE MOORE,5, Western Parade,Southsea,Hants,England.With kindest regards,Yours very sincerely,(Signed) JAMES C. HIGGINS.