Message #190646

[Apparition from Beyond the Veil]

All these kinds of things, in fact, are common in our visions between sleeping and waking (illusions hypnagogiques).  The singularity is that they are seen by people wide awake in glass balls and so forth.  Usually the seer is a person whose ordinary “mental imagery” is particularly vivid.  But every “visualiser” is not a crystal seer.  A novelist of my acquaintance can “visualise” so well that, having forgotten an address and lost the letter on which it was written, he called up a mental picture of the letter, and so discovered the address.  But this very popular writer can see no visions in a crystal ball.  Another very popular novelist can see them; little dramas are acted out in the ball for his edification. {58}