1 result for (book:tps4 AND heading:"delet session august 2 1978" AND stemmed:medium)
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(“What do you think of that reading Jane received in the mail today?” I referred to a reading by the medium, Elwood Babbit, given for someone who had written Jane several months ago; the individual subsequently saw Babbitt, and sent Jane a copy of the long, rambling, very generalized material that could have applied to many people. We noted wryly that the correspondent made no mention of what EB had charged for the reading. Jane was scandalized and embarrassed by the reading. I was sorrowful and appalled. She repeated that there must be something wrong with her attitude toward affairs of that kind, but I said I didn’t think so.
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Give us a moment.... It is convention, in that the medium’s insights are automatically translated into stylized versions that will be understood by those for whom he reads.
Both he and his customers follow the same psychic map. The readings give a certain comfort. They cannot be proven or disproven. The medium, for example, has not opened up into the higher intellect, for he will not question enough to truly discover the point where the intellect can go no further.
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