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Edisons Own Secret Spirit Experiments
Edison, though materialist-minded, was yet willing to accept
spiritual beliefs if they could be proven by
scientific tests. Here is described one of his amazing secret
experiments whereby he sought to lure
spirits from beyond the grave and trap them with super-sensitive
instruments.
ONE black, howling wintry night in 1920 just such a night when
superstitious people would bar their
doors and windows against marauding ghostsThomas Edison, the
famous inventive wizard, gathered
a small group of scientists in his laboratory to witness his
secret attempts to lure spirits from beyond
the grave and trap them with instruments of incredible
sensitivity.
Until recently only the few favored spectators ever knew the
outcome of this sensational experiment.
Only the few Edison intimates, assembled like members of a
mystic clan, ever knew what unearthly
forms materialized in the scientists laboratory that night to
give proof or disproof of existence beyond
the grave.
For thirteen years results of Edisons astounding attempt to
penetrate that wall that lies beyond
mortality have been withheld from the world, but now the amazing
story can be told.
In a darkened room in his great laboratory, surrounded with
beakers, generators, and other
experimental equipment, Edison set up a photo-electric cell. A
tiny pencil of light, coming from a
powerful lamp, bored through the darkness and struck the active
surface of this cell, where it was
transformed instantly into a feeble electric current. Any
object, no matter how thin, transparent or
small, would cause a registration on the cell if it cut through
the beam.
When the experiment was ready to begin the spiritualists in the
group of witnesses were called upon to
summon from eternity the etherial form of one or two of its
inhabitants, and command the spirit to
walk across the beam. Then while the spiritualists went through
their rites the scientists watched
intently the meter of the electric eye, which would flicker the
instant any ghostly form interrupted the
light beam.
Spirits Remain in Eternity
Tense hours were spent watching the delicate instruments for the
slightest indication of a spirit form,
but none came. The wind howled around the corners of the
laboratory building, the spiritualists
exorcised, but the ghosts, if any, remained in their abode in
eternity. Narrowed scientific eyes saw the
meters needle remain steady as a rock.
It was because of these negative results that the news of the
amazing experiments was never given out
to the world. Edison would not reveal his belief-shattering
discoveries to a believing world.
The great inventor was a realist and his experiment revealed the
stony silence his profound mind
expected to find. If spiritual entities existed Edison believed
that they should have some of the
attributes of ordinary matter. Hence his belief that if spirits
existed they could be detected by the
electric eye.
It was Edisons belief, even up to the day of his death, that
life in man and animal results from the
activity of countless myriads of what he called immortal units,
endowed with intelligent direction of
life and its processes.
To substantiate his hypothesis, Edison burnt his finger
intentionally! (Before the finger was burned,
however, the scientist had a Bertillion print made of his
digit.) The burn was severe enough to
obliterate all the delicate skin lines, yet after the finger had
healed, another print showed that the lines
and whorls, even though they had been hopelessly destroyed, had
returned to their original position.
From this experiment, Edison got confirmation of his hypothesis
that it is these aforementioned
immortal units which supervised the regrowth of his finger skin,
following out the original design.
Man, he believed, is a mosaic of such life units, and it is
these entities which determine what we shall be.
To make his hypothesis clear, Edison was wont to cite the
following analogy. Suppose this earth were
visited by some extraterrestrial being whose eyes were so coarse
that the smallest thing he could see
was the Brooklyn bridge. Naturally he would take the structure
as some sort of natural growth.
Now suppose this imaginary giant were to destroy the bridge,
then, after a couple of years, find it
rebuilt. Dont you suppose the giant would assume that some
guiding intelligence were behind the
reconstruction? Thats what Edison believed.
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Thanks for this historic article.
Nowadays the Edison spirit device is largely regarded as a urban
legend, which this
1920 article puts to rest.
Great work
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