NOTES ON CURRENT EVENTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 28, 3 January 1885, Page 2

NOTES ON CURRENT EVENTS.

We think it needful to seriously caution those who are commencing the investigation of spiritualism against sitting too frequently, or for too long a time. When those who have been sceptical begin to perceive that there is some truth connected with the subject, they are apt to go to the other extreme, and — especially m the case of those whose social position is such as to affo>d them a good deal of leisure — to sit every day, and several times a day. This is an error. The forces utilised m the development of mediumship, and the production ot phenomena, are amongst the most vital m the system, and require therefore, to be carefully husbanded rather than prodigally expended, if disasterous consequences to brain and body be avoided. It is few who can endure the mental strain of continuous attention to a subject so engrossing as spiritualism without suffering an undesirable reaction of some kind, for which of course spiritualism per se gets the blame, instead of the wrong method of investigation, and what would have been a benefit becomes the reverse. Two or at most three, sittings a week, of an hour and a half each would bo ampin for the purpose of mediumistie development, give the system time to recoup before the next sitting, and avoid the liability pointed out. We should be glad if our friends, iv recommending others to sit for investigation, would briug this point prominently before them. — Harbinger of Light.