Far From Home?
HE 4ZB broadcast about the famous medium, Daniel Home, was interesting to anyone who, like myself, knows little or nothing about spiritualist phenomena, their causes and effects. But why include this, subject in History’s Unsolved Mysteries? As presented here, Home began by being a youngster of peculiar and possibly mystical insight, but developed quickly into a celebrated medium and ended by fleecing a wealthy woman in such a way as to leave the listener with the impression that he was just another cheat, whose career should! more appropriately have been told in the Prisoner at the Bar series. There surely must have been more to Home than the obvious seance tricks related here (spirit hands, bells rung without apparent agency, and so on) to make people believe his powers to be of such high spiritual origin as he claimed. But the only thing mentioned in this programme which might have been supernatural was Home’s alleged performance of levitation-and I cannot for the life of me imagine any genuine practitioner of this art (if any exist) floating in and out of a window to the accompaniment of such words as were here put into Home’s mouth: "Now I assume the horizontal position, I am floating out the window," and such phrases. :
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 404, 21 March 1947, Page 13
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213Far From Home? New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 404, 21 March 1947, Page 13
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