GHOST HUNTING
Sir-It is evident that E. H. Firth failed to understand my letter, as he charges me with exactly the direct opposite to what it contains. He says that I seem to regard the S.P.R. as not to have proven anything. On the contrary I wrote that the S.P.R. "does not seem to have been able to substantiate one single story of the Poltergeist type" over the past 40 years. If this means anything it means that the S.P.R. proved in their investigations over this period that these stories of noisy and violent ghosts were without foundation, or false. How can this be construed "as not to have proven anything?" I. have no quarrel with the S.P.R. I think they did a véry. good job. "A.M." should know that it is not necessary to take poison in order to prove that it destroys life. All psychic phenomena have a natural explanation, and it is well to remember that the mind is not a separate entity, but a part of the body, and cannot exist without it. The body on the other hand can still live without the mind.
ARGOSY
(Te Awamutu).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 474, 23 July 1948, Page 14
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192GHOST HUNTING New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 474, 23 July 1948, Page 14
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