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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: net.sci
Subject: Re: Spiritual Energy?
Message-ID: <2162@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 12-Jul-86 11:27:58 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul 12 11:27:58 1986
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In article <191@cci632.UUCP> rb@ccird1.UUCP (Rex Ballard) writes:
>The sincerety of clairvoyants and "psychics" is too common.  It is interesting
>that even though Houdini proved a famous "medium" to be a fake, that same
>medium did accurately predict his death.  Without the props, it wasn't as
>convincing, but it was accurate.

Houdini and his wife really wanted to believe in the afterlife,
but they became disappointed by the dismal performance of the
many mediums they consulted.  Houdini made a solemn pact with
his wife that after his death, if it was at all possible, he
would make every effort to contact his wife.  They arranged a
secret way for her to be able to check that it was really him.
After Houdini died, his wife tried for a long time to contact
his "spirit" through mediums, without success.  Many people
think that this was an excellent test of that phenomenon, since
if anyone would be able to communicate from the dead, certainly
Houdini would.