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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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