Edison's Spirit Communicator
8-18-08 - Way neater than the light bulb
Thomas Edison is typically portrayed as the archetypal "modern man of science," a figure as immersed in the revolutionary beliefs of the scientific age as he was immersed in the vision of his genius. As the holder of one thousand and ninety-three patents, one might be tempted to believe that Edison was a hard-nosed man of science, utterly dedicated to the cold, hard truths of technology. And yet the "Wizard of Menlo Park" not only had a passion for science and electricity, he also expressed a marked fascination with the realm of the paranormal.
Edison believed in something he designated "life units". These life units were the indestructible constituent parts of the soul. When a man's body died and decayed, these particles simply rearranged themselves, and the intelligence of the man lived on. In Edison's schema, the so-called "spirit world" was nothing more than the staging ground where all these indestructible units waited. It was all around us, but it existed outside of the reach of our gross physical perceptions — but he felt that a machine could be produced that was finely tuned enough to pick up communications from the life units floating around us.
The father of the phonograph and the lightbulb was also, essentially, the father of the very concept of EVP.
Edison labored in secret on the machine in the last years of his life. No one ever saw it...Edison died before completing his spirit-communication machine. Although Edison's journals and papers talk of his work on the machine, the actual plans for the apparatus, highly sought-after, were never found.
(Source : paranormalinsider.com)
Thomas Edison is typically portrayed as the archetypal "modern man of science," a figure as immersed in the revolutionary beliefs of the scientific age as he was immersed in the vision of his genius. As the holder of one thousand and ninety-three patents, one might be tempted to believe that Edison was a hard-nosed man of science, utterly dedicated to the cold, hard truths of technology. And yet the "Wizard of Menlo Park" not only had a passion for science and electricity, he also expressed a marked fascination with the realm of the paranormal.
Edison believed in something he designated "life units". These life units were the indestructible constituent parts of the soul. When a man's body died and decayed, these particles simply rearranged themselves, and the intelligence of the man lived on. In Edison's schema, the so-called "spirit world" was nothing more than the staging ground where all these indestructible units waited. It was all around us, but it existed outside of the reach of our gross physical perceptions — but he felt that a machine could be produced that was finely tuned enough to pick up communications from the life units floating around us.
The father of the phonograph and the lightbulb was also, essentially, the father of the very concept of EVP.
Edison labored in secret on the machine in the last years of his life. No one ever saw it...Edison died before completing his spirit-communication machine. Although Edison's journals and papers talk of his work on the machine, the actual plans for the apparatus, highly sought-after, were never found.
(Source : paranormalinsider.com)
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