Charles E. Van Loan

“ I shall not ask you a single question about yourself. Once or twice men have made the mistake of talking too freely, and I have never been able, under such conditions, to deliver a message for them. It was their fault, not mine. If I knew what is in your mind, that knowledge might interfere with the true transmission of the message—subconscious mental action, we call it. My mind must be free and open. I must ask you, as a favor to me, not to talk about your case. Do you understand?"
Moran nodded his head, but his eyes showed that he was still bewildered. ”

“ He paused for a moment, and then, lowering his voice until it was no more than a whisper, put his question.
"Do you think, if a man has been a bad man, and wants to be square, and he's in dead earnest, he can—get a message from—the other side?" ”

“ When I come out of the trance state, I am, of course, unable to remember what has been written. My brain has been asleep. If the influences are right, the messages come of themselves. Now I have told you all I know about it. Where these messages come from, who sends them, why they are sent—I cannot say. Dishonest mediums sometimes claim to know more. ”