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TABLE TIPPING A LA MEXICANA WITH THE METAPHYSICAL TRAVELER
GUEST BLOGGER: C .M. MAYO
Of course I'd heard of Ouiji boards, but table tipping? It was not until I happened to translate a very rare and obscure book published in 1911, by the leader of Mexico's 1910 Revolution and President of Mexico from 1911- 1913, no less, that I first came upon the term. Here is what that long-ago author, Don Francisco Madero, had to say about it in his Manual Espírita, or Spiritist Manual:
Of course I'd heard of Ouiji boards, but table tipping? It was not until I happened to translate a very rare and obscure book published in 1911, by the leader of Mexico's 1910 Revolution and President of Mexico from 1911- 1913, no less, that I first came upon the term. Here is what that long-ago author, Don Francisco Madero, had to say about it in his Manual Espírita, or Spiritist Manual:
Q. Now I beg you to tell me, what is understood by table tipping?
A. This name designates the phenomena produced by small tables, or similar furniture, in transmitting messages by means of raps, as at a door.
Q. Of what importance is this phenomenon?
A. It was very great in the mid-19th century, the first days of Spiritism, and it still serves to confirm the Spiritist phenomenon in one of its most interesting phases; but as a means of communication, it has fallen into disuse as mechanical writing mediumship has proven both easier and faster. [CONTINUE READING]
