In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.
Oliver LodgeA fish probably has no means of apprehending the existence of water; it is too deeply immersed in it.
Oliver LodgeBut although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter.
Oliver LodgeThere is no instrument for measuring the pressure of the Ether, which is probably millions of times greater: it is altogether too uniform for direct apprehension. A deep-sea fish has probably no means of apprehending the existence of water, it is too uniformly immersed in it: and that is our condition in regard to the Ether.
Oliver Lodge