16.1.6. TEST NUMBER SIX: THE CHOSEN BOOK
16.1.6. TEST NUMBER SIX: THE CHOSEN BOOK
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This is an advanced version of “picking the object.” In this case, the object is known in advance. It is a book, but the question is, which book? The test is worked in a room with a large or fair-sized bookcase. One volume is taken out and replaced during the demonstrator’s absence.
Working with a subject or transmitter who knows the book, the demonstrator runs his hand along the shelves and picks the right one, then continues back and forth along that row until he finds the chosen book. Again, the “hot” and “cold” process is involved, but it is more exacting than in other tests.
Some demonstrators let the group pick an actual page from the book and the demonstrator opens to that page and reads it. To keep this within bounds, it can be limited to the first page of a chapter. In that case, the demonstrator, after finding the book, can open to the contents page and run his finger down the list of chapters, pausing on each, until he gets an impulse.
Or he can thumb through to the start of each chapter, trying to sense “hot” or “cold” as with picking an object; then going back to certain chapters, according to the impulse gained from the person acting as transmitter.
Some expert demonstrators go to the extreme of having the group select any word on any page in the entire book. In that case, the demonstrator must work through the book page by page to get the right one; then line by line; and finally word by word.
This is a lengthy process, but when performed successfully it seemingly goes far beyond the limitations of the “muscle reading” theory.
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