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Then I pointed to a passage on the same page and the Swami asked Ramu to repeat the words which my finger was pointing toward. Again, there was another significant pause and silence in the room during which Ramu seemed to be experiencing some difficulty. But then just as the doubts and skepticism of some in the room appeared to be confirmed regarding the authenticity of the psychic, Ramu started speaking as if he were reading from a ponderous textbook. And as I heard his words and followed the printed words before my hand, there was perfect agreement and matching of thoughts, word for word. And since someone could raise the question that Ramu had only memorized the book, owing to an eidetic or picturegraphic memory, I turned to a different page, at random, and the Swami and I decided to test his powers of receiving messages without Ramu's knowing which of the 1,000 pages my hand rested upon. Hardly to the surprise of neither Swami nor myself, Ramu repeated the words as they appeared written on the open book as if, in fact, the man had the book before his very eyes and were simply reading it to us.
Before the experiment was concluded, we did several other trials, in different sequences, to try to confuse Ramu in the event that he was receiving communications through ordinary channels from the Swami or myself in ways that we had not intended. But throughout a better part of the afternoon, Ramu answered almost unerringly and always after a significant silence and lapse of time as
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