Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1842-04-02

so on, until we were satisfied she was conscious
OF whatever | was cating--she tasted what |
ever tasted. Her position was such as she |
could not have seen what was eating if her
eyes had been open. We next discovered that |
although herself insensble to corporca pain, |
she felt sensible any pain inflicted on me- !
Prick my hand for instance, and she would Jerk |
hers back, and perhaps rub it on the spot where |
mine was prcked. Pull my hair and she |
would say who is pulling my hairr | next
discovered that she would often speak of sub |
Jects on which | was thinking, and finally, one
evening, when we we're testing her strange
powers, put a piece ofapple iii my mouth and
remarked, these are good raisins that am eat |
ing. She replied You need not attempt to de-
celvc mc-l know your motives and thoughts
yes, can see your every thought | then di-
rectcd a third person to write on paper sveral
questions, on what subjects they choose, such
however, as she would naturally be capable of
answering. ! then took the paper, and sitting
by her side, put each question to her mentally
that is, without speaking or making any noise
whatever. AS read the questions to myself,
she would speak out and answer them, one af.
ter the other. Mind, | did not speak word
from the time of receiving the paper until she
had answered the last question. BY such and
other experiments, we were convinced that
she was truly aware of whatever was passing
( in my mind One evening when | had placed
her in this state, was laboring under a slight
cold, attended with a cough. She was asked
what would cure my cough Her reply was
you must be careful or your cold will be set
tied on your lungs, for see they are inilamed'
On questioning her farther, | was fully con-
vinced that she was conscious of seeing and
knowing my, as well as her own, internal or
ganzation.
Now come to what 10 many appears the
most extraordinary phenomenon, mean clair
voyance, or the power OF perceWing what is
occurring at a distance.
In this faculty, or in the exercise of 1t, she
appeared to Improve at oach sitting, the same
as person will excel in any thing by practice,
and our experiments in clarvOyance, had not
advanced much at the time when she com
mcnced falling into this sleep independently.
/ Enough, however, was elected to prove that
she could tell what had transpircd in an adloln-
ing room, and at distance OF two miles ; and
If at the distance of two miles, why not at
much greater distance Those trials which
afforded the most positive evidence of this
power. were like the following Coz. q. or
I -, ,bar md
the furniture, upset the table, or place chairs
on the bed, and make other changes from the
usual position OF affairs. On being asked to
look into the room, she would eXclalm, What
are these chairs on the bed for Z! 'Why are
things in such confusion
On being questioned further, she would de-
scribe the exact situation OF things. Again
took her to my room, at the hotel down town,
about two miles, and she described its con
tents, even a painting that is hanging on the
wall. Ii was room IN which she had never
been. Many trials of this kind have satisfied
us that she in some way became conscious Of
things of which the natural perceptive acG-
ties or the senses could not have into,m,d her
In repeated instances she has ll.formed me
what was going on at fathers and Captain w ;
would tell 1t in manner apparently as natural
as II she had been there. We had moi, how
ever, entered into Any arrangement with any
ono, then, foasc1rtain whether she told truly,
therefore tase no positive evidence. On Christ
mas eve, however, directed her 10 60 TO W.'s
she immediately began as follows: 'Aimlra
is sick Ga being asked how she seemed,
and whether very sick, she replied, she had a
cold and some fever, but is better and is not as
sick as | at first thought On being asked
what they were doing, she says Father w. is
sitting before the fire, with his shoes off warm
ing his feet mother w. is also sitting there,
holding the babe, and Eliza isup stairs dressing
or undressing This must have been abou,
5 nine o'clock in the evening then. have never
asked any questions to learn the truth or false
hood Of all this; but | received letter on the
7th or Slh of January, from mother, dated De
cember 2ith, (day before Chrlstmas,) IN which
! she says, 'Almira has had slight attack OF
fever, attended with the rash, but is now much
better On being asked whether she saw
these things, she would say, 1T does not seem
as if | saw them with my eyes, but know
), them. How it is that know then,I cannot
1 tell Thus, you have briefly the result of my
q experience in Animal Magnetism. | am con
vlnccd that this case Is one OF the most sensl-
I ! tive, one Of the most perfect, in the powers