Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-10-29
LONESOME LAKE VISION.
saying 10 Was "AIl Imagination
Doesn't Explain IT,

Doesn't Explain It.
II would be idle to attempt any nc
counting for the Wis on saw two hours
ago when | was sitting on the piazza
of the cabin. The night had settled
down, the darkness rolling in over The
eastern hills and crowd.ng the last ol
the twilight up over the ridge Of Mount
Kinsman on the west. The innumera-
bic sounds OF forest night-lic had con-
menced The moon. little past the
full had not yet risen. 1t was dark,
but not dark. for the stars were aglow.
but there were spots Of intense dark
ness. one especially black close by me.
where the path 10 the icc-house enters
the pine forest There is always temp
tation TO look into the blacklist place ia
the night time. Whether i be that dan
ger comes out of the deepest conceal
mcnt or the natural curiosity of man
which expects 10 discover something
where all seems impenctrable every
man, riding. walking, or citing in what
we call the dark. directs his eve fire.
quently and curiously into the places
where there i no light.
No sudden vision presented itself,
but that black avenue entering the pine
forest was after little full of form,
and faces. and out Of it came swelling
murmur rising 10 a clear enunc alton
of voices. How long looked and saw
and heard have no idea. Perhaps 1t
was ten seconds. ten minutes For tic
time the mental Wis on was kale do
scope Of all sorts of scenes and people
Scenes utterly dissimilar in their asSo-
Citations, people widely assuudcr in all
reasonable memory The dead form of
an Egyptian soldier, lying in :he
cold moonlight of Luxor. his fac, set
10 the sky. the gold-crownel head OF
girl have not seen for forty wears. a
venerable Inatron now, people | knew
and people never knew bur had seen.
voices in many languages. some that
could understand AMI. some that
could not understand all these were
where? In my BRAN? Ia my mind
"Oh. it was all Imagination, is your
simple explanation. If youwiil pardon
the ofen,iycue>s my friend. VIII ,a}
Your explanation is bo,h. ! adm. that
it was what YOU are pleased TO call im-
agination my imagination two hours
ago, not now. for am trying to describe
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common occurrence in my own and in
your experience, for serious cons idera-
ton. But TO say that the condition
in which the mind shuts away the act
ual present, and the senses cease
To report sounds or odors or feel
ings, and the mind thinks the senses
are reporting TO 1t sights and No ce>
when those senses are IN fac IN a state
OF paralysis 10 say that THIS ima@-
nation Is no cxplanai on. any more
than the theory of evolution, which omit,
origin, Is an explanation Of material
phenomena. There is great deal too
much of this kind Of explanation in
the superficial PHILOSOPHERS of our day;
the substitution of a new puzzle for 3"
old one, which lriumphantly say
"that explains 1t at the very moment
YOU are wondering how sane man can
rest satisfied with an inconclusiyc and
wholly unsatisfactory, because not ii.
nal. explanation.
What DO YOU mean by Imagination?
| imagined that saw. did /? | Gre
ated the thoughts. created the sup
posed facts. created the sounds. did |?
No, remembered them. Every one
of them was once u physical reality.
And now that recall The scene. which
you call the mag nation, Of two hours
ago am remembering n memory. II
as the matcrialist theories are the orig
inal facts. seen with the eyes. heard
with the ears were recorded physically
in the particles of a section OF the BRAN
then two hours ago took score or
hundred or a thousand OF these TO-
cords and rearranged them in new
record which can now read. and There
was 10 physical fact TO make the n W
record -NeW lorb journal Of COM
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