Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-27
THE SIXTH SENSE.
Second Sight and Presentiment From
a Scientific Standpoint.
VIEWS OF WELL-KNOWN STUDENTS.
Magician Kellar's Wonderful Experience
With an Aged Hindoo.
INSTANCES OF WARNING VOICES.
lrRErAREp FOE THE p1seArcH.I

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Prof. Elliott Coues in his response says
do believe in presentiments, and that the,
occur more frequently than is generally sup
posed. As rule, they are not attended to a
the time. If attended to the event in ques
tion is avoided and does not come to pass
If neglected and then verified after tn,
event, the scientific val ue Of the evidence il
much impaired or ma de worthless by th'
tricks which memory so often plays US. Al
a rule, our hindsight is more reliable thar
our foresight But if time and space allowed
I could give you more than one we'll
authenticated case of bsolute foreknowl
edge of an event, quite unaccountable e1
cept upon the theory of presentiment.
You ask what is the most wonderful thing
that ever happened to me. Being horn.
suppose; though my memory scarcely serves
me here to recount my own experience. The
next most wonderful thing that have ever
known to happen to another person is dying
to this world, and, I trust, being born into
another by process as easy and as natural
as that by which one enters the phenomenal
world. But my time presses, and if you
think I have been under fire long enough,
let me beg you to desist, for if should tell
you all know about everything at once, /
should have to draw on my Imagination for
facts to satisfy the next reportorial searcher
for the divine wisdom.
THE SECOND SIGHT.
Second sight is simply another name for
clairvoyance, or the faculty of seeing accu-
rate pictures of actual events in the astral
light just as we ordinarily perceive physical
objects with the bodily eye. It is spoken of
in Scotland as the "sixth sense" merely as
another than the five senses of ordinary
sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch. 1t is
not peculiar to Scotland, but is special Y
associated with that country in the minds of
English-speaking people for two reasons:
First, the popularity of Sin Walter Scott's
novels; second, the well-known fact in
psychic science, that highlands favor the de-
velopment OF psychometrical faculties, so
that larger percentage of persons can use
these faculties IN high than in low countries.
Another reason occurs to me. Scotland has
been almost literally drenched in blood
during former wars, and fresh human blood
is peculiarly attractive to certain classes of
sub-human creatures, as the astral elemen-
tails, whose insidious commerce with human
astral bodies makes itself felt in various
strange forms Of obsession, with its attend
ant sorceries.
DR.. Allan McLane Hamilton says: do
not believe in presentiment as it is usually
understood. In the cases that have come
under my notice there has always been a
strong suspicion, if not an absolute GER
tainty, OF either coincidence or a perfectly
reasonable chain of anticipatory events.
A MAGICIAN's OPINIONS.
A. =.
have been student, and am searching for
light. think that second sight is another
form OF presentiment, and that there are
many persons who are gifted with the re-
markable power of seeing occurrences that
take place at great distance from the seer
We have many we'll authenticated accounts
of persons who have seen q perfect panorama
of a death, murder, shipwreck, etc., either
before the event actually took place or
during its occurrence, although the persons
who had the visions were far away from the
scenes, and could have had no foreknowl-
edge of the affair by any of the ordinary
means of knowledge. believe Joan of Arc
is most wonderful example of person
having this faculty of seeing visions and
hearing voices. A very interesting work on
this subject is "a Treatise on the Second
Sight" by Theophilus Insu lanus, published
by Ruddman Aud q Co., Edinburgh. 1868.
When was in Allahabad. India, I was,
one afternoon, reclining in an easy chair at
my hotel. An old Hindoo, with a long
white beard, glided into my room, salaamed
and entered into conversation with me. He
informed me that I possessed. wonderful
power, of which I knew little or nothing
myself. Thinking he alluded to nv feats
of magic, assured him that possessed no
power beyond that of ordinary mortals, and
that any intelligent person could perform
the same feats with practice and study. He
said that this was not the power to which he
alluded, that he knew my business was
trickery and deception, but that 1 possessed
a power with which few men were gifted
that Of appearing at two places at the same
time.
A PECULIAR DRowSINEss.
He continued for some time in this strain.
until became thoroughly bored, and hay.
ing no interest in the subject which he dis
,ussed in SO drawling manner, and not
wishing to offend him by e1cusing myself,
soon fell into a browse. was at first
that sleep was fast getting the
better of me, and once or twice
pinched myself to keep awake, but it was
useless and fell asleep. When awoke
he aged Hindoo was gone. I thought
nothing more of the Hindoo until I reached
Delhi, when, alter Turkish bath, for which
hat city is famous, I returned to my hotel,
sought rest in a chair, when, to my surprise,
ny Allahabad friend entered the room.
Alter passing the compliments of the day
md inquiring if l was surprised at seeing
lim, he proceeded to foretell certain events
which actually took place after.
They may have been simply condolences,
out if so they were certainly remarkable,
md relate them to you just as they oc-
cured. He told me I was going from
Delhi to Calcutta, and from there to Austria
ia. where, he informed me, l would be
ii for year. 1 told him it was easy
or him to know where 1 was going to
rom Delhi, as 1 was already advertised in
he Calcutta papers, but that he was GER
ainly mistaken about my going to Austria
Ia, as intended to 60 from Calcutta to
China, in fact 1 had made all my arrange
nents and had written ahead to theaters in
China. He still insisted that, notwith- |
tanding this would go to Australia from
and after some further talk he left.
went to Calcutta, and after my engage
neut there started for China. via Singa-
,ore. When I arrived at Singapore re- |
eivad letters from China informing me |
hat the theaters at both Hong Kong and |
Shanghai were engaged for three months by |
ther parties, and that it was impossible for
Se to get possession of them.
THE AGED HINDoo WAS RIGHT,
This, of course, compelled me to change
ny route, and went to Java, intending to
emaln there until the theaters in China |
ould be secured. On my arrival in Java I |
Tas stricken with the Java fever and my |
physicians ordered me to leave the country
t once and 60 to colder climate. So, |
,uch against my inclination, took the
rst steamer for Australia, and arriving at
lelbourne was compelled to undergo a
evere surgical operation. the effects of
rhich confined me to my bed for just one
ear. Upon my recovery made tour of
Australia and New Zealand. and then went