The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-20
IN TIE spIRITLANn.
Prof. Tyndall Tells Of His Experience
While in "a Coffin.
From the st. Louis Globe-Democrat.

from Lne ~. LOUIS tIODe- DeuOcrdts
Alexander J. McIvor Tyndan, the
world-renowned hypnotizer, or rather
professor of hypnotisn, is stopping in the
city preparatory to making a trip to
Chicago where he win attempt to prove
the identity of hypnotism and death, or
rather the difference between what is
generally known as eternal sleep, and
that momentary uncOnsciousness which
man undergoes when he falls from high
building and is pronounced dead by
physicians and friends and afterwards
survives. The professor is an unassum-
ing gentleman with pronounced English
accent, and although one possessing
all the skepticism imaginable is
conveyed abruptly in his pres
ence, he is instinctively brought
closer to the man until finally every word
uttered by Tyndall falls upon willing ears,
He does not attempt to overawe the lis
tener of ordinary mind, but gets there
just the same in a different way. In fact,
he steals into the recesses of his con-
science, and in an unguarded moment
places his network ofmental mechanical
powers on the unsuspecting victim, and
the victim is no more The professor
then does the talking. He talks as he
pleases and the poor interviewer or sub
ject remains passive mass, surrounded
by visions of hobgoblins, angels, the
grave, Styx Charon and his boat.
A Globe-Democrat reporter called upon
the professor at his parlors and requested
him to give history of his work, reli
giOus magnetism, mind reading, or what
ever he might wish to call his speciality
The gentleman was very affable, and told
of his adventures in Bombay India, San
Francisco, Cal, and other places. In
some instances he had placed men so
completely under his control that they
unconsciously confessed to most terrible
crimes. In other places he ascertained
the names of guilty parties, and released
the innocent suspects. He possesses the
power of suspending the physical
mant, but dead for weeks and
months His last experiment was at
Bombay, in dry soil, where he lay for
twenty-one days in the ground dead to all
about him. He was placed in a coffin for
seven days in San Francisco, but was not
covered with earth. He now says that he
will proceed to Chicago and procure an
air-tight coffin, jump into it, have the air
extracted, and being placed seven feet I'M
derground then viii lie dead for thirty
days, at the end of which time he will rise
triumphant and proclaim to the world
that death Is but prolonged sleep. He
says that while dead his spirit or mind
hovers near the body, but as it is mind
it may travel through the spirit world for
millions and millions Of miles, yet it will
draw near when the time for waking
occurs. The spirit gambols and plays,
probably with other pure and unsul-
lied souls, visiting the ethereal gardens
where all Is sunshine and bliss, walking
and talking with angels and angelic
creatures whose only thought is that of
enjoyment and pleasure. The spirit of
such as possess the greatness of such
pure mind-and 1t is only great minds
which can be pure-roams from planet
to planet and far beyond in a space of
time which would put dream to shame.
The pleasure attained cannot be describ-
ed it must be felt None but those who
| have passed beyond the river and by
| some chance returned to the earth car
form any idea of what sublime beauty
ecstatic bliss and sweetness there is in ar
actual spirit visit to the real spirit world