The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-07

Itself BY hypnofizing a servant. one even
Ing friends called on the family. and the
The hypnotist OF the family amused the
others by telling the girl that water was
WHISKY, hat q chair was 4 tree. and hnai,
entered the room, and that she was I'm
danger OF being devoured. The u%nfortu-
she was thrown into convulsiors. The
family was frightened at this, and called
in a physician. He could do nothing for
another physician. living near by, heard of
the occurrence, gone to the house and de-
to her senses.
NO physician has ever been able to
death In Munich it has been the practice
Tor many years to place the dead in a GER
tain chamber with strings. on their toes,
fastened TO their heads. SO that by the
least movement of the body a bell is rung
and an attendant at once goes to the aid
OF the supposed dead person. In that way
many people have been saved from an
awful fate. that of being buried alive. I
had a. friend, a very dear friend, once.
who died, presumably The doctor told us
In a very a-we-inspiring way, IT'S ali
q great deal Of talking and urging on our
part TO prevent the family from burying
his man: In five days he got up and
Doctors viii tell you that to keep a
body. on ice for three days would deprive
up the bacilli of typhoid fever in a block
OF ice for three days, and then melted the
Ice and raised the tempature of the water
to 100 degrees Fahrenheit, and found the
bacilli as full of life as before. Hence,
there is a possibility, at least. that II life
remains in a body. Ii is not completely
extinguished by putting it upon Ice. The
only sure sign of death is organic changes
fully, does the mind really leave the body.
If a person subject to catalepsy dies, or
psychic characteristics dies, he should be
kept warmly covered with blanket and not
buried, II buried and not cremated he must
be. until decomposition sets in. BY the
way. / am a firm believer in cremation.
PEOPLE BURIEn ALIVE.
Two European scientists are now en-
gagged in a work which will shortly APP
pear, in which they have collected statis-
tics concerning rraveyartis which have
been removed from cities and in regard to
collins which have been disinterred and
opened. These statistics show an astonish-
ing percentage of cases where the body
has moved over on its side, or turned over
on the face, this being recognizable by
the position of the skeleton. In one case
of 80 disinterred bodies, thirty-five were
some thirty more cases IL was doubtful.
In another instance, 20 per cent. were
shown to have moved. Numerous cases of
catalepsy have been reported in medical
works and journals where the person was
only. saved from premature burial by some
friend that the person VAS not dead.
II will conclude my talk with an instance
that happened to a friend. illustrating the
power of the subconscious mind. He was
engaged to marry a young lady in Reading,
Pa, and was on his way to visit her. At
Mauch Chunk he had a vision. His sub
conscious mind saw his affianced distinctly,
She was going down the steps of her home,
holding up her hands in despair and crying
that her sister had fallen down in her
room like one dead. In his subconscious
mind my friend saw her at a certain hour
in the afternoon-the time seemed to him
exact. AL the details were very clear be-
fore his mind. On his arrival in Reading
he found that just such an instance had
happened. His fiancee told him that her
sister had been stricken with a f~ainting
spell at just the hour which he saw in his
mind, or. rather, just when his subcon-
scious mind saw the incident. He told her
of just how she looked. how she held her
hands, how she cried and everything,
just as she had done. and she was amazed
and rather frightened at the relation, for
she had told nothing of the incident, nor
had any one else. He related the story OF
his own accord.
But there is nothing remarkable about
this incident. The subconscious mind does
not regard space. mountains, stone walls
or vast oceans as barriers to vision. Just
as our eyes see through glass. so are the
mountains and the walls transparent to the
subconscious mind when there is a mag
netic influence at work"