Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-01-25
sTAUNToN, VIRGINIA. JANUARY q, 1896 1""''8 f" 44 @
TELEPATHYrTALES

/ TELEPATHYr TALES.
DAVID CHRISTIE MURRAY ON MIND
ACTING UPON MIND .ij3,a.ts
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The Novelist Believes That the Existence
| of Telepatiay Has Been Scientifically
/, Established-His Curious Personal E1-
periences. '''9" N 80 's'',
fA}writer Like David Christie Muir
ray,o who has tsken all life for the field
+ ofihis art as a novelist and draws upon
|, the whole, planet. for his Illustrations. J
must have had rich experiences in the
domain, which the Psychical. Investigao.
tipn society has chosen for its own! But.
he does not overload his books with ma,
terial of this kind, nor is his converse,
| tipn much weighted with the burden Of,
things between heaven and garth that;
We d. not usually dream oH And yet
when prompted TO- do 50 he, can speak
on these subjects not only with ,knowl7,
edge, but also with eloquence., He is fit.
ted to do this, first, by his fine mental
I equalization, for he has been psychical7
/ II sensitive Since, boyhood, and next by
/ the many psychical experiences which
have fallen to his lot during a long,
active and adventurous life, lived among
many people and, many parts Of The
world He does not. of course. believe
in the alterations of "ocouI tiis1mn, ''butl
Eho is convinced that beneath the lordina-
Dry experiences Of life, perceptible to the
i senses, there exist spiritual phenomena
which will repay Investigation and
which science is only now beginning to
learn. -'isi55"
2 One day recently Mr.: Murray talked
i to Boston Herald man on tho special
fsubject of telepathy, and after showing
| from his own personal experiences how
mind may act upon mind at ia distance,
of the ordinary means Of
l5intercp he went on to say
''sHere, is a. case in point, Ny eldest
brother who died in 1856, was at sea
as, ,midshipman on, board q merchant
vessel. He sailed under; a drunken cap
(stain, who behaved, to him with horrible
cruelty. Hesgot the seeds Of copsumps
ton on that voyage, While be WAS was sastt1
sea my mother was # nursing, her uncle,
James Withers Marsh, and in the very
hour Of his death the old man, who had
been tenderly attached to my brother,
sat up and said aloud: let the lad
alone. Have you no boWe1s?' Ny. mother
asked him what he was thinking Of, and
he cried, THAT captain is i'll treating
poor Jack horribly IL ,[ '9t'' , %''' -
'.Thte first officer, a Mi: lMundy, took
command Of the ship when Captain
Gregory died in ie1iriuim1 ttreemens and
was buried at the Azores" 10 Mundy
brought my brother home, and he was
told the story Of the old mans dying
worlds He produced his own notebook
and showed that on the day Of the old
man IS death he had made an entry, be-!
cause he Intended to indiot the captain
for his cruelty on their return to a Brit
ish port What is most singular is that
when he came to work cut the differ g
ence Of latitude he found the entry in
his private log and the time of the old 9
mans words conceded to a moment
There are thousands Of such instances
reported, and it seems to ms quite idleo
to dismiss them as mere coincid encesa4
Coincideneehas a very long arm indeed
especially in drama and fiction Butt
think it hardly reaches sofar as that ii
5 - "Notnyery long ago5'' MIR. Murray
resumed. ~ had a very curious PERSONAL
experience. Two people had been dining
with meF- one avery dear and iintimate
personal friend. the other "a, comparative
stranger When they had left mel dis,
'tinctly heard a. personal, conversation
within my own mind. 7 do not pretend /
that the words would have been audible
to anybody else. That would be nom
sense of But I heard. it within my mind.
| and, recognized the, voices Of the. two.
men They, discussed my own character
and the action had taken about q GER :;
tain matter at that time. The compare
tive stranger was critical and unfriend- !.
,ly, and my old friend fought my cause
with great warmth I questioned him
afterward, and he assured me that such
a. conversation had taken place as he
and his convive had driven in the car
Rage to the club from my house."
Iii The novelist was here asked whether
he had met with any cases Of the action
of a dead on living mind, He replied.
speaking in an impressive and reyerent
toneof voice: ~ am profoundly conyinc.-
ed, though do not want to be regarded
as a mailman, that after his death my
father assisted me in my literary work.
For year or twoI was profoundly con-
seious Of it, and 1 wrote as If was alb
solutely under his eye, and with an as
sur anee of his sympathy and aid that,
however conveyed, was absolute. IL % /
'ot'I had an allusion to this kind Of in
<auenee, ''nMr.i Murray continued sin
my book, Rainbow Gold.@ There is a
Catalogue there with "a great, strong man
who has committed some dreadful crime
and is, repenting of it, and the question 4
between; the takers is as ito whether
there is any knowledge Of us on the
part Of the dead. And old Armstrong, a
practical :, minded Seotchman, remarks
that he cannot conceive Of the souls of
Burns and Shakespeare as spending their
time in knocking devil knocks at the ia
fbles Of noodles like a pair Of demented
iploostme9. But, says he, you can fan
BY The spirit Of G mother saying to the
master seraph, ''I have been behaving
pretty we'll Of late, and would like to
90 back to Castle VBarfield and have a
look at the lad left behind me- and
the master seraph says, go to the poor
creature, COP, And you feel her near
you, and you say in the blindness of
your mind, NERVES And you try to
chaseayour poor old mothers soul away
from you with a deooction of Peruvian
bark !" 7'aa+f 9''i 10 :. '.'.1'37 ~
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