The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-07-16
TELEPATHY TALES.
DAVID CHRISTIE MURRAY ON MIND
ACTING UPON MIND.

periences.
A writer like David Christie Muir
ray, who has taken all life for the field
of his art as novelist and draws upon
the whole planet for his illustrations,
must have had rich experiences in the
domain which the Psychical Investiga-
| tion society has chosen for its own. But
| he does not overload his books with ma
terial of this kind, nor is his converse
ton much weighted with the burden of
things between heaven and earth that
we do not usually dream of. And yet
when prompted to do so he can speak
on these subjects not only with knowl-
| edge, but also with eloquence. He is fit
ted to do this, first, by his fine mental
organization, for he has been psyohical-
/ ly sensitive since boyhood, and next by
the many psychical experiences which
/ have fallen to his lot during 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 ''oocultism, but
no is convinced that beneath the ordina-
ny experiences of life, peroeptible to the
senses, there exist spiritual phenomena
which will repay investigation and
which science is only now beginning to
learn.
One day recently Mr.. Murray talked
to a Boston Herald man on, the special
subject of telepathy, and after showing
from his own personal experiences how
mind may act upon mind at a distance,
Independently of the ordinary means of
Accommodation he went ON to say:
Here is case in point. My eldest
brother, who died in 1885,, was at sea
as midshipman on board a merchant
vessel. He sailed under drunken cap
tain, who behaved to him with horrible
cruelty. He got the seeds of consump-
tion on that voyage While ne was at
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 bowels?' My mother
asked him what he was thinking of, and
he cried, That captain is ill treating
poor Jack horribly.
'The first officer, Mr.. Mundy,, took
command of the ship when Captain
! Gregory died in delirium tremens and
was buried at the Azores. Mundy
brought my brother home, and he was
told the story of the old mans dying
words. He produced his own notebook
and showed that on the day of the old
mans death he had made an entry, be-
! L LII b. So -
for his cruelty ON their return to Brit
ish port. What is most singular is that
when he came to work out the differ
ence of latitude he found the entry in
his private log and the time of the old
mans words conceded to a moment.
There are thousands of such instances
reported, and it seems to mo quite idle
! to dismiss them as mere condolences.
Coincidence has very long arm indeed,
especially in drama and fiction. But !
think it hardly reaches so far as that
'Not very long ago." Mr.. Murray
resumed, "I had very curious personal
experience. Two people had been dining
with me-one very dear and intimate
personal friend, the other comparative
stranger. When they had left me, I dis
tinctly heard personal conversation
within my own mind. do not pretend
that the words would have been audible
to anybody else. That would be nom
sense. But / heard it within my mind
and recognized the voices of the two
men. They discussed my own character
and the action had taken about O 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. l questioned him
afterward, and he assured me that such
a conversation had taken place as he
and his convive had driven in the car
riage to the club from my house."
The novelist was here asked whether
he had met with any cases Of the action
of dead ON living mind. He replied,
speaking in an impressive and reverent
tone of voice: 81 am profoundly oonvinc-
ed, though do not want to be regarded
as mailman, that after his death my
father assisted me in my literary work.
For year or two Twas profoundly con-
scious of it, and wrote as if was alb
solutely under his eye, and with an as
surance of his sympathy and aid that,
however conveyed, was absolute.
81 had an allusion to this kind of in
fiuence," Mr.. Murray continued, Sin
my book, Rainbow Gold There is q
dialogue there with a great strong man
who has committed some dreadful crime
and is repenting of it, and the question
between the takers is as to whether
there is any knowledge of us on the
part of the dead. And old Armstrong, a
practical minded Scotchman, remarks
that he cannot conceive of the souls Of
Burns and Shakespeare as spending their
time in knocking devil knocks at the ia
bles of noodles like pair of demented
postmen. But, says he, you can fan
cy the spirit of a mother saying to the
master seraph, 81 have been behaving
pretty we'll of late, and I would like to
go back to Castle Barfield and have a
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