The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-09-24

tor, and moved to and fro with the
slow monotonous motion of pendu-
lum. When the lids begin to droop a
few downward passes are made in
front of the eyes, which will naturally
cause him to close the lids. The Op-
orator then says: "Now you cannot
open your eyes," and he finds that, try
as he will, he cannot open them. If
the lids are raised the eyes will be
found to be turned up and back so
that nothing may be seen but the eye
ball and the lower edge of the iris.
To produce sleep, the operator
merely requests the passive subject to
close his eyes, and tells him that he is
going to cause him to sleep soundly
for a certain number of hours, and
makes a few downward strokes over
the face; the sleep that ensues is the
nearest approach to paralysis of the
faculties that it is possible to obtain.
1t is called the cataleptic state. The
subject cannot be awakened before the
specified time, either by shaking or by
noise He is equally insensible to
pain and will undergo surgical oper-
alton without the slightest flinching of
muscle.
Space will not allow detailed ex-
PLANTATION of the phenomena; but to
illustrate, briefly; in the first expert
ment, attention is drawn to single
object and fatigued for the purpose of
shutting out the multitude of exter-
nal impressions received by the
mind while in the normal state, or in
other words, generating psychic force
by closing the leakage of mind energy
caused by divided attention. The sub
ject becomes passive or somnambu-
listic and all of the stored psychic en-
ergy will readily concentrate on the
thought suggested by the operator,
creating force not readily overcome.
Recent experiments made at Yale col
!, lege show that psychic force will Gre
, ate hallucinatiOn of the senses. a
, test was being made to determine the
, threshold of vision "A small blue bead
, was placed in the center of white
, ring. and a person was requested to
, approach the ring and note by means
r of tapeline at his side the distance
, at which the bead first became visible
to him. Later the bead was secretly
removed, but still on arriving at about
. | 4 ;c%o hn
, that he saw the bead. Other expert
ments consist in testing the sense of
3 hearing, smelling and feeling, and in
2 each case the subject of the expert
3 ment continued to receive the impress
= sion or imagined he did, after what
caused the impression had been dis
| continued
! Telepathy is another interesting
manifestation of psychic force often
e observed in our everyday life. The
e beautiful quotation, "When you speak
/ of an angel, you are famed by his
] WINGS" is derived from the psychic
impression so often received by some
member of company that will cause
him to speak of person, of whom he
has not been thinking, just at the mo-
ment of his or her approach. When
thinking deeply on some subject, a
member of your company will often
cause surprise by making a remark or
suggestion exactly corresponding with
t your own thoughts, or perhaps you
g will have some popular melody run
r ming through your mind and some per-
:, son present will hum or whistle the
e same tune. If you observe closely you
e will find that he is exactly in unison
J. with you, both in pitch and tempo. 1t
a is obvious that there is actually a
il thought transference and if we could
4 fully control the elements producing
J. the influence on another mind it would
l. be the greatest achievement yet accom-
l. plished by man. Difference of Ian
70 guage would cease to be an impedi
d ment to the exchange of ideas, AND
l. distances would be overcome.