The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-07-12
REMARKABLE. IF TRUE.

Is the most SldflllHS YET. IL psi ou
venture there should prove to be any
thing in it-a result which the judici-
Gus are disposed to doubt-it would be
of immense Importance for it would
out of the material life to which they
have been confined, and across the
boundaries of the psychic world.
The facts are these. AT recent
meeting Of the Paris Academic de Med
ecine, DR.. Baraduc physician in good
and regular standing affirmed that he
had succeeded in "photographing
thought" and she exhibits numerous
pictures intended as proof of his asser-
ton. Sc
DR.. Baraduc's first experiment Is
designed as a demonstration of the ex-
istence Of a vital force which can be
photographed He produces two deli
cate magneto-metres which are encased
in glass. The open hands of the person
making the experiment are held out in
such way that all the fingers point
to one or the other of the magnetic
metres. In a short time the needle
opposite the left hand will have been
repealed five degrees while that oppo-
site the right hand has been attracted
fifteen degrees. The theory is that
a current Of force Of which the individ-
ual is the fountain head has passed
from left to right through the metres
back to the person. The ten extra de-
grees returning is supposed to accumu-
late in the body and to constitute
psychic force" If the experiment be
conducted in a Photographic dark
room and sensitized plates be placed
between the hands and the metres,
on developing the plates it will be
found that the one opposite the right
hand shows a curious swirl of tangled
lines; while the one opposite the left
hand is spotted.
But this is not the most remarkable
part Of Dr. Baraduc's discovery. If
the experimenter holds out his hand
the fingers all pointing to a sensitized
plate, in dark room and thinks in
tently Of some object for a considera-
bic length Of time, the plate when de-
veloped is said to show q more or less
distinct outline of the object Of his
thought. Naturally the outlines are
usually as foggy as is the thought of
the average person, but their existence
at all would seem to demonstrate the
existence Of an invisible but luminous
wave passing out from the hngertips
whose effect is controllable by the will.
It is stated that photographs made in
| this fashion by mediums who are &C
customed to "exteriorize themselves"
are much more distinct than those
made by the normal Individual
1t will be seen that the experiments
are by no means such as to exclude
the possibility of error and the dead
ly coincidence, and until they have
been made repeatedly under conditions
which preclude all mistake, they can
not be considered as proving definitely
| the propositions which they are adj
vanced to support. But, in the mean
time, the unscientific person with a
leaning toward the occult point Of view
will be able to derive much satisfac-
ton from the fact that DR.. Baraducs
Photographic swirl opposite the right
hand is almost exactly identical with
the knot of Destiny SO often drawn
by Mr. Elihu Vedder as symbol of
human life and fate. And Mr.. We'd
der's lines are presumably derived
from the spiral which in Egyptian art
was held to be symbolic of the wan
behring's of the soul through the three
thousand years of destiny. Further, if
psychic force" can be externalized and
photographed, then we are all. at lib
erty to believe in and to develop as
trail bodies at once. On the whole Dr.
| Baraduc's discovery is obviously too
| good to be true.