The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-08-05


bright woman But she has her hands
full if she expects to solve the various
mysteries which she has undertaken She
says she wants to discover the law that
governs mind reading, thought transfers,
magnetic healing, psychometry, hypno-
tism and soul flight In it's search after
psychic truths the new society will try to
find how it is that one mind can control
another so as to suspend the natural ac-
tion Of its powers; what force it is that
can write upon a clean slate when it is
hung upon the door where no hand can
touch it; what power it is that moves a
person who knows nothing of music to
play or sing with surpassed skill; what
force is employed when little child who
has never been to school suddenly speaks
Latin and Greek, and various other things
that the world does not know and is
somewhat skeptical concerning.
Mrs. DIR. Stevenson, who is now in New
York, is pleasant appearing and rather
good looking woman, and she appears ear
nest and sincere She defines herself as a
negative sensitive" or person with
vast portion of mental power, while not
wholly depend ent upon the will of another
one, in fact who can divine that others
thoughts and Intentions.
1.-THE spirit of the dead, she SAYS,
"may hypnotic a subject as effectually as
could living person. In this way medi-
ums are bound in spell which we do not
acknowledge. We claim that while the
power may come to us from without, pos
sibly in the guise of a spirit yet that
spirit is not in itself the power. The spirit
is as much a subject of the power as We
are ourselves. We are moved by the same
force that sends us the spirit We call it
intellectual energy We know also that
one can put himself in another's house,
for example, hear people converse and tell
them long afterward exactly what they
said. We call that soul flight. Then
thought transfer, mental telegraphy and
many other phases of development are
questions that must all be considered. -
Mrs. Stevenson was frail infant born
In Stockholm Jan. /, 1862. She did not
walk until years old, She learned to
talk only at the age of z. All this time,
as far as recollection goes, she heard pc
culiar things in the air.
II used to tell my mother about it, - she
said, saying that I thought it was God
who was talking to me and showing me
things, but she became invariably greatly
distressed, said it was sacrilege to think of
God coming to me thus, and would be
whipped
My mother and would pray together
for me and when we had finished l would
be whipped again.
81 ran away from home one day, taking
with me white apron of my mothers
and prayer book. The apron | tied about
my shoulders like a gown of a minister,
and standing on some stone or stump /
read and preached from the sacred volume.
For three days lived in the woods, eating
blackberries that l might not starve and
meanwhile holding constant communion
and converse with the spirits of the air.
10 the voices of the atmosphere she
holds herself indebted for her knowledge
OF the English language She learned it
rapidly, though never taking a lesson. At
frst she devoted herself to the practice of
her profession. For the last five years she
mas Iectured with success, never preparing
lecture in advance, but speaking from
inspiration, In California she married
DIR. Stevenson four years ago. He is an in
valid, unable to live elsewhere than in the
climate of California, and much sorrow.
she says, is therefore connected with her
married life
The plan of the organization is to insti-
tute branches in every portion of the Unit
ed States, with the hope of establishing
psychical connection between all of them.
We will combine them all into one
great mental battery Mrs Stevenson ex-
plains, which, in retrun, will furnish the
motive force.
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