The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-26

or wizards spells, visions by day or dreams by
night. which cnn reveal to her or us tho hidden
The author comedies that Mrs. Pipers trance ut
teranccs present many marks Of authenticity.
tiers could he duo TO the cmergenco In the trance
Piper in waking life. or TO some process OF teie.
pnthy from distant minds, the character and
still remain ms an indication of something bo-
yond. Tho full evidence relating to these trance
set forth. and. until this has been dono, the au-
thor regards 1t as premature to deliver a yer.
frances Of Mrs. Piper furnish tho most impor:
tert testimony which the Society for psychical
something beyond tclepathy.
Now let us see what tho author has to say
regarding telepathy. or tho transformers OF
ideas and impressions from one mind to an
other by other than normal means. Mr.. f. w.
Scripture, in his book, The New Psychology"
insists that tho transfcrcncc of thought by con-
tact has been proved to be brought about
through tho communication OF involuntary,
unconscious movements OF the muscles OF the
hand. or arm; and. secondly. that tho transfer
ence OF thought without contact has been proved
to be brought about through the production of the
involuntary. unconscious movements employed
in nasal Whispering. 1t was Cumberland who
showed that, In the case of contact, mind re I'd
ing was simply muscle reading. To explain
what is meant by nasal Whispering. we must
recall the remarkable experiment made by
Hansen and Lehman. We quote Mr.. Scriptures
account of this experiment: elf n thought in
one persons mind is transmitted into that or
another person. the trnnsfcrcnce OF energy must
have occurred in some way. Let us suppose it
to resemble the transmission of sound in tho air,
or of light and electricity in the ether, in
being n vibratory movement of some
known or unknown medium. Now, all
hitherto investigated vibratory movements
arc reflected from metal mirrors. and this new
one will probably be no exception to the rule.
BY means of concavc mirrors. therefore. we
may expect to concentrate the thoughts strongly
to a focus. so that the experiments. which now
succeed only occasionally, may succeed in large
numbers, whereby we can hope to study their
laws. Lehman, II psychologist, and Hansen. q
physician, prepared two Concayc metal mirrors
the size of which was such that the focus lay in
the plano of the opening, tho diameter of this
opening being ninety centimcters. The mirrors,
were placed opposite cach other. with their
axes falling in the same straight line. and
their foci distant by two meters. Each
OF the two persons to be experimental
upon, the porcipient and the agent, sat with
his head in n focus. the faco being turned to the
mirror" The two sat, of course. back to back.
but without touching ono another. So much
for the apparatus; now let US sec how IL WAS
employed to detect involuntary Whispering.
Messrs; Hansen and Lehman had previously
Noticed moHtiiSSesdi in the subjects of sTpsrimsnt a
muscles Of speech Whenever a humber
was thought Of for a while, This tenaency
no such effort was made. tho one subject. with
his ear at the focus OF the mirror, could hear tho
Involuntary sounrs produced by the other sub
ject. in spite OF the fact that the mouth was
kept lightly closed. and a watcher standing pear
could detect no sounds or movements what
ever. The mirrors made tho sounds fourteen
times stronger, SO that the involuntary nasal
percentage OF successful transferences OF
III .ught. Mr.. Scripture holds, therefore. that,
for thought transference without contact all
that is required is to find IA subject who has an
a~bnormally sharp ear, and, for your own part.
be any intentional communicating; If the inves.
tigators are sufficiently unframed In scientific
psychological experimenting, and are inclined
to attribute results to occult powers rather than
trsnsIerence Inevitably follow.
MI; Podmorc points out, on tho other hand,
s series s" Of e s'r@rns,H% Is ee sSdirSs'S aHebg g Mrs. s te =
wick in concert With a Mr.: Smith and q Miss
the agent and percipient were on different
stories of the same house. separated by a wooden
sidgWick's lodgings: with tho door closed.
passage, tliedist"nce between them varying from
ten 10 fifteen feet and upward. Both agent and
out The trial. and, il is pronounced increiibie
that any sounds which escaped the notice Of tho
watched him continuously, should have boom
pereeptible to q person sitting at a considerable
distance and with a closed door, or a ceiling and
carpet intervening. Nevertheless, in one serios
Of experiments alone. out Of 252 trials with
the numbers was obtained twenty.seven timer.
and the correct digits were guessed in reverse
What, again, shall be said of tho evidence for
thought trans erence when the agent and per.
cipient 9re separated by a considerable dis.
thncef or experiments OF this kind, the boat
s sno@n are 3 1a t4 e bS Sg nE G,ss., with 6 hypnotic
e. Z HayTe. At several q these Sxperi%ents- Mt.
pied by the Hgentand the perclpient respectively
Mere several streets apart. In a sorieso OF twenty
partially successful. There is little Rround'
t sRpeli%sn for to .Sshes the es,s SgtsS%s q III {Ss !:
ground for a%serihing i to nasal Whispering.
uaii HSiinc nation as f bscSuse 70 qh .hs class ss,s Of yis,
phenomena are. in themselves. more impressive
obn iexpiISh nrsntid by Oh Il &c ,L eoincidencei is more
n ms rhnpter. viewed In conjunction With
i inS shPer ri,G at q d Issss D men thInS in ,housh.'
more 10 accept telepathy, not indeed as definite.
i y, b PrSxed' e osnb az /" provisional working by.
s bat though, my be transferred from an
T TssaI b by " c oSsfiip,sn1i although an ? they are sePa.
SrIsss; w ihs on rs the mature Of the agency
more. o. course, does hot profess To- \" k r0S,
me medium Whereby the te!cpnthic infuencs
pulse il originated or received. Nv so,n a I'm
deed, II, Is held that telepathy is bnt npeomn
group OF transcenGentRl faculties which nointt
t22aa w cr,n 1%yond the world of sight and touch;
III growth until man has ceased To- he nnerr
S Mare r9 ihnn suggests that such a Wow is little
yolved in any physical explanation. That MINI
lervehllG space. without discoyereble an ~
parHlls, may seem, no doubt, To- call ~
s nIipIhrn AURA means. But so. TO the peasant.
hmanS ESQ The suns philosophers, or The fn,rnio
r. " ~ 81 me electric current. The proper.
~ OF the ether and the mechanism and Iphp y
ions OF the nervous systrm are Xiii " ,nne'
iiIht ~ eSiiorod; ana 1t would be rash to ass"rt
a"a ~ nerve changes which are the presmInS
accompaniment OF thought could not h" nnnl
irSinn over Vs S Sia, undGlations TO a Kindred
tm E are indicated by some Of our tSsOuuS@1ss