Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-03-10
HE SIXTH SENSE.
Ts4E POWER OF WHAT WE CALL CLAIR
 voYANcE POSSIBLE FOR ALL

William T. Stead, author, journalist theosophist and general student of all shat is odd, now announces that he has received by the means of automatic writing from very well known spirit the information that every living per son has what is called the sixth sense. In otber words. we are all mediums, contrary to the general suppositions even among tho advanced disciples qR spiritualism.
 The message or communication 2s given to the world through Editor Stead, who for the time being is under the guidance of this feminine controls the real author of the statements being known as Julia. Her messages have been coming at intervals for five years and among the students of the occult are regarded as absolutely true. That is why MT. Stead lays so much importance upon them. It is for this reason hs holds that the communication between the inhabitants of the world and those who have passed away can be much more free if only people will have iS that way. In the message Julia says.
 "What have to tell you is that all those who really wish to have the sixth sense, or whatever you may choose to term it, so developed that they cap at will become sensibly or to their senses cognizant of the reality of the existence of the beings who encompass them about can acquire the gift or faculty i2 they will but adapt themselves to the laws of the region into which they wish tc penetrate. It is potentiality of the universal human race. Nor is it only human. Many animals have the open eye. They see when their owners are blind. But you can see if you choose. It rests with yourselves.
 s'There is no short cut to the sixth sense. There may be something like it in mesmerism and hypnotism, but that is not at all what mean. What is pos sible is for every child of man to be- come what you call normally elairvoy- ant--that is, for any one to possess himself of the power of seeing and hearing, as plainly as he sees and hears material things, the invisible forms and voices that surround him.
 ''The power is one that ought to he under control. There will be only harm done if you do not shut at will tho clair voyant eye. Imagine the mischief that would happen if when life and death hung on the absolute concentration of all faculties on the subject immediately before you, if at the supreme moment you were to see the whole phantasma- Foria of borderland pass between you and the point of exclusive interest. If you cannot control your sixth sense. you had better not acquire 1t. It is much better to do without 1t than to be con- trolled by it.
 'sYou should have the sense ab oom- nand when you need it. as you have your microscope or your telescope, but better have neither if you are to be compulsorily doomed at other will than yours to interrupt the work of life by a spectacle of the infinitely little or the infinitely remote Man should always be master of his senses. especially of the sixth sense, as it is called.
 In her further statements to Mr. Stead Julia goes on to say that the investigator must always be simple and not to be oCASOthAt4N OAiAhh4AS O4 44i1AsCAAs A4A other words, self consciousness must he avoided, or it will play havoc with the chances of success. All one's mental faculties are needed. Everything must be examined and tested without preju- dice and without partiality. Nothing can be achieved without time and pa- tienoe.
 The first thing to be done to see the invisible ones, Julia says, is to be very still and to wait. When quite still and passive, close your eyes and think of the one whom you wish to see. If it is friend still alive in the body, it will help you if at the same time, although that is not essential, he or she be also passive anG alone. When you have two spirits in accord, both seeking the same thing, the difficulties are less, but you must be agreed in heart and soul. If you could keep the concentrated quiet attention for longer period than five minutes without becoming tired, theR you had better do so At no time, how aver, force yourself, for strain means failure.
 If i'll this way, Julia declares, oEs EOoceeds in acquiring success, it is &C., guired forever There will be no more parting between the one who has gained his object and the spirit world. The greatest danger is that the sixth sense may control the individual instead of being in itself controlled. New York aeraSA
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