The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-09
SCIENCE AND TELEPATHY.
Sir William CrOOkeS On Psychca Research Evidences of
Striking Phenomena

with telepathy; with the fundamental
law, as I believe it to be- that thoughts
and images may be transferred from
one mind to another without the agency
of the recognized organ of sense-that
knowledge may enter the human mind
without being communicated in any
hitherto known or recognized ways.
Although the inquiry has elected
important facts with reference to the
! mind, it has not yet reached the Scien-
tific stage of certainty which would en-
title it to be usefully brought before
one of our sections. l will therefore
confine myself to pointing out the di-
rection in which scientific investigation
can legitimately advance. If telepathy
takes place we have two physical
facts-the physical change in the brain
of A, the suggester, and the analogous
physical change in the brain Of B,
! the recipient of the suggestion. Be
tween these two physical events there
must exist a train of physical causes.
Whenever the connecting sequence of
intermediate causes begins to be re-
vealed the inquiry will then come
within the range Of one of the sections
of the British association. Such Sc
quence can only occur through an
intervening medium. All the phenomena
of the universe are presumably in
some way continuous, and it is I'M
scientific to call in the aid of mySteri
Gus agencies when with every fresh
advance in knowledge it is shown that
ether vibrations have powers and at
tributes abundantly equal to any de-
mand-even to the transmission Of
thought.
TT is supposed by some Psychologists
that the essential cells of nerves do
not actually touch, but are separated
by narrow gap, which widenS in
sleep While it narroWs almost to eX-
tinction during mental activity. This
condition is so singularly like that of
a Granly or Lodge coherer as to Sug
geSt a further analogy. The structure
! of brain and nerve being similar, it is
conceivable there may be present
masses of such nerve coherers in the
! brain whose special function it may
be to receive impulses brought from
without through the connecting Sc
Quence Of ether waves of appropriate
order of magnitude. Rontgen has
familiarized US with an order Of vibra-
tons of extreme minuteness compared
with the smallest waves with which
we have hitherto been acquainted, and
Of dimensions comparable with the dis
tances between the centres of the
atoms of which the material universe
is built up, and there is nos reason to
suppose that we have here reached
the limit of frequency. 1t is known
that the action of thought is accom-
panied by certain molecular move
ments in the brain, and here we have
physical vibrations capable from their
extreme minuteness of acting direct on
individual molecules, while their
rapidity approaches that of the in
ternal movements of the atoms them
selves.
Confirmation of telepathic phe-
nomena is afforded by many converg
! ing experiments, and by many spon-
taneous occurrences only thus intelligi-
BILE. The most varied proof, perhaps, is
drawn from analysis of the subconsci-
Gus workings of the mind, when these,
whether by accident or design, are
brought into conscious survey. Evil
dence of a region below the threshold
of consciousness has been presented
since its first inception in the Pro-
ceedings of the Society for Psychical
Research and its various aspects are
being interpreted and welded into a
comprehensive whole by the pertinaci-
Gus genius of T. w. II. Myers. Concur
rently, our knowledge of the facts in
this obscure region has received valu-
able additions at the hands Of laborers