The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-07

nihil." So it is possible for us to receive
Impressions and ideas from those who are
to us the generators of thought wave ct
| praeterea nihil.
TeIcpathy and Prayer.
Telepathy in this sense affords a work
ing hypothesis for explaining many Of the
most familiar phenomena of answers to
prayer George Muller of Bristol, who
maintained for years vast Orphans es,
maintained them by prayer. He received
millions in the course of a long life time.
| He refused ever to make any personal
| application TO any man for money. When
| he wanted funds he prayed and in the
| most extraordinary way money in cash
or in kind, came rolling in on him from
| all parts Of the world. Those persons
| who sent money to George Muller used
| to bear witness to the fact that they did
so under the influence of an impression
| being communicated to their minds when
| they were at prayer or asleep, and this
| impression would continue with a per-
| sistence which left them no peace until
| they had sent the money which was need
ed. In other words, George Muiler's mind
wave was switched on TO those persons
| and the pressure of the continually i'm
| pinging waves upon the brain of the char
| liable produced a steady flow of funds.
Belief in PRAYER, then, in This case and in
| others has been irreverently compared to
| ringing up the central telepathfc exchange
i OF the UNIVERSE ana lfTeVerent as THIS
| phrase may be, IL will probably enable
| the modern man better TO understand the
| possibility of scientific foundation for
the universal belief of all religions in the
| efficacy of prayer than any other phrase
| that could be coined by the devou
| Apart from the evidence supplied by an
| swers to prayers great multitudes of eX-
periments have been recorded by the Psy-
| chica Research Society which prove that
| certain individuals have faculty of
ceiving almost at will messages from their
| friends.
In a company of ten. it is seldom that
there is not one who can be made to move
to right or to left by the steady will of
one or other of the remaining nine. These
| experiments usually fail from one of two
causes; either the recipient is not suffi-
| GENTLY passive-a thing which frequently
| results from making too great an effort
| to be passive, or the person who wills is
| too vehement in his willing. AS it was
| said of one famous orator that he con-
| stanty mistook perspiration for inspira-
| ton. so those who endeavor to translate
| miud-waves from viii spoil the attempt by
| straining too much to impress their
| thought upon the recipient. A deep quiet,
| steady. placid thought is far more effica-
| cous in producing a mind wave whose
| impact can be felt by another than
! feverish, vehement, fervent, insistent will
| ing. Whether it is that the mind waves
| i'm the latter case are broken up too much
| to be Ineligible or to produce any Gear
effect, do not know; but nothing is more
| certain than that if you wish to influence
| telepathically another mind, the last thing
| you must do is to fidget, and, as it were,
| thump away with your mind at theirs.
| To this error, however, it is admitted most
| Of the mistakes are due.
How to Transfer Thought. "A
The most favorable conditions for try
| trrrra
sons in close mental sympathy with each
| other, who have a great deal of affinity,
| agree on a certain time to keep a tryst
with each other, for, say, a space of half
an hour, each alterna tely taking the role
of the recipient. Let us say that is
the transmitter and B is the recipient
They may be a hundred miles away from
each other or they may be in different
| rooms in the same house. Distance is
| absolutely immateral. Let US suppose
that a and B are in different rooms of the
| same house. They agree 10 try tee
| pathetic experiment. b acts as the recip-
lent He Cor she, as the case may be- is
seated in a room in which there is nothing
| calculated to distract he attention or to
| set up conditions unfaVorable to the placid
ity and passivity. necessary to. receiving
impressions from without. The great
thing is for the recipient to be quite COM
Portable. not to be reminded either by
bodily ache or physical inconvenience of
anv kind of the material circumstances
of his existence. Sitting in an easy chair,
with pencil and note book at hand, b viii
sit waiting to note any impressions that
NAV arise in his mind. a. on his part,
is in his own room, equally disembarrassed
from the pressure of external circum-
stances and determined to impress upon
the mind of B that he should read a GER
tain book, let US say Plutarch's Lives"
He simply thinks definitely that one thing.
80 In hai n
in his hand.
AT the end of the half hour, A will
write down Have wiNed that B should
be impressed with a desire to read Plut-
arch's Lives.
on the other side. will probably at
first have a wandering mind, think ns
ainlessly of this that and the other. and
trying continually to keep his thoughts In
a state of expectant readiness, the net ra-
suit of which viii probably be that he will
feel no impression at all After quart r
of an hour more or less strained, dis 1p-
pointed and irriiated expectancy wonder
ing whether any tftfui thought that was
crossing his mind was due to the action
of AS telepathic will in the oher room,
| he will probably give it up, take a book
, and begin 70 read. When he was turning
over the pages, his thought woult pro5a-
blv go back to y. and in al probabiA Y he
would receive an impression that wished
him to read something. This impression
might be very slight and might pass I'M
noticed; hut towards he end # the half
: hour. he might get the impress on m0re
definitely, with some association about the
? Plutarch. 1t might, however and prob1-
{ bly, would be- so slight as not 10 cause
| him to associate that with A. and al the
end of the half hour B would pr2bab Y
write down, "Have sat for a quarter o.
an hour doing nothing and fe't no hing;
! then began 10 read and when read ng
stray thoughts passed through my mind
that wanted me to read. Beyond hat
/ know nothing" The two would then
} compare notes, and when AS written rec
ord was produced 10 b, would probably
recall faint idea about Plutarch, which
fitted through his mind. Tnis you may
| CIV Mnnld be a worry Door eXnar ment. and