The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-01-07
Telepahty and Prayer.


Telepathy in this sense affords a
working hypothesis for explaining
many Of the most familiar phenomena
OF answers to prayer. George Muller
of Bristol, who maintained for years
:, vast Orphanages, maintained them by
/ prayer. He received millions in the
/ course of a long lifetime. 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
1 Those persons who sent money to
! George Muller used to bear witness to
/ the fact that they did so under the in
/ Euence of an impression being cOmmu-
| nicateG to their minds when they were
at prayer or asleep, and this impress
/ sion would continue with a persistence
/ which left them no peace until they
/ had sent the money which was needed.
/ In other words, George Muller's mind
wave was switched on to those persons
! and the pressure of the continually inn
! pinSing waves upon the brain Of the
/ charitable produced a steady flow of
1 funds. Belief in prayer, then, in this
| case and in others, has been irreverent-
( ~ compared to ringing up the central
/ telepathic exchange Of the universe;
and iFreveTent as this phrase may be,
/ it viii probably enable the modern man
/ better to understand the possibility of
/ a scientific foundation for the univer-
sal belief CT all religions in the efficacy
| Of prayer than any other phrase that
/ could be coined by the dsVOut
| Apart from the evidence supplied by
| answers to prayers great mIfititudes
/ Of experiments have been recorded by
/ the PsychiCal Research society, which
prove that certain individuals have a
/ faculty Of receiving almost at viii
MESA es from their friends.
| In company Of ten it is seldom that
| there issn0t one who can be made to
move to right or to left by the steady
/ viii of one or other of the remaining
/ nine. These experiments usually fail
from one OF two causes: either the re-
cipient is not sufficiently passive-a
! thing which frequently results from
making too great an effort to be pass
! iVe-Or the person who wills is too We
/ hement in his willing
If you wish to influence telepathical-
/ " another mind. the last thing you
must DO is to fidget and. as it were,
I thump away with your mind at theirs.
| To this error, however. il is admitted
| most of the mistakes are due.
How to Transfer Thought.
/ luC UlUSt 1dNDLd ~ COHGlLlOQS IOT
| trying a telephatic experiment are two
| persons in close mental sympathy with
| each other, who have a great deal Of
/ affinity agree on a certain time 10 keep
a tryst with each other, for, say, a
/ space of half an hour, each alternately
{ taking the role. Of recipient Let us
/ say that A is the transcnltter, and 3
( is the recipient. They may be q hun
| dred miles away FROM each other or
| they may be in different rooms in the
same house Let US suppose that A
/ and B are in different rooms of the
| same house. They agree to try a tele-
/ pathic experiment. B acts as the recip-
/ lent. He Cor she, as the case may bel
/ is seated in a room in which there is
nothing calculated to distract the at
/ tentiOn or to set up conditions unfavOr-
able to the placidity and passivtty nee
! esSary to receiving impressions from
without. The great thing is for the re-
| Cipient to be quite comfortable, not to
/ be reminded either by bodily ache or
/ physical inconvenience of any kind, of
/ the material circumstances Of his eX-
! iStence Sitting in an easy chair. with
/ pencil and note book at hand, 3 viii
[ sit waiting to note any impressions thai
may arise in his mind. a, on his part,
is in his own room, equally disembar-
.
| circumstances, and determined to i'm
/ press upon the mind Of B that he
should read a certain book, let US say
Plutarch's Lives" He simply thinks
definitely that one thing, one of the
volumes oe the Lives being in his
! hand.
At the end Of the half hour A will
write down: Have willed that B
should be impressed with a desire TO
read Plutarch's Lives" On the other
side. b viii probably at first have a
wandering mind. thinning aimlessly Of
this, that and the other, and trying
continually to keep his thoughts in a
state Of eXpectant readiness, the net re-
suit of which viii probably be that he
viii feel no impression at all After a
quarter of an hour more or less strain
ed. disappointed and iTritated expect
ancy. wondering whether any fitful
thought that was crossing MS mind was
due to the action Of AS telepathic VIII
in the other room, he VIII probably give
il I'D, take a book and begin to read.
When he was turning over the pages,
his thought would probably go back to
A. and in all probability he would re-
ceive an impression that A wished him
to read something. This impression
might be very slight, and might pass
unnOticed; but towards the end OF the
half hour, he might get the impression
more definitely. with some association
about the Plutarch. = might, how
ever. and probably would be, so slight
as not to cause him TO associate t--2t
with A. and at the end of the half hour
B would probably wife down: Have
sat for a quarter of an hour do
ing nothing and felt nothing; then be
gan TO read. and when reading stray
thoughts passed through my mind that
A wanted me to read. Beyond that /
know nothing" The two would then
compare notes, and VIII n AS written
record was produced to 3, 3 would
probably recall a faint idea about Plu-
tarch. which fitted through his mind
This. YOU may say, would be very
poor experiment, and that no doubt, IS
true. But il would encourage both eX-
perimenters to proceed.
Let me sum up this somewhat dis
cursive survey OF one corner Of q wide
6eid by saving that I think we may
anticipate in the twentieth century a
great increase in the facilities Of inter-
communication between human beings,
which will far exceed anything that
has been achieved on the more ma
teriaI plane by the triumphs of steam
or eIectriei.y in the nineteenth century
7 think also that we shall learn a sreat
deal more as to the many-sided person.
aiitv of our own Ego, and realize as we
have never done before how exceeding
IS vast and multifarious are the ele-
ments which make UP the bundle Of
entities which we regard as ourselves.
Further. as the truth grows Of the pos