Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-11

ish, vehement, f~ervent. insistent willing.
Whether it is that the m~ind-wave in the
latter case are broken up too much to be in
t~elligible or to produce any clear effect l
do not know, but nothing is more certain
than that IL you wish to influence telepa-
thetically another mind, the last thing you
must do is to hdget and, as It were, thump
away with your mind at theirs. To this
error. however, It is admitted most OF the
mistakes are due.
The most favorable conditions for trying
a telepathic experiment are two persons In
close mental sympathy with each other, who
have a great deal If affinity. agree on a
certain time to keep a tryst with each other
for say a space Of half an hour. each alter
nately taking the role of the recipient. Let
us say that A 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. Let
us suppose that \ and b are in different
rooms OF the same house. They agree to
try a telepathic experiment. b acts as the
recipient. He Tor she, as the case may bel
is seated in a room in which there is moth
ing calculated to distract the attention or
to set up conditions unfavorable to the
p~lacidity and passivity necessary to receiv-
ing transmissions 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 any kind
of the material circumstances of his exist
ence. Sitting in an easy chair. with pencil
and note book at hand, r will sit waiting
to note any impressions that may arise in
his mind. A on his part is in his own
room, equally isembarrassed from the
pressure of external circumstances and de-
termined TO impress upon the mind of r
that he should read a certain book, let us
say Plutarch's Lives" He simply thinks
definitely that one thing, one of the volumes
of the Lives being in his hand.
At the end of the half hour A will write
down, Have willed that b should be i'm
pressed with a desire to read Plutarch's
Lives
On the other side B will probably at first
have a wandering mind, thinking aimlessly
of this, that and the other, and trying
continually to keep his thoughts in a state
Of expectant readiness, the net result Of
which will probably be that he will feel
no impression at all. After a quarter Of
an hour, more or less strained, disappointed
and irritated expectancy. wondering whether
any ttful thought that was crossing his
mind was due to the action of AS telepathic
will in the other room, he will probably
give it up, 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 be would receive an, i'm
preston that A wished him to read some
thing. This impression might be very
slight and might pass unnoticed, but toward
the end Of the half hour he might get the
impression more definitely, with some asso-
citation about the Plutarch. 1t might, how
ever. and probably would be, so slight as
49,. 1900. tG,, - ns,nn;nta that utith A
and at the end of the half hour B would
probably write down: Have sat for a
quarter of an hour doing nothing and felt
nothing; then began 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 when AS written
record was produced to B, B would probably
recall a faint idea about. Plutarch, which
fitted through his mind. This, you may say,
would be a very poor experiment, and that
no doubt, is true. But it would encourage
both experimenters to proceed.
Let me sum up this somewhat discursive
survey Of one corner of a wide field by say
ing that | think we may anticipate in the
twentieth century a great increase in the
facilities of REORGANIZATION between
human beings, which will far exceed any
I'LL llut lac wv
material plane by the triumphs OF steam>ol
electricity in the nineteenth century.
think also that we shall learn a great dea
more as to the many-sided personality OF oul
own ego and realize as we have never done
before how exceedingly vast and multifari'
Gus are the elements which make up The
2 bundle Of entities which we regard as our
, selves. Further, as the truth grows Of thu
t possibility of our bodily organs functionine
t apart, tho conception Of the life OF man al
3 something which does not expire with TIT
a dissolution of the body, will gradually be re-
I established amongst US. II a part Of me !!
n capable during the lifetime OF my pohy o
communicating information which / eX
S clusiyely possess to another person at
5 distance; if it is further capable of facili
t tating the transmission Of these communi
n cations. of manufacturing a body in shape
0 weight and substance indistinguishabl
e from my actual body, but which is never
b theless capable Of vanishing into thin al
k the moment its purpose is served then !
t will seem more and more absurd TO question
y the probability, not to say the certainty, o
e tho continuance of the individual after tn
O decay of this earthly tabernacle, which /
r even as a tent pitched for a season Tor on
= Temporary habitation during the time whel
= we make our brief pilgrimage through thi
" wilderness of the desert OF SIN. Inc eS
u OF each of us is something Infinitely greater
: more marvellous, more multifarious in it
s methods Of manifestation and its capacit
" for expression than we have hitherto imag
ined. 1t makes use of the body as a Kind o
temporary two-legged telephone for tn
purpose Of communicating at short rang
. with other entities using similar two-legge
~ telephones; but its existence is no NOR
= confined to the use OF that telephone tina
y the existence of each OF us Is limited I
il the communications we pass across tn
teIephonic wire. After a little time thi
two-legged telephone will be switched, blu
y the entity behind it will pass ON to com
plete the circle of its experiences.
y w. T. STEAD
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