The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-10-24
HER SPOOKS RENOUNCED
Mrs. Piper, the Worlds Greatest Trance
Medium. Exposes Modern Spiritual
ism and Declares Nothing
Supernatural in 1t.


dium in the world, admits that
she has never had communica-
tion with the spirit world and
that none of her so called mani
festations have been super
natural. Moreover, she acknowl-
edges that she has always known
this to be true She announces
her resignation from work in the
Society for Psychical Research.
For nearly twenty years learn
ed men of international fame
have been studying her miracu.
lous claims of ability to receive
and transmit messages from be-
yond the grave and in that time
she has amaSsed fortune from
fees paid her by people desirous
of talking with the ghosts of the
departed, but she in this letter
scatters the theory TO the winds.
She still claims possession of a
power that she does not herself
understand, some manner of un-
conscious cerebration, but says
that she never heard of anything
being said by herself while in a
trance state which may not have
been latent in her own mind or
in the mind of some other person
in mental communication with
her.
Mrs. Piper accepts the tele-
pathic explanation of all the so
called psychic or spiritistlc phe-
nomena and agrees with DR.. Phil.
lips Brooks, who said to her that
there is no back door into heaven
and that if there were he pre-
ferred to go in by the front door.
She adds that she must truth
fully say that she does not be-
lieve that spirits of the dead
have spoken through her when
she was in the trance state, and
that she has never had any con-
vincing proof of the possibility
of spirit return.
Recounting some of the best
known and most remarkable
manifestations of apparent spirit
control in her experience, Mrs.
Piper says: IL do not see how
anybody can look on all that as
testimony from a person in an
other world. l cannot see but
that it must have been an uncon-
scious expression of my subllm-
inal self, writing such stuff as
dreams are made off,
Again, she says: For my
own part | cannot see how it can
be scientifically proved that we
can hold communication with the
so-called spirit world. AS ST.
Paul says, spiritual things can
only be spiritually discerned,
much less handled" Her con-
clusion is that the worl0 has not
derived a sufficient benefit from
the many years investigation of
her case to warrant her in con-
tinuing in it, and so she with
draws.
The great medium in her long
letter exposes the mystery of her
impersonation of pelham, "Dr.
Phinuit, "Imperator" and others
that she made famous in her
frances and about whom many
books have been written, and
says that in deciding to release
herself from them she does not
wish to antagonize any student
of psychical phenomena, but
that she does not believe the
genuine spirit of science can be
antagonized. Because the spir-
itistic theory does not appeal to
me after my experience" she de-
clares, 81 do not deny to any
mortal a perfect right to accept
it, if it seems consistent. She
declines to act longer as a thu
man telephone to the next world.
Concerning the theory of
thought transferrence by uncon-
scious telepathy Mrs. Piper
speculates as follows:
"The wonders of wireless
telegraphy and the use of the x
ray developed of late years in
the realm of physical science
make me feel that it would not