The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-03-07

Noted P5YCHI5rS BELIEVE HER
DEMONSTRATIONS GENUINE.

subiimlnnl sclr Acted uhieci STAY Have .
Been IA fiuppott with pr. HYHl1p /
Drawing Uncon.ciou.ly Upon iis Mrn- .
taliiy "rulby" or Everyday Life. T.
Phenomena OF tho sort that give .
creepy feeling OF chill 10 the iayman F.
in those sciences that border upon F..
the supernatural were discussed re-
Gently at the meeting of tso PSYCHIC
logical Section of the Medlco-Legal
Society, at the Plovano Hotel ia West
Thirty-Filth street.
Mrs. Leonora 70. Pipere confession
or stat0ment concerning those re-
n.arkabl8 demonstrations OF mysteri-
Gus force which she gave while con-
nected as q medium with the Ameri-
can Society for Psychical Research
was the cause Of Che meeting and was
the subject for discussion Two wide
~ divergent views were taken.
Prof Thomson Jay Hudson of De
troit contributed a paper In which ne
advanced the theory that spiriti5m
was in no manner responsible for the
demonstrations of Mrs. Piper lie eE-
pressed the belief that telepathic in
huences were at work. and by that
means Mrs. PiDer unconsciously drew
upon the great depths Of the mind Of
Prof. uyslop who conducted the IN
yestigadons for which the medium
was used.
Dr. joan Duncan Quackenbos, emer-
titus professor Of psychology Of Coium-
bia University, read q paper in which
he argued that hypnoti5m, telepathy
and spiritsm are somewhat allied,
Dr. Ouackenbos. referring TO his own
experience told Of cases of hypnotism
that changed the entire manner and
method of life Of the subject BY sug-
gestton he has, ne said, cured many
children of bad habits, and the infer
ence was drawn that hypnotic meth
DDS had been used in olden times
when evil spirits were cast out OF
men.
Explanation was given Of remark
able success achieved on the New
York stage by a young actress. VINO
in a single night won popular appro-
val. She was not taught, as was Mrs.
Leslie Carter, by a master of her art
She subjected her mind to the Eyp'
motto influence exerted by Dr. Quack
enbos. with the result that she seldom
failed of seven encores after the eli
max Of the play in which she appeared
There was q short general discus
sion before the meeting broke up
and among those engaged in it was
Mrs. Mary e. Lease, of Wichita, who
has dropped populism to lecture OF
spiritism A letter from Luther 4
Marsh was read, which the venerable
spiritualist concluded by saying;
81 have experienced the futility o
trying by argument to convince any
body on spiritual themes"
4 have assumed" said Prof. Hud
son in his lengthy paper, that all thu
supernormally acquired knowledge o
which Mrs. Piper was possessed wa
not only obtained telepathically, ou
that it was obtained directly from tn
subjective mind of Prof Hyslop.
"This the learned Doctor woul
strenuously deny, on the ground tina
the great bulk ofThe information upoi
which he relies to prove his case TO
spiritism, was never known to hir
before he obtained it from Mrs. Piper
but was, however, subsequently yer
fed. And I freely admit that neithe
Prof Hyslop nor any other perso
present at the PiperHyslop seance
was ever in conscious possession
any of the facts revealed by the franc
personality Of the medium prior
the date of the seances.
"The question arises, and this
the crucial question for spiritisn
How did Mrs. Piper obtain that wol
derful fund of information which 81
so haltingIy gave out at those famol
seances?
1T seems to me" he continue
"that it is only necessary to suppo'
that Prof. FIyslop was en- rapport vii
the members Of his own family
order to account for his possessio
subliminally of all the knowled;
that was in evidence at the Pip
seances. Certainly there is nothil
in the history of telepathic investig
ton to negative this proposition"
Indeed, it may be confidently 9
serted that If observation at all
reference to that mysterious pow
it is that relatives and friends a
always en- rapport and that they a
always either actually or potential
in communication. This is, perhal
the most important induction pos
bic in the case, and it certainly max
for the telepathic theory, fer all t