Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-03-22
TELEPATHY A REALITY.
Scientific Men Now Give Counte-
nance to Theory of Thought
TransferenCe.

| New York. March 15-The theory of
telepathy, or thought transference. is ut
| last receiving the support of science Sill
| William Crookes aLG DR.. Oliver Lodge.
two Of Europe's most distinguished sci
| entific men. being the latest authorities
to declare an unqualified belief III its cor
rectness.
DR. lodge is, indeed, so thorough
convert that he read an elaborate paper
the other day at a meeting of the Psychic
| Research society in London in defense
of the hypothesis.
One of the best authorities in the Unit
ed States on telepathy and kindred sub
| iects is DR.. II. Osgood Mason of 34S
West Fifty-eighth street. New York.
| DIR. Mason is a member of the Acad-
envy of Medicine and has devoted his at
| tentiOn for more than thirty years to
psychic Investigations
His beSt-known productions in this line.
are ''Telepathy and the Subliminal Self
and Hypnotism and Suggestion in Their
| apeutics. Education and Reform
DIR. Mason was asked to explain the
| position recently taken by DIR. Lodge, Sir
| William CroOkes and other scientists on
/ the subject of telepathic communication.
| He said:
Until recently it has been extremely
difficult 10 convince scientific men that
there was really anything in thought
reading. Since Prof. w. f. Barrett. fell
| low of the Royal Society of Great Brit
! ain, entered the field of psychic research,
| however, and began Investigations on
| scientific basis, there has been less
chance for the skeptic to cast reflections
on this field of work.
Other men high in the world of sci
/ ence have since taken up the subject
Prof Henry Sidgwick, Trinity college;
! Prof Balfour Stewart, Owens college,
and others indOrse telepathy and have
made independent researches.
Telepathy, or thought transference, is
the name applied to the influence which
one mind eXertS on another apart from
any communication through ordinary
channels.
The achievements of men like Bishop
in what is popularity called mind read
ing have been explained by DIR. Will
liam Il. Carpenter, the eminent English
Psychologist. as unconscious muscular
action on the part of the person doing
the willing and unconscious cerebra-
ton on the part of the sensitive or per-
son being willed.
This might explain some classes of tel
epathy-where contact existed between
the subject and the operator-but where
no contact occurs the muscular uncon-
scious action" will not account for the
wonderful phenomena.
Telepathy is of four kinds:
l. Where a person does some act when
touched by another-this act being pre-
vi0usly ''willed" by the latter.
>. Where one does something 'swilled'
by another and there is no contact.
5. Where name, number or card is
guessed or seen mentally, or a drawing
is made without any communication be-
tween one person and another.
1. Where the same ideas have occurred
to or the same impressions have been
conveyed from one person to another
when both were separated by long dis
tances.
One of the most remarkable phases of
telepathy is that in which one person is
able to draw pictures from mental i'm
ages made in another's brain.
Thousands of eases of this kind have
been authenticated and published in the
journal of the Psychic Research society. |
This is the way telepathic drawing is
done:
A person sits at table blindfolded
and with his back turned toward anoth-
er person. The person at the table has
no contact with the other operator.
A third person now makes a drawing
and holds it up to the eyes of the person
not seated at the table. The person
seated at the table is able, before the
lapse of certain period of time varying
from minute to five or six minutes, TO
reproduce a drawing which, as a rule, |
bears 4 striking resemblance to the inn
age in the mind of the second number OF
the experimental group.
In some cases of drawing telepathy the
bl;ndfolded person is able to give an ex-
act reproduction of the operators mind
in others the outlines bear only slight |
resemblance.
There are hundreds of these kinds of
telepathic causes recorded by the Society
OF Psychical Research, and many of
these dra wings have been published.
Telepathy is sometimes very strongly |
brought into play by persons at long |
distances. One of the most notable cases |
was that which occurred to Samuel NJ.
Clemens Mark Twain. He had |
thought of Il certain story and had made |
an outline sketch of it. placing it away |
in Il drawer. At the same time he |
thought of writing to someone far dis |
slant and telling him about the story. !
lie did not send his letter, however.
A few days aftcrward he received 4 |
le:.e" from the very person TO whom he |
intended writing, and III this letter was |
a sketch, almost word for word, of the |
story Mr.. Clemens had thought of writ
ing.
How often does it not not occur that |
YOU are thinking of Il certain person, |
and. CHANGING to look UP, you behold the |
object of your thoughts very near YOU?
Again, how frequently it happens that |
persons in distant parts of the world will |
begin writing letters to each other at the |
same moments of time.
All these things are telepathy. and the |
phenomena cannot be wholly overlooked |
even by the most scientific.
The basis on which tciepathy IS found |
ed is very solid.
Thought tranSference has the same |
claim to acceptance that many physical |
facts had in the early days of expert |
mental science.
The reality of telepathy cannot ne |
doubted, though we may not be able to |
explain its exact manner of operation.
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