The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-31
BY SPIRIT Line TO ENGLAND.
pFOi. HlSLOP GOES WIRELESS
,JLEGRtPHl ONE BETTER.
lie say. That a Message Has Heen Trans.
miitcd Instant, Between Mrs. Piper
Here and a Medium on the Other side
-Iiut u was LatinIled In Transit.

works " IthoutanYa pihrallls AT a " mas Deen
Installed between the nited States and
IngIand according ~ the Society FOR
rhvsica Research 4 message has been
transmitted. practically instantaneously,
between Mrs. Piper, the medium whose
dongs we're the subject of a long and sensa
tioral report two or three years ago, and an
English medium with whom the Society for
psvchiral Research has made many ex-
perments. II was part OF prearra nged
plan. an experiment, according to Prof.
James Hyslop who stands sponsor for Mrs.
ltpcr and conducts the societys expert
nlonts with her.
The message was sent in English. 1t
consisted Of four English words but II
was written OF by the British medium In
Latin. This. says Prof. Hyslop, is owing
to the peculiar manner in which commu-
nications are carried on between controls, +"
on the other side of death, and living me-
diums. 1t is a process, he "a VS.. not readily
comprehended by the unscientifc mind.
II wasn't telepathy, the straight COM
munication Of one mind with another.
Prof, Hyslop Is certain on that point. 1t
was done through the agency OF spirit.
Il am not at liberty to tell the wording
Of the message or the exact conditions
Of the experiment. said Prof Hyslop
10 Sun reporter last night. THAT will
all come out in the next report Of the society,
together with a great many advanced
experiments which We have been making
since our last report The full publication
Of the facts will explain why the message
was transmitted in Latin.
Conditions were such that it came
through the mediums subminal con-
scousness in that language. Understand,
she doesn't know any Latin herself. For
that matter, Mrs Piper doesn't know Ger
man or Italian, yet she gives communica-
tons in both those languages.
The public doesn't understand the
probable relations between a medium and
his control-by control mean the spirit,
or whatever it is, which is sending the
message The medium, as every one
knows. Is in an abnormal mental con-
dition when the message is received-the
carvoyant condition we call it. What
every one does not know is that the control
himself probably enters an abnormal
mental condition before he, too, can send
a message.
sOf course, the conditions are not exactly
the same; they are only analogous. Very
few living persons have clairvoyant power
and not all spirits can get into the proper
condition for sending communications.
have received MESA ges from many dead
relatives, yet several notably one uncle
have never been able to control any me-
dunn. although have reason to believe that
some Of them have attempted it.
This, by the way, accounts. according
to my theory, for the seeming trivialty
nd NCpfnaipp pf cnirit
has been a great ground Of objection with
OF sending great and good thoughts, revela-
tions Of life on the other side, and the like,
send only little, personal MESA ges, and
recall only slight and trivial incidents.
Now it is rather early to form theories
we are just now engag ed in gathering data
by scientific method. Nevertheless. this
much appears plain to me. Before the
spirit control passes into that abnormal
state necessary for communication, he
gathers together the facts which would
prove his identity. That is the thought
in his mind as he enters the trance state.
when, therefore. he speaks, he trans mits
mainly those little personal Incidents;
and they often come confused in the
strangest manner The medium is in an
hDuOIlldl stdtt, hnu Ildb CduseS luTtHeT
confusion On one occasion my father
sent message to me regarding the minute
details of a carriage accident. which could
not recall in connection with him. A later
message from an uncle. also dead. recalled
It to my mind-but 1t had happened to me
while in company with that uncle, and two
days after my father had died 1t was an
incident which l had forgotten and the
details OF which were known to the uncle
and me alone
Just such trivialities and like confusions
occur in the talk Of hypnotized persons
who have been told, before passing into the
hypnotic trance, that they must establish
identity. That establishment Of identity,
by the way, works between living persons
rs it does between a spirit and a living
personally trivialities
Repeatedly in my experiments at Column
Tia have put two students in communica-
ton by telephone and asked them to try to
make their Identities known to each other
without mentioning their names. In every
case they chose the slightest and most
trivial incidents-the overturning OF a
chemical in the laboratory, an accidental
meeting on an elevated car and the like.
Spirit controls do the same thing
TO return to the experiment with long
distance transmission OF a message. This
Is not the first instance in our experiments,
although it is the first instance in which
the attempt has been deliberate. Some
time ago one OF our members who lives near
Chicago was holding communication with
a deceased relative through a medium.
suddenly the question was asked: Why
Is Helen playing the piano. Helen is his
daughter and was then at home near Chi
cago He took the time at once; it was
ll2s 4, NJ. Computing the difference in
time, he tslegraphed to his wife eNking
what Helen was doing between II and 1890
O'Clock that morning, Boston time. The
answer came.
Practising on the piano
The medium herself knew nothing about
his daughter Helen and her habits. To
me host of my belief she did not know that
he had daughter Helen. In the late ex-
pertinent with transmission between the
nIted States and England we used every
precantion to insure against accident,
collision or fraud do not know il it was
transmitted instantaneously. II was GER
,alnly sent and delivered inside OF half an
h"nr The sentence used was not a stock
1hrase which m chit ha hit urop nj tho othar