The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-12

| why you know am in New YORK.
/ After a time she said she wanted to rest
and seemed fatlgued quite as one il after
! going about for some time. Later she
/ suddenly said addressing the visitor.
You have had severe surgical opera
| ton
She then. after seeming to make a physi-
cal examination made some statements in
this line, After few moments Of silence
an expression of Joy swept over her face,
and she said:
Il am in such a large place, such de-
! lightful place and there arc many, very
many musical Instruments. There is no
one playing them and yet they vibrate.
The music do not seem to hear, but feel,
and it is beautiful beyond anything | can
describe.
This last. the doctor says is unusual,
as she rarely speaks of anything save such
matters as she has in hand.
Although she knows nothing of medicine.
it is stated that she il able to be OF great
assistance in determining the ailments from
which patients are suffering When CON
sidering a case she usually says whether
the person can be cured or helped. or
whether nothing can be done for them,
and II is stated that in but two or three
instances has she made mistake in this or
in other matters.
This ia the more remarkable when the
variety OF the subjects she considers is taken
into account, and the fact that there Is
scarcely day that she is not called on to
state the condition of patients at a distance
who have been In the sHnitarium and are still
being looked after by the doctor. In speak
ing Of this, he says that Anna gives him
better data az TO absent patients than he
gets from letters from the patients them
selves or their friends.
When asked if Anna pretended to have
what spirtuelists call guides to enable her
to gain the information she seems able TO
get. IL was said she kn9w nothing Of the
kind Questioned further IA to whether
she pretended TO soc dsembodied -pirits
the doctor said
That opens up large and much mooted
field of inquiry which can best be under
stood. in part at least. by demonstration
II you will permit me ] viii call in my nephew
and show you how the ego, the essential self
which gives the body vitality, can be with
dra wn from any part Of II
The nephew, handsome lad of eighteen
WHO'S an athlete, is devoted to football and
can carry patient weighing 80 pounds mp
two flights of stairs with ease took his stand
with his back to his uncle, who explained
that he and his nephew were like two per-
fectly nttuned batteries which act ike tho
apparatus by which wireless messages are
sent and received The doctor said;
Because we do not see n substance we
think there is none, but the fallacy Of this
conclusion is easily demonstrated. We
do not see water in a bag. but it can lie felt
when it is hurled against one, and it is then
fully understood that it is there
Psychic force Is much more potent
than water, and, while we may not see It,
we feel it and see its results. can move
this boys body by suggestion; but he
would give me q warm rub should under
take TO do 80 against his will by physical
force in fact. l would not like to try it."
When he had demonstrated that ne could
move the boys body bya mental command
without spoken word, the boy, obeying
silent behest. seated himself and barred his
arm. The doctor handed the oberyer Il
stiir, old fashioned hatpin and asked that
it be thrust into the extended arm rs far A.
possible. This was done. but the boy did
no, vince.
Then teaspoonful Of red pepper which
was sampled and found to be very strong
was given him and he smacked his lips as If
with keen relish. A big coach horn was
placed against his ear and resounding
blast blown. but be gave no evidence Of
hearing it. In turn the power TO recog-
nize was withdrawn from each Of the five
senses Afterward the emotions were
tested in the same way.
These performances were all like ordinary
hypnotic exhibitions and the doctor said
a. he concluded them;
MY object is simply TO illustrate how.
when the ego is withdrawn from any of the
organs of sensation. it Ia no longer able TO
perform its function, which proves that the
eve does not see nor the ear hear, but that
they enable the ego the real self to do so.
This, 80 il seems TO me, makes it plain that
the body ia simply the organism in which
the ego or essential self exists and through
which it works.
This being established, it is not a far call
70 assume that this potent, powerful part OF
man, which, as we have seen, certainly
is not dependent on tho whole body, since
it can be withdrawn from portions of II by
the concentrated thought force Of one not
visibly connected with its mechanism, can
exist without any part Of it. In other
words If laying down the body does not take
away the man then why may not the man
be seen by one who has for the nonce left
the garment of the body and entered the
realm where existence is not dependent
on the physical?
Now, az TO your question. Anna has
on several occasions described those she
has never seen, who have, as / would put
it. laid down the garment Of the body.
But this is but incidental and has no CON
nection with her work
From such observations as | have been
able TO make l conclude that in the realm
in which Anna does her work the laws are
a. different from those We know as are
these which control fish and fowl One can
not live out 4 water and the other cannot
live in It.
1T ia difficult 20 think OF existence where
time and space are not realized but am
convinced that in the realm OF tho ego.
where Anna gets information which it
would be impossible to get in any other
way. both time and space are non-exis.ent.
Yet she is often able TO name dates ao-
curately.
Il recall two instances Of this which were |
very definite. Last summer she saw |
again and again 20 and it tr Dubbed her.