Evening journal., 1906-08-22
MYSTIC SPIRITS
VISIT TO MARS
Wonderful and Marvellous
Sights We're Seen By a
Syracuse Man
WEB-FOOTED MEN ON WALLS

in the world who has ever professed that
he visited another planet, either in body
or spirit. While in a trance in the pres
ence Of FIFTY members of the First Pro-
gressive Cooperative Psychological AS
socation Of Syracuse, Of which he is
president and founder his spirit travsi-
el l41,OW,OOO miles and back in forty min
utes, he says. and visited Mars lie is
now preparing to take a spiritual trip to
the moon
Mr. Leyson lives at 13l South avenue,
and has a following of about IS persons,
who meet twice week to study psyche
logical phenomena. While his trip to
Mars was in progress Mr.. Leyson lay
asleep on a couch in the center Of the
audience which carefully watched his
body and made notes of what he said
while in the trance. He talked as rapidly
as he could during the 40 minutes. tell
ing what he saw and held his followers
speilbound with amazement.
Spirit Penetratcs Air Strata.
Mr.. Leyson gave the following descrip-
tion Of the trip;
Il was requested by the directors Of
the Psychological Association to make
the trip to Mars. I put myself into
somnambullsuc state and started on .
long journey. In passing through out
atmosphere each different condition had
it's effect on my body. as noted by the
strata Of air once I became purple la
the face, showing great pressure At
such times l seemed to be very excited
Just as though / was passing through
son'o frightful experience.
Having reached the outer extremity
OF our atmosphere, 1 seemed to pass
through a dense bulk as Of water. and
at such times I gasped for breath. !
became very cold and shivercd until the
whole room shook. After penetrating III S
I reached ether; then my body began 10
bloat, and l again breathed with great
leifhculty, almost as II / was smothered.
Il came in contact with large bodies
CT fire, as it appeared. which ! took to
be metecrs. and my body became very
hot and the perspiratlon poured down NV
face. Then / began 10 get cold again and
shvered once more. Those balls Of fire
scented to leave a stream Of flame behin,i
them. Now 1 felt myself drawn rapidly
from the earths influence, and the earth
Looked Ike a large globe covered with
clouds anc water I seemed TO be very
nigh and an impulse drew ne on. and Il
passed a number OF what would call
stars, but was not close enough to them
10 describe them.
Mars Seems a Molten Mass.
Suddenly the blood seemed to rush to
my brain, and / felt myself getting as
lignt as ar l seemed to float In a cir
Gle. and / had the feeling as II 1 was
failing. and tried 10 grab something to
hold On to. Some Of my friends jumped
TO catch me thinking l was going to fall.
Next I was on the top Of a mountain and
could look around and see the strange
world upon which I had landed. When
/ was approaching Mars it looked like
. big globe Of fire. and Il seemed as Il
L was about to plunge into a molten
mass. It was surrounded by blood-red
clouds mixed with others Of greenish hu,.
- ookirg down from ths mountain Top
In the valley, / saw a number of persons.
These l aplr- ached and found that they
were SO large that / only came up "a
their knees. They wore no clothing. being
iall covered over with hair They nae
great big ears and noses like a lion, and
only one eye. which was located in rhe
middle of tho forehead When talking 20
each other their voices sounded like thur
der. In general shape they were much
hike The meu on earth. A peculiar thing
notice was the'r lungs expansion was
crosswise nsiead' Of lengthwise like ours
Their chest did not move up and down
when hreaih ng but their sides move IL
and out ike a bellows.
The air surrounding Mars is much lils,
ours. aud Their functions were The same
Spread over the surface OF the gronn D.
which was rocky, was a spripgy ana
heavy mos shLe velvet about a foot thick
The trees Ill. locked like rubber and
saw ncre of which resemblei ours In
another pai OF the planet was a whit,
sabstlrce which I thought was snow, bui
{ found Il was not cold and was soft arc
easy to walk on.
Men Walked Up Walls Like Flies.
4 saw an an nal like crocodile. win
three claws ON each foot. but, * hod -,
teeth The upper jaw moved, bat th'
lower saw did not move. These ANIMAL
1--we ,ear the water and exist on botl
land and water.
"Bcsiccs the big men there was 10
Of little ones, who lived in caves in N
ground These had webbed eeet an,
slipped over the ground in a rloti5i
which locked as If they were skating
They could walk up perpendicular wall
like niea. Unlike the big men, they La,
, twb esvs. enc in each temple. The from
os the fact was fiat, as they had no nose
but they had hole in each cheek whic
performed the Same functions. Thci
: riouths seemed TO be up and down an
were on the fronts OF their faces. The.
ate fruit similar TO an apple, but /
had a back color.
'"rhe big men lived in houses whic
i thcy formed out OF rocks. 1 noticed i'm
, menss Transparent rocks, probably 81
feet high. which magnifed images Su
times. Looking down I'm tho deep chasn
} upon these rocks ] saw hundreds Of b.
men working with some kind Of machin
cry which did not appear TO be made n
metal. These machines were guidin
LIGHTS across the face Of the transparen
rocks. It was like no light 1 had eve
seen. and was so bright and intense tina
/ can't describe IL. Il looked more llk
( living fire. and was q pinklsh-yenoV
, light. Tho rays reelected from tho trana
parent rocks shct through space. and