The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-06-05
WHAT ABOUT TELEPATHY?
Does 1t Mean That the Whole Universe
Is Alive?


Is Alive?
1t IS astonishing how many cases of
telepathy are reported at the present
day Hardly a week passes that we
are not told of some one who either in
a dream or a vision or in some other
way gave a minute description OF some
event, almost alfays calamitous one
which vas occurring at that moment at
come distant place.
A London cablegram was printed on
last Sunday biving striking case of
this kind from Wales. The Rev. Mere
dith Norris, pastor of the church at
Garth, who had often ridiculed visions
in his sermons, reeanted these opinions
in the pulpit before his congregation,
and then related vision Of his own.
He said he had seen a vision of seven
young men whose names he gave, sit
ting under a tree gambling, and in
some way which the dispatch does not
describe it was made known to him
that one Of them would soon die.
This impression on the pastors mind
was so profound that while he was de-
scribing the vision he was convulsed
with sobs, and the congregation also
was deeply affected. The next day one
Of the seven yonug men mentioned in
connection with it was killed in coll
liery.
At the same time a similar event was
occurring in South Dakota. Miss Ken
DALI 17year-old pupil of parochial
school In Sturbs, lay dying. With
great agony Of spirit she described a
vision of AM accident to. her fafer
She saw him ascending the bluff on
which the school is located and saw
him slip and fall into gorge, where
she insisted he was still lying In a help
less and suffering condition.
The girl died and soon afterward her
father was found in the gorge dread
| fully injured, and gave an account Of
the way he came there which Tailed
exactly with all that his daughter had
seen in her vision.
Things of this kind are happening all
! the time and those that have occurred
in Chicago alone would fill a large book.
The most sensational and mysterious
] murder ever committed here was an
raveled by woman's dream. So ter
| titled was she that she made her hus-
band get up in the middle of the night
! and go with her story to the police
! station. she was ridiculed and denoun-
at first, but her theory proved to be alb
! solutely correct
1t is hard to see how any one can
doubt the reality Of telepathy. 1t is
I
telegraphy The only ground on which
| it can be questioned is that of acciden-
| tai condolences, and that argument
would upset wireless telegraphy and
one-half of all the convictions of the
4 human family.
The fact that we cannot explain this
J phenominon is nothing against its real
i ity Our knowledge OF phenomena is
always far in advance of our explana-
| lions Thunder and lightning were IA
! miliar occurrences long before Franklin
! explained them. The human family
/ may have to wait several centuries be-
/ fore it can understand telepathy, but
in the meanwhile it should not be stu
1 pidly incredulous in regard to the facts.
The tendency Of this class Of phe-
nomena, 1t may be observed without
4 prejudice, is in the direction Of pan
! theism. II the universe, including all
! animal life, is God 1t follows that there
| Is a community Of intelligence among
all living beings. 1t may be true that
this community is affected, not by dis
! lance, but by conditions unknown to
us among which may be intensity of
feeling. For almost all telepathy is
connected with dreadful events which
produce paroxisms OF emotion.
The mind cannot avoid specializing on