Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-02-12
COMING into USE
w. T. Stead Predicts Telepathy
Will be Future Method of
Communication.
REMARKABLE INSTANCES
Refers to Case of Americans Who
Talked 1900 Miles Apart with
Perfect CIearness.

That Santos Dumont will succeed In
wiping out the frontiers of the world
at about the same time that telepathy
will emerge from the experimental
stage and become the universal me-
dunn of communication between man
and man is the astounding prediction
made by w. T. Stead in Il recent Eng
lish edition of the Review of Reviews.
In voicing this prediction Mr.. Stead
calls attention to the remarkable state
ment of Andrew Mcconnell. Il resident
of Atlanta. Ga, who declares he has
been able 10 converse GEOGRAPHICALLY
with Il young woman 1.200 miles away
Mcconnell says the minds of the young
woman and himself had become so
sensitively receptive that they could
talk through them. though more than
thousand miles apart, with the ease
| and distinctness of two men converS-
ing orally in the same room.
Mr.. Stead also instances the mental
featS of NJ. and Nine. Zancig, two Lon
don variety stage demonstrators of the
psychic specially, of which he writes
Mr.. Stead says that telepathy from
| the subcOnscious mind has for years
been employed by himself for the re
| ceptiOn of news without the interven-
| ton of the ordinary channels of sense
| The difficulty. he continues. of work
| ing with the subconscious mind is that
| Its consciousness is rarely confer
| minOuS with that of the physical con
| SciOuSneSS. ii ignores much that II us
| appears important. and in chronicling
facts it is most embarrassingly indif-
ferent TO conditions of time"
Continuing. he said:
| "TheSe are. however, but the oh
!, stacIes. the inevitable difficulties
| which battle and tantaliZe the invest
| gator in any unknown field What has
been demonstrated times without
| number Is that friends at a distance
of hundreds of miles can and dc
| transmit to me by the agency Of au
tomato handwriting the most secre'
| thoughts and condolences of theil
| hearts. They are not conscious of the
use which their subcOnscious self |;
making of my hand. but they canno
deny the extraordinary accuracy Will
which time and again the contents o.
their inmost minds have been com
municated to me.
MY experience has suffiCed to prov,
to me that. providing two minds ar,
in tune. mind can transmit thought t,
mind instantaneOuSly over distance
of hundreds of thousands of miles
There are plenty of errors in trans
mission. flaws and impcrfectionS II
the telepathic process. but the fac
that mind can and does TRANSMIT
thought to mind across vast space
without the agency Of any wire O
| electrical instrument whatever is t
he almost as we'll established as tn
fact that there is a postal system ant
that a letter dropped into pillar bo
in the street. with a penny STAN
upon il. will be delivered in the cOurs
Of the next day to any address within
radius of 300 miles. But my eXper
ments have hitherto been entirely cor
fined to the receipt of messages froI
the subcOnsciouS mind of the trans
mitter. who is not conscious at til
time that the subliminal part of hir
was communicating to me his idea:
his hopes, his fears or his actual eN
Deriences.
Responded TO Invitation.
81 have. however, always believe
that it would he possible to make tn
physical consciousness as receptiv
and as communicative as the subcol
seriousness. Hence. when the manag
of the Alhambra invited me to witnes
the performance of Nine. and NJ Zai