Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-06-22

ment Of Andrew Mcconnell, n resident
been able to converse GEOGRAPHICALLY
with young woman 1000 miles away.
Mcconnell says the minds of the young
woman and himself had become so
sensitlvely receptive that they could
talk through them, though more than
q 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 speciality, 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
tits consciousness Is rarely confer
minous with that of the physical con-
seriousness, 1t ignores much that to us
appears important, and in chroniclng
facts it Is most embarrassingly indif
ferent to conditions Of time"
Continuing, he said:
These are, however, but the OBJ
stacles the inevitable difficulties
which battle and tantalize the investl-
gator in any unknown field. What has
been demonstrated times without
number is that friends at a distance
of hundreds of miles can and do
transmit to me by the agency of au-
tomato handwriting the most secret
thoughts and condolences of their
hearts. They are not conscious of the
use which their subconscious self is
making of my hand, but they cannot
deny the extraordinary accuracy with
which time and again the contents of
their inmost minds have been COM
municated to me.
''My experience has sufficed to prove
to me that, providing two minds are
In tune, mind can transmit thought to
mind instantaneously over distances
of hundreds of thousands of miles.
There are plenty of errors In trans
mission, flaws and imperfections in
the telepathic process, but the fact
that mind can and does transmit
thought to mind across vast spaces
without the agency of any wire or
electrical instrument whatever Is to
be almost as we'll established as the
fact that there is a postal system and
that letter dropped into a pillar box
IN the street, with a penny stamp
upon It, will be delivered in the course
of the next day to any address within
a radius of 300 miles. But my expert
ments have hitherto been entirely con-
fined to the receipt of messages from
the subconscious mind of the trans
mitter, who Is not conscious at the
time that the subliminal part of him
was communicating to me his ideas,
his hopes, his fears sor his actual ex-
periences.
81 have, however, always believed
that 1t would be possible to make the
physical consciousness as receptive
and as communicative as the subcon-
seriousness. Hence, when the manager
of the Alhambra invited me to witness
the performance of Nine. and NJ. Fan
Gig, who claim to have two minds ana
but a single thought l gladly respond
ed to the invitation and was abundant
ly rewarded by what / saw
Mr.. Stead then goes on to explain
that the Zanclgs are Danes of about
forty years of age and were brought
up In the same village In Denmark
and afterward came to this country,
where they married. After some time
they discovered they were so much In
harmony with one another that Mrs.
Zancig often read her husbands
thoughts before he expressed them in
word or writing.
Zancig then tried a SERIES Of expert
ments to see whether he could by
thinking intently on a thing impress a
picture of that thing on his wifes
mind. He found that when he thought
red she saw the air about her grow
lurid; when he fixed his mind on green
she saw green; when he thought Of q
rose she saw the rose, and SO forth.
Duls WullG ne COull1 lLubSb4Ah AAS
thoughts of her and often did 80 unin-
tentionally, he could most easily i'm
press her by thinking intently of a def
mite object. On the other hand, she
could rarely, If at all, impress his
mind, think she ever so intently.
After some years of experience they
went on the variety stage In this coun-
try. Their "act" consists OF Mr.. Zancig
going out among the audience asking
for names and numbers or to be shown
some object, and in all instances Mrs.
Zancig. standing on the stage, marks
on slate the proper name or number.
Sometimes she makes mistakes, mis-
taking a six for a nine~or three for
an eight, but rarely.
Mr.. Stead AYERS that in order to
make certain that therefwas no fraud