The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-05
LOOK INTO GLASS CRYSTAL
 IAND YOU MAY SEE SHOOK

mony that they are regarded by the scientists as interesting but unreliable Nor are the modern manifestations held b belong necessarily to the realm of tie queer The point of view of mod orn psychical research is that strang things actually do come before the mind at times, as a result of concentrated gag ing. There is no need Of calling them supernatural; they are simply super normal.
 Oftentimes an impression made by some circumstances of years before and en- tirely erased from conscious memory re- appears. An advertisement in a news paper. seen but not really noticed months before, will drift into consciousness. Pro lessor Hyslop cites the case of woman living in Brooklyn who on looking into the crystal frequently had a vision of bright blue sky, q garden with wall fence and a peculiar chain pump in the garden. Later she went to her old homo which she had not known since she was ? or years old and there, sure enough, were the chain pump, the wall fence and the bright blue sky.
 One of the internationally famous crys- tai seers is Mrs. Verrall for some time a lecturer at Newnham college, Cambridge, England and known to the classical world as the translator of Pausanias. AIfS. NeITdll Has llau llltilA OllicI thtNl taining phychical experiences. some of which enter into the long-expected reve- lations from Sir Oliver Lodge as to com munications from the late r. W. II. Myers.
 As regards crystal gazing Mrs. Verrall has found a cut crystal, globular crys- tai, a glass paper weight or a glass full of water to be equally effective. She says she is most likely to see things when the light is dim. She has occasionally seen pictures in fairly bright light, but never in absolute darkness. The practice IS useful in Mrs. Verralrs case because she finds it a convenient way of recall ing things she has forgotten The pie ture once produced has reality which she says she has never been able to obtain when looking into the fire or trying to call up an imaginary scene with eyes closed. Sometimes she9 has practieed au- tomatic writing while looking into the crystal The Countess of Radnor and Miss Goodrich F'reer are other English woman who have been susceptible of the apparitions of the crystal.
 Without prejudice as to the origin of these visions or Authorizations Professor Hyslop and other writers of the psychi- cal research literature, of which new book by the secretary and founder or the Society for Psychical Research IS shortly to pc lSSuel Dy tiC oiittAi' -ANd nard Publishing house, regard them evi- dently as pertaining particularly to acute sensiblity of temperament. "rhe limits of Knowledge he says, are not exact ly where Locke placed them. namely normal sensation and perception. Appaf- entlv the mind is sensitive to much else or we cannot define the limits of sense perception. However this may be- crYs- tal visions and similar phenomena bring us to the forced admission that we nave not yet made the mysteries of mind as as clear as preceding generations supposed. The preservation. at all events. of such crystals as those at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts is an interesting indication of the entwining of material and liliha- terial in the history of art. Like so many of the relics of past civilizations they represent. with their beautiful set tings. a remarkable decorative achieve ment while when one considers thelr use thev call attention to the constant strW- ing of the human mind to understand tue Great Unknown.