The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-08
A Study of the Occult

Of the brain3 am postulating idea
or thought conceived in the mind BY
what means il gets out of the psyehIeal
region into the physical and hberates
energy from the brain centers, l have
not the remotest idea. e.. But by some
means the connection IS established.
And other intelligences, sufficiently
svmpathetic. can be made more or less
aware of the idea 10 be conveyed.
Which means that by aid OF their nerve
fibers and brain centers, mechanical
movements can be translated back INTO
thought once more.
But in telepathy the stimulation is
direct from mind to mind without the
physical apparatus.-thOugh 1t finds eX-
preston in automatic writing, only
through the physical apparatus men
toned
'.But if this power exists, it IS
fact worth knowing. if il Is possible
for the normal operator TO 60 out for
a walk and leave his writing mechan-
ism open to the casual tramp or the
enterprising visitor it is a definite thing
that we may as we'll know about"
1t is usually supposed that after
death our physical being no longer has
means of operating upon the physical
world.
s'No more can we move pieces of
matter: no more can we stimulate ideas
in the minds of our friends. No, not
unless the telepathetic power may
continue so that we may operate directly
upon their conscious or unconscious
minds in such way as to cause them
to produce some physical effect or rec
ord, bv normal means, through their
own accustomed mechanism. -
E'The question of identity is of
course a fundamental one. The control
must prove his identity mainly by re-
producing facts which belong to his
memory, and not to the automatist' g
memory And notice that proof of iden-
tity viii usually depend upon the mem
DRY of trifies.
''The objection frequently raised. that
communications too often relate to
trivial subjects, shows a lack of in
telligenee. or at least of due thought,
on the part of the critic. The object
is not to get something dignifed, but
something evidential; and what evil
dence of persistent memory can be bet
ter than the recollection of trifing in
eidents which for some personal reason
happen to have made a permanent i'm
preston. Do we not ourselves remem-
Der domestic trifles more wildly than
things which to the outside world seem
Important Wars and coronations are
affairs read of in newspapers,-theya are
usually far too public to be of use as
evidence of persistent identity; but a
broken toy, or a family joke or school
boy adventure, has more personal
flavor, and is of a kind more likely to
be remembered in old age or after a
rending shock
''That is the kind of evidence we
ought to expect, and that is the kind
of evidence which not infrequently we
get"
''On the whole, I am one of those
, who. though they would like to see
further and still stronger and more con-
tinued proofs, are of the opinion that
a good case has been made out. -
'The boundary between the two states
the known and the unknown,-is still
substantial, but it is wearing thin in
places; and like exeavatOrs engaged in
boring a tunnel from opposite ends,
amid the roar of water and other noises,
we are beginning TO hear, now and
again, the strokes of the pickaxes of
our comrades on the other side"