New-York tribune., 1908-04-19
SEEING "sP0oKs" IN CRYSTALS.

SEE1HC SEUUhS IN CRYSTALS
Professor James H Hys!oP. president Of tae -,
American Society for PsychiclI Research, has I,r
been studying the psychological c11s.darato1s 3.
volyed II tLis cult OF crystal gazog. and Las mn
ushed IN detail the records OF strange sights n,
finds great mass Of data that iaS1i1ats tbs s-r
dent of the litta Understood activities 0f ne z-s
liminaI mind.
The unarvels Of crystal gazing c.rs right esz,
TO honey experience L. for instance -o1 Ioosss
into 4 glass BAH and there ce--= before ycu- svs,
sharp. distinct picture OF your Cd minister 75sn
you had not seen for fifteen years, and then rs,
as you exclaimed why. Mr. " ne tzca va
ished and there appeared a slight picture Of
cemetery. would you not think -lers vas occasion
for apprehension? Later the woman vraO saw IN
sight II the glass is reported % have gone 10 N.
city 20 which the clergyman had moved, t5yrt
the man himself diving and recognized the VEN
cemetery which she had sean V1-s locking t1,a
the crystal
This notion o. seeing the uLscea5-s a. tn..
when the gaze IS fixed upon q rejecting srrssos
whose high lights are eliminated as Ear as poss-
bic - nothing new IN hisrory. IS Professor Hysas
disclozes. this form OF divuat0n VS. known a1-any
the Greeks, who possessed polished and "enc5au-
ed crystals, in which future events were said a
be predicted. He has aiso found traces Of cTya
tai gazing in AssyTia. Greece. Rome China Ja9ar
India and possibly in some Of the So-ca Sea Is-
aHds. The ApacEes OF the Western plans enp,c-
a <
of Indians make their patients gaze into water n
which they are supposed 20 see pictures Of Ire
food and medicine good for them n PoIynsz.s
hole is dug in the ground. and il fls vrs
water the priest peers III 70 discover thieves Il
India castor oil is held in the hand OF a chHi
and IN the mirror thus formed we.cd pictures q
spirits and demons are CoujU-ed up.
Most of the stories of wonders aecCupisss1N "
means Of crystal gazing are based OF such test
mOuy that they are regarded by scientists IS IL
teresting but unreliable. Nor are the modern mani
festatiOns held 10 belong necessarily 20 the realm
OF the queer The point of view of modern psv-
chcal research is that strange things actually %
come before the mind at times. IS 4 result o. cor
centrated gazing There Is TO need OF calm.
them supernatural; they are simply slpe-nO-uz-
MRS. VERRALL'S EXPERIENCE
Oftentimss an impression made by some crc-z-
stance of years before and entirely erased from
conscious memory reappea-s. An a.IveTtsensa;
in a newspaper, seen but not really noticed moaAs
before, Will DRIFT into consciousness. Proissses
Hyslop cites the case os q woman living in Brook
lyn who looking into the crystal frequently hai
a vision OF bright blue sky, a garden with va
fence and peculiar chain pump in tbs ssrdsa
Later she went 70 her old home. which she hai
not known since she was two o. three wears Ok
and there, sure enough. We're tie chain pump -
wall fence and the bright blue sky
One Of the internationally famous crystal ses;'
ham College, Cambridge England and known 70
the classical world the translator OF Pa-sa1-ss
Mrs NerraH has had many So-called psychical e1
perences. some of which enter into the statements
OF Sir Oliver Lodge as 10 communications ron
the late r ". II. Myers
Mrs NercaH has found a cuc c-. sal = g.oN--1F
crystal. glass paper weight O. s glass I'll Q
water 10 be equally effective Sc says sae :
most likely 70 see things when the 1E1C IS On
She has occasionally seen pictures Il fairly orsa.
light. but never in absolute darkness she deciai7s
The picture once produced has q reality which sc
says she has never been able 10 obtain when Goa
ing into the fire trying TO call up iuaSi1@sl
scene with eyes closed. Sometimes she h1s pa
tised automatic writing while looking into Ns
crystal The Countess OF R5duor ami Miss G'el
rch-Freer are other English women Vao has
been susceptible 10 the crystal.
Without prejudice rs 10 the origin q ta'~f
visions or halIuciuations Professor Fys.op an
other writer's of pSychicL research HtsratNe l-'
gard them evidently pertaining particular b"
acute senSiblltty of Temperament.
The preservation. at all events. % such .-ys,~'
as those al the Boston Museum ot Fine Arts $ 81.
interesting indication OF the enrwi0icE OF uaIe'~
and lmmaterial in the history of art Ike =
many or the relics or past civilizations they ',t
resent, with their beautiful settings a rsrarSa.7
decorative achievement. while when one c0ns.07'
their use they call attention - the constant s''.
ing 81 the human mind 70 understand the G's"
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