Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-18
Mind Reading Is Really a Muscle-kead-
ing Trick.

Mind Reading Is Really a Muscle-Read-
ing Trick.
Thought is the great common soil
upon which all humanity stands, put
each individuals thoughts are his
own. The mind weaves itself into
cocoon and abides therein, a recluse
far from the madding crowd.
With curious art the brain, too timely
wrought,
Preys on herself and is destroyed
by thought.
There is a popular delusion, happily
limited to a few transcendental and
sullible families of well-believers,
that thoughts can be transferred
across the chasms of space, without
the intervention of physical forces
such as speech, muscles or inVolun-
tary movements. Most of the adher-
ents of telepathy and mind-reading
are recruits from the ranks of those
who believe in the claims and theories
of Eusapia Paladino, the Prescott
brothers, Sir William Crookes and the
other supporters of thought trans
ference
Can lie Explained.
| have been on committees to IN
yestigate the alleged instances of
notwithstanding by all Of the known
telepathists, and even those OF Eusa-
pia Paladino are as easily explained
as sunlight or ice formation. Inc
Prescott brothers alone have a
undertaking exhibition that can
only be explained by themselves. The
Frescotts, however, admit smilingly
that they know what they are doing,
that there is nothing supernormal
in 1t.
Since thoughts are merely the inn
a ges of the real, physical world which
have Impressed themselves upon liv-
ing tissues, they are, after all, the re-
suits of vibrations or movements OF
matter. Your mind is, then, the sum
and substance of what Is actual and
physical.
If it so happens that Jimmy Jones
thinks of the same things simulta-
neously with Bill Thomas, 1t may
be that electrons-the vibrating par
ticles-Which emanate from the rest
of the world other than yourselves,
impinged themselves upon your senses
at the same time. This is not "a con-
cidence in the usual sense of the WORD,
but a mathematical preponderance OF
certain chances over others.
Reading OF Muscles.
There has been and is a standing
offer in London of $1,000 for each and
every authenticated and proved ex-
ample of mind-reading which Will
withstand judgment just as wireless
telegraphy, X-rays, radium, air.
Il ght, microbic life, ultraviolet rays
and other universally accepted facts
have stood the test of mere disbelief
and prejudice. This offer has now
been repeated for five years, yet no
lot or tlLlae OF evidence mas bee ad-
duced even to make O serious claim
for the money.
Mind-reading means that the
thoughts in one persons brain can
be conducted by unseen, unknown, or
seemingly impossible ways into some
other thinking person, and there pro-
duce other thoughts identical or re-
lated to those which are present In
the first individual.
Briefly, the faithful maintain from
A few occurrences which appear to
he "mind-reading," that there is
such a thing. This is as much as to
saw when an owl or two wakes up.
blinks its eyes and sings tu-whit. too
who, on a cloudy day, that 1t must
be night.
True enough. almost anyone may
cite instances of human beings, sep
arated by distances who have two
minds with but a single thought,
two hearts that beat as one The
myriad shafts of chance in wori d
of thousands of millions of people
would inevitably bring about occa-
sional similarities or analogies, just
as homesick swallows may begin to
fly north in dead of winter. Even