Bisbee daily review., 1915-07-07
Wednesday, July 7, 1915.
MIND READING.

MIND READING.
 4 professor" named Bert Reese was hauled up in New York police court the other day charged with read ing minds" for money The prisoner protested that 'ie activity was legitimate he actually did what hc proiessed to do proved his contention by telling the Judge how much money His Honor had in the bank, an swering correctly lawyers questions regarding de cisons in abstruse legal that only lawyers could be familiar with informing the reporters what the.t mothers maiden names were, etc. In almost every test the expermenter had his mind definite fact or idea Proiessor' Reese seemed to read his mind with ease and accuracy. And so he discharged
 There are persons of course who won't believe that anybody has such powers but the societies diminish ing In number as scientist; unprecedented standing be gin to take psychic phenomena seriously. Honest and capable investigators in the realm of abnormal psychci ogy have almost without exception become convinced tha; there is something be said for mindreadnG, claryoyance fortuneteng and other o.ms of occult ism which the learned used to down as mere trash and superstition
 Scientists ike William James F. w. H. Myers, Sir Oliver Lodge Sir William Crookes and William T. stead have even declared that of the professional psy ecs" whose humbuggery turned the public against them really began in good faith With genuine gift Bu the gift is hard to control Its of operation are moi yc. known And so the "phychic" after arousing hopes auoae friends and patrons and finding the requisite n- sight lacking at times comes to fake" in setdolense. Tron little by little the commercialized gift yanshcs and mere uninspirod clevemess becomes the rule
 Nearly an of us they say have the rudiments of mind reading in us When you write letter to a friend, and letter from that friend it in the mails" its usually case of thought transference. When two per rons start to say the same thing the moment af- ter silence or one begins speak and the other takes the words out of his mouth" it's simple form of mind reading There are countless people whose minds worl naturally in unison with certain other minds There are thousands who read each others minds nearly all the time, and think nothing of it.
 The gift is generally strongest in childhood youth Two years ago wide attention attracted 10 twelve vearold girl named Beulah Miller living in Rhode Island She gave such nconroverabe proofs of unusual psychic mowers that psychologists and spritualists built great homes on her They believed that with such medium to work with as soul-aboratory, they might unrovel many mysteries of the nature Of mind the influence ol minds on each other possibly the fate of the ol hereafter To scientific spirtuaiss who have been intent on the study psychic problems in recent years if has not seemed absurd to try the immortality Inf be soul or the survival of personality by establish ing communication with the minds of the dead according n tbe rigid methods of natural science. 1T the Rhode Island girl however been of real help to the psycm' ezploreres. that fact has not yet been made known
 The Ignorance of mindTeaders claryoyants and me diu, in general has been powerful factor in keepn- their talent from due recognition It is strange iac at psychic power is found among the illteat' than among the cultured Mental discipline. wide kno"i edge and habit precise thought seem to drive out h' delicate and mysterious gift And yet this is true on' in our accidental civilization In Indian, for thousand f years men of education have attained amazing pSy chic mowers by deliberate processes of soulcuure Fer hans tbe inference largely from the fact that 'h t1doos take their minds seriously. There are scientist
 r among us who declare that if we deliberately SC abou developing our soulpowers instead of ignoring sn ropressine them nearly all of us might be mindreade's l.irvovants etc. It may be- as some of the mena oyoluonsts prophecy that day after long perio orupiyersaI psychic culture, shall find written am 4poEen language a superauous burden-that mind w' asak to mind without words, in flashes of insight
 Rut we've got 10 evolve a good deal in other ways be fore uede ready for that Morally, for example Who so honest frank upright and pure that he can toierat inc idea of other people peerne his mind whene'e they please?