The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1916-03-31
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1t soon found this remarkable fact:
That, of the ghost stories collected
the great majority of them seemed
to hinge upon the moment of death.
Most of the appartitions which were
seen were found to correspond, in
point of time, with the death of the
person represented. Perhaps the
seer might only have experienced a
case of this character once in his
lifetime, yet that once was found to
correspond, in very remarkable
manner, with distant and tragic
event. cs..
The question, of course, at once
arose, are these cases due to chance?
One might be, perhaps a dozen, a
score, but when the coincidental
cases began to mount into the hun
dreds the theory of coincidence had
to be strained to the utmost to make
it work. 1t fact, when 1t was math-
ematically figured out 1t was found
that the chances were millions to one
against this great number of cases
happening at the supreme moment
they did. Several hundred such cas-
es were published in a book entitled
"Phantasms of the Living" which
made a great sensation at the time.
But the cry was at once raised:
"Too few cases! Your point is not
yet proved" Some 10000 cases of
all kinds were then collected. These
were put to the test, and it was again
proved mechanically that the
chances against possible coincidence
were so huge as to render that hypo-
thesis all but inconceivable. Thus
Prof. Sidgwick's committee was
forced to the following conclusion:
Between deaths and apparitions
of the dying person connection ex-
lists which is not due to chance alone.
Thus we hold as proved fact"
Now coincidental cases of this
type are called "apparitions of the
dying" to distinguish them from the
"apparitions of the living''--that is,
figures appearing of people still liv-
ing, as occasionally happens; and
"apparitions of the dead"--or phan-
toms which have appeared long af-
ter the death of the person symbol
lied. There are thus these three
broad classes of GHOSTS" to begin
with.
The question arose, therefore,
might not all these cases be explain
ed by some underlying cause which
is the same in all cases? We now
believe that they can to a very large
extent. But to make plain what
this cause is, we shall have to d.
gress for moment to explain anoth-
er factor involved in our problem.
This is telepathy, or thought trans
ference. Most people now believe
that telepathy between living people
takes place on occasion, and, II they
don't believe it. they are referred to
the records, where proof is to be
found (the proceedings of the s. P.
RI. If you think Of playing card,
for instance, the ace or hearts, the
recipient of the impression will see
the ace of hearts II the experiment is
successful. 1t takes visual form in
his mind. 1t is hallucination-a
mental picture-yet it owes its orr
gin to another mind, external to it.
self. 1t is subjective, yet at the
same time objective. 1t is real
thing, yet does not interfere with the
mechanical laws of our world.
We believe that much the same
thing takes place in apparitions of
the living, of the dying and of the
dead. In cases of apparitions Of the
living one mind influences another in
sleep, trance, in i'll health or for rea-
sons as yet undetermined, and the re-
cipient of the apparition sees the
figure of this person, as previously
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In cases of apparitions of the dying,
some mental energy seems liberated,
facilitating this telepathic impulse
from mind to mind. And in cases
Of apparitions of the dead-ghosts
proper--this telepathic impulse is
supposed to emanate from the mind
Of the, dead" person, still living and
active, however. in another sphere,
but yet able to influence the mind OF
friend or relative yet alive and
cause him or her to see the vision
Of the departed one. In all cases
the apparitions are of telepathic orr
gin. ra'g.f at1sssaFI f,te ~
In similar way mysterious voices
and touchings are explained Elk
detrimental thought transference has
shown us that q name. sensation,
an emotion, sensory impression of
any kind. can be transferred from
mind to mind almost as easily as
visual image. II all depends upon