Iditarod pioneer., 1916-12-09

mun;cation called telcpathy continues and this can be utilized and developed,
 By its means messages have been received across the gulf and the barrier is opaque no longer It never was really opaque, There must be far more personal inter course than the world in general has been aware of but now facts messages which come-are being examined in scientific age, and to anyone who will really study the facts for a few strenuous years doubt no longer, in my judgment, Is reasonably possible.
 The evidence requires study. It is net possible to convey any adequate idea of the evidence in this article. It needs at least a book ga book I am writing but lately communicated three incidents in the most recent evidence to the Society of Psychcal Research and they will appear in a forth coming issue of it's proceedings. In previous volumes of the proceedings will be found large accumulation of older evidence
 But cannot expect people in general to understand it and deduce conclusions from any record. They can re>Iile case made out after an inquiry, and can regard the possibility with respect and interest but for conviction 1 am sure most people must depend on some first hand experience of their own Meanwhile 1 counsel an open, yet critical, mind and the reception of such immediate comfort as they can obtain from the assurance that l and few other stu dents fairly familiar with the whole evl- dence have been convinced.
 Those who prefer to be guided by specu- lation and hypothesis as to what is likely must continue their attitude of negation, which IS based on nothing more substan- tial than their inability to comprehend how these things can possibly be true, especially how mental activity is possible without the accustomed organ which we call the brain.
 As matter of fact they have no real the ory of how it is possible with the brain We have grown accustomed to that fact and find it hard to imagine any other; that is the strength of their position.
 The connection between mind and matter is a puzzle Mind without matter is not A whit greater puzzle. Facts at present rec ognized by orthodox science must be cn. larged and then, in due time, theory may fellow
 The theory certainly is far from clear at present. Suppositions and explanations can be suggested but to them no weight can be attached We do not pretend the whole rationale of the process of communication is clear That is what we are engaged in study ing. If there were no difficulty the human race would have known all about 1t long ago.
 Now that there are facts demonstrating q personal survival to be studied 1t IS futile to adduce the difficulty in explaining them as an argument against them. If they will not fit into our preconceived theories, then these theories must sooner or later be en- larged.
 The realm of science is not necessarily limited to the study of the material basis of existence It will have to include some thing more like existence itself There must be theory not of the earth life alone, but of life itself something much larger and fuller of which the earth life is but an cpl sode
 Then venture to anticipate we shall ind we are one family for all time; that there Is no real break or discontinulty in existence, that what is called the next world is con dition of things fully as reel and interesting and as full of bodies as this world.
 It will be found it is no strange land to which our friends are gone Cincinnati En- G,1irpr