Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1920-03-09
SIR OLIVER LODGE
In Milwaukee to Offer Proof of
Future Life-Is Very Posi-
tive About Power to
Communicate

communicate
| Possibly l or per cent of the peo-
pie we know have power to some de-
gree to communicate with persons who
have passed to the hereafter" said Sir
| Oliver Lodge, famous English scien-
| fist, writer, lecturer and psychic phil
| losopher who arrived in Milwaukee at
noon March I'd, to lecture at the Pabst
Tuesday afternoon.
81 should say that one person in
1000 has very good powers of com
| munication. A very great number of
persons who possess this power are
not aware of it,
Cites Automatic Writing.
| zone way in which the possession of
| this faculty may become known is
| through automatic writing. 1t is Just
like the possession of any other facul-
| ty. One may not know, for example
that he can sketch picture until he
tries it, and then he finds he can draw
very we'll.
"As for naturalization of the spirits
| of the departed, have nothing to say.
1t is being very deeply studied, and
some evidence has been collected. But
| if anyone would say that the evidence
were not conclusive, would not be in
clined to dispute the point. However
| that is not what | am primarily in
terested in; the proof of a future ex-
istence is what concerns me-"
| Says Evidence Exists.
Sir Oliver smiled when he was told
of the recent lectures of Prof Jas
trow, University of Wisconsin, who as
serts there is no evidence of the flu
ture life which can be grasped by
the senses, and that belief in continued
| existence must be taken on faith.
| IF / did not believe this evidence
| existed, / would not be here deliver
| ing lectures" he said. But it does not
hurt my feelings if anyone fails to
agree with me, nor am l here to say
anything to injure the feelings of any
| one else. AS for the evidence, all can
say is that this is what my lectures
| deal with
The chief controversy over his the
cries grows out of Sir divers belief
in this power to communicate with
his dead son Raymond. He has been
a center of interest in England in
psychic phenomena. Sir divers high
standing in the scientific world has
added to the interest in his views
which are largely based on scientific
tenets."
Humanity clothes with too much
superstition that episode of life called
death" he began. "Too much attention
is paid to the corpse and the grave
The soul of picture does not lie in
the pigments OF in the canvas but in
the minds of men. Life, as art, must
be mentally interpretated, mentally
appreciated"
Death Merely Episode.
Existence is continuous. Death is
merely an episode in life. Socrates
knew 400 years before the coming OF
Christ that there is life beyond death
AS he was about to drink the cup Oh
hemlock those who sat at his fee
said:
Master, where shall we bury your
What care | where you bury me
You may bury this body anywhere yol
choose, but l shall not be there.
shall have gone on
Sir Oliver explained to his audience
that he became interested in the study
of psychic research in 1883 through
the study of mental telepathy and latel
hypnotism.
Il do not call myself a spiritualist,
he remarked. Il am a psychic re
searcher an investigation"
Speaks of Messages.
ITO prove the existence of a mar
in distant land" the speaker said
/ 90 Xxyoxy fr 10 L:
a message. To do this he must tax,
physical medium at his command,
letter, telegram, wireless telegraph
or telephone. The senses are adapted
to appreciate only the material ant
the physical"
when death relieves the spirit o
the encumbering and hampering BODY
the spirit has lost the medium through
which 1T has communicated with othe,
spirits clothed in bodies"
Experiment has proved the posi-
b1lity of spirits and minds communi
eating with each other between liy,
bodies, in the investigation of menta
telepathy and hypnotism. The cues
tlon now arises can a spirit in a liv,
oody communicate with a spirit which
mas been relieved of the body?
Has Satisfied Himself.
Il have satisfied my own self that i
can be done. Through a Mrs. Piper
an American woman of Boston. discov.
cred by Prof. William James. Har.
ward, | have communicated with three
or four deceased relatives. An aunt
IN particular, came through most
naturally. Using the body of the
medium, Mrs. Piper, she spoke prac.
ucally in her own voice and with man.
nerisms with which it was Impossible
tor the medium to be acquainted"
Did she get them through telena.
thy, the reading of my mind? re-
soived to test the theory out. I in
CURED for happenings to the child
mood OF my deceased relatives of which
| knew nothing. The replies | verified
by other older relatives, who were
alive and who were acquainted with
the childhood of the deceased"
Good mediums are by no means
common. Not more than one in a
million can be found who can Get in
adjustment with the spirit world. The
spirit robbed of my body must find
one of these especially attuned indi-
viduals who will loan his or her body
for the communication of the spirits
message. 1t is the same process as the
physical man seeking letter or tele-
phone for communication with other
| physical beings. ''-Milwauke Journal.
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