Evening star., 1922-10-23

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle yesterday
| closed his article describing Q lunch
| con In which the social life was being
discussed. continuing today. he says
A FTER lunch DR.. Cushman read
| ~ US two long letters received
~ from his wife and daughter
upon the other side through
the automatic writing Of one Of his fam
ily. We had never heard anything more
touching and beautiful. Their descrip-
| tion Of the place in which they found
| themselves was enthralltng. 1t seems
certainly to be a most glorious existence:
| The general scheme was exactly what
| I have preached and what hundred
records have confirmed. Every sort
| of earth amusement seems to keep
pace with a high spiritual and INTEL
| lectual life.
to his wife: "If go first you Will
find me craning over for you" He
had never mentioned this to soul.
but in the script came a sentence:
you see it is I who am doing the
craning over" They spoke of them
and said that those who were men.
tally prepared by earth knowledge of
psychic matters could attain that
happy level. They also wrote very
| seriously about. the loneliness and
misery which is experienced by those
who find it very hard to adapt their
minds to scheme SO different. from
any for which they were prepared.
The daughter had seen Christ once.
which corresponds with Raymond
experience and also with that OF my
Kingsley. The latter. in describing
the event. through the hand OF my M
wife. wrote words which were SO VI
brant with emotion and awe and won-
der as are those Of Raymond or OF
Agnes Cushman when they also tell
of that great episode-that glimpse
Of something never to be forgotten.
Exhibition in Hotel Rooms.
The Zancigs came up to our room
in the hotel and gave an exhibition
during the day. They may use codes
low-of that cannot say-but what
they showed US was undoubtedly
hought-transference. No word passed
at all. but Mrs. Zancig. standing with
her face turned sideways at the far
end of the room. was able to repeat
which we made and showed to her
husband She is an American from
Brooklyn. and told me that she was
developing some power as a clatrVoy-
a-t She .od me also that when he-
husband conveyed name 1t often
which is the usual way with our
mediums.
Possibly 1t is a real ectoplasmic
formation like the figures of. Eva.
Telepathy has been imagined by some
spiritualis.s to be real carving OF
messages by some familiar. This Is
certainly not SO. On one occasion a
group Of students at Cambridge. all
concentrating together. succeeded in
imprIntine so many rs in the poor
woman's brain that the husband was
utterly unable to get any number
through. That experiment settled the
familiar forever. The fact remains.
however, that we have not the least
idea Of what we mean by the word
"telepathy," which. like most porten-
tous words. is a camoufage Of ignor-
ance. 1t may possibly prove to be
the perception of ectoplasmic mes
saRes or figures by the etheric senses.
We went up in the morning to see
the enigmatical bronze figure by st.
Gaudens erected as q memorial Of one
of the Adams family. 1t Is eirt round
by trees. with a marble bench where
you may sit and mediate at your
ease 1t is certainly one of the great
works Of art of the world. tremendous
in its strong simplicity-a draped fig
ure seated with closed ewes and a set
face. AS in the case Of the Sphinx.
every one can read his own interpre-
tation into It.
A Local Medium.
Late in the afternoon we had sit
ting at her own house with Mrs. Rose
Miller. local clairvoyant. She is of
the kindly. motherly. full-bosomed
type. which IS common among her
class. Even such are Mrs. Roberts.
Mrs. Soule. Mrs. Harris and many
others of my acquaintance. Mrs.
Miller was soon In trance. and we
had an hours talk with what pro-
fessed to be her little Indian guide.
tial value from coldly psychic re-
search point of view. but there was
very sure feeling Of honesty and kind
ly power left in our minds She never
fished and we gave nothing away, but
a great deal of advice about the chill
of sense and truth. and nurnortirr to
be from those who took loving in
tereSt in u.s.
AS an example we were told that
little Billy should not have cold sea
bathing. We know by experience
that she is the only one of the chill
dren who cannot tolerate il She
made no actual mistake of any con-
sequence in discussing our affairs
On the whole I should judge her
true and good medium. but should
imagine that any powers she has
sitter to draw them up. The little
gushing Indian would soon wither up
before a sternly critical pair of eyes
but the critic would be the loser.
In the evening my picture lecture
before silent but absorbed audience.
I was told that a more select one has
seldom gathered in Washington. One
senator came up to congratulate me
at the end. but I did not catch his
name. I was very exhausted with the
heat and with the long day of varied
experiences. If I had, not my wife
unfolding me on one side and Capt.
Widdecombe on the other, l should
make a poor show.
Before leaving my memories OF TINS
full day must mention remarkable
psychic picture which l saw. done by
the artist while in trance. coarse.
worldly looking man was standing
squeezing the throat of a poor mis-
shapen wisp Of a thing. which had
blood pouring from it's gasping mouth.
1t was horrible and yet finely SYM
bolic, for it was the worldly. man
killing his own stunted soul. "ertz
never did anything more terrlnc.
SpirituaIist Association Meeting.
We spent our last morning In Wash
inRtona visiting the National Spirit.
ualists' Association. nice central
building, which was left by the pious
beouest of q Mr.. Myer. British splr-
itualists please copy. the premises
are modest. but contain some remark
ssPoor Little Prodigy
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