Evening star., 1924-12-21
TELEPATHy TESTED
BY NOTED SCHOLAR
Gilbert Murray Has Remark
: able Success in Expert
| ments With Daughter.

By Cable TO The star and New York World.
LONDON. December 20-Widespread
interest has been aroused by the an
nouncement of the successful tele-
pathic experiments conducted by
Gilbert Murray, the Earl of Balfour
and others, as announced at last
nights meeting OF the Society for
Psychical Research. Further details
were obtained from Murrays daugh-
ter, Mrs. Arnold Toynbec. Mrs
Toynbee declared most of her fathers
experiments over the past Is years
have been made in cooperation with
Fer. The usual method is for Muir
ray 10 60 out of the room. His
daughter formulates a thought. and
either says it aloud or writes ii down.
Then the father returns, takes his
daughters hand and tells her what
the thought was. Lord Balfour and
Prof. Murray declined 10 add today
10 the revelations of last night, but
IT. was explained that full report of
the proceedings at last Saturdays
seance will be published within three
months by the society. Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle said: The Earl of Bal
four's experiments, coming from 4
man of such eminence, are very in.
teresting. The existence of thought
transference, however, has long since
been proved and this example throws
TO new light on the subject Here
are some of the examples taken down
in writing at the time and given out
today by Mrs. Toynbee:
Thoughts and Replies.
Subject thinks of Mr.. B. in the quad
RI New College with big dog jump
Ing up on him.
Reply by Mr.. Murray-Mr. b. in the
courtyard OF Il hotel with a dancing
bear
Subject thinks of her grandfather
at the Harrow and Winchester
cricket match dropping hot cigar
ash on Miss Thompson's parasol.
Reply-Why, this is grandfather.
lie is at a cricket match. He seems
to be dropping ashes on lady's
parasol.
Subject thinks of a scene in story
by Strindberg, where a man and
woman are in a lighthouse, the man
lying on the floor and the woman
bending over him. hoping he is dead.
Had Not Read Book.
Reply-A horrid atmosphere full Of
hatred and discomfort. book. |
have not read it. Not Russian, not
Italian, but foreign. There Is
round tower. a man and a woman IN
A round tower but it is not Mater
link, not like him; l should guess 1t
was Strindberg. The woman is bend
ing over the man and hating him.
hoping he is dead. (Note: In this
instance the book was one which Mr..
Murray had not read.)
Subject thinks of Mrs. A. hitting
purser with skipping rope.
Reply-I think it is mother hitting
a purser with skipping rope. No.
1t Is Mrs. a.
Subject thinks of Lewis Carroll
drawing pictures of black cats in the
parapet room at Naworth.
Reply--It is somebody who does
not belong there. He is drawing a
oicture of a cat in Alice in Wonder
land" with a grin. Can't get him a
bit. He makes a sort OF impression
of V but he is not V. l thing II Is
not a real cat. ! think it is Alice In
Wonderland. get a feeling OF
Christ Church. (Note-Christ Church
is at Oxford College. Carol was
student thereD
Thinks of Fox Chained.
Subject thinks of a little fox on
chain.
Reply-It feels like cruelty to ami
mails Little wild animals being
eaten or something. I can't get 1t
more than that.
Sir oliver Lodge, who was present
at the psychical research meeting last
night and spoke in agreement with
the Earl of Balfour that hyperaes-
thesia Is not an explanation OF Muir
rays results. said in an exclusive
interview with the World News
Service today: "Telepathy Is not ex-
actly new 1 started studying 1t in
1893. But 1t is a thing we do not
understand and cannot explain, and
I do not agree that because we CAN
not explain it, scientists should sup
press, or fail to give publicity to the
established facts.
Holds Telepathy Proved.
"Telepathy is a proved fact. Nat
urally when telepathy is introduced
at a theater as a mode of entertain
ment the general idea is that there
must be some trick about it, hence
the results achieved by professional.
entertainers are unquotable scien-
tifcally. But the results Of the Sc
ance at the Balfour home last week
deserve prominence because of the
standing of the participants. Gil
bert Murray has been experimenting
for long time with telepathy. but
generally in his own family; hence
he has received little publicity. His
daughter has been his usual assist
ant. For instance, she would think
of Rip Van Wrinkle. Murray would
Immediately say: I feel very old,
and there is an old man coming
down a hill. He is whiskered and in
rags and seems very strange. 1t
must be the return of some old man,
Rip Van Wrinkle
"I know of other eXperim ents by
Prof Murray. The daughter would
think of a Russian book which the
father had not read. 1t was the
story of an old man with a pet dog,
dying in a restaurant. Murray said:
This is from a book. l think 1T is
Russian. There is an old man with
dog. He Is dying. / think in
restaurant
~. b. Piddington. chairman of the
Psychical Research Society, also
tested Murray. who at the comm ence-
Inent of the proceedings said he did
not feel in good form that day and
might not succeed, but was willing
10 try. Piddington thought of Queen
Victoria receiving the news of her
accession. Murray said: It's some
thing about Queen Victoria. She is
receiving news. 1t must be the news
of her accession l do not attempt
TO explain it, because we do not
know how, but telepathy as a means
of acquiring information through the
senses is an established fact. 1t Is
well that the world should realize
this. There is a disposition among
some people to seek to avoid the
discussion of things they do not un-
derstand, but that is bad for future
research work"
Very Hard to Explain.
Mrs. Tpynbee describing the Muir
ray experiments. said: 1T is very
difficult to account for what has hap
Dened. II is not the result of con-
eentration, for my father says he