Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-27
"REMINISCENCES
X OF A ROVER
"OTHER WORLDS"
BY Whit Wellman

..oNr. tbe most intelligent volumes discus
a sing life and death-with emphasis upon
the last-are the trogy by Camille flamma,
rIon. who died in 1925. These DOCKS ti'ieo
"Death and It's Mystery" give innumerapie III
stances of psychic manifestations appari-
tons, traps without human eoii'aS' "AN '
strange evidence.
t1s ou,n conclusions are combination OF SCI
ence and mysticism, possibly the result OF early
studies at Langres and Paris Flamhiatiop was
a French astronomer, an investigator Win eiiu
less curiosity he found during his Ihetime tnae
the ancients knew little about heavenly pouies'
New consultations new stars, were being dis
covered every year, In his own fashlon IN ms
6rst pubshed book (1S62) he gave hint OF
what Einstein later built into complete theory:
Relativitv Flammarion wrote The Wnoie OF
human science-from the alpha OF our khoWi-
edge to the omega-is but the STUDY OF rela-
tivity There is nothing absolute IN tne eonce
of our science, however marvellous the nu-
man mind seeks to know the relations between
things. Our knowledge has validity when we
compare things to an arbitrary metapnyscai
unity taken as starting point
His method of investigation was comprenen-
sive and simple. He gathered from every
civilized country, Europe and America a mon
umental library of data files packed with
letters evidence proven and unproVen events
which he himself witnessed or those Voucneo
for by others Then he set to work. He Weeded
out doubtful seances examples which admitted
the possibility of illusion or fraud. Pernaps
third of his collection was thrown away. Wnat
remained was sufficient for several fat books
He proyed--to his own satisfacton-the truth
of telepathy thought transmission. Less tnan
one year ago the scientific world OF skeptics
and investigators admitted the accuracy OF his
assertion Under stringent test conditions, men,
tai telepathy was proven at the Rockefeller
Institute
1.-THE word matter" wrote Flammarion, rs
but word. An analysis OF what matter reaiy
consists of makes it take on, today, fantasti-
cally intricate aspects. 1t would appear
that milligram of radum contains two million
trillions of atoms! What can the size of an atom
be? May not an immateriap soul be an
atomic world? Matter and energy become one.
The visible uniperse Is composed OF invisible
elements"
mLAMMARION, spritualisticay speaking,
was a believer: not too ardent, nor sWayed
by his own desires Being French and therefore
coldly logical, he didn't much care whether he
lived thereafter" or simply passed into definite
obscurity He looked for facts and those
he found add to the growing knowledge of the
so-called beyond"
From Cagliostro to modern scientific research
is long run along the highway of human in
formation. The magician said This Is Solve
proven it. Here's indisputable evidence" Flam
marion said, with Newton "Things behaved as
tt" the true scientific method of approach
Flammarion concluded g. we do not knou
how a soul can strike a chandelier break tht
little bell . :. strike blow upon a table These
instances exist by hundreds. Do electrical forces
come into play? No one knows what electricit,
is >. in nature are unsupported forces"