THOUGHT PHOTOGRAPHY.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 182, 1 August 1923, Page 10

THOUGHT PHOTOGRAPHY.

(From Oar Own Correspondent.) SAN FRANCISCO, June 26. Concerning the recent emphatic declaration in San Francisco that thought photography «v now a realisation, the "Kansas City Star" says:—"This process of thought photography which a psychical researcher out in San Francisco says he has demonstrated, looks to us like a dangerous thing to fool with. If it is going to be possible to take a snapshot, of a. person's mind and exhibit the picture indiscriminately, we hesitate to reflect on the results for some of our public thinkers. Congress ought to look into it, for it has all tbe earmarks of a development requiring Government, regulation. Certainly the Government owes it to our public men to protect them against the danger of having their thoughts snatched from them in a state of nudity, so to speak. If we understand thiii process they would have no opportunity to call up a thought, for no camera is necessary to tbe experiment. Just hold up a piece of film before the subject's eyes and his thought will be registered on it. That is, if he has a thought. Otherwise tbe film will remain blank. The least the Government can do in the matter of regulation is to require that the person taking the thought picture shall give reasonable notice to the subject he is going to snap. That is, if the subject is a public man. Private citizens, prehaps, do not need the protection so much. Their thoughts are not a. matter of public concern. But the men who have to do the thinking for the country, and who are known to have nothing else on their minds, ought not to be token by surprise. If we were to see the pictures of their minds, taken without due warning to them, it might unsettle the country's confidence in the Government."