UNDER TEST.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 41, 18 February 1927, Page 7

UNDER TEST.

>tASS TELEPATHY.

Leading Scientists' Remarkable

Experiment.

THOUGHTS BY WIRELESS

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LOXDOX, Februarv 17.

The Society of Psychical Research organised a remarkable experiment of mass telepathy by means of wireless, with the assistance of Sir Oliver Lodge and a party of leading scientists. The latter were locked up in a room in Blooms bury, and endeavoured to project a series of thoughts into space, in the hope that listeners-in would pick up the thoughts. In order that the test might be beyond suspicion the scientists will be locked up in Bloomsbury until after the first post on Thursday. Sir Oliver Lodge, addressing millions of listener a-i n, pointed out that much evidence of telepathy was possible at times of emotional stress, such as death, also if persons were in close sympathy with each other, but the object of the experiment was to see if telepathy operated over distance on a mass scale. Sir Oliver said he personally thought the mind was so screened by the body that mass telepathy was unlikely. _ In the first test, the locked-up scientists thought of a cer+ain playing-card for three minutes, and asked listeners-in to write down which card it was. x Secondly, they thought of a picture, thirdly of an object about which they asked listeners-in to record their impressions other than visual ones. Fourthly, they thought of another playing card, and fifthly, they repeated the third test. Listeners-in were finally asked to post their answers immediately. Sir Oliver Lodge stated that every allowance would be made for chance.