THOUGHT TRANSMISSION

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22319, 5 February 1938, Page 18

THOUGHT TRANSMISSION

Venetian Voices. By Gwendolyn Kelley Hack. Rider and Co. 287 pji. (15/net.) Through Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd. This book is the second of a series called “Modern Psychic Mysteries.” and it purports to give an account of the first trans-oceanic transmission of thought without apparatus. These attempts at psychic cross-cor-respondence took place between what is called the “Margery” circle at Boston and a circle at Venice with George Valiantine as medium. The claim is made that human voices were transmitted via the ethereal and that it has been demonstrated that “in whatever direction one pursues physical science, he is at last confronted with a physical phenomenon with a super-physical antecedent where all methods of investigating are impotent.” In chapter iv, the reader is introduced to Gemmola Castle, the summer residence of Count Piero Bon, of Venice. Here in May, 1927, seances were held, and the participants had communications from a spirit who called himself ■Tmperator.” He explained that this, title is given to high teachers or, in Hindoo phraseology, “gurus.” To the uninitiated, the communications sound singularly dull and uninteresting. Mrs Hack concludes the book with an account of her progress from positive materialism to spiritualistic science.