PHOTOGRAPHING HUMAN THOUGHTS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 3130, 14 August 1922, Page 2

PHOTOGRAPHING HUMAN THOUGHTS.

AMAZING EXPERI MENUS. Commandant Darget of the French army and a noted military enminoiog st as well as psychologist, has, according to aiuhetbic reports startled the scientific world with his experiments in thought photography, resulting .n p c tires of objects suggested mentally, wh. hj, when projected from the mind to a highly sensitised photograph, c plate held against the forehead of a suoji.et, leaves a tangible im-pres-doa of the object thought of at the moment. In his seventieth year, Commandant Darget began experimenting with animal magnetism as far back as 1882, and soon af .envard discovered that from the brain there exuded a vital fluid that was lam nous, and which apparently Ji was caused by vibratory motion illuminating the phosphorus contained in the brain, projecting rays to exterior of the cranium that were later photograph.d, reproducing perfectly an object thought of. Commandant Darget, in the presence of six witnesses, first produced the image of a bottle on a phot graphic plate after first having concentrated upon the object for a period of two minutes, and also the contour of a head of Btethoven, mentally conjured by one of Lire witnesses for a period of fifteen minutes, and accurately transferred to the photographic plate, which was wrapped in blade paper and held against the forehead. , These remarkable demonstrations of thought photography have aroused criminologists to the marvellous possibilities that are opened to the solving of baffling crimes and the detection of clever criminals. Instead of resorting to the oid fashioned. non-productive, brutally coercive methods known as the “third degree,” a suspect will be invited to sit down, tiie crime discussed and the suspect helped to i nvoluntarily visual iso the scene of the crime, while a photographic plate held firmly against his Sorehead will almost immediately disclose his guilt or innocence. How easy it will he to discover the murderer of an Elwell, one of the most baffling crimes of recent times! The deliberate method of the murderer of the gambler, sitting opposite his victim in the early hours when the city was asleep and punctuating a recital of actual or fancied wrongs with a death-dealing weapon from which flashed the searing flame and messenger of death that left a-comparatively healthy man sitting upright in his chair, a hole between bis eyes and not a clue left by which the imudcrcr could lie traced! If sentiment, as Commandant Darget claims, can he photographed how readily any one of the men or women friends of the murdered gambler would have responded to this test of vital ray photography? Some one intimate with the dead man would have involuntarily revealed on the photographic plate a picture that would have led the .police to the actual murderer. This discovery of a means to lay the secrets of the brain bare by Commandant Darget is one that has attracted th© attention of scientists of all lands, but none so far lias been able to make photographic records of the brain’s manifestations. Six thousand plates have been developed in the Darget laboratory, recording occult motifs. Brain waves, actual pictures of thought objects, the hones of the body taken by simply holding a highly sensitized plate against the body, and which promises to eliminate the danger of Xray burns, so fatal in many instances, and the possibility of photographing organic disease in the human body without the use of an apparatus or causing r mental distress incidental to preparin'" for tiie X-ray photography. This thought photography is- sure to coll Hie scientific world everywhere to attention. It has just taken its first Gen with the Sorhonne, the groat University oi France, awake to the nroat field of discovery that has ao suddenly been uncovered and following so nuickly on the heels of the astounding marvel of the matcrialisatmn of the flodi and blood woman that am fired the Sorhonne also recently Tf the criminal fears talking in his sleep, what double distilled horror will he not know when he comes to realise that the very thoughts of his waking hours may be read at Rolice Heaclouarters as if in cold print, nerhans evoa more clearly Ilian if be himself were present trying to evade questions by innuendos and mental reservations! The theory of a magnetic vital fluid is not as obscure us the of Einstein, flic. Sorhonne admits it is a recognised existing element of our makeup. And it is not going too far in the case of a.,.crime which has been committed to prove, by a photographic plate placed on thb bead of a supposed culpri , that the image of his thoughts can he transmitted in some legible manner so that it can be translated with completeness. A few years ago wireless telegraphy and telephony did not exist and just as Marconi, Do Forrest and Bell perfected their inventions so Commandant Dar'et is perfecting and solving the problem of thou lit photography. He has already solved o her hitherto unbelievable photo rapliic problems where the human vital fluid has set up an action on the sensitised plate analogous to that of the actinic rays made use of by Draper, Nipiece and Daguerre. l n ' ;• recent interview Commandant Darget states; “My personal magnetic fluid’bad, in effect, during my experiences, influenced tbo photographic ■plates and actually left visible traces, more or less varied with regard to form, dimension and intensity o. the improssinn, but still siimcioiitly ti*ugibie to leave no doubts of the success of my theory. . “Every chvg is cupablg ot tlirowing this fluid more or less, and in volume and quality according to the physical and moral condition. Certain persons age l mere apt than others' to eliminate this vital fluid from their bodies, ns. for instance, the magnetisers and spiritualistic mediums who already have a con/cioiisnees of their powers. “I have obtained figures of men ant!' also of animate on plate? that have been wrapped in opaque black paper and absolutely bidden from all penetrating “Generally I wrap my experimental plates, before exposing, in three sheet 1 - of paper, one white, one black and another of any color’. These are seated 1 and given to my assistants. One of the wrapped plate® is, then placed on the forehead of the subject, and within a few minutes it is to me for developing, still sealed. 1 have exposed s'mi'lfir wrapped plates under the bodies of sleeping animals with good results. I brave also experimented with email twi' r « and branches of trees, particularly in the spring, when tbo sap running. “These experincuts have proved to me and others that the vital fluid will not only traverse the paper covering of tiie plates, but will also give an impre Mon on a plate enclosed in a safe. This experiment 1 mad" recently with Madame Darget. who has strong med'unrst’c powers. A small, metallic box ■*n ‘'which the sensitised plate was enclosed was placed against the forehead of AT me. Darget, and when removed within a few minutes showed spots and

I disoaloratians suggestive of a strong .' radiating influence which emanated from her body. ) "Other .successful experiments which I have made have been what I call photographs of thought expression, also identifications of localised disease. These plates were the ordinary phor.ographic plates of commerce,* and I am sure that with plates more highly sensitised I will accomplish amazing Jesuits." "I have given these the name of 'V rays—vital rays, as they are to all appearances the result of a phenomena created by a light or ray of a cer'.un quality not yet understood, less 10 than the familiar X-rays at all events. "There is little more to be done J <• i'ore we shall have a much clearer dc; of these vital ray possibilities and be able to subjugate this fluid effect to a siil! greater degree and approach with a definite understanding of just wiiat lies within the brain region and what a, wonderful and yet unknown realm of reality it is for scientists to explore. "The Sorbonne and the French Medical Institute have intimated a desire to investigate my discoveries and their investigations will result in declarations that the new science is a scientific sidelight on the. many discoveries lately made with regard to 'rays.' "