ANOTHER BODY

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 4, 5 July 1927, Page 17

ANOTHER BODY

PSYCHICAL RESEARCH

SEEING WITHOUT EYES

A SPIRITUALIST

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(From the* "Post's" Eepresentative.) ■ ~'j* :\ £ '' JiOiSTDONJ: 4th -May.

Mr. H-.\Emest fiunt, in a lecture oh; "Some Sleep Phenomena ;and. a Working ;sDkAory," at. the National Laboratory;):of 'Psychical: Beseaich, insisted that -there must be a -secondary: self that divas' capable of the body and Of seeing and"being' Seen. In hypnotic^ sleep the subject' could' see for a huifdred miles or more, and see things that corresponded with the facts, Flammarion, for instance, had recorded thfe case of a hypnotised subject who had .been sent to find an individual, whom, she-found walking in bare feet on very> cold, sjones. Similar phenomena were witnessed in. anaesthesia, and I>r. George Wild, of Wimbledon, whollhad,giyeii. himself, chloroform to relieve acute; pain,, found' himself outside ifhis,; bpdy . observing; it, but not from;the angle'of his;natural eyesight.

Similarly, a boy who had ;been given gas for the extraction 1 of teeth saw,the entirjsr operation, but saw it apparently, fromfthe corner, of the ceiling. This pointed to tji.e existence of two bodies, one :«(f ■whioh"'jw£s physical, and the othet;Of >yhicK;.waj ;of such.fine matter as tdtjbe invisible to" the ribrinal material bodyva;There: .existed 4n fact. the "Bpirftual"" aid: physical"" bodies ' ' desosibea*by;=fSti"SPaUl.:: The f'spirituaj" body was.the essential one. The centre of gravity was in the physical bodyin the daytime, but at night, during sleep, it lay in the "spiritual" body. In fact, we died daily, and all that happened in death was that the pendulum which was normal in life ceased to swing.

MAJORITY F6R SPIRITUALISM. Sir Arthur Conan Doylo was one of the speakers at the first debate of the Camlmdge; r'Cnion;v when a motion ''That Spiritualjsm exists only in the Imagination^ wits Sir Arthuf-;«aM, that they were having the sanief figSt ,as those who had opposed hypnotising, but he. ventured to predict thaftttfe reffllFWouid^ultimately be the same),;;/ This opinion, strengthened by the eipericnee-'of^menx.ot.flrst-class ability,- was'UnasaailablerHeiiad studied the^ubject" for forty, years, and he knew thaVthe so)il lived.-afterwards and could Communicate. ..After the - war he had plenty of eVideJ&e that convinced him, and., he found all sorts of psychic f afltsy ■ ■-. His'convictions were based on: experiences to ; which, ho had devoted years'of'his life, lie himself had helped to expose as many mediums jib most people, and there was no way : in which they; could prevent black-.. guards from fooling foolish people. ■• '. ■ The votine resulted: For the motion, 184; against the motion, 310. 'Majority against, 126. ■■<-—.■ SPIRITUALIST CHURCH. ' Scenes inside resembling: an Eastern religious ceremony, and outside a rush of people as if for the early dobiS of a theatre, marked the dedication of...the new- Sirpitualist Church in Southwark: Bridge road. The former home of the psychic centre of the organisation, known as the Temple of Light, had to be surrendered to the owners, the Roman Catholic authorities of Southwark, and the London Spiritualists were without a cathedral home when an anonymous donor provided £2000 for the new building. Ecclesiastical ceremonial and procedure marked the consecration by the Bey. Father Mills. The- altar was erected on a. broad, richly carpeted dais. A brass crucifix stood in the midst of a profusion of beautiful lilies and lighted candles; high above the Cross on a dark blue cloth hanging was an oil painting of the sorrowing Christ; on either side of the altar were members of the choir —women robed in dark blue with hoods that just disclosed their faces, and men in loose cloaks.

_ The hall was packed with people who displayed a marked spirit of earnestness and fervour. All bowed before the altar and made the sign of the cross. Mr. W. Harold Speer, described as the "life president in the body," told how'they came into possession. of the building by a wonderful miracle, and said that, in autograph writing, Johannes, the "spirit president," had sent a message saying: "While you are dedicating the new building we shall be consecrating it with jewels and roses." Sir Arthur Corian Doyle said that a miracle certainly had been wrought, because it was clearly stated by the presiding spirit that the money would be found, and a noblo donor, who would not allow his name to be mentioned, had lifted them out of their difficulty. Such a happening, he said, was generally the result'of persecution. "If Christ," he added, "had died in His bed in old age instead of dying in His youth by persecution, I think Christianity would have died."