MYSTERY MESSAGES

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 123, 26 May 1928, Page 20

MYSTERY MESSAGES

BY MEANS OF "CROSS CORRESPONDENCE." '. Students of the occult are now investigating a new type of psychic phenomenon called "cross correspondence. 1' It is an intelligent effort to explain a type of phenomenon that is not subject to the. various explanations put forward —telepathy, muscular action, and subconscious action. , Cross correspondence in tho ordinary way means messages given in part to a medium in one place and in part to another medium in another place, from tho same communicator, the messages being intelligible only when they are brought together and, as it were, dovetailed. The "London Tit-Bits" describes the case of a youth in Glasgow who, when blindfolded in'a test before the Psychic Society, could describe subjects held in front of him. The test that was made to exclude telepathy was the bringing of a letter by the members of the society, who were not aware of its contents.. This was held in front of the youth, who described not only what was in the letter, but oven imitated, the writing. Blindfolded, he could shoot with an airgun at targets indicated by those in tho room,- and seldom missed. The cross correspondence method is being introduced into various kinds of phenomena. As an indication of its operation in clairvoyance, one investigator, Mr. David Smith, who lectured recently on this subject, said that at a meeting in Aberdeen he had, elairvoyantly seen a figure. He went over to a woman at the meeting, describing to her, so that no one else could hear, the figure, who claimed to be her husband. She admitted tho correctness of the description and that the message ho gave might-be true. Later on'another clairvoyant gave the woman exactly the same description and the same message in almost the same 'words. As an example of clairvoyance excluding telepathy, there is the ease of a woman 'who came to Mr. Smith, anxious, to get some proof. He got a mental picture of a boy of about twelve or thirteen cycling down a hill. Then everything wont blank, as if something had suddenly stopped him, and he had the sensation of "passing out." There seemed to be a lapse of time between the prescribed accident and the transition. The woman was disappointed and said she knew nothing about any sucli thing. But on her way homo something prompted her to go to her mother's house. She described to her mother what had been told her, and learned from.-the latter that the boy was hor brother, who had been killed in an acciflerifjrixaetly us described some tinio before she was born.