SPIRIT VOICE

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 25, 30 January 1930, Page 25

SPIRIT VOICE

"HEARD" BY 1000

AMERICAN BROADCAST

That the "spirit voice1 *" of a dead lhan had been broadcast, and heard by .» thousand people in a distant hall, was claimed by Dr. Crandon, tho American husband of the English medium, "Margery," both of whom are now on holiday in England, says the "Daily Telegraph."

The "voice" which is often heard at "Margery's" seances is claimed to be that of her dead brother, Walter Stimson, Dr. Crandon explained.

', : All possibility of the "voice" proceeding from "Margery" herself is declared to be precluded by the use of what is known as tho "Richardson voice cut-out." This is a glass "TJ" tube, partly filled with water, and so connected with the mouth of the medium that any movement of the tongue or lips will at once bo indicated by a fall in the level of wator in one branch of the tube.

Sometimes, added Dr. Crandon, "Walter's" voice appears to come from as far as 30ft away from tho sitters. On the occasion of the broadcast it was picked up by microphones, amplified, and clearly heard by the audience in the hall.

LIFE AFTER DEATH.

" 'Walter' sometimes treats me very badly," said Dr. Crandon, "He refers to me as 'it,' and many other things equally disrespectful—so much so, in fact, that I have come to be known us the door-matt"

"Walter," he continued, "has provided what seems to be a clue to that existence of personality after death on which the Crandoiis base their investigations. He points out that when a man passes out of a small room into a big one he does not alter. He is just the same man, with more space to move about in. That, he says, is what happens after death. ■■".'■'We are visiting England primarily on a holiday, and have no intention of submitting to any tests or of courting any sensation," went on Dr. Crandon. "Sensational demonstrations are, indeed, utterly opposed to the whole purpose and nature of our work. We are not concerned with 'spiritualism' in

the commonly accepted sense of the word. Our object is scientific psychical research, and that, like all scientific research, is a matter of much hard work and even drudgery." "Of what possible practical value," he asked, "could be the verdict of any investigating body—however high its individual qualifications—if that verdict was based on the very limited experience to be gained by attending two or three seancest Could auch a body visit Edison's laboratory or the physical laboratories at Cambridge and come away claiming to understand ell that they had seen there, aad able to pass judgment upon it after one day?" The proper understanding of their psychical research was, he said, a full life's work, necessitating yeara of experience and a complete knowledge of every step. Even they themselves, to whom seances were so familiar as to have become almost a part of everyday life, understood but little. Phenomena occurred; but they could not explain why or how. Perhaps at some future time these things might be understood and explicable in the light of some metaphysical law unknown to-day. At present, however, they were content to study the phenomena without inquiring too deeply into their cause *

KO EVIL FORCES.

Asked whether they had 'had any experience of those evil forces—"elementals" and the like—often referred to by spiritualists, Dr. Crandon said that they had only enSountered apparently good forces.

"But," he added, "the Banian Catholic Church is very right in its attitude towards spiritualism. It is not a thing to dabble in, and is best left alone. Unless a man is very levelheaded and has both feet flat on the ground, firmly and wide apart, spiritualism is apt to prove very disturbing. "Our circle at home consists of very level-headed people, with minds of the piost material kind. It includes among its members doctors, engineers, chemists, and business men."