STARTLING CLAIM.

Gisborne Times, Volume LIX, Issue 9576, 30 July 1923, Page 2

STARTLING CLAIM.

' by SPANISH SCIENTIST. SEEING THROUGH THE OPAQUE J ik‘ human vision can penetrate opaque objects, iron, wood, ebony, li developed properly. Tin's, it is claim- '•- oJ, lins l;coii clofi ni tc j iy proved by completed experiments made by the* Mar- * do Santaora, the celebrated Span- ■ JS.I scientist, who has just demon--3 strated the tact before the King anti 3 Queen of Spain. The son of tlie'AUarj quis., Ro_u Joaquin Argamasilla de la I Go: dm \ Elio, IS years old, perfornv j cc. the feat at Court before notaries, , and before the Spanish Academy ot \ JSeieijees, Tiie King and Queen were convinced of the remarkable possibiliLies of tile newest scientific discovery, ’ »ud warmly felicitated the aristoI ; cratic s'avant. ' The Marquis de Santaora has spent his life in developing the theory of ; physical possibility or vision through opaque objects. His son Joaquin is . thoroughly normal. In the demon- { strut ion bei'oie the Court, the Marj <|uis, who is an old friend of the King, I placed his son flat upon his back upon j a divan, while a thick kerchief was j bound over the eyes by a Court ofj ficia!. Another official clipped a nowsj paper at random, and still another placed the clipping m a small iroi box and locked it. The .Marquis lei the room during this proceeding Upon returning be told bis son to rear what, was yrittcq on the newspaper ■clipping. No person in ihc room knew what was on the clipping, as it wit: Judd before Don Joaquin’s eyes, am the youth read the clipping throng! the ’kerchief and the iron box. The astonishing performance was repented before the notaries public, and affidavits taken and presented to the Academy of Sciences. The Marquis de Santaora obtained the results by long experimenting with somnambulistic states. He has never attempted to use suggestion by hypnotism or mesmerism in connection with tlso experiments. The first results proved that somnambulistic states produce physical intensification of visual power. The only reason all sleepwalkers do not bear witness to this fact is that, when awake, they no loiigpr remember what they saw during choir somnambulism. From tills point the Marquis proceeded to the reproduction of intensified vision by physical means. What these means are he has not revealed so far. Spanish scientific circles' are in a state of .great excitement over the discovery. Prominent .oculists and other scientists wore invited to both the Court and private demonstrations, ■ and they assert that it i.s absolutely | impossible for any hypnotism to.be i involved. The discovery is a pum I scientific achievement, according to all observers.