LOOK OUT FOR CRASH

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 5 January 1925, Page 3

LOOK OUT FOR CRASH

CONAN DOYLE’S THRILLER. LONDON, Dee. 15. There is a terrible time ahead for poor old Mother World, according to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who says the spirits have given us their final warning. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the wellknown spiritualist, in addressing a. spiritualist service in London, declared that the recent spirit messages were*«. filial attempt to warn mankind of the terrible calamity impending, in which great pliycliic phenomena, accompanied j by extraordinary manifestations of natural forces, would purge mankind and prepare the way for the millenium. Spiritualists, however, might face the future hopefully and happily, he said. Professor Gilbert Murray, explaining his experiences in thought transference experiments, which he affirms resulted in 85 successful tests, declares they lead to the belief that telepathy is continually operating everywhere. “It' is hard to see how language could have originally grown, how a. child could learn it, how we could ever understand a new idea, without telepathy based on an unconscious ' sense of perception outside our normal five senses,” he says. •

“I believe that we are continually sensitive to the state of other peoples’ minds.” i

The Graphic whimsically comments that Professor Gilbert Murray’s gift is subject to limitations. When his wife became a Socialist, the trend of her mind from Liberalism was not conveyed to her husband, who was completely surprised when the conversion was announced. . ■

Mrs. Henry Sedgwick, wif£- of the well-known historian, "-revealed at a meeting of the Society for Psychical Reseach, remarkably successful experiments of thought transference, which Professor Gilbert Murray carried out, with the aid of his daughter, Mrs. Toynbee, and others. \ Of 236 tests spread over a decade, j it was stated that 85 were successful, and 59' partially successful, and 95 failures.

Usually. Professor Murray went into an adjoining room, and returning, held the hand of the person who bad previously written what be had been thinking of. The successes included incidents in ancient Roman history, English, French. Swedish, and Russian litterature, poetical quotations, fantasies, dreams, and political incidents.

j Lord Balfour said that the experi- ■ meats seemed to prove the existance of some wholly unknown, unexplained, and uneonjectured method of traversing space between two conscious organisms.