MYSTERY MESSAGES

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6630, 8 June 1928, Page 3

MYSTERY MESSAGES

BY MEANS OF “CROSS CORRESPONDENCE. Students of the occult are now investigating a new typo of psychic phenomenon, an intelligent effort to explain a typo of phenomenon that is not subject to the various explanations put forward—telepathy, muscular action, and sub-conscious action. Cross correspondence in the ordinary way means messages, given in part to a medium in one place and in part to another medium in another place from the same communication, the messages being intelligible only when they arc, brought together and, as it were, dovetailed. The London Tit-Bits describes the ease of -a youth in Glasgow who, when blind-folded 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 rvas held in front of the youth, who described not only ■what was in the letter, but even imitated the writing. Blind-folded, he could shoot with an airgun at targets indicated by those in the room,’ and seldom missed.

The cross correspondence method is being introduced into various kinds of phenomena. As an indication of its operation in clairvoyance ,onc investigator, Mr. David Smith, who lectured recently on this subject, said that a meeting in Aberdeen ho had claivoyantly seen a figure. Ho went over to a woman at the meeting, describing to her ,So that no one else could hoar, tho figure, who claimed to be her husband. She admitted tho correctness of the description, and that the message he gave might be true. Later on another clairvoyant gave tho woman exactly the same description and the same message in almost tho same words.

As an example of clairvoyance excluding telepathy, there is the ease of a woman who eamo/io Mr. Smith, anxious to get some proof. He got a mental picture of a boy of about 12 or 13 cycling down a hill. Then everything went blank, as if something had suudcnly stopped him, and he had the sensation of “passing out.” There seemed to be a lapse of time between (ho prescribed accident and tho transition. Tho woman was disappointed, and said she knew nothing about any such 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 tho boy was her brother, who had been killed in an accident exactly as described some time before she was born.