BARONESS WITH A MESSAGE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16921, 30 December 1925, Page 7

BARONESS WITH A MESSAGE.

PSYCHIC KNOWLEDGE 18 MANKIND'S ONLY HOPE. OOMMCNOATION WITH THE •DEAD. PEOPLE IN AMEb'IV'A, SHE SAYS. NOW THINK NOTHING OF IT. Baroness Von fClonnor, who visited New Zealand aboard the Carinthia, says people in America now think nothing of communicating with the dead. It is too common. She holds communication regularly on Sunday evenings with her head husband.

In a democratic country like America, titles are at discount, and there is only, one on the Carinthia/ Baroness Katherinc Evans Yon Klcuner. She is good Welsh on her father's side, but her late husband was in the Italian diplomatic.' service. ' and she speaks several Languages. She has written a book, called "The -Greater Kovela-' lion," to prove the continuity of life in its unbroken activities hereafter, and is in the forefront of things psychic. Baroness von Klenuer does not go tho whole length that Conn 11 Doyle does. She thinks he wants to know too much, and reduce things to a purely scientific basis with his talk about ecieplasnifv and all that. She believes fairies can lie photographed, but thinks much that Conan Doyle is said to have received from "the other side - " is rather puerile.

"He is ton rislotiishiod," Oic said. " lie is new lo psychic phenomena, and is surprised at things that are taken as :i m;ilter of course by people who have become used to Iheni. We do these things privately, and so rhey are not talked about, but of the.sureiiess of message.- from over the. borderland there is no possible doubt. " . ..

REGULAR SUNDAY PRACTICE. Baroness von Klcniicr went on to explain that people in America thought nothing now of communicating with people who had passed away. She held regular communication, through a medium, with her lale husband. It is n regular .Sunday evening practice, and she thinks it no more strange than being interviewed by a New Zealand reporter. This does not mean that she goes all the way with the Spiritualists. For in her own expressive words she is "too hidebound a Church «c' England for that." Tho Baroness holds that at no time in the history of the world was there so much opportunity of communicating with the spirits of people ofOt the borderland. She put it down to the fact that during the war so many young lives, not ready or willing to dio, were quenched. She thinks that the restless spirits of these young men are clamoring to get. messages across Personally sho is not a medium, but she is decidedly full of vitality. HAS A MESSAGE TO DELIVER.

"I am a dynamo," she says, "and I feel that I have a message to deliver. When I told my friends that I was coming on this world tour they said, 'You're mad, woman,' but I feel that I have something to tell the people My book made a great sensation, and I feel that a proper knowledge of these psychic questions is rli3 only nope for human kind. It is the only way to stop wars, and bring about the thing we all pray for in the words 'Thy Kingdom, come.' " All this sounds rather "spooky," but the Baroness is really a very matter of fact woman, who in her younger days was a pupil of the great Manuel Garcia, and made a name for herself as a singer, her stage name being "Evani." She is now president of the National Opera Club of America.

Baroness von Klcuner hopes to gel into touch with people- interested in Die psychic, as nothing pleases her more than lo talk to interested people, upon these matters.