SPIRITUALISM

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18756, 12 July 1935, Page 12

SPIRITUALISM

FIRST UNIVERSITY CHAIR l ' ;■ TO BE FOUNDED IN SWEDEN LONDON, May 17. A chair devoted to the study of spiritualism—the first in the world—is to be established at Lund University, Sweden. Before it is set up a. two years’ course of lectures is to be given. British men of science are to take part. Mrs. Eira Hellberg, secretary of the International University Circle _Free Forum in Stockholm, has arrived in England to invite the co-ojperation of the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and London. ‘‘At' Lund a 'scientific • investigation will be made of psychical phenomena,’ she said yesterday, “Paid mediums are barred. “There are many things—clairvoyance, telepathy, automatic writing—to explain. , Without accepting any of them as manifestation from another world, an attempt will be made to establish how the body can produce * such phenomena. “A group of our workers in Germany, with new instruments, are attempting to photograph the soul. RAYS OF THOUGHT “There are points in the brain which send out, the rays of thought. We shall try to establish the clairvoyant point where feelings we call intuitions are registered.” Mrs. Hellberg, herself a medium, instanced a remarkable phenomenon to be investigated. “The daughter of Judge Dahl, in Norway,” she said, “at a seance in 1933 said that her father would bo killed in a year’s time. “Without knowing of this, 1,, too, at a seance about the same time, said that the judge would be killed. “On August 8, 1934, he was drowned while bathing. “We do not accept this as phenomena from the other side. It might be telepathy. By science, an attempt will be made to find out how two minds could register that fatally true glimpse of the future.”