CORRESPONDENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 February 1928, Page 23

CORRESPONDENCE.

A SUPER STIHOUS IDEA

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—-In your Monday’s issue you published a letter signed “Perplexed”, with a startling message from a defunct old Maori chief, warning us-of Mt. Egmont’s eruption at a very early date. One hesitates to take serious notice Of such absurdity, but realising the credulity of an astonishing number of, people, wo crave a little space. Your correspondent is perplexed over what D nothing but a -“table leg” superstition, as far as the origin and of the messages is concerned.

Wonderful contact in many cases it obtained with living minds, sometimes at great distances, but to affirm that a person who died can communicate with the living is superstition. The medium’s messages, if genuine, come from a living brain—not from the dead. The wonderful phenomena revealed in modern wireless transmission of messages illustrates the marvellous possibilities in this direction. Wexhave lately introduced mechanical transmitting and receiving apparatus, .enabling communication to be -established per medium of the already existing electro-magnetic waves in our atmosphere. Now, take take highly sensitive living brain organisms as the transmitters -and receivers, and the wonderful atmospheric phenomena always surrounding us, and we account for the telepathy practised by so-called Spiritualists. This telepathy is a demonstrable scientific fact; communication with the dead an untruth!

In what state are the dead, then, it may be asked! The Almighty Creator, who has -designed, and who maintains, the countless wonders on every hand, has declared that when a man dies, he ceases to exist. The declaration is, “the dead know not anything.” This ia, however,, in contradiction with Die views of the majority of religious teachers, whose teaching dovetails so well with “Spiritualism,” providing, as it does, the continuity after death—all ready for the “Spiritualist” to operate upon.. In conclusion, it may be needful to counsel your correspondent to give table yappings and rumblings and similar paraphernalia a wide berth, while he or she is still a novice, and as yet but “perplexed.” Instead, search, and lay hold of truth. —I am etc., P. ANDERSON. Stratford, Feb. -8.