TELEPATHY MAY BRING NEW SENSES FOR THOSE NOW LOST.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19236, 25 November 1930, Page 6

TELEPATHY MAY BRING NEW SENSES FOR THOSE NOW LOST .

Specially Written For The ‘‘Star’

By

Claude Retain.

The general supposition is that men and Women of to-day have reached the last stage of (physical) evolution, and may now be regarded as finished products. But those who have made a study of anthropology hold that we are mere half-baked beginners at present. We stilt retain the remnants of a tail in addition to a throat formation that suggests more than the possibility of descent from some far prehistoric marine being. Our commonest senses are now confined to seeing, hearing, smelling, and touching. But an enormous number of our emotions and senses must have been atrophied by time and disuse.

"UTE ARE gradually losing even those senses which we look upon as our birthright. We may note the slow but sure decline in the power of human sight even in our own times when sailors with spectacles do not seem absurd. In the near future we shall certainly be wearing all kinds of mechanical aids to seeing, hearing and smelling. If our sense of smell were really developed we could not walk down the street without being affected by the variety of unpleasant odours that would assail tts. They must be there, because any dog can detect them at once. We may be thankful in some respects that the rotting bones which delight our dog do not alarm us by the suggestion of bacteria. A bath would be impossible if the accident of birth gave us X-ray br microscopic eyes which could see the floating germs. Bird and Animal Senses. Birds hear worms in the ground, but to us these sounds would speak of horrors we profess to forget. The hearing sensitivity of an antelope on the brain of a man would be insupportable irs any modern city. _ The sceptic who derides the possibility of new and, as yet, almost unthought-of emotions and senses in man should consider and—if he can—explain certain bird and animal senses. How is it, for instance, that Mr Moth can sometimes find the whereabouts of Mrs Moth over the length and breadth of a whole city? What sense is this? It has been thought that this faculty is greatest in moth, of which the antennae in proportion to its body are longest. Is not this suggestive of some queer “insect radio?” A pigeon released from a box will travel four or five hundred miles over absolutely strange country to its home. Can the sceptic dismiss this phenomenon by merely referring to the natural homing instinct of the pigeon ? Growth of Intelligence. At any rate civilised man, who may be termed a distinctly more advanced being ®@®®®®®®®®®@H®@®®®®®®®!

than the pigeon, is almost entirely without this sense of sub-conscious interrogation. Yet certain savage tribes are possessed of it, and it hardly seems feasible that the primitive man of the forest could have existed without it altogether. - Man is undoubtedly changing, and we are surely entitled to predict that in time he will develop new senses to take the place of the old. His body is becoming of less account, and his brain is assuming greater importance as the ages unfold. Intelligence will be speeded up to an at present unimagined degree. Telepathy may be an electrical process which will soon be established. It is not yet an exact science, because the average human brain is not advanced enough even to comprehend it. But everyday communication between two minds separated by great distances is bound to come. There is hardly a living scientist who will disagree with this statement. Telepathy. Telepathy, then, will mean the development of a new sense, in other words, the ability to receive and transmit thought waves. Before long we shall require smell and possibly the stimulation of physical contact with our broadcasting entertainments. We shall use no bodily energy to obtain entertainment, rather shall we demand it in our homes. Even to-day we seek the aids of light and smell to induce a sense of rhythm. Who could dance in sunlight to a smell of kippers? Substitute carnations and twilight and the effect is totally different. The man of the future will expect synthetic emotions through his new-found senses. He may obtain them by means of drugs or by systematic control, perhaps a kind of advanced auto-suggestion. However he does it, the random _ and usually misplaced methods of obtaining happiness that we know to-day will certainly not satisfy him. Perhaps he may even manufacture a happiness of his own. (Anglo-American N.S. —Copyright.) I®®®®®®®® SUES®®® SHU®®®®® Charge According to Girth. Women who have run to embonpoint at any particular spot are charged £lO 10s to £ls 15s, according to their girth for a sixinch “ localised reduction.” No matter how many treatments are required to effect this, the client is told that if her measuringtape does not register the six-inch improvement she will be “ manipulated ” until it does. The treatment when demonstrated consisted of movements learned from a Japanese ju-jitsu expert and carefuly taught to the brown-overalled girls who carried them out. A client who required hip-slimming was subjected to a rapid succession of leg pulls. A girl caught hold of her legs, whirled them round like a windlass, and passed them on to another, who did a kind of por-ridge-stirring manipulation. Stout ankles and calves were attacked by equally drastic methods. Incredible as it may seem, the victims appeared to enjoy it.