NINE TIMES "DEAD."

Western Star, 11 June 1935, Page 4

NINE TIMES "DEAD."

AMAZING EXPERIENCES. ENGLISH DOCTOR'S FEAR. To be pronounced dead nine times and once actually placed in his" coffin, is the remarkable experience of Dr M'lvor-Tyndall, who, . after an absence) of 45 years, has returned to England.. In order to prevent any similar future calamity he always carries a letter to guard against the possibility of his being .buried alive while in a trance. The letter reads, "If at any time during or after an experiment in thought reading, telepathy, or clairvoyance I should become entranced, please take care not to hold an autopsy, or post mortem, until at least seven days have elapsed, or until all known tests have been tried, proving that death has taken place." Dr M'lvor-Tyndall is known in nearly every country in the world for his psychological power and thought transference demonstrations. At Market Harborough, his native town, h© told the story of his nine "deaths" and of his experiences when he found himself in a coffin prepared for burial. "The trances to which I am subject leave no injurious effects," he said. "A medical authority has told me that their effect on me was rejuvenating."

FEAR OF PREMATURE BURIAL. "There is, of course, always one great dread—that I might be buried alive This nearly happened to me when once I was in «. trance. Suddenly I was? released from my catalepsy and, to my horror, I found I was lying; in a coffiu, ready to be buried. No one can imagine the reactions of a sane and healthyperson to. such an ordeal. It was only natural that I should visualise the terrifying experience I should have endured but for my release from the trance — the possibility of my awakening to. find myself suffocating in a tomb," Demonstrations of Dr Mc'lvor.Tyndall's thought transference powers have been given before the police authorities all over the, world. While in New York he was brought closely into tantact witli the famous Lindbergh murder case. "I feel Hauptmann is absolutely innocent," he stated. "Before the trial commenced I expressed that opinion and, in my mind, it is a case similar to that of the famous Dreyfus trial. The American nation has spent nearly £250,000 to prove the matt guilty."

AIDING THE POLICE. At Los Angeles the doctor was sought to help the police unravel the mystery of a man who had been; arrested and sent to prison, but had remained silent for a week. Dr M'lvovTyndall interviewed the prisoner. "I hypnotised the man, and in a few mo-i ments received a mental impression that another man was concerned in the case,'" he said "A description was given an:!/ the story told of how certain premisesi were entered. The place to which the stolen booty was taken was also revealed. The goods afterwards were found on the premises, and the stolen property recovered,"

Another case instanced was that of a> man accused on a murder charge. Hei was unable to account for his whereabouts on the day the murder was committed. "As a result-of my powers," continued the doctor, "I discovered! that the man was miles away in Saii Francisco at the time of the crime. The information wap verified, and the real criminal arrested."

CLERICAL DRESS BANNED

CURIOUS NEW TURKISH LAW. One of the most curious laws just. ' passed by the Turkish Republic is the law banning the wearing of clerical dress outside closed places of worship by Mos- | lem,' Jewish, Christian, or other clergy, [ says the Constantinople correspondent of the 'Manchester Guardian.' Nowi , that the regulations regarding if haves J been promulgated, it is clear thatthe j ban is to be thorough. It will come into force in June next. Even the | tourist clerics who pass through Turkey, for example, the Christian clerics who. take part in the various pilgrimages to the Holy Land, will be unable to land in Turkish territory unless ,they put on lay dress. The only exception is to be one resident cleric for each religion, the cleric in question being selected by .the Government and specially authorised! to wear clerical dregs outside ehrines. Another difficulty which the regulations create is that open-air burials may no longer be carried out by clerics wearing religious sdress. At first it would 6eem as if the Turkish leaders had gone out of their way to invest a troublesome and irritating law without purpose. But the fact that the Minister of the Interior says that the law i 8 necessary for the safety of the State shows that they are serious about it and indicates I its motivp. Its primary objects is to deprive the Moslem clergy of the irregular authority still remaining to them. This persists, helped by their distinctive dress. The more ignorant population continues to give them an undue veneration and to attribute to them an occult knowledge. The villagers go to them for medical charms and for "holy breathings" to relieve pain, in spite of these practices being now forbidden. The sign of special holiness due to having made the pilgrimage to Mecca has long since been abolished, but fhe possession of distinctive dress in the streets and village ways, challenges the conception that all authority in the new Turkey jnust comp down from the lay republican leaders. More or" less the same motive is behind the. extension of the veto of Jewish, Christian, or other clergy. The principal problem caused by the ban is that many Christian religious communities and orders are engaged in hospital and edu-, cational work in Turkey. These and monks and brothers will now havei to leave the country or to lead a clois--tered lifp. It appears that the first alternative is to be chosen. The Jewish and Greek Orthodox clergy are to wear 5 frockcoats and bowler hats. As, however, the law says that the clergy must ' have no distinctive dress outside ' shrines this attire will not be laid down « by rule.

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