TALKS WITH THE DEAD.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 152, 21 March 1908, Page 10

TALKS WITH THE DEAD.

SIR "WILLIAM RAMSAY A SCEPTIC,

rTh'e; roniarkhblo paper'read .by Sir .Oliver Lodge 'before -the Society ■ fpr. Psychical ,'Rer search—in.; which hp claimed'' that', communi- , cation had been established-.With" the'spirits of, three, dead- persons-yhas . been received with considerable scepticism .-in-'scientific, circles';*'."' ' '• '

• "Personally I do not beliovo iii those,'bocalled ' phenomena, Si- "Williamßamsay, tho famous scientist,;told an "Express"- representative.l "I- put them down •to hallucination: i-.'- ,: ", • . '... -

... "Once I. was. a member; of the ■ council of the . Society-.-for ! Psychical; ;]lesearch ', myself; and attended' .many .of.' iheir . 'investigations. I 'was ;ulbimately compelled; to resign because their methods' of. investigation.;, degenerated from thb; practical to Hho ghostly; , ' •:."From my pwn; observations I becamo convinced tlmt iho sprcallod manifestations wero nothing but',humbug.;.-y i,:... s i .- : . "Many, moro wonderful : manifestations than, those described by . Sir •. Oliver Lodge havo been seen by Sir William Crookes, if only ho. would • tell thom publicly. But, though ,1 do not doubt Sir William Crookes saw, all ho said he has. seen, L am not able to. see these manifestations . myself, and thoreforo.lremain a- sceptic,." Tho; Society fpr' 'Psychical Research ' aro guarding, th& results: - of-their investigations with, t.ho utmost' secrecy i!; . ' ■ is . our desire to ■. publish the ; whole of ; the results .at once/' said a prominent member, of the Society to an "Express" representative.;., ."When they are published", I am- conrmcod ■. that-, tho public' will admit their genuineness.".. v

London -spiritualists are eagerly.'awaiting further- details,•- Mr.' 15. - W. Waliis,' oiib.vof .tho editors of "Light," tlio priiicipal .ualist-organ, told an t've that it was tho first time to his knowledge .that cross-correspondence-ftho "recep-' tion of part of a ■ ntessago,through ono medium and part through • -another,-''neither' separately understood-.'by '.either—Had' been - known to, take place."■' • -' The late, J\ .W. H. Myers left a sealed package before -.he died,, containing some secret phrases known only to himself," said another spiritualist. : A . . ■-. > : TO his declared object beforo death to try.tp exprt.his spirit influence aftor death upon.mmds still incarnate. • /' .- • . "He lioped_--to communicate "in his spirit form some phrases identical with thoso in the sealed envelope. , The opening of ilio envelope after ■ tlio recoption 5f supposed spirit messages from him would then prove " ey gen'uino or not. ' ' . ".ether ; ' this test has .actually been made m the investigations carried out by Sir Oliver Lodge I'dp not.know,". '