ABORIGINES AND TELEPATHY

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 16, 19 January 1924, Page 13

ABORIGINES AND TELEPATHY

Few_ people. may be aware that the aborigines of Australia possess telepathic powers. Such, however, is' the case. Mr. David Unaipon, the cultured, fullblooded aboriginal, who has been delivering addresses here on behalf of the Australian Board -of Missions, says that all those aborigines who have passed the tests are capable of communicating with one another telepathically. The generally accepted belief that the aborigines communicate with one another by means of smoke signals is wrong, according to Mr.. Unaipon. The smoke, he says, is made only to attact attention. The aborigine, who sees it- immediately concentrates his mind on the man who has made the smoke, while the other sends out his thought, which is received by the other. Mr. Unaipon says he can communicate by such means with his brother 700 miles away. He tells also how aboriginal boys and girls are taught to bring into subjection all natural desires and to master pain. Thus they have a front tooth knocked out witfiout showing any emo.tion. Fear is the- next emotion dealt with, and their bodies are lacerated with stone axes and charcoal is thrown into the wounds. It suggests the daya of the Inquisition. Anyway , those who decline to undergo these tests are ostracised and looked upon as de generate. The white man, it is safe to say, would rather be Tegarded as^ degenerate than undergo these tortures He would sooner be a live lamb than run the risk of being a dead lion.