A PSYCHICAL TRIAL

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10314, 25 January 1927, Page 5

A PSYCHICAL TRIAL

SIX SCIENTISTS TO BE LOCKED UP IN ROOM. MUST NOT SPEAK, BUT THINK MESSAGES. LISTENEItS-IN ASKED TO CAINTELEPATHIC IMPRESSIONS (United Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received Jan. 24, 9.2 U p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 24. Assisted by Sir Oliver Lodge, uie Pyschical Research Society has arranged to lock up six scientists on the night of February id/ cut off from all communication with the outside world. The scientists will endeavor to get messages out to the worid, but they must not utter the messages, only think them. Wireless listeners throughout the world are asked to catch the messages and send their telepathic to the British Broadcasting Corporation.

The scientists’ thoughts will be written out beforehand, and placed in scaled envelopes, but the scientists will remain locked up until the listeh-ers-in have time to send their telepathic impressions, which will then be compared with the contents of the env elopes.—A.N. Z. C. A.

CHICAGO AMAZED. MIND READER’S POWERS. FEATS IN MENTAL SCIENCE. CHICAGO, Dec. 20. ' A. Khalda Bey an Egyptian with an “X-ray mind,” a swarthy telepathist, is not hindered in his work of reading the minds of other people,' even if they are separated by walls of stone. Demonstrations of his remarkable powers, given before a select gathciing at the home of Julious rCoscnwaid, lias aroused the interest ot sceptics as well as believers in telepathy in Chicago’s intelligentsia. in order to •convince the sceptics, the Egyptian will give another weird seance on Sunday afternoon. All that he requires is for the subject to concentrate on something, names, dates, musical scores, mathematical problems, chemical formulae—and he can tell with the utmost fidelity just what his subject was thinking of. Edward Lasker, chess wizard, who is a house guest of the Rosenwalds, said:

“Khalda Bey’s feat ranged from those familiar in telepathy to others for which there are only two or three precedents in the story of mental science. These ranged from grasping Mr. Rosenwald’s hand and staling correctly his mother’s maiden name to repeating, word for word, a sentence written in Arabic by Prof. Breasted the noted Egyptologist. Standing 20 to 30 feet away from a person he could ‘read’ that person’s mind as to a geometrical design and draw a picture of it exactly as the subject bad conceived it. He uttered correctly combinations of figures in the hundreds of thousands and also read minds of pieces of music and sang the score and the wol ds. “One of the -most remarkable things he did was a bit of mind reading with Prof. Goodkind who had in mind a medical term of rare disease which would occupy three or four lines in print. The Egyptian gave it with the utmost precision.”