MASS TELEPATHY.

Grey River Argus, 18 February 1927, Page 5

MASS TELEPATHY.

AN EXPERIMENT.

By Aid of Radio.

(Received February 17 at 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, February 17.

The Society of Psychical Research has organised a remarkable experiment m mass telepathy, by n.eans of wireless with the assistance of Sir Oliver Lodge and a party of leading scientists. The latter have been locked up in a room in Bloomsbury, and they have endeavoured to project a series of thoughts into space, in the hope that listeners-in would pick uup tllcir thoughts. In order that the test might be be yond suspicion, the scientists will be locked in Bloomsbury until after the first post to-day.

Sir Oliver Lodge,, addressing pul* lions of listeners-in pointed out that much evidence of telepathy was pos sible in the time of additional jdistress, such as that of death, and also if persons were in close sympathy with each other, but the object of this experiment lie said, was to see if telepathy operated over a distance on a mass scale.

Personally, said Sir Oliver Lodge, he thought the mind would bo so screened by the body that mass telepathy would be unlikely. Firstly the locked-up scien tists thought of a certain playing, card for three minutes. Then they asked the listeners-in to write down which card. Secondly, they thought of a- picture .Thirdly, they thought of an object of which they asked the listeners-in to record the impressions, other than the card. Fifthly there was a repetition of the third test. The listeners were finally asked to post their answers immediately.

So Sir O. Lodge pointed out that every allowance would be made for chance.