MASS TELEPATHY

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 57, 18 February 1927, Page 5

MASS TELEPATHY

REMARKABLE EXPERIMENT USE OF WIRELESS. London. Feb. 17. The Society of Psychical Research organised a remarkable experiment in mass telepathy by means of wireless. with the assistance of Sir Oliver Lodge and a party of leading sciontints. The latter were locked up in a room in Bloomsbury and endeavoured to project a series of thoughts into space in the hope that listeners-in would pick up the thoughts. In order that the test might be beyond snspicon, the scientists will be locked in Bloomsbury until after the first post to-day. Sir Oliver Lodge, addressing millions of listeners-in, pointed out that much evidence of telepathy was pos sible in time of emotional distress, such as death, also if persons were in close sympathy with each other, but the object of the experiment was to see if telepathy operated over a distance on a mass scale. Personally, Sir Oliver Lodge thought the mind would be so screened by the body that mass telepathy would be unlikely. Firstly the locked up scientists thought of a certain playing card for three minute* and then asked listeners to write down which card. Scecondly they thought of a picture, and thirdly of an object, of which they asked the listeners to record their impression other than sight. Fourthly. another playing card; fifthy, a repetition of the third test. Listeners were finally asked to post their answers immediately, Sir Oliver Lodge pointing out that every allowance would be made for chance.—(A. and N.Z.)