PSYCHICAL RESEARCH

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2330, 17 September 1921, Page 1

PSYCHICAL RESEARCH

Addressing a meeting of the Soviet v for Psychical Research, the [lon. Mrs Alfred Lyttelton said the sovietv had established beyond all question that some oi. the supernormal phenomena they had started lo examine existed. Apparitions involving sonic veridical element had been seen, both of the living and of I lie dead. A multitude of eases of telepathic communication had been proved, as well as innumerable instances of physical phenomena, such as table-turning, levitation, Tappings, and messages. J lie transmission of thoughts and ideas otherwise than through the senses had been demonstrated, and side by side with the wonderful advance of the last 20 years in the study of psychology, the careful and patient work of the society had explored the subconscious mind, and discovered many of its strange and unsuspected powers and habits. The society claimed lo be a scientific bud\ walking in the same way as any otlici , lint it was the misfortune of the subject with which it dealt lo he inextricably entangled with human terrors and hopes. 1 lie society had it- hand now on the thread which would guide it through the maze of mystery and doubt, truth was then gonl, and a fearless acceptance of whatever it might imply, their inlenI,in. No prejudices, no beliefs no fears, should stand in the wa\. Ridicule and contempt » had been faced, and would probably have lo |,e Diced again, Imt the >"eioly would continue to investigate, silt, and classify.