PSYCHICPHENOMENA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8158, 17 July 1906, Page 4

PSYCHICPHENOMENA.

Carrying out experiments in psychic phenomena, hmw scientists at Kuvo proJuixKl <*mie striking results. A 14-year-old boy was put in a trance, and in this condition answered questions put to him in Greek, Latin, Arabic, English, and German, and answered is those languages, his voice being that of a m.in. Such is the latest revelation of that condition of trance the mystery of which id such a eore puzzle to some of the keenest intellects of onr time. It is not long since remarkable statements treru made on this subject at a meeting of the Society of Psychical Research. Professor Kiehet, the president of the society, for instance, described a most inexplicable phenomenon I which had come under hie own observation. A certain woman, a friend of his whom he called " Madam X." had on several occasions while in a trance written sentences in Greek, a language of which the has not even elementary knowledge. Once she wrote down three Greek quotations, which were ultimately traced to a very rare dictionary of French and Greek, which the woman had never seen, and which, even if she bad seen it, sue was quite unable to read in her normal condition, -while on another occasion, when the professor called to see her, she wrote a sentence in Greek which meant " At sunrise and •unset the shadows lengthen." What is the secret of this strange human condition in which a person is able to converse fluently in several unknown tongues; to write down sentences in the difficult characters of a dead language, not a single letter of which tno person experimented on could write in her nornmle state, and to quote accurately from a book on which she has never set eyes? This is a problem of which no one living can yet offer a solution and which may well baffle human ingenuity (or generations to come.