WEIGHT OF GHOSTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 11, 6 February 1909, Page 3

WEIGHT OF GHOSTS.

NEW TIIEOKV OF UFK AFTER • DEATH. NO STRUGGLE FOR LIFE. Mr. Fournier iTAlbe, IS.Sc., secretary of the Dublin Society of Psychical Research. explained to au audience of spiritualists at the rooms of the Royal Societv of .British Artists in SuilolksU'ectl Pall Mall, his new theory regarding the life of the soul after death. • He weut so far as to indicate the kind of life (Which, in his belief, is led by disembodied souls and the probable duration of it, supporting his specula- ■ tions by scientific arguments. I After commenting upon the fact that I "a poor ghost at the window is .shot at, persecuted, denounced, and .exorcised,•'"Sir. d'Albe gave his reasons for believing that the soul of man is an aggregation of the ••psyehomeres," or .soul particles, inhabiting the individual cells of the human body. . "These psyehonieres,' he said, "are probably opaque to ultra-violet light, and therefore may oome day be made visible by more, powerful optical means .than we at .present possess. They will then be weighed and measured. Their weight will probably be found to be about one-thousandth part of the weight of the body." • After death Mr. d'Albe s -psychomeres" unite to form 'the aud are, from their nature, suited to the environment of the earth almoaphcie iu which he believes they lloat. jhe\ have cunseiousutss and power ot locomotion. or energy, which, as it must he derived from some source, is probably obtained from the ultra-violet rays ot th \lr"(l'AHjl- argued thai as the sou) Mv subsists on tin-' suu-rays it require, no digestive «»'!F lU4 i' f,r «.-Uu""le as the material bud\ does 1 food?" Having thus lost tin; incentive to [or existence, the suuhbudj u.tains the higher <iual.ty ot competition ill mutual service. Tin' soul-body, nH vorJiii" to -Mr. d'Albe's theory, is timefore uigaged only in cultivalUW the l-ll.er virtues of justice, kmdncss, and; 4 'Tollo»'ii>g this ,IlH ' of )1 '" d'Albe, whose work in science and ps - rhical research has been commended b> l'rofes,ov Oliver Lodge and Sir William i'rooke* ar<med that the atmosphere 1, Xbiu'd by the souls of tho-e who have lived for the last thirty thousand ""rile realm of souls," he said, ''extend. upwards from where we .laudJo two hundred miles, and " as Uuc • populated as the earth. . : After thirty thousand yeai, ot th •tr \i b.^" - t/" i f ur«> '" l ° t' 1 " 1 " ,vs . f or " « lio»toto7.Wco^W«»c. the. environment whicll is 10 final cosmic