"SPOOKS" IN THE STEAD FAMILY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 235, 22 February 1913, Page 2 (Supplement)

"SPOOKS" IN THE STEAD FAMILY

DAUGHTER CLAIMS TO BE IX COMMUXICATION W[TH FATHER. Miss Estelle Stead, daughter of the late 31r. AY. T. Stead, who went down with the. Titanic, says she has been in frequent communication witli her father since his death. In the. current number of the London Magazine she explains why she believes in the spirit world, and the possibility of messages coming to us from it: —'T knew if anybody who bad passed over to the other side could come back and make his presence known, my father would do so. He has done so. He manifested more quickly and surely than I thought it would he possible for him to do. Xot only once, but many times has he shown himself and spoken to me."

Miss Stead says that her father tells her he is, for the time being, connected in a very definite manner with events in the Balkans, and that he is working fov the promotion of peace. Writing to her soon after his death, he explained his method of influencing people. Pie said: I want you to understand that my way of communicating will more and more consist in impressing, speaking throngl), writing through, and generally influencing any person whom I find f can train to be a useful instrument. I am not now speaking of developed sensitives and phyehics, but the ordinary man or woman who is going about his or her daily work without possibly having the slightest knowledge or interest Sin the psychic realm, and all-nn-eonseious of being the focus of deliberate impression from this side. I want, for instance, to forward some particular political movement, to

unravel some coil in international politics, to help a friend. How can I do this? Tdo not necessarily seek out the nearest trance-medium through whom to give the message. I know

too well that that would be one of ! the least effectual means of getting my wishes carried out. No; I whisper in the all-unconscious ear of ; T flash a thought into the brain of : and I hasten from one point to another, from one person to anotlier, sending a mental order as once I sent a letter; only the letter was known to be mine, whereas the order is generally felt by the recipient to bo merely his or her own thought P.ut in gets round, somehow, and so my

work goes on. At the end of October he said, with reference to the war: "There is very heavy work in front. Do not imagine the Turk has left Europe yet." Whether he has succeeded in getting these messages through correctly Miss Stead says she does not know, as the transmission of messages through a medium is extremely difficult. She declares, however, that her father is able to see now the definite result achieved by prayer and thought on this plane, and has asked for prayers and thoughts for peace, as. she says, force liberated in the direction of peace, will be used in a very definite way.