THE DREAM WORLD.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9695, 20 January 1910, Page 7

THE DREAM WORLD.

' The problems of psychical research continue to engage the attention of so eminent a scientist as Sir Oliver Lodge,and he has embodied bis views and experiences in a volume entitled "The Survival of Man.'' Mr Sydney Low, in reviewing it, says: —"I rise from Sir Oliver Lodge's book with the impression that in regard to the great mystery we are "no forrader," or at least not much forrader, many of Sir Oliver's deductions are drawn from the case of Mrs Piper, that celebrated Boston medium who occupied the attention of Myers, the late Dr Hodgson, and other earnest students. Sir Oliver has gone into i;er case closely. The laoy was,an inmate cf his house at Liverpool for some weeks and she gave him daily 'sittings,' with the results carefully watched, noted, and tested Mrs Piper, for wh-jse good faith Sir Oliver vouches with absolute confidence, can throw hersalf into a I state of trance or autohypnosis, and in that condition she exhibits abnormal telepathic and 'clairvoyant' powers, and develops a secondary personality. She can perform with i great ea3e ail the teat of thought- j transference, divine what is passing j 'in another person's mind, sometimes I • even when that person is at a disj tance, reproduce letters or diagrams without meeting them, read writings enclosed in sealed envelopes or locked boxes, convey information which it seems she could not possibly have obtained without extracting it directly from the mind or the brain of some other person. It i<? all very extraordinary and so are some of the other exampls of thought-transfer-ence or telepathy given in this volume. This, for instance, which ha t > the advantage of being well authen - ticated and requiring no mediumistic assistance: On October 27th, 1883, at j seven a.m., Mrs Arthur Severn woke up in her bed at Brantwood with the sensation that she had received a hard blow on the mouth, and that her upper lip was bleeding; but she found that this was not the case, and that she had, in fact, received no injury. Presently her husband, who had bean out sailing on the lake, came in With hia mouth bleecing and his lip cut, having been baily struck by a boom at precisely seven o'clock. Other and more dramatic experiences are given, such as that of the miner in Natal, who stopped inthemiddbj of a game of cards to tell his companion that his mother in England ' ft as dying and calling upon him by | name. Many weeks afterwards he , learned that his perception was correct."