Do you believe in thought transference – sending messages from mind to mind? People were just as interested in this subject over 100 years ago as they are today. Newspapers published articles on it, such as the article below, and books were published on telepathy and science.
Can Thought Flash From Mind to Mind?
Have you tried to read a mind yet?
Did you try the tests suggested in The Day Book the other day by Sir Oliver Lodge, the world’s greatest psychologist?
The article by Sir Oliver attracted a good deal of attention, and today The Day Book presents another on “thought transference,” a subject very closely allied to mind reading.
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London, Aug. 20. — “That thought can be transferred from mind to mind, even through vast distances, is not a mere supposition; it has been proved time and again,” asserts Sir Oliver Lodge, the world’s leading psychic investigator.
Take the case of Mrs. Joan R. Severn, Brentwood, Eng., reported to the society for psychical research. One morning she was awakened, feeling that she had had a hard blow on the mouth, and with a distinct sense that she had been cut, and her upper lip was bleeding.
She was not hurt at all, but in a few minutes her husband, who had arisen early, came in. He had been sailing, and had been struck by the tiller. His upper lip was swollen and had bled profusely.
About the same time that Sir Oliver Lodge was giving the accompanying interview to the London representative of The Day Book a dispatch was going over this country telling of a remarkable case of mental telepathy happening in America.
James Dorris, formerly of Vincennes, Ind., standing in the public square of Cleveland, O., was suddenly arrested by the sound of his mother’s voice. Plainly he heard her say: “Come quickly that I may see you before I die.”
Mr. Dorris hadn’t seen his mother for years and for a long time his family had lost trace of his whereabouts. He went right to the depot and took a train for Vincennes.
He got to the home of his mother, Mrs. Orna McCoy, just after she had died. Those who had been with her said that her last few hours were spent talking about the absent son.
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Albert Tonks was in South Africa, far from telegraphic or postal facilities. One morning he went to his employer, Prof. J.M. Redmayne, and said: “My mother died this morning: the last thing she said was, ‘I will never see my Albert again.’” Six weeks later a letter arrived telling Tonks of the death of his mother. She had died the same morning he had received the mental message, and her last words were correctly quoted.
Mrs. Frederick L. Lodge (not related to Sir Oliver Lodge) was traveling on a train from Derby to Leicester. At 3:30 p.m., a telegram paper appeared before her eyes. On it was “Come at once, your sister is dangerously ill.” She had no idea of her sister being ill, in fact she had not been thinking about her, but of her small daughter, whom she had just left at a boarding school. When she returned home she found the telegram with those words. At 3:30 p.m. a friend of the family was writing the message at a telegraph office.
Mrs. Agnes Paquet lived in an American city far from Chicago. She had not heard from her brother, Edmund Dunn, for a long time, until one morning she saw (mentally) her brother wearing a blue sailor’s shirt, falling over the rail of a boat. She heard his cry for help. A few hours later she received a telegram from Chicago saying that Edmund Dunn had drowned from a tugboat in the harbor.
Sir Oliver Lodge explains the case in this way. When Dunn was going overboard, he undoubtedly was thinking intently of his nearest relative, his sister, hence the thought transference. A similar explanation covers the other cases, he says.
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Reader Tells of Mind Reading Experience
I was much interested in your recent article telling of the mind reading experiments of Sir Oliver Lodge, and asking readers to test their own powers.
I have had many telepathic experiences. Often I have written to a friend after an interval of months, and received in a day or two a letter written to me by that friend at the same time. I am sure that it is a plain case of thought transference — the idea of writing, in the mind of one of us, calling up the same idea in the mind of the other.
Again, many a time I have gone to the telephone to call up a friend, and have found that the very person I wanted was on the line, trying to call me.
These occurrences are so common that people seldom pay any attention to them. I believe, however, that they are of great scientific interest.
Yours sincerely,
S.V.T.
Source: The Day Book (Chicago, Illinois newspaper). August 20, 1912.
