Show PSYCHIC MAKES TESTS IN H SALT lA E CITY Head of American Society Fails to Attain Desired Results Thus far in Local Researches AIMS AND PURPOSES i FRANKLY DISCUSSED INVESTIGATIONS ALONG STRICT STRICTLY ILY LY SCIENTIFIC LINES FINAN FINANCIAL CIAL SUPPORT IS NEEDED 1 I will ill say 8 that the members of ot the American Society of Psychical Re Research Rei search i arch think that they have hao accumulated sated evidence to Justify the th belief in a future life and this fact of course I to heighten the Interest in the re researches ret searches archos t being conducted by b our so society society o but it ft is generally believed that the evidence we have is still Insufficient upon which to base any absolute as assurance assurance on that point That statement st was made yesterday afternoon to the writer by Dr James JamesH JamesJ H U J Hyslop secretary of the society of oC psychical research r who is recognized ad a the loading leading of this country Dr Hyslop has been in this thia city nearly three toree weeks wo ks conducting investigations itt Iff the Interests of his society and al although although although though for stated reasons he has been visiting the city incognito except in intile Intile tile Ufe instances of a few persons of I f Salt Lake City who are deeply interested In lila his scientific work he very willingly const con to an interview yesterday lIe He Is registered at the Cullen hotel as J 1 Emery Smith lIe He stated that his only object in using an assumed name was to protect the persons who are will willing willing ing lug to allow his experiments in the aid of science Dr came to this city cit with an expectation of gaining some data that would be very to the objects of the society and says he has experienced experienced considerable disappointment his visit isit so far having produced of particular value Thore There are two persons here whom I thought could add valuable data to the collection we have hae he said and I had expected to experiment with per perhaps perhaps haps ten persons In Salt Lake How However However However ever I have bavi accomplished very Ver little here bere For obvious reasons reason Dr Hyslop did not care to disclose the tle names of the persons with whom he has hm experimented experimented here particularly as he had ob obtained obtained none of the desired results so fO far with them Talks of His Hs Work Dr Hyslop Hyslup is ig a very Vt ry modest unas unassuming unassuming unassuming suming man m n with kindly thoughtful cO and rid carries a rather grave grae sol solemn solemn expression That he is deeply wholly Interested in his work is very apparent He talked freely concerning the tho work of the society and his Ills sen sentences sentences sentences were direct concise and convincing convincing convincing ing He refrained entirely from dis discussions discussions of theories and said The society does not engage in any at all its object o is to get at the real ral truth and its scientific researches are conducted to attain fiat object regardless of what developments they may lead leatI to Membership in the society does not require any belief or disbelief and involves only the financial obligations to the society and mem hers bers receive In compensation for the dues duos they pay the publications of the society The American Society of Psychical Research Is the successor of the Amen Ameri American I Ican can branch of the English society The American branch was disorganized by the death In 1905 of Dr Richard Hodg Hodgson son which made It necessary to reorganize reorganize reorganize The society now has close to sIo members and a large number of leading European scientists are honor bonor honorary ary any fellows Among these th are Lord Raleigh Sir Oliver Oller Lodge of the University 1 sity cotty at Manchester Sir William Crookes crook es a leading scientist of England Arthur James Balfour former ormer prime I minister ter of England Professor W R H Barrett of the University of Dublin Professor Pierre Janet of the College of ot France Professor Max Ilax Dessoir of the University of Berlin Baron von of the University of Munich and many man others of similar prominence In America we have bae In In fn our work a number of men of equal prominence among whom I might name Professor William Wllliam James of Harvard Dr Charles L Dana and Dr Frederick Peterson I Issues Is ues Two Publications The society has been boen issuing publications publiCAtionS for the last two years rears They arc are a monthly journal and an annual volume The object of the society is isto isto isto to collect C data bearing on all aU unusual human experiences of Interest rest to the science of ot It compre com pre hands Investigating and getting data on t the various types of Illusions and hal the phenomena of the tho sub subconscious p conscious mind telepathy or mind reading apparitions visions of the dy d ding jug ing clairvoyance premonition fore foretasting forecasting I tasting casting of events cents and mediumistic I II I i phenomena purporting to t be communications communications from the dead The primary object of the society is to collect for permanent preservation tion all the data possible to secure of o actual human experience relating to these matters matten and its function as al a publishing body o is Js secondary to the preservation pre of the facts collected A great mass of evidence is already in th hands of pf the and as I 1 said aid Id while the members think they ha have on hand sufficient evidence to believe there is a future life for earth mortals It Is not thought the evidence Is yet ret sufficient sufficient dent to warrant an absolute statement that such future life exists The work of ot the Society needs ne ds funds and one of the objects of my visit here Is to interest the public in the thc work The object is to get Individuals who have the strange unusual mental ex cx experiences experiences to give us the records of oC them to 10 let us investigate and study stud their cases and to make records concerning them that they may ma be b preserved A majority of the people who have had these private experiences object to hav hay having havIng hayIng ing them thorn published and we are arc bound to respect their wishes but by preserving ing In the notes they are sure to t be use useful useful ful In later years Financial Support Needed The matter on hand collected and published since the organization of the thc L English society In 1882 shows expert experiences experiences of ot a large body of supernormal phenomena The mass of information obtained by human minds by methods I not known to the normal sense perception perception tion points to a large extent at least to the probability that these persons are able to at least superficially com corn commune commune mune with the dead This would mean that human personality survives death The society however does not make this belief bellet belie any part of Its purpose Our great aim is to interest the pub pUblic public lic In our work so that in making our scientific researches we ve may proceed on the same footing that other scientific researches arc being conducted We need support The Flexner Institute endowed by b Mr Ir Rockefeller can study diseases and investigate for cures with without without without out being In any way handicapped for funds The Carnegie Institute in Wash ington with at Its hand band for scientific researches will not aid our cause The universities ties have to draw on for care of ot superannuated college professors North Pole expeditions deep sea ing bees aerial navigation stunts and and the doctor gave the reporter the first smile of the interview automo bile races but none of them show any an desire to study and antI solve this greatest question of them all bearin on th existence of a future life beyond the the grave gran and what may nay be Its ethical and religious rell ous bearing on those of us still stilt of this world Those who are con ducting these important Im investigations are not getting the support they de deserve deserve deserve serve However interest in this work Is constantly growing and the society has received elved some material assistance The society obtained a fund of for Its preliminary organization That will have been all spent this year except set aside to assure the permanency of the organization One man has bas left in his will direct to the society and an additional sum to go to the so on the death of beneficiaries who receive the income from it during their lives Another person erson has bas put a codicil In his will leaving the p clety a sum not specified as yet on condition that the society has a permanent endow ment mont of Dr Hyslop stated that the society did no pretend to have bae any theories when it started out to collect facts re ro garding phenomena In the psychical field All AH that it endeavored to do and andall ane an all that it is still endeavoring to do Is I I to see sec eO that the stories circulated about remarkable experiences are investigated ed and to ascertain if they the could be ad adequately adequately substantiated The society grouped Its facts under various heads such as telepathy alleged clairvoyance alleged prevision or premonition the forecasting of future events medium phenomena purporting to be com corn communications communications with the dead dowsing or the finding of or water and minerals by b ba a stick or any other apparently super supernormal supernormal supernormal normal means the phenomena of hyp hp and of unconscious clous mental ac action action action tion It was the business of the or organization organization organization first to classify their th ir facts and not to attempt any an explanation of them The facts pointing toward ance which means the perception of Invisible objects beyond the range of normal vision such as telling the con contents contents contents tents of a sealed box or package or accurately describing scenes a hundred miles away are not so numerous as the facts in support of telepathy The same is true of prevision or the fore foretelling foretelling foretelling telling of future events ments Mediumistic phenomena are plentiful but whether they the are genuine it is often difficult to determine In any an such manner as will impress the skeptic Experimental work in this direction will wal require very careful organization and an expensive equipment to satisfy the rigid demands lof of science Such facts as have been gathered are as a good evidence of something supernormal as anything that has been brought for forward forward forward ward to support thought transference But we have hac had no means for pur pursuing pursuing pursuing suing the Investigation of the subject In any way with its magnitude Relation to Spirit Spiritualism Asked what connection the society had if any with the claims of spirit spiritualism Dr Hyslop said It has been Inevitable in tile soci sod ets work that it should come up against the claims of spiritualism Most of or the phenomena which it undertook to investigate at the very outset were claimed by b the spiritualists to prove their particular theories It has been that which made it necessary to con consider consider consider sider that Issue of ot the work In the thc proper Investigations however it Is not at all necessary to take ac account account count aunt of that view of things It is not the purpose of the society to serve as asa asa asa a a propagandist for any theories what whatever whatever ever over Its business s Is td t accumulate facts and allow others to do their own thinking A number of persons in this city whose names Dr Hyslop did not feel feci free to divulge have hae shown a great I interest in his work It was through I several of these that he was Induced to come to Salt Lake ale to Investigate the tho experiences of two or three persons through whom he be hoped to add yalu valuable valuable able facts to his collection He has not been able so far to get any sat satisfactory results he be says but will be here for a short time Ime longer In the hope I that his mission may not be In vain T 4 I |