| Show f I FACTS FADS FALLACIES Dealing with Personal MagnetIsm Magnet-Ism Telepathy Psychology Suggestion Hypnotism and Spiritualism By EDWARD B WARMAN A M lmlnnt Psychologist and lIalnut SPIRITISM Clairvoyance and Clalraudlence Tlicro Is quite a question among In vcstlgators of psychic phenomena ns to tho existence of what Is known no Independent clairvoyance Dr Hudson was loath to believe In It He frankly stated that ho did not be love In tho genuineness of the power that ha had never been able to locate lo-cate tho boundary lino between telepathy telep-athy and clairvoyance that they are divided only by their names that ho had looked In vain for Indubitable evidence of tho reality or the power of Independent clairvoyance This wns his conclusion at the close of his Investigations as recorded In his Law of Psychic Phenomena 1893 but In talking tho matter over with him In 1880 ho modified his statement by saying that In almost every case that had come to his notice ho found that telepathy offered a satisfactory explanation Wo fully agreed on this point but II Is that almost that causes us to seek elsewhere for an explanation It is icmllly accepted that telepathy Is tho means of communication between be-tween subjective minds but we should not lose sight of the fact that telepathy telepa-thy deals and can deal only with past and present occurrences while clairvoyance Is the clear seeing of that which has not yet occurred therefore cannot bo telepathically received re-ceived by anyones else mind I nm slow however to believe that clairvoyance Is tho proper word to use It has long been a question In my mind If anything Is over actually seen subjectively Tho subjective mind perceives but perception IB not seeing Some persona see things and arc ever ready to say I BOO I BOO but they do not always perceive This distinction Is well made by Locke as follows Till we ourselves see It with our own eyes and perceive per-ceive It by our own understandings we are still In tho dark The subjective mind perceives Intuitively Intu-itively Our knowledge objectively of what Is perceived comes to us in ono of three ways viz 1 by Impression Im-pression to those of us who aro Impressionists Im-pressionists 2 by dreams to those who are not susceptible to Impressions Im-pressions 3 by psychics to those who receive neither by Impressions nor dreams but depend upon others for their admonition The psychic may think It comes from the spirit but that docs not make It so The message Is subjectively subjec-tively received from yotv subjective mind which of Itself failed to reach jour objective consciousness The phychlc In that case merely gives back to you that which you yourself do know subjectively Dr Hudson acknowledges that incases i In-cases of premonition the subjective mind possesses the power to see that which Is not within the range of tho objective vision Search the wide world over you would fall to find a better definition of that faculty clairvoyance 1 would however suggest the substitution substitu-tion of tho word perceive for that of see as used by Dr Hudson Clatraudlcnce The word clalraudlenco signifies clenrheailng These sounds or words arc not supposed to be audible to the car In tho natural waking condition con-dition at least the sounds so called do not cause atmospheric vibrations They nro never heard by anyone but tho psychic or tho 0110 for whom they are Intended Tho Hlblo records many instances of most Important messages being convoyed In this manner man-ner There are also many persons living today that claim like Socrates Socra-tes to bo clalraudlently warned from Impending danger Thus clairvoyance and clnlraudl ence are of the most practical benefit in fact among tho most useful In nil tho range of spirit phenomena This I shall endeavor to prove from mown m-own experience when treating of the subject of premonition Examples of Clairvoyance The illustrations given herewith arc first experiences of tho use of this wonderful faculty experiences of my own pupils who never dreamed of tho latent power possessed by them While nil clairvoyance Is preceded by hypnotism either selfInduced or Induced In-duced by another all hypnotism does not produce clairvoyance These two cases are more Interesting be causo nonprofessional 1 In one of my classes In Texas a lady was very desirous of being hypnotized hyp-notized for tho purpose of ascertaining ascertain-ing If she possessed clairvoyant power pow-er She Importuned so persistently that I complied with her request In order to give a practical demonstration demonstra-tion to tho class The fact of her persistency led mo to believe that she was Impelled In the matter and subsequent developments develop-ments proved the correctness of my impression She passed quite readily Into this hypnotic conditionthe hip tesl state I of suggestibility I Informed her I while in that condition that she could go anywhere she chose if she held tho desire with a quiescent concentration concentra-tion not with Intensity Hut a few moments elapsed ore she mid with tho tears streaming down her face Why I nm back In my old homo once more away up here In Muscatlnc la The old home has had many changes and father has passed away since I was last here There was a lull for a moment or two then she Bald Oh I see Yes I see tho papers that father put away BO carefully the papers In regard to tho property Yes ho died without telling any of us about them and so far all search for them has been without avail I now know why 1 have been so anxlou to pass into this condition The longing has been fully satisfied and I am ready to return re-turn Then by n word I called her back to her normal condition The tears had not yet dried upon her cheeks and as she brushed them away she expressed surprise at their presence Sho did not In reality suffer nor does anyone In that condition The noxt day she wrote homo all tho Impressions of tho previous night came readily to her In a few days came a letter from the old homo which proved tho accuracy of her clairvoyance yes to the minutest detail Let us reason together a moment Was this clairvoyance or telepathy As for myself I think It plausible possible and probable that ere the death of the father ho had been sub Jcctively In telepathic communication with his daughter neither being objectively ob-jectively conscious of It lint what about the changes that had taken place since the death of tho father They too may have been tolopathlcnlly transmitted by some member of the family We really cannot or should not say that it was not telepathy if It can bo thus accounted for Nor can we or should we deny tho possibility of clairvoyance If it was clairvoyance then the subjective mind clearly perceived per-ceived the changes that had taken place and tho putting away of the papers Of ono thing you may rest assured viz She thought she saw and she thought she was there Some very interesting questions arise here Let us consider them Was she there Could sho be In Iowa and Texas at the same time Mark her words I am ready to comeback come-back Vo would naturally assume that she thought she was still there Note how amenable to suggestion Ie tho subjective mind when the subject sub-Ject Is under hypnotic control I had piovlously said You may go where you desIre Tho going naturally 1m piled the coming back nut when I said How can you say I am there when you are conversing with mo hero she said Everywhere Is here Sho had now passed beyond the state known ns hypnotic beyond tho state of amenability to suggestion and the Ego assumed control therefore the response which proved so conclusively conclusive-ly tho omnipresence of the soul i Everywhere Is here TIs true tho soul takes no cognizance cogni-zance of space Does the soul go out or doos It look out This Is a question that has caused much controversy con-troversy It seems to me that it Is best answered by the soul Itself Everywhere Is here Why did tho lady Insist on being hypnotized hyp-notized and so strongly desire the clairvoyant clair-voyant condition Hccausc the subjective subjec-tive mind 1 held a message of Importance which It wished to convey and therefore there-fore impelled her to seize this opportunity oppor-tunity If she could have become sufficiently suf-ficiently passive objectively sho would have received it Had she gone to a psychic the psychic would havo received It telepathically from her and then delivered the message as If I coming from the father She would also have described the father perceiving the mental Image held unconsciously by the daughter Furthermore Fur-thermore mlghthacbeen honest In It all from her view point Tho question has been asked times without number What Is the difference differ-ence In tho condition of one who Is hypnotized and ono who Is clairvoyant clair-voyant Hypnotism is a condition of hallucination hallu-cination tho subject being wholly under un-der tho control of the operator and as such accepts any suggestion given that Is not In violation of his settled principles Whereas the clairvoyant passes through and beyond the hyp node state and conditions pertaining thereto becomes wholly Independent Is no longer governed by suggestion because the initiative Is In the ascendancy yet will return to normal condition that of objective consciousness conscious-ness at tho call of the operator I Perhaps I can better Illustrate It as follows When a boy files a kite ho cannot control Its motion when once he lets It put but he can draw It back at will So it is with tho one who becomes clairvoyant The string Is to tho kite what hypnotism Is to clairvoyance the means whereby freedom Is attained As tho boy can send out and draw back the kite at will but cannot otherwise control It when out so I can send out and recall re-call my subject at will but cannot otherwise control or guide when the soul is on Its mission Copyright 1901 by Joseph D Bowles |
