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Every day an increasing number, allured by the pretenses and promises of spiritism, weaken their wills by allowing themselves to become the slaves, so to say, of mental passions. They let themselves go and the result is that their wills are weakened, their inflamed, abnormally imaginations their minds disordered, their nerves butchered to make a spiritistic holiday. And much of this unhealthiness is produced in the name of religion. Sir Oliver Lodge is with us, hinting that we are having a new revelation through seances and, perhaps, ouija boards. If we listen to Sir Oliver and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle we will' believe that the gibbering obscenities of shameless spirits and ouija demons are to take the place of the decencies of the old moral law'. Not that Lodge or Doyle refer specifically to these ob- scenities on the contrary they suppress them in face of the fact that the frank investigators of spiritism and other manifestations testify to them. The explanation of much the ouija board does to its votaries is not difficult. The sub-conscio- us mind is a reservoir that has been storing up impressions and facts for years. Within that reservoir are many strange, forgotten things and they are all the stranger w'hen they come out in new ter- rifying way. The victims lose their will power just as do drug victims. They become slaves to the mental drugs as addicts become slaves to the material drug. There are more things in heaven and on earth, Horatio, than are dreamed of in thy philosophy, and the foregoing explanation is but partial. Investigators and experimenters tell us some things about the ouija board that do not fit in with the explanation we have offered. ate. It is easy to account for, if not ex- plain, the well known hypnotic phenomenon which presents itself when a man sings songs he never has heard before. He is simply registering the will of the hypnotist. But the case of the ouija board and similarly of planchette waiting is different. In that case there is no extraneous intelligence unless it be a spirit directing the mind of the experimenter. An i even more conclusive phenomenon if wre are to trust the adepts who supply us with the results of psychic research is that of the ouija board operator who tells w'hat is happening at a distance of many miles. mental imThe theory of stored-upressions will not explain that. It is a proof of spirit communication, say the votaries. p Perhaps, but it is also a proof of other and very unpleasant things. Many of the spirits have no sense of decency. They are not fit to as- ditionally to the play of the or subliminal self. The stuff sociate with. In the western world hypnotism was sub-conscio- us 5 2 IP-- Ws I 1 I 1 i Mountain Grown SEEDS and TREES Why risk those of doubtful pedigree and growth when you can secure Our Vigorous Mountain Grown Seeds and Trees. Our Big Free Catalog gives full details. 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The ouija board requires of its devotees a complete passivity of mind. The victim surrenders himself unconcombinations. 2 For example, we are told that ouija will spell out intelligible phrases in a foreign language with wrhich they are wholly unacquainted. Inasmuch as it is logical to assume that nothing can come out of the subconscious mind that has not first been put into it, it would seem that the mental storehouse theory is inadequ- It - 5 I m I THE DUCHESNE RECORD I 5 DUCHESNE, UTAH ?iiaiiaiiiiiaiiiiiaiiaiiaiiaiiiiiaiiaiiaiiaiiiitaiiiiiiiiaiiaiiaiiiiiaiiiiiaiiaiiiiiiiii!iaiiaiiiiiaiiiiiaiiaiiiiiiiiiiiaiiaiiaiiaiiaiiaiiatiiiiiiiiiiaiiaiaiiai unknown a few hundred years ago except by a practioner of the black art here and there. Even today its laws are not understood. It is as mysterious in the psychic realm as electricity is in its purely material realm. The human race few thousand or a it ought to know about natural laws is young and in a few million years quite a bit more than it does now. Perhaps, in time, many of the things now commonly ascribed to the hypernatural, to spirits, will be adequately explained by natural laws. On the other hand, experiments may show that only the hypernatural can explain them. They tell us, for example, that in India there are men woo can walk on burning coals without being burned and that men are buried alive and dug up alive after weeks and months. If so, such a phenomenon, presumably in accord with unknown natural laws, is just as wonderful as the spiritistic communications which have turned the heads of Lodge and Doyle. The moral is becoming more or less obvious. While scientific research into the things of the psychic realm may be useful the average man and woman, and all girls and boys, should shun contact with phenomena that have degenerating, maddening and often fatal consequences. The pages of the daily press teem with stories of the evil results of dallying with the ouija board and challenging the spirits to participate in seances. Cases of insanity and suicide from these causes are getting to be appallingly frequent In drawing the moral w'e find support for our position in other departments of science. Dissection, for instance, is useful in the development of surgery, but would lead to the most frightful moral decadence if commonly practiced. Those who are training men to strengthen their wills are doing good work in the world; those who are luring young people into experiments that weaken their wills are doing an injury that is not limited to the immediate victims but may be communicated even to the future generations. It is good to be wise as well as healthy, but it is better to be healthy than wise when wisdom is bought at the cost of an enfeebled will, decadent nerves and a broken body. Who . Are Great Men Of The War? a Parisian maga- zine which, in spite of its name, does not know it all, asks the question, Who are the ten greatest men T E SAIS TOUT, of the war? Fifty names are selected by the magazine itself, but its readers are permitted to ballot not only for these but for nominees of their own choosing. The magazine's list shows that there is no thought of limiting the on Page 18.) . nomi-(Continu- ed |