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Show MANY SEEKING SPIRIT GLUES Visits of Maeterlinck and Lodge Add Members to Research Work By LORRY A. JACOBS. ' N. E. A. Staff Correspondent. NEW YORK, April 2S. The visits of Sir Oliver Lodge and Maurice Maeterlinck to this country have given a great impetus to psychic research work and has drawn hundreds of new members, to tho American Society for Physical Research. "We have had thousands of questions ques-tions concerning psychic research lately," said Gertrude Ogden Tubby, assistant secretary of the society. "And among them tho question asked most Is, 'Who is considered the greatest great-est living medium?' "It is probably safe to say that among tho loading mediums of the present time, are Mrs. Piper, Mrs. Chcnowlth, Mrs. Salter, Mrs. Smoad, Mr. Thompson and Mrs. Ticknor. All of these mediums have produced results re-sults that have been verified and reported re-ported at length both by tho English and American societies for psychic research. re-search. They arc endorsed by Dr. Hodgson, secretary of the English so-i ciety, and Dr. Hyslop of the American I society. Spirit Paintings. "The most notable example perhaps of tho work of a medium is the art work produced by tho medium, Thompson, under 'Ihe inspiration of R. S. Gifford. All of the work of the other mediums, of course, has been roported at great length and that of Mrs. Piper stands out among theso. "These aro thousands of instances that prove to U3 who believe in psychic power that wo are right in our belief. These arc usually divided into three main classes cases were messages are received through a medium relating relat-ing to lost articles or matters that are known to no human being, predictions of future events, and the solving of difficult problems of life through elimination elim-ination work by a medium. "Perhaps the best examples of the first named class of work of mediums are tho thousands 'of cases no human could possibly have known of the whereabouts of the will had it not been for the aid of a medium. "Of the third class thore are thousands thous-ands of cases whero mediums have solved business problems. 'Raps" Unreliable. Practically all of the cases I have referred to are cases of message mediums. me-diums. Materializing mediums are almost al-most invariably unreliable. Messago mediums are, of course, those mediums me-diums who produce messages from the spirit world. Materializing mediums are those who claim to produce the spirit in material form, or material things, such as raps. "Telepathy, we claim, is an established estab-lished fact. But, tho process is not yet understood. It is, of course, our theory, that a thought is transmitted from an animate person to an inanimate inanim-ate one and through the inanimate one to another animate. "But, of course, this is theory. There have been so many thousands, of cases of telepathy that wo cannot doubt if any longer and telepathy we believe is the subject most open for investigation." investiga-tion." I |