The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 20, 1901, Page 6

== 7= "% P < righted by the New York Her- | ¥ < reserved, and its reprc- | idden. Publishers dis- pany.) priats to-day over ages from the deaa 1ded to withd: , this great has based 4 this mir scatters tahle pheno ftualistic.” e in England the interes: nconsclous cere! ad of the SBoclet n Europe, s not true, a3 Mirs. per’s Extraordinary Statement. presented i pozeibla for me to be ¥ for I desire to staze a few Pi @ ¥ ha g that put always been distasieful to me bean and are the chief source of my gr t pleas 1s been 4 th for fourteen 3% ®. While 3. an subject of hic phenomana has, attentd of the Psych individu: belleve it 1= Research 8: ity, in response to ed simply as an o be studied for and help of m: nation of the w: dreamy state. any bereaved people have been at leas: s in itself a compensation for lonk s, 1 do not feel that the wo:ld at om the many years' investigation Besides, personai circim- bie for me to do = temporari wetion nt, and devote myeelf and my time to other and mo; -day knows that among sclentific men d varied. 1 have alwi ned in other ways t e opinfons on naintained that the interven phenomena conid be exy of cisembodied soirit force The theory of telepathy strongly appe: end g y fc solution of the pr tic experiences he telepathic hypot Telepathy, Not Spiritualism. 1 am inclined to sccept the telepathic explzrx:uon of all of the so- ealled psychic phenomena, but beyond this I remain a student with the rest of the worid. The lamented Phillips Brooks once said, after a sitting with me, when | asked bim for his eandid epinion on the subjec: “It may be the back door into héaven, but I want to go 1 the front door.” I ziso prefer to go In by the front door if I am fortunate enough to enter. J must trothfully say that 1 do mot belleve that spirits of the éead bave spoken through me when I have been in the trance state, as Investigated by men of Hoston and Cam- bridge and those of the xlish Psychical Rewscarch Soclety, when 1 was taken to England to be studied. It may be that they bave, but I do not affirm it. In leaving the service of the Prychical Research Soclety I wish to state es clearly 2nd definitely as possible my true position in regard to my re- jations with the pociety and my own views on the subject, which has groused so much public attention during the last few years, - Only by the merest chance did 1 discover that I possessed a power wholly unexplainabie to myself and mystifying to my {ly and friends. it was on account of my desire to understand the phenomenon and prove its mature that 1 guve myself up to scientific investigation and willingly placed myself in the hands of honored scientific men, who expressed the wigh for e 10 do eo, with the full understanding on both sides that 1 should submit to any form of test they might see fit to apply. In doing this, bowever, the thought of making it o remunerative occupation never guoe occurred 1o me, although since then 1 have as & matter of fact one £0. s to me ag the meos=t plausibie To strengthen this opin- re all heen satisfaciorily explzined by means by Confesses Her Entire Ignorance. T must sy that after having boen associated with the soclety for about rteen years I have no more definite knowledge concerning the ject than when ! begen, the experience of these fourteen years innumecrable have been asked regarding my bellef, some of whick re n “Were you ever thrown in company with mediums or tuall o fore you tock up this work?” spicitusiists be 1 wever knew anything ebout mediums or spiritualism, subject never had any sttractions for me, In fact, the Then why have you remained with the soclety so long?’ g Beceuse of my desire o ascertain If possible whether I were possessed or chzessed. . “What position do you conwider that you mociety 17 Simply that of an automaton, “You say you are not a believer in spiritualism, ivhn, the opinion in regard 1o the utterances made by youreelf whils in o’ -lt'n’;o‘;f trancz?" I bave often thought that If 1 could mee myself as others see bear my own utterances, I should be befter able to form an oplnfl;: £ Not Scientifically Proved. Many wise and good people have had sittings with me under ¢ - pices of the Peychical Research Boclety, and some of them I hnv:‘.u.::d 3 ve filled with the o fraie en 1 came out of Buat 1 have never Feard n given which seems to me For my own part enlly proved save, soirit Ny disec rncy, thingz can | much less in A grand in ‘the | that ricus there reality arrestad *o much t'me and may he. 1am gnd been of any CORfirt to peopia | that §¢ hos n sorrow. 't 1 believe that truib is a higher and r comfort than any such anodyne. re have boen many curlous incidents i homww v'tilnq for the Psy- 4 ey firet heard i home reity. 1 : s n Lving in Boa- My maid of ail k toid a frierd was a srvant the household 2 . f Praf2zsor Wilitam Jemes of Rarvard that 1 - » Yanesr s'eeps. j{m which i said “many strange thinge." Profess.: . .2 (o osnized that T was whet is called « peychic, and took siapa to ma<e my aequatntance. rald ‘‘close atservation of the medium mede the Impression on me thet ehe t» honest He at once expres A wish for me to connact my»=If with the Jt way at a restderce in Bos- Psychical Recearch Soc . and that 15 the way my work began. ton that 1 wrote awtomaticaMy about a certa'n famou man called in the report Mr. Marte. 1 v.rote under the so-cailed con- trol of Pelbam. saving. after a reference to this Mr. ’hno: “That ke, with his keen hrain How Mrs. Piper Goes Into a Trance. At frst when [ sat in my cha'r and leaned my head bark and went into was attended with something of a struggle. [ rgoing an anesthetic, but of late yenrs | have ndition. leuning the head forward, On coming | elipyed eastly into the « jout of I felt stupld and rather dazed. At first I suld disconnected 8nd marvelus pereeption. wiil things. 1t was all gibberish. pothing bpt gibberish :*\'.';‘er‘":.':dmlm;%-;x h‘l > | Then 1 beran to spenk nome Wroken French phrases. 1 hnd sxceedingly fond of him. Comis studied French two years, bnt 1 di4 not spenk it well. .-.xd eather intercata both he e announced the personality of one fnd. I tm-1 know it ali, a vhysjcian .rrr fance Who t“«l'n long time ago. g;;’;l' i -m“. I correct these returned for several yeays, and wan the one con- £ no less intelligent naw. But there are many M culties. 1 am far clearer on all roints than [ was shut up in the' prisoned bedy (prisoned, prisoning or {mprisoned, you ought to say). No. [ don't mean: to get it that way. ‘Seo here, K., don’t view me with a people and first at once this went, Tt w; for a tlme a literar the Psychieal Rescarch Bocl ke the snapping of the fingers. he one called “‘Pelham’ arch—was impersonated. i by using my volce, or by automatic writing, while I was in the trance stat nd to many of them these experiences weemed a wacred revelation. critic's ut - About the Boston Sittings. fections by botpc'o'l:r:?l"i'fi;r A Boston lady who had many sittings with me used to get answers not &l that a8 ‘well as anybody on from PHinuit, but from a =zuppokcd spirit friend, who ix called T. in the {our aph (of coursz). Weil reports of the Society for Psychical Research. In her report for the i tell you, old fel sociely she sald: “T. was a Western man, and the locallem of using tion clung to him, despite my frequent correction, all his life. At my ait- ting on December 16, 1888, he remarked. ‘If vou could see it like [ do." Forgetfel for the instant of changed cenditions. 1 prompily repeated, ‘A 1 do." “Ah,’ came the response, ‘that sounds natural. T’ sounds like old times.' Profescor Peirce had a sitting with m~ some yearaz ago that he recelved o testimony or Impression low, ft den’t do to pick all these lttle errors tov much when they amount to nothing In one w{ You have light enough and brain_ enough, I know, (o understand my explanations of being shut ur in this body, dreaming. as it were, and try- ing to heip on selence 1 do not see how anybody can look on all that as testimony from a person In another world. 1 not see but that it must ha n an unconscious ex- pression of my subliminal solif, writing *“such stuff as dreams are made of.” ‘like’ as a conjune- tnd he sald strengthen the theory of a communieation with the departed, He never for one instant felt himself to be speaking with any one hut me. He s3aid that {f he had seen or heard { lnnhln$ clse he would gladiy have borne testimony to it: because “‘a real communication with the gloricus dead would surciy be the greatest con- ceivable satisfaction to ons who could not be many years separated from the state in which they abide.” After Proféssor Shaler raw me he wrote to the Soclety for Pavchical Research that he was “‘curfously and yet absolutcly uninterested.” He also :l‘he Remarkable Personality, RS. PIPER s a handéome woman of middle age, mother of two daughters, who are fitting for college. No gray shows in het abundant brown hair. Her biue eyes are full of gentleness and dignity. Her well polsed head is set above zhapely shoulders, The slenderness which, still characterized her when she was taken to KEungland in 1387 has gone, but ehe is tall and of excellent carriage and does not seem to be stout. Ehe i3 always well and appropriately dressed In qulet taste, and she has a liking for the real in everything from lace to life itself. She Is a woman | much beloved by her mother-in-law. There are volumes in that. Mrs. Piper is of good New Engiand stock, gently bred in u household of Puritan aspiration, appreciation of education and firm granitic convic- tion that Truth was pretty well settled and defined for all time at the date of the arrival of the Pligrim Fathers, who brought it over with them 1 the Mayflower to Plymouth Bay. There are plenty of people in Boston, Bolem and (In summer and autumn) all along the stern and rockbound exclusive and fashionable shore of Massachusetts Bay who cherish a no- tion that Truth really came over with the finer and leas homespun_folk who arrived a little later with Governor Winthrop in the Arbella at Man- chester by the sea, just beyond what Oliver Wendell Holmes called Bev- erly Farms by the Depot, But in Mrs. Piper's democratic, eager young mind neither superstition prevalled. Bhe “wanted to know,” not the usual Yunkee acceptation of the rural phrase, but with what Hawthorne hinted is the passion of he New England temperament beneath fts seeming coldne: the fire of love for kilowledge and for wisdom, e from her impressed and admiring sitter. at was during the summer time. to it to any one. ty to serve, and her chief fad. months old, the sittings and the doll of all work told her slster, who was a derful things that Mrs. Piper said when other mysteries are as strong on Beacon derful and unexplainable things. r::ched Prflfellcpf\"lllilm Jln{:l. the restiess eagernees for more and | enrnest coadjutor in this country. more of the things of undemnném‘. ‘When she married, young, and | studled and collated endless *nn of all w’onht‘;a lve In iton she had not read or studied a fraction of what shi king to find the truth in all wished. found herself in an envircument where books were admired. e 0 know really govern ths tone of society in all the in-,| rul le cliques, sets and convolutions that make up the body soclal of wi nume; Bos OF Mrs. Pi her questicns and told her it must be messages from the spirit world. A sitting was appointed, and Mrs. Piper ncul!xv ow, a ney street, as elsewhero. This one would buy something Bhe took it. Other women wanted other sittings. ‘Friends brought friends, and ench one pald a doliar to hear what Mrs. Piper could reveal to her o hq.!g'n(. present or future while in one of these The next Nothing could induce her to do so. could coax her to go off Into what she believed at the tim sem|-hysterin, wherein she sald irresponsible things. She for many months thia good mother served it, keepi as much as sho could in the open air and sunshine, which has always been After the birth of her second child, when the little one was several began again, [ hold (the name of that family is national— love of the marvelous and the .desire to know things about one's self and anywherc else on our aepiring blanet full of evolutionary souls. The mistress of that mansion was interested to kn mestic- woman instead of tho usual professional medium could say won- Through her the fact of the discovery Beacon street told Harvard. College. Professor James ts and always has be oRY. r1‘!-. English Boclety ‘nr {ry(‘-’mml A ——y per her ?rll dollar as a medium dolla dollar on Pinck- tra for the baby. ueer sleeps. nter Mn.p.Plper refused Nobody's dollar to be a sort of ad another life ng Mrs. Piper's mald ant in a Beacon-street hous houschold word), of the wo she was in the condition. ‘The street as on Pinckney street or ow that.a nice do- en a sincere student of psychol- esearch had found in him an tly and with great labor he has sorts of debatable phenomena, the mass of human testimony concernin, the stranger things than are ‘dreamed of in the phllosophy of -ndcmh‘v To him the finding of an honest person with the temperament of a ton, psychic was a godsend to the sclince that has n the object of his long It would be interesting, it Ig were lgoulhle. to follow out, step by | devotion. e called upon and had a sitting with Mi iper. Arrange- c) slogc step, the processes of Mrs. Piper's mind, consclous or uncon- | menis were m for a long, serious, scientific atudy of her case. Friends Eclous, Objective or subjective, during the Arst fow years of hae IieIn | Bt Buvohieal Pescarcn Pald Her n Mtoh faiine prudy of her case sitting, Boston. Her home was on con Hill, on Pinckney str: of sittings was (WO streets ber t, the nui the two ways uced. back from Beacon street, a sone i way in the indtviduality of convenience, Everything was done for her com- fort o hill. 1 wh she N in h 1ittle h nat ity g i 0 PSS L vt SR R |, CHn ST S v 0 bt o e o an Azt that fIl the air on the hill? To know who everybody is, even if unknown te on dates lpro nted by the 8. P. R, for study of ht;mflllhn. and, ;r‘y sight, nrg.ol the creed of your genuine native Bostonian, and luem\llngl.{ of late vears, for the gratification of le belleve that Ipdlrh u‘g.tnms" “? 'n;?t deal t:nla‘ 'n:l X e'lv: ml:\d on earth ooul:‘ chmu;h oer h!‘hny can speak to thelr friends on the other side of the mys- ‘when t’hn other is made quiescent in ap abnor'm'-‘{ %’fl-r:.u n:r-v‘::: ur\‘c however, never believed that apirits spoke through her, - 5 rs. Piper ha ition? ag her statement shows. At all events, when Mrs, Piper was g young meth baby she ou”‘" lost Mm ‘:‘ Jlmd. "n::l':h lh'n‘n?nmq' g" & pecent co, ¥ state. It would tEnd!)" attention to herself by l.'aty‘ul sorts of queer thing n. IL S':fizlisfi' v lbllw a e SEAtiity v oP% S At e e 1 s pifiatid ot | i R One of her acquaintances, & BOoston merchant's s sked wite, listened, asked nyersatian Mra, Piper sald that sirce the i be Im::l’:hh for ‘hu to ‘l"ll‘:nlnl to any Ror e ettt o Vet oS’y 1 h death with its own relation to life forbids, th of Presi- » When I read over the nrfl- of the Society for Psychieal Re~ mearch it all seems to me that there is no evidence of suficient value to warrant acce, ce of the spiritistic explanation. Andrew Lapg contributed to. the proceed; T Society for Puychi- cal‘Research for February, 130, & eriiciam of the o mnm’%fls hat I am an impostor or in on sald that if students reject the ide: with “Mrs. Howard,” “we must try to produce some other hypothesis.” Mr. Lang says he is inclined to explain the remarkable things that [ say in by muscle reading or trance, as well as the confused and muddled ones, “there is something here intd “telepathy a trois.” He says he belleves which it may not be a waste of time to Inguire.” A physician reported_for the Socie ! Research: "“At my first s'}niu with fi‘im Pilper. Phh‘mu-:“r;h the n-el\ue-.lo I:An't oft a lock of your hair for me to examine and then ibe some medicine for you.' This was done and |h": medicine sent me and [ used it for a time. 1 took a small vial of it in my pocket before visiting Mrs. Piper again, as 1 wished Phinuit to tell ! was. ook ¥ Pocket ‘uring the. trance mod handed &t it R S remeved the led It to her, when she removed the ?3::;.::.'3 wpr;‘ 12;7!.“:!':::;;:!“’; frc|nm the cork or vial, and placed It to her 3 that It 1 l, It cohtatned. anlong: ‘was all right, correctly prepared. other things uv 1 the question: 'ny vas u‘:- Sty was a lock of my halr to examine before prescribing for he had me right before you? kis anawer -.‘i to nwn'eflect Th.-!'lh: m”:urlm ;1'1 t'n fioe:mln‘::‘hy l:’lm after ;(l 'P.r:pcntk;'n to see that it was all 5 anced a case S wvon salt was used by the apothecary to the l{je\::y b:tdt?: ll'd’;":a‘:"'l !hg - 1 made no further experiment as to the seat of the sense of The Use of Strange Names. Of course it 1s undérstood that in ing of “Phinuit” In this way it was merely for nience, 8 v wniléty o ‘z:me;n.v“-. s ‘c'-.. tl; nm seemingly distinct per T time some onion was put into mouth. It was ted for Psychical R-nu& that "Ery. Phinult mm‘n ton, moved about In the mouth and smacked on the seco! 1 b 1 had among other sittin ork ony of a doetor. The ‘“‘control" m"m'.'mm'” iand ‘n‘ X Sooras ‘Dot An Itallan 1ady was the sitter. It was In the report that gave the first names of both sitter and communicator, The name of her dead sister was given. The Itallan words for It well, patiénce, E‘Mu. were w by me at the end of the sitting. I never_call the peo who to me “my sitters,” but “my elients. 3 talrs .y room, wl 1 used to see them in my own I always called the red room, because of the color ot lh:n:cmlyb.l.w decoral . 1 al have there my little writing den*y last impe tions were called “Imperator,” “Rector” and “Pru- Mrs. Piper Still Further Explains. In deciing to release myself from “Imperator” I do not w nise !?:?l do ;3{ b't’iw‘h?“g a:'h‘ln phenomena, either here or In ALLS ed spirit o(.n‘d-neo be ant: 1 1t sver reaay. o™ appeal to nature, and like him, look ature up scelmtubmmwmmwunm--nt