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THE MORNING OREGONIANY FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1923 5 SIR ARTHUR TELLS OF ROUSING SEANCE .Psychic Performance Al '"most Roughhouse Affair. ONE WOMAN TERRIFIED Chairs and Tables Jump and Tumble Wildly About Koom. Italian Medium Success. Our American Adventure, by Sir Arthur Conan. Doyle. (Copyright by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1!22. tor the United States and Great Britain. Released by Jv'prth American Newspaper Alliance.) (Article 3, Continued.) Upon May 14 we had been asked by a psychic research body, in which my friend Dr. Allerton Cushman of Washington is interested, to attend a seance in order to test a young Italian named Becoraro, who was supposed to have psychic powers. He was a stunted, undernourished youth, with a face of premature age, and could only speak a few words of English. Two Italian females of his own class were with him and the party was brought by Dr. Vecchio, a skilled psychic observer and a man of high scientific attainment who has already written a book upon this subject. I was impressed by "Vecchio as a very competent experimenter. The other sitters were Dr. Cushman, Dr. H. Carrington, a Persian gentleman named Kervorkian, two young ladies, whose names I did not catch, my wife and myself. A cabinet had been erected at one end of the seance room in the Psychical institute and in it the medium was placed. It was merely a screen of curtains, and the idea is that it holds in those vapor ous materials which are the raw material of psychical manifesta . tions. Psychic Seance Described. The lights were turned down ectoplasm dissolves in light and we waited for some time in patient expectation with only a dim red lamp to cast its glimmer in the gloom. Suddenly a perfect scream came from the cabinet, thin and keen and vibrant. "Aida! Aida!" were the words. It was so sadden that it made us all jump in our chaira We hoped it was the be ginning of some great manifestation. The name, I understand, was that of one of the Italian women present, and the cry was supposed to come from some deceased relative, for come words were added which .were said to mean this. The woman was absolutely terri fied, however, aijd whinnied with fear when asked to come clse to the cabinet. This seemed to damp down the phenomena, which now took a merely physical turn, the table being dashed about in all directions, possibly to signify the Impatience of the spirit at the back wardness of the girl: "Oh, no, no, no!" she howled, when asked to get near the cabinet. There was a 1 strong, cool breeze, the sure sign of real psychic power. Do not these psychic air vibrations throw a light on the constant request from spirits that we sing or play and so keep the waves moving? The table was now jumping about and several arti cles were thrown out from the cab inet, including the medium's collar and belt. His hands were supposed ' to have been securely fastened by wire, but I could not guarantee that they could not reach these articles. Then the name "Palladino" was given and we were told that the famous medium was present. Manlfeatatlon Is Violent. Again we had great hopes and again we were disappointed. In vain we played up to Palladino, wel comed her, spoke of her past. A voice from the cabinet said in Italian: "I, who used to call back the spirits, now come back as a epirit myself." I said: "Palladino, we send you our love and our best encouragement." The curtains seemed to blow outward toward us and for a time we had hopes of a materialization. But again the force was dissipated in the absurd and violent dancing of the table. It was very disappointing, but nothing more could be done and, . after two hours we were compelled to break off. The young Italian's pulse was slow and steady, but it was 15 minutes before we got him out of his trance. It was not, it must be admitted, a very successful sitting, but when we consider the strange surroundings it was not quite a failure. I thought the youth was a true medium and might de velop into something remarkable. Since then Dr. Vecchio has been able to get very good photographs of ectoplasm, issuing in a long coil from the cabinet in which he was bound. This seance was a remarkable example of the Paul. Pry powers of r hut. , . 3 life MlJt?E km mm mm k 11 m r the New york press. Everyone in the room who could speak English was aware that the occasion was a private one, and this not because there was anything to conceal, but because free and frank comment and discussion become Impossible so long as every word may be reported in print. Next day a full and accurate report did actually appear in one paper, with the copyright mark be low it to show that it had been duly paid for. Such are the incidents which make one cautious in America. Upon the afternoon of Tuesday, April IS, came my second lecture, upon the religious aspects of the matter. As it was more philosophic and less sensational than the phe nomenal side, I had expected a smaller -audience, but the hall was full, and the people were quite as sympathetic as before. The phe nomena interested me very little, nor am I attracted much by the scientific side of the question. One might as well, it seems to me. be keenly interested in how the loaves and fishes fed the multitude, but give no heed to the sermon on the mount. Therefore, I can put a good deal more fire and earnestness into this religious lecture than into the other, r hope I passed this on to my audience. Actual Messages Verified. I explained that the actual mes sages were the only thing that mat tered. I showed that their veracity was guaranteed first by their being mixed up with the preternatural phenomena, which were really only of importance as a sign and a sig nal. I instanced the agreement of the messages by examples from all parts, and showed how the whole philosophy of religion given by a child in New York in the book, "Revelations of Louise," which I had just been reading, was the ex act philosophy which I was preach ing, although the child could have known nothing of it. The agree ment of witnesses establishes truth. I then took the soul at the time of death and described all that oc curred to it, and in what place and condition it found itself, confirm ing my descriptions by extracts from seance messages, some of them received in my own . home circle and all corroborating each other. , I gave a detailed descrip tion of the lower heavens and dis cussed the question of crime and punishment, showing the exaggera tions of the theologians wicked exaggerations which have clouded so many lives and built up so hor rible a conception of God. At the same time, the reality as described by Swedenborg, Davis, Vale Owen and other seers was quite bad enough, though chastening and purgatorial in its nature. Man-Made Theology Rapped. When I said that the average human being, hard-worked and ill cared for, deserved compensation rather than punishment there were hearty cheers of assent, "Comfort ye! Comfort ye, my people!" That was the message which God sent and which the times demanded. It was our own man-made theology which draped our future wityi ter rors. The churches had lost all con tact with the spirit. They were like trucks running with their own momentum from an impulse 2000 years old, 'but grad ually and visibly stopping. Only the old engine of actual spiritual inspiration would restart them and carry them on for thousands of years to come. . (To Be Continued.) INJUNCTION FIGHT BEGUN Union Counsel Files Motion to Dissolve Strike Order. CHICAGO, Oct. 19. (By the Asso ciated Press.) Notice of a motion to dissolve the Interlocutory injunction restraininr striking railroad shop men and union officials from inter fering in any way with rail trans portation, was served on the United States district attorney here by Donald R. Richberg, counsel for the shopcrafts. The motion will be pre sented to Federal Judge Wilkerson tomorrow with request that it be set for hearing. 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