SUNDAY APRIL 5, 1908.
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BOSTON?, April 4. One of the
most famous objects in the collec
tions of the .Museum of Fine Arts of
this city is a great crystal ball with
oriental settings, the largest mirror
f the subconscious world, it is said,
n the planet. Acquired for the Ames
collection from an East Indian source
nd loaned for an indefinite period
to the Museum in Copley Square, it
perpetually invites to the exercise of
the now fashionable fad of crystal
gazing. You look into it, or into any
other of a large group of similar but
smaller globes under certain favor
kig conditions and, if your tempera
ment is right, youu may see visions
projected from out your subliminal
Bfe.
Seeing things in very popular just
bow. A play, for example, in which
ao well known a thespian as Miss
Ethel Barrymore is starring this sea
son presents a crystal gazing scene.
This is a time, too, when along with
the general revival of interest in all
topics pertaining to psychical re
search, more people, probably than
ever before in the history of the
world are looking into crystals,
glasses of water, polished stone or
wood or other surfaces capable of re
jecting light with the expection that
apparitions or hallucinations may
loat before their eyes.
."Spooks" seen in a glass seem from
all accounts to be among the easiest
Whatever the cause
of these apparitions the fact remains
that from very early times peculiarly
constituted persons about one in
dividual in seven have appeared to
possess the power of producing hal
focinations of a certain kind in them
selves by gazing intently into a crys
tal. In recent years, and especially
since the formation of societies for
scientific study of psychical research
in this country and abroad, interest
in such phenomena has been very
keen, and a considerable body of facts
apparently well authenticated, has
fceen collected. Prof. James H. Hy-
slop, president of the new American
Society for Phychical Research, has
long been studying the pschological
considerations involved in this cult
of crystal gazing and in his book
"Enigmas of Psychical Research," as
well as in other popular expositions
f metapsychical subjects, has given
in detail the records of strange sights
from the unseen realm. He cautious-
1v claims nothincr from which an ar- point 01 view ji mm.... v,.... ,
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GAZING
gument can be drawn as to such com
munications from the eternal depths
as Sir Oliver Lodge asserts he has
had. He finds, however, a great
mass of data that fascinate the stu
dent of the little understood activities
of the subliminal mind.
The marvels of crystal gazing come
right down to homely experience.
If, for instance, o'ou looked into a
glass ball and there came before
your eyes a sharp, distinct picture of
your old minister whom you had not
seen for fifteen years and then just
as you exclaimed "Why, Mr. X," the
face vanished and there appeared a
slight picture of a cemetery, would
you not think there was occasion for
apprehension? Later the woman
who saw this sight in the glass
brightly is reported to have gone to
the city to which the clergyman had
moved, found the man himself dying
and recognized the very cemetery
which she had seen while looking
into the crystal.
This notion of seeing the unseeable
at times when the gaze is fixed upon
a reflecting surface whose high lights
are eliminated as far as possible is
nnthinc new in history. As Prof.
Hyslop discloses in his book on the
metapsychical enigmas, this form
of di'ination was known among the
Greeks, who possessed polished and
enchanted crystals in which future
events were signified. He has also
found traces of the practices of crys
tal gazing in Assyria, Greece, Rome,
China, Japan, India and possibly in
some of the South Sea Islands. The
use of a mirror or crystal ball has
been noted among the Apaches of the
western plains: they employ a crys
tal to discover stolen property. Other
tribes of Indians make their patients
gaze into water in which they see pic
tures of the food and medicine good
for them. In Polynesia a hole is
dug in the ground and as it fills with
water the priest peers in to discover
the authors of thefts. In India cas
tor oil is held in the hand of a child
and in the mirror thus formed float
weird pictures of spirits and demons.
Mrit r,f the stories of wonders ac
complished by means of crystal gaz
inir have come down on the basis of
such testimony that they are regard-j
, hi-itVip cripntisrs as tntercstinfir but
unreliable. Xor are
the modern
manifestations held to belong neces
carilv in the rpnlm of the mteer. The
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research is that strange things act
ually do come before the mind at
times, as a result of a concentrated
gazing. There is no need of colling
'them supernatural; they are shnply
supernormal.
Oftentimes an impression made by
some circumstance of years before
and entirely erased from conscious
memory reappears. An advertise
ment in a newspaper, seen but not
really noticed months before, will
drift into consciousness. Prof, Hy
slop cites the case of a woman living
in Brooklyn who on looking into the
crystal frequently had a vision of a
bright blue sky, a garden with a wall
fence and a peculiar chain pump in
the garden. Later she went to her
old home which she had not known
since she was two or three years old
and there, sure enough, were the
chain pump, the wall fence and the
bright blue sky.
One of the internationally famous
crystal seers is Mrs. Verrall, for
sometime a lecturer at Newnham
College, Cambridge, England, and
known to the classical world as the
translator of Fausanias. Mrs. Verrall
has had many other entertaining phy
chical experiences, some of which
enter into the long-expected revela
tions from Sir Oliver Lodge as to
communications from the late F. V.
H. Myers.
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As regards crystal gazing Mrs.
Verrall has found a cut crystal, glo
bular crystal, a glass paper weight
or a glass full of water to be equally
effective. She says she is most likely
to see things when the light is dim.
She has occasionally seen pictures in
fairly bright light, but never in ab
solute darkness. The practice is
useful in Mrs- Verrall's case because
he finds it a convenient way of re
calling things she has forgotten. The
picture once produced has a reality
which she says she has never been
able to obtain when looking into the
tire or trying to call up an imaginary
scene with eyes closed. Sometimes
hc has practised automatic writing
while looking into the crystal. The
Countess of Radnor and Miss dood-rich-Frccr
are other English women
who have been susceptible of the ap
paritions of the crystal.
Without prejudice as to the origin
of these visions or hallucinations
Prof. Hyslop ami other writers of the
psychical research literature, of
which a new book by the secretary
and founder of the Society for Phy
chical Research is shortly to be issu
ed bv the Small, Maynard publish-
ing house, regard them evidently a-
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actly where Locke placed tthem,
namely normal sensat'on and per
ception. Apparently the mind is sen
sitive to much else, or we cannot de
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However this may be, crystal visions
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while when one considers their use,
they call attention to the constant
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