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finally wrote his personal endorsement of the accuracy of the story. But what' ever philosophers might believe, scientists soon proved themselves a hardbitten lot. In fact the dawn of our Modern Age might be dated from the day Science divorced itself from Philosophy and moved into the Laboratory. But the scientist left behind him an orphan child: the field of learning that lay partly in both areas of learning, the study of non-physical or psychic forces. And until recently Science has neglected this subject — one of the most fascinating fields for the inquiring mind.
IN recent years learned men again have turned their attention to this borderline subject. Half a century ago the father of American psychology, William James, led in the revival of scientific interest in the subject. Present day investigators and writers include the Frenchman Warcollier, author of "Experiments in Telepathy," Tyrell and Soal in England, and Dr. Rhine in the United States.
But if serious scientific investigation is new, the subject itself certainly is not. The pages of history from the Bible to the present are highlighted by accounts of "visions," second-sight, premonitory dreams and the like. These are all classed as clairvoyance, a word taken from the French meaning clearseeing.
However, clairvoyance is much more than clear vision in the usual sense of eye-sight. It is defined as that ability, real or fancied depending on your belief, by which certain sensitive persons (or maybe anyone on rare occasions) may directly perceive ob
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jects or even events at a distanc without the use of any of his sen; organs. Where the thoughts of ai other person rather than objects ( events are perceived, it is called tele] athy — the two facilities seem to I closely related. The important thir to note is that the clairvoyant visic is entirely mental. While it exists onl in the mind, it has a real counterpa; in actual physical existence somewhei beyond the range of any possib vision by ordinary means.
THE subject matter of such a visic can be almost anything; but usually seems to be something alam ing. Frequently the vision is of a apparition or "ghost." However son of the best authenticated cases ai ones involving the clairvoyant imprc sions of quite ordinary things.
While a clairvoyant impression normally a visual one, it may be ( sounds or even of touch or odor. 1 the case of visions the clairvoyai often does not claim to "see" in tl natural way with the eyes open, h rather to receive a mental picture in the manner of dreams during slee But sometimes the vision is "exterio ized" and seen as though physical existing out there in space.
Frequently the vision is so vivid th person having the experience does ni. realize until later that it is not "real That happened one night in Londc shortly before World War II when cab driver was hailed by a middl aged woman standing on a street cr ner. She got in the cab and gave . address. He drove there and drew i in front of the residence. But whi he turned around to help her out, tl