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THE CLAIRVOYANT SEE WITH INNER EYES
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^ lack seat was empty. He went up and ^''lang the doorbell. An elderly man ■" nswered; the cabbie told what had ^ happened; and asked if the man kne<v -'^ii^here the lady had gone.
"From your description it sounds ™|ike my wife. Please step in here a '-*homent, I wish you would look at ""^liese photographs." He led the way Fbto the parlor and to a row of photos ^'^In the mantel.
'^1 The cabbie immediately picked out k photo of a middk'aged woman from he group ranged against the wall. ^''''.jThat's her! I'd know her anytime."
"Just as I thought," the older man f 'aid, "she often took the cab home /rem that street-corner. She died al' ^'■'lost six months ago!"
It is typical in the reported cases hat an apparition, whether of a dc dt! [leased person or one asleep or unconjuicious, is mistaken for an actual perd on, so completely life-like is it. It is mi nteresting to see that the sheeted y pecter of fiction is unknown in the idi literature of clairvoyant cases. tcBi When the library of the American tei Society for Psychical Research and «t|)ther collections are bulging with rewkborts of such spontaneous cases you t llivcnder why scientists are in general
still skeptical of these claims of clairvoyant vision and the like. It is true that a large proportion of alleged cases can be explained away on grounds of coincidence, morbid imagi' nation, sheer inaccuracy or even deliberate faking. But not all can be dismissed, judging from the British census.
SOME years ago now, the British Society for Psychical Research undertook what proved to be a landmark in the investigation of this subject. It circulated thovLsands of questionnaires among a cross-section of the educated class. Over thirty thousand replies were received! A study of these returns was published as the Census of Hallucinations. In spite of the most extreme scrupulousness in scoring the returns, the Society concluded :
"Between deaths and apparitions of the dying person a connection exists which is not due to chance alone. This we hold as a proved fact."
This census is also the basis for the conclusion that not less than one person in every ten has at one time or another in his life a genuine psychic manifestation of one kind or other.
But still the orthodox scientist— whether physicist, chemist or biologist — abhors psychic phenomena for its irrational aspect. The stumbling block is the complete lack of any faintly credible hypothesis to explain clairvoyance. Not only is explanation lacking, there is no known point at which it can be connected to the organized body of accepted scientific