My Library

the colours of the objects, and that was perhaps the greatest puzzle of all. It seems as if this powerful vision can pierce through metal, cloth, and paper. That in this matter there is tip question of clairvoyance, but simply powerful vision, is shown by the fact that although Benito Paz, for example, can read letters between two metal plates, he could do nothing when plates of wood, instead of metal, were used. When Benito found this out he was terribly upset. The experimenters are still confronted by the puzzle. Translated from Heroldo de Esperanto by A. A. Hill, M.D.B The volumes of the Society for Psychical Research are full of examples of such phenomena, and of accounts of meetings at which psychics have been tested under scientific conditions. Examples of these could be here quoted in large numbers, but I will content myself with referring the reader to the many published volumes of their proceedings. In closing these introductory remarks the author wishes to say that he has himself spent a number of years in the investigation of such phenomena, and also in an endeavour to develop the faculty of clairvoyance by the application of the methods outlined in the concluding chapter of this book. For some years now he has been engaged in clairvoyant research with men of science In the early chapters of this book he quotes briefly from the records of such experiments, not in the least to display his own small gifts, but to provide support for the theories brought forward, to illustrate various types of supernormal cognition, and to assist the reader in forming an opinion upon the subject for himself. The author’s experiences of clairvoyant research, though admittedly but slight as yet, are sufficiently definite to convince him of the existence of such a faculty, and to indicate that, scientifically developed and employed, it will eventually provide the ideal instrument for future scientific investigation. Of that possibility the reader must be left to judge for himself. The time does seem to be approaching, if it has not already arrived, when the progress of scientific knowledge will be far in advance of the development of instruments sufficiently sensitive to record and measure its findings. When that time comes new, instruments will have to be evolved. The author wishes in this book to point to the possible direction in which these may be found; to suggest, in fact, that man may develop and use interior powers, of cognition, which, though supernormal at the present time, may become normal in the future.