Lehal Library

These things were, and are, and will be, and it is high time that some inexorable Elisha opened the eyes of our scientific young men to see them. Nor need Ben-hadad's visitor have listened to the king's speech; he could, as easily, have "heard" his thoughts. Sir Edward Henry, then Commissioner of Police, and a very shrewd person, had laughed at Erskine's assertion that a hypnotized subject could read his thoughts; yet it took but five minutes to convince him that his mind was at the mercy of the entranced youngster in the chair. The understanding of such matters must make us aware of possibilities which are far from cheering, but such discomfort is a poor reason for declining to investigate; and at least the telepathic possibilities revealed by hypnosis might be considered by those to whom telepathy is still a psychic impossibility. Erskine tells us that he discovered by accident the ability of the unconscious mind to project itself over vast distances, and though he opines that "the 'duality' of the mind is of far greater extent than anyone has yet imagined", he does not seem to have made acquaintance with any records of etheric projection, and continues to describe the Double as the unconscious", which he identifies with the soul of man, a solution which only has simplicity to commend it. "Quite definitely," he writes, "it is possible for the subconscious mind to leave the body of a man in a hypnotic sleep and wander through space, observing what it meets, and at the same time report, through the voice of the sleeper, the experiences encountered. "It is to be noted that the things observed and reported are not in the consciousness of the hypnotist, and that they can be things of which neither the hypnotist nor the person asleep has