ASPR Journal, V14 - Iapsop.com

War Predictions through Mrs. Chenoweth. 327
related to proximate events, events which are near enough to the
thoughts and purposes of the living to be the subject of telepathically
or otherwise acquired knowledge as a basis of prediction
and of exerted influence in one direction or the other.
Mrs. C. J. H. H.
THE SCRIPTS.
Sept. 7th, 1914.
[Subliminal.]
9.30A. M.
[Long pause, sigh and long pause and then reached for pencil
and pause.]
[Automatic Writing.]
* * [scrawl, and hand relaxed a moment. Pause.]: N [N.
R. and pause]: [P. F. R., face twisted and groon or half cry.
Pause.]: N [N. R. and pause.]: [Distress uttering 'Oh '. and
groans. Relaxed hand, pause and groan.] * * [scrawl.] : [ 1]
Conferences of Powers [distress] : expected at once to [distress
and groan] : consider war measure new to world and much conflict
on pa§sage of such measure. [2]
Fortifications * * [scrawl.]:
[Relaxed hold of pencil and moved hand over toward me. I
held wrist for a time and after a considerable pause, hand went
back to write.]
1. N. R.=Not rt'ad. P. F. R.=Pencil fell, was reinserted in Mrs. C's
hand by ]. H. H.
2. The allusion to "Conferences of powers" on a new measure of war did
not explain itself but now that the war is over we may surmise what was
meant, but it will be only a surmise. There is no hint here of exactly what
was meant, and I do not know what could have concerned France and
England and Russia at this time unless it was the English blockade of
Germany. For the submarine warfare had not yet started in a way to excite
special danger. If the conference had not been started as expected to take
place at once we might conjecture that there was a prediction of what would
occur later in the submarine warfare. But the passage hardly warrants that
view on any theory of its source. If the conjecture mentioned about the
prospective blockade is not correct, and it is not a " war measure new to
the world" it is not easily to surmise what was meant, as there is nothing
else that I know which could be called new except the suLmarine policy of
Germany and that had not yet been started to justify a conference of the
powers. It is not clear, therefore, what was meant by this prediction.
Digitized by Goog I e