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88 MODERN SPIRITISM
whose name is Jean Claude Burdon. He is bedridden.
He was born in 1812, and gives his life
history, and dies at 70; and it is the dead man
speaking. He thinks he would like to be born
again; and when Josephine is born, he enters the
child's body.
Then he, in turn, is taken back to childhood,
and an old woman appears, whose name is Philomena
Carteron; she was born in 1702. And so on with
several others, back to Louis XIV. 'Other hypnotists
give similar stories; but it is
quite possible that
Col. de Rochas and others have been hoaxed.
Telepathy
in the Next World
It is generally assumed that telepathy or thought
transference largely replaces conversation in the next
world. It is also the means by which spirit messages
are received; for it is not by actual speech, but by
thought transference, that the " spirits" communicate
their information.
Kant records the discovery by Swedenborg of a
lost receipt in a secret drawer by direction of a
deceased husband. This is supposed to be due to
"deferred telepathy." (See Sir Oliver Lodge,
"Survival of Man," p. 120.)
Dr. Osty (see Maeterlinck) had all the leading
events of his life for three years told to him as
we now know by telepathy. The forty volumes of
these experiments of the S.P.R. have fully established
their new power as a scientific fact.
Before the S.P.R.'s investigations clairvoyance,
telepathy, and hypnotism (when not frauds) were
all thought to be supernatural. It is not so now.