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says this author,^ " has pointed out that if we had power 

 to follow and detect the minutest effects of any disturb- 

 ance, each particle of existing matter must be a register 

 of all that has happened." ^ 



Mr. Frederic W. H. Myers writes as follows on his 

 experience of thought transference : — 



" We find that it is occasionally possible for an experi- 

 menter to produce by effort of will a hallucinatory image 

 of himself in the perception of a friend at a distance, with- 

 out any previous suggestion or anticipation that such an 

 image would appear. This fact, of which we have several 

 instances attested by trustworthy persons at each end of 

 the chain, forms a transition between ordinary experi- 

 ments in thought-transference and those spontaneous 

 hallucinatory images which occur so frequently at or about 

 the moment of death, and represent the dying person to 

 a distant friend who is often not even aware of the 

 illness." ^ 



The late Rev. H. R. Haweis was on one occasion too 

 unwell with a severe cold to be in his place in the pulpit 

 of St. James's Church, Westmoreland Street ; so a friend 

 preached instead. More tJian one of his congregation 

 told him the next day that they saw him in the pulpit by 

 the side of the preacher, and asked why he did not preach 

 and why he was there. Haweis, as he informed me him- 

 self, was sitting all the morning over the fire bemoaning 

 his absence from the pulpit ! 



Mr. Myers' interpretation seems to be the most likely 

 one ; not that Haweis unconsciously projected an appear- 

 of himself into the pulpit, but two of his congregation 

 were en rapport with him, received the ethereal waves, 



^Principles of Science, vol. ii., p. 455. 

 ^ Ninth Bridgcwater Treatise. 

 " Science and a Future Life, p. 26. 



