TELEPATHY

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For ages barbarous peoples of both hemispheres have availed themselves of this super-normal faculty of transmitting information and acquiring knowledge. Polynesian, Australian, African, and American Indian medicine-men and scryers still gaze into crystals, "sight-stones” and polished slabs, or stare into water and drops of blood, in order to bring within range intuitive knowledge existing in the sub-consciousness, or to see telepathically visions of events occurring at a distance and unknown to the seer. Telepathic conveyance is the only explanation of accurate information given to a friend of the writer*s more than forty years ago by a Chinaman, concerning the loss of one of his ships eight hundred miles away, afterward verified to the letter as to time, place, and detail. When asked how he knew of the disaster, the Chinese percipient said that when he desired news he went into a certain dark room in Canton and sat down. If any important action chanced to be occurring, it was communicated to his mind by agents stationed at distant points. British officers are authority for the statement that during the Sepoy Mutiny in 1857[1] information regarding the uprising was received by natives in advance of the time required to transmit news by the conventional channels. Similar telepathic sensitiveness on the part of negro seers has been noted by English observers in explanation of the transmission of knowledge by unknown means in different parts of Africa.

Dr. Charles Eastman[2], the Sioux Indian
who was educated at Dartmouth and is now a well known public lecturer, recently related to the writer this authentic instance of telepathic clairvoyance. In 1852 the community of Sioux settled at Shakopee, near St. Paul, on hearing the prevalent rumor of an outbreak among those of their people who resided in northern Minnesota, two hundred miles distant, feared that the neighboring whites would anticipate hostilities by an attack on their village. In this predicament, they called upon their seers to tell them what was going on in the north. In response to the demand, Tomahah[3], an aged chief, retired into a dark tepee for several hours, and when he emerged he announced that at the camp of Little Crow an exciting game (of lacrosse) was going on, and in the community of Little Six a great feast or ceremony was celebrating with much éclat. This accounted for the commotion misinterpreted by the white settlers. There were no signs of war preparation anywhere apparent. A week later, when trustworthy news reached St. Paul, everything proved to be as stated by Tomahah[3].
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BODY AND SPIRIT
AN INQUIRY INTO THE SUBCONSCIOUS
BASED UPON TWELVE THOUSAND EXPERIENCES IN THE author's PRACTICE
BY
JOHN D. QUACKENBOS, A.M.,M.D.
1916.

It you, being orthodox Christians, ask me as a psychologist whether the reference of a phenomenon to a subliminal self does not exclude the notion of the direct-presence of the Deity, I have to say frankly that I do not see why it necessarily should. Professor James in “The Varieties of Religious Experience”

[1] One of the most well-known uprisings during the British colonization of India was a mutiny of the native troops known as "sepoys". When it began on Sunday, May 10, 1857 the Sepoy rebellion was a complete surprise to the British, many of whom were "blind to the unrest that had been created, in part, by the rapid imposition of direct British control over two-thirds of India"


[2] Charles Alexander Eastman (born Hakadah and later named Ohíye S’a; 1858 –1939) was a Native American physician, writer, national lecturer, and reformer. He was of Santee Sioux and Anglo-American ancestry. Active in politics and issues on American Indian rights, he worked to improve the lives of youths, and founded 32 Native American chapters of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA). He also helped found the Boy Scouts of America. He is considered the first Native American author to write American history from the native point of view.

Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains
By Charles A. Eastman
"[Eastman's] close association with [these heroes] affords a personal note of great value."—Nation. Charles A. Eastman, a Santee Sioux, was four years old at the time of the 1862 Sioux Uprising in Minnesota. Separated from his father in the aftermath of the rebellion, he spent eleven years with relatives in Canada before being reunited with him and taken to Dakota Territory. Deeply influenced by his father who had been converted to Christianity, he likewise followed "the white man's trail," attending Dartmouth and, in 1890, becoming a government physician at the Pine Ridge Agency. His fame today rests on the eleven books he wrote, in which he attempted to correct misapprehensions whites had about Indians and to bring the two races closer together. First published in 1918,”Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains” contains biographical sketchs of fifteen great Indian leaders, most of them Sioux and some of them, like Red Cloud and Rain-in-the-Face, friends and acquaintances of Eastman. He pays tribute to Little Wolf, the Cheyenne chief whom he knew well, and describes the noble career of Chief Joseph of the Nez Perces, who received his assistance in drawing up a document of grievances presented to the government in 1897. In finely crafted prose Eastman cuts to the essence of his subjects, including Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Spotted Tail, Little Crow, Gall, Two Strike, American Horse, Dull Knife, Roman Nose. Hole-in-the-Day, This last Chief was Standing Moose AKA: Chief Tamaha

[3]A chief of the Mdewakanton Sioux who met and aided Lt. Zebulon Pike during the American explorer's expeditions in 1806 and 1807. Their ensuing strong friendship prompted Tamaha to remain loyal to the United States during the War of 1812 despite the fact that most of the Sioux supported the British. Tamaha not only refused to join the other Sioux in the war against the United States, but served General Clarke as a scout and messenger. On one of his trips, he was imprisoned by a fur trader in the employ of the British and, though threatened with execution, steadfastly refused to divulge any information to the enemy. After the war, in 1816, he visited St. Louis to participate in a council of the 46 chiefs from the upper Missouri. General Clarke took that occasion to present Tamaha a medal of honor for his faithful service to the United States. Tamaha lived to the age of 85, venerated by red man and white man alike. He died in April 1860 at Wabasha, Minn.


"His dress on these occasions was a much worn military coat and pantaloons of blue cloth trimmed with red, and an old stove-pipe hat with the same color displayed. He always carried with him a large package of papers inclosed in a leather or skin pocket-book, and also a large silver medal, which he wore suspended from his neck in a conspicuous place on his breast. His large red pipe-stone hatchet pipe, with a long handle, was generally in his hands. It was his usual custom to attract attention by his presence and then allow the curious to examine his pipe and medal, when, if there appeared to be a prospect of getting money for the exhibition, he would produce his pocket-book and allow an examination of its contents, for which privilege he expected, and usually received, at least a dime, and perhaps from the more liberal a quarter of a dollar. This Indian was historical character."

From the book
"History of Wabasha County"
Published in 1884