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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
