CHAPTER VII.

MR. FRANK R. ALDERMAN'S Experiments IN SOUL PROJECTION -INDEPENDENT PERCEPTIVE POWERS OF THE SOUL POSICONVERSATIONS BETWEEN

TIVELY DEMONSTRATED

SOULS REPorted-DIFFICULTIES INVOLVED IN THESE

EXPERIMENTS.

COMING again to soul projection, which is the high

est attribute of the soul exhibited in hypnosis, I have the advantage of personal observation of some of the experiments and demonstrations made by Mr. Frank R. Alderman, of Detroit, Michigan. Mr. Alderman is not a professional hypnotist, but his hypnotic power is remarkable, and has enabled him to obtain results from his subjects almost without precedent or counterpart in the United States, if not in the world. Evidence proving the fact of soul projection, and thereby demonstrating the existence of the soul as an intelligent entity not dependent upon the body for its maintenance or manifestations, appears in the third chapter of this book. Mr. Alderman's demonstrations have gone much further, and prove not only that the soul can project itself and observe present events, and objects as they exist, but can also go back in physical time and observe objects as they formerly existed, or past events as though of present occurrence. The following reports of some of Mr Alderman's experiments are taken from the Detroit Journal of various issues,

during the latter part of the year 1886, and the early months of 1887:

Mr. Alderman brought with him to a private residence, where a number of ladies. and gentlemen had assembled, a boy named Arndt, aged about 15 years. The boy was placed in a chair and speedily put to sleep. To the fact of somnolence the doctors testified. The boy was told to go (mentally) to a certain number of a certain street and to tell when he had got into the door. He soon announced his arrival, and was sent up stairs. He went into a small front room, which he said was dark; then he was directed to another room, which he said was lighted by a shaded lamp placed on a stand, whose position he described. A lady, he said, was lying on the bed, and there was no one else in the room.

The statements about the dark room and the lady being alone were announced to be wrong; but when the occupants of the house returned home they found that they and not the mental visitor had been in error.

The boy was next sent to a neighboring house on another street. He was sent up stairs, and when there his attention was arrested by a curious table, with a very round, large marble top and a single standard. The table was one of a fashion obsolete these twenty years, and was placed as described. An attempt being made to send him into the billiard room of the house, he announced that he saw a chair "that two could sit in," a piano, and on the floor, "one of them crazy quilts you wipe your feet on" (meaning a Turkish rug). The occupants of the room, he said, were two young men, one of whom had a light mustache and combed his hair straight up from his forehead. This description corresponded exactly with the furnishings and occupants of the music room at the time the description was made.

On a subsequent occasion the boy's soul was sent to Lansing, a place he had never visited. He described the low, dingy wooden station, crossed the bridge and saw the hotels on the left. On being told to ask his way to the capitol, he'said he spoke to a “coon" and asked him for a cigarette—but in vain. He went into the capitol and was sent into the supreme court room. There he described with exactness the bench and the peculiar arrangement of the seats. He also described the portraits of Judges Graves and Cooley on the walls.

The supreme test of this evening, when two subjects were present, was the visit paid by one of the boys to Northampton, Mass., where he entered the home of a gentleman of the party.