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WAVELENGTH 3 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Astral Books by Departed Authors :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: by Frederic Arnold Kummer, Jr. -----:------:----- In a city fairly well supplied with spirit mediums, Mrs. Helen Wells , of 593 Riverside Drive, has the distinction of being the only one I have every heard of who has the sanction of the New York "Times". Sand-wiched in among the public notices you will find her little advertise-ment mentioning "Scientific Revelations from the Unseen World; descrip-tive booklet on request." If you request descriptive booklet, you discover that Mrs. Wells in touch, by claraudience, or hearing spirit voi-ces, with some five hundred spirits has had many of the literary and scientific ones dictate books to her... Dickens has, and so have Pythagoras, Emerson, Omar Khayyam and Bishop Cornelius Jansen of Ypres. You can buy their writings, neatly mimeographed, at prices ranging from fifty-five cents to one dollar, ten. When I called on Mrs. Wells.. in a mood for spiritual inquiry... I asked first about the Times taking a advertisement rooting in such a controversial subject as the unseen world. Mrs. Wells, a fresh-faces, white-haired, gentle old lady, wasn't a bit surprised by the question. She said the Times had sent a Miss Gow, a "sob sister" or human interst reporter, around to investigate. "I proved it all to her," Mrs. Wells told me briskly. "She left here convinced right down to the ground... bright as a whip, she was." -----:------:----- Mrs. Wells offers four courses of "scientific and psychic study" for skeptics, beginners, advanced students and scientist, respectively. One of the books for the scientists' course is entitled "The Correlation of Thought Forces with Chemicalization," which ought to give you the idea. There is a foreword signed "Dr. Alonzo P. Mathewson, M. A., Teacher of Astronomy in the Court of King George IV." Mrs. Wells's collaboration.. with the writers from the spirt world... is simplicity itself. Every morning from 11 to 12, except Saturday and Sunday, she sits in a green wic-ker chair in her rococo living room overlooking the Hudson and repeat s aloud what she hears dictated by a spirit. This is taken down on a type-writer by her secretary, a Mrs. Zadory, who later mimeographs the books right there in the apartment. The spirit authors appear on a rigid schedule: Pythagoras on Monday with Dr. Wilbur Stoddard, a deceased English chemist, now writing abook on atoms, on Tuesday; Mrs. Wells' son, Bertrand, now three chapter a-long on a book called "Punctured Tires", on Wednesday; on Thursday, one Azaroph ( "I don't want to say anything about him," Mrs. Wells says. "He is very old. ), and on Friday an assortment of ghostly small fry. "Do these people dictate to you in English?" I asked. "Of course," she ans-wered. "No use their talking to me in a foreign language, I don't speak any of 'em." -----:------:----- Mrs. Wells was born in Syracuse eighty years ago. She came to New York in 1910 with her husband, a well-to-do retired manufacturer, and her son. They both died within three years, and she became interestedin
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WAVELENGTH 3 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Astral Books by Departed Authors :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: by Frederic Arnold Kummer, Jr. -----:------:----- In a city fairly well supplied with spirit mediums, Mrs. Helen Wells , of 593 Riverside Drive, has the distinction of being the only one I have every heard of who has the sanction of the New York "Times". Sand-wiched in among the public notices you will find her little advertise-ment mentioning "Scientific Revelations from the Unseen World; descrip-tive booklet on request." If you request descriptive booklet, you discover that Mrs. Wells in touch, by claraudience, or hearing spirit voi-ces, with some five hundred spirits has had many of the literary and scientific ones dictate books to her... Dickens has, and so have Pythagoras, Emerson, Omar Khayyam and Bishop Cornelius Jansen of Ypres. You can buy their writings, neatly mimeographed, at prices ranging from fifty-five cents to one dollar, ten. When I called on Mrs. Wells.. in a mood for spiritual inquiry... I asked first about the Times taking a advertisement rooting in such a controversial subject as the unseen world. Mrs. Wells, a fresh-faces, white-haired, gentle old lady, wasn't a bit surprised by the question. She said the Times had sent a Miss Gow, a "sob sister" or human interst reporter, around to investigate. "I proved it all to her," Mrs. Wells told me briskly. "She left here convinced right down to the ground... bright as a whip, she was." -----:------:----- Mrs. Wells offers four courses of "scientific and psychic study" for skeptics, beginners, advanced students and scientist, respectively. One of the books for the scientists' course is entitled "The Correlation of Thought Forces with Chemicalization," which ought to give you the idea. There is a foreword signed "Dr. Alonzo P. Mathewson, M. A., Teacher of Astronomy in the Court of King George IV." Mrs. Wells's collaboration.. with the writers from the spirt world... is simplicity itself. Every morning from 11 to 12, except Saturday and Sunday, she sits in a green wic-ker chair in her rococo living room overlooking the Hudson and repeat s aloud what she hears dictated by a spirit. This is taken down on a type-writer by her secretary, a Mrs. Zadory, who later mimeographs the books right there in the apartment. The spirit authors appear on a rigid schedule: Pythagoras on Monday with Dr. Wilbur Stoddard, a deceased English chemist, now writing abook on atoms, on Tuesday; Mrs. Wells' son, Bertrand, now three chapter a-long on a book called "Punctured Tires", on Wednesday; on Thursday, one Azaroph ( "I don't want to say anything about him," Mrs. Wells says. "He is very old. ), and on Friday an assortment of ghostly small fry. "Do these people dictate to you in English?" I asked. "Of course," she ans-wered. "No use their talking to me in a foreign language, I don't speak any of 'em." -----:------:----- Mrs. Wells was born in Syracuse eighty years ago. She came to New York in 1910 with her husband, a well-to-do retired manufacturer, and her son. They both died within three years, and she became interestedin
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