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Remarkable New Theory That Death
\ Sends the Spirit's Mysterious
A Little Electrons to Whirl Forever
Among the Molecules of Matter
A diagrammatic view of the third
and fourth ventricles of the brain,
the arrows pointing to the location of
the nerve Connecting the optic
thalami and corpora striata. .This
nerve, Dr. Bailey thinks, is the “seat
of consciousness or post of the soul.”
The pineal gland (A) is where the
ancients supposed the soul to be
located
FOR seven thousand years or so
men of all races and stages of
development from primitive sav
agery to the highest culture have been
discussing the possibility of life after
death. About the only point generally
agreed on during all of this time is that
life beyond the grave is also beyond the
use or need of the familiar material
things of this world—and therein lies its
mystery.
But now a Camden, N. J., scientist,
who started out thirty years ago to
locate the soul by dissection of the human
brain, asserts that the next life is a
material one. Your spirit, according to
his conclusions, would be just as help
less in the next world without a body as
it would be in this.
Spirits, he says, are not intangible.
Ghosts are not figments of the imagina
tion. Spooks arc not mere figures of
fright.
Spirits are visible to living men and
women, this authority contends, only
after the wizardry of the next life’s
chemistry has actually constructed out
of real matter a facsimile of the origi
nal. This, in effect, is what happens in
dreams, trances and hypnotism—in all
the phenomena of the mind under the
influence of which people are said to im
agine that they see things. They do not
merely imagine, this scientist says. They
actually see—and they see only because
the form really exists.
The man who makes these astonish
ing statements is Dr. Wilson G. Bailey,
of Camden, N. J. He is widely known
ns an operating surgeon, particularly f6r
his achievements in surgery of the
brain. It has not been generally known
that he is also an authority on psychic
phenomena—that he has been making a
close study of spirit manifestations fon
many years.
The medical fraternity of his own city
and Philadelphia recognizes him as an
expert in the study of trance and hypno
tism. He is frequently called into con
sultation in mental cases requiring in
duced or hypnotic sleep. It is primarily
on the basis of actual experiences met
with in his professional practice, there
fore, that his theories concerning the na
ture of life beyond the grave, the loca
tion of the human soul and the nature
of ghosts are constructed.
At the outset of his experiments Dr.
Bailey was a materialist, using the
word in the sense of one who does not
believe in life after death. As a matter
of fact, it was the attempt to discover
sound reasons for this belief in mate
•ialism that led him into the close study
anatomy. To-day he might be called
.1 material-spiritualist, holding as he
does that matter is to be found in the
highest stages of after life and that it
is necessary to consciousness.
Not the least remarkable feature of
the work Dr. Bailey has done is the loca
tion of what he calls the “seat of con
sciousness or pt>st of the soul.” This may
be described in his own words from a
• book he has just published setting forth
his theories In detail.
“looking into the lateral hemispheres
of the cerebrum or brain,” he snys, “wo
find it has two ventricles, and in each of
these ventricles we find two ganglia, ono
being a sensory ganglia or optic thalami,
about the size of a hazel nut, and the
other a motor ganglia, or corpora striata
about the size of a shellbark. The cellu
lar structure of the thalami gives a sort
of storage battery for the storing and
•ontinuity of sensational energy. When
a sensation roache^ the optic thalami it
i passed to the porpora striata.
“Connecting the optic thalami and
A spiritu
alistic seance
where, accord
ing to Dr. Bailey,
the rapidly vibrating electrons of the spirit world some
times succeed in constructing images of the bodies they
occupied while they lived bv drawing frr.m the living
the striata is
a thread-like
nerve, which
is the seat
of conscious
ness or the
post of the
soul. Hefe the
soul stands
and perceives
the sensation
passing from
the thalami to
the striata. A
motor impulse
is then sent
out, or the sen
sations, per
ceptions and
ideas are
stored as con
scious or sub
conscious mem
ory.
“When this
small thread
like nerve
passing in x
like form be
tween the cor
pora striata
and the optic
thalami is dis
connected in
trance, natural
sleep or sleep
induced by
An X-ray
photograph
of a crucifix lodged in a woman’s throat
after she accidentally swallowed it. Ac
cording to the newest theory the spirits
of the dead are nothing more or less
than matter in a far higher state of vibra
tion than the X-ray
Flashlight photograph of Mme. Bisson, the famous French medium and
a soul form she has materialized. Dr. Bailey believes this socd made itself
_visible enough to be photographed
_ _ _ through calling to its aid some of
9 9'“"9 the electrons which compose the
souls of living persons
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Diagram showing the arrangement
of the atoms in a diamond. Be
tween the atoms whirl electrons
and between these Dr. Bailey thinks
there are still
other electrons
—those form
ing the souls of
the inhabitants
of the world
beyond the
grave. The
latter, under
normal con
ditions are in
visible to us,
because vi
br atin g so
much more
rapidly than
our own souls
drugs, gas or hypnosis, you are uncon
scious of your surroundings. If this
nerve were cut you would be thrown into
one continuous sleep, and here, I believe,
is the scat of the ‘sleeping sickness.’ If
a surgoon could cut that nerve you
would never awaken.”
Dr. Bailey also makes the astounding
statement that "all animals that pos
sess a corpora striata are conscious, and
so possess an immortal spirit, as we do,
and they will live after physical death.”
"What is soul? What is spirit?” he
asks. “Is there nny difference? The
soul is the body of the spirit- Spirit could
not exist without a body. The soul is
built of matter, or electrons, in a higher
state of vibration than the physical body.
Spirit is made np of electrons in a high
state of vibration, but not as high as the
soul electrons.
“Spirit is intangible and unseen to
mortal eyes, but tho soul is visible ■ to
some individuals called psychics or me
diums, whose power in this respect is
called clairvoyance and clairaudicnce, or
clear seeing and clear hearing.
"The soul is the body through which
tho spirit will manifest itself after tho
physical body is sloughed off at tho
change called death. This soul body will
be perfect.
“Any physical imperfections here will
not appear in the soul body. The physi
cal body is made up of electrons in tho
lowest state of vibration, and can only
take with it or destroy matter in a simi
lar low state of vibration.”
So much has been published concern
ing the so-called “atomic theory of mat
ter” that it is almost unnecessary to re
view it. Broadly speaking, however, it
Is no longer a the
ory. All physicists
accept it as the ex
planation of how
all matter is put
together and held
together.
In order to make
his theory of im
mortality clear,
however, Dr.
Bailey has in
cluded in his book
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Antoine Wjertz’* celebrated painting, “One Moment
After Death.” This is the moment, Dr. Bailey
explains, when the spirit body in the brain
pats off its physical imper
fections and attains
perfection C ra»r»
the following brief outline of the
atomic theory:
“An electron is the smallest oun
cievable particle of matter known to
science. It is a sphere charged with
negative electricity and it revolves on
its own axis around other electrons,
in an orderly manner and without
touching any of them. A half glass
of water will contain more electrons
than the Atlantic Ocean has gallons
of water.
“The proton is the nucleus of the
atom. It is a charge* of positive elec
tricity. The atom was once thought
to be the smallest conceivable particle
of matter, *but we now know that it
is from 1,600 to 2,000 times larger
than the electrons, and that it consists of
a nucleus and one or more electrons.
"Thus a hydrogen atom consists of a
nucleus ami one revolving electron. A
helium atom has four electrons, oxygen
six and gold has eighty-seven.
"If scientists could make the nucleus
of the atom, and thus attract enough
whirling electrons, they could produce
any clement at will. All matter, or sub
stance, is composed of ninety-three dif
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Dr. Bailey is an expert on hypnotism, and he declares that
a hypnotic trance is simply a temporary paralysis of the little
nerve deep inside our brain which he thinks is the scat of
consciousness
trons in a
higher state of
vibration, but
acting in the
same orderly
manner,
around one an
other in or
bits.”
This leads
naturally to
the under
standing of
Dr. Bailey's
theory of im -
mortality.
Spirits, he as
serts, live ac
tually in and
fcrcnt elements, more or less, and the
only thing that makes one element dif
ferent from another is the arrangement
of the electrons in the atom.
"All matter consists of electric charges,
which are not matter at all. All created
things, including the human body, ncj
merely electricity. Kleetrons whirl
around one another. Hence there must
bo space between them, and, ns there
is no void in the universe, the space
around the world as human beings know
it. They live in this finer ether inter
mixed with the matter so familiar to
human beings, the smallest unit of which
is the electron.
“A brick cannot pass through a brick,
wood through wood or steel through
steel," says Hr. Bniiey, “from the fact
that the electrons composing them are
in the same stato of Vibration. Put
spirit matter, composed of electrons in
a higher state of vibration, can pass
through what we call material or phys
ical matter. So those in the spirit world,
can pass through our material bodies,
but not while our spirit bodies are in oor
material bodies.
“We are spirits here and now, as ranch
as we will ever be, but each of us
is clothed with a physical or material
body.”
In support of these statements Dr.
Bailey points to experiments by physical
scientists in passing light rays and cer
tain rare gases through all sorts of solid
substances.
According to the accepted principle
of the electron and the proton as the
basis of all matter, the light of the X
ray passing through the human body is
nothing mor^ or less than matter in a
high state of vibration.
“WThat happens, then,” be continues,
‘‘when a spirit manifestation is made?
The spirit called by relatives or friends
to appear responds and is present, but
in its spirit body it is not visible. It is
made visible by use of the electrons that
compose the soul, or spirit bbdy, of liv
ing persons.
“Various names have been given to
this spirit body which we sometime* sec.
It has been called ectoplasm and idea
plasm, the latter word indicating .Si t
an idea must precede the appearance of
all matter.
“At any rate, the spirit controls and
utilises the electrons as we use and con
trol the air we breathe. By a chemistry
of the mind which is still far beyond
the ability of the greatest earth scien
tists the spirit draws psychic essence
called ectoplasm or ideaplasm from the
medium and the medium draws it in turn
from those present at a seance. With
this the spirit constructs a facsimile or
image of the body it occupied while
alive.”
“Dr. Bailey believes that scientists now
studying the phenomena of the electron
will succeed in locating, independently
of spiritualists, the key to or unit of
the ether in which the spirits live. Once
that is accomplished, it will be possible
for any human being to get in touch
with the spirit world, even if that neces
sitates sleep or other form of trance.
To his mind there is no mystery
whatever about trance—it is merely the
temporary paralysis of the throad-like
nerves connecting the two ganglia in the
brain. He says there are three forms
of trance.
The first occurs in sleep and is that
form in which the subconscious mind
font mis. The second is the form of
trance in which the soul leaves the body
to make excursions into the spirit world,
and the third is that form in which a
spirit from the next world takes pos
session of the body. This is what hap
pens to the medium in a seance.