- 59 - 5. 4 Special cases of Clairvoyance. (Journal for Parapsychology, 1926, pp. 22-25) In an article that appeared in this publication, Professor Dr. Österreich discusses several instances of clairvoyance observed in his patient, Maria Reyes de Z., by Dr. Pagenstecher, a physician living in Mexico. These were subsequently also investigated and confirmed by Mr. Prince, an American. Professor Österreich writes about that as follows: “The phenomena studied by Pagenstecher and Prince were primarily cases of clairvoyance and psychometry. The experiments that have been carried out in this area seem absolutely convincing, and it is, no doubt, their remarkable nature that led Pagenstecher, a product of the materialistic school, through his own observations, to become convinced of the existence of such phenomena. He then, one day, reported his experiences to the Mexican Association of Physicians, whereupon his colleagues shook their heads, and some of them probably began to have doubts about his mental health. Nevertheless, a committee was formed, and its members subsequently confirmed the correctness of Pagenstecher’s observations.” What, then, were the facts determined in the case of the clairvoyant, or rather, the clairsentient Maria Reyes de Z.? • In a certain state, she had the same sensations as those felt by Dr. Pagenstecher, who sat facing her. At such times she felt as though she were inside his organism, but this was the case only as long as Dr. Pagenstecher stood or sat no farther than three meters from her. • On these occasions she would see a coloured radiation and a luminous band that connected her with Pagenstecher. • When handed a piece of a meteorite, she had the sensation of flying through space, passing alternately through hot and cold regions, and of falling into bottomless depths. • She was handed a letter, and although its writer was unknown to her, she sensed, saw and reported what happened during the sinking of a ship, thereby describing the personality of the letter writer as accurately as though she were standing across from him on the sinking ship. She also had the sensation of sinking into the ocean and of rising to the surface again. The letter, sealed in a bottle, had been picked up at sea. The explanation of the incidents related here may be found in the chapter dealing with the law of odic force. Od is the carrier not only of physical sensations, but of all spiritual ones as well. Inasmuch as the spirit of a living being is the bearer of its odic force, all of the thoughts and feelings of the spirit are expressed in corresponding vibrations of the od. At the same time the odic vibrations of a living being are influenced not only by the thoughts and moods of its own spirit, but also by the odic vibrations of other living beings whose odic radiation it receives. When, therefore, “clairsentient” people come into close enough contact, in whatever way, with the odic radiation of another person, they will also feel that person’s sensations in themselves. This is the law underlying the ability of certain people to “feel into” (empathize with) the feelings, the character, the sentiments and the fate of others.
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