SEEING WITH THE MIND
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Reading through your correspondence columns last week, I was interested. by Mr. Harry Price's remarks relating" to his experiments with Mr. ICtida Bux, since I myself have had the opportunity to put Mr. Bux through stringent tests in "seeing with the mind."
I have followed Mr. Price's psychic career with interest, and it has always appeared to me that his investigations have tended not so much to reveal any flaw in the medium as to expose his own deficiencies as an investigator. His deficiency in this case, along with that of Mr. Joad, lies in the fact that if Mr. Kuda Bux could "see down the sides of the nostrils," as they claim, then obviously the blindfolding, which was left to the investigators, was faulty.
Personally I found that Mr. BIM allowed me any latitude I liked in blindfolding him, the one restriction being that the nose and mouth must remain exposed in Order that the breathing might be in no way impeded. The eye-sockets were first filled with sticky flour paste, and pads of cotton wool placed on top, after which three surgical bandages were wound round the upper half of the face to keep the pads in place. If this operation was carefully carried out it was possible to prevent there being any aperture down the sides of the nose. I par- ticularly noticed that on removing the bandages and cotton wool the sticky paste still completely filled the eye-sockets. The second point I wish to comment upon is that, in the experiments I am referring to, the writing which Mr. Bux accurately copied was written on either the top or the bottom half of the blackboard according to the whim of the investigator. When written on the top half, above the line of vision, I watched carefully to see whether Mr. Bux raised his head and was gratified to find he did not do so. This completely cancels Mr. Price's charge that the writing must be in his
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