====== The Inner Life ======
== THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | MAY 1935 ==
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==== PSYCHICS, BY ONE OF THEM ====
By Effie Halsey
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PSYCHIC phenomena testify to the reality of things hoped for and the substantiality of things unseen.

It is understood that certain effects result from the operation of certain laws, yet themselves are abstract and invisible. Chemistry performs miracles in the exact blending of selected elements. Medicine achieves marvels (to laymen) in the apparently magical effect upon some segregated organ of a well-adapted drug. Why should aspirin allay pain? No one knows exactly why, yet it does. Why should morphine induce disordered dreams? Why? Because the law of cause and effect is unerring and persists in every stratum of the universe.

The region of the mind invaded by hypnotic drugs is identical with the sub-conscious plane of being, wherein I spend my time during psychic gropings; the difference being in the fact that mine is a deliberate, instantaneous rummaging performance, while I am acutely awake and able to report to the active consciousness what material I glean and hand out to the listeners.

That seems no more mysterious to me than the action of the contents of the pharmacopaeia. I am obeying the dictates of an elemental, fundamental principle or law, which is the propelling impulse back of all creative effort. Psychics, for an as yet unexplained reason, seem able to demonstrate consecutively what the rest of mankind experiences but intermittently. A sudden uplift, a surge of hope, an unexpected enlightenment on an apparently unsolvable problem—all of these rarefied emotions psychics live daily.

In my case, the force frequently presents itself in the guise of a breath of pure air, palpable to me alone. But twice, once in New York City, and once at Bar Harbor, when about eight people were gathered together around a table, there came a rushing wind which blew papers off the table, and for several seconds filled the house with the sound of a mighty tempest. Not a leaf on the trees outside stirred. We were all certainly in one accord, and it seemed to those present like the wind of the Pentecost—Acts II, Verse 2. Whether it was our combined magnetism or whether it was our faith, I do not know. I simply state facts.
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