Spiritualists, theosophists, and psychologists in Chicago: are puzzled by the mystery of the pictures of Egypt which' Mrs. Emma Mabel Field has drawn, although she knows nothing of that country, and still less of symbols or art there.
Mrs. Field, who lives on Chicago's fashionable North Shorea, had _an exhibition of her pictures of Egyptian figures, symbols, and scenes, and this started the controversy.
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So far as the artist is concerned, she says: "I just put my pencil on the paper and my hand moves along without any effort on my part. I have no idea what I aim going to draw until the picture is finished, and even then I do not know the meaning >f the symbols, which others seem to understand readily, "T an perfectly conscious when I draw, but do not know how I do it. I have never studied drawing, and can't do anything but these things. I don't know what inspires me. I don't believe in spiritualism, and although many people have told me the pictures are made by an Egyptian ghost. working through me, I do not believe them.
"Professor James (University of Minnesota) told me it was a case of my sub-conscious mind being more developed than my conscious mind, and that my sub-conscious mind was a heritage of Egyptian learning and talent dating from the time of Egypt itself."
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