Object numberM2004/017:089
DescriptionAutobiographical notes typed by Edward Lane, talking about his interest in hand analysis. He notes it started with receiving a book about handreading at the age of 21, which triggered a life long interest and practice.
Lane was a Petty Officer in the R.A.N. when he read a book on Palmistry (Cheiro's Language of the Hand). "It didn't take me long to discover that I could become more popular than most of the other lads of my age, and by earnest study cultivate the ability to read the inmost secrets of anyone's life. Wanting proof of the hand-mind relationship he visited mental asylums' to observe the hands of inmates. "I was amply rewarded by being able to establish the correlationship between the hand and various types of mental illnesses." After leaving the R.A.N. he entered business but never lost his interest in hands. When WWII began, he obtained a commission as a pilot in the Fleet Air Arm. Five years in England gave him the opportunity of meeting prominent doctors and psychologists, including Dr Charlotte Wolff and Noel Jaquin both of whom have written on hand-psychology. "I took hundreds of hand prints, of well-known people including a member of a foreign Royal family." At the Air Medical School where he was an instructor in Elementary Flying, he met members of the medical profession and discussed hand-psychology with them, also giving demonstrations of character readings without seeing the owner whose hands were thrust through a pair of curtains.
En route to Australia on board the Niew Amsterdam he gave nightly demonstrations in the lounge to small groups consisting mostly of sceptics. Do the hands tell the future? This is the most often asked question. "I honestly believe that fate and character are synonymous terms. Whilst you cannot foretell a persons future, you can do something more, you can, if you are prepared to study a few rules and principles, get a pretty good idea of a person's character and temperament. And as success is really the result of the preponderance of our strong points over our weaknesses, the hands may be able to show which of these two forces will gain the mastery."
Lane was a Petty Officer in the R.A.N. when he read a book on Palmistry (Cheiro's Language of the Hand). "It didn't take me long to discover that I could become more popular than most of the other lads of my age, and by earnest study cultivate the ability to read the inmost secrets of anyone's life. Wanting proof of the hand-mind relationship he visited mental asylums' to observe the hands of inmates. "I was amply rewarded by being able to establish the correlationship between the hand and various types of mental illnesses." After leaving the R.A.N. he entered business but never lost his interest in hands. When WWII began, he obtained a commission as a pilot in the Fleet Air Arm. Five years in England gave him the opportunity of meeting prominent doctors and psychologists, including Dr Charlotte Wolff and Noel Jaquin both of whom have written on hand-psychology. "I took hundreds of hand prints, of well-known people including a member of a foreign Royal family." At the Air Medical School where he was an instructor in Elementary Flying, he met members of the medical profession and discussed hand-psychology with them, also giving demonstrations of character readings without seeing the owner whose hands were thrust through a pair of curtains.
En route to Australia on board the Niew Amsterdam he gave nightly demonstrations in the lounge to small groups consisting mostly of sceptics. Do the hands tell the future? This is the most often asked question. "I honestly believe that fate and character are synonymous terms. Whilst you cannot foretell a persons future, you can do something more, you can, if you are prepared to study a few rules and principles, get a pretty good idea of a person's character and temperament. And as success is really the result of the preponderance of our strong points over our weaknesses, the hands may be able to show which of these two forces will gain the mastery."
Production date 1940 - 1950
Subjecthandreading, memoirs, Australian Jewish history
Object namememoirs
Materialpaper
Techniqueprinted
Dimensions
- whole width: 204.00 mm
whole height: 254.00 mm
Language
- English
Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Reuben Lane