characteristics of the ideas transferred at close quarters, and those
transferred at a distance, which is so marked and so general as to
call for some explanation of this kind. In the experiments conducted
in the same room or house, and in most of the spontaneous cases at
close quarters, the idea transferred corresponds to a mental image
consciously present to the mind of the agent. But the cases, whether
experimental or spontaneous, of such detailed transference at a
distance of more than a mile or two are very few--too few to justify
any valid generalisation. For in most cases of thought-transference at
a distance the idea transferred is one not consciously present to the
agent's mind at all--the idea of his own personality.
To some critics indeed (see _Mind_, 1887, p. 280) this difficulty has
seemed so serious as to suggest doubts of the propriety of referring
the two sets of results to a common category; and Von Hartmann,
whilst claiming, as already said, connection through the Absolute as
the explanation of the results obtained at a distance, is content to
postulate some kind of nervous induction in the case of experiments at
close quarters. But if we examine the facts more closely we find, as
has already been shown in some of the trials conducted by MM Gibert and
Pierre Janet in inducing sleep at a distance, and in a few other cases
(_e.g._, Nos. 40, 53, 58), that the idea of the personality of the
agent may be transferred to the percipient, together with the specific
idea present to the agent's mind. Moreover, in the recorded cases of
thought-transference at close quarters, with hardly any exception, the
presence of the agent was known to the percipient, and no evidence
for the telepathic transmission of the idea of him can therefore be
furnished. But since the idea of self is probably always present as
part of the permanent substratum of consciousness, and since we have
actual evidence that in some cases that idea may be communicated to the
percipient, together with the idea consciously willed by the agent,
it seems permissible to conclude that it may form an element in every
case of transference. And if this be admitted, not merely will the
difficulty referred to disappear, but some progress will have been made
towards obtaining experimental verification of the physical effects
of distance on telepathic transmission. For it would seem to follow
that the telepathic energy, which at close quarters is able to effect
the transference even of the trivial and momentary contents of the
agent's mind, is competent when acting at a distance to convey only
those continuous and more massive vibrations which may be presumed to
correspond to his conception of his own personality. That the agent
is not consciously "thinking of himself" need not prevent us from
accepting this view. Nor would a like unconsciousness on the part of
the percipient be a serious objection. For, as we have already seen
(Nos. 24, 25, 27, etc.), ideas can be transferred from the subconscious
to the subconscious; and indeed there is some ground for thinking that,
outside of direct experiment, the intervention of the conscious mind
in the telepathic transmission of thought is exceptional. Even in some
of the most striking experimental cases it has been shown that either
agent or percipient, or both, were asleep or entranced at the time.
(See Chapter X., p. 239.)
This close connection of the activity of thought-transference with
the subliminal consciousness, the consciousness which appears in
hypnosis, and occasionally in dream-life and in spontaneous trance and
automatism, may perhaps offer a clue to the origin of the faculty.
For the future place of telepathy in the history of the race concerns
us even more nearly than the mode of its operation; and we are led
therefore to ask whether the faculty as we know it is but the germ
of a more splendid capacity, or the last vestige of a power grown
stunted through disuse. By those who view the matter simply as a topic
of natural history the latter alternative will be preferred. The
possible utility of telepathy as a supplement to gesture, etc., at a
time when speech and writing were not yet evolved, is too obvious for
comment. Whilst, on the other hand, such a faculty can with difficulty
be conceived as originating by any physical process of evolution in
our modern civilisation. But more direct evidence of the place of
telepathy in our development is not wanting. For there are indications
that the consciousness which lies below the threshold, with which the
activity of telepathy is constantly associated, may be regarded as
representing an earlier stage in the consciousness of the individual,
and even it may be an earlier stage in the history of the race. The
readiest means of summoning into temporary activity this subterranean
consciousness is in the hypnotic trance. Now the consciousness
displayed by the hypnotised subject includes, as a rule, the whole of
the normal consciousness, and also extends beyond it. That is, the
hypnotised subject is aware not only of what goes on in the trance but
also of his normal life: when awaked the events of the trance have
passed from his memory and are not revived until the next period of
trance. Our work-a-day consciousness would appear to be, in fact, a
selection from a much larger field of potential consciousness. Or, to
put it in another way, the pressure on the narrow limits of our working
consciousness is so great that ideas and sensations are continually
being crowded out and forced down below the threshold. The subliminal
consciousness thus becomes the receptacle of lapsed memories and
sensations; and up to a certain point in the history of each individual
these lapsed ideas can be temporarily revived. Long forgotten memories
of childhood, for instance, can be resuscitated in the hypnotic trance,
and ideas which have demonstrably never penetrated into consciousness
at all can be brought to light by crystal-vision, planchette-writing,
or other automatic processes.
Again, one of the most marked characteristics of the subliminal
consciousness, whether in dream, hypnosis, spontaneous trance, or in
crystal vision and other automatism, is its power of visualisation--a
power which, as Mr. Galton has shown, and our daily experience
proves, tends to become aborted in later life. And beyond these
indications of memories lost and imagery crowded out in the lifetime
of the individual, we come across traces of faculties which have long
ceased to obey the guidance or minister to the needs of civilised
man--the psychological lumber of many generations ago. Such at least,
it may be suggested, is a possible interpretation of the control
frequently exercised by the hypnotic over the processes of digestion
and circulation and the functions of the organic life generally. And
the more doubtful observations, which seem to indicate the possession
by the subconscious life of a sense of the passage of time and of a
muscular sense superior to that of the waking state, may be held to
point in the same direction.
From such facts and such analogies as these it may be argued that
telepathy is perchance the relic of a once-serviceable faculty, which
eked out the primitive alphabet of gesture, and helped to bind our
ancestors of the cave or the tree in as yet inarticulate community, Dr.
Jules Héricourt,[172] indeed, goes further, and suggests that we find
here traces of the primeval unspecialised sensitiveness which preceded
the development of a nervous system--a heritage shared with the amœba
and the sea-anemone.
On the other hand, it may be urged that our present knowledge, either
of telepathy itself or of the subconscious activities with which it is
sought to link it, cannot by any means be held sufficient to support
such an inference as to the probable origin of the faculty; and
further, that the absence of mundane analogies, and the difficulties
attending any such explanation yet suggested, forbid us to assume that
the facts are capable of expression in physical terms.
It is further urged that whilst the dependence of telepathy on any
material conditions is not obvious, it is constantly associated not
only in popular belief, but in testimony from trustworthy sources,
with phenomena which seem to point to supernormal faculties, such
as clairvoyance, retrocognition, and prevision, themselves hardly
susceptible of a physical explanation. This view has found its ablest
exponent in Mr. F. W. H. Myers.[173]
And though Mr. Myers would himself readily admit that the evidence for
these alleged supernormal faculties is not on a par with the evidence
for telepathy, yet he maintains that such as it is it cannot be
summarily dismissed. No doubt if it should appear with fuller knowledge
that there are sufficient grounds for believing in faculties which give
to man knowledge, not derivable from living minds, of the distant,
the far past, and the future, it would be more reasonable to regard
telepathy as a member of the group of such supernormal faculties,
operating in ways wholly apart from the familiar sense activities, and
not amenable, like these, to terrestrial laws.
Such considerations may at any rate be held to justify a suspension
of judgment. We are not yet, it may be said, called upon to decide
whether telepathy is a vestigial or a rudimentary faculty; whether
its manifestations are governed by forces correlative with heat and
electricity, or whether we are justified in discerning in them the
operation of some vaster cosmic agencies. But there is another aspect
of the question. The first stage of our inquiry is not yet complete.
It would be futile for us to debate what manner of new agency we
propose to believe in until it is generally admitted by competent
persons that the facts are not to be attributed to such recognised,
if insufficiently familiar, causes as illusion, misrepresentation,
and the subconscious quickening of normal faculties. More and varied
experiments are wanted, more and more accurate records of spontaneous
phenomena; and at the present stage there should be no lack of either
one or other. Most scientific inquiries demand of the investigator long
years of special study and preparation, and an elaborate mechanical
equipment. But experiments in thought-transference can be conducted by
any one with sufficient leisure and patience to observe the requisite
precautions; whilst telepathic visions need for their recording no
other qualifications than accuracy and good faith. In fact Science,
whose boast it was once
"Aerias tentasse domos animoque rotundum
Percurrisse polum,"
has now come down from those airy realms and turned its attention
to the things of earth, and especially to the study of our human
environment and the growth of human intelligence. And in this its
latest phase Science has, of necessity, followed the tendency of the
age and become democratic. Every parent can become a fellow-worker
with Darwin in the laboratory of the infant mind; in investigating the
faculties and idiosyncrasies of man, even the lines imprinted on his
finger-tips and his shifts to remember the multiplication-table, there
is not less need of the accumulated small contributions of the many
than of the life-long labours of the expert. And in this newest field
of scientific research there can be no doubt that results of permanent
value await the worker who is content to walk upon the solid earth,
and to turn his eyes from the mirage which has dazzled many of his
predecessors.
FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 150: The fact that most, if not all, the medical men quoted
would themselves reject the explanation hinted at in the text, and
would regard their own success as due rather to skill and patience than
to any specific endowment, should, of course, have due weight, but
cannot be regarded as decisive.]
[Footnote 151: See also the account given by Dr. Gibotteau in the
_Annales des Sciences Psychiques_ of the power possessed by _Berthe_
(see _ante_, p. 139) of causing people to stumble or lose their sense
of direction. Mr. Andrew Lang has recently drawn attention to the
remarkable resemblances between accounts of medieval magic, etc.,
and modern telepathic phenomena (see, _e.g._, his article in _Cont.
Review_, Sept. 1893).]
[Footnote 152: It is possible that we need not go so far as telepathy
for an explanation. Slight indications unconsciously apprehended
may have furnished the necessary clue in all cases, as they almost
certainly did in some.]
[Footnote 153: See _Proc. S.P.R._, vol. i. p. 230, vol. ii. p. 56;
_Phil. Mag._, April 1883; _Proc. Amer. S.P.R._, p. 116.]
[Footnote 154: _Animal Magnetism_ (International Science Series), pp.
264 _et seq._ Cf. Ottolenghi and Lombroso, in _Rev. Phil._, Oct. 1889,
on polarisation of hallucinations by magnets.]
[Footnote 155: _Rev. de l'Hypnotisme_, Dec. 1887.]
[Footnote 156: _Ibid._, June 1887.]
[Footnote 157: _Rev. des Sciences Hypnotiques_, 1887-88, p. 111.]
[Footnote 158: _Brit. Med. Journal_, Jan. 1893.]
[Footnote 159: _Rev. des Sciences Hypnotiques_, 1887-88, p. 151. See
also _Force Psychique et Suggestion Mentale_, by Dr. Claude Perronnet,
pp. 21-26, who shows clearly how thought-transference may vitiate many
hypnotic experiments.]
[Footnote 160: _Annales des Sciences Psychiques_, Jan.-Feb. 1893;
_Proc. S.P.R._, vol. ix. p. 218.]
[Footnote 161: _Proc. S.P.R._, vol. vi. p. 98.]
[Footnote 162: See, for instance, the _Report on Spiritualism of the
London Dialectical Society_; Experiences of Mr. Stainton Moses in
_Proc. S.P.R._, vol. ix. p. 245; and article, "Spiritualism," in the
_Encyclopædia Britannica_, by Mrs. Henry Sidgwick, and in _Chambers'
Encyclopædia_, by Alfred Russel Wallace, F.R.S.]
[Footnote 163: It need hardly be said that the oft-quoted story of
the European who came late and unobserved to the performance of an
Indian Fakir, and from a distant tree saw him cutting up a pumpkin when
the crowd saw him cutting up a child, is merely _ben trovato_. Nor,
indeed, until we have contemporaneous accounts of these performances
from carefully trained observers is there need of any such hypothesis
to explain the feats of Indian jugglery. See Mr. Hodgson's article in
_Proc. S.P.R._, vol. ix. p. 354.]
[Footnote 164: The explanation suggested in the text for the physical
phenomena of Spiritualism is worked out in some detail by Von
Hartmann, the philosopher of the unconscious, in a little treatise on
_Spiritism_, which has been translated into English by "C.C.M.," 1885.
But Von Hartmann believes that some of the phenomena are produced by a
hypothetical nerve-force under the direction of the somnambulic self of
the medium--a prodigality of hypotheses which in the circumstances is
surely superfluous.]
[Footnote 165: See _Phantasms of the Living_, vol. i. pp. 110-113.]
[Footnote 166: Presidential Address to the Section of Mathematics and
Physics of the British Association, August 1891.]
[Footnote 167: "If all individuals of higher or lower order are rooted
in the Absolute, retrogressively in this they have a second connection
among themselves, and there is requisite only a restoration of the
_rapport_ or telephonic junction (_Telephonanschluss_) between two
individuals in the Absolute, by an intense interest of the will,
to bring about the unconscious interchange between them without
sense-mediation." (_Spiritism_, by Ed. von Hartmann, trans. C.C.M., p.
75.)]
[Footnote 168: _Des Propriétés physiques d'une force particulière du
corps humain_, 1882.]
[Footnote 169: _De la Suggestion mentale_, Paris, 1887, pp. 511, 512.]
[Footnote 170: _American Journal of Psychology_, vol. i., No. 1.]
[Footnote 171: See, for instance, Professor Lodge's paper in _Proc.
S.P.R._, vol. vii. p. 374.]
[Footnote 172: _Annales des Sciences Psychiques_, vol. i. p. 317.]
[Footnote 173: See his articles on the "Subliminal Consciousness,"
etc., _Proc. S.P.R._, vol. vii. p. 298; vol. viii. p. 333, pp. 436 _et
seq._]
INDEX.
Aksakof A., cases recorded by, 184, 266
American Society for Psychical Research, founding of, 4;
experiments by, 15, 27
Anæsthesia telepathically produced, 101-104
Anxiety as cause of hallucination, 216, 223
Auditory hallucinations, 25, 218, 247-251, 274-276
Automatic writing, 91-96, 183
Azam, Dr., experiments by, 59
Babinski, 375
Backman, Dr., experiments by, 338, 349, 357
Barber, Mrs., case recorded by, 168
Baréty, Dr., 384
Barnby, Sir Joseph, case recorded by, 358
Barrett, Professor, 19, 72;
experiments by, 84
Beard, S. H., 83
Bergson, case of cornea-reading, 12
Bernheim, Professor, 3, 212, 375
Bidder, the Misses, case recorded by, 190
Binet and Féré, experiments by, 209, 375
Bonjean, 11
Booth, Miss Mabel Gore, case recorded by, 263
Borderland hallucinations, 193, 217, 257, 292
Bourru and Burot, 375
Boyd, W., case recorded by, 346
Boyle, R. V., case recorded by, 196
Brown, Mrs., experiments by, 27
Bruce, Archdeacon, case recorded by, 182
Busk, Miss, case recorded by, 205
Buttemer, R. H., experiments by, 95
Caldecott, Miss L., case recorded by, 255
Campbell, Captain, case recorded by, 198
Campbell, Miss, and Miss Despard, experiments by, 127
Carat, Dr., case recorded by, 257
Cards, power of distinguishing by touch, 13
Cary, C. H., case recorded by, 274
Casual hallucinations, 208, 215-225
Census of hallucinations, 215
Chance coincidence, 27, 143, 146, 186-188, 220-225
Clairvoyance, 2, 19, 204, 393;
definition of, 326;
travelling, 295, 338-350
Clairvoyant, dream, 204, 363, 367
Clark, Miss C., case recorded by, 247
Clothes of apparitions, 152, 200, 230, 244, 246
Codes, fraudulent, 10, 11, 25
Collective agency, 21, 23, 30, 37, 43, 64, 74
Collective hallucinations, 378-380;
evidential defects, 153, 268-272;
explanation of, 272-274
Collective illusion, 268
Colour, transference of, 32, 34, 35, 64
Commands, execution of telepathic, 87, 90, 110-113, 121
Commands, telepathic disobeyed, 89, 90
Community of sensation, 18
Contact in thought-transference experiments, 14, 19, 30, 34, 389
Contagious hallucinations, 273, 308, 316
Cornea-reading, 11, 12, 35
Crookes, William, 377
Crystal as means of inducing hallucination, 352
Crystal vision, 2, 75, 353, 357-359, 373
Cumberland, Stuart, 14
Dariex, Dr., 89, 118
Dates, unconsciously falsified, 153
Death, dreams of, 188;
hallucinations coinciding with, 147, 220-225
Deferred recognition, 247, 254
Deferred telepathic impression, 65, 79, 264
Delbœuf, Professor, 212, 375
Dessoir, Max, experiments by, 38
Dempster, Miss Hawkins, case recorded by, 302
De Vesci, Lady, case recorded by, 181
"Dick," case of pseudo-clairvoyance, 13
Direction, hallucination in sense of, 139, 141
Distance, effect of on experiments, 74, 105, 132, 139, 389-391
Dobbie, A. W., experiments by, 338
Documentary evidence, 157-159, 187
Double impression, transference of, 37
Dreams, analogy with hallucinations, 186, 189, 197, 207-208
Dreams, clairvoyant, 204, 363, 367
Dream evidence, 185-189
Dufay, Dr., experiments by, 116
Dupré, Dr., case recorded by, 172
Dusart, Dr., 118
Edgeworth, Prof., calculations of probabilities, 27
Elliotson, Dr., experiments by, 19
Emotion, transference of, 141, 173-180
Errors of inference, 148;
of memory, 152, 220-222;
of narration, 149;
of observation, 147
Esdaile, Dr., 19
Evans, Rev. C. L., case recorded by, 299
Experiments in physical sciences, 6-9
Falkinburg, S. S., case recorded by, 283
Fatigue, influence on clairvoyance, 353, 362, 367
Féré (and Binet), experiments by, 209, 375
Fraud, 10, 11
Freese, Mrs., case recorded by, 367
Frost, Rev. Matthew, case recorded by, 265
Fryer, Rev. A. T., case recorded by, 295
Ghosts, 2, 150, 153, 226, 272
Gibert, Dr., experiments by, 88, 108
Gibotteau, Dr., experiments by, 80, 139, 368
Godfrey, Rev. Clarence, experiments by, 228
Goodall, Edward, case recorded by, 202
Goodrick, Rev. A. T. S., case recorded by, 279
Gower, Leveson, case recorded by, 175
Gradual development of impressions, 76-78, 176, 255
Gregory, Prof., 19
Greiffenberg, Mrs., case recorded by, 277
Greves, Dr. Hyla, 23
Grimaldi and Fronda, experiments by, 56
Gurney, Edmund, 20, 91, 102, 155, 188, 215, 381;
experiments by, 20, 27, 33, 57, 60, 101, 213
Guthrie, Malcolm, experiments by, 20, 23, 33
Hall, Prof. Stanley, 386
Hallucinations, "borderland," 193, 217, 257, 292;
casual, 208, 215-225;
census of, 215;
centrally initiated, 214;
contagious, 273, 308, 316;
grotesque, 273, 277, 278;
heteroplastic, 233, 246, 304-315;
hypnotic, 208-211, 270, 378;
of memory, 154-155, 187, 271;
post-hypnotic, 211-214;
pseudo, 68;
rudimentary, 126, 217, 251, 278, 279;
telepathic, experimentally induced, 68, 132, 134, 140, 141, 226-246
Hamilton, E. W., case recorded by, 200
Harrison, Mrs., case recorded by, 194
Hart, Ernest, 375
Hartmann, Edward, 383, 390
Haunted houses, 315-325, 373
Hay, Sir John Drummond, case recorded by, 251
Haynes, Gideon, case recorded by, 170
Hennique, Leon, experiments by, 129
Herbert, Auberon, 81
Herdman, Prof., 23
Héricourt, Dr., 118;
Dr. Jules, 393
Heteroplastic hallucinations, 233, 246, 304-315
Hicks, Dr., 23
Hodgson, Dr. R., 13, 155, 379;
case recorded by, 304
Hudson, W. H., 13
Hurly, Miss Berta, case recorded by, 258
Husbands, John, case recorded by, 309
Hyperæsthesia, 11, 59, 70
Hypnotic state favourable to thought-transference, 18, 58, 91, 393
Hypnotism, 3, 18, 58, 59, 372
Inference, errors of, 148
Illusion, collective, 268;
telepathic, 64, 65, 169
Impersonal agency, 179
Impersonations in trance, 329-331
Janet, Professor Pierre, 88, 91, 209, 390;
experiments by, 108
James, Professor W., cases recorded by, 174, 334
Johnson, Miss, experiments by, 70, 75
Jones, Sir Lawrence, case recorded by, 293
Jupp, Rev. C. H., case recorded by, 290
Kapnist, Countess Eugenie, case recorded by, 252
Keulemans, J. G., self-induced trance, 351
Kirk, Joseph, experiments by, 131-139, 244
Knott, Mrs., case recorded by, 316
Krebs, F. H., case recorded by, 174
Lang, Andrew, 373
Latency of telepathic impression, 65, 264
Latour, Dr. Tolosa, experiments by, 119
Liébeault, Dr., case recorded by, 184;
experiments by, 63, 212
Liégeois, Professor, experiments by, 63, 212
Lip-reading, 11, 70
Local association of some apparitions, 314
Lodge, Professor Oliver, 382, 387, 389;
experiments by, 33, 35, 332, 336
Luminosity accompanying telepathic hallucinations, 255, 257, 286
Luys, Dr., 375
Mabire, Etienne, and Anton Schmoll, experiments by, 42
"Magnetic sense," 374
Magnets, alleged influence of, 375
Marks, F. A., case recorded by, 362
Maughan, Miss Edith, experiments by, 238
McAlpine, Mrs., case recorded by, 260
Memory, errors of, 152, 220-222;
hallucination of, 154, 155, 187, 271
Mesmer, 384
Mesmerism (_See_ Hypnotism)
Metals, alleged influence of, 375
Milman, Mrs., case recorded by, 280
Misinterpretation of telepathic message, 302
Muscle-reading, 14, 30
Music, transference of, at a distance, 122
Myers, Dr. A. T., 71, 109
Myers, F. W. H., 20, 325, 328, 393;
cases recorded by, 183, 236, 311, 353;
experiments by, 21, 49, 109-113, 210
Narration, errors of, 149
"Nervous induction," 102, 386, 390
Newbold, Miss Annie, case recorded by, 275
Newnham, Rev. P. H., experiments by, 92
Number-habit, 16
Observation, errors of, 147
Ochorowicz, Dr., 384;
experiments by, 28, 88
P----, J. H., experiments by, 89, 120
Pain, experimental transference of, 23, 34, 60;
spontaneous transference of, 162, 192
Paquet, Mrs., case recorded by, 360
Pickering, Prof., on number-habit, 16
Piper, Mrs., phenomena observed with, 327
_Point de repère_, 183, 210, 214, 217, 352
Post-hypnotic hallucinations, 211-214
Precautions necessary in experiments, 10-17
Presumptive action of telepathy, 372, 373
Pseudo-hallucinations, 68
Pseudo-presentiments, 154, 187
Pseudo-telepathy, 10, 11, 13
Real person mistaken for ghost, 148
Reciprocal impressions, 298-302
Reddell, Frances, case recorded by, 306
Reichenbach's phenomena, 374
Richet, Prof., 113, 166;
cases recorded by, 113, 166, 171, 295, 311;
experiments by, 26, 57, 98, 116, 376
Roux, J. C., experiments by, 124
Royce, Prof., cases recorded by, 192, 195;
on pseudo-presentiment, 154
Sauvaire, Dr., hyperæsthesia described by, 13
Schmoll, Anton, and Etienne Mabire, experiments by, 42
Schrenck-Notzing, Dr. Von, experiments by, 54, 239
Secondary consciousness, moral inferiority of, 95, 96, 331
Second-hand evidence of little value, 150, 152, 156, 288;
useful as standard of comparison, 156, 160, 298, 304
Severn, Arthur, case recorded by, 162
"Shell-hearing," 355
Sidgwick, Mrs. H., experiments by, 65, 70, 75, 102;
Professor, 4, 20, 65, 70, 215
Sister Martha, case recorded by, 292
Sleep, produced telepathically, 107-119, 135, 139
Sloman, Rev. A., case recorded by, 167
Smell, transference of, 164
Smith, G. A., 60, 65, 71, 75, 83, 101, 211, 355
Smith, H., case recorded by, 219
Society for Psychical Research, 4, 10, 83, 215, 374
Society for Psychical Research, American, founding of, 4;
experiments by, 15, 27
Sounds, transference of, experimental, 24, 122;
spontaneous, 168, 247-251, 274-276
Sparks, H. P., experiments by, 234
Spiritualism, 3, 19, 376-380
Stewart, Professor Balfour, 20
Subconscious action of telepathy, 58, 91, 139, 239, 254, 391
Subliminal consciousness, 95, 254, 392
Sully, Professor, 215
Table-tilting, 73, 96, 99
Tamburini, Prof., case recorded by, 175
Taste, experiments with sense of, 20, 34, 58
Telepathy, definition, 6;
frequently subconscious, 58, 91, 139, 239, 254, 391;
a generalisation not a theory, 381;
origin of faculty, 391-393;
suggested explanation of, 382-388
Terror, experimentally induced, 141
Thaw, Dr. Blair, experiments by, 31, 81, 86
Thought-forms, 15
Thought-transference, definition, 6;
first observations, 18
Townshend, C. H., 19
Tudor, William, case recorded by, 249
Tunes, transference of, 25
Venturi, Prof., case recorded by, 181
Verrall, Mrs., 13, 210
Wesermann, H. M., experiments by, 231
Will, influence of, 82, 85, 108
Willing-game, 15, 19
Wiltse, Dr., experiments by, 242, 342, 344
Witchcraft, 3, 373
X., Miss, experiments by, 122, 210, 353;
cases recorded by, 164, 166
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LIFE OF HEINE. By WILLIAM SHARP.
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LIFE OF BROWNING. By WILLIAM SHARP.
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