Apparitions and thought-transference: an examination of the evidence for telepathyPodmore, Frank
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Apparitions and thought-transference: an examination of the evidence for telepathy
Podmore, Frank
Apparitions; Telepathy
"My husband's account of his telepathic experience is perfectly
correct. For my own part I was extremely surprised at the
circumstances, for till then my attitude towards all questions
of clairvoyance had been one of almost complete incredulity. Let
me add, however, that my husband is of an excessively nervous
temperament, and was liable to somnambulism in his youth. It is
seldom that a night passes in which he does not talk in his sleep.
It would be quite possible to hold a conversation with him for a
few minutes whilst he is in this condition." (_Annales des Sciences
Psychiques_, vol. i. pp. 324, 325.)
It seems permissible to conjecture that in this case Madame Dupré, as
in the previous case Professor Richet, was the agent.
_Transference of Emotion._
Sometimes the telepathic impulse appears to express itself in a vague
feeling of alarm or distress. Of course, impressions of this sort, with
no definite content, and not recognised at the time as having reference
to any particular person, can do little to strengthen the proof of
telepathy. But when it has been shown, by the mention of the experience
beforehand, or by any unusual action consequent on its occurrence,
that the emotion was unique in the history of the percipient, and when
the coincidence with a serious crisis is clearly established, the
telepathic explanation may be admitted as at least plausible. These
conditions appeared to be fulfilled in the following case, which is
quoted from the _Proceedings of the American S.P.R._ (pp. 474, 475).
No. 48.--From MR. F. H. KREBS.
The percipient in this case described his experience to Professor
William James, of Harvard, who writes as follows:--
"Mr. Krebs (special student) stopped after the logic lesson of
Friday, November 26, and told me the facts related in his narrative.
"I advised him to put them on paper, which he has thus done.
"His father is said by him to be too much injured to do any writing
at present.
"WM. JAMES.
"_December_ 1, 1886."
From MR. F. H. KREBS.
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