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
"I feel sure I had not been dreaming of him, and cannot remember
that anything had happened to cause me even to think of him that
afternoon before falling asleep."
Mr. Kirk writes later:--
"I have only succeeded once in making myself visible to Miss G.
since the occasion I have already reported, and that had the
singularity of being only my features--my face in _miniature_, that
is, about _three inches_ in diameter."
In a letter dated January 19th, 1891, Mr. Kirk says as to this last
appearance:--
"Miss G. did not record this at the time, as she attached no
importance to it, but I noted the date (July 23rd) on my office
blotting-pad, as it was at the office I was thinking of her. I
say 'thinking,' because I was doing so in connection with another
subject, and with no purpose of making an experiment. I had a
headache, and was resting my head on my left hand. Suddenly it
occurred to me that my thinking about her might probably influence
her in some way, and I made the note I have mentioned."
Mr. Kirk enclosed in his statement to us the piece of blotting-paper on
which the note of the second successful experiment had been made. The
fact that the hallucination in the first case included a representation
of the clothes actually worn by the agent at the time may have been a
mere coincidence. But the case should be borne in mind in considering
the possibility of heteroplastic hallucination.
FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 110: These details are taken from notes made by the writer
immediately after the interview.]
[Footnote 111: _Der Magnetismus und die allgemeine Weltsprache._ A
brief account of the five trials, quoted from the _Archiv für den
thierischen Magnetismus_, vol. vi. pp. 136-139, will be found in
_Phantasms of the Living_, vol. i. pp. 101, 102. In the other cases the
impression was produced in a _dream_. The distance varied from 1/8 of a
mile to 9 miles in the case quoted in the text.]
[Footnote 112: In Wesermann's book, as also in the account given in
the _Archiv_, the account is headed "Fifth experiment at a distance of
_nine_ miles."]
[Footnote 113: Wesermann unfortunately does not record his own state at
the time of the experiments.]
[Footnote 114: See Nos. 37, 38, 39, Chapter V.]
CHAPTER XI.
SPONTANEOUS TELEPATHIC HALLUCINATIONS.
In the last chapter we gave illustrations of telepathic hallucinations
induced by an act of voluntary concentration on the part of the agent.
The hallucinatory effects now to be described were produced without
design, and in some cases, it would appear, without the conscious
direction of the agent's thoughts to the person affected. They purport,
in fact, to have been the spontaneous outcome of some emotional stress
on the part of the person whom the hallucination represented.
_Auditory Hallucinations._
We will begin by quoting two examples of auditory hallucination.
No. 68.--From MISS C. CLARK.
"1889.
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