Apparitions and thought-transference: an examination of the evidence for telepathyPodmore, Frank
Philosophy
Apparitions and thought-transference: an examination of the evidence for telepathy
Podmore, Frank
Apparitions; Telepathy
Chosen. 1st Guess. 2nd Guess.
BRIGHT RED _Bright Red_
LIGHT GREEN _Light Green_
YELLOW _Dark Blue_ _Yellow_
BRIGHT YELLOW _Bright Yellow_
DARK RED _Blue_ _Dark Red_
DARK BLUE _Orange_ _Dark Blue_
ORANGE _Green_ _Heliotrope_
The percipient himself told the agents to change character of object
after each actual failure, thus getting new sensations.
Percipient was told to go into next room and get something.
_1st Object._ SILVER INKSTAND chosen.--Percipient says, _I think of
something, but it is too bright and easy. It is the silver inkstand._
Percipient told to get something in next room.
_2nd Object._ A GLASS CANDLESTICK.--Percipient went to right corner
of the room and to the cabinet with the object on it, but could not
distinguish which object.
Percipient had handkerchief off to be able to walk, but was not
followed by agents, and did not see them. Agents found percipient
standing with hands over candlestick undecided.
From the percipient's descriptions it would seem that the impression
here was of a visual nature, though Dr. Thaw himself says, "I cannot
describe my sensation as a visualisation of any kind. It seemed rather
to be by some wholly subjective process that I knew what the agents
were looking at." It is not always, however, an easy task to analyse
one's own sensations; and, on the whole, it seems more probable that
there was visualisation, but of a very faint and ideal kind.
No. 5.--By MR. MALCOLM GUTHRIE.
Reference has already been made to the long series of experiments
carried on during the years 1883-85 by Mr. Malcolm Guthrie of
Liverpool. During a great part of the series he was assisted by Mr.
James Birchall, Hon. Sec. of the Liverpool Literary and Philosophical
Society. Professor Oliver Lodge, Edmund Gurney, Professor Herdman,
and others co-operated from time to time. Throughout there were two
percipients only, Miss R. and Miss E. The experiments were conducted
and the results recorded with great care and thoroughness; and the
whole series, in its length, its variety, and its completeness, forms
perhaps the most important single contribution to the records of
experimental thought-transference in the normal state.[21] Summing up,
in July 1885, the results attained, Mr. Guthrie writes:--
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