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
"Well, do you think I have nothing else to do! Why do you call me?
I have had to leave everything."
"We wanted to say 'good morning' to you."
"Very well! I am going away now."
She shook hands with us and went away quickly; whereupon it
occurred to me to make her stop just at the gate.
(Mental command)--"I forbid you to go out. You cannot open the
gate; come back." And back she came, furious, asking if we were
laughing at her.
Now, to send this last command I had not moved at all from my
place, and M. was completely invisible behind the garden wall;
moreover, I was a long way from the window. I told her that this
time she could open it, and let her go.
I will finish with another experiment of the same kind, which only
partly succeeded, but which will serve to show the intensity of the
mental transmission between M. and me. I went away, one morning,
without thinking of M. I had to be away all day, 38 kilomètres from
her. At 2.30 it occurred to me to send her a mental command, and I
repeated it for ten minutes.
"Go at once to the dining-room; you will take a book there that is
on the mantelpiece; you will take it up to my study, and you will
sit in my armchair before my writing-table." I reached home at
night. The next day, as soon as I saw M., and even before saying
good morning to me, she cried: "I did a clever thing yesterday.
I must be losing my wits, I suppose! Just imagine! I came down
without knowing why, opened the dining-room door, then went up to
your study, and sat in your armchair. I moved your papers about,
then I went back to my work."
The command had then been understood; but she did not go into the
dining-room, and she did not take the book from there.
J. H. P.
(_Annales des Sci. Psych._, May-June 1893.)
_Transference of Simple Sensations._
We may now pass to experiments in the transference of simple
impressions of the same kind as those dealt with in Chapters II.
and III. The following is a record of a series of trials in the
transference of auditory impressions:
No. 33.--From MISS X.
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