Sinclair, Mary Craig, 1883-1961; Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968; Telepathy; Telepathy -- Case studies
3. July 17. Mr. Sinclair, lying on a couch in one room, drew and then
gazed at a drawing which can easily be described; it is a broad ellipse
with its major axis horizontal, like an egg lying on its side, and a
smaller and similar one in contact over it. Mrs. Sinclair, lying on a
couch in another room, first drew a broad ellipse (not quite closed at
one end), with major axis horizontal, and beside it and not quite
touching, a somewhat smaller circle not quite closed at one end. Then
she got an impression represented in a second drawing, four ellipses of
equal size, _two of them in contact with each other_.
4. July 20. Under the same conditions Mr. Sinclair drew two heavy lines
like a capital T. Mrs. Sinclair drew what is like an interrogation point
with misplaced dot, then a reversed S with two dots enclosed, then an
upright cross composed of lines of equal length, and finally such a
cross circumscribed by a tangential square. Though, as Mr. Sinclair
remarks, the cross is the T of the original with its vertical line
prolonged, I should call this experiment barely suggestive.
5. July 20. Under the same conditions Mr. Sinclair drew a long-handled
fork with three short tines. Mrs. Sinclair, to use the language of her
own record, “kept seeing horns,” and she attempted to draw them. She
also “thought once it was an animal’s head with horns, and the head was
on a long stick—a trophy mounted like this....” But her drawing was like
a long-handled fork with two short tines combining to make a curve very
close to that of the two outer tines of the original.
6. July 20. Under the same conditions Mr. Sinclair drew a cup with a
handle. Mrs. Sinclair twice drew a figure resembling the handle of the
original, then the same with an enclosed dot, then lines parallel and at
an angle. She felt confused and dissatisfied. It is possible that her
first impression was derived from the cup, but we can hardly urge this
evidentially.
7. July 21. Under the same conditions Mr. Sinclair drew a man’s face in
profile (Fig. 20). Mrs. Sinclair wrote: “Saw Upton’s face—saw two
half-circles. Then they came together, making full circle. But I felt
uncertain as to whether they belonged together or not. Then suddenly saw
Upton’s profile float across vision.” Well, Mr. Sinclair is a man, hence
his face is a man’s face, and it was seen in profile like the original
drawing.
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