Sinclair, Mary Craig, 1883-1961; Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968; Telepathy; Telepathy -- Case studies
Thus far there is no gap in the record of this group. There were
experiments on July 27 and 29, but apparently two or more papers are
missing. It is certain that on the 29th, under the same conditions, Mr.
Sinclair drew a smoking cigarette and wrote beneath it, “My thought,
‘cigarette with curls for smoke,’” and that Mrs. Sinclair drew a variety
of curving lines and wrote, “I can’t draw it, but curls of some sort.”
So it appears that on this date there was a suggestive result, but as
there is doubt whether one or two other experiments may not have been
tried, the papers of which were not all preserved, we had better regard
the group as closed with No. 7.
So far as concerns the question solely whether Mrs. Sinclair has shown
telepathic powers, I would be willing to rest the case right here, after
but fourteen experiments under the conditions which have been
stated.[12] Every intelligent reader who really applies his mind to them
must see the extreme unlikelihood that the results of those fourteen
experiments, taking them as they stand, successes, partial successes,
suggestive and failures, are the products of chance. And any one who has
had hundreds of experiments in guessing, as I have done, will know that
there is no likelihood of getting out of many thousands of guesses
anything like the number and grades of excellence in correspondence
found in these fourteen consecutive tests for telepathy.
We cannot take space to comment on all the tests made, the papers of
which were sent us, and we here pass over three on as many dates, one a
success though not a perfect one, two failures.
The Series of January 28, 1929
Mr. Sinclair asked his secretary “to make simple geometrical designs,
letters and figures, thinking that these would be easier to recognize
and reproduce.” It seems a little strange that when things were going on
so well, he should have wanted a change, though any experiment is
interesting. It is by no means certain, and I very much doubt from these
and earlier printed experiments, that the assumption is a correct one.
It may well be that geometrical diagrams, letters of the alphabet and
such like fail to interest the agent and afford him a lively mental
representation, as do pictures of miscellaneous objects. And if I
understand rightly, another change of method was also initiated, and
that was for Mrs. Sinclair to try to get the drawings not while the
maker of them was gazing intently at them, but after they had left his
hands. This certainly was often the case later on.
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