Sinclair, Mary Craig, 1883-1961; Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968; Telepathy; Telepathy -- Case studies
5. _Agt._, a man in a sledge driving a dog-team (Fig. 60). _Per._ by
accident opened this drawing, so of course could not experiment with it.
But after she had made her drawings for No. 2 she wrote “Maybe snow
scene on hill with a sled.” On the back of No. 3, which was so brilliant
a success, she wrote “I get a feeling again of a snow scene to come in
this series—a sled in the snow.” It is unfortunate that an accident
prevented her trying No. 5 when she had actually reached it, but she
certainly got it by anticipation.
6. _Agt._, a tobacco pipe with smoke issuing therefrom (Fig. 37); Per.
first drew an ellipse and wrote “Now it begins to spin, round and round,
and is attached to a stick”; (2) next she made the conventional “curl”
which usually means smoke; (3) then she made another curl of smoke and
pushed the open end of an ellipse into it,[13] joined a line to the
ellipse just about where the stem of a pipe meets the bowl and at the
end of the line made a small circle, which certainly is not found in the
original but may express the feeling that there is a circular opening
(Fig. 37a).
7. _Agt._, a house with smoking chimney; _Per._, two figures, each very
like the frame of a window lacking the upper side, or like the crenels
or openings in the battlement of Figure 36a, but longer. In connection
with that drawing (Experiment of January 28–29) we made the remark
(which may have seemed fanciful) that the number of these openings or
uncompleted rectangles was the same as that of the windows and door in
the original drawing. Here the uncompleted 2 rectangles equal in number
the one window plus the one door of the house. She also wrote “There is
something above this—can’t see what it is part of.” True, the roof and
chimney are above the window and door.
Series of February 10, 1929
1. _Agt._, a bat (Fig. 109); _Per._, as in Fig 109a. The drawing at the
top is accompanied by the remark “Looks like ear shape something.” And
certainly each of the bat’s wings does resemble an ear in shape. The
middle left drawing gets the idea that there are two symmetrical and
diverging curves, but fails to complete them; space is left between them
which in the agent’s drawing is occupied by the body. The middle right
figure again has symmetrical diverging curves, with a further approach
toward shaping the wings. This time they are incorrectly joined at the
bottom, but the perpendicular line between betrays an inkling that
something belongs there. Imperfect as all these attempts are, they
contain hints which it is difficult to attribute to chance. The agent,
looking at his drawing, would of necessity have his attention focus
first on one part of it and then upon another, and the percipient’s
drawings seem as though they caught his several moments of wandering
attention.
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