Sinclair, Mary Craig, 1883-1961; Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968; Telepathy; Telepathy -- Case studies
2. _Agt._, a hand with pointing finger, and thumb held vertically (Fig.
108); _Per._, (1) a drawing not reproduced here of a negro’s head with a
finger-like projection drawn vertically from his skull, (2) then script
“Turned into a pig’s head, (3) then a rabbit’s,” as in Figure 108a. In
one sense the _percipient’s_ drawings are all failures; that is, none of
them would be recognized as a hand. But in all three a feeling seems to
express itself that there is _something_ sticking up. This is the more
remarkable in Drawing 1, since such an excrescence does not belong on a
head. Drawing 2 gets rid of the face, and the thumb of the original
becomes a peculiarly thumb-like ear.
3. For this experiment see the “line-and-circle men” and their
evidentially suggestive sequel (Figs. 144, 144a).
4. _Agt._, a rudely drawn caterpillar (Fig. 118); _Per._, script:
“Fork—then garden tool—lawn rake. Leaf,” and drawing representing a leaf
which has a certain fantastic resemblance to the caterpillar (Fig.
118a). Mr. Sinclair makes the illuminating remark that he owned “a
lawn-rake made of bristly bamboo, which looks very much like my
drawing.”
5. _Agt._, a smoking volcano (Fig. 25); _Per._, what she called a “Big
black beetle with horns” (Fig. 25a). But the body of the beetle closely
matches the smoke of the volcano, while the antennae or “horns” nearly
correspond to the outline of the mountain.
A Series of February 15, 1929[14]
Let us now inspect a complete and long series of February 15, 1929. It
contains no such brilliant success as in Experiment 4 of February 20,
but out of 13 experiments there is but one absolute failure, the first.
In this the agent drew a rat, the percipient two crossed objects like
keys.
2. In Figure 147, the agent’s drawing represents a door with lattice on
the upper half; it is made up of perpendicular and horizontal lines
only. The percipient’s drawing (Fig. 147a) consists of four
perpendicular lines finishing at the top in curves like fish-hooks, and
these lines are crossed by three horizontal lines. There is in the
crossed lines a suggestion of the agent’s drawing, a resemblance greater
than to any other of the thirteen.
[Illustration: Fig. 147]
[Illustration: Fig. 147a]
3. The agent’s next drawing (Fig. 93) represents a sun over hills. Mrs.
Sinclair first seems to have got the notion of a sun, which was right
(Fig. 93a). Then she made another circle and put features in it, as will
be seen suggested in the agent’s drawing (actually, in the original
drawing, the features are plainly to be seen). Then she got the idea of
something stretching out below it with curving lines, interpreted it to
be a body, so probably, from mere inference, clapped her sun with
features on to it.
4. Agent’s Figure 97 is a butterfly but the percipient did not get the
idea of a butterfly (Fig. 97a). However, the divergent lines and the
spots, five instead of four, and similarly placed, do seem to bear a
relation to it.
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