Sinclair, Mary Craig, 1883-1961; Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968; Telepathy; Telepathy -- Case studies
5. In Figure 96a, Mrs. Sinclair’s drawing resembles a part of her
husband’s (Fig. 96), although she misinterpreted her mental picture.
What she thought to be the leg of an animal, and which she drew twice,
was judged by the way it bends to be a front one, but the knee of the
leg roughly corresponds with the elbow of the pipe. Note that she seems
to have got the bulge at the end of the pipe, translating it into a
“foot,” naturally at the end of the leg.
6. In Figures 98 and 98a, compare the three “sparks” with the three
crosses on the box.
7. The shape of Figure 94a is like that of Figure 94 reversed, and there
is a suggestion of the strings, while the feet represent the pedals of
the harp.
8. The percipient in the case of Figure 95a did not get the picture of
the whole balloon bag of the agent (Fig. 95), but she did of half of it,
with a strong suggestion of the cords.
[Illustration: Fig. 148]
[Illustration: Fig. 148a]
9. In Figure 148a, bad as the percipient’s drawings are, regarded as
reproductions of Figure 148, yet they do contain suggestions of it. In
her left upper drawing we may suppose that an impression of the
leaf-stem (but badly twisted) was expressed with a leaf-lobe directly
below the stem, together with an idea of the veining, that in the right
upper one the stem is corrected, and that in the lower drawing a notion
of the veining alone is conveyed. Exactly so would the attention of the
agent, when drawing the leaf or afterward looking at or thinking of it,
pass from and to, or at least stress, one part of the leaf after
another.
10. The agent drew a necktie (Fig. 90). The percipient first drew what
much resembled the necktie, even to the shaded knot (not given here),
and almost exactly like Figure 90a aside from the “smoke.” Next she
wrote “Then it began to smoke,” and drew as in Figure 90a. One would
suppose that the knobby extremity and the diverging lines suggested a
burning match.
11. But no, the alteration appears to have been an anticipation of the
agent’s next drawing, already prepared (Fig. 91)! In this case Mrs.
Sinclair achieved a complete success (Fig. 91a), though she distrusted
it, writing beside the drawing, “Must be memory of the last one.”
12. In Figure 92a the percipient got the first two links of the agent’s
chain (Fig. 92) fairly well. The succeeding ones are suggested by a
series of partially superposed ovals, owing to misinterpretation of her
impressions. She wrote: “An egg-shaped thing smoking? Anyway, curls of
something coming out of end of egg.” Note that her combined “egg” and
“curls” describe a curve similar to that of the chain, and one not far
from the same length.
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