Sinclair, Mary Craig, 1883-1961; Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968; Telepathy; Telepathy -- Case studies
6. _Agt._, a mandolin, its neck drawn with several parallel lines, the
body of the instrument composed of four curving lines with three
straight ones for the strings; _Per._, what may perhaps be intended for
a flower, but its long stem indicated by several parallel lines and its
blossom drawn with curving and straight lines constitute a strong
resemblance, and entitle it to be regarded a partial success.
7. _Agt._, a nearly round bag with a dollar mark on it, pursed and drawn
up on top, as by a string; _Per._, (1) a circle with a vertical line
protruding from its upper edge, (2) a cup-like figure with a line from
its bottom to above its upper edge.
8. _Agt._, a Lima bean (?); _Per._, a head wearing a turban, which in
shape is conspicuously like the bean.
9. _Agt._, a nest containing seven eggs and surrounded by leaves (Fig.
4); _Per._, a drawing which she interpreted as “Inside of rock well with
vines climbing on outside,” but which presents features startlingly like
the original (Fig. 4a).
There is the outer rim, like that of the nest, and which would probably
have completed the circle if the top of the paper had not been reached.
There are the “stones,” for some unknown reason obscured in the cut but
some of them in the center showing more plainly and more regularly ovoid
in the pencil drawing, resembling the eggs of the original. And there
are not only surrounding leaves as in the original, but they are leaves
of similar shape.
Series of February 20, 1929
There were four experimental tests made this day, the same when the
remarkable case of spontaneous telepathy occurred, in which Mrs.
Sinclair sensed that her husband was reading about flowers and described
them by drawings and script (p. 30).
In the 1st, Mr. Sinclair drew a fire hydrant (Fig. 74); Mrs. Sinclair
drew as in Figure 74a. This was certainly a partial success, as the
drawings compare. And for aught we know it may in fact have been a still
better success, since Mr. Sinclair in looking at his drawing may well
have imagined water bursting forth from the spout of the hydrant. Oddly,
Mrs. Sinclair first wrote “Peafowl,” and then drew what had nothing to
do with a peafowl. This is one of the many cases where it seems as
though Mrs. Sinclair had glimpses ahead in a series.
For the agent’s second drawing _was_ a peacock (Fig. 75). And the
percipient not only said “peafowl again,” which constitutes a complete
success, but she also drew what it seems likely are impressions of the
peacock’s long neck and of the “eyes” or spots of his wings (Fig. 75a).
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