Sinclair, Mary Craig, 1883-1961; Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968; Telepathy; Telepathy -- Case studies
The agent’s third drawing was of an hourglass, with sand running from
its upper to its lower part (Fig. 133). The resemblance in shape of the
percipient’s tree (Fig. 133a) to the upper half of the hourglass is
evident, its trunk may represent the slender line of flowing sand, and
“white” sand is placed relatively like the sand in the lower part of the
hourglass. The percipient’s results seem to be partly from the lines of
the original drawing, but also from Mr. Sinclair’s thoughts about the
sand.
Mr. Sinclair’s fourth drawing represents an animal (dog?) running after
a ball attached to a string (Fig. 9). Mrs. Sinclair’s drawing shows (a)
an animal, (b) also running, (c) in the same direction, (d) having a
short tail as in the original, (e) the tail represented by two diverging
lines, (f) a line extending from its nose, but touching the nose, while
there is a space between in the original, (g) the line running left and
at about the same angle from the horizontal. Besides the script which
appears in the cut (Fig. 9a) Mrs. Sinclair wrote “Long thing like rope
flung out in front of him.”
I should say that the addition of that “rope” drawn in front of the
animal at that angle made chance guessing of the combination at least
ten times as unlikely, and, on the basis of my hundreds of experiments
in guessing, I should not _expect_ in ten thousand such experiments on
the basis of the same original drawing one reproduction as good in the
summation of its correspondences.
Series of March 11, 1929
1. _Agt._, a fountain which, were it taken alone, might be taken for a
tree, standing in what superficially appears like a long shallow
tub-like structure (Fig. 53); _Per._, a long, shallow tub, with two
tree-like objects above it and on its rim, (2) a drawing, the upper
portion of which parts in the center and leans to either side, as does
the fountain. The tree or plant-like objects are both said to “shine,”
which does not so well comport with a tree or plant as with a fountain
sparkling in the sunshine (Fig. 53a).
2. _Agt._, a melon on an inclined plane, having a stem and leaf on the
stem; _Per._, three drawings: (1) what suggests the leaf and stem of the
original twice over, (2) an unnameable figure, but slanting like the
original, (3) what looks like some kind of fruit with stem, also
slanting like the original.
3. _Agt._, the figure 6 followed by the mark indicating _per cent_, not
single-line drawn but having breadth as if cut out of cardboard; _Per._,
the letter F, a failure except for the curious parallel that this also
is formed as if made with strips of cardboard.
4. _Agt._, a fishhook (Fig. 78); _Per._, (1) a figure very much like the
fishhook except that the barb is transformed into a tiny flower (Fig.
78a).
5. _Agt._, an obelisk (Fig. 79); _Per._, two drawings, the first of
which shows the three long lines of the obelisk but with a slight
curvature (Fig. 79a).[18]
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