Sinclair, Mary Craig, 1883-1961; Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968; Telepathy; Telepathy -- Case studies
February ?, 1929. The agent made an American flag, with pole surmounted
by a ball (Fig. 127). The percipient failed to get the stars but she got
the stripes and the pole, and the ball, which last has wandered from its
place, although the neighborhood in which it should be is sensed (Fig.
127a).
March ?, 1929. Mrs. Sinclair wrote “Muley cow with tongue hanging out.”
And this is the drawing her husband had made (Fig. 137). In 260
experiments in guessing, the originals being replicas of Mr. Sinclair’s
drawings on February 15, there was not one success. We would have said
that Mrs. Sinclair had a success in this case had she merely said “Cow.”
But she did better than this, for she got the particular “tongue hanging
out,” which certainly increases the value tenfold. I venture to say that
not one time in twenty will a picture of a cow show her with her tongue
hanging out.
Pursuing the tests past the period until more than 300 have been had, we
find that Mr. Sinclair drew a cow’s head three times. Once the
percipient’s response was technically a failure; it resembled horns, or
rather antlers. The second time she got a chicken’s face, again strictly
a failure, but at least something with animal life. The third time was
the “cow with tongue hanging out.”
And there were three other times that Mrs. Sinclair either drew a cow’s
head or wrote “cow” or “calf.” For the first see Figures 15, 15a. In the
second instance the agent had drawn a face, not that of a cow but of a
man. The third was a brilliant success, not in name but in form. The
agent had drawn what was doubtless intended for a donkey with a harness
band across its neck. In the reproduction the donkey’s long ears were
metamorphosed to resemble horns, and across the cow’s neck is a band,
which the lady interpreted in the following script: “Cow’s head in
stock.”
March 2, 1929. The agent drew six concentric circles (Fig. 144). As in
the case of the balloon (see Figs. 95, 95a), the percipient seemed to
“see” only part of the original. She also draws concentric circles, but
omits about a quarter of each (Fig. 144a).
We can allow space but for one more exhibit, and this because of its
seeming suggestiveness (Figs. 56, 56a). Of course, when we move away
from correspondences in visual form or direct correspondences in idea we
enter a region where the possibilities of chance relation are
considerable. Nevertheless, literature abounds in associations between
fleeing foxes on the one hand and guns and sounding horns on the other.
It seems likely enough, therefore (though I would not bring forward this
case as _proof_), that the sensing of the original drawing found a path
for emergence through association ideas.
There are many more tests described and illustrated in Mr. Sinclair’s
book. What we have given has been, save for a few exceptions, according
to selected and entire groups or series on particular dates.
PERCIPIENT SEQUELAE TO CERTAIN CATEGORIES OF AGENT DRAWINGS
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