Sinclair, Mary Craig, 1883-1961; Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968; Telepathy; Telepathy -- Case studies
But twice, also, Mrs. Sinclair drew what was meant for the upper half of
a sun at the horizon when there was no sun in the original. In one of
these instances the original did have something, not a sun, considerably
like the reproduction, and there was a certain degree of resemblance in
the other. But let these count as failures. We will allow the reader to
figure out the chances of two of Mrs. Sinclair’s four suns, in the
course of 300 experiments, being drawn at the same time when Mr.
Sinclair drew his two suns.
“Line-and-Circle-Men” Originals
On February 6, 1929, Mr. Sinclair made a line-and-circle man; that is,
one drawn in schoolboy fashion (Fig. 106). The percipient got the head
circle, adding dots for features, and her crossing lines, properly
placed below the circle, roughly represent the spread of arms and legs
(Fig. 106a).
On February 10th, thirty experiments having intervened, the agent made
two such men, facing each other in boxing attitudes (Fig. 107). It will
be seen that just two vertical lines, longer than any of the others,
enter into their composition. The longest lines in what the percipient
drew are also two and vertical. And she got a confused notion of the
legs and arms, each with its angle for knee or elbow. She failed to get
any circles (Fig. 107a).
All through the period covered by the book, and past it until the 300th
experiment, there is no other line-and-circle man original. The
percipient in the same number of experiments made one drawing in which
head and body are represented by a circle and an ellipse, and the rest
of the man by single lines. And she made one fairly well drawn head with
hair, the rest of the figure represented by single lines.
A STUDY IN “ANTICIPATIONS”
Series of February 11, 1929
We have been pursuing the rigorous rule of estimating a percipient
drawing by its correspondence or lack of correspondence with the agent
drawing then in hand. Only when Mrs. Sinclair announced in advance that
a described drawing would come in a series, and it actually came, have
we given weight to an anticipation. Such an instance was that of the
snow and sled drawing of February 8th. This is not by any means to say
that other “anticipations” have not had weight, as a matter of fact. In
some of the instances exhibited in _Mental Radio_ the original drawings
represented objects of such character that it was extremely unlikely
that there should be a near correspondence among the half dozen or dozen
reproductions constituting the whole series, or in fifty guesses.
Again, there could be a series with so many of these correspondences out
of order that one is mathematically[24] and logically compelled to
acknowledge that there was anticipation. Such a series is that of
February 11, 1929.
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