Sinclair, Mary Craig, 1883-1961; Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968; Telepathy; Telepathy -- Case studies
1. _Agt._, a molar tooth; _Per._, an ellipse containing 19 tiny circles.
This is emphatically a failure compared with the contemporaneous
original drawing. However, see No. 12. Before the drawing was made, the
percipient wrote “First see rooster. Then elephant.”
2. And now _Agt.’s_ drawing _was_ an elephant, as far back as but
lacking hind legs. And _Per._ wrote “Elephant comes again. I try to
suppress it, and see lines, and a spike sticking some way into
something.” And she draws two vertical lines, related to each other in
ribbon fashion, what looks like a pin with circle for head, crossing the
band through a slit indicated by two short vertical lines, and below the
“spike” two widely separated vertical lines. The “spike” crosses what I
have called a ribbon exactly as the elephant’s tusk crosses his trunk,
the round eye of the elephant has moved slightly to form the head of the
“spike,” and the vertical lines below may stand for a feeling that
_something_ (really the front legs) should be below. We have some
warrant for our interpretation from the words “Elephant comes again. I
try to suppress it.” Had she not tried to suppress it (because of the
erroneous notion that it is but a memory of the elephant impression of
Experiment 1), it is fair to assume that she would have tried to draw an
elephant. She “tried to suppress” the animal, but his eye and “spike,”
which was really “sticking into something,” but not in the manner drawn,
seem to have persisted. (See Figs. 66, 66a.)
3. And now _Agt._ _did_ draw a rooster. Both elephant and rooster, with
which she was impressed at Experiment 1, had come by the time Experiment
3 had been reached. This is rather too much for “chance coincidence,”
especially as the Sinclairs do not have an elephant among their domestic
pets. But this is not all. As _Per._ not only announced an elephant in
advance but got details of the elephant when that animal actually was in
hand as the original, so not only was a rooster announced in advance but
when the original is a rooster, _Per._ gets correspondences. She writes
“I don’t know what, see a bunch, or tuft clearly. Also a crooked arm on
a body. But don’t feel that I’m right.” What she drew was remarkably
like the rear three-quarters of the rooster, the “tuft” representing its
tail, “the crooked arm” its two legs in conjunction. (See Figs. 67,
67a.)
4. _Agt._, a table; _Per._, “Flower. This is a very vivid one.
Green-spine-leaves like century plant,” and a corresponding drawing with
tall flowering spike in the center. (See Fig. 68a.) A flat failure, but
wait for Experiments 7 and 11.
5. _Agt._, a fishhook; _Per._, no drawing but script: “Dog wagging
tail—see tail in air busy wagging—jolly doggie—tail curled in the air.”
Well, a fishhook _is_ somewhat like a tail curled in the air. But script
followed: “Now I see a cow. I fear the elephant and chicken got me too
sure of animals. But I see these.” A tail curled in the air—a dog or a
cow! Wait for No. 7.
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