Sinclair, Mary Craig, 1883-1961; Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968; Telepathy; Telepathy -- Case studies
On July 19th, “five cards drawn or chosen and sealed in envelope and
thick paper at Santa Monica and presented in turn sealed to Mrs. S. at
Long Beach.” Reproductions 1, 3 and 4 were failures. But agent’s No. 2
was a “prairie schooner” showing two wheels with spokes and a long black
line crossing the wheels at their hubs and standing for both the bottom
of the vehicle-body and the shafts in front, while the percipient drew
(1) a wheel with spokes and a long black line running from the hub, and
(2) a wheel-like shape without spokes, but the line extending far in one
direction and passing through the hub and beyond the wheel a short way
in the other direction, as in the original. Here we have a distinct
Partial Success. Agent’s No. 5 was a postal-card picture of a part of
Oxford, the most conspicuous feature in which is the tower of Magdalen
College with pinnacles and high, narrow windows. The percipient made a
drawing which anyone would recognize as a tower, with bristling short
lines projecting upward from the top suggesting pinnacles, and high,
narrow windows. The proportions of height and width are approximately
correct. Below the lower window level are two parallel horizontal lines,
which call attention to such lines in the original. This was drawn,
however, while the percipient was holding agent’s No. 4, his No. 5, the
tower, still being in his pocket. It looks like an anticipation. But
when she arrived at No. 5 she wrote “Turret of a castle and trees,” and
now she is right for the very original in hand, which does display,
besides a river, a bridge and buildings, the conspicuous tower, and
trees prominent in the picture. She added “Sword,” “Scissors,” and
“Key,” which may possibly be erroneous impressions from the pinnacles.
So we have here a striking result, worthy to be called a Success. I have
again taken pains to go through all the originals and all the
reproductions, 413 of each, and find that but once besides did an
original represent a tower. It was the Eiffel Tower, and all will
remember its tall, slender and tapering shape. The percipient’s drawing
represented a long, slender and tapering cone—a Partial Success. And but
once besides, among all 413 drawings, did the percipient present a
tower. This was on the following August 16th, when, apparently as an
experiment, the drawings were “done in a hurry” and no record made of
the order. If compared with a particular one of the originals, the
“tower top” is a Partial Success, but it probably was a Failure. So here
we have the factors: out of 418 agent drawings two represent towers, and
one results in a percipient Success, the other in a Partial Success; out
of 418 percipient drawings two represent towers, and one is a Success,
the other a Failure.
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