Sinclair, Mary Craig, 1883-1961; Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968; Telepathy; Telepathy -- Case studies
On July 20th Professor McDougall made 5 drawings “at one end of a long
room, while Mrs. Sinclair tried to reproduce them at the other end.” The
agent made what is supposed to be a stork, each foot furnished with
three toes. The percipient made two long legs with three-toed feet, the
legs extending from a curved line like the under side of a bird. Above
and isolated is what looks like a crest, which the stork does not have.
Partial Success. The 4th agent drawing is of a ringed target and a
feathered arrow sticking in it, the barb not visible. The percipient
drawing is practically the feathered part of the shaft. Partial Success.
The 5th agent drawing shows a drum-like object with elliptical top, from
the center of which a tube or spout projects vertically, with water
rising from the spout, parting and falling to right and to left so that
it looks something like a tree. The percipient drew (1) an ellipse, (2)
an ellipse, (3) something like a very round teapot, with elliptic top
and spout at an angle of 45 degrees, (4) something like the vertical
trunk of a tree surmounted by a ball of foliage. Success; there are too
many suggestive partial parallels to allow this to be doubted.
July 26th there were 5 experiments, all drawn by Professor McDougall
except one, that being a postal-card picture of trees, bushes and the
yucca in bloom. Agent’s No. 2 was a wheel with spokes and tire nicely
drawn. Percipient made three circles in a row with something like the
connecting rod of a locomotive across them. This is at least Suggestive.
Directly before the yucca picture, the percipient described plants with
flowers, but the description did not fit the original next to come, nor
did the impression of flowers persist when the yucca was at hand, so I
do not allow this to count at all. There were no other successes in any
degree.
Then followed experiments, one a day, with Professor McDougall drawing
at Santa Monica, Mrs. Sinclair drawing at the same time at Pasadena,
thirty miles distant.
July 30th. A failure.
August 2nd. Original drawing: a coffee-pot, its spout at the right of
peculiar shape, somewhat like the profile of a boat’s stern. The
percipient’s drawing was principally made up of a vertical line like the
edge of the coffee-pot, and turned to the right from its upper extremity
a projection curiously like the coffee-pot’s spout. To the left of the
vertical line seven dots. It may be a mere coincidence that in the
original there are several, but not seven, dark spots in the drawing,
placed relatively about as far from the right edge of the coffee-pot as
the dots are from the vertical line in the percipient drawing. The
drawing is Suggestive, at least.
August 10th. Original drawing a teapot, and percipient’s drawing, a palm
frond, was relatively to it, a failure.
August 11th. Agent drew a faucet. Percipient wrote “Teapot,” which is a
failure. But agent had drawn a teapot the previous day—did percipient
get a deferred telepathic impression?
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