Sinclair, Mary Craig, 1883-1961; Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968; Telepathy; Telepathy -- Case studies
We must squarely face every possible theory, and this is one. Mr.
Sinclair himself dealt with it. We must do so more thoroughly, in spite
of Mrs. Sinclair’s testimony to remarkable telepathic experiences in her
earlier years (_Mental Radio_, p. 16), in spite of her husband’s
testimony about her actually setting down in writing what “Jan” was
doing at a distance before she got from him the substantially
corresponding facts (pp. 21–24), and getting in dreams or by
“concentration” facts concerning himself at a distance (pp. 31–33), in
spite of Mrs. Sinclair’s reputation for practicality and non-credulity
(pp. 17, 139), honor and conscientiousness (p. 53), her impressing her
husband as being “a fanatic for accuracy” (pp. 138–139), the grave
reasons which caused her to institute these experiments (p. 18; Appendix
I), her intense desire to be sure, and to satisfy every misgiving of her
own (pp. 136–137), her urgency that her husband should watch her work
(p. 53), her variations in the methods of experimentation to see what
effect they would have (pp. 80, 136–137, 144), her reluctance that her
husband should publish his book until still more experiments were had
(p. 137), and the great pains she takes to describe her method of
development and “preparation” in order to encourage others to experiment
(pp. 116, 128). All these considerations are cumulatively almost
overwhelming, yet we proceed in disregard of them.
But the 7 experiments with “Bob” were at long distance, and the
conditions guaranteed by “Bob” and his wife.
The 7 experiments of July 24–29, 1928, were conducted with the agent in
one room and the percipient in another, thirty feet away, with a closed
door between. That is to say, Mr. Sinclair, in one room, would call out
“All right” when ready to draw, his wife, lying in another room, would
call “All right” when she had completed her drawing, and then the two
drawings were compared. He declares that there was no possible way by
which Mrs. Sinclair could have seen his drawing. So that any charge of
fraud would have to include him.
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