Sinclair, Mary Craig, 1883-1961; Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968; Telepathy; Telepathy -- Case studies
She goes on to say what means that you should induce mental relaxation
and passivity, narrow the field of consciousness. But at this point I
must depart from Mrs. Sinclair’s precepts and recommend her own best
practice. Her very first seven formal experiments were with her
brother-in-law making his drawings some thirty miles away. The results
were so remarkable that they deserve to arrest the attention of every
psychologist. The next seven experiments were made with agent and
percipient in different rooms, shut off from each other by solid walls;
and their results also were very impressive. Therefore I see no reason
why amateurs experimenting according to the light that they get from
Mrs. Sinclair should not make their very first attempts in another room
from the agent. Let the latter do as we find in the book was done; make
his drawing, call out “All right” when he is done, and gaze steadfastly
at the drawing until the percipient has made hers and signalized the
fact by calling out “All right,” then proceed to make another and repeat
the process. At least part of the time, let there be another person with
the agent keeping watch upon his lips and throat muscles, lest the
desperate theory should be advanced that at the distance of, say, thirty
feet and through solid walls “involuntary whispering” on the part of the
agent reached the ears of the percipient.
But how shall the percipient further conduct herself (we are here
supposing the percipient is a woman) as the means of getting telepathic
impressions? Adapting the directions given in the book, we should say
that, lying on the couch with eyes dosed, and having sunk into that
state of mental abstraction which she is supposed now to be capable of
attaining, she is to order her subconscious mind, very calmly but
positively, to bring the agent’s drawing to her mind.
And now we quote literally from the book, even to the expressions about
making the mind a blank. Although not technically correct, it may be
that to many not versed in psychology the expressions will be actually
the best to suggest to them what they are to do.
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