Sinclair, Mary Craig, 1883-1961; Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968; Telepathy; Telepathy -- Case studies
We proceed as follows: Each day at one o’clock, an hour which suits the
convenience of both of us, he sits at a table in his home and makes a
drawing of some simple object, such as a table-fork, or an ink-bottle, a
duck, or a basket of fruit.[32] Then he gazes steadily at his drawing
while he concentrates his mind intently on “visualizing” the object
before him. In other words, he does not let his mind wander one instant
from the picture of the fork, or the ink-bottle, or whatever he has
drawn. He may gaze at the original object instead of at his drawing, but
he must not think of anything else but how it looks. The purpose of the
drawing is for proof to me that this was actually what he thought of at
the appointed hour. If his mind wanders off to thoughts of something
else, which he has no drawing of, I may get these wandering thoughts.
Then he will forget these wandering, unrecorded thoughts, and I will
have nothing to prove that he ever thought them.
When he has finished the fifteen minutes of steady concentration on one
object, he dates his drawing and puts it away, until the time when we
are to meet and compare our records. At my end of the “wireless,” I have
done a different mental stunt. I have reclined on a couch, with body
completely relaxed and my mind in a dreamy, almost unconscious state,
alternating with a state of gazing, with closed eyes, into grey space,
looking on this grey background for whatever picture, or thought-form
may appear there. When a form appears, I record it at once. I reach for
my pad and pencil and write down what I have seen, and make a drawing of
it, and then I relax again and look dreamily into space again to see if
another vision will appear, or if this same one will return to assure me
that it is the right one. At the end of fifteen minutes, the period of
time we arbitrarily agreed upon for each day’s experiment, I date my
drawing and file it until the day comes to compare notes with my
brother-in-law.
Each day thereafter, for several days, my brother-in-law goes through
this same performance, varying it only by his choice of a different
object to draw and concentrate upon each time. Every three or four days
we meet and compare notes.
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