Sinclair, Mary Craig, 1883-1961; Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968; Telepathy; Telepathy -- Case studies
One day, while I lay passively waiting for a “vision,” a chair of a
certain design floated before my mind. It was so vivid that I felt
absolutely certain that this was the object my brother-in-law, thirty
miles away, was visualizing for me. Other objects on other occasions had
been vivid, but this one was not merely vivid; in some mysterious way,
it carried absolute conviction with it. I knew positively that my mind
was not deceiving me. I was so sure that this chair had come “on the
air” from my brother-in-law’s mind to mine, that I jumped up and went to
the telephone and rang him up. His wife was in the room with him and my
husband was in the room with me, and we called on them as witnesses—for
we had set out on the experiment determined that there was to be no
deception, of each other, nor of ourselves. I wanted the truth about
this matter—I was at life’s crisis, at the place where my whole soul
cried out, “What is the meaning of it all, anyway?” And my
brother-in-law knew my mood, and a painful, lingering illness was
rapidly bringing him to share it. My vision of the chair, and my drawing
of it, were entirely correct. This was our first thrilling success.
Others followed it, and in the meantime, my husband and I had made
together some similar experiments, with success. Before the summer was
over, four persons—my husband, my brother-in-law, his wife, and I—had
become convinced of the reality of telepathy. Then, having read a book
by an English physicist (_An Experiment With Time_, by J. W. Dunne), I
began keeping records of my dreams according to Mr. Dunne’s method, in
order to see if, as he thought, they would render evidence of
foreknowledge of future events. Clairvoyance is the usual term for this
form of psychic phenomena, but Mr. Dunne, being a physicist, is averse
to mixing it with psychic things to the extent of using the regular
language, so he calls it “an experiment with time” and writes a book
about it in the language of physics. Not being a physicist, I’m quite
willing to stick to the well-known word, clairvoyance, even at the risk
of repelling those ignorant persons who think that all psychic phenomena
is trickery. There are hordes of charlatans who call themselves mediums,
just as there are hordes of physicians who are charlatans, and of
Christians who are cheats, and of bankers who are dishonest. So, having
read Mr. Dunne’s useful book, I set out to record my dreams and to watch
for their “coming true.” Some of them did. Some which could not be
accounted for by coincidence. Some others came true which were clearly
due to telepathy between my husband’s mind and my own. I dreamed that I
was doing things which it turned out he was actually doing, at a
distance from me, and at the time at which I was having the dream. Also,
during these months, I made some experiments on a young hypnotist I
knew. I had no intention of letting him hypnotize me, but I asked him to
try to.
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