Sinclair, Mary Craig, 1883-1961; Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968; Telepathy; Telepathy -- Case studies
The fourth partial success was a drawn bow, with arrow fitted, ready to
be launched. Craig wrote as follows: “Picked this up and saw inside as
it dropped on floor—so did not try it. Suddenly recall I have already
‘seen’ it earlier.” Before starting the tests, along with her written
mention of “a rooster,” she had drawn a bow and crude arrow, and the
resemblance is so exact that it seems to me entitled to be called a
partial success (Figs. 65, 65a):
[Illustration: Fig. 65]
[Illustration: Fig. 65a]
Fifth, the wagon hub (Fig. 60), which became the deer’s muzzle. And
finally the laced-up football (Fig. 15) which became a belly-band on a
calf (Fig. 15a).
As for the failure in this series, it is a cake of soap, which was
called “whirls.” There are a couple of other drawings in the series,
marked: “Too tired to see it,” and “Tired now and excited and keep
seeing old things”—meaning, of course, the preceding drawings.
I tried to avoid drawing the same object more than once, but now and
then I slipped up. In series eleven I drew another rooster, and there
followed, not one “anticipation,” but several. Drawing number one was a
tooth; Craig wrote: “First see rooster. Then elephant.” Drawing number
two was an elephant; and Craig wrote: “Elephant came again. I try to
suppress it, and see lines, and a spike sticking some way into
something.” She drew it, and it seems clear that the “spike” is the
elephant’s tusk, and the head of the “spike” is the elephant’s eye
(Figs. 66, 66a):
[Illustration: Fig. 66]
[Illustration: Fig. 66a]
Next, number three, was the rooster. But Craig had set “rooster” down in
her mind as a blunder, so now she wrote: “I don’t know what, see a
bunch, or tuft clearly. Also a crooked arm on a body. But don’t feel
that I’m right.” Here are the drawings, and you can see that she was
somewhat right (Figs. 67, 67a):
[Illustration: Fig. 67]
[Illustration: Fig. 67a]
This series eleven, containing fourteen drawings, is marked: “Did this
lot rapidly, without holding (mind) blank. The chicken and elephant came
_at once_, on a very earnest request to my mind to ‘come across.’” I
have classified in this series two successes, five partial, and five
failures: throwing out numbers twelve and fourteen, because Craig wrote:
“Nothing except all the preceding ones come—too many at once—all past
ones crowding in memory”; and again, “Nothing but everything in the
preceding. Too many of them in my mind.”
The anticipations run all through this series in a quite fascinating
way. Thus, for number four Craig wrote: “Flower. This is a vivid one.
Green spine—leaves like century plant.” She drew Figure 68a:
[Illustration: Fig. 68a]
And then again, for drawing number seven, she did more flowers, with
this comment: “This is a _real_ flower, I’ve seen it before. It’s vivid
and returns. Century plant? Now it turns into candle stick. See a
candle” (Fig. 69a).
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