Sinclair, Mary Craig, 1883-1961; Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968; Telepathy; Telepathy -- Case studies
This, which is called “front foot and leg of dog, though I don’t see the
dog,” is really drawn more like the spigot of my drawing (Figs. 96,
96a):
[Illustration: Fig. 96]
[Illustration: Fig. 96a]
A butterfly’s wings are “got” remarkably well (Figs. 97, 97a). And the
trade-marks on my little box are called “tiny stars, or sparks” (Figs.
98, 98a):
[Illustration: Fig. 97]
[Illustration: Fig. 97a]
[Illustration: Fig. 98]
[Illustration: Fig. 98a]
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I have referred to the fact that my wife’s drawings sometimes contain
things which are not in mine, but which were in my mind while I was
making them, or while she was “concentrating.” One of the most curious
of such cases came in series twenty-eight, which was after we had given
up, as too great a nuisance, all precautions in the way of sealing the
drawings in envelopes. I made eight drawings, and laid them face down on
my wife’s table, and then went out and took a walk while she did them.
So, of course, it was easy for her to do what she pleased—and maybe she
“peeked,” the skeptic will say. But as it happens, she didn’t get a
single one right! Instead of reproducing my drawings, what she did was
to reproduce my thoughts while I was walking up and down on the ocean
front. It seems to me that in so doing, she provided a perfect answer to
those who may attribute these results to any form of deception, whether
conscious or unconscious.
There was a moon behind a bank of dark clouds, and it produced an
unusual effect—a well-defined white cross in the sky. I watched it for
nearly half an hour, and my continued thought was: “If this were an age
of superstition, that would be a portent, and we should hear about it in
history.” It was so strange that I finally went home and called my wife
out onto the street. I did not tell her why. I wanted to see her
surprise, so I purposely gave no hint. I said: “Come out! Please come!”
Finally she came, and her comment was: “I just drew that!” We went back
into the house, and she handed me a drawing. I give it alongside my
drawing of an Indian club, which Craig had held while doing hers. You
may see exactly how much of her impulse came from that source (Figs. 99,
99a):
[Illustration: Fig. 99]
[Illustration: Fig. 99a]
The “comment” reads: “Light ‘fingers’—moonlight.” Also: “black shadow.”
Let me add also that in the eight drawings I handed to Craig there was
neither moon, cloud, cross, nor light. Two of these eight my wife failed
to mark, and so I cannot identify them as belonging to this series; but
we examined all eight at the time, and made sure of this point. Those
which I now have are a flag, a bearded man, a chiffonier, a cannon, a
dirt-scraper, and the Indian club, given above.
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