Sinclair, Mary Craig, 1883-1961; Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968; Telepathy; Telepathy -- Case studies
You will ask, perhaps, did Craig look out of the window. As it happened,
this sky effect was invisible from any window, and I have her word that
she had not moved from her couch. I should add that she is nervous, and
keeps the curtains tightly drawn at night, and never goes out at night
unless it is to be driven somewhere. It was early in March, with a cold
wind off the sea, and I had to labor to persuade her to put a wrap over
her dressing gown and step out into the middle of the street to look up
at the sky.
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The casual reader may be bored by too many of these drawings, but they
are easy to skip, or to take in at a glance, and there may be students
who will want to examine them carefully. So I will add a selection of
the significant drawings, with only brief remarks. I begin with what I
have called partial successes, and then add a few more of those I have
called “complete.”
Let us return to the early drawings, made by my secretary. On the
automobile ride to Pasadena, there was an ash-can (Fig. 100):
[Illustration: Fig. 100]
For the above my wife wrote: “I see a chain dangling from
something—resembling little chimney pot on top of house.”
And here is design for which the comment was: “These somehow belong
together but won’t get together” (Figs. 101, 101a):
[Illustration: Fig. 101]
[Illustration: Fig. 101a]
Here is a fan, with comment: “Inside seems irregular, as if cloth draped
or crumpled” (Figs. 102, 102a):
[Illustration: Fig. 102]
[Illustration: Fig. 102a]
Here is a one-half success (Figs. 103, 103a):
[Illustration: Fig. 103]
[Illustration: Fig. 103a]
Here is a broom, drawn by my secretary (Fig. 104), and several efforts
to reproduce it (Figs. 104a, 104b):
[Illustration: Fig. 104]
[Illustration: Fig. 104a]
[Illustration: Fig. 104b]
The comments accompanying these drawings read: “All I’m sure of is a
straight line with something curved at end of it; once it came” (here is
drawing of the flower). “Then it doubled, or reappeared, I don’t know
which. (Am not sure of curly edges.) Then it was upside down.”
The next drawing was a heart, and my wife got the upper half with what
are apparently blood-drops added (Figs. 105, 105a):
[Illustration: Fig. 105]
[Illustration: Fig. 105a]
The above is interesting, as suggesting that whatever agency furnished
the information knew more than it was telling. For if Craig’s drawing, a
pair of curves, constituted a crude letter N, or had no significance,
why add the blood-drops, which were not in the original? On the other
hand, if her subconscious mind knew it was a heart, why not give her the
whole heart, and let her draw it?
So much for the drawings of my secretary; and now for my own early
drawings. When I was a school boy, we used to represent human figures in
this way; and, as you see, Craig got the essentials (Figs. 106, 106a):
[Illustration: Fig. 106]
[Illustration: Fig. 106a]
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