Sinclair, Mary Craig, 1883-1961; Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968; Telepathy; Telepathy -- Case studies
The umbrella brings up Craig’s reptile “complex” again. I assure you
that in her garden, she turns sticks into snakes when they are far less
snake-like than my drawing. Her comment was: “I feel that it is a snake
crawling out of something—vivid feeling of snake, but it looks like a
cat’s tail” (Figs. 122, 122a):
[Illustration: Fig. 122]
[Illustration: Fig. 122a]
I drew a wall-hook to hang your coat on (Figs. 123, 123a):
[Illustration: Fig. 123]
[Illustration: Fig. 123a]
A design, evidently felt as a design, though not well got (Figs. 124,
124a):
[Illustration: Fig. 124]
[Illustration: Fig. 124a]
A screw, with comment: “light-house or tower. Too fat at base.” If
Craig’s drawing were made narrower at base, it would reproduce the screw
very well. Note that in the right-hand “tower” the screw-like effect of
the “set backs” is kept (Figs. 125, 125a):
[Illustration: Fig. 125]
[Illustration: Fig. 125a]
Here is a love story which seems to go wrong, the hearts being turned to
opposition (Figs. 126, 126a):
[Illustration: Fig. 126]
[Illustration: Fig. 126a]
Here is the flag, made simpler—“e pluribus unum!” (Figs. 127, 127a):
[Illustration: Fig. 127]
[Illustration: Fig. 127a]
Here is a cow, as seen by the cubists. Comment: “Something sending out
long lines from it” (Figs. 128, 128a):
[Illustration: Fig. 128]
[Illustration: Fig. 128a]
Telegraph wires, apparently seen as waves in the ether (Figs. 129,
129a):
[Illustration: Fig. 129]
[Illustration: Fig. 129a]
Comment on the following: “Horns. Can’t see what they are attached to”
(Figs. 130, 130a):
[Illustration: Fig. 130]
[Illustration: Fig. 130a]
And here is a parrot turned into a leaf, with comment. “See veins and
stem with sharp vivid bend in it”—which seems to indicate a sense of the
parrot’s beak (Figs. 131, 131a):
[Illustration: Fig. 131]
[Illustration: Fig. 131a]
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The border-line between successes and failures is not easy to determine.
Bear in mind that we are not conducting a drawing class, nor making
tests of my wife’s eyesight: we are trying to ascertain whether there
does pass from my mind to hers, or from my drawing to her mind, a
recognizable impulse of some sort. So, if she gets the essential feature
of the drawing, we are entitled to call it evidence of telepathy. I
think the fan with “crumpled cloth” (Fig. 102), and the umbrella handle
that may be a “snake crawling out of something,” but that “looks like a
cat’s tail” (Fig. 122), and the screw that was called a “tower” (Fig.
126)—all these are really successes. I will append a number of examples,
about which there seems to me no room for dispute, and which I have
called successes. The first is a sample of architecture (Figs. 132,
132a):
[Illustration: Fig. 132]
[Illustration: Fig. 132a]
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