Sinclair, Mary Craig, 1883-1961; Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968; Telepathy; Telepathy -- Case studies
Moreover, I point out that a great deal of the most impressive evidence
does not depend upon Craig alone. The five drawings with her
brother-in-law, Figures 1, 16, 17, 18, 19, constitute by themselves
evidence of telepathy sufficient to convince any mind which is open to
conviction. While it would have been possible for Craig and Bob to hoax
Dollie and me, it could certainly not have been done without Bob’s
connivance. If you suggest that my wife and my brother-in-law may have
been fooling me, I reply that there is a still greater mass of evidence
which could not have been a hoax without my connivance. When I go into
my study alone—a little sun-parlor at the front of a beach-house, with
nothing but a couch, a chair and a table—I certainly know that I am
alone; and when I make a drawing and hold it before my eyes for five or
ten minutes, I certainly know whether any other person is seeing it.
This covers the drawings presented as Figures 2, 20, and 21, with four
others told about in the same series. It seems to me these seven cases
by themselves are evidence of telepathy sufficient to convince any open
mind.
Furthermore, there are the several score drawings which I made in my
study and sealed up in envelopes, taking them to my wife and watching
her lay them one by one upon her body and write down more or less
accurately what was in them. I certainly know whether I was alone when I
made the drawings, and whether I made the contents of the envelopes
invisible, and whether my wife had any opportunity to open the envelopes
before she made her drawings. Of course, I understand the familiar
conjuring trick whereby you open one envelope, and hide it in your palm,
and pretend to be describing the next one while really describing the
one you have seen. But I would stake my life upon the certainty that my
wife knows no sleight-of-hand, and anyhow, I made certain that she did
not open the first one; I sat and watched her, and after each test she
handed me the envelopes and drawings, one by one—the envelopes having
previously been numbered by me. She would turn out the reading-light
which was immediately over her head, but there was plenty of light from
other parts of the room, enough so that I could look at drawings as they
were shown to me. Often these tests were done in the daytime, and then
all we did was to pull down the window-shades back of the couch.
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