Sinclair, Mary Craig, 1883-1961; Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968; Telepathy; Telepathy -- Case studies
Such incidents indicate that her experimental successes were not solely
the result of the method which she explains at length, but that she had
an inborn gift from early childhood. Her interest in that gift seems to
have been much stimulated by her acquaintance with “Jan,” the “young
hypnotist” of Appendix I, whose advent is probably not in that narrative
placed in chronological order. She became convinced that he showed
evidence of telepathy, and tried in turn to ascertain what he was
thinking or what he was doing when absent, and became convinced that
many times she had been successful. Also, “Craig has been able to
establish exactly the same _rapport_ with her husband,” who relates
instances. These were “written down at the time.” So few even
intelligent people do make immediate record of such things that we would
have suspected, even if he had not informed us on another page, that he
has made a considerable study of the literature of psychic research.
One of these incidents we shall particularly notice here, and that
because Mr. Sinclair himself has either not noticed all of its
evidential value, or has not fully called attention to it. * * * [Refer
to Figs. 14a and 14b and experiment.]
Probably Mr. Sinclair thought it would be sufficiently obvious to the
reader that the first drawing is as similar in shape to a clover blossom
as a person having no gift for drawing would be likely to make it, in
addition to the correspondence of color. But it should also be remarked
that the second drawing is like the flower-head of the American aloe, as
one may see by comparing it with the cut shown in the article entitled
“Agave,” in the _Encyclopedia Britannica_. The article provokingly fails
to tell us what are the colors of the flower, but the cut shows that it
is at least much lighter above than below.
Another incident is remarkable for its apparent revelation of
subconscious mechanisms. Seemingly here Mrs. Sinclair not only got an
impression of what her husband had drawn, but it was modified by
something he was then reading, and that by the aid of memories from
childhood. His drawing represented a football, “neatly laced up” (Fig.
15). Hers (Fig. 15a) shows a band of exactly the same shape on a figure
not so very far from that of a football, but with an extension
suggesting the head of an animal, and a line suggesting a leg. And she
wrote “Belly-band on calf.” * * *!
“Wishing to solve the mystery!” But why should the lady have felt that
there was any mystery in her drawing and script, any more than in the
generality of her results? But she evidently did, or she would not have
asked the question. It is one of the most interesting features of this
experiment that she seemed to feel that something else than the original
drawing or her husband’s thoughts about it was influencing her
impression, and suspected that this something was his contemporaneous
reading.
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