Sinclair, Mary Craig, 1883-1961; Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968; Telepathy; Telepathy -- Case studies
There are several partial correspondences besides those we have
enumerated. Bob did sit at the northeast corner of the dining-room
table. He faced a sideboard (but apparently did not take anything out of
it) where were silver (not glass) candlesticks; there is a star on the
back of the chair; whether any white object was in front of him as he
sat at the table, before lying down on the bed, is not reported. But it
is to be presumed that Mrs. Sinclair was familiar with his room and
furniture, and these particulars add comparatively little. Once she got
the chair, subconscious memory might supply the star; but it would not
give any clue to the green paper or to his looking through vertical
bars.
2. On July 9, at the stated hour, Bob drew a watch (Fig. 17).[8] First
Mrs. Sinclair drew a chair, but cancelled it with the words then written
down, “but do not feel it is correct.” Then she drew Figure 17a. * * *
This is not a success, but the flower which is not a flower, the petals,
which are not petals and should be more uniform, the “metal,” the “wire”
(adumbration of the hands?), the “glass circle,” the bridging across the
extremities of the “petals” as if from an urge toward making a circle,
the black center corresponding with the center post of a watch, taken
together are very suggestive. Other impressions resulted in the addition
of an ellipse, a drinking-glass and a glass pitcher, and Bob did have in
front of him a glass bowl of goldfish, which may have furnished a
telepathic hint, but this is doubtfully evidential.
3. Another experiment was scheduled for the same day. Bob made an
elaborate drawing of a telephone receiver, transmitter, dial, cord and
all. The top part, the transmitter, as drawn, is strikingly like a
round, black, glass ink-bottle, seen with mouth facing the spectator.
Mrs. Sinclair made four drawings. The first looks like such an
ink-bottle seen from the side, and she writes, “Ink bottle?” The second
drawing shows a twisted line attached to a triangle, reminding one of
the twisted telephone cord attached to a sharp angle of the base, and
the third repeats the twisting line. The fourth inverted is considerably
like the base of the telephone. The correspondences are very suggestive.
4. On the 10th, Bob drew, on the back of the paper having the telephone
drawing (he should not have done this), which he of course saw anew,
what is probably intended to represent a square frame containing a
picture, both very black. The percipient first drew two lines forming an
angle and placed in relation to it about as the dial of the telephone is
placed in relation to the angle of the telephone base, a black disc. Her
next and last drawing was a circle containing about a dozen round spots,
as the circular dial of the telephone contains eight spots.
5. On the 10th, also, Bob drew a pair of scissors (Fig. 18), and the
percipient made two attempts which, taken together, certainly do sense
its parts (Figs. 18a and 18b).
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