Sinclair, Mary Craig, 1883-1961; Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968; Telepathy; Telepathy -- Case studies
6. On the 11th, Bob, whose health had been in bad shape for several
years, made a circle with a compass, of course producing a hole in the
center of it. And this is what Mrs. Sinclair got (Fig. 19a). There is a
circle—in fact, a number of them concentrically arranged—and there is a
central dot corresponding to the mark made by the compass leg. But other
impressions came to Mrs. Sinclair, accompanied by poignant emotions, and
she seemed to see and tried to draw a spreading stain of blood. She
wrote her feeling and her conviction: “All this dark like a stain,—feel
it is blood; that Bob is ill, more than usual.” She did not draw, but
directly told her husband, “I wanted to draw a little hill.” And why all
this? It transpired that while Bob was making the circle he was in a
state of distress, for, he afterwards testified, “I discovered that I
had a hemorrhoid, and couldn’t put my mind on anything but the thought,
‘My God, my lungs—my kidneys—and now this!’” It is hardly necessary,
perhaps, to point out that a hemorrhoid is like a little hill and that
one is very likely to bring on hemorrhage,[9] so that this possibility
was probably in Bob’s mind.
Had Mrs. Sinclair been in a laboratory with one professor of psychology
or of physics, and her brother-in-law in another laboratory with
another, not all the apparatus of both laboratories nor all the
ingenuity of both professors could have made the conditions more rigid,
or tested the essence of the matter farther. There would simply have
been the testimony of four persons, two at each end, and that is exactly
what there is. Bob’s affliction was of sudden occurrence, and the
particular terms of Mrs. Sinclair’s impressions could not have been
produced by any hint of knowledge. His willingness in the interest of
psychic research, in order that this remarkable demonstration of
telepathy should not be lost, to put aside squeamishness, is a rebuke to
the human violets who shrink, for no intelligible reason from allowing
evidence to be used which relates to them.
7. On the 13th, Bob drew a table fork (Fig. 1), and Mrs. Sinclair, at
the same hour, many miles away, drew nothing but wrote, “See a table
fork. Nothing else.” (Fig. 1a.)
These seven experiments[10] are all that were undertaken between Mrs.
Sinclair and her brother-in-law. This is unfortunate, for it certainly
appears from this short but remarkable series as though they were
remarkably suited to each other, for reasons we cannot yet fathom, for
long-distance experiments. But “he found them a strain,” and since his
health was so poor and strains were most undesirable, we cannot blame
him for discontinuing them.
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