Sinclair, Mary Craig, 1883-1961; Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968; Telepathy; Telepathy -- Case studies
1. July 14. Mr. Sinclair made the above drawing (Fig. 2), a very
imperfectly constructed six-pointed star. Mrs. Sinclair, reclining 30
feet away, with a closed door between, produced five drawings (Fig.
2a).[11] Immediately after the agent’s and percipient’s drawings had
been compared, the lady stated that just before starting to concentrate
she had been looking at her drawing of many concentric circles made on
the previous day in the concluding test of the Sinclair-Irwin group.
This was bad method, but we can hardly regret it, as the sequel is
illuminating. At first she got a tangle of circles: “This turned
sideways [thus assuming the shape of one of the star-points], then took
the shape of an arrowhead [confused notion of the stair-point, one would
conjecture], and then of a letter A [another attempt to interpret the
dawning impression], and finally evolved into a complete star.” The star
so nearly reproduces the oddities of the original star, its peculiar
shape and the direction which its greatest length takes, that had it
been produced in one of the unguarded series, one would have been
tempted to think that the percipient “peeked.” But the original was
actually _made_, as well as gazed at, behind a closed door, so that
there is no possible basis for imagining any such accident or any
inadvertence on the part of either experimenter.
2. July 14. In his room Mr. Sinclair drew the grinning face of Figure
21, and then Mrs. Sinclair drew in hers Figure 21a. Two eyes in his, one
“eye” in hers. Look at the agent’s drawing upside down (how can we or he
be sure that he did not momentarily chance to look at it reversed and
retain the impression?), and note the parallels. At the top of his two
eyes—at the top of hers one “eye”; midway in his two small angles
indicating the nose—somewhat above midway in hers, three similarly small
angles unclosed at the apexes; at the bottom of his a crescent-shaped
figure to indicate a mouth, with lines to denote teeth—at the bottom of
hers a like crescent, minus any interior lines. Had the percipient drawn
what would be instantly recognizable as a face, though a face of very
different lines, it would be pronounced a success. But such a fact would
be very much more likely as a guess than a misinterpreted, almost
identical crescent (she thought it probably a “moon”), so similar little
marks, angularly related (she “supposed it must be a star”), and an
“eye,” all placed as in the original.
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