Psychic phenomena : $b a brief account of the physical manifestations observed in psychical researchBennett, Edward T.
Philosophy
Psychic phenomena : $b a brief account of the physical manifestations observed in psychical research
Bennett, Edward T.
Parapsychology
Experiments in Thought-Transference, by Malcolm Guthrie.
_Proceedings_, vol. ii., part v., 1884. See pp. 96, 97.
Experiments in Thought-Transference, by Oliver J. Lodge, D.Sc.
_Proceedings_, vol. ii., part vi., 1884. See pp. 100-102.
Some Recent Thought-Transference Experiments, by Oliver J.
Lodge. _Proceedings_, vol. vii., part xx., 1891. See p. 104.
Experiments in Thought-Transference, by Henry G. Rawson.
_Proceedings_, vol. xi., part xxvii., 1894. See pp. 105, 106.
Experiments in Thought-Transference, by Professor A. P.
Chattock. _Journal S.P.R._, vol. xiii., No. 153, Nov. 1898. See
p. 107.
During the last few years no important addition appears to have been
made to the series of Thought-Transference Drawings. A revival of
similar experiments would be of great interest and value.
The question may fairly be asked, What have these Thought-Transference
Drawings to do with the Physical Phenomena of Spiritualism? A reply is
easily given. The reader is referred to a passage in the concluding
chapter, quoted from Mr. Myers, in which he claims an exalted position
for Telepathy, as almost the fundamental doctrine of Spiritualistic
Philosophy. He speaks of the beginning of Telepathy as a
"quasi-mechanical transference of ideas and images from one to another
brain." The Thought-Transference Drawings constitute the primary
evidence of this. They may be looked upon as constituting the physical
basis of a belief in Thought-Transference, and therefore as the physical
basis of a belief in Telepathy, the action of which, as Mr. Myers says,
"was traced across a gulf greater than any space of earth or ocean--it
bridged the interval between spirits incarnate and discarnate." Thus we
may look upon these Thought-Transference Drawings as supplying the
chief--perhaps the only--physical basis for a belief in one of the main
doctrines of spiritualism. Hence they legitimately find a place in the
present examination.
FOOTNOTES:
[64] _Proceedings S.P.R._, vol. i. p. 13.
[65] A list of all the publications of the Society for Psychical
Research, with prices of the different volumes and parts, can be
obtained from the Secretary, at the Society's Rooms, 20 Hanover Square,
London, W.
CHAPTER IX
MATERIALISATIONS
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