Still the further problem confronts us: How shall we consciously and
intelligently control telepathic communication as we now control our
communication by speech, letters, or telegrams? A curious instance of
unconscious and unaccountable telepathy is the following: There were two
individuals who had never met, but who held some mutually antagonistic
conceptions of each other,--conceptions that were, too, perhaps more or
less mutually erroneous, and this condition had lasted over a prolonged
period of time. Then one of these persons had the experience of waking
in the night, simply engulfed in an overwhelming wave of tender and
compassionate feeling toward the other: seeing, as if with spiritual
vision, a nature unstrung, hardly responsible, and one that invited only
the most infinite tenderness and care. This wave of new and perfectly
clear perception was like a magnetic trance. It was an hour of absolute
spiritual clairvoyance, and the evidence was furnished by a letter
received, the next morning, from a mutual friend, which entirely
substantiated and corroborated the telepathic impression that had been
experienced in the night. Now the scientific question is: From whence
did this impression proceed? Was it direct telepathy between the two
persons concerned? Was it a clairvoyant reading of the letter that was
en route during the night? Who can decide? The special point here is
that these most vivid and intense experiences are largely, if not
entirely, encountered unconsciously. They suddenly--come. One asks for
them--and they do not come? Now how are we to pluck out the heart of the
mystery?
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