Apparitions and thought-transference: an examination of the evidence for telepathy. Frank Podmore
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Название: Apparitions and thought-transference: an examination of the evidence for telepathy
Автор: Frank Podmore
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REPRODUCTION.
Next—a drawing of a Union Jack pattern.—As usual in drawing experiments, Miss R. remained silent for perhaps a minute; then she said, "Now I am ready." I hid the object; she took off the handkerchief, and proceeded to draw on paper placed ready in front of her. She this time drew all the lines of the figure except the horizontal middle one. She was obviously much tempted to draw this, and, indeed, began it two or three times faintly, but ultimately said, "No, I'm not sure," and stopped.
[N.B.—The actual drawings made in all the experiments are preserved intact by Mr. Guthrie.]
[END OF SITTING.]
Experiments with MISS R.—Continued.
I will now describe an experiment indicating that one agent may be better than another.
Object—the Three of Hearts.—Miss E. and Mr. Birchall both present as agents, but Mr. Birchall holding percipient's hands at first. "Is it a black cross … a white ground with a black cross on it?" Mr. Birchall now let Miss E. hold hands instead of himself, and Miss R. very soon said, "Is it a card?" (Right.) "Are there three spots on it? … Don't know what they are. … I don't think I can get the colour. … They are one above the other, but they seem three round spots. … I think they're red, but am not clear."
Next object—a playing card with a blue anchor painted on it slantwise instead of pips.—No contact at all this time, but another lady, Miss R——d, who had entered the room, assisted Mr. B. and Miss E. as agents. "Is it an anchor? … a little on the slant." (Do you see any colour?) "Colour is black. … It's a nicely drawn anchor." When asked to draw she sketched part of it, but had evidently half forgotten it, and not knowing the use of the cross arm, she could only indicate that there was something more there but she couldn't remember what. Her drawing had the right slant exactly.
Another object—two pairs of coarse lines crossing; drawn in red chalk, and set up at some distance from agents. No contact. "I only see lines crossing." She saw no colour. She afterwards drew them quite correctly, but very small.
ORIGINALS.
REPRODUCTION.
Double object.—It was now that I arranged the double object between Miss R——d and Miss E., who happened to be sitting nearly facing one another. [See Nature, June 12th, 1884.] The drawing was a square on one side of the paper, a cross on the other. Miss R——d looked at the side with the square on it. Miss E. looked at the side with the cross. Neither knew what the other was looking at—nor did the percipient know that anything unusual was being tried. Mr. Birchall was silently asked to take off his attention and he got up and looked out of window before the drawings were brought in, and during the experiment. There was no contact. Very soon Miss R. said, "I see things moving about. … I seem to see two things. … I see first one up there, and then one down there. … I don't know which to draw. … I can't see either distinctly." (Well, anyhow, draw what you have seen.) She took off the bandage and drew first a square, and then said, "Then there was the other thing as well … afterwards they seemed to go into one," and she drew a cross inside the square from corner to corner, adding afterwards, "I don't know what made me put it inside."
No. 7.—By HERR MAX DESSOIR.
In June 1885 some successful experiments in thought-transference were made by Herr Dessoir, of Berlin, author of A Bibliography of Modern Hypnotism, and other works, with the co-operation of some friends, Herren Weiss, Biltz, and Sachse. There were in all eighteen trials with diagrams in which Herr Dessoir was the percipient. The diagrams which follow—reproduced from the original drawings—were the result of six consecutive trials. They are, as will be seen, not completely successful, but they convey a fair idea of the amount of success attained in the whole series. It should be noted that the impression received by the percipient appears to have been persistent; and that the second attempt at reproduction, in five out of the six cases, was more successful than the first. Herr Dessoir states that he was generally out of the room whilst the figure was being drawn; he returned at the given signal, with eyes closely bandaged; "I set myself at the table, and in many instances placed my hands on the table, and the agent placed his hands on mine; the hands lay quite still on one another. When an image presented itself to my mind, the hands were removed … and I took off the bandage and drew my figure."
A full account of these experiments, and of others conducted by Herr Dessoir, will be found in Proc. S.P.R., vol. iv. pp. 111–126; vol. v. pp. 355–357.
I.
REP. 1. REP. 2.
While the second reproduction was proceeding, an interruption occurred which prevented its completion.
ORIG.
Agent: W. S.
II.
ORIG.
Agent: H. B.
REP. 1. REP. 2. REP. 3. REP. 4.
III.
ORIG.
Agent: H. B.
REP. 1. REP. 2. REP. 3.
The percipient said, "It looks like a
window."
IV.
ORIG.
Agent: H. B.
REP. 1.
REP. 2.
REP. 3.
V.