Apparitions and thought-transference: an examination of the evidence for telepathy

Consideration more or less adequate has now been given to the various phenomena in which there is proof apparent of the action of telepathy. The experimental evidence has shown...

In the cases so far described, where success has been attained, the agent and percipient, if not actually in the same room, have been separated by a distance not exceeding at th...

The hallucinations so far dealt with belong to classes numerically strong, and the narratives quoted could be paralleled over and over again from our records by other narratives...

Acorresponding account of the incident has been received from Miss Jowett, the landlady's daughter. We owe the accounts of the incident to Mr. F. Schiller, who investigated the...

The word "clairvoyance" was used by the older mesmerists to denote somewhat heterogeneous phenomena. It was applied in the first place to a supposed faculty by which the subject...

Before proceeding to give examples of the evidence for spontaneous thought-transference, it may be well to repeat something of what has been said in the preceding chapter. In th...

As already stated, the hypnotic state offers peculiar facilities for observing the transmission of thought and sensation. It is possible that the superior susceptibility of the...

Seeing that so large a part of our lives is spent in sleep, we should perhaps be warranted in looking amongst dreams for evidence of the transference of thought from one mind to...

In the two preceding chapters we have discussed experiments where the impression received by the percipient may be interpreted as having been a more or less accurate reproductio...

In the last chapter we gave illustrations of telepathic hallucinations induced by an act of voluntary concentration on the part of the agent. The hallucinatory effects now to be...

There is probably no sharp line to be drawn between the cases just described and those to be dealt with in the first part of the present chapter. Both present the common feature...

Before proceeding, in the chapters which follow, to cite instances of hallucinations which purport to have been telepathically originated, it seems needful to glance briefly at...

In the present chapter we revert once more to experimental evidence. The cases now to be discussed should, in the logical order, have been included in Chapter V., and for a prop...

It is salutary sometimes to reflect how recent is the growth of our scientific cosmos, and how brief an interval separates it from the chaos which went before. This may be seen...

_4th Object._ WATCH, dull silver with filigree. Percipient: _Yellow or dirty ivory. Not very big. Like carving on it._ Watch is opened by agent, and percipient is asked what was...

type coinciding with the death of the person represented. The conclusion there reached is that such coincidences are far too numerous to be ascribed to chance. This part of the...

It is somewhat remarkable that the facts of thought-transference should only have attracted serious attention within the last two decades. With waking percipients, indeed, such...

"Some weeks ago several persons were passing the evening at my house, and two children, a little girl of eight years and a boy of six years, whose mother is stopping with us, ha...

If the reader has been able to accept my estimate of the evidence brought forward in the preceding chapters, the possibility of the transmission of ideas and sensations, otherwi...

_Resumé_, the proof apparent--The proof presumptive--The alleged influence of magnets and metals--The alleged marvels of spiritualism--Usage of the word telepathy--On various th...

We have now to discuss that numerous class of cases in which the phantasm was perceived by two or more persons. The difficulties of interpretation which such cases present are e...

Inhibition of action by silent willing, by Edmund Gurney, Professor Barrett, and others--Origination of action by silent willing, by Dr. Blair Thaw, M. J. H. P., and others--Pla...

Transference of Tastes--Of pain, by Mr. M. Guthrie and others--Of sounds--Of ideas not definitely classed, by Professor Richet, the American Society for Psychical Research, Dr....

Induction of sleep, by Dr. Gibert and Professor Janet, Professor Richet, Dr. Dufay--Of hysteria and other effects, by Dr. Tolosa-Latour, M. J. H. P.--Transference of ideas of so...

Illusions, epidemic hallucinations, illusions of memory--Explanations of collective hallucination--Auditory hallucinations, Mr. C. H. Cary, Miss Newbold--Visual hallucinations,...

Discussion of the evidence for telepathy derivable from dreams--Chance-coincidence--Simultaneous dreams, the Misses Bidder--Transference of sensation in dreams, Professor Royce,...

Common misconceptions--Hypnotic hallucinations, experiments by MM. Binet and Féré, Mr. Myers--_Point de repère_--Post-hypnotic hallucinations, Professor Liégeois, Edmund Gurney-...

Transference of pain, Mr. Arthur Severn--Of smell, Miss X.--Of ideas, Miss X., Mrs. Barber--Of visual images, Mr. Haynes, Professor Richet, Dr. Dupré--Of emotion, Mr. F. H. Kreb...

Reciprocal cases, Rev. C. L. Evans and Miss ---- --A misinterpreted message, Miss C. L. Hawkins-Dempster--Heteroplastic hallucination, Mrs. G----, Frances Reddell, Mr. John Husb...

Observations of M. Keulemans--Crystal-visions, Miss X., Dr. Backman, Miss A. and Sir Joseph Barnby--Spontaneous clairvoyance, Mrs. Paquet, Mr. F. A. Marks, Mrs. L. Z.--Clairvoya...

Auditory hallucinations, Miss Clark, Mr. William Tudor--Visual hallucinations--Incompletely developed, Countess Eugenie Kapnist, Miss L. Caldecott, Dr. Carat--Completely develop...

Definition of clairvoyance--Accounts of phenomena observed with Mrs. Piper, by Professor Lodge, Professor W. James, and others--Accounts of experiments by Mr. A. W. Dobbie, Dr....