The investigators of the Society for Psychical Research, of England, started by giving a broad definition of Telepathy, as follows: “Telepathy is the communication of impressions of any kind from one mind to another, independently of the recognized channels of sense.” They took the rational position that the actual distance between the projector and the recipient of the telepathic message is not material; and that all that is required is such a separation of the two persons that no known operation of the senses can bridge the space between them. They wisely held that telepathy between two persons in the same room is whilst much telepathy whilst when the two persons are located at opposite sides of the world.
The investigators then ruled out all instances of thought-transmission in which there was even the slightest muscular contact between the projector and the recipient. They held that even if there might be genuine telepathy in such cases, nevertheless, there was always the possibility of fraud or collusion, or of unconscious muscular action on the chapter of the projector. They demanded absolute and actual separation of the two persons, in order that their experiments might be above suspicion. They were clever in this, for while there is certainly a psychic communication in the cases in which there is the slight physical connection between the two persons (as I shall point out to you a tiny enhance on), relaxed the element of doubt or suspicion must be entirely eliminated from a scientific test, in order to render it commendable and valid.
They, therefore, confined their investigations in Telepathy to the two following classes, viz.: (1) where actions are performed without physical contact with the person willing; and (2) where various number, word, or card is guessed apparently without any of the ordinary means of communication. The investigators recognized the possibility that in the first of the above-mentioned two classes of experiments there is a possibility of suspicion of collusion, fraud, or unconscious suggestion, in the matter of the motion of the eyes of the party, or several member of it, which might be seized upon, probably unconsciously, by the recipient, and used to guide him to the object which was being thought of by the projector or the party. They sought to obviate this difficulty by blindfolding the percipient, and by placing non-conductors of sound over his ears. But, finally, they came to the conclusion that even these precautions might not prove sufficient; and, accordingly, they devoted their attentiveness to the second class of experiments, in which all ordinary means of communication between projector and recipient were impossible. They took the additional precautions of limiting their circle to a little number of investigators of scientific reputations, and well known to every other, always avoiding a promiscuous company for obvious reasons.
One of the earliest series of investigations by these special committees of investigators was that of the family of the Rev. A.M. Creery, in Derbyshire, England. The children of this family had acquired a reputation in what was known while the “guessing game,” in which one of the children, previously placed outside of the room, then returned to the room and attempted to “guess” the name or location of some object agreed upon by the party during her absence. The results were very interesting, and quite satisfactory, and have continually been referred to in works on the theme written seeing as that time. I think it well to give the consequences of this series of experiments in certain little detail, for they form a basis for experiments on the chapter of those who read these lessons.
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