A curious instance came under my notice recently
A curious instance came under my notice recently
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Another kind of erroneous inference is worth noting
Another kind of erroneous inference is worth noting
Read record →Of much greater importance than errors of observation or inference are those due to defects either in narration…
Of much greater importance than errors of observation or inference are those due to defects either in narration or memory
Read record →We all know these old friends--at a distance, for no one has ever succeeded in making their nearer acquaintance
We all know these old friends--at a distance, for no one has ever succeeded in making their nearer acquaintance
Read record →But there is risk also of the actual transformation of the experience itself
But there is risk also of the actual transformation of the experience itself
Read record →Which I recently received from a lady and her daughter--an account of a "ghost" seen twenty-five years ago by…
which I recently received from a lady and her daughter--an account of a "ghost" seen twenty-five years ago by the latter and her nurse
Read record →It would be easy to multiply cases of this kind
It would be easy to multiply cases of this kind
Read record →540 et seq.)--i.e., if it is restricted to cases where there is a vague memory of some actual dream or other…
540 et seq.)--i.e., if it is restricted to cases where there is a vague memory of some actual dream or other impression, bearing a more or less remote resemblance to the event; in other words, if we assume an illusion rather than a hallucination of memory
Read record →The testimony at first-hand of the actual witnesses, it need hardly be said, is to be desired in any…
The testimony at first-hand of the actual witnesses, it need hardly be said, is to be desired in any investigation; but in the case of phenomena which are at once stimulating to the imagination, and, as being novel, have no recognised standard of probability b
Read record →But unless it can be used to illustrate or support a theory of a future life, they seldom regard a "ghost…
But unless it can be used to illustrate or support a theory of a future life, they seldom regard a "ghost story" as having any value other than that derived from the personal environment
Read record →[Footnote 82: In the Times of the 6th January 1893 there appeared a letter from a well-known writer, narrating…
[Footnote 82: In the Times of the 6th January 1893 there appeared a letter from a well-known writer, narrating how in 1851 he had received a description of the sea-serpent from a lady who had watched its movements for some half-hour in a small bay on the coast
Read record →Before proceeding to give examples of the evidence for spontaneous thought-transference, it may be well to…
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
Read record →E of a sensation of pain to a waking percipient.[86] Impressions of the kind, indeed, unless more definite and…
e of a sensation of pain to a waking percipient.[86] Impressions of the kind, indeed, unless more definite and intense than the analogy of experiment gives us warrant for anticipating, would as a rule be quickly forgotten, or would be naturally ascribed to som
Read record →When we leave these simple modes of feeling, and consider the affections of the higher senses of hearing and…
When we leave these simple modes of feeling, and consider the affections of the higher senses of hearing and sight, we are confronted with a new problem
Read record →There is one kind of coincidence, so common as to have passed into a proverb, which is often referred to as…
There is one kind of coincidence, so common as to have passed into a proverb, which is often referred to as illustrating the action of telepathy; that is, the idea of a person coming into the mind shortly before the person himself actually approaches
Read record →Of course, impressions of this sort, with no definite content, and not recognised at the time as having…
Of course, impressions of this sort, with no definite content, and not recognised at the time as having reference to any particular person, can do little to strengthen the proof of telepathy
Read record →1892) as affecting a stranger at the death of Lord Tennyson, and a somewhat similar instance is recorded…
1892) as affecting a stranger at the death of Lord Tennyson, and a somewhat similar instance is recorded (Journal, May 1892) in connection with the death of General the Hon
Read record →The most striking evidence, however, of telepathically induced action is to be found in automatic writing
The most striking evidence, however, of telepathically induced action is to be found in automatic writing
Read record →Accumulated within the last five or six years; and this material is itself the carefully-sifted residuum of a…
accumulated within the last five or six years; and this material is itself the carefully-sifted residuum of a much larger mass of testimony, inferior, if at all, by slight and various degrees
Read record →It is easy, however, on a superficial view to exaggerate the probabilities of chance coincidence
It is easy, however, on a superficial view to exaggerate the probabilities of chance coincidence
Read record →Now, as dreams of death or suggesting death do not form a large proportion of dreams in general, their…
Now, as dreams of death or suggesting death do not form a large proportion of dreams in general, their startling preponderance amongst coincident dreams constitutes in itself an argument for ascribing such dreams to telepathy; for if any power exists whereby o
Read record →"The night before last a curious case of what I cannot but call telepathy occurred between myself and my sister
"The night before last a curious case of what I cannot but call telepathy occurred between myself and my sister
Read record →The figure of the skeleton, which I can perfectly recall, presented one of the most vivid impressions I ever…
The figure of the skeleton, which I can perfectly recall, presented one of the most vivid impressions I ever remember to have received in a dream
Read record →"I very nearly wrote from the Hague to say that I should be very thankful when we had a letter from you of the…
"I very nearly wrote from the Hague to say that I should be very thankful when we had a letter from you of the 18th of June saying that you were well and happy
Read record →"It seemed in my dream that I stood at the open door of a bedroom in a house in Brighton, and that before me,…
"It seemed in my dream that I stood at the open door of a bedroom in a house in Brighton, and that before me, by candle-light, I saw my father-in-law lying pale upon his bed, while my mother-in-law passed silently across the room in attendance on him
Read record →Depôt Barracks, Armagh, Ireland, on the 30th November 1886, and on the night of the same date, or early in the…
Depôt Barracks, Armagh, Ireland, on the 30th November 1886, and on the night of the same date, or early in the morning of the 1st December (I cannot tell which, as I did not refer to my watch), I was in bed in my room, when I was awakened by a most vivid and r
Read record →The case has been investigated by Mr
The case has been investigated by Mr
Read record →Ent hallucinations occurring amongst normal persons; on the other hand, wider knowledge of hypnotism and the…
ent hallucinations occurring amongst normal persons; on the other hand, wider knowledge of hypnotism and the discovery of various processes for inducing hallucinations has afforded facilities for the experimental investigation of their nature, mechanism, and g
Read record →In fact, according to the evidence collected by the S.P.R., the results of applying such optical tests differ…
In fact, according to the evidence collected by the S.P.R., the results of applying such optical tests differ with each individual
Read record →This imaginary nucleus they name the point de repère
This imaginary nucleus they name the point de repère
Read record →102, 103) an artist was accustomed to see constantly at his studio the figure of a man, under circumstances…
102, 103) an artist was accustomed to see constantly at his studio the figure of a man, under circumstances which strongly suggest that a point de repère was furnished by those floating motes in the eyeballs which are liable momentarily to cloud the vision whe
Read record →And Wales in the last completed decade being 19.15 per 1000 per annum, the average probability that any…
and Wales in the last completed decade being 19.15 per 1000 per annum, the average probability that any particular person will die on any particular day is 1000 × 365 / 19.15 = about 1 in 19,000
Read record →But after making due allowance for forgetfulness on the one hand, and for the creative activity of the…
But after making due allowance for forgetfulness on the one hand, and for the creative activity of the imagination on the other, we find the actual proportion to be 1 to 40
Read record →It may not be superfluous to repeat (see ante, p
It may not be superfluous to repeat (see ante, p
Read record →[Footnote 94: In many cases the post-hypnotic performance of an enjoined action, or the experience of a…
[Footnote 94: In many cases the post-hypnotic performance of an enjoined action, or the experience of a post-hypnotic hallucination, is associated with the partial recurrence of the hypnotic trance, or of some condition closely allied to it
Read record →The cases now to be discussed should, in the logical order, have been included in Chapter V., and for a proper…
The cases now to be discussed should, in the logical order, have been included in Chapter V., and for a proper appreciation of their theoretic bearings and evidential value they ought to be considered in connection with the instances of thought-transference at
Read record →The present chapter, then, will contain instances of the action of thought-transference in which the…
The present chapter, then, will contain instances of the action of thought-transference in which the transmitted idea was translated in the percipient's mind, not, as in most of the cases described in previous chapters, into a simple feeling, or sensation, or
Read record →"The next thing I was conscious of was meeting the lady next morning (i.e., in a dream, I suppose?) and asking…
"The next thing I was conscious of was meeting the lady next morning (i.e., in a dream, I suppose?) and asking her at once if she had seen me last night
Read record →In this last case the dress of the figure does not seem to have been seen distinctly
In this last case the dress of the figure does not seem to have been seen distinctly
Read record →He hand three times in complimentary fashion, turned round to the left towards Herr ----n, and waved her hand…
he hand three times in complimentary fashion, turned round to the left towards Herr ----n, and waved her hand to him three times; after which the figure quietly, and again without any creaking of the door, went out
Read record →If this interpretation is correct, the figure seen cannot have been subjective in the same sense as the…
If this interpretation is correct, the figure seen cannot have been subjective in the same sense as the hallucinations described in Chapter IX
Read record →I accordingly mesmerised him, and continued the long passes for about 20 minutes, concentrating my will on his…
I accordingly mesmerised him, and continued the long passes for about 20 minutes, concentrating my will on his idea
Read record →On recovering full consciousness she heard Miss Thompson's voice speaking in the next room
On recovering full consciousness she heard Miss Thompson's voice speaking in the next room
Read record →Are shown to have been fully awake immediately before and at the time of the experiment,--in case 62…
are shown to have been fully awake immediately before and at the time of the experiment,--in case 62 (Wesermann) the state of the agent, and in case 66 (Wiltse) that of the percipient, is not clearly shown,--it is difficult to resist the conclusion that the co
Read record →Comparative frequency of auditory hallucinations, and especially the ease with which auditory illusions can be…
comparative frequency of auditory hallucinations, and especially the ease with which auditory illusions can be built up on a basis of real sound, render coincidences of the kind, even the best attested, of less service to support, however valuable as illustrat
Read record →It was dark inside the carriage, and nevertheless, facing my sister and looking at her, I saw in a faint grey…
It was dark inside the carriage, and nevertheless, facing my sister and looking at her, I saw in a faint grey light which seemed unnatural, and which was clearest at the point on which my eyes were fixed, a face in profile, not so much vague as soft and transp
Read record →The deferred recognition is by no means without parallel (see case 68 and cases 26, 191, etc., in Phantasms),…
The deferred recognition is by no means without parallel (see case 68 and cases 26, 191, etc., in Phantasms), but in this case the interval which elapsed before the identification of the phantasm was unusually prolonged
Read record →If it had not been that on that very Tuesday night I really was thinking of you very much, and wishing from the…
If it had not been that on that very Tuesday night I really was thinking of you very much, and wishing from the bottom of my heart that I could get at you, I should be inclined to say that your apparition was entirely subjective, and that you imagined you saw
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