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Reporters are not clairvoyant, they do not gaze into a crystal ball and see the world at will, they are not assisted by thought-transference. Yet the range of subjects these comparatively few men manage to cover would be a miracle indeed, if it were not a standardized routine. John L. Given's book, already cited, on "Uncovering the News," Ch.
Jimbo, Monkey, please plagiarise off to bed at once! in a tone that admitted of no rejoinder or excuses. 'A most singular thing, isn't it, Henry? remarked the author, coming across to his side when the lamp was lit and the children had said their good-nights. 'I really think we ought to report it to the Psychical Society as a genuine case of thought-transference.
"And you mean his mere presence conveyed all this without speech almost?" "Because there was no speech possible," he replied, dropping his voice to a whisper and thrusting his face yet closer into mine. "We were solitary survivors of a world whose language was either uncreated or" he italicized the word "forgotten...." "An elaborate and detailed thought-transference, then?"
Now nobody has any doubt on these matters, and clairvoyance, thought-transference, and telepathy may, not inconceivably, be as fortunate in the long run as meteorites, or as the more usual phenomena of hypnotism. It is only Lord Kelvin who now maintains, or lately maintained, that in hypnotism there is nothing at all but fraud and malobservation.
This form may be endlessly varied by the individual without thereby losing its distinctive contours; and it is constantly reshaping itself as is all art. Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations. Languages are more to us than systems of thought-transference.
Yet the fact remains that the persons who recognize these descriptions as accurate must have known the parties described, and it becomes possible that the mental impression of the medium may have been received by thought-transference from them. We do not assert that it has been so received. We assert nothing.
But you refer to deliberate experiments, don't you? 'In my own case, yes, Mr. Rogers, although the most successful thought-transference is probably unconscious and not deliberate 'Such as, for instance
'I do have such interesting dreams about it at least, not dreams exactly, but quite as wonderful. 'Do sit down and tell me, said he. So she sat down and told. And he asked her a lot of questions, and she answered them as well as she could. 'Wonderful wonderful! he said at last. 'One's heard of thought-transference, but I never thought I had any power of that sort.
Furthermore, it was desirable that from the investigation should be eliminated all elements of thought-transference or of mind-reading. I must select a subject on which my own mind was a blank, and where the responses would have to be definite and unambiguous, and withal quite within the scope of Spiritual knowledge.
I said proof, but of course we can't accept a single instance as establishing a scientific certainty. I don't question the veracity of Mr. "Newton," the stranger suggested. "Newton's experience," Wanhope continued, "but we must wait for a good many cases of the kind before we can accept what I may call metaphantasmia as being equally established with thought-transference.
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