Science: Telepathy

In Mental Radio* Upton Sinclair described a great number of experiments in which Mrs. Sinclair as "percipient" seemed to have telepathic powers. He would draw six or more pictures on separate sheets of paper and fix his attention on each in turn. Meanwhile, at a safe distance, percipient Mrs. Sinclair would let her mind "go blank" until she felt knowledge stirring within her. Then she would draw what she felt her husband had drawn. Sometimes he would wrap his drawings in opaque green paper before he put them in envelopes. In such cases he would sit by Mrs. Sinclair while she...

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