e on which to build.

OLIVER J. LODGE

CONTENTS

PART I

GENUINE TELEPATHY

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Experimental Telepathy 1

Spontaneous Telepathy 18

Telepathy between Human Beings and Animals 30

PART II

FRAUDULENT TELEPATHY

Accounts of Cases 35

Description of Various Methods used by Public
Performers for effecting their So-called
Transmission of Thought 57

PART III

THE ZANCIGS

Public Experiments 68

Private Experiments 70

Experiments before Committees 82

Importance of establishing Genuine Telepathy
as a Scientific Fact 92

TELEPATHY

PART I

GENUINE TELEPATHY

Sir William F. Barrett, one of the founders of the Society for Psychical
Research, more than forty years ago tried some experiments which led him
to believe that something then new to science, which he provisionally
called "thought transference" and which is now known as "telepathy,"
really existed.

At the first general meeting of the Society, on the 17th July 1882, he
read a paper entitled "First Report on Mind Reading."

Since that date the Society has carried out a great number of
experiments which tend to show that telepathy is a scientific fact. The
evidence for its existence is twofold--that which can be gathered
experimentally, and that which arises spontaneously. To the first
category belong those experiments in the transmission of the images of
drawings or diagrams by means of an effort of the will of a person known
as the _agent_ to the mind of another person designated the
_percipient_, when the transmission is carried out otherwise than
through the ordinary channel of the senses. To the second category
belong those hallucinations of seeing a person at the moment of death or
at a crisis, evidence for which has been obtained abundantly by the
Society for Psychical Research and has been embodied in the work
_Phantasms of the Living_, and in the _Census of Hallucinations_--a
report on which appeared in the _Proceedings_ of the Society in 1894.

There are several theories to explain the action of telepathy. The first
compares it to wireless teleg