Part 8 (1/2)

”I met my son as he came in, and spoke of theHe said: 'We tipped over, mother' I replied: 'Yes, I know it I saw you' And described what I sahich he said was just as it happened I did not see them before they started out, as his friend called for him with his horse and vehicle, so I did not knohat style they went”

It should be added that the spot where the cart was overturned was so far froht, Mrs

Robinson could not possibly have witnessed the accident fro ford, Connecticut, clairvoyantly--andto his brother, Charles, on Oneida Lake, in New York State, hundreds of ford[18] Charles Marks and a friend, Arthur Blooht in a stor way of their booed toto shore

[18] The evidence relating to this case is published in the _Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research_, vol vii, pp 359-364

It hen their danger was greatest that they were seen clairvoyantly by Frederic Marks, who, it being a rainy afternoon in Wallingford, was lounging in his room

”I do not think I fell asleep,” he testifies, ”nor did I see a severe storm of wind and rain As I looked into the stor through a seething, boilingto steer and control the boat, the other apparently trying to dip out water and work on the sail

”One of the two, in a reatest peril, tried to tear down the sail from its mast The face of my brother came clearly into vieith an expression on it that rehted and sped on I saw a low shore that it was driving toward The boat grew fainter as it neared the shore, and consciousness came back to me, and, whatever it hether a drea Marks did not keep his singular experience to himself, but hastened down-stairs and told his e--of what he had seen He was laughed at, of course, and assured that it was ”only a dream” But three or four days afterward a letter arrived fro unexpected verification of his brother's story

Even more detailed, in point of clairvoyant perception of a distant scene, is the strange drea, Russia It was Doctor Golinski's custo the day, and one afternoon he lay down on a sofa as usual, about half-past three While asleep, he says:[19]

[19] _Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research_, vol vii, pp 39-41

”I drea, and that I had the usual rather disagreeable sensation that I o to some sick person

Then I found ings To the right of the door leading into the room is a chest of drawers, and on this I see a little paraffin lamp of a special pattern

To the left of the door I see a bed, on which lies a woe I do not kno I coe, but I know it I examine her, but rather to satisfy my conscience than for any other reason, as I know beforehand how things are, although no one speaks to uely of ive, and then I awake”

It was then half-past four About ten , and Doctor Golinski was suined when he found that he was ushered into the identical room of his dream So astonished was he that he i, and said to her:

”You are suffering froreat astonishment ”But how do you know it?”

She then told hie had set in about one o'clock, but had not been severe enough to alarm her until between three and four; and that it was not until nearly half-past four that she had decided to send for him

Nearly every instance of spontaneous clairvoyance that is sufficiently authenticated to compel credence, resembles these cases, and the similarity between them and cases of ordinary telepathic hallucination, as described in the chapter on telepathy, is too striking, it see their true nature The only points of difference are that there is a greater amount of detail in clairvoyant visions, and that the percipient often experiences a sensation of being actually present at the scene beheld But this latter fact is easily comprehensible e remember that the same sensation of ”otherplaceness” is often experienced in dreanificance, and experienced with an equal feeling of reality, dissipated only when the dreareater amount of detail, it is only necessary to assume that in clairvoyant cases the telepathic action is intensified by so condition in the percipient's mind, just as some non-clairvoyant dreams are more detailed and vivid than others

Besides which, the telepathic basis of clairvoyance has been experiators for the Society for Psychical Research, Mr G A Smith, once hypnotized a lady and requested her to ”look into” the business office of a friend of his and tell hian to describe the office with great exactness, although he was positive she had never visited it

It then occurred to hie of it by telepathy froinary u open on his friend's writing table In a minute or so, the clairvoyant uttered a cry of astonishe umbrella open on the table!”

Usually, however, experi able to discrihts which correspond to reality and those which are wholly iinary But that the process involved in clairvoyance is unquestionably telepathic has been otherwise proved by the fact that when conditions are i the possibility of thought transference from one mind to another, they are conspicuously unsuccessful in their efforts to obtain results If, as often happens, they are able to describe distant places which they have never seen but hich other persons are necessarily familiar, they are nevertheless unable to state, for exa others and placed in their hands in a sealed box without anybody previously ascertaining just what the number is

Such a test, if successful, would be decisive proof of independent clairvoyance; but I have yet to learn of any clairvoyant who has been able to h the effort has been frequently ive it evidential value, thereat the bank note before it is put into the sealed box; for, as has already been said, it is non that the eye is far keener than we usually realize, and that the lanceinto the e to astonish and perhaps ed in the mind, a clairvoyant could, of course, obtain these facts fro success even in the bank note or some similar test