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 felt the stuffed envelopes and perceived their contents clearly enough to draw a sketch.

Congruity between his original and her mental versions was very often astonishingly close. For example, he sketched a water hydrant. She drew water coming out of a nozzle (see cut).

Her brother-in-law, Robert L. Irwin, was another man with whom she was in excellent psychic rapport. She at Long Beach, Calif, could telepath his sketches from Pasadena, 25 airline miles away.

A notable exchange occurred when he drew a chair with horizontal back slats. She sketched that kind of chair back. But it did not seem correct. She made another picture with the chair slats vertical (see cut), felt better. Mr. Irwin had drawn his chair while looking through the vertical bars which composed the foot of his bed.

Last week in the Scientific American* Dr. Walter Franklin Prince who in turn has been a Methodist pastor, an Episcopalian rector, and a Boston psychic researcher, reported that Author & Mrs.

Sinclair had trusted him with their original material. This indicated that of 290 experiments Mrs. Sinclair was successful in about 23%, partially successful in 53%, failed in 24%. Psycholytic Dr. Prince, "after years of experience in solving hundreds of human riddles . . . and with due regard for my reputation for caution and perspicuity," is convinced that Mrs. Sinclair "has amply demonstrated the phenomenon known as telepathy."

*Published by himself. *Whose editor, Patent Attorney Orson Desaix Munn, has an abiding skeptic interest in psychic phenomena.

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