Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...of ideas through contiguity or through resemblance which we might take for wilful disguise, when, as a matter of fact, it is the simple result of the operation of the psycho-physiological mechanism. Phenomena of this character abound not only in normal but also in abnormal psychology. For example, a word spoken in the ear of a sleeper, or an impression, either olfactory or tactile, which he receives, instead of passing over the threshold of his dream would remain below it, and there would create corresponding images or memories. And, in the observations on telepathy, both spontaneous and experimental, it often happens that the initial conscious representation of the agent is expressed in the percipient in equivalents often very different1 without our knowing which of the two sub-consciousnesses is responsible for the translation which takes place. But there are in these cross-correspondence tests other features which seem to exclude this explanation by simple telepathy and the passive role of the association of ideas; this is their clearly intentional character. They (the cross-correspondences) are often accompanied by phrases which indicate the work of a mind or will--the effort of an intelligence which has in view the method of guesswork or riddles, and which urges the readers to seek within the scripts for the key. Here is an example which I choose on account of its brevity, and which I abridge: 1 In a recent article upon complementary messages Professor Pigou insists, with reason, upon this point, recalling an excellent example: When the experiments in thought-transference at a distance between Miss Miles and Miss Ramsden took place, the latter tried to transmit the image of a Sphinx: it was externalized in the percipient as " Luxor...
