tailieunhanh - T E L E PAT H Y GENUINE AND FRAUDULENTBY W. W. BAGGALLY MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL OF THE SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH WITH A PREFACE BY SIR OLIVER LODGE, F.R.S. METHUEN & CO. LTD. 36 ESSEX STREET W.C. LONDON First Published in 1917PREFATORY NOTE My frien

T E L E PAT H Y GENUINE AND FRAUDULENT BY W. W. BAGGALLY MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL OF THE SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH WITH A PREFACE BY SIR OLIVER LODGE, . METHUEN & CO. LTD. 36 ESSEX STREET . LONDON First Published in 1917 PREFATORY NOTE My friend, Mr. W. W. Baggally, an experienced investigator of supernormal phenomena, has set down some of his experiences in connexion with the subject of Telepathy, and I heartily commend his book to the public as the record of a careful, conscientious, and exceptionally skilled and critical investigator. It would be difficult to find anyone. | TELEPATHY GENUINE AND FRAUDULENT BY W. W. BAGGALLY MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL OF THE SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH WITH A PREFACE BY SIR OLIVER LODGE . METHUEN CO. LTD. 36 ESSEX STREET . LONDON First Published in 1917 PREFATORY NOTE My friend Mr. W. W. Baggally an experienced investigator of supernormal phenomena has set down some of his experiences in connexion with the subject of Telepathy and I heartily commend his book to the public as the record of a careful conscientious and exceptionally skilled and critical investigator. It would be difficult to find anyone more competent by training and capacity to examine into the genuineness of these subtle and elusive phenomena which yet are of the utmost importance in the development of psychological science. Telepathy or the direct action of mind on mind apart from the ordinary channels of sense opens a new chapter it is not a coping-stone completing an erection but a foundation-stone on which to build. OLIVER J. LODGE Pg vi Pg vii CONTENTS PART I GENUINE TELEPATHY PAGE Experimental Telepathy 1 Spontaneous Telepathy 18 Telepathy between human Beings 30 AND Animals PART II FRAUDULENT TELEPATHY accounts of Cases 35 Description of Various methods USED by public performers for . 57 EFFECTING THEIR SO-CALLED TRANSMISSION OF THOUGHT PART III THE ZANCIGS public Experiments 68 private Experiments 70 EXPERIMENTS before committees 82 IMPORTANCE OF establishing Genuine 2 92 TELEPATHY AS A SCIENTIFIC FACT Pg 1 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 .