The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-04-14
"rHouoHT-rRANsFERENcE.'
Mental Phenomena. the Study of Whiet May Throw New Light or
 Psychology.


 Psychology.
 Edmund Garney and Frederick w H. Myers
 m the FoE,nigh;iy Review for March.
 There appeared in the nineteenth cen tury in the course of last year an article. written by us in conjunction with Prof Barrett, on Thought Reading" or, as we now prefer to call II, thought-,rans- ferenee-the communication of ideas otherwise than through the recognized orders of sense. That article has been much more favorably received than we expected and il has proved starting point for many promising series of eN- perimen,s. IL naturally also calls forth certain objections. These objections. so far as they seem to need reply, will be dealt with in the second par, ot the pro- ceedings of the society tor physical re- search, in which also Will be recorded considerable number of further observa- tions. We propose in the presen, paper to enter upon d wider discussion of the subject for which the maternal amassed by ourselves and others. primarily on be- half of the above named society, has now attained an amply sufficient volume. In thought-,ransference, so far as we have hitherto dealt with it, both parties (whom. for convenience sake, we will call the agent and the pereipientI are supposed to be Tn normal state; and we have a few cases which appear to differ from our previous experiments m thought-trans- ference only Tn the facts that the trans ference of the impression was not accom- panied by any definite exercise of will, and that the transferred image seemed more objective. Such a case IS the fol- lowing gwen us by Mir. c. keulemans, of No. Mountford Terrace, Blrnsbury square-a scientific draughisman with whom one of us is personally acquainted:
 "One morning. not long ago, while engaged with some very easy work. saw in my minds eye little wicker basket containing five eggs. two very clean. of more than usually elongated oval. and of a yellowish. hue, one very round. plain white, but smudged all over with dirt; the remaining two bore no particular marks. asked myself what that signih- cant but sudden image could mean. never think of similar objects. But that basket remained fixed Tn my mind. and occupied Il for some moments. About two hours later went into another room for lunch. Twas al once struck with the remarkable similarity between the eggs standing on the breakfast table and those two very long ones l had seen m my imagination. Why do you keep looking al those eggs so carefully 7? asked my wife: and II caused her great aston ishment 10 learn from me how many eggs had been sent by her mother half an hour before. She then brought mp the remain ing three there was the one with the dirt on it. and the baske, the sA me had seen. On further inquiry found that the eggs had been kept together by my mother-in-law tha, she had placed them m the basket. and thought of sending them to me. and, to use her own words, T did. of course. think of you al that moment She did this at ten in the morning, which (as know from my reg ular habits must have been jus, the time of my impression.
 The fpllowing account. given us by a personal friend of our own fwhose name and address we are a; liberty to mention privately, differs from ordinary thought transference. not only in the vividness of the impression, but in the fact that one at least of the pereipients was asleep
 One Sunday nj shi last winter. at one a.. m-, l wished strongly to communicate the idea of my presence to two friends, who resided about three miles from the house where was staying. When mex, saw them, few days afterward. ex- pressly refrained from mentioning my experiment: but in the course of conver- satisn one of them said .Ysu do no, believe what strange night we spent last Sunday, and then recounted that both the friends had believed themselves to see my hgure standing in their room. The experiere was vivid enough to wake them completely. and they looked a, their watches, and found il to be exactly one o'clock lOne of these friends has sup piled independent testimony to this cir eumstance.
 This circumstance affords natural transition to the next class sf cases where the perc,pient Is in that rarer and deeper state of slumbsr known as the" mesmene trance
 A mesmerist well known to us was requested by young Lady to mesmenze her, Tn order to enable her to visit in spirit certain places of which he himself had no knowledge. He failed 10 pro- duce this effect: but found he could lead her to describe places unknown to her but familiar to him. Thus. on one oc- cAsion. he enabled her to describe pe- |. culiar room which she had never entered, but which she described in perfect con- formity with his recollection of il. l, then occurred to him to imagine large, open umbrella. as lying on table in this room- whereupoa the lady immediately exclaimed, see large open umbrella. on the table.'''
 We come now 10 third class of cases. which at first sigh, seem 10 differ in : singular way from those already emu meTAted. For i; seems tha; not only the apparent depression of the vital energies in sleep or trance, but also their apparen; exalfation in moments of excitemcn, CT danger may have decisive effect n en-