From the Unconscious to the Conscious 



whole fact. Sometimes it is accompanied by a vision 

 which appears objective and external to the percipient. 

 Telepathy may be spontaneous or experimental. 1 

 Spontaneous telepathy may be: 

 (a) Relative to some event in the immediate future, 

 e.g. presentiments, premonitions, premonitory 

 visions, apparitions of the dying. 

 () Relating to the present or the recent past. 

 Cases of * second sight ' or intimations of distant 

 events to persons in the normal state; appari- 

 tions of the dead a few moments, hours, or 

 days after decease; cases of apparitions of a 

 living person usually then in abnormal or 

 pathologic sleep (lethargy, febrile delirium, or 

 nervous disturbance, etc). 



Most frequently the phenomenon refers to some 

 person united to the percipient in more or less close bonds 

 of affection. The cases usually relate to misfortunes; 

 rarely to happy events; very rarely to indifferent ones. 



The telepathic manifestation is usually unexpected. 

 It often occurs to persons alien to the marvellous both 

 by tastes and occupations, and who are seldom so 

 influenced more than once in their lives. 



It occurs either in waking life, or in sleep, which 

 it interrupts. 



As to the phenomenon itself, two important charac- 

 teristics should be noted: 



(a) The telepathic vision is generally very precise; 

 the details relating to the event and the sur- 

 rounding circumstances are quite exact. 

 () Neither distance nor intervening obstacles seem 



to have any appreciable effect. 



A third characteristic (exceptional) is the following. 

 The vision may affect several persons either at the same 

 time or successively it seems able to affect animals 



1 We shall not analyse experimental telepathy, which as yet 

 covers only elementary facts. 



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