

Natural Telepathy 



the birds or the beasts may teach us of this interest- 

 ing matter. 



It seems to be fairly well established that a few 

 men and women of uncommonly fine nervous or- 

 ganization (which means an uncommonly natural 

 or healthy organization) have the power of in- 

 fluencing the mind of another person at a distance ; 

 and this rare power goes by the name of thought 

 transference, or telepathy. The so-called crossing 

 of letters, when two widely separated persons sit 

 down at the same hour to write each other on the 

 same subject, is the most familiar but not the 

 most convincing example of the thing. Yes, I 

 know the power and the example are both chal- 

 lenged, since there are scientists who deny tel- 

 epathy root and branch, as well as scientists who 

 believe in it implicitly; but I also know some- 

 thing more convincing than any second-hand 

 denial or belief, having at different times met 

 three persons who used the "gift" so freely, and 

 for the most part so surely, that to ignore it would 

 be to abandon confidence in my own sense and 

 judgment. I am not trying, therefore, to inves- 

 tigate an opinion, but to understand a fact. 



To illustrate the matter by a personal experi- 

 ence: For many years after I first left home my 

 mother would become "uneasy in her mind," as 

 she expressed it, whenever a slight accident or 



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