{"product_id":"2940012614124","title":"TELEPATHY - Its Theory, Facts and Proof","description":"Scanned, proofed and corrected from the original edition for your reading pleasure. (Worth every penny!)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter I. What Is Telepathy?\u003cbr\u003eChapter II. The Nature of the Problem\u003cbr\u003eChapter III. Experimental Telepathy\u003cbr\u003eChapter IV. The English Experiments\u003cbr\u003eChapter V. More English Experiments\u003cbr\u003eChapter VI. The Weltmer Experiment\u003cbr\u003eChapter VII. Results of the Weltmer Experiment\u003cbr\u003eChapter VIII. Results of the Weltmer Experiment (Continued)\u003cbr\u003eChapter IX. The Theories\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn excerpt from:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003eWHAT IS TELEPATHY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe term \"telepathy\" is of quite recent origin. A few years ago it was not to be found in any of the standard dictionaries, and its use was confined to the small circle of investigators who were pursuing experiments in thought-transference, and who regarded the Society for Psychical Research of England as their centre of influence. At the present time, however, the word has passed into popular usage, is found in the current editions of the dictionaries and heard frequently on the streets. It was derived from the two Greek words, tele, meaning \"afar,\" and pathos meaning \"feeling.\" The term itself has been severely criticized as conveying a wrong impression, for thought-transference is not the same as \"feeling\"-transference. Some authorities have preferred the term \" Telæsthesia,\" which, freely translated, means \"perception by the sense at a distance.\" The present writer has sought to introduce the term \"Telementation\" which, freely translated, means \"mental action at a distance,\" and the said term has met with considerable favor among scientific investigators of the subject. But, in spite of the objections, the public clings to the original term, and \"Telepathy\" is generally used to designate the phenomena of thought-transference, or as the dictionaries state it: \"The action of one mind on another at a distance and without communication by means of the senses.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThought-transference is not a new thing in the thought of the world, although it may seem to the ordinary reader to be a recent discovery. Its beginning is lost in the haze of the history of the primitive peoples of the race. The ancient writings of India give us many instances of the effect of one mind upon another at a distance. And the occult legends of other ancient peoples give evidence that the belief in the effect of mind upon mind at a distance was quite common. In many of the old occult writings we find traces of this almost universal belief in thought-transmission and thought-force, and we have every reason to believe that the old alchemists were fully acquainted with the phenomena.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn India, especially, has the belief in thought-transference prevailed from time immemorial. Passing over the legendary tales, and coming down to the time of recent history, we see many instances of the acceptance of this idea by the people of that old land of the strange and mysterious. The English who lived through the great uprising in India in the last century have passed on to us many tales of the strange power of the native Hindus which enabled them to flash from one part of India to another the news of great battles and uprisings. It is recorded by those who passed through this great uprising that the Hindus were noticed to be agitated in a strange way about the time of the actual occurrences in far distant parts of the land, and seemed to be fully informed regarding these occurrences, while the English were compelled to wait for days until their couriers brought them the news in the regular way. In other words, the natives maintained a mental-telegraphic system, while the English were compelled to rely upon couriers, the days of the electric telegraph not having as yet arrived.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut, so far as the subject of modern Telepathy is concerned we may as well assume that Telepathy had its birth into modern scientific thought at the time of the formation of the English Society for Psychical Research in 1882. One of the stated objects of the said Society was \"to conduct an examination into the nature and extent of any influence which may be exerted by one mind upon another, apart from any generally recognized mode of perception.\" While the latter years of the Society's existence has been devoted principally to an investigation of the phenomena of clairvoyance, spirit-return, trance-mediumship, etc., its first decade was almost entirely devoted to the investigation of telepathy, thought-transference, and similar phenomena. The early experiments of the Society have been fully reported, and these reports, which comprise several volumes, have given the world a record of psychic phenomena of the greatest value to science.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe celebrated Sidgwick experiments, conducted under the auspices of the Society for Psychical Research in 1889 and 1890, excited great interest in scientific circles,...","brand":"OGB","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47156673413360,"sku":"2940012614124","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012614124_p0.jpg?v=1763570619","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012614124","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}