Synæsthesia.—See Secondary Sensations.
Synergy.—A number of actions correlated together, or combined into a group.
Telekinesis.—Used of alleged supernormal movements of objects, not due to any known force.
*Telepathy.—The communication of impressions of any kind from one mind to another, independently of the recognised channels of sense.
*Telæsthesia.—Any direct sensation or perception of objects or conditions independently of the recognised channels of sense, and also under such circumstances that no known mind external to the percipient's can be suggested as the source of the knowledge thus gained.
*Telergy.—The force exercised by the mind of an agent in impressing a percipient,—involving a direct influence of the extraneous spirit on the brain or organism of the percipient.
Veridical.—Of hallucinations, when they correspond to real events happening elsewhere and unknown to the percipient.
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
| Maior agit deus, atque opera la maiora remittit. |
| —VIRGIL. |
IN the long story of man's endeavours to understand his own environment and to govern his own fates, there is one gap or omission so singular that, however we may afterwards contrive to explain the fact, its simple statement has the air of a paradox. Yet it is strictly true to say that man has never yet applied to the problems which most profoundly concern him those methods of inquiry which in attacking all other problems he has found the most efficacious.