Apparitions and thought-transference: an examination of the evidence for telepathy

by Frank Podmore

• Aksakof A., cases recorded by, [184], [266]
• American Society for Psychical Research, founding of, [4];
• experiments by, [15], [27]
• Anæsthesia telepathically produced, [101]-[104]
• Anxiety as cause of hallucination, [216], [223]
• Auditory hallucinations, [25], [218], [247]-[251], [274]-[276]
• Automatic writing, [91]-[96], [183]
• Azam, Dr., experiments by, [59]
• Babinski, [375]
• Backman, Dr., experiments by, [338], [349], [357]
• Barber, Mrs., case recorded by, [168]
• Baréty, Dr., [384]
• Barnby, Sir Joseph, case recorded by, [358]
• Barrett, Professor, [19], [72];
• experiments by, [84]
• Beard, S. H., [83]
• Bergson, case of cornea-reading, [12]
• Bernheim, Professor, [3], [212], [375]
• Bidder, the Misses, case recorded by, [190]
• Binet and Féré, experiments by, [209], [375]
• Bonjean, [11]
• Booth, Miss Mabel Gore, case recorded by, [263]
• Borderland hallucinations, [193], [217], [257], [292]
• Bourru and Burot, [375]
• Boyd, W., case recorded by, [346]
• Boyle, R. V., case recorded by, [196]
• Brown, Mrs., experiments by, [27]
• Bruce, Archdeacon, case recorded by, [182]
• Busk, Miss, case recorded by, [205]
• Buttemer, R. H., experiments by, [95]
• Caldecott, Miss L., case recorded by, [255]
• Campbell, Captain, case recorded by, [198]
• Campbell, Miss, and Miss Despard, experiments by, [127]
• Carat, Dr., case recorded by, [257]
• Cards, power of distinguishing by touch, [13]
• Cary, C. H., case recorded by, [274]
• Casual hallucinations, [208], [215]-[225]
• Census of hallucinations, [215]
• Chance coincidence, [27], [143], [146], [186]-[188], [220]-[225]
• Clairvoyance, [2], [19], [204], [393];
• definition of, [326];
• travelling, [295], [338]-[350]
• Clairvoyant, dream, [204], [363], [367]
• Clark, Miss C., case recorded by, [247]
• Clothes of apparitions, [152], [200], [230], [244], [246]
• Codes, fraudulent, [10], [11], [25]
• Collective agency, [21], [23], [30], [37], [43], [64], [74]
• Collective hallucinations, [378]-[380];
• evidential defects, [153], [268]-[272];
• explanation of, [272]-[274]
• Collective illusion, [268]
• Colour, transference of, [32], [34], [35], [64]
• Commands, execution of telepathic, [87], [90], [110]-[113], [121]
• Commands, telepathic disobeyed, [89], [90]
• Community of sensation, [18]
• Contact in thought-transference experiments, [14], [19], [30], [34], [389]
• Contagious hallucinations, [273], [308], [316]
• Cornea-reading, [11], [12], [35]
• Crookes, William, [377]
• Crystal as means of inducing hallucination, [352]
• Crystal vision, [2], [75], [353], [357]-[359], [373]
• Cumberland, Stuart, [14]
• Dariex, Dr., [89], [118]
• Dates, unconsciously falsified, [153]
• Death, dreams of, [188];
• hallucinations coinciding with, [147], [220]-[225]
• Deferred recognition, [247], [254]
• Deferred telepathic impression, [65], [79], [264]
• Delbœuf, Professor, [212], [375]
• Dessoir, Max, experiments by, [38]
• Dempster, Miss Hawkins, case recorded by, [302]
• De Vesci, Lady, case recorded by, [181]
• "Dick," case of pseudo-clairvoyance, [13]
• Direction, hallucination in sense of, [139], [141]
• Distance, effect of on experiments, [74], [105], [132], [139], [389]-[391]
• Dobbie, A. W., experiments by, [338]
• Documentary evidence, [157]-[159], [187]
• Double impression, transference of, [37]
• Dreams, analogy with hallucinations, [186], [189], [197], [207]-[208]
• Dreams, clairvoyant, [204], [363], [367]
• Dream evidence, [185]-[189]
• Dufay, Dr., experiments by, [116]
• Dupré, Dr., case recorded by, [172]
• Dusart, Dr., [118]
• Edgeworth, Prof., calculations of probabilities, [27]
• Elliotson, Dr., experiments by, [19]
• Emotion, transference of, [141], [173]-[180]
• Errors of inference, [148];
• of memory, [152], [220]-[222];
• of narration, [149];
• of observation, [147]
• Esdaile, Dr., [19]
• Evans, Rev. C. L., case recorded by, [299]
• Experiments in physical sciences, [6]-[9]
• Falkinburg, S. S., case recorded by, [283]
• Fatigue, influence on clairvoyance, [353], [362], [367]
• Féré (and Binet), experiments by, [209], [375]
• Fraud, [10], [11]
• Freese, Mrs., case recorded by, [367]
• Frost, Rev. Matthew, case recorded by, [265]
• Fryer, Rev. A. T., case recorded by, [295]
• Ghosts, [2], [150], [153], [226], [272]
• Gibert, Dr., experiments by, [88], [108]
• Gibotteau, Dr., experiments by, [80], [139], [368]
• Godfrey, Rev. Clarence, experiments by, [228]
• Goodall, Edward, case recorded by, [202]
• Goodrick, Rev. A. T. S., case recorded by, [279]
• Gower, Leveson, case recorded by, [175]
• Gradual development of impressions, [76]-[78], [176], [255]
• Gregory, Prof., [19]
• Greiffenberg, Mrs., case recorded by, [277]
• Greves, Dr. Hyla, [23]
• Grimaldi and Fronda, experiments by, [56]
• Gurney, Edmund, [20], [91], [102], [155], [188], [215], [381];
• experiments by, [20], [27], [33], [57], [60], [101], [213]
• Guthrie, Malcolm, experiments by, [20], [23], [33]
• Hall, Prof. Stanley, [386]
• Hallucinations, "borderland," [193], [217], [257], [292];
• casual, [208], [215]-[225];
• census of, [215];
• centrally initiated, [214];
• contagious, [273], [308], [316];
• grotesque, [273], [277], [278];
• heteroplastic, [233], [246], [304]-[315];
• hypnotic, [208]-[211], [270], [378];
• of memory, [154]-[155], [187], [271];
• post-hypnotic, [211]-[214];
• pseudo, [68];
• rudimentary, [126], [217], [251], [278], [279];
• telepathic, experimentally induced, [68], [132], [134], [140], [141], [226]-[246]
• Hamilton, E. W., case recorded by, [200]
• Harrison, Mrs., case recorded by, [194]
• Hart, Ernest, [375]
• Hartmann, Edward, [383], [390]
• Haunted houses, [315]-[325], [373]
• Hay, Sir John Drummond, case recorded by, [251]
• Haynes, Gideon, case recorded by, [170]
• Hennique, Leon, experiments by, [129]
• Herbert, Auberon, [81]
• Herdman, Prof., [23]
• Héricourt, Dr., [118];
• Dr. Jules, [393]
• Heteroplastic hallucinations, [233], [246], [304]-[315]
• Hicks, Dr., [23]
• Hodgson, Dr. R., [13], [155], [379];
• case recorded by, [304]
• Hudson, W. H., [13]
• Hurly, Miss Berta, case recorded by, [258]
• Husbands, John, case recorded by, [309]
• Hyperæsthesia, [11], [59], [70]
• Hypnotic state favourable to thought-transference, [18], [58], [91], [393]
• Hypnotism, [3], [18], [58], [59], [372]
• Inference, errors of, [148]
• Illusion, collective, [268];
• telepathic, [64], [65], [169]
• Impersonal agency, [179]
• Impersonations in trance, [329]-[331]
• Janet, Professor Pierre, [88], [91], [209], [390];
• experiments by, [108]
• James, Professor W., cases recorded by, [174], [334]
• Johnson, Miss, experiments by, [70], [75]
• Jones, Sir Lawrence, case recorded by, [293]
• Jupp, Rev. C. H., case recorded by, [290]
• Kapnist, Countess Eugenie, case recorded by, [252]
• Keulemans, J. G., self-induced trance, [351]
• Kirk, Joseph, experiments by, [131]-[139], [244]
• Knott, Mrs., case recorded by, [316]
• Krebs, F. H., case recorded by, [174]
• Lang, Andrew, [373]
• Latency of telepathic impression, [65], [264]
• Latour, Dr. Tolosa, experiments by, [119]
• Liébeault, Dr., case recorded by, [184];
• experiments by, [63], [212]
• Liégeois, Professor, experiments by, [63], [212]
• Lip-reading, [11], [70]
• Local association of some apparitions, [314]
• Lodge, Professor Oliver, [382], [387], [389];
• experiments by, [33], [35], [332], [336]
• Luminosity accompanying telepathic hallucinations, [255], [257], [286]
• Luys, Dr., [375]
• Mabire, Etienne, and Anton Schmoll, experiments by, [42]
• "Magnetic sense," [374]
• Magnets, alleged influence of, [375]
• Marks, F. A., case recorded by, [362]
• Maughan, Miss Edith, experiments by, [238]
• McAlpine, Mrs., case recorded by, [260]
• Memory, errors of, [152], [220]-[222];
• hallucination of, [154], [155], [187], [271]
• Mesmer, [384]
• Mesmerism (See Hypnotism)
• Metals, alleged influence of, [375]
• Milman, Mrs., case recorded by, [280]
• Misinterpretation of telepathic message, [302]
• Muscle-reading, [14], [30]
• Music, transference of, at a distance, [122]
• Myers, Dr. A. T., [71], [109]
• Myers, F. W. H., [20], [325], [328], [393];
• cases recorded by, [183], [236], [311], [353];
• experiments by, [21], [49], [109]-[113], [210]
• Narration, errors of, [149]
• "Nervous induction," [102], [386], [390]
• Newbold, Miss Annie, case recorded by, [275]
• Newnham, Rev. P. H., experiments by, [92]
• Number-habit, [16]
• Observation, errors of, [147]
• Ochorowicz, Dr., [384];
• experiments by, [28], [88]
• P——, J. H., experiments by, [89], [120]
• Pain, experimental transference of, [23], [34], [60];
• spontaneous transference of, [162], [192]
• Paquet, Mrs., case recorded by, [360]
• Pickering, Prof., on number-habit, [16]
• Piper, Mrs., phenomena observed with, [327]
• Point de repère, [183], [210], [214], [217], [352]
• Post-hypnotic hallucinations, [211]-[214]
• Precautions necessary in experiments, [10]-[17]
• Presumptive action of telepathy, [372], [373]
• Pseudo-hallucinations, [68]
• Pseudo-presentiments, [154], [187]
• Pseudo-telepathy, [10], [11], [13]
• Real person mistaken for ghost, [148]
• Reciprocal impressions, [298]-[302]
• Reddell, Frances, case recorded by, [306]
• Reichenbach's phenomena, [374]
• Richet, Prof., [113], [166];
• cases recorded by, [113], [166], [171], [295], [311];
• experiments by, [26], [57], [98], [116], [376]
• Roux, J. C., experiments by, [124]
• Royce, Prof., cases recorded by, [192], [195];
• on pseudo-presentiment, [154]
• Sauvaire, Dr., hyperæsthesia described by, [13]
• Schmoll, Anton, and Etienne Mabire, experiments by, [42]
• Schrenck-Notzing, Dr. Von, experiments by, [54], [239]
• Secondary consciousness, moral inferiority of, [95], [96], [331]
• Second-hand evidence of little value, [150], [152], [156], [288];
• useful as standard of comparison, [156], [160], [298], [304]
• Severn, Arthur, case recorded by, [162]
• "Shell-hearing," [355]
• Sidgwick, Mrs. H., experiments by, [65], [70], [75], [102];
• Professor, [4], [20], [65], [70], [215]
• Sister Martha, case recorded by, [292]
• Sleep, produced telepathically, [107]-[119], [135], [139]
• Sloman, Rev. A., case recorded by, [167]
• Smell, transference of, [164]
• Smith, G. A., [60], [65], [71], [75], [83], [101], [211], [355]
• Smith, H., case recorded by, [219]
• Society for Psychical Research, [4], [10], [83], [215], [374]
• Society for Psychical Research, American, founding of, [4];
• experiments by, [15], [27]
• Sounds, transference of, experimental, [24], [122];
• spontaneous, [168], [247]-[251], [274]-[276]
• Sparks, H. P., experiments by, [234]
• Spiritualism, [3], [19], [376]-[380]
• Stewart, Professor Balfour, [20]
• Subconscious action of telepathy, [58], [91], [139], [239], [254], [391]
• Subliminal consciousness, [95], [254], [392]
• Sully, Professor, [215]
• Table-tilting, [73], [96], [99]
• Tamburini, Prof., case recorded by, [175]
• Taste, experiments with sense of, [20], [34], [58]
• Telepathy, definition, [6];
• frequently subconscious, [58], [91], [139], [239], [254], [391];
• a generalisation not a theory, [381];
• origin of faculty, [391]-[393];
• suggested explanation of, [382]-[388]
• Terror, experimentally induced, [141]
• Thaw, Dr. Blair, experiments by, [31], [81], [86]
• Thought-forms, [15]
• Thought-transference, definition, [6];
• first observations, [18]
• Townshend, C. H., [19]
• Tudor, William, case recorded by, [249]
• Tunes, transference of, [25]
• Venturi, Prof., case recorded by, [181]
• Verrall, Mrs., [13], [210]
• Wesermann, H. M., experiments by, [231]
• Will, influence of, [82], [85], [108]
• Willing-game, [15], [19]
• Wiltse, Dr., experiments by, [242], [342], [344]
• Witchcraft, [3], [373]
• X., Miss, experiments by, [122], [210], [353];
• cases recorded by, [164], [166]

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