Chapter I: Front Matter

The above is a photograph of the actual porous plaster and pads produced by YOGA RAMA as a means of "blindfolding." The plaster is seen exactly as it was when taken off by Mr. WILLIAM MARRIOTT. It will be seen that the pads have shifted, allowing comparatively clear vision with one eye. The tissue paper, making the plaster non-adhesive, will also be noticed.

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TELEPATHY

GENUINE AND FRAUDULENT

BY

W. W. BAGGALLY

MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL OF THE SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH

WITH A PREFACE BY

SIR OLIVER LODGE, F.R.S.

METHUEN & CO. LTD.
36 ESSEX STREET W.C.
LONDON

_First Published in 1917_

PREFATORY NOTE

My friend, Mr. W. W. Baggally, an experienced investigator of supernormal phenomena, has set down some of his experiences in connexion with the subject of Telepathy, and I heartily commend his book to the public as the record of a careful, conscientious, and exceptionally skilled and critical investigator. It would be difficult to find anyone more competent by training and capacity to examine into the genuineness of these subtle and elusive phenomena, which yet are of the utmost importance in the development of psychological science. Telepathy, or the direct action of mind on mind apart from the ordinary channels of sense, opens a new chapter; it is not a coping-stone completing an erection, but a foundation-stone on which to build.

OLIVER J. LODGE

CONTENTS

PART I

GENUINE TELEPATHY

PAGE

Experimental Telepathy 1

Spontaneous Telepathy 18

Telepathy between Human Beings and Animals 30

PART II

FRAUDULENT TELEPATHY

Accounts of Cases 35

Description of Various Methods used by Public
Performers for effecting their So-called
Transmission of Thought 57

PART III

THE ZANCIGS

Public Experiments 68

Private Experiments 70

Experiments before Committees 82

Importance of establishing Genuine Telepathy
as a Scientific Fact 92

TELEPATHY