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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
292
{16}
Augustine.
In
Library
of
the
Fathers,
XVII.
Short
Treatises,
pp.
530-531.
{18}
St.
Augustine,
De
Cura
pro
Mortuis.
{20}
The
professor
is
not
sure
whether
he
spoke
English
or
German.
{24}
From
Some
Account
of
the
Conversion
of
the
late
William
Hone,
supplied
by
some
friend
of
W.
H.
to
compiler.
Name
not
given.
{28}
What
is
now
called
"mental
telegraphy"
or
"telepathy"
is
quite
an
old
idea.
Bacon
calls
it
"sympathy"
between
two
distant
minds,
sympathy
so
strong
that
one
communicates
with
the
other
without
using
the
recognised
channels
of
the
senses.
Izaak
Walton
explains
in
the
same
way
Dr.
Donne's
vision,
in
Paris,
of
his
wife
and
dead
child.
"If
two
lutes
are
strung
to
an
exact
harmony,
and
one
is
struck,
the
other
sounds,"
argues
Walton.
Two
minds
may
be
as
harmoniously
attuned
and
communicate
each
with
each.
Of
course,
in
the
case
of
the
lutes
there
are
actual
vibrations,
physical
facts.
But
we
know
nothing
of
vibrations
in
the
brain
which
can
traverse
space
to
another
brain.
Many
experiments
have
been
made
in
consciously
transferring
thoughts
or
emotions
from
one
mind
to
another.
These
are
very
liable
to
be
vitiated
by
bad
observation,
collusion
and
other
causes.
Meanwhile,
intercommunication
between
mind
and
mind
without
the
aid
of
the
recognised
senses--a
supposed
process
of
"telepathy"--is
a
current
explanation
of
the
dreams
in
which
knowledge
is
obtained
that
exists
in
the
mind
of
another
person,
and
of
the
delusion
by
virtue
of
which
one
person
sees
another
who
is
perhaps
dying,
or
in
some
other
crisis,
at
a
distance.
The
idea
is
popular.
A
poor
Highland
woman
wrote
to
her
son
in
Glasgow:
"Don't
be
thinking
too
much
of
us,
or
I
shall
be
seeing
you
some
evening
in
the
byre".
This
is
a
simple
expression
of
the
hypothesis
of
"telepathy"
or
"mental
telegraphy".
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