"Experimental Telepathy" by Rene Warcollier

[kittynh]

I just got it at a used book store! 1938 and it's great!

I can't wait to get to the chapter entitled, "Problems of Reception". It's not SENDING that's the problem. It's the whole reception thing that's messing everyone up!

In 1882 at the first meeting of the Society for Physical Research in London Henry Sidgwick said, "The present state of things is a scandal to the enlightened age in which we live. Now the primary aim of our Society, the thing which we all unite to promote whether as believers or non-believers, is to make a sustained and systematic attempt to remove this scandal in one way or another."

20 years later.....

from a Mr.Bennet

"It has been proved that the human intelligence can acquire knowledge otherwise than by means of the five senses. In other words, telepathy is a proved fact."

This is just in chapter one.

cool.......

 

[CFLarsen]

I just got it at a used book store! 1938 and it's great!

I can't wait to get to the chapter entitled, "Problems of Reception". It's not SENDING that's the problem. It's the whole reception thing that's messing everyone up!

In 1882 at the first meeting of the Society for Physical Research in London Henry Sidgwick said, "The present state of things is a scandal to the enlightened age in which we live. Now the primary aim of our Society, the thing which we all unite to promote whether as believers or non-believers, is to make a sustained and systematic attempt to remove this scandal in one way or another."

20 years later.....

from a Mr.Bennet

"It has been proved that the human intelligence can acquire knowledge otherwise than by means of the five senses. In other words, telepathy is a proved fact."

This is just in chapter one.

cool.......

.......why would someone capable of telepathy need to write a book?

Why not simply..."send" it telepathically?

Oh, me and my questions!!

 

[kittynh]

I'm only on chapter one, they may actually come up with some PROOF. Right now they have statistics....

Okay...here it says....

"Table II suggests that mena are much better agents for women percipients than women are for men, and also that men are better agents for men percipients than women are for women percipients. If we admit, simply as a hypothesis for study, that telepathy is due to the influence of a force emanating from the brain of the agent, possibly related to muscular tone, etc., we may easily understand why young or middle-aged men emit a greater force than do women, children, or old people. The raritey of the role of agent among the old would seem to dispose of the idea of a purely spiritual transmission. And once the hypothesis of telepathy is admitted as possible, we may attempt to determine what state of consciousness is most favorable for agent and percipient."

(agents and percipient are sender and receiver)

the sad part is that I can read this stuff for hours. The book doesn't even try to PROVE telepathy. It just is kind of explaining it. It's like, "telepathy exsists, everyone knows that, but how it works is explained and explored in this book."

To me the humor is that this book was written in 1938. Like many of the older UFO books I read, the writer insists that soon EVERYONE will believe. This woo woo stuff is treated like a science. All that is needed is a little more "proof" for those that are really hard to convince. Heck, once I read this book I'll KNOW not only that telepathy is real, I'll know all about how it works.

 

[Vikram]

Re: Re: "Experimental Telepathy" by Rene Warcollier

.......why would someone capable of telepathy need to write a book?

Why not simply..."send" it telepathically?

Originally posted by kittynh
It's not SENDING that's the problem. It's the whole reception thing that's messing everyone up!

Oh, me and my answers!!

This book, like so many others, sounds like a load of crock.