Chapter Xix : * "Mental Radio", by Upton Sinclair, [1930], p. 161 XIX The border-line between successes and failures is not easy to determine. Bear in mind that we are not conducting a drawing class, nor making tests of my wife's eyesight: we are trying to ascertain whether there does pass from my mind to hers...
Chapter Ix : * "Mental Radio", by Upton Sinclair, [1930], p. 70 IX A new method of experiment invented itself by accident; and makes perhaps the strangest story yet. There came a letter from a clergyman in South Africa, saying that he was sending me a copy of his wife's novel dealing with South African life. I...
Untitled : * ...I don't like to believe in telepathy, because I don't know what to make of it... and I would a whole lot rather give all my time to my muckraking...I don't expect to sell especially large quantities of this book... In short, there isn't a thing in the world that leads me to this act, except...
Chapter Iii : * "Mental Radio", by Upton Sinclair, [1930], p. 21 III Much of the evidence which I am using rests upon the good faith of Mary Craig Sinclair; so, before we go further, I ask your permission to introduce her. She is a daughter of the far South; her father a retired planter, bank president...
Chapter Xii : * "Mental Radio", by Upton Sinclair, [1930], p. 95 XII These drawing tests afford a basis for psychoanalysis, and it is interesting to note some of the facts thus brought up from the childhood of my wife. For example, fires! She was raised in the "black belt," where there are nine Negroes to one...
Chapter Vii : * "Mental Radio", by Upton Sinclair, [1930], p. 54 VII I come now to a less fantastic and more convincing series of experiments; those made with the husband of my wife's younger sister, Robert L. Irwin. Eight years ago the doctors gave Bob only a few months to live, on account of tuberculosis...
Chapter Xxvi : * "Mental Radio", by Upton Sinclair, [1930], p. 235 XXVI One interesting point I observe: in any company where the subject of this manuscript is brought up, invariably some person declares that he or she has had such experiences. One lady, highly educated, assured me that she and her husband had...
Chapter Iv : * "Mental Radio", by Upton Sinclair, [1930], p. 27 IV Two years ago Craig and I heard of a "psychic," a young foreigner who was astounding physicians of Southern California, performing feats so completely beyond their understanding that they were content to watch without trying to understand. We...
Introduction : * "Mental Radio", by Upton Sinclair, [1930], p. v INTRODUCTION Mr. Upton Sinclair needs no introduction to the public as a fearless, honest, and critical student of public affairs. But in the present book he has with characteristic courage entered a new field, one in which reputations are more...
Chapter Xvi : * "Mental Radio", by Upton Sinclair, [1930], p. 136 XVI I could go through all thirty-five of the series, listing such "anticipations" as this: but I have given enough to show how the thing goes. Such occurrences make it hard for Craig because, when she has once drawn a certain object, she...
Chapter Xvii : * "Mental Radio", by Upton Sinclair, [1930], p. 145 XVII I have referred to the fact that my wife's drawings sometimes contain things which are not in mine, but which were in my mind while I was making them, or while she was "concentrating." One of the most curious of such cases came in series...
Chapter V : * "Mental Radio", by Upton Sinclair, [1930], p. 35 V Please let me repeat, I am not telling here a set of fairy tales and fantasies; I am presenting a record of experiments, conducted in strict scientific fashion. All the results were set down day by day in writing. For an hour or two every day...
Chapter Viii : * "Mental Radio", by Upton Sinclair, [1930], p. 64 VIII The experiments just described were all that were done with Bob, because he found them a strain. Craig asked me to make some drawings for her, and I did so, sitting in the next room, some thirty feet away, but always behind a closed do...
Chapter Xxii : * "Mental Radio", by Upton Sinclair, [1930], p. 204 XXII So much for the art of voluntary mind-reading. In conclusion I attempt to say a few words about what these phenomena mean, and how they come about. This attempt involves me in a verbal duel with my wife, which lasts into the small hours...
Chapter Xxv : * "Mental Radio", by Upton Sinclair, [1930], p. 221 XXV October, 1929. At my wife's insistence, I have held up this book for six months, in order to think it over, and have the manuscript read by friends whose opinions we value. A score or more have read it, and made various suggestions, many...
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Chapter X : * "Mental Radio", by Upton Sinclair, [1930], p. 82 X Concerning these drawings, there are preliminary explanations to be made. They were done hastily, by two busy people. Neither is a trained artist, and our ability to convey what we wish is limited. When I start on a giraffe, I manage to produce...
Chapter Xiii : * "Mental Radio", by Upton Sinclair, [1930], p. 104 XIII The person whom we are subjecting to this process of psychoanalysis has a strong color sense, and wanted to be a painter. So we note that she "gets" colors and names them correctly. Here is my drawing of what I meant to be a bouquet of pink...
Chapter Xi : * "Mental Radio", by Upton Sinclair, [1930], p. 87 XI I shall give a number of the successful drawings, and some of the partial successes, but none of the failures, for these obviously are merely waste. When I draw a cow, and my wife draws a star or a fish or a horseshoe, all you want is the word...
Chapter Xxiii : * "Mental Radio", by Upton Sinclair, [1930], p. 210 XXIII Mention telepathy in company, and almost every one has a story to tell. You can find a clairvoyant to tell you about yourself for a dollar--and maybe she is a fraud, but then again, maybe she is a person with a gift which she does not...
Chapter Xxi : * "Mental Radio", by Upton Sinclair, [1930], p. 178 XXI The next thing is to carry out our promise and tell you the technique. My wife has, among her notes, a mass of writing on this subject in the form of instructions to Bob, and others who were interested. I tried to condense it, but found I...
Chapter Xv : * "Mental Radio", by Upton Sinclair, [1930], p. 121 XV What are the principles upon which I have classified the drawings, as between successes, partial successes, and failures? I will use this series, number eight, to illustrate. There are eight drawings, and I have set them down as one success...
Chapter Xx : * "Mental Radio", by Upton Sinclair, [1930], p. 169 XX I have now given nearly all the 65 drawings which I call "successes," and about half the 155 which I call "partial successes." This, I think, is enough for any purpose. No one can seriously claim that such a set of coincidences could happen by...
Chapter I : * "Mental Radio", by Upton Sinclair, [1930], p. 1 MENTAL RADIO I If you were born as long as fifty years ago, you can remember a time when the test of a sound, common-sense mind was refusing to fool with "new-fangled notions." Without exactly putting it into a formula, people took it for granted...
Chapter Xxiv : * "Mental Radio", by Upton Sinclair, [1930], p. 218 XXIV April 21, 1929. I am over at the office fixing up this manuscript to send to the publisher; and just as I have it nicely wrapped, it has to be opened again--for this is what has happened. Craig, with her anxiety complex, has had this thought...
Chapter Vi : * "Mental Radio", by Upton Sinclair, [1930], p. 45 VI As I have said, I hesitate to tell about incidents such as these. They are hard to believe, and the skeptic may say that my wife was hypnotized by Jan, and made to believe them. But it happens that Craig has been able to establish exactly...
Chapter Xviii : * "Mental Radio", by Upton Sinclair, [1930], p. 148 XVIII The casual reader may be bored by too many of these drawings, but they are easy to skip, or to take in at a glance, and there may be students who will want to examine them carefully. So I will add a selection of the significant drawings...
Chapter Xiv : * "Mental Radio", by Upton Sinclair, [1930], p. 113 XIV An extraordinary incident occurred in connection with the fourth series of drawings. While my secretary, E. M. Hart, was making the drawings, there came into the office his brother-in-law, R. H. Craig, Jr., a teller of the Security First...
Chapter Ii : * "Mental Radio", by Upton Sinclair, [1930], p. 4 II Telepathy, or mind-reading: that is to say, can one human mind communicate with another human mind, except by the sense channels ordinarily known and used--seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting and touching? Can a thought or image in one mind be...
